I also recently found what looked to be a nice laptop left in my building's recycling area

Unless you left the Windows partition, I guess there _might_ be a chance you wiped out the honey pot...

Is it just me or does Adobe's software have the worst engineering practices practices in the industry. Every other fucking week there's an Adobe vulnerability. Scratch your ass, Adobe Vulnerability. Sneeze? Adobe Vulnerability. Walk your dog? Adobe Vulnerability.

Follow the facts to the obvious conclusion: Adobe is being *paid* to add exploits to one of the most ubiquitous pieces of software on the net - tellingly even a requirement for some banking and bill paying sites. Given this seemingly endless fountain of suck, the only logical answer: Adobe is an NSA shop.

* BTW, about that Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times," after decades in Asia, I have yet to find a native speaker who can tell me the original Chinese. So it seems this curse is apocryphal, most likely invented by a Westerner as a joke.

I'd always read it was Arabic or Persian; probably means it's either Icelandic or Venusian.

I think this is one aspect of poor management., Management sets the tone - do they complain etc. when you call in sick? If they don't, then people take off when they are sick.

Not exactly. The 'miracle' of American worker productivity is that most of us are now doing our work and the work of the poor sap that got laid-off during the Sub-Prime Pyramid Recession. Now, we're all too terrified to call in sick lest we be tagged as lazy or disposable. So we all work sick, because we need the health insurance (hashtag: irony).

I particularly like how it's come out that they were backdooring (and presumably screwing, or at least reserving the opportunity to screw) their own ethically-challenged customer base.

This singular fact may lead to the exposure of this company as a very impressive, long-term false front for an intel shop. Probably not the NSA, given that the FBI (backdoor irony alert) and other FedGov organs were apparently customers. Who *is not* on that customer list: GCHQ? Interpol? Russia?

There may be a popcorn shortage before all this plays out.

What we call black people are actually just a richer brown.

Wow. I assume you mean the racist 'we', aka 'they all look alike to us' we?

The bigger issue, though, is systemd's influence over other projects. But that wasn't raised, so why would he comment?

Oh, it was asked, but my question about Red Hats' (and their one employees') increasingly out-sized dominance even over desktop apps wasn't deemed worthy, much to all our detriment.