I work in a Fortune 500 company. They don't MITM all (or, hell, any) encrypted traffic. I question your assertion that this is required by legal requirements. We're a PCI Level 1 provider; we're covered by SOX. No MITM. What evidence do you have that this is "required"?

I know a ton of Engineering Directors in tech companies in the Bay Area. It ain't no thing, and literally none of the ones I know have a special contract that exempts them from at-will employment.

Yeah, totally true. That's why Trump carried California so overwhelmingly in 2016, and will again in 2020.

[ Just to be clear: I'm a virulent anti-Trump liberal. I'm not trying to shill for the guy. I think he's awful ] On this front, there've been two developments you can attribute to Trump: 1. USCIS has suspended priority processing of H1Bs, which reduces some mobility of H1B workers; 2. The general travel ban and xenophobia of his administration has had a chilling effect on non-US residents' desire or willingness to come to the US to work. This also includes people who are in the US today who have started considering leaving. If you're against more foreign workers, I'd say he (well, his administration) actually has some accomplishments to point to.

Which companies? Dedicated outsources, no doubt. But I'm a hiring manager in a tech company, and about 3/20 of my people are H1Bs. They get paid the same as the rest of my people (software engineers, in the $300K+ range). We don't look for H1Bs because we pay less.

And wouldn't that be just terrible. God knows how our culture could possibly survive allowing a few young girls come here.

You're changing the subject. Putting aside the requirements for suits (have you seen what top-earning developers get in Silicon Valley? And what they wear to interviews), the point is that you can get a suit in a number of different places, but if AT&T is the only internet provider you have access to, you sort of have to agree to their terms. If Men's Warehouse decided that they wanted to require forced arbitration, I could go to Jos A Banks, or get something online, or go to Nordstroms, or Target, or whatever. We're not (in this thread) talking about whether or not internet access should be free -- only that it's required, and that means that if there's only one place you can get it from, that is a very limited definition of "freedom"

It still isn't something you go to cops for because it's not criminal. And if they retained lawyers to sue him, you'd be accusing them of just doing this for the payoff.

Further, not wearing a seat belt virtually guarantees that a serious event that causes the car to swerve will likely result in you no longer being able to control the car, because you've moved out of position. Imagine if the car skids seriously enough, maybe hits a guard rail -- the force, if you're not wearing a seat belt, would likely dislodge you from the driver's seat, meaning you can't control the car anymore -- and being able to control the car after such an event may very well be a critical component in minimizing further damage to you and other people.

(I work at Netflix, but am not speaking here officially as a Netflix employee) Reed Hastings, Netflix's CEO and someone who does in fact speak for Netflix, has gone on record to say Netflix doesn't care about people sharing passwords (as long as it's not a business). https://www.cnet.com/news/netf...

Irrespective of legality, Netflix for example is on record as saying it doesn't care if you share your Netflix account as long as you don't do it commercially. Reasonable stance, IMO.

"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."

FWIW, and I speak as a Democrat here, Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan, is the daughter of Sen. Joe Manchin, Democratic Senator from West Virginia.

FWIW, I believe that virtually -- if not literally -- of all the content that Netflix has produced in the last 2-3 years is available globally on its service.

My sympathies -- I found that article and was tempted to post it, and then I checked, only to realize that hollywoodandswine.com is a (well-made!) parody site. I was very close to falling victim to it as well :)

For example, I'm pretty sure that

Anne Hathaway’s Husband Begs Her to Stop Practicing Oscar Acceptance Speech

and John Hinckley, Jr. Furious to Discover Jodie Foster is Gay 32 Years Too Late

Aren't to be taken too seriously :)