I work on a team that is 50% remote, 50% local. I'm in the remote bit.

We have a 3-per-week video standup, and we use Slack to stay in touch. Our development infrastructure is in an Amazon VPC with VPN access, so everyone can connect and check in code and documentation, as well as test on the dev and stage servers.

Part of the team is in Silicon Valley / San Francisco, and then the rest are in Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, and a contractor in Europe.

We've never missed a date, and our team outperforms every other team in the IT shop in the company to the point where we are taking over their systems in 2015.

Remote can work, if you have motivated employees and good management. And, it allows us to recruit from outside of the echo chamber that is Silicon Valley to get quality people that aren't compulsive job-hoppers. There is talent to be had in the midwest, and throwing California salaries at them is a good way to get them and keep them.

Looks like their last cheap phone for kids, with a layout change.

There is no auto update.

The user had to actually tap a button to perform the upgrade, and maybe if they were so concerned to retain legal counsel due to the effects of that action, they should have read a little documentation first. Or, just cabled up to a computer and let iTunes do the upgrade with the hard disk acting as temp storage.

People will try to sue over the stupidest shit these days.

And no other operating system has had the occasional security bug. Certainly not Linux (shell shock, heartbleed) or Windows.

So don't install the update?

I know someone still using iOS 6 because they wanted to. Nobody is putting a gun to your head and telling you to upgrade.

So you have absolutely no relevant experience with any of their stuff, as every single product they sell is completely and utterly different from anything they were doing in 1988.

Except you are still missing what everyone else bitching about this is missing - you can PLUG YOUR FUCKING PHONE INTO YOUR COMPUTER, AND IT'S STORAGE IS USED FOR THE TEMPORARY SPACE INSTEAD. You know, just like every iOS upgrade there ever was before they introduced over-the-air upgrades that require temp space on device.

Or you could have plugged into iTunes and upgraded, which would have downloaded and stored the IPSW firmware image on the computer and simply overwritten the existing OS image, not requiring the extra temp space.

Everyone bitched about not having over-the-air upgrading, right until they started bitching about how much storage it takes to do over-the-air upgrading.

The LGM-118A Peacekeeper could carry up to 10 W87 warheads, but usually had some dummy RVs and countermeasure pods instead. The proposed START-II treaty had a 3-warhead limitation for all MIRV missiles except for SLBMs, but was never ratified.

There were only ever 50 of those deployed, and they are now decommissioned.

The LGM-118A Peacekeeper could carry 10 W87 warheads, with each detonating at up to 300kt. Most that were deployed did not have a full 10, as they wanted to have some countermeasure "dummy" RVs loaded too.

The START-II treaty limited ground-based ICBMs to 3 warheads, so the LGM-118 was retired even though the treaty was never ratified, because the platform never performed as it was supposed to and SLBMs are a better deterrent anyway.

It's also worth noting that if you're inside a 10-mile circle and targeting an aircraft carrier, you are probably inside the outer perimeter of the carrier group. Which means you're either in a submarine, or dead before you fire.

The cat is already out of the bag. Satellite imagery of a whole ocean pretty much says where a carrier battle group is.

Are you freshly arriving from the 1960s?

A bit of change has happened in any place where the asshole CIA spent their time toppling regimes in order to stand up a puppet state. They also don't really do that anymore, as it turns out to just piss people off and cause bigger issues down the road.

2015 could also be the year of the International Pick-up-sticks championship too.

What sensationalist garbage.

It depends on who's paying.

BMWs come with one hell of a service plan. If it's under warranty, then it goes to the stealership where BMW USA can pay for whatever, and you get a nice loaner to drive around until they're done. If it's off warranty, yeah - take it to someone who charges reasonably, does quality work, and does it quickly.