> How do you feel about the ending of The Big Bang Theory? Silicon Valley is funny, well written, accurate, and well acted. Big Bang Theory was none of those things.

Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system today, thanks to its proximity to the sun and its impenetrable carbon dioxide atmosphere, 90 times denser than Earth's.

Hang on though, we're working very hard to catch up and maybe we'll be #1 soon.

I've been using the internet for a long time but help me out here. What is the goal here?

www.ibm.ibm? or just www.ibm?
ford.ford? www.cars.ford? drive.a.ford?
gmail.google instead of gmail.google.com?

You can mark me down as a firm "whatever".

Power imbalance reinforced by exposure to stereotyped junior roles for women causes girls at the earliest ages to avoid IT due to lack of role models. Loss of those unique viewpoints decreases company adaptability and capacity for marketable innovations. That means the ultimate losers are all investors, and society itself.

That's like saying I'm not 7ft tall because when I was in first grade someone told me most people are 5'8".

3. Bill Clinton's meeting with Loretta Lynch, while presented as 'secret', was intentional, and intentionally leaked.

I agree it was intentional - my theory is that Bill already knew the FBI findings and he went on that plane knowing it would look bad in order to force everyone to get the findings out before the democratic convention.

"Damnit! Now we have to present the findings ASAP!"

Yep. tee hee hee

There's a Navy airbase at Virginia Beach, so I'd say that's a good choice considering the Russians have been snooping around our undersea cables lately.

What we do know is that last week the FBI contracted Israeli software provider, Cellebrite, to help break into the phone.

No, we do not know that. The contract was for software licensing renewal on a handful of servers. If you READ the contract, that's what it effing says. Just click the link for christ's sake.

The description clearly reads:

IGF::OT::IGF UFED software renewals for seven machines.

I'm not an expert, I just clicked the link that read "View" to see the details.

$15k sounds about right for software licensing to me, how exactly do you get them hacking the iPhone in question from that?

You can measure the quality of any streaming music service by typing the word "motown" into the search box.

Does Motown immediately start playing? A+
Is there a list of Motown playlists? A
Does something else happen? Fail.

The demo starts at 2:31:00 into the keynote video:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/KEY01

Eliminate the SUV loophole and the big bloated turds would be gone quickly.

Hmm, not exactly. If you look at the current Jeep lineup they are happy to put underpowered 4-cylinder engines into the low end of the line for each vehicle. Since they really suck to drive with the 4-cylinder it must be their way of getting to that fleet average mark.

Keep a written record each time something unreasonable is requested.

After a few months (6?) show the documentation to the manager of whomever is making the requests.

Then crack open a beer and wait for your new middle manager to arrive.

Political or not, software project or not, someone in the management chain isn't doing their fucking job and you should not simply accept that.

Actually, both programs abide by the 4th amendment.

Also, here's the 1979 supreme court case ruling that your phone records are not private: Smith v. Maryland ... (post-watergate era even!)

Yeah, it's a cute story but I wouldn't trust them with my backup data.

These people didn't have a risk plan for their business that included hard drive shortages?

Their product isn't worth $10/mo ? (raising price)

Can you imagine an airline that doesn't factor in changes in fuel prices? Or a farm that doesn't have a plan for drought?

Bone for tuna!

"Rock stars" - we called them divas in my company - are notoriously unmanageable

Smart people don't want to be managed by C-minus business majors.

Even worse would be managed by even an A-plus History/English/Psychology major.

Of which, corporate america is currently rife with.