You. I called them dates.

Meh. Multitask by drinking in class.

Freshman year is an acclimation and get you non-core stuff out of the way. Taking them out means the easy A's don't inflate your grade point so your reported GPA is mr indicative of your actual major performance. Personally, when I interview I really didn't care about GPA. You got in to a school where we hire, you made it through and graduated; I always thought using them was just a way for a company to say "We hired the brightest." I was more interested in what you did during school, what you were interested in; a few tech questions sorted out what you know.

Years ago, when I got my grad degree, one company wanted to know your undergrad GPA as well. For fuck sake, I got into a school you obviously hire a lot of people from, I graduated , and my undergrad was over a decade ago. Needless to say, I didn't accept their offer to interview; I suspect with my initial reaction to their request it would not have gone well.

The real problem is grade inflation, which makes GA even less important.

It is. The fact that our dominant desktop operating systems are still using security models from last century is probably the #2 disaster of modern tech security, coming in just behind so much software with potential security implications still being written in languages like C and C++ at #1. And the understandable yet still deeply regrettable reason for both disasters is the same: momentum.

I normally connect to all online conference calls via their web UIs. At least then it takes both a screw-up in the communications system and a screw-up in a browser security sandbox that is independently developed to allow something like an RCE or data leakage vulnerability to be exploited.

People have called me crazy for not wanting to install native apps from the likes of Microsoft, Google and Zoom in the modern era of remote working, but every now and then, there's another story like this one that reminds me why I am extremely careful about what native software I install on anything these days.

What, specifically, do you mean by "personal Windows installations"?

Are you suggesting that any business of any size should only ever use Enterprise editions of Windows?

I do not believe the differences are so stark as to account for a jump from 6% to 22% and back to 6%.

That may explain the mechanism, but it still means they've got too small a sample size. There's no reason for Windows and Linux users to differ so extremely over four day weekends.

If it can jump from 6% to 22% for one day, and then presumably back down to 6% the next day, either they've got an almighty small sample size, or they're lying.

"No one in this world, so far as I know... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." H L Mencken

Translated: “We’ll get all the upside and foist the downside on public investors. “

No, I read the details explicitly quoted at the start of the discussion and responded to them.

Are you saying that this episode has not in fact resulted in (a) unplanned software being installed on end devices that will (b) automatically read data that is stored on those devices without the proper approvals? Either of those things alone can easily become a compliance problem if you operate in a regulated environment, whether or not things ultimately go any further on this occasion.

Yea, that's a challenge. At a minimum, Flock should do a fuzzy search on the tag with the state registry to see if a missed read digit results in an hit, but that would mean more work and cost more money. Flock's real problem seems to be GIGO compounded by poor programming logic.

They have to have a way, or else there whole system is even more fucked up. States can and do duplicate tags, so a simple number search could cause problems. I suspect the whole state reading is fucked, because of the large variation in how states put the name on a tag, the wide variety of tag graphics even within states, etc.

At a minimum, it would seem Flock should validate the tag is in fact a valid tag for state X and the vehicle matches the state's description. That would at least throw out bad reads , assume Flock wouldn't just flag it as an invalid tag so it would still generate a hit in the DB.