The increase in congestion due to increased economic activity and reduced unemployment isn't just a factor of more people on the road. When the economy improves, people get offered better piles of money to take jobs farther from their homes. People drive farther in a good economy. Then add in all the ancillary travel from increased economic prosperity, eating out more, buying more stuff, going more fun places.

All of the major vendor firewalls are explicitly designed with SSL inspection as a selling point feature. A competent admin sends the Guest Wifi traffic through a separate network so their traffic is not inspected usually.

This is standard operating procedure and required in some environments for security reasons. It's also one of the only ways to make Data Loss Prevention (DLP) work, since it is necessary to inspect egressing data against protected data stores.

Calling it a MITM attack is just being alarmist. I for one like the idea of working in a place where my work is important and valuable enough to be worth protecting. Their network, their rules. Watch YouTube and porn on your own time or at least own dime.

I for one, was quite terrified after looking over CAN-BUS and similar post ODBC-II standards that the shitheads who design car electronics would start using modified versions of USB 2/3 for automotive communication.

Seriously look over any automotive electronics spec and you can smell the steaming pile of, "I want to be guaranteed easy employment another 10 years" shit from a mile away. I wish engineering projects included more ethics audits that resulting in contractors and employees getting fired, black balled, and sued.

I thought every reasoning person in the US (where such horseshit happens) had already figured out the whole, promotional 6,12,24-month pricing has expired, call the retention department to return to that rate for another year game that the phone, satellite, and more so cable companies were making every intelligent or thrifty person wade through.

I don't even watch cable TV for a few years and I knew this. Are there people so incredibly ignorant here?

Two rolls of pennies, $1.00, sounds like the perfect way to pay for an app.

I love the whole are developers horrible people or just abused minions of the system debate that comes out of such sentiments. It gets especially relevant with the conversations about needing to bring back unions and such because of the current movement of wealth in the first world, that is the supposed elimination of the middle class and other socioeconomic strife.

Then you have the emotionally damaged developers screaming about how they are creative types that nobody understands. I'll never understand those types, I've written enough code to understand it is an interesting puzzle, but ultimately always just a logical problem with multiple valid solutions.

Honestly, I can't imagine the kind of vocational sloth and social malice involved in being a developer of poor quality / spyware filled / purposeless $0.99 apps. It is the type of situation where I want to just ask them if they realize how little they have to show for their themselves and how it would be better to have spent all that time flipping burgers with a purpose in life.

The reason the middle class is evaporating is because of he societal drain and malice by these bourgeois wannabes sucking he life out of us all, no different than the movement to turning every purchase in life (software or otherwise) into a subscription. It's all vastly more connected than you might think. The bank programmer who writes the loan software that illegally counts points against minorities. The programmer who added the intentional glitch to billing software that sends out additional billing statements to random customers and tells them they are late when a correct payment is on record. We've seen this social malice and we know it's not accidental. Blame the powers that be all you want, but hopefully more people will realize we are becoming increasingly polarized between an amoralist selfish class operating anonymously behind the scenes and the ethical class outraged by the "simple soldier" argument.

This is fine in specialty expert markets where use cases might be more narrow and such. As much as I hate Apple they have until recently shown how the doctrine of choice is flawed for consumer products.

This already happens with so-called performance programmers. For many cars they only get a 10% or so increase in power, but in the diesel truck field some metrics jump by 50-60%.

Thanks to the engineering of current ECUs, the vast majority of vehicles can be reverted to stock with zero trace. I doubt the auto makers will get any trickier. If anything the increasing need for firmware upgrades on newer cars means the ECU reprogramming and override protocols will just become more entrenched.

A government is a body of people. While we can giggle at the anecdotally, 'notably ungoverned' follow-up, this was a group of private contractors, notably chasing the next paycheck and unsupervised.

I guess what I am getting at is the government needs to have completeness clauses they aren't afraid to use. The paychecks should be cancelled and both the corporation and key individuals in leadership investigated for fraud.

I can't be the only one who noticed a few things that seem amiss with the premise.

a) This guy has taken a new job and intends to take home an entirely unrelated project to do on his own.

b) He's not asking his workplace to provision resources for him to do this out of job scope project. Sounds like he hasn't consulted with anyone about taking on this task.

c) He claims to have the skillset to easily solve their website / application needs, but hasn't been successful enough professionally to purchase reasonable tools for his trade. Even car mechanics in the $18-25k / year range (essentially poverty) manage to save and invest appropriately in quality tools.

d) He's doing an Ask /. for a question trivially answerable by Google or any modern best practices for development guide.

e) Many of the tools he will more than likely be pirating are each worth more than the general requirements he has for this endeavor as far as hardware goes. Will his employer be alright with this?

f) Oh, I see, he's into music production (Reason). Ignore all of my other issues. Sorry, but his request for assistance falls awfully well into certain stereotypes which explain everything.

Those laws only cover the USPS, and most of the time the courier of record is UPS even when USPS does final leg delivery. Secondly, Amazon will make the system a club you opt into where the terms include automatic shipments... probably call it Prime.

So Amazon Prime is actually just going to be a reincarnation of Columbia House (which ironically is still around with a DVD business).

Tell me, will Amazon also ditch showing me the daily price for "on sale" items and instead display the hyper-inflated MSRP for everything?

Lots will change. For one, instead of a government entity tasked with keeping and tracking secrets, the tax payer will get bilked by the same telcos already screwing us over who don't think the internet should fall under common carrier laws. Now we get to dump piles of cash at the same piece of crap to store data instead of a government organization who actually understands big data.

I suspect lunchtime and towards the end of the day during M-F workdays are the best times. Nearby time zones still have enough late work day traffic that a minor issue might be dismissed as general internet congestion and at the same time, the target support people are more exhausted and likely to miss something / want to get out the door and go home.

I had the same internal conflict until I saw Tampa, FL. Nuke it from space, it's the only way to be sure.