It's the ISP's fault. Haven't you heard?

My father is turning in his grave. 37 years he worked at IBM 25 of which he designed and layed out chips at East Fishkill..
So sad.

Windows is always talking to MS. For example, do a local file search, it opens a connection to microsoft servers. I haven't looked deep into what it sends, but why connect at all?

As an additional measure I block micro$oft in my firewall so im not "forced" to do anything..

Everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong. They were in deep shit, and they knew it.
Here is a very good documentary on how things played out.

I know this so called uber-programmer, who is just like this, perhaps worse. instead of shoving people around, he fires them. He simply will not tolerate mistakes and will blow a cork when he sees them. He will berate you, belittle you, embarrass you if front of every one, then maybe fire you.
Rather standard behavior for upper level, ego driven programmers it seems.

It is common for the the movie industry to shoot scenes from drones. So they can't do that anymore? I am sure however Hollywood can do what ever the want, for the are the golden lamb.

Read about the new ridiculous rules the FAA imposed about drones.. Then you will understand.
Don't you know we are living in a time when someone does something cool, it is automatically illegal?

Sounds like dumb, sorry smart grid technology :)

I rather make my own devices and sensors. Much more fun and they will do exactly what you want them to do.

Another mistake was to get involved knowing that we would retire the shuttle and have no means of getting there ourselves.

It confounds me that still, in today's world, new technologies are designed as such:

Design core features.
Write and test/debug core features.
Then, if there is time, do a security audit and glue some security on top otherwise just release what you got.

Security must be built in from step one, step two, etc. and must be and integral part of the design.
Have we not learned our lesson yet?

Out of the frying pan, into the fire..

Interesting:

That the government can legally get a search warrant for.
However the one your head it's protected by the 5th amendment.

Think about it.

It's far worse now, and you are right, my pre ethanol weed trimmer, all the hoses were destroyed , they just basically dissolved.