1. Be first 2. Be smarter 3. Cheat

This is probably the cost to retrofit police crime lab to use DNA sequencing. They cannot just send for shrink-wrap test. It will not hold up in court.

That's not true. If you have good automated regression, have reasonable coverage and do continuous integration you can cut the release as soon as you have a clean regression. It may take a few hours or a day to prep the release (sign-offs, paperwork, push, etc) but it can be done in parallel. There is always a balance. Prepping the release incurs costs in manpower and resources. Pushing daily may not be practical if cost/benefit is not there. For example if it takes 6 hours to prep the release then doing so for a wording change on the page that get 10 hits per day is not practical. on the other hand, if dev team cranks out dozen cool and exciting features daily it may be worth to staff release and QA automation teams to allow them to prep multiple releases per day.

Every time they take a peek, God kills a kitten.

The article describes a spectacular failure of being able to retain and accommodate creative talent. When company grows and management consultants move in and start laying out verticals and org charts then the bureaucracy sets in and top talent leaves because there is too much red tape to deal with. It looks from the article that the company failed to setup non-management vertical and allow people who have no desire to become managers to grow. The thing is that CEO or COO or another acronym would have benefited greatly from direct communication with Brilliant Jerk instead of relying on management vertical to percolate the message through. Lots' of successful tech companies have "distinguished engineers", "product fellows" or other non-management positions that report directly to the top management. Technology changes every 5 years. Getting rid of Brilliant Jerks is a direct path to obsolete products and becoming irrelevant in the marketplace. Examples are readily available: look at RIM, Nokia, Windows Mobile spectacular failures. You just cannot manage you way out of this one.

What do you mean they don't work? These bans are important source of revenue for the government

MPlayerX will still be available just not in AppStore. I would assume existing users will still get updates through internal update service.

RTFA? "Only around 500-700, or 1%-2% total, of municipal computers are Macs, Walton estimated. "

probably not because apple products amount to less than 2% of SF government computers.

linux iptables or windows firewall can be used to filter traffic between VMs. Network firewalls can be used for the traffic that actually leaves the physical host. It is safer to make assumption that all VMs on the host share the local network and therefore if they need to protected from each other that is responsibility of the guest system.

Riding bicycle in sidewalk can be illegal in some cities. It is usually an infraction and police will follow "cite-and-release" procedure but you have to have to have a proper ID otherwise they will have to take you to the station for booking and then you can post bail. Now, in Arizona, if you cannot prove your legal status they will hold you until ICE clears your status which may take a while. It is worth to keep a copy of your I-94 with you just in case.

Just to be fair CS is big O notation and calculating algorithmic efficiency, Knuth's books, so its possible to be a decent computer scientist without a computer. You need calculus and a blackboard a lot more than you need a computer.

"Scientist" - may be. "Engineer" - hell no. You wouldn't want a surgeon who knows the theory but never practiced it to operate on you, would you?

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment)

Powershell runs circles around bash.