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>Did his company retain video of the Baltimore officials who could approve or thwart its return?
To me, I read that and think they probably began surveillance much earlier than they let on. After collecting dirt on people who could stop it, then they approached them and got their cooperation. I could be wrong of course, but that's my 2 cents.
In all seriousness, what can be done about this sort of thing(mitigating it)? Opinions(albeit ones from the internet) range from spacecrafts intercepting and mounting thrusters to divert the object's course, or planting nuclear bombs, and other "fantastic" sounding solutions. Is there anything to be done other than expect the unexpected?
This is GOOD for the market(the practice, not the article). Price manipulation is a real thing, and fact-based research such as this means prices are more likely to reflect reality. This type of analysis is what we need more of! It's not opinion-based drivel from a talk show or blog, it's empirical data, analyzed impartially.
edit: typo
You sir, are a genius. I love that wording. That should have been on the welcome brochure we all get as babies, assuming we could read it.
Great managers give clear expectations. Even if you operate autonomously, they still provide you guidance on "this is what I expect, and this is how and when you should communicate <X> to me". Great managers also make time to clear up any doubt or uncertainty about a task. You should never feel embarrassed or afraid to ask a great manager for clarification or direction, their job is to give you those "good vibes" that make those conversations easy for you to start.
Great managers never onboard you by saying "you'll figure it out", or "welcome aboard, you'll find everything in the wiki". Great managers show you the docs, answer any questions you have about using them, and initially shepherd you towards where they need you to end up. This plays into the "clear expectations" quality I mentioned above.
Great managers (sometimes subtly) pair you with great teammates. They initiate cross-training themselves, and not by telling you to shoulder your way into someone else's domain. Sometimes they do this by making the other member(say, a DBA) responsible for a task they cannot do without your(the programmer) help. They might make the DBA responsible for documenting your help, or vise versa. This is subtle cross-training, where neither role feels like they are being pushed out or prepared-for-replacement by the other. Instead, you should end the assignment feeling like teammates that both managed to learn something new, from an experienced professional(the other person).
That's my two cents. For what it's worth, I didn't realize I had been a bad manager, until I went to work for one. As I found myself thinking of "geez life would be better if he/she did <XYZ>", I realized those were things I didn't do myself in the past. That made me really appreciate what life in the shoes of my reports must have been like. I didn't set clear expectations, it probably felt like a bit of a mystery gamble to the people who worked for me. I hate that for them, and no one could have convinced me I was doing it wrong - until I had gone through this experience myself.
I'm still impressed, even with ascending devices. For being 10 years old, that shows a lot of patience and deliberation.
I enjoyed the article, a good read. I hate the topic; government overreach.
> Less than 1 percent of the injured riders were wearing helmets.
I'm not sure why this statistic was included. All it could demonstrate is "people more likely to wear helmets are less likely to be injured". IE: cautious people are cautious.
This article reads like FUD. Along with scooters, people are currently free to go bungee jumping, skydiving, rock climbing, skin diving, and all other manner of activity which carries a higher-than-walking-around-the-block chance of injury. I don't want to live in a nerf-like society, where our available activities are dictated to us by...anyone.
edit to add: possibly the NP went up the chain of command precisely because the doctors there wanted veto power on hospital admissions. they didn't want pesky underlings getting in the way of whatever motivated their decisions.
The idea of backup codes is good. Putting them in your wallet reduces your security though. Depending on the value of your accounts, you give a (physical) attacker everything he or she needs to compromise you.
If you are going to keep these things on your person, consider protecting them with a hand-written cipher. Example: https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/
There is the concept of "security VS convenience", a trade-off you make when using secured assets. 2FA is convenience just as much as it is security. By having SMS as a method to reset a password, you reduce the attackers workload from cracking a difficult password to "compromise your mobile phone physically or electronically". I trust my passphrases much more than my mobile device and/or carrier.
Can you give me some detail about how/when this happens? I was under the impression that you can sell support(or other ancillary services) for GPL'd code, but not for the code itself.
It must? No, it doesn't have to do a damn thing. It's a product from a publicly traded company, therefore it "must" return value for stockholders. That means more behavior that increases ad revenue. The author is out of touch with reality. Stop feeding your kids youtube if you don't want them exposed to youtube. It's a private service(youtube), not a public park.
However, since this happened to me, my opinions are vastly different. There were paragraphs written below that I deleted, mainly because they would likely land me in prison, or at least (further) complicate my life.
The TLDR is: surveillance and search warrants are granted without true probable cause or appropriate knowledge. By "appropriate knowledge", I mean the judge is in no position to comprehend what he or she is authorizing, or the repercussions of granting it.
Neither am I, but I wanted to point it out anyway. If things like chromium-dev had existed back then, maybe we wouldn't have had the IE fiasco we all remember. Or maybe we would have anyway, who can tell :)
Link to chromium dev: https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
There is a very prominent disclaimer that any employee will tell you... "don't fuck up". That means...if you have a pending deliverable; don't vacation. If someone else is depending on you for their deliverable; don't vacation. Basically, support the company first and foremost and your extended absences are OK.
tldr; I work for a SDN provider with unlimited vacation and high expectations of employees
That industry is very old fashioned though - another good example is that every blue cross franchise uses the same software to process medicare/medicaid claims, and that software is powered by COBOL. At first it's shocking and you wonder how on earth things stay on the rails...but after a while you get used to it, a strange status quo.
You say that like it's not still happening... VB6 is still the go-to tool at a certain blue cross and blue shield franchise - and probably at many others around the country. They post jobs(active postings right now) for .NET developers with VB6 experience. They do it under the guise to "help port existing applications", but in reality they are still developing new features with it, and will likely never stop.
One of the enjoyable aspects of this practice, was during the selection process for "what software do we want to use?". I didn't have to select only open source projects which were "almost a perfect fit, with XYZ problems we can live with". Instead, I got to select software with (to me) better criteria:
* what are the upstream devs like to work with?
* what is the future of this project?
* is this project something we would be proud of our association with?
* working on this project, will myself or my team be exposed to new skills and technology?
It's useful though - example: 5 day MA of disk errors rises over the 15 day == likely failure
It's all happy times here in the USA, anyone that will tell you otherwise has already been imprisoned and/or re-educated.