I would think that an audit trail only needs temperature readings, not adjustments. You don't want to know who made the adjustment? Nor the time the adjustment was made? What adjustment was made? Might as well gut audit logs in Windows or Linux if all you want to know is a reading.

Exactly. IT orgs should put defenses in place to catch the majority of fishing emsils, using sender info,AI to recognize patterns etc. You won’t catch everything but can greatly reduce the chan crew s they get through.

Nearly 50% of stocks are held in retirement plans. It's not that the shareholders only care for the next dividend. It's that the shareholders are passive (as you also pointed out), or are one level removed (in index funds).

The fund managers don't want to rock the boat with the companies because the companies get to pick who manages their retirement accounts, so essentially the retirement accounts are yes votes and not ownership oversight.

How are you measuring "size": By GDP?. So, it takes 3 Chinese workers to buy the same quantity (in dollars) as 1 US worker. The obvious answer is, Chinese workers are buying less, or the cost of merchandise, is less.

How are you measuring production? In dollar terms? That's GDP, which I explained. In, units produced? The problem there is, many factories don't exist in the USA: The quantity of item X produced in the USA, is zero. How are you resolving this? Simply ignore the workers that don't have a US equal: That certainly explains the 3 to 1 ratio.

Now, let's assume you are correct. What does that mean? Given, the "size" of the economy is similar, the GDP is similar, it means it takes 3 Chinese people to earn Z dollars and 1 US person to earn Z dollars. Why is that a problem? That depends on what China imports. The important CPUs are made in Japan/USA/EU: Anything with modern computing power costs a fortune, from Tvs to laptops. (Cell phones are excluded, strange!) How does China get around that: Internet cafes? Streaming services means a laptop can function as a small Tv. What else: Let's assume management costs 12% of revenue. Thus, a Chinese worker pays 4% to have a job, while a US worker pays 12%. Which country looks unproductive, now?

Broken politics, a destroyed environment, debased social fabric, and a degenerate business culture prove his point.

Wannabe accountants.

The article is correct. Basically, they're taught that greed is good rather than bad.

" An expensive way to vibe educate yourself.

It will strike everyone as very puzzling. After all, everyone on slashdot and Ars Technica knows that wind and solar are far cheaper than nuclear and just as reliable. So why on earth is Google looking into nukes? Why do they not just build a huge wind farm, throw in a few batteries, and get unlimited cheap power?

Because the wind and the sun are free, after all. But instead they seem to be resorting to a ridiculously expensive nuke, and then on top of that, where you have to pay for the fuel, I mean, someone has to dig the stuff up and refine it. Whereas the wind just blows and the sun just shines, so they obviously are cheaper.

They have accountants and lots of MBAa, so they must see this, so the question is why they are going against what their analyses must show them. If it was coal or gas we would know, they were in thrall to the fossil fuel industry. But is there a nuke lobby, and are they not bigger than it anyway.

Help me understand this! Its a great mystery. Unless I have missed something. But what could that be? I mean, it cannot be that wind and solar plus a few batteries are actually more expensive, could it?

You put ALL of your data on one cloud provider with no local backup? Loosing that data is YOUR fault. I It always sounds like a lot of money to the bean counters until you explain to them the station probably spent tens of millions of dollars producing that content, and all it takes is a corporate meltdown or technical SNAFU and all of it is gone.

Let's ignore for now the obvious issue of how you solve a problem with an app that requires the very device you have a problem with. How do they expect people to become new customers in the first place? The #1 reason I go to a cell provider's physical stores is to pick out a new phone, have it activated, and my current phone (if still functional) cloned to it. Are they seriously expecting 100% of new customers to be BYOD Verizon defectors? I have to suspect this is the "anchoring" opening bid in trying to sneak through a far less obnoxious change, hoping we'll all thank them rather than reaching for the tar and feathers when they announce whatever real change they're aiming for.

To be fair. this is a University with a 90% acceptance rate. It makes Greendale Community college look respectable. No offence Todd.

As someone who lives in Los Angeles, no, no there is not.

You almost got it right. The progression was Fortran -> Pascal -> LISP -> C -> C++ -> JAVA. At least in college introductory programming.

Licenses have ALWAYS been revocable. Physical distribution doesn't change that. Historically, until relatively recently, they have lacked the technological means to enforce license revocation.

Contractors tend to be a lot cheaper and easier to get in big cities. In small to medium cities there is a shortage. You wait for a month and even then they may not show up. They know they have you over a barrel so they overcharge.