Fact is: His name is Tan. The orange mango will take that as a personal insult. Nobody is allowed to be more tanned than the tanned Mussolini.

Also, night terrors during early childhood are linked to higher rates of psychosis:
https://www.livescience.com/43...

The numbers before were accurate, they just weren't the best metrics. The job numbers stop reporting you if you aren't actively looking for a job. Which means long term unemployed people aren't counted. There is sense to that for some groups (retired, disabled and unable to work), but not for people who are healthy enough to be in the job market and can't afford to do nothing.

The inflation numbers were accurate, but they didn't include housing. Which makes CPI kind of useless, as housing is the biggest item in most people's budget.

That being said, while the metrics were flawed, they were accurate measurements by and large. So one could rely on them and find insights as long as you keep in mind what they don't track.From now on though- when an incredibly political person known for his willingness to make shit up (including outright lies on inflation) removes the head of the bureau creating the numbers and replaces them with someone who will give him numbers he wants? Yeah, from now on they're untrustworthy.

It's not irrelevant. To understand what the program is actually doing and how the computers actually work, you need to understand pointers. They aren't necessary in day to day work, but not understanding how they work will lead to subtle bugs.

Sounds like a good dogfooding opportunity for Google to use Gemini to devise and implement these sweeping changes.

She didn't really resign, it was almost certainly more of a "you resign or we fire you, which do you want on your job history?"

Companies need their employees to have some level of trust in their HR people. A smart employee will know "HR is NOT your friend". They're not employed to be your friend, their main job is to protect the company from its employees. Like discouraging them from filing lawsuits the company will lose, and to stop their manager (and other employees in general) from doing illegal things to other employees that will trigger such a lawsuit. They try to spin "this will be bad for the company" into "this will be bad for you", to change your mind or change your behavior. You can be much more influential if people feel they can trust you.

And "I cheated on my spouse" is not a trustworthy look. That, along with the sprinkling of bad press the company got, is why she "resigned".

Years ago, "protection rackets" used to be a much bigger problem, often leveraged by the mob. Vinnie would stop into your shop and "make you an offer you couldn't refuse". Pay them monthly "protection money" or goons would come by and smash up your business.

There's a very clear parallel between that and "ransomware" of today. Instead of smashing up your shop, they smash up your computer system. But they do it in a way that they can fix, IF you pay. So the threat comes AFTER the damage instead of before. But otherwise it's the same thing, it's just a reverse-"godfather offer"

It's also got lots of additional benefits for the attackers - it's hard to trace, and easy to do remotely, even from another country. It's very convenient and low-risk for them. So the law needs to approach this from the receiving end, not the sending end, to choke it off. A bit like bribery, it's illegal to OFFER a bribe, but it's equally illegal to ACCEPT a bribe.

It pisses me off every time I see a big outfit pay off ransomware gangs. "one big job" pays their bills and hackers for another six months, AND fund them to upgrade all their hardware and support systems, so they become a MUCH bigger threat for the rest of us. You are funding a criminal organization that is harming the public.

"But my business was crippled, we had no choice, we were going to go bankrupt!" What happens when your busines burns to the ground because you didn't install sprinklers? You go bankrupt. That's what I expect you to do. You made your bed and now you get to lay in it.

So lets flip the script. Vinnie walks up to you as you watch the flames and says hey bud, if you loan me $20k I'll organize a bank heist and rob that little bank over there and your cut will be big enough to rebuild your business. Deal? So you consider funding a criminal gang to help you recover from the consequences of your own bad choices, in a way that will end up harming others. Is that legal? Of course not. It's also incredibly selfish of you, and you're transferring your (well-deserved) problem to some other random innocent people. You'll be indirectly-responsible for the damage they do, but you'll just turn a blind eye to that since you get your business back. You had no choice, right? You HAD to pay them off, right? Just keep telling yourself that.

Paying off ransomware groups absolutely should be illegal.

"one cracked password" was NOT "all it took". That was just one link in a long chain. Bad/nonexistent backups, inadequate/nonexistent logging, obsolete hardware/inadequate patches and updates, lack of compartmentalized access, etc etc.

This sounds like what happens when the owner's nephew is managing the network. And now they're trying to play the blame-game for one password having "ruined everything". But for them it doesn't really matter anymore. They have no lessons to learn, it doesn't matter who or what's to blame, they're gone now.

At this point all we can do is put a stop to this "sensationalizing" the wrong target, so that other ex-mom-and-pop shops can look at it and truly understand what really happened. Help them see how they'll be next if they don't take action and correct the ACTUAL problems that they share in common with this latest victim of cyber-crime. All this focusing a spotlight on "one broken password" just helps the criminals do it again to someone else that doesn't recognize all the things they're doing wrong.

TL;DR: if one cracked password can destroy your company, you don't fire the user, you fire the network admin.

The law is unconstitutional, as other similar laws have been found in the past. It hasn't been removed from the books only because nobody has been charged for it in a century, thus nobody has had a chance to challenge it on those grounds. The exception is for the military, which has the UMC which is allowed to have stricter restrictions on behavior.

YEah, none of this will happen. Let's assume they don't have a prenup (in which case the settlement of assets is dictated by that). The wife would get 50% of what was generated during their marriage at best. That may include the house, but its value would be subtracted from what she got in cash. Alimony... depends on a lot of circumstances, but it's more rare and generally a limited time. Plus we have no idea what the wife's income is, she may make as much or more.

Will he get a job again? Of course he will. Probably not as a CEO in the near term, but he'll absolutely get jobs where he isn't a visible presence for the company. And in a few years the CEO jobs will open again, because nobody is going to give a fuck a year from now.

As for going to jail- no. If the alimony (which is unlikely to exist) does exist and it is set high, he goes back to court to get it lowered. Because alimony is based on your income (with a few exceptions for example purposefully staying unemployed). Given that he was just publicly fired, his current income potential is very low, so any alimony would be matchingly low. There are formulas for these things.

So in other words, your just spouting misogynistic bullshit.

I've spent time on the difficult end of black-boxing a BINARY file format. You jokers with your XML and LABELS have it faaaaaar too easy. Here, I'll tell you my secret:

Gather as many saved files as you can, from as diverse of a group as possible. (there is NO upper limit, literally grab as many as you can) Write a short little test script to import and then export every single one. Then compare the export with the original. Refer the mismatches to the dev. I had over 1,000 test files in my suite, and in the initial release only a SINGLE flag was missed, because of all those test files, nobody implemented that feature and the dev guessed the storage would be the same as EVERY other one. (it turned out to be quite unique)

Oh and as for XML depth.... it's RECURSION. It literally does not care if it's 5 levels or 200 levels deep. (unless your IDE has a truly pathetic stack size)

So it's not difficult. QYB.

Unfortunately, since the coding technology that was used in the previous app version is different from what is used in the new app, it is not possible to recover word lists.

Oh it's most definitely possible, but they have no convenient place to put them since users can't login anymore, and so they're just going to label it as "impossible" to get people off their back. (data conversion is relatively easy to do, I do it occasionally)
And if they honestly are saying they think it's "impossible", some PHB is being lied to or there's some severe incompetence afoot.

We might see a class-action for this. It's always risky just "deleting" a "lifetime" service without at least re-branding.

No, it's not. Thinking requires understanding. Machines are incapable of doing that. They can recombine new facts, but they cannot and will never be able to think.

Artificial Intelligence will never beat Real Stupidity