Holy smokes, I really was out-of-date. Imation is dead and in a holding company with (possibly) PNY able to make things using the name, PQI appears to no longer have any write-protected drives, Ritek appears to no longer have any write-protected drives and I missed Netac.
Guess it's Kanguru ($$$), Netac, touchpad-enabled secure drive enclosures and maybe some forensic devices for write-protected drives.
My listing for this is years out of date, but is it still the case that the only modern flash drives with hardware write protection are from Kanguru, a few models of PQI, and maybe 1-2 Imation devices?
Do you allow devices like the secured IODD/Zalman drive enclosures that can be set up for read-only access as well?
If you want it self-hosted, just use todo.txt (http://todotxt.org/ and https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt) and put it on whatever you want to. Use whatever you want to interact with it - CLI, Vim, Sublime, Thunderbird, whatever. Want to use it on a phone but self-hosted? Use SSH, or an editor that's able to connect to whatever method you're using for making files available, or fork one of the clients (e.g. https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-android or https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-ios), or use something that'll download a local copy to your device, let you edit it, then sync it back up.
The "Best" to-do list software is the one that you're actually going to use. Looking for "The one True Task Manager" is just a way to avoid actually doing anything productive.
I'll note that when the initial concept was floated Jeff Bezos was graduating from college and when the first prototype was live Amazon was only 4 years old.
I have somewhat higher hopes for Microsoft as a product owner than for Nuance - I'm not sure I've ever really seen much of anything positive about Nuance from a business standpoint.
I've seen regular improvements in Swiftkey over time, including since MS bought them. The most recent one that I noticed was that now when you have something in the clipboard and click into a text field, until you type something the "autofill" button is the contents of the clipboard. I'm still getting used to using that instead of my old long-hold, Paste behavior but it's a nice touch.
I used Swype for years (IIRC Samsung licensed it for the Galaxy S/Vibrant), but switched over to Swiftkey years ago primarily due to better autocompletion options.
I was also annoyed when they switched over to Dragon, though these days I might be more sad that for voice recognition on Android your choices now seem to be down to A) Google and B) Google.
I'm paying $50/year for 1TB of storage and I don't have to screw around with setting it up, buying drives, messing with a NAS, worrying about upstream bandwidth from my home, etc. I also (since I'm running Windows 10 1709) have access to Files On Demand, so I can see all of the files I have saved on my smaller-than-1TB laptop SSD without actually having them local on the device - they'll be downloaded as required if I'm online.
Other alternatives I could look at:
Dropbox: $99/year for 1TB - or $199/year if I want "Smart Sync" which is the same basic thing as Files On Demand.
Google Drive: $99/year for 1TB, unclear if it supports the same kind of online-only files.
Box.com, but I could only get 100GB of storage for $10/month; for more I'd need to have 3+ accounts on their Business plan at $15/month/account.
Sugarsync, 250GB for $10/month or 500GB for $19/month.
SpiderOak ONE, known for security & encryption, $9/month for 400GB or $12/month for 2TB.
OwnCloud, free except for buying a NAS or setting up and powering an always-on home server to run it (or paying for online storage and a hosted VM), along with my time dinking around with it and troubleshooting.
Something based on some kind of S3 clients. See above about my time setting it up, dinking around with it and troubleshooting. Also, using the Cloudberrylab backup software calculator, storing and accessing 600GB in S3 would cost at least $13-14/month.
Seriously, pretty much all of the other options would cost at least twice as much per year as OneDrive just for the storage alone, and the ones that wouldn't cost that much in fees would likely cost at least $150+ in upfront hardware purchases plus time to set everything up - that's 3 years of OneDrive right there. Oh, and I'd have to pay for the electricity, been there done that with an old server at home. My power bill dropped noticeably when I decommissioned it.
So it's not that I am "paying money to get well supported cloud storage you could get from countless other providers," it's that I'm paying 1/4 to 1/2 what it would cost me to get anything even vaguely comparable from other providers - most of whom don't really have any better Linux support than Microsoft OneDrive does. On a quick look, Dropbox and Spideroak appear to have official clients, there are open source ones for a bunch of the others. OwnCloud obviously would have such support since it's designed to run on Linux servers.
I pay for Office365 at home because it's a cheap ($50/year or less) way to get 1TB of well-supported cloud storage with pretty solid clients on multiple platforms, and if I really feel like it I can bump to 5TB with a little juggling. Along with that I happen to also get access to the most widely-used office suite around, which has been used to create documents and spreadsheets that I regularly need to open.
There's no official Linux client, but there appear to be multiple alternatives (https://linuxnewbieguide.org/onedrive-client-linux/) and frankly I mostly use Linux in VMs or for servers where I'm not interested in linking it to a personal account.
It's not a torpedo. It's a really large undersea drone.
It avoids one issue you might have with a sub-launched nuclear torpedo, namely that underwater nukes would probably be a suicide mission for any sub crew launching them.
I don't know what level of communications are really feasible with subs, but I'd expect this to be primarily programmed navigation, with occasional coded status/location reports and the ability for remote controllers to choose from a set of pre-programmed changes at appropriate decision points.
I've seen stories in the past about the used clothing industry in parts of Africa where the clothing is substantially altered for local use. Basically a container comes in and people bid for the order in which they'll be able to grab what they want from it. Those items are then re-sewn into effectively new garments - a t-shirt may be taken in on both sides, with the extra fabric combined with other fabric to make another shirt or something else.
Having software that claims to control for no-fly zones but fails to do so is a recipe for disaster, because it encourages people to use that software and believe that they're compliant. If I'm flying drones and know I need to check, then I can check in whatever ways are available to me (and acceptable methods for checking need to be determined and made public). If I fail to check, then obviously the fault is on me. But if I utilize tools that I chose because they said the checking was built-in and it turns out it was not, that's a huge failure.
It also needs to be clear what methods of checking are acceptable. If the only acceptable method of checking is to call a local airport's flight control operations center and ask, that needs to be clear both to drone users and to the staff at the airport who are about to get hammered with hundreds or thousands of calls "As required by the FAA." Oh, and if they get sick of those calls and decide to stop responding they can probably expect lawsuits over their backdoor ban on drone use.
Treat them as you'd hope and expect they'd treat you. Remember that you're dealing with your coworkers not just the company.
If you don't really care about the company or coworkers, or if you're easily replaceable, give standard notice. If nobody's noticed that you're creeping up on retirement, not your problem.
If you're a small cog in a big machine but you're in a great group, discuss it informally with your boss so it's not a surprise and so you're not going to be the key irreplaceable person on a project when the time comes. HR really only needs to know when they get a request from your boss to hire another person - and ideally that person isn't really YOUR replacement but a replacement for someone else in your department who became your replacement. Albert trains Bob, then retires. Bob takes on Albert's role, and Charlie gets hired for Bob's old role. Bob's still around to train Charlie as needed.
If you're not really sure but you have some flexibility and can stick around for a little while, tell them at a point where you're ready to leave but willing to stay - if there's an unwritten policy of walking you out the door, that's fine. If they'd like you to stay for a few months while they find another qualified person and make sure that person's comfortable and will stay, that's fine too.
Also bear in mind that there are some tipoffs for the company - for example, are you going to stay on the company health plan after you're eligible for Medicare? That's something you'll NEED to talk about with HR because the insurance coverage may not actually allow it. There may also be things that you can only sign up for during your first few months of Medicare eligibility or coverage unless you're willing to wait up to a year for another enrollment period.
Heck, you even have things like this: https://www.propublica.org/article/pedestrian-tickets-lead-to-hundreds-of-suspended-licenses , the blatant voter ID / "close the drivers' license facilities" things going on in Alabama and the similar attempts by Wisconsin and North Carolina that were blocked by the courts that Trump is now packing with judges whose primary qualifications are than they supported him, etc. Want to bet against similar laws being attempted again in "purple" states with gerrymandered Republican majorities?
Combine suspending licenses with selective enforcement, add in a state law that in order to vote you must have current, active ID and that suspended licenses don't count, and there's a few more people you can knock off the voter rolls. Throw in a little backroom arm twisting or paid interference with traffic (because it'll be perfectly for Comcast, AT&T, etc. to "slow-lane" traffic from select endpoints) and you get a scary looking combination without even recourse to the courts.
> it's a popular opinion to assume Pai has been bought and sold but it continually surprises me no one in gov't has launched an investigation into his ties yet.
The people who'd be responsible for reining him in have no interest in doing so, and in many cases have an interest in not doing so.
Consider how much things have changed in the past year, then contemplate 3 more years of Kris Kobach doing everything possible to cut down on voter registration and removing as many brown people as possible from the voter rolls, the Trump administration pretty blatantly getting in the way of the AT&T/Time Warner deal because Trump is a petty child who hates CNN, a 5-4 (at least, depending on health) very conservative Supreme Court and the kinds of pressure that can be applied by an Administration with a shameless history of back-room shenanigans who'd like to hinder access to opposing views.
Repealing net neutrality isn't burning all the opposition printing presses, but it's certainly gathering kindling.
The argument to be made to a bankruptcy judge will likely be that if Thiel is willing to pay more than anyone else then it should be sold to him so that money can be used to settle Gawker's outstanding debts. Barring him from the bidding may reduce the amount paid and thus harm the creditors.
I do find myself wondering every time I see him mentioned whether Thiel actually has any redeeming qualities at all.
But what they're doing in effect is saying "We're going to give you 30 days notice that apps purchased by millions of people will stop working until they're rewritten - and those rewrites will work on phones purchased recently-enough directly from Google and on the Samsung Galaxy S8 family running beta firmware."
Which phones have Oreo already? Not very many. Which existing phones are going to get it? Some of them, someday, maybe, but based on past performance fewer than you'd hope for.
I currently have and use at least 5 paid apps or subscribed services that either do or can use these permissions, and I don't think any of them are outside the mainstream of what people use or should expect to have working - AVG, LastPass, Join, Tasker, Calcy IV (my hidden shame! though it prompts every time for an overlay instead of globally requesting via Accessibility). Lookout (AV) and Nova Launcher are both also on the list that could have Accessibility turned on but don't.
This seems like a remarkably hostile move by Google considering the well-documented other problems they've had and continue to have with apps on the Play store.
Is the problem "Not possible to be fair" or is it "Not possible to bend in ways that Trump react to as fair both now and in the future?"
Remember, this is the man whose administration wants to favor energy producers based on the ability to keep 90 days of fuel on-site and who made a core tenet of his public campaigning that he was going to "bring back coal" - even though at this point it's basically the same cost to build and run utility-scale wind generation as it is just to run (forget building new) coal-fired generation.
Basically, there are enough eyes on the Paris accord that it's not possible for Trump's hands to get greased in a hidden-enough way.
"Firefox needs to sort out the new APIs _before_ shutting down the old ones."
Unfortunately, that's a battle that has been fought and lost. Admittedly I don't follow Firefox dev channels, but I don't think I've seen any indication that Louise is going to take her foot off the gas or turn.
That's reasons to quit. The bridges I'm talking about are former coworkers that you can network with, not showing up on a Google search, and simply being able to list that company on your employment history without them being able to say "oh, well, you probably need to check the criminal complaint."
Aside from the things the company did wrong (and firing network admins is always difficult), the real stupid move in this story is the sabotage.
This guy will likely never get hired as an IT staffer again. Sure the company was going to fire him, but in the modern world of "All we can confirm is that he was employed here from X to Y" his reason for departure was going to be an interview question, not something that was going to come up in reference checks. Now even ignoring that searching for his name is going to bring this up, he can't network for jobs with anyone he worked with, anyone who know those folks, and probably out to the second degree.
I guess that's one way to make sure you follow through on your dreams of a career change.
I don't recall the precise model, but I was searching for documentation using strings pulled from the login page of a copier - what I got was a bunch of such copiers exposed to the real world using the default credentials.
It was some years back, but I believe I signed into the first one, looked in the address book on it, and emailed a few of the folks who were listed to say "Hey, I got your address from a copier in your office that's exposed to the Internet. Please pass along to your IT folks to fix that."
This is a situation where something last winter pissed someone off when he insisted that they go through proper channels, and in response someone in the police or prosecution office decided to make an example of him - instead of properly requesting photos they filed for an order allowing them to seize basically everything electronic that he owned, then said "If you give us these photos, we won't come in and completely destroy your livelihood by keeping all of your stuff for a year or two and returning it with 'accidental' damage."
This is a followup to that, basically he didn't knuckle under to someone in a slight position of power and they took umbrage.
Whoever he pissed off is the kind of petty tyrant that gives police departments a bad name.
The case is in Milwaukee. Pretty sure he was being held there.
The company he works for (Kryptos Logic) is in LA. Pretty sure he's now allowed to travel there and work from the company offices.
As part of this he's apparently agreed to stay away from LA airports, so not clear how he's getting there (got there?). Road trip maybe?
The other question I have is whether he's going to be getting crap about working in the USA without a valid work visa. Does the judge allowing him to work cover that as well? Normally I'd say it wouldn't be an issue for someone usually working remotely, but in this case would prosecutors start fishing for other things they might charge him with?
That makes me feel like I should go looking for my old porn stash, except it was on floppies and I'm pretty sure there's not a working floppy drive in the house.... or probably the neighborhood.
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Holy smokes, I really was out-of-date. Imation is dead and in a holding company with (possibly) PNY able to make things using the name, PQI appears to no longer have any write-protected drives, Ritek appears to no longer have any write-protected drives and I missed Netac.
Guess it's Kanguru ($$$), Netac, touchpad-enabled secure drive enclosures and maybe some forensic devices for write-protected drives.
My listing for this is years out of date, but is it still the case that the only modern flash drives with hardware write protection are from Kanguru, a few models of PQI, and maybe 1-2 Imation devices?
Do you allow devices like the secured IODD/Zalman drive enclosures that can be set up for read-only access as well?
If you want it self-hosted, just use todo.txt (http://todotxt.org/ and https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt) and put it on whatever you want to. Use whatever you want to interact with it - CLI, Vim, Sublime, Thunderbird, whatever. Want to use it on a phone but self-hosted? Use SSH, or an editor that's able to connect to whatever method you're using for making files available, or fork one of the clients (e.g. https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-android or https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-ios), or use something that'll download a local copy to your device, let you edit it, then sync it back up.
The "Best" to-do list software is the one that you're actually going to use. Looking for "The one True Task Manager" is just a way to avoid actually doing anything productive.
I'll note that when the initial concept was floated Jeff Bezos was graduating from college and when the first prototype was live Amazon was only 4 years old.
I have somewhat higher hopes for Microsoft as a product owner than for Nuance - I'm not sure I've ever really seen much of anything positive about Nuance from a business standpoint.
I've seen regular improvements in Swiftkey over time, including since MS bought them. The most recent one that I noticed was that now when you have something in the clipboard and click into a text field, until you type something the "autofill" button is the contents of the clipboard. I'm still getting used to using that instead of my old long-hold, Paste behavior but it's a nice touch.
I used Swype for years (IIRC Samsung licensed it for the Galaxy S/Vibrant), but switched over to Swiftkey years ago primarily due to better autocompletion options.
I was also annoyed when they switched over to Dragon, though these days I might be more sad that for voice recognition on Android your choices now seem to be down to A) Google and B) Google.
I'm paying $50/year for 1TB of storage and I don't have to screw around with setting it up, buying drives, messing with a NAS, worrying about upstream bandwidth from my home, etc. I also (since I'm running Windows 10 1709) have access to Files On Demand, so I can see all of the files I have saved on my smaller-than-1TB laptop SSD without actually having them local on the device - they'll be downloaded as required if I'm online.
Other alternatives I could look at:
Seriously, pretty much all of the other options would cost at least twice as much per year as OneDrive just for the storage alone, and the ones that wouldn't cost that much in fees would likely cost at least $150+ in upfront hardware purchases plus time to set everything up - that's 3 years of OneDrive right there. Oh, and I'd have to pay for the electricity, been there done that with an old server at home. My power bill dropped noticeably when I decommissioned it.
So it's not that I am "paying money to get well supported cloud storage you could get from countless other providers," it's that I'm paying 1/4 to 1/2 what it would cost me to get anything even vaguely comparable from other providers - most of whom don't really have any better Linux support than Microsoft OneDrive does. On a quick look, Dropbox and Spideroak appear to have official clients, there are open source ones for a bunch of the others. OwnCloud obviously would have such support since it's designed to run on Linux servers.
I pay for Office365 at home because it's a cheap ($50/year or less) way to get 1TB of well-supported cloud storage with pretty solid clients on multiple platforms, and if I really feel like it I can bump to 5TB with a little juggling. Along with that I happen to also get access to the most widely-used office suite around, which has been used to create documents and spreadsheets that I regularly need to open.
There's no official Linux client, but there appear to be multiple alternatives (https://linuxnewbieguide.org/onedrive-client-linux/) and frankly I mostly use Linux in VMs or for servers where I'm not interested in linking it to a personal account.
It's not a torpedo. It's a really large undersea drone.
It avoids one issue you might have with a sub-launched nuclear torpedo, namely that underwater nukes would probably be a suicide mission for any sub crew launching them.
I don't know what level of communications are really feasible with subs, but I'd expect this to be primarily programmed navigation, with occasional coded status/location reports and the ability for remote controllers to choose from a set of pre-programmed changes at appropriate decision points.
I've seen stories in the past about the used clothing industry in parts of Africa where the clothing is substantially altered for local use. Basically a container comes in and people bid for the order in which they'll be able to grab what they want from it. Those items are then re-sewn into effectively new garments - a t-shirt may be taken in on both sides, with the extra fabric combined with other fabric to make another shirt or something else.
Having software that claims to control for no-fly zones but fails to do so is a recipe for disaster, because it encourages people to use that software and believe that they're compliant. If I'm flying drones and know I need to check, then I can check in whatever ways are available to me (and acceptable methods for checking need to be determined and made public). If I fail to check, then obviously the fault is on me. But if I utilize tools that I chose because they said the checking was built-in and it turns out it was not, that's a huge failure.
It also needs to be clear what methods of checking are acceptable. If the only acceptable method of checking is to call a local airport's flight control operations center and ask, that needs to be clear both to drone users and to the staff at the airport who are about to get hammered with hundreds or thousands of calls "As required by the FAA." Oh, and if they get sick of those calls and decide to stop responding they can probably expect lawsuits over their backdoor ban on drone use.
Shades of Arthur Dent!
Treat them as you'd hope and expect they'd treat you. Remember that you're dealing with your coworkers not just the company.
If you don't really care about the company or coworkers, or if you're easily replaceable, give standard notice. If nobody's noticed that you're creeping up on retirement, not your problem.
If you're a small cog in a big machine but you're in a great group, discuss it informally with your boss so it's not a surprise and so you're not going to be the key irreplaceable person on a project when the time comes. HR really only needs to know when they get a request from your boss to hire another person - and ideally that person isn't really YOUR replacement but a replacement for someone else in your department who became your replacement. Albert trains Bob, then retires. Bob takes on Albert's role, and Charlie gets hired for Bob's old role. Bob's still around to train Charlie as needed.
If you're not really sure but you have some flexibility and can stick around for a little while, tell them at a point where you're ready to leave but willing to stay - if there's an unwritten policy of walking you out the door, that's fine. If they'd like you to stay for a few months while they find another qualified person and make sure that person's comfortable and will stay, that's fine too.
Also bear in mind that there are some tipoffs for the company - for example, are you going to stay on the company health plan after you're eligible for Medicare? That's something you'll NEED to talk about with HR because the insurance coverage may not actually allow it. There may also be things that you can only sign up for during your first few months of Medicare eligibility or coverage unless you're willing to wait up to a year for another enrollment period.
Heck, you even have things like this: https://www.propublica.org/article/pedestrian-tickets-lead-to-hundreds-of-suspended-licenses , the blatant voter ID / "close the drivers' license facilities" things going on in Alabama and the similar attempts by Wisconsin and North Carolina that were blocked by the courts that Trump is now packing with judges whose primary qualifications are than they supported him, etc. Want to bet against similar laws being attempted again in "purple" states with gerrymandered Republican majorities?
Combine suspending licenses with selective enforcement, add in a state law that in order to vote you must have current, active ID and that suspended licenses don't count, and there's a few more people you can knock off the voter rolls. Throw in a little backroom arm twisting or paid interference with traffic (because it'll be perfectly for Comcast, AT&T, etc. to "slow-lane" traffic from select endpoints) and you get a scary looking combination without even recourse to the courts.
> it's a popular opinion to assume Pai has been bought and sold but it continually surprises me no one in gov't has launched an investigation into his ties yet.
The people who'd be responsible for reining him in have no interest in doing so, and in many cases have an interest in not doing so.
Consider how much things have changed in the past year, then contemplate 3 more years of Kris Kobach doing everything possible to cut down on voter registration and removing as many brown people as possible from the voter rolls, the Trump administration pretty blatantly getting in the way of the AT&T/Time Warner deal because Trump is a petty child who hates CNN, a 5-4 (at least, depending on health) very conservative Supreme Court and the kinds of pressure that can be applied by an Administration with a shameless history of back-room shenanigans who'd like to hinder access to opposing views.
Repealing net neutrality isn't burning all the opposition printing presses, but it's certainly gathering kindling.
The argument to be made to a bankruptcy judge will likely be that if Thiel is willing to pay more than anyone else then it should be sold to him so that money can be used to settle Gawker's outstanding debts. Barring him from the bidding may reduce the amount paid and thus harm the creditors.
I do find myself wondering every time I see him mentioned whether Thiel actually has any redeeming qualities at all.
Perhaps.
But what they're doing in effect is saying "We're going to give you 30 days notice that apps purchased by millions of people will stop working until they're rewritten - and those rewrites will work on phones purchased recently-enough directly from Google and on the Samsung Galaxy S8 family running beta firmware."
Which phones have Oreo already? Not very many. Which existing phones are going to get it? Some of them, someday, maybe, but based on past performance fewer than you'd hope for.
I currently have and use at least 5 paid apps or subscribed services that either do or can use these permissions, and I don't think any of them are outside the mainstream of what people use or should expect to have working - AVG, LastPass, Join, Tasker, Calcy IV (my hidden shame! though it prompts every time for an overlay instead of globally requesting via Accessibility). Lookout (AV) and Nova Launcher are both also on the list that could have Accessibility turned on but don't.
This seems like a remarkably hostile move by Google considering the well-documented other problems they've had and continue to have with apps on the Play store.
Is the problem "Not possible to be fair" or is it "Not possible to bend in ways that Trump react to as fair both now and in the future?"
Remember, this is the man whose administration wants to favor energy producers based on the ability to keep 90 days of fuel on-site and who made a core tenet of his public campaigning that he was going to "bring back coal" - even though at this point it's basically the same cost to build and run utility-scale wind generation as it is just to run (forget building new) coal-fired generation.
Basically, there are enough eyes on the Paris accord that it's not possible for Trump's hands to get greased in a hidden-enough way.
"Firefox needs to sort out the new APIs _before_ shutting down the old ones."
Unfortunately, that's a battle that has been fought and lost. Admittedly I don't follow Firefox dev channels, but I don't think I've seen any indication that Louise is going to take her foot off the gas or turn.
That's reasons to quit. The bridges I'm talking about are former coworkers that you can network with, not showing up on a Google search, and simply being able to list that company on your employment history without them being able to say "oh, well, you probably need to check the criminal complaint."
Aside from the things the company did wrong (and firing network admins is always difficult), the real stupid move in this story is the sabotage.
This guy will likely never get hired as an IT staffer again. Sure the company was going to fire him, but in the modern world of "All we can confirm is that he was employed here from X to Y" his reason for departure was going to be an interview question, not something that was going to come up in reference checks. Now even ignoring that searching for his name is going to bring this up, he can't network for jobs with anyone he worked with, anyone who know those folks, and probably out to the second degree.
I guess that's one way to make sure you follow through on your dreams of a career change.
I don't recall the precise model, but I was searching for documentation using strings pulled from the login page of a copier - what I got was a bunch of such copiers exposed to the real world using the default credentials.
It was some years back, but I believe I signed into the first one, looked in the address book on it, and emailed a few of the folks who were listed to say "Hey, I got your address from a copier in your office that's exposed to the Internet. Please pass along to your IT folks to fix that."
That's going to leave me with one customer running a box where the only supported (kinda) browser will then be IE9.
Ah well, at least it's not used for anything except file storage.
(Windows Server 2008 is based on Vista, 2008R2 is based on 7)
This is a situation where something last winter pissed someone off when he insisted that they go through proper channels, and in response someone in the police or prosecution office decided to make an example of him - instead of properly requesting photos they filed for an order allowing them to seize basically everything electronic that he owned, then said "If you give us these photos, we won't come in and completely destroy your livelihood by keeping all of your stuff for a year or two and returning it with 'accidental' damage."
This is a followup to that, basically he didn't knuckle under to someone in a slight position of power and they took umbrage.
Whoever he pissed off is the kind of petty tyrant that gives police departments a bad name.
The case is in Milwaukee. Pretty sure he was being held there.
The company he works for (Kryptos Logic) is in LA. Pretty sure he's now allowed to travel there and work from the company offices.
As part of this he's apparently agreed to stay away from LA airports, so not clear how he's getting there (got there?). Road trip maybe?
The other question I have is whether he's going to be getting crap about working in the USA without a valid work visa. Does the judge allowing him to work cover that as well? Normally I'd say it wouldn't be an issue for someone usually working remotely, but in this case would prosecutors start fishing for other things they might charge him with?
That makes me feel like I should go looking for my old porn stash, except it was on floppies and I'm pretty sure there's not a working floppy drive in the house.... or probably the neighborhood.