I use and like Entrust Entelligence PKI solution. Signed and/or encrypted email, used by most US gov. agencies for easier interoperability.

Ha Ha, Facebook addicts, Punch The Monkey, Punch It!

You can quit any time you want, right?

Corporate suicide Microsoft style, only they are not nearly as entrenched.

>>> Instead, car companies intend to offer software upgradable vehicles through 4G connectivity

This is fundamentally bad idea. Ability to remotely modify anything on a car is a disaster waiting to happen. Cars still last 15-20 years, what decade-old security or cryptography do you still trust in your everyday computing?

I can already see buffer overflow into root, then pushing custom firmware that interprets any accelerator input as maximum throttle and overrides braking by using traction control to redirect it to a single front wheel resulting in a spin-out.

Or you could go for renewable energy source with a propeller hat.

It is variation of prisoner's dilemma.

Because costs are passed down to you.

Exactly. People that you hate, and people that probably hate you back and only would tolerate you in professional settings are the best kind of people to know when you are looking for a job (as opposed to looking for cat or baby pictures).

I am no affiliated in any way with LinkedIn.

I am surprised by all LinkedIn hate. As an active user I configured it to never email me under any circumstances and only had this rule broken twice (not sure how/why) in all this time I have been using it.
 
Yes, spam is annoying but there is a clear opt-out.

Replacing this dated equipment will also result in replacing operator, and that can have all kinds of hidden costs. If someone worked for your business for 40 years and is loyal and productive employee, then why do you care if they want to do it with punch cards or abacus? They had 40 years to prove that whatever they are doing works, unless there are new process requirements, there is no reason to change

Decision chart:

1. Did any processes change or about to change? Yes/No

Yes - Go To 3.
No - Go To 2.

2. Job gets done? Yes/No

Yes - leave it alone.
3. No - look into optimizing/fixing.

Unfortunately without locking both platform (walled garden) and distribution DRM is futile. Why unfortunate? Because inevitable conclusion of all failed DRM is not to open it up and monetize, but to build more walled gardens.

Idea that DRM only has to defer casual pirates is an intellectually bankrupt idea - defense has to be breached only once for the information to become freely available. As such it inevitably turns into vs. Internet battle, and Internet always wins.

The only sane thing to do is to compete with your content based on merits - provide it on demand, at high quality and at low price. Some will always pirate and some will always pay - but majority will go with whatever is the most convenient.

Capitalize on laziness and stop building walled gardens!

No matter what your policy and planks are it always boils down to following: abortions, guns, and cutting taxes.

Keeping it pristine is more important. You don't do anything in space that could potentially make it unusable for thousands of years. There might not be a practical solution to remove space debris past some threshold, would you rather find out that the case after the fact?

>>How elegantly minimalistic.

Well, when you put it that way...

In most cases this will hasten Kessler Syndrome.