Like it or not, a lot of nasty employment conditions are technically legal or hard to prove. Really the best thing is to publicize what is happening on glassdoor and similar sites. It's not going to immediately stop entry level employees, who have few better choices, from applying. But confirmed bad practices will deny the perpetrator ability to recruit top talent for positions that have the most impact on the company's future.

As of now, Intermex is described as nice working environment on Glassdoor. If I was considering an offer and read about 24/7 GPS tracking in page after page of reviews, I certainly would not join.

Do you want your corporate culture to be like that? Then by all means only hire kids. Any healthy human society needs an age/gender/personality diversity of contributors to thrive. There are certainly brilliant 20 year old programmers, but they don't have practical experience keeping a project or a team alive and working well for a decade. And once they acquire such experience, they will leave your company because it'a not friendly to their needs.

Android phones are essentially running manufacturer/carrier Linux distros. If someone doesn't want to update theirs, you can't force them. You can, however, switch to one more to your liking. There are always Nexus devices, but also a good business opportunity for smaller players who can't afford to develop heavy customizations like TouchWiz anyway.

You could install a fully functional system from a box of floppies and it ran great on clunky 386sx. Multitasking and networking capabilities blew other choices of the time - Windows 3.1, DOS and MacOS classic - out of the water. BSD distributions were not nearly as complete software wise or easy to install. Lack of shared library support made X apps impractical.

Without Slackware the would have been no Linux of today.

How many people are really willing and able to sit at the desk for hours on end, without any human interaction, all to figure out an abstract problem? How many will enjoy such a career for a decade it takes to get really good at it?

The patience, intelligence and introverted personality required may all be on the bell curve, but one has to be on the vanishing end of it to be a key contributor to the project. Others can certainly learn how to complete a 3 page class assignment, but will be miserable if they have to code most of their wakings lives.

I would argue that quantities required are so unusual that a great programmer is always going to have difficulties in social relationships with people in the middle of bell curve, even if not to the degree that can be considered autism spectrum diagnoses or any other disability.

Having 30 solid offers per month for even entry level programming jobs would be reassuring if nothing else. These are just generic position postings though, with no special inside track to get an actual job.

Having said that, I got a new job by replying to one of LinkedIn recruiting e-mails a couple of years back, and got a nice salary hike as well as more interesting project and less stress than my previous gig. After that, I usually reply by declining politely and thanking the recruiter for asking. If someday myself or a friend needed a new job, I would probably have a slightly better chance with recruiters who had a positive experience with me before.

That's not most people's risk profile. An average user is more likely to have personal data lost or stolen from their personal devices than a cloud provider with a professional IT department. Even in terms of legal risk, you could be jailed for contempt of court for failing to produce documents in what is otherwise a civil matter. Or not have access to favorable evidence.

You absolutely should have legal right to run whatever software you want. I just disagree with article's premise that most criminals would go install custom ROMs and sideload apps. Anyone with enough wits and self control to do this consistently is likely smart enough to achieve their goals in legal ways.

Is this going to be the practical bandwidth I can get to Netflix and other popular services 99% of the time, including Saturday night? If so, it's a wonderful service and could be well worth upgrading to 75mbps or even 1gbps. I would love to do a time machine backup of my laptop to a cloud storage provider that wouldn't burn in a house fire.

On the other hand my "30mbps" Comcast connection frequently ends up buffering a single HBO now stream. To be fair, this could well be problem of HBO or network intermediaries rather than Comcast. But in either case "smoother playback" advertising is misleading if this is not the experience I would have in most cases.

Lots have been caught with plaintext browser history on their hard drives listing Google queries like "how to dispose of a body". That despite tools to clear or not record such history are easily available. To such end, having a half hearted, optional key escrow may do a lot of good. Let smartphones be encrypted by default, with a copy of the key encrypted with a public key of a cloud company that has an excellent security record. Then if someone forgets their password, and shows up at Apple or Verizon store with a valid ID, they can have their vacation photos back. So can law enforcement if they produce a valid and narrow scope search warrant.

At the same time, people can install custom ROMs that support encryption that is potentially impractical to crack. That's important for many reasons including personal freedom and keeping country's technological edge by encouraging people to develop and understand software. Whistleblowers will get to keep their privacy, and so will a few criminal masterminds. But chances are, the later will have dumb associates who will set their password to 12345. I think a bet that smart people are generally also well intentioned is a good one for our society to make. In the meantime, we don't have to make life of the next Scott Peterson too easy.

For all the noise about systemd, we are totally ignoring the fact that it's the Linux kernel that is the most egregious violation of UNIX modular philosophy. ChromeOS Lightbar has no place in main kernel distribution. System should at least provide enough of a stable binary interface for users to get a binary from outside developer and use it for a couple years. It's not crazy for a non-critical driver like this run in userspace, where a crash is less likely to bring down the whole system.

Anyone interested in learning system programming, or getting their pet gadget to work with Linux, should be able to maintain the project without having to convince Linus Torvalds to take it on or make monthly patches to accommodate ever changing kernel interface. For that matter, someone should be able to write a new kernel and have it work with a decent subset of Linux drivers. In the meantime, core Linux maintainers can focus on fundamental projects like kdbus rather than making LED lights on one particular laptop blink.

Get an Android phone with unlocked bootloader and install a custom ROM based on older/better debugged KitKat AOSP release and focused on stability rather than features. Think Debian of Android. If you can't find one to your liking, you only have yourself to blame. It's impossible for a release with hundreds of brand new features and UI refreshes to be stable for the simple reason that nobody actually tried it before. But if there is enough interest in the community, they can take a snapshot and focus on fixing bugs.

Before you pick up. Next up - publicly visible "A called B" post on your wall with like and comment buttons.

If you get immunized, you also get ahead in live and work by unnaturally avoiding diseases. Lately there has been noise about forcing people to get shots no matter what they think. Personally I think you should have a choice. But if there are drugs for which beneficial effects dramatically outweigh side effects, I am all for their use becoming widespread. Adderall is definitely not it - current drugs are too blunt and uniformly carried thoughout the body, causing side effects to organs. The future is gene therapy or nano capsules that deliver active ingredients to only a targeted group of cells. On the other hand, people taking it now are volunteer guinea pigs who will help us one day come up with better and safer drugs.

Embryos are frozen all the time

That the remaining 4% of marine life was unusually acid-resistant. So they might do Ok this time too.