Oh man. See, this is what I was referring to in my post below. I don't envy you. That was the scale of users I dealth with in my last job - about 5K give or take, and it gave me the night terrors imagining this scenario. Especially since most of them were remote. Even if you have another system in place, like some ESD delivery system (whether it's microsoft, or whatever) you still have a lot of work cut out for you prepping a patch to send out to that many users and then trying to get compliance from them.

Am I a bad person for laughing at this? Probably.

On a more serious note: this is the worst nightmare for anyone who has to manage a mobile/remote workforce (or in this case, a large remote customer-base). The idea that some code could break the ability to for a system that depends on communication to communicate is why there is such a thing as a development environment in many corporations where MS updates, AV updates, etc. are tested NOT on the production network. Of course, many corporations have had to cut back, and due to budgetary restrictions many companyies have effectively outsourced their testing to the vendors releasing the updates, depending on the vendor to test and not release some ridiculous update that (for instance) pushes out a firewall rule that stops the system from communicating, or as in this case, an update that nukes the AV software itself, and the ability for the AV software to repair itself by auto-updating. I do NOT envy any IT managers who are at a corporation using Sophos who let their users auto-update and don't do as I previously mentioned (i.e. test the updates/definitions). Ouch.

And now back to laughing.

This. I agree with this. It's awkward, perhaps, to get past the reveal, but I expect there will be a good collection of folks who will not react poorly. There are a bunch of jerks in the world, but often they are just noisier than the equally large crowd of decent folk.

I was going to make this kind of comment too: I have worked at two big companies (~100K employees worldwide) over the past 20 years and both have systems in place to handle a variety of different types of workers. I have not met any who specifically have had your issues but that's more a function of polite conversation not including that kind of information than it is that such workers don't exist. I encourage you to look at large employers in the healthcare or related industries. I think they will be more likely to accommodate your specific needs. I bet there is a niche out there for you.

Agree. The Road is depressing as all get out. I am not sure I find the tiny bit of uplifting hope/redemptive emotion at the end enough to balance out the bleary grayness that encompasses that entire novel.

I can't say I thought I'd actually learn something from clicking here to your journal, but I did. Honestly, I expected some more arguments but perhaps they'd be more interesting than the usual, as it seemed this was about an interesting topic. Instead, you've posted that excellent website which is now on my favorites. TYVM, and have a good day.

I am sad, but not surprised (after seeing how sub numbers have fallen) to hear this. I'll continue to play SWTOR till it dies, as I really enjoy it. It just seems it will die sooner rather than later, and not have as much new content as I would hope.

Yeah. This kills me. I'm less than 10 miles away as the crow flies from Verizon FIOS (Millbury, MA has it) but they stopped, and didn't come any further and I can only hope someday for something better.

I wish I could say I feel sorry for them. Only I don't. Not at all. That is all.

I was thinking the Simpsons, personally, since Homer's ideas are WAY worse than Fred's ever were. But we're on the same page, I think.

Their CEO seems extraordinarily naive. "Hacking and openness are about getting what you want to do with the hardware." Well, sure, AND it's about doing things with the hardware that the corporate overlords don't want you doing. Like playing emulators and pirated games.

So apparently you could do this already if your iDevice was jailbroken? I wonder if that method leaves any kind of evidence or not. Does this method (i.e. using this russian workaround with certificates and whatnot) leave a trail or any kind? I mean, why would people do this if it did leave a trail? I've got to imagine it doesn't leave very much evidence. Or are people really just that greedy?

Yeah this was what I thought was the key point. A judge has now officially said "your product is uncool." One would think not only would they not want to celebrate that, they'd want to hide it.

I think that Seth McFarlane is fascinating person. I'm still surprised when I listen to his album of standards that he'd even stop to take the time to do something like that. I think this is really excellent that he did this. I look forward to the new Cosmos project he's working on.

I am with the other poster: I don't think catharsis was what that was all about at all. It was more about scaring the SHIT out of people (and kids like me.) I was in junior high at that time and the threat of nuclear war with the USSR felt very real to me. Maybe not to all kids, but definitely to me. The Day After was really scary IMO. It didn't make me think "war is a bad thing" it made me think "we're all going to die!!"