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OceanGate’s submarine relied on ‘idiotic’ Excel spreadsheet
  • The use of the game controller, Excel, etc. all goes to document a pattern of cutting corners. True, these corners are tiny compared to the issues of the overall design of the sub, but it demonstrates a long pattern of overall behavior.

    This reminds me a bit of when I was a juror on a criminal trial. The prosecutor detailed a long string of seemingly small/inconsequential things that ultimately helped demonstrate a long pattern of behavior. That pattern definitely helped with our deliberations.

  • Recommendations for a hidden camera?
  • IANAL, but I believe these laws cover audio recording only. OP shouldn’t have an issue if they use something that records video only.

    Think about it a second. I live in a two party consent state, but I see security & surveillance cameras everywhere. If two party consent was required for video then they wouldn’t be there.

  • 54 percent of Americans back mass deportation of immigrants: Poll
  • I’m over 50. I never answer unknown numbers. I also never click on links in text messages from people I don’t know.

    Politicians are largely to blame for both. I get so many calls & texts from local, state, and national political candidates begging me for money…

  • A Republican solution to the assassination problem...
  • I have a better idea. Replace the Secret Service with Meal Team Six volunteers. There are plenty of hard-right MAGA types that love to dress up and play with their assault rifles. Give them a chance to live out their fantasies with the veryy real condition that they will be held very tightly to the letter of the law.

  • Lebanese girl becomes most notable victim of pager blasts
  • It's not on Israel if a terrorist lets their kids play with their tools.

    Man has pager in his pocket. Man is sitting down having a meal with his family. Pager blows up in his pocket, killing the child sitting next to him, and probably killing or injuring other family members.

    Targeted or not, that child's death is squarely on Israel. They decided that collateral damage was acceptable when they chose this method of mass assassination.

  • Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say
  • Back when cell phones were just starting to get “smart” I knew a few folks that carried both a pager & phone. They lived in rural areas where pager coverage was decent but phone coverage was spotty at best, and non-existent in places.

  • 'All good here': Last messages revealed from Titan submersible before implosion: Coast Guard
  • The investigation will also examine whether there is any evidence of misconduct or criminal acts in connection with the incident

    What is the legal definition of misconduct anyway?

    Given that Rush seemed to willfully ignore warnings from experts and fired people unwilling to do things like sign off on the safety of the sub I think there’s definitely a case for misconduct, at the very least.

  • Paid SSL vs Letsencrypt
  • DigiCert recently was forced to invalidate something like 50,000 of their DNS-challenge based certs because of a bug in their system, and they gave companies like mine only 24 hours to renew them before invalidating the old ones…

  • Paid SSL vs Letsencrypt
  • My employer had an EV cert for years on our primary domain. The C-suites, etc. thought it was important. Then one of our engineers who focuses on SEO demonstrated how the EV cert slowed down page loads enough that search engines like Google might take notice. Apparently EV certs trigger an additional lookup by the browser to confirm the extended validity.

    Once the powers-that-be understood that the EV cert wasn’t offering any additional usefulness, and might be impacting our SEO performance (however small) they had us get rid of it and use a good old OV cert instead.

  • What's the funniest/strangest thing you have seen out your office/apartment window?

    This just popped into my head after a similar question came up with a coworker…

    Back a few decades ago I worked in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. My office window looked out towards another building about 15 feet away, and for some reason our floors were about 8 feet higher than the other building. So we could look down into the offices across the way.

    The person in the office I could see into had his desk set up so that his back was to the window and he faced his office door. This gave me and my coworkers a clear view of his computer screen over his shoulder. He played Microsoft solitaire constantly, except when somebody walked in. He would very quickly close it so he wouldn’t get caught.

    My coworkers and I actually tried to figure out his phone number, but never did. We wanted to call him up and tell him he should have played the red 9 on the black 10…

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