You couldn't care fewer.

...and then hope and pray your house doesn't slam into a safety barrier at high speed while you're asleep at the wheel.

That's not a problem with a clean power plan. That's just life. If you invest in anything, you'd better be prepared to have the floor fall out under it, because you can't go back and change your forecast and not invest.

Unless you've been under a rock, or think that a vast majority of scientists are somehow plotting together to make up some huge carbon-footprint global-warming conspiracy theory, it really doesn't work both ways. Economic problems will be the least of our concerns if we render this pale blue dot largely uninhabitable.

Security is layered, and anyone who thinks DR and business continuity plans are all you need to protect against these threats is really doing things backwards. With appropriate next gen firewalls in place with proper UTM and endpoint protection, it's completely possible to track exploits, infections, and intrusions even through complex networks if you have the right security appliances in place. It's also possible to head these things off at the pass before they do extensive damage to a network by isolating the affected systems in the network. This can happen -very- fast, and can be handled in an autonomous fashion. What you're describing is Armageddon... the kind that sinks large businesses in a day. If you're spending that much money on DR, I'd expect there'd be a budget for the kinds of security solutions that would prevent or at least mitigate and isolate the actual damage in the first place. Recovering a few systems is one thing. Recovering a majority of your network sounds like your RTO just jumped from hours to weeks.

But hey... these things don't go down well at the budgetary meetings, do they?

You may be confusing "smart" and "dumb" with instinct driven behavioural patterns in this case.

Maybe this is a grey area for some people, and colour me ignorant about what spelling they favour in the UK, but here in Canada, it'd take a lot more than US influence to get me to draft up my documents the lazy way. Is there a draught in here? Well... gotta keep ploughing away here at the data centre.

I'm pretty sure that this experiment didn't set out to prove the FDA is corrupt and is maliciously slapping arbitrary expiry dates on drugs so you would waste your money. The FDA's primary goal isn't drug stability over 15 years, for example, it's what is safe in a reasonable amount of time for those drugs to be consumed. Do you really want to pay the FDA to do decades long studies on all prescription drugs with the intent of seeing how many generations you can pass your prescription drugs cache down?

It's not the radio tech I'd be concerned with. I'd be more worried about the logic, and trust. Do you browse a website just because there's a link to it? Same with cars and infrastructure - we'd have to establish trust between vehicles and other endpoints. How is that going to work? That's a bigger problem than merely getting every autonomous vehicle talking on some protocol.

An internet-centric world isn't appealing to everyone, true. The 'cloud' works for many businesses because we don't all have the resources to have our own airport, pilot, and private jet. Some people may even want to own all three of these things, but that doesn't make it a good business decision.

Sure there's always considerations and risks to outsourcing, so choose your partners well.... airport, (datacenter), pilot (MSP?), and jet (SaaS).

I'd be interested to know who -wasn't- rejected in spite of questionable social media comments.

FTFY

I've been wondering lately if tech companies are just throwing technology at various populations to see what sticks. Is it cheaper to develop this crap and see if they stumble on something popular and trendy, or if they actually spend any time or effort researching and vetting ideas before developing them? Maybe I'm slowly going beige, but this idea just seems ludicrous to my dusty old brain.

Streaming services such as Netflix provide ISPs what are essentially servers stuffed with drives that provide a local cache to their streaming content. This means you don't end up using bandwidth between the ISP and their Tier 1 provider for that type of content. While the CRTC are saying that should still count toward your data cap, it can also be considerably less expensive for the ISP.

I agree with this sentiment. Touchpads are the ultimate in dumbing down a HID to make it 'friendly' but ultimately less efficient. I refuse to use a consumer notebook these days, so I stick with my T-series ThinkPads with TrackPoint. I understand why some people like touchpads, but I find them irritating, slow, awkward, and inaccurate. Also, nothing like moving a mouse without taking your hands off the home keys.

Bay area? I live in Ontario Canada, you insensitive clod. :)

And agreed - but a lot of people live in condos, apartments, and semi-detached homes where the extra bass won't always make you friends with your neighbours... my point was that not everyone lives in a single home, so sometimes the sound is more impressive, (if not better), in a theatre.