future mines

Yep! See my years old signature below!

Physically securing wires is a fools errand

Correct. Wires are pretty easy to sufficiently protect through physical barriers that aren't easily breached without noise and adherence to smart policy. Like most things in need of securing, network and network attached devices require a multi prong approach. And similarly to all security implementations, the one that Google may have employed along this with door lock/access management solution would have been defeated by those sufficiently motivated even without its bad design.

deserves to be victimized

No they don't. There is right and wrong and will always be. Knowingly exploiting someone's trust, ignorance, and/or other disadvantages is in in the "wrong" column just in case you can't tell. Is it okay for me to take the bike off your porch when I find that you failed to lock it up. Of course, it isn't.

Clearly, the door access/lock system has or had design problems and needs these properly addressed. It's presence was made worse by poor network security. It should have been on a dedicated network and certainly not on the general LAN/VLAN. This guy had access to the network and shouldn't have unless the poking around was blessed.

And, that is EXACTLY how it should be. I have the right to sell my labor to the highest bidder. The companies have the right to seek the workers who are willing to work for the least. Unions are nothing but an extortionist mob.

This might be fine if the power held by the employer and employee/applicant is matched. It is not and rarely, if ever, is. The VAST majority of roles within our societies are not so specialized that only one person is available for an opening or position-already-held at any one time. Also, our society doesn't need and wouldn't be supported by all jobs being so specialized. Given that there is always more than one person able to do and interested in doing the work, the real power is always in the employer's hands. This leads to exploitation since the vast majority of people work first out of practical need and these folks can't just refuse to accept something less ideal endlessly until the ideal job comes along. This is even less of an option due to few people having the luxury of incomes that support being so picky. The basic idea of the union is evening out the power in order to protect the worker from exploitation. All parties need to be reasonable.

Sure enough! The attempted theft and death did happen July 22, 1995. It has been a long time. Yet, I do remember some of the people referenced. Hmmm... I am surprised that I don't remember the event.

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I don't remember this happening. I was among the crew that opened the new store and only store in Spartanburg in mid July 1995 and remained an employee through August 1997. I mostly worked in the computer department during my stay. This isn't something that could have been kept under wrap.

Because the masses are "stupid" is precisely why, in many cases, systems should be designed to auto-purge. Actually, many other design changes should be made. The masses don't understand the true implications of much of what they agree to, especially those long-term. Sufficient foresight must had in a case like this for the person to know that they will eventually need to unregister when parting with the car. They will then need to remember to do this.

There must be support in the law to support mechanisms such as captcha, because I often see them when using Google Search and other websites. Its either this or there is little risk to the operator of legal action.

I suspect presenting captchas in a pseudo-random distribution where, say, 20% of tweets get hit at any given time would do a lot to shut down non human usage. The more a party tweets, the more likely he, she, or it is to see a captcha.

This is funny and creative too. Where are the mods for this one?

This is funny and creative. Where are the mods?

And a change in thei revenue model to one where the users trade cash for the software they develop at a price that is fair for both parties all without the data collection backed "free" pricing model bullshit. I wish we'd move beyond the free model for most things. Free never is, and I don't like the true price we pay companies now.

Spending wads of cash on legal action, especially for an eventually lost fight, leads to higher pricing and cost reductions. So, I'd rather they just give up now.

I think it is okay to dock points for those doing shitty things while still playing by the rules. Just because the rules allow one to cut off another person's foot does mean it is okay to do so.