I was trained in college as a HW guy, did a few boards and ASICs, and now I'm a SW guy. Hardware is increasingly done in ASIC's / programmable gate arrays, and PLD's which are now written in programming languages like Verilog and VHDL. It's much like software, but massively parallel. With machines coming with more and more cores now, the differences are shrinking rapidly. The real difference is that it costs hundreds of $k to compile the final package in silicon. ;-)

...rises by one.

You can't just close Friday out at 5:00, and roll the rest into Monday?

The business of actuarials is to accurately estimate risk. Ask them what the risks of global warming present to increased claims: they are experts on the subject. As to the causes of global warming, there opinions are no more or less informed than anybody else as it doesn't impact their bottom line. Since nobody but straw men are arguing that global warming isn't happening, the "story" here is that insurance companies confirm that global warming is likely to be happening. Also, the world is round. News at 11.

Generally an *over*reaction to an event.

They are very into mobility, 'tis true.

No notice is fine with me. Give me the money in lieu of notice, and we're golden. More time to look for new work is a good thing in my book.

Yes, but he stopped, so it's ok now.

That is something special, yes.

You could have posted this *before* the live video started...

Yes, your first line of defense is to examine what they need as far as these images, and that will tell you how far you can go in reducing their size for transmission and storage. Can they be scaled down? Can they be lossy? Can you take some time to run a more effective lossless algorithm on them? Is there redundancy between images? Secondly, do you have to move the whole image? Can you do your work on a lower quality image to define the series of steps required and then apply those steps remotely at their location? Just think real hard about what the requirements are, and don't rush yourself. You may come up with your best ideas in the shower on this when you have time to think outside the box.

Wow, I was starting to take that 97% figure seriously. Interesting article.

...and do we really want to show our cards as to what our capabilities are over a minor regional conflict? Save the surprise for when it's needed.

You seem to be starting from the assumption that we have to be the ones to stop him. Do you think you can stop every bad person from doing every bad thing? If you just want to save lives, you'd have a lot more impact per dollar going after mosquitoes. If it's not about the lives, then what is it about?

If I was a law enforcement agency, I would certainly consider slowing down VPN's just to discourage people from using them. So much the easier for me to snoop.