TFA is paywalled.

Better and more direct info is available from:

https://www.cloudflarestatus.c...
https://statusgator.com/servic...

Many IP cameras already have a micro SD card slot and can record video to the SD card in addition to streaming it offsite. A quick search on Amazon found one that is IP67 rated and has temperature ratings from -40c to +60c for $86, Dahua IPC-HDBW4431R-ZS. Iâ(TM)ve used Dahua cameras before and their optics and image sensors are great but their network security is lousy. Keep them on an isolated VLAN and donâ(TM)t let them connect outbound to the Internet.

FFS, what on earth is this good for? Just fix the damn vulnerability in the kernel and be done with it.

Um, you know, this sounds an awful lot like OpenBSD...

Coming from someone who uses several flavors of Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD on a regular basis.

My favorite encounter (on behalf of the M.I.L. whose phone they called) was about 45 minutes. The pattern from previous calls is they want you to type "(win)+R" to then launch event viewer, because OMG all the errors they'll show you.

So I stymied them for over five minutes when I explained my keyboard didn't have that little windows key on it.
Oh, yes, I know what it looks like, my neighbor's PC has one, but I don't.

Then after some mention of "this thing is awfully slow, I'll have to restart it" (setting the phone down) was more minutes of his life gone. Then accidentally hung up half way through a sentence. They actually called back. Then allegedly the kid was having a meltdown, very sorry sir I have to check, but I'll be right back, and I do want these problems taken care of. Et cetera.

The jig was up after I "tried" to download their remote control software, but my (IE, allegedly) said site could not be found. (I was instead googling the error message to simulate a 'dialup modem not connected' scenario that they'd have to walk me through. You know, stay a step ahead.)

Finally Dave's "manager" cursed at me and said that I had ample time to get this to work and that I was wasting their time. A realization that was honestly 30 minutes too late. (Oh, no calls since.)

Having been on both sides, I can tell you why companies ask these questions -- they're looking for basic technical knowledge and competence. All too many times we've seen candidates who can talk a good fight and who can (given lots of time and access to Stack Overflow) write a program that succeeds using copy-paste. However, these are not the people we want to hire. Once we're past the basic knowledge and competence we can look at fit, people skills, etc., but I for one have been burned by new hires who bamboozled a non-technical manager.

Was cold-called by someone from Google, so I entertained the invite to interview, partially on a whim. I agreed I would not discuss specifics of interview process or questions, which I'll abide by, by suffice to the theoretical "design a system that..." questions and "how would you..." questions I did fairly well on and felt rather confident about. The detail coding component ended up drawing a question I wasn't all that prepped for (not being something that for me has ever come up in long years of working). So feedback was that due to the coding question performance, it was a no-offer. Which was fine -- after finally seeing SV area in comparison to where I'm happy with in fly-over territory (partly the area, especially cost-of-housing), I probably wouldn't have accepted anyway. No harm, no foul; just not my thing. Still, it wasn't a terribly great assessment of what I know and bring to the table. Local market does the same thing. /shrug

My own team here, we tend to assign a homework question with semi-vague requirements, and then grade on what their experience taught them to also include, in addition to implementation specifics, with a follow-up Q&A ... this seems to work.

The extent of the dangers ... of ActiveX were not known at the time of this implementation

ActiveX in the browser has always been an absolutely horrendous idea from a security perspective. Everyone I know of who works in the computer security field thought that ActiveX in the browser was a security hole waiting to be exploited from the start. Choosing ActiveX as a basis for electronic payments was a Really Bad Idea. This was obvious even in 1996.

South Korea mandated the use of an ActiveX control for online payments in the 1990s, which has locked companies and banks there into a deprecated and dangerous technology. Only in the last couple of years has the government there started the process of getting rid of the damn POS system.

Someone please tell the Japanese government that what they are doing is a REALLY bad idea.

Folks, all of this is from numbers pulled out of some IDC analyst's rear end. Their estimates are no better than SWAG's. I should know, I've had to use their reports in a past life. Sometimes they're accurate, as companies will report otherwise confidential numbers so long as they can't be backed out of the reports. However, Apple doesn't play those games and in this case it's explicitly some analyst's best guess. Most analysts badly misunderstand Apple, and when you misunderstand the biggest player in the market your analysis is almost certain to be wrong.

Also, Garmin's growth was from a very low base. It's easy to grow by 300+% if you start from almost zero.

"It seems when you are sick and laying in a hospital bed and have trouble sleeping, the single LED shining in your eyes is an issue,"

A LED shining in your eyes is the LEAST of your worries when trying to get to sleep in a hospital.

Actually, it IS a big deal. Sleep is important to a patient's recovery, and a lack of good sleep can slow healing.

Patients in a hospital are constantly being disturbed at night due to vital signs checks, administration of medication, pain medication wearing off, etc. Sometimes the disturbance is not even for the patient but for the other patient in the same semi-private room. Falling asleep is difficult enough; getting back to sleep can be worse. Lots of strongly glowing and flashing LEDs and other indicators can make it darn near impossible, especially if the patient is already in pain and having to lie in an uncomfortable position.

Imagine you were trying to sleep in the middle of Times Square at night, with all of the lights and noise. That's what it's like. As IT professionals we can at least cut down on the lights and beeps, even if we can't do anything about the other disturbances.

"...responding to an informal internet survey"

That pretty much says it right there. The numbers in this survey can be given about zero credence. There is no sign of vetting of the responders (are they even really MD's?), no pretense at a representative sample, and no sign that there was any attempt at all to prevent ballot stuffing.

There were also no questions concerning Donald Trump's health, which makes me think that this group is partisan and has an axe to grind.

Editors, can we please not publish click-bait non-news like this? I'd like to downvote the whole damn story.

It doesn't matter if they're legal or not! We need to build a Dyson sphere to keep them out of our solar system, and the aliens are going to pay for the construction cost!