Good points. I was thinking about an Apple Card. Not anymore. I like what you said. Resonates with me. Thanks!

Yeah, this situation could have been prevented for sure. That's not my takeaway, though. There's another level of meaning beyond some guy that didn't pay attention to important stuff and paid the price. It's more about Apple exerting that level of control, from a distance. It's like buying a used car from one of those shady lots that will send a signal to disable your car if you don't make a payment. Stuff happens sometimes, despite our best intentions. If I was in the middle of nowhere and the loan company decided to shut off my car, that would suck...even if I "deserved" it.

I was thinking about getting an Apple Card. Not anymore. Missing a payment isn't cool. It pays to check your e-mail. I have a e-mail account dedicated for important stuff (like this) so it doesn't get overloaded with garbage. I don't blame Apple for wanting their money, either. But if I can make a mistake and essentially lose my phone, that's a problem. It's a bigger problem if Apple doesn't know how to help, even if I call the wrong number. If I want poor customer service, I can go to many other places. I don't expect nor want that from Apple. Even though everything this guy went through could have been prevented if he'd just paid closer attention to his...stuff, I'm still happy I ran across it, and I think my decision to skip the Apple Card is a good idea. I'm not saying any of this would happen to me, but if it did, YIKES!

...don't ask the question. The last thing military aviation wants is to have their "Top Gun" pilots replaced by machines. It doesn't matter whether AI is better or not. What matters is ego and the perception of importance and usefulness.

Further, the published mortality rate is the average across all those who were diagnosed. If you are elderly, already sick, have a compromised immune system, or some combination of the three, your mortality rate is significantly higher.

...they are not all equally bad. Some are ineffective, while others are just downright awful. I have plenty of anecdotal evidence that shows the best candidate may not perform, while giving an average candidate a chance works out well. What the article doesn't address is what happens to new hires once they are hired. You can take the best, most qualified, most motivated new hire and crush them under a bad manager. I've also seen a great manager take a diamond-in-the-rough and produce an amazing employee. We tend to blame HR for bad hires, but in reality, it's not so much the hiring process that's broken as much as it is the leadership culture in companies.

By that, I mean one should assume an attack IS COMING, your countermeasures WILL FAIL, and the attack WILL BE SUCCESSFUL once it happens. That means having a business continuity management system in place that includes off-site/off-line backups, a disaster recovery plan to rebuild the infrastructure, and a business continuity plan which explains how you're going to operate while the DRP is being executed. Also, and this is critical, these things have to be fully exercised. You don't want to find out your backups, DCP, or BCP don't work when you're hacked. NOTHING ELSE is going to work, and assuming there is any other option is making a bet you almost certainly will lose.

Honestly, when I think back of the last 100 times I typed in ALL CAPS, as I did just now, I did so holding down the SHIFT key with my left pinkie. That's probably because I learned how to type back in high school on an old manual typewriter. At this point, using the SHIFT key is completely automatic. Now, when I think about the last 100 times I used the CAPS LOCK key, all 100 of them were an accident. I used a slightly different keyboard, and the location of the SHIFT key was, well...shifted, from where my automatic pinkie was used to finding it and BOOM, ALL CAPS. Grrr. That being said, if you're going to get rid of CAPS LOCK, you have to fill the space with something. What? I have no idea. I like where the CTRL and ALT keys are located. TAB too. Maybe a second DELETE or BACKSPACE key? Or make the left SHIFT key larger. How about a button that dispenses M&Ms?