I agree to a point.

I don't think everyone needs to call a licensed plumber to unclog a toilet, nor does small business bookkeeping require years of schooling. I see it more as a failure of management, because as the stakes become higher, they fail to properly manage the critical dependencies of the organisation by bringing in more qualified talent as the need arises. Business owners that can identify when they've reached their limit in a skill and hire someone more competent, are more likely to succeed and grow than those who don't. This scenario isn't limited to computers, it could be any area of expertise within an organisation.

The Excel macro created by the boss' nephew is fine up to a point, then it's up to management to step in, declare amateur hour over, and hire the required expertise if the Excel macro's usefulness outgrows the nephew's limited skillset. Ideally the call is made before it becomes mission critical. The point is no matter how skilled and qualified an employee is, it will not compensate for management being asleep at the wheel.

That's a good example of a Loaded Question.

They are probably concerned with investing a significant amount of time learning skills that may not be broadly marketable. Sure, it makes you highly marketable to a niche market, but it's continuously shrinking. That might seem risky to someone that probably has another 35 years of their career ahead of them. Being able to quit and move anywhere and find a job has it's advantages.

On the other hand, the work may not be interesting enough at the wages offered. Companies compete for employees with money, time off, and among other things, interesting work. If interesting work wasn't a factor there wouldn't be so many postdocs qualifying for food stamps.

Not sure I agree risk aversion or the desire for fulfilling work qualifies one to be a whiner.

That highly depends on what stuff you're referring to. I don't see many job ads for 8-track player repair techs, but maybe the handful of them out there are making good money.

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IMHO, a more long term solution is, for a company spending millions on a piece of equipment, to have more control over the software. To do otherwise means you're at the mercy of the manufacturer, and sometimes it's not in their interest for customers to keep using the same, perfectly running, old equipment.

So if a subset of men behave in a non-masculine way, are they not "men being men?" Why is "men being men" only defined as being outwardly masculine?

Social norms change all the time. If you don't follow the norms, don't be surprised when you are ostracized. If you expect others to have thick skin, you need to as well, and not be troubled when "labeled racists, misogynists, homophobes, etc." and accept the consequences for your actions.

It seems like you yourself are trying to define your own set of social norms, by deeming non-masculinity in men as undesirable. The very same thing you seem unhappy with "radical feminists" doing. Why do you get to define what being a man means?

You make the assumption that non-masculinity is not a choice a man would knowingly choose, and only the result of drugs suppressing that aspect. Why is being a "pussy" not a valid choice? Why not let men decide for themselves who they want to be without labeling them "jocks" or "pussies" when they don't conform to our expectations?

What is the accepted form of rejoicing when one receives a citation? I don't want to be accused "[continuing] on with the usual group-think."

Wouldn't this be an example of selection bias? Pictures of bird deflections wouldn't be informative, unless most deflections resulted with birds leaving a visible smear on the aircraft.

We can't really quantify the probability of a strike vs. a deflection if we don't know the number of deflected birds.

Which is why it's important to validate backups. The most common story is the proverbial organisation routinely backing up to tape, only to find out the tape was bad when they needed to restore. A random spot check is better than nothing.

An alternative is to setup version control for each file, and if the delta between changes increases by X%, it should send an alert to the user.

Cisco has the market in the enterprise, but the service provider space is a bit more competitive, simply because service providers generally don't like to single source major components to their core business. Many are now looking into white box configurations with SDN.

Many times the management interface of a routing device are not used in leu of a management IP address on a software loopback interface. This is so the device is reachable in the event of a link failure, because the management address is associated with an interface (software) that will never be withdrawn from the routing table. All the management IP needs to be reachable is at least one functioning routed interface.

I'm not sure I would trust an SSL, or better yet a TLS encrypted tunnel over an SSH connection. The OpenBSD guys tend to be pretty paranoid about security; the OpenSSL community doesn't have the same reputation. Ultimately it comes down to the implementation that is more trusted; for example, I would trust an an OpenBSD based OpenSSH server over a Cisco device for receiving SSH connections directly from the internet.

I don't think of private addressing as a strong security measure. Having adequate access controls at administrative boundaries would be more effective and less complex. It's been repeated many times on this forum and others, NAT is not a security feature.

Multiple layers of security are definitely helpful. It diminishes the effectiveness if the same credentials are used to secure each layer.

Only then the system will be modified to include an ignore list. Only for the "safety and security" of VIPs of course. Which is why I think it would be interesting if ordinary people had their own plate readers, because at least in such a panopticon everyone would be watched equally.

Would this also apply to Google Docs as well? If so, Google Docs should have also been considered.

That's assuming salaries scale with cost of living favorably.

Seems like there's quite a few people commenting that taxis require special regulation because they are spending more time on the road than a normal person driving for personal reasons. Insurance companies take mileage into account when quoting a rate. How does this differ from delivering food and other products in a personal vehicle?

If I recall correctly, the import taxes are to prevent China from dumping and gaining a monopoly position in the solar panel market.

Not that it means anything, but I got you beat by 45 days. https://steamcommunity.com/id/...

Not sure if you are aware of this, but veteran status is a protected class in the US. This type of discrimination is not easy to prove though, so I'd be careful what emails you send concerning a candidate's military background.

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