Today I got a "News about XYZ" email from LinkedIn, which took me to a newspaper article about one of my former colleagues who is now vice president of a large government services firm. I was expecting something about a major contract win or a new product or service he was touting. Instead, the article was about how the company he works for is mismanaging a huge state government computer system, customers and taxpayers are furious, and the guy in charge of the agency had called my former colleague to complain but was not satisfied with the response. Not a good look. So if you're in a position to get your name in the papers, be aware that LinkedIn might help spread the word - for good or ill.

Per capita CO2 numbers mean nothing. Most of China is not industrialized, so it's not really surprising that their per capita output is lower. It's more interesting to look at CO2 per unit of GDP, which reflects how carbon efficient a country's industries are.

That assumes the array is sorted. The problem doesn't state that.

Yet Google is HARD CORE anti remote worker

Thanks for repeating what I said in a much longer form :)

I did count for inflation.

If he can get $500,000 in earnings invested conservatively and not touch it for ten years, he would then have roughly $40,000 per year in income without drawing down.

His parents made the right move, if they don't spend a ton of his income just trying to manage it.

The system isn't connected to the internet.

Somewhere someone doesn't know it yet, but they are going to get the book tossed at them. We have a whole host of natural disasters that can hit, and for all of them seconds count. Almost everyone gets a warning they can react to when it comes to tornados.

Should anyone lose their lives as a result of these systems being turned off, the culprit should get a manslaughter count for each one.

I'm all for ethical hacking, but this is no where near close.

The guy's first mistake was thinking he could somehow talk to the police himself and "clear things up". You will never, ever succeed at that. Always consult a lawyer first, and always have your lawyer talk to the police on your behalf. And I haven't seen a link to James Duane's famous Don't Talk to the Police video in a while, which explains why this is the case a lot better than I could in a couple of paragraphs.

MyISAM still doesn't support transactions.

1) Rhetorical, clearly.
2) I think his odds of harm coming to him are less than a vehicle involved accident.
3) No.

1) He hasn't released how to actually exploit it.
2) This is a five, maybe six, figure bug on the black market.
3) He's simply saying 'Hey, wake up, you're doing a giant disservice to all your users by pushing people to the black market.'