Short of hardware issues, no software bug is truly random, 'it just happens sometimes' = 'I lack the skill to troubleshoot this'

For many IT people in the US the only reason they don't venture out on their own is concerns over health care coverage. Now that it's possible to purchase affordable care on their own this will no longer be a major obstacle.

NoSQL and Notes types databases are ideal when volume is low, and variety is high and needed values change frequently. Seems to me the data they were collecting and presenting are ideal SQL candidates, and terrible NoSQL candidates. Even if the DB is not bad, it IS a very bad choice for this type of application. Although I'm sure the salesperson/campaign contributor would disagree.

I'm sure it is more difficult to 'hack' simply because it is less familiar to hackers, but validated input, and well patched servers is a better way to prevent getting hacked.

I'm only slightly introverted, or was, now I'm a lot more social. Here is my experience, it might work for you too.

If I have a few questions for a user, sometimes rather than sending an email I will invite one of the people who depend on my work to come sit with me at my cube to go over the questions. I let them see what I am doing, discuss some of the changes, even let them see me make some of the changes while asking for their input.

Me: "So would you prefer it to tab from this field to that field, and not to that button over there like it has been?"
Coworker: "Oh yes!, can you do that to the other screen too? that always messes me up".

This can be very empowering to them, exciting to see it in action, and appreciative that you have let them have a peek in at and participate in the secret world that has so much influence on their day to day work.
Do this over time and you end up getting to know your co-workers, what they know, how they work, and maybe even make some friends.

I just know they will recover. There might be 'Billions' of dollars worth of bitcoins out there, but truly believe they will become worth almost zero in the long run.

Hold on tight a big ole 3.0 earthquake might almost be felt, or worse yet, knock over a lawn chair,if it's already leaning. The theory is shaky at best, but even if it were entirely true lubricating a fault would mean more frequent less severe earthquakes, I will take constant 3.0 earthquakes over a once in a lifetime 8 thank you.

The biggest concern for an employer is loss of trade secrets such as costs, margins, competitive pricing, etc. Usually this sort of info needs to be in the employees hands for them do do their jobs

Blocking employees from taking that sort of data is pretty much impossible and a fools errand as you are more likely to take away their ability to do their jobs.

You must make it a well known policy that you put the full force of the law behind protection of company secrets, and violation of those policies can result in not just termination, but further legal action, and even criminal charges if appropriate.

Not simple, no matter what the cause or job there will always be someone who sees it differently, even if it's a false perception.

If he was so pro privacy he certainly wouldn't be looking to China, Russia or Cuba for refuge and sympathy, these are the least sympathetic countries for civil liberties and privacy, they are however very sympathetic for anti-Americanism.

If they made it on school time, using school facilities I think it's fair to say the school should be the owner.

It really is just as well, public funds should serve the public good I hope the whole USA follows suit. If you are working on something proprietary seek private funds.

Now that requires our full scientific analysis.

Lots of diseases out there, especially bacterial and fungal have VERY flexible diets. So back into your bunker Sparticus789 ;-) Only viruses and prions are limited to hurting things they co-evolve with (or ones with similar/same proteins).

it will be 'installed' just like every other virus/malware with small print in the user agreement that your computer becomes crap after agreeing to install this program.

Always on DRM = the constant threat of YOUR personal property becoming useless.

The most frequent problem is outages and or bottlenecks.

But the real problem is:
"Microsoft sells gaming platform to SuperMeggaGameCo to focus more on their core products"
"SuperMeggaGameCo goes under"
"XBoxes become paperweights"