I could see someone making a movie about this. But it probably wouldn't be Sony.

Well if you don't mind paying 50-100$/pound of coffee, I guess the Keurig thing works out for you. And I suppose if you only drank one cup per day, it might still work to your advantage.

That's not a problem that is unique to Linux however. Many commercial products have the same issues - the marketing and planning people want new features as that helps them sell upgrades and maintenance, and in the past those sorts of things were prioritized higher than things like a security audit which management concluded weren't something that one could sell.

It is only when customers demand security audits of the products that they buy that this will change.

that you can flush from your smartphone.

All fun and games until a hacker gets in and causes it to overflow.

and you would have a fine table.

Yes, underground lines are less likely to be knocked out, but going underground is quite expensive, and someone has to pay for it. And the cost to the end user for things like spoiled food and so forth aren't borne by the power companies - their only cost is the cost of the electricity that they don't sell and the cost of the repairs. That being said, in our area, they are in the process of burying a subset of the lines that are considered to be the most problematic (the ones that are knocked out most frequently and affect a lot of customers).

That being said, for overhead wires you *must* keep the tree branches away from the wires, and the way to do this is with tree trimming. It used to be that power companies had an annual budget for tree trimming to minimize problems, but my understanding is that to maximize profits they have cut way back on this and just deal with the outages as they occur.

It is funny - I have been getting more and more frustrated with Firefox. They add all sorts of crap, but do nothing to resolve longstanding problems.

The Payroll/HR stuff can be contracted out - especially if you don't need a full time person to do the job. Our neighbor works as a consultant providing exactly these types of services. If you become successful, and you grow then you can hire a fulltime HR/Payroll person..

That makes it easier to focus on your core functions.

Every time they overhaul things, they break stuff right and left. Why can't they leave things alone that are working properly?

You are assuming that a warming climate is more helpful, but you could have a warm dry desert which doesn't help any of us. Or it may be that in some areas it will be a desert - in others it might be more like what you describe.

There are no guarantees that the outcome will be one to our liking.

In the arctic and antarctic there is plenty of warming - the ice sheets and glaciers are thinning, and that is something that is very measurable.

You need to get VAG-COM from Ross-Tech. A little pricey but it does an incredible job of letting you configure the car.

They have computers there? Who knew!

The transport itself - most likely not. They wouldn't be spending all kinds of time and effort to break into certificate authorities so that they can generate their own "trusted" certificates for whatever websites that they wish.

The notion that there are "trusted" root certificates is where the problem lies. But I have not seen anyone come up with a workable alternative.

Or maybe lolcats with motivational messages from the CEO?

Seriously - F***erberg is just trying to blow more smoke up the backsides of people on Wall Street and try and convince them that he has a plan for "growth". If they were to admit that they have maxed out the number of people, the stock price would plummet.