On the bright side, it's a great way to weed out your least productive employees who think the office is a social club rather than a place to get work done. If they want to come to the office, it's highly unlikely they're doing it for productivity reasons.

Funnily enough, all my previous "you must be in the office" managers were millennials, not boomers.

"Engaged" is one of those terms that come from MBA school, and has no bearing whatsoever on how much an employee contributes to your company. The most "engaged" employees are the ones who play the politics game the most, and say everything the higher ups want to hear, regardless of if it's right or not. They're the "yes men/women". And of course they want to be there in person, because their whole existence is based around being seen by the right people, talking to as many people as possible, etc.

Productive is what you actually should want in an organization, not necessarily "engaged". And productive employees are the ones who spend the least time socializing in the office, and who want the least distractions. They are the ones who want to just get the work done. These people are better off at home, assuming they still have access to all the tools they need for their job.

Note that I'm using engaged in quotes, because real engagement is often the opposite of what is measured when people with management degrees talk about "engagement". The employees with real engagement are the ones who tell the boss no when it's appropriate, are the ones who get frustrated with broken processes, and won't tolerate idiots on their team. They're the ones who truly want what's best for the company, but because they point out the flaws in the company, don't want to waste time gossiping in the break room, and are rarely seen because they're too busy doing the actual work, they are labelled by the MBA types as not being "engaged".

I read that list, there's nothing in there that's particularly scary. Certainly nothing that would allow a remote attacker to take over your system

So "news" is the part missing, specifically the "new" part.

Hard to test it on a car when the vulnerability was patched 6 months ago and the manufacturer basically forces the updates to all their users.

Having lived with Tesla's continuous feature removal and UI downgrades over the air, I'm inclined to agree with you.
I must say that Tesla has really soured me to the whole concept of ota updates on future vehicles, they so often use it to remove functionality or degrade the UI, and almost never to add anything or improve anything. If my car still had the same UI, and the same features it had when I bought it in 2015 it would be a much better vehicle than it is today.

Luckily they fixed this problem 6 months before the article you're commenting on came out then....

You failed to mention that Canada could easily have had vaccine production, if the liberal government had chosen to support the albertan company instead of the failed Chinese deal (company based on Calgary was equally far along in development, but the government refused to giver them any money, instead sending it to China). But there's no way any liberal government would ever support any company outside of Quebec or ontario.

You also failed to mention why we've been constantly hit with delays in receiving the vaccine, it's because we were the last Western country in the world to sign the contracts, and we failed to put any provisions in the contract for delivery timelines. This is why we are among the last in the world in per capita vaccination right now. Our government has managed to waste money on enough vaccine for more than five doses per person, without managing to ensure delivery of any of it within a timely manner. You can't get much more incompetent than that.

The whole liberal party platform for the last election was to see if they could out left the leftists. It was so bad that the the people couldn't tell which was more left-wing the ultra left wing NDP, or the liberals. It is really too bad that the party uses that name, because in the traditional sense of the word there is no relation to liberal to them. They do not believe in any form of personal liberty, they believe in government control of every aspect of life. From the perspective of classic liberalism, the conservative party is the most liberal of the major parties in Canada at the moment.

Welcome to woke-topia

I cannot speak to this particular case, however your statement that minors are considered to be competent to make medical decisions is 100% false in Canada. I work in the medical field, and it would be illegal, I would lose my license, if I ever let someone under the age of 18 make a medical decision on their own. We are required by law, to get parental consent to treat anyone under the age of 18. The only exception are minors who have been specifically emancipated by the courts. And that is an extremely rare situation.

I think you've misinterpreted NASA's core mission. Their primary purpose has absolutely nothing to do with space flight. NASA is a money distribution program. Why do you think that every NASA project has parts made in umpteen different far-flung regions? Why do you think their budgets are so much higher than companies like SpaceX for similar programs? The primary goal of NASA is to distribute tax payer dollars to influential companies in the regions of influential politicians.
If they happen to do something in space, that's just an added bonus.

And the Wright brothers had never flown before they suddenly did either. Someone has to be first, but just because the first person was able to do it without past experience, doesn't mean you shouldn't favour past experience once it exists.

You now have the choice of companies with a proven track record, why would you willingly choose someone who doesn't instead?

You're directly disagreeing with the post I was replying to who stayed there was no more money.