I doubt it was a fish tank thermometer only, it was probably a fish tank controller that had a thermometer as one of it's functions. On something like a saltwater tank where you might have thousands of dollars in corals and such the controller is used to regulate temperature, chemicals and so on. One tiny slip up in parameters and thousands of dollars are down the drain. IOT for that sort of things makes total sense.

Network isolated and all that for sure though.

On the other hand if the casino's security were properly setup even an IOT device wouldn't be a concern as it would have required at least two weaknesses to got to this point. In my opinion you have to treat an internal network as if it was public anyhow.

Most signatures are just chicken scratches anyhow. I learned cursive in second grade and never used it again after fifth, it was a complete waste of time.

It has mechanisms to lock you out until you sync with itunes or erase your device after 10 tries. It depends on how you have it configured.

Every uber car I have been in was far, far, far nicer than cabs.

I have used urber many, many times and each and every time the car was nicer, the person was less scary and the experience was MUCH more convenient.

For me it has zero to do with price (I am not paying, my company does).

Office is essential to your typical office worker. I use word/excel daily and powerpoint at least once a month. Being able to read those documents on a phone/tablet is interested... not sure I care about being able to edit them though.

Based on my experience I disagree with your (often cited) theory. Of the cities I have lived in that decided to build roads vs ones that did not the only thing that has been a variable is the quality of life and drive times. People actually prefer to live in the suburbs and will still chose to live there regardless of traffic.

I am a developer. Why would I waste my time on the the tiny fraction of people who turn off javascript? Easy answer I wouldn't. It isn't about being lazy at all it is more along the lines of why waste my time and limit page capabilities to satisfy a nonexistent demographic of tinfoil hat wearing basement dwellers who turn of javascript?

Who cares what it is called if it works. Just have a mindset if continual process improvement. If something causes pain and isn't offering value remove it. Don't be afraid to try new stuff etc.

That is actually a common anecdote in agile training/books.

You describe a bad team and bad management. No methodology will help there.

If you don't care what the people on your "team" are doing you aren't actually on a team at least as far as your work goes you are working independently on a project. So yea daily meetings would be pointless.

Wouldn't altitude and velocities in geosynchronous orbit have to be exactly identical by definition? Otherwise it wouldn't be geosynchronous orbit and stuff would drift forward or backward.

Saturn V program had payload to LEO of 120,000kg. Falcon Heavy 53,000kg.

I don't like windows or linux all that well (they are just tools) but for a user desktop I far, far, far, prefer windows to anything linux and I run quite a few linux machines as novelty (they are fun to mess with). If I had to use linux as my desktop I could but it is buggy.

Common linux distros break far too often and due to how the popular distros work require re-installing more often than windows (the upgrades break fairly often).