So, even if you do consult, make sure you negotiate your terms wisely.

The submitter already stated that he (or she? I didn't notice. Damn you, English and your lack of implicitly gendered verbs!) is young, so they don't have that option available to them. Also, being young, they know that those rules don't apply to them.

Let him or her enjoy the cluebat of growing up in peace.

I don't know if a CDL is a qualifier or not but almost all non commercial insurance policies have a disclaimer stating they will not cover any commercial use of the vehicle. Pizza delivery drivers run into this all the time. They either need a special rider policy for their car or pretend the 20 pizzas in the back are there because he forgot to put them in the fridge.

Essentially the same laws in the UK too. Your regular insurance covers you for "Social, domestic and pleasure" use of your vehicle, and that's it. Commuting to work - yes, that's covered. If your work is primarily something else, but you do a lot of travelling to locations ... that can be a bit iffy (a friend runs about 20 bakeries, and visits each one about once a week. Sometimes he uses his car, other times he uses the one of the work's delivery vans to double the administrative work with delivery of [whatever], and he always fills out the vehicles usage log so he can defend that the car isn't primarily being used for work ; he's had this fight with insurance companies in the past.)

Many people get caught by this every year. They sign a contract for their insurance and then go out and break the contract ... and are surprised to find out that it means what it says in the contract.

(1) Being best in the world (or within the top couple of dozen) never hurts.

(2) Make sure that your skills are needed on the site of the work, and your job doesn't depend on having communications. We've lost 75% of our communicatinos because of the crane operator putting a load through one of the satellite radomes, so my work on this vessel is safe until the end of the contract.)

(3) multiple languages help. Anything other than English (I have moderate French and Spanish, a smidgin of Swahili and a dash of Russian) is an advantage against people who only have English.

(4) Get used to travelling. I'm half-way through this trip, with another month to go. Maybe more - who knows ? (No-one. Anywhere.)

Ummm, they're the main bits of advice I can give you.

What? You want to go to your home every night, and you work in communications of some sort? Well then, sir, you are in direct competition with millions of people all over the world who also intend to go home at night and work in communications. Many of them live in a lower cost economy than you do (in fact, precisely half of them live in a below-median cost-of-living economy. That is what "median" means.), and so you are, irrevocably, vulnerable to losing your job to them. It's called globalisation. Welcome to the brave new world. No, you cannot leave.

install it in a VM instead, or does it detect that one as well?

Since TFA (more than TFS) mentions that these various attacks are in response to the virus "realising" that it is running in a "sand box" type environment, then I's expect it to detect many un-stealthed VM environments too.

I read TFA for about 5 minutes before I came across something remotely interesting. I got it that the malware had substantial checks to make it *harder* for an investigator (virus researcher, forensics investigator after a break-in) to understand what the virus is doing, and that the virus writer wasn't particularly interested in hiding from the user, but in avoiding being analysed by specialists. Fixing an MBR - trivial. User's home directory encrypted - well whoopie-dee, as if that's going to faze a decent investigator (they'll probably put the home directory on the network and sniff to record write instructions but not necessarily carry them out). So that's a [SHRUG]. But this :

If Rombertik detects an instance of Firefox, Chrome, or Internet Explorer,

So, virus writers really are getting over the IE monopoly? I hadn't noticed, not having used Windows for myself for several years, and not having used IE for even longer, if at all possible to use anything else.

So the hot female receptionist had the hot female sysadmin sucking up to her ( I chose my words carefully) by repairing her computer instead of caning her pert little behind (I choose, etc) and telling her she's a naughty girl and to never do that again.

Perfectly reasonable scenario. I'm sure I've seen it in some of those "training videos".

Ooooo, internet tiger here!

Looks like an internet kitty-video to me. So thet'd be "Ahhhh", not "Oooooh"

Does AC want a tummy rub?

I learned the roads in my town on foot and push bike, and spend about 3 times as much time on the bike as in the car. Which neatly disposes of traffic alerts (route around any problems down side streets) and weather problems (if you don't have your rain coat with you, you're going to get cold and wet, always).

Do you not have a health care system?

Who could be so crass as to attempt to profit from someone else's pain.

Oh, of course - you use arms manufacturers for your medical care. That explains it. Bizarre, but it's your country. Just don't ask me to go there.

As I can understand it, the magnets are purely for holding the phone to the sticky pad. So, wouldn't the degree of magnetisation be altered by rotating the device between 2 or 4 different positions from one charging connection to the next?

(My phone - stays in the jacket pocket when I'm driving. The jacket is laying on the back seat, or hanging behind me. No, I can't use my phone when I'm driving. But it's illegal anyway, so, "meh!"

The license plate reader image from the article shows a category for "other" along with "tax scofflaw". "Other" says nothing but fishing expedition to me. Unbelievable.

I noticed that too. Not being an American, what is a "scofflaw"? Is it an execution offence?

Adobe Reader can view PDFs instead of just freezing the computer solid and then crashing? Well, whodathunkit?

Hmmm, "exactly" the same? Well, if the person producing the PDF remembered to include the appropriate parts of the fonts. (I was trying to make head or tails of a PDF from a geology journal last night. All the diagrams completely labelled with uninformative square "don't have a glyph" glyphs.)

Pretty much every day for me too, since I got an account with Linked-In (of course I don't let them rape my address books!)

Every one gets blocked with a flg of spammer, and a rude return email to the effect "you didn't read my CV you fucking incompetent idiot. Because it says clearly and in black and white "I am not job hunting and will report any recruiters who contact me as being spammers."

About one in ten actually apologise ; the rest I take it, really are spammers.

What is the submitter's beef? Or cheese cake, or whatever the current slang is? Or does he/ she/ it/ they not actually have enough of a complaint to express what they're complaining about?

Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal maximum. The most recent example of what happens if you dump petagrammes of carbon (as hydride (methane) or carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere in a few millennia, and as such the best estimate we have of the near-future climate of the Earth.