But are you DOING it?

Things that aren't automated won't happen.

Plus, drives are expensive. You can't buy a new one every week and send just them to your friend for storage. A new one. Each week.

This could be more than a publicity stunt. This could be part of a backup strategy, if properly scaled up. Github and those other cloud services are trying to get small and middle software businesses to ditch their own infrastracture in favour of their cloud services. At a slightly higher price, but for more flexibility.

But what about backup?

That sounds like a solution! for another 10 bucks per month, have them burn two CDs of your repo. label them and put it an a labeled envelope, and have them mailed to your office and a trustworthy 3rd party and a showbox is your backup strategy. 1 online, 1 onsite, 1 offsite.

In that case, it's as fair as any court hearing. No one knows who owned what and when.

If you have a arbitrary outcome anyway, you can at least have some fun.

To be fair, as we have learned from Dr. Strangelove, to use superior military capabilities as a deterrent, you can't keep them secret.

So over- AND understatement could be part of a valid strategy.

I guess the stable genius is using subliminal, liminal and superliminal messages....

Well, not my definition. Pure coincidence I was just listening to an interview with a researcher on alcohol related diseases and he said checking if it's addiction or just "regular" abuse is the first step if you want to quit as that decides the best way to do so.

I'm pretty sure it is a bit more complicated than that simple statement, but the definition of addiction are withdrawal and overpowering cravings that make quitting not just a simple decision.

IMHO that's a good working definition, though probably oversimplified. I'm sure there is much more fine print there like if you can recover from addiction at all or are "just" on an yet uninterrupted but still temporary streak of soberness.

That's a contradiction. If it's an addiction, it can't be avoided. That's the definition of addiction (as compared to abuse) that you no longer have control over the need for a substance.

He may have died, but he is already feeling better.

Using game controllers to control the spacecraft?

OK, tasteless jokes aside, for what PURPOSE would that be?

I don't mind if they bring their phones to watch netflix. For that, safety relevant tests would be enough. But for mission equipment? NASA is not stupid. They know if tests are cheaper that finding out in orbit that your photo equipment was not vibration or radiation resistant enough.

On the contrary. Administrations have a great track record of running incredibly complex systems since 150 years. With pen and paper. And rubber stamps.

And that even surprisingly reliable.

It's just neither cheap or fast. The big screwups usually happen when they are trying to become that. Or "efficient"

But so does using a physical sim-card.

SIM-locked phones are as old as SIM-cards. No difference here.

Well yes, culture is the problem. But not necessarily just a pro-gun culture. Canada and Switzerland have that, too.

It's a "I'll solve every conflict with violence"-culture and "Look at me and I'll shoot you"-culture that is the actual problem. Look at the US current politics. And - as you mentioned - a "Well, too bad we can't do anything here. Thoughts and Prayers"-culture

Pro-gun-culture is merely a big enabler.

Yes.

But you always can do more and spend more money.

And now put yourself in the shoes of the guy responsible for security: Spend more money and be seen as doing your job, or have your head on the chopping block for "not doing enough" when something happens?

It's the tiger repelling stone. If you don't need to kill tigers, you need to show some other proof of work.

Does it also teach students not to eat doritos or play the clarinet?

Well - it happened anyway.

Which just proves the parents point: Outlawing something will not stop it from happening. You need laws to make it MORE DIFFICULT to do.

Make it hard to own guns and you have one mass shooting in 30 years. Make it easy to have them und you'll end up with 30 per month.

And cameras don't make it harder to commit a crime. It just may or may not make it easier for the police to catch you - after the fact.

Nah. That is taken care of.

Just shot the "fake robbery" guys on sight and it will not catch on. People are getting shot for less by the police. And if you're taking that risk anyway, you may as well go all the way and grab some cash.

The problem is different: Green light or not, no camera will come down from the ceiling and stop or mitigate a robbery in process. There is a slight advantage of getting surveillance video out on the street slightly faster, but that needs to be faster than the criminal needs to be off the street. If you can't catch him right running out of the door and you need to go through witnesses, existing mugshots or face ID, you're still stuck with the usually crappy surveillance cam footage. Not much difference if you can track down a suspect after 5 hours or 5 days.

Or could it be that law enforcement puts more manpower into catching a suspect when it can be done with a wild car chase instead of desk work 2 weeks later? Any hold up that can't be solved within 12 hours is filed as cold case?

The only reason why this will seem work at the beginning is that robbers will see this as a choice between a regular and slightly easier target. If every business had that green light, robberies would be split up evenly between all stores again. It's the 101 of home security. You don't need it to make difficult to break into your house - just slightly more difficult than your neighbor. (Or you don't need to outrun the lion. Just the other guy)