"But Your Honor, we didn't get any applicants to our job posting for a minimum-wage principal engineer... We had no choice but to use H1Bs to fill this critical position!"
All iFixit has done here is made sure they won't receive any developer units from Apple in the future.
Apple has a looong history of "accidental" leaks. A month from now, Apple will quietly reinstate iFixit's account, and go back to business as usual. And yes, iFixit will continue to get pre-release gear.
It seriously wouldn't surprise me to someday learn that Apple outright conspired with iFixit on this one - iFixit looks good to their fans for "taking one for the team", Apple gets its standard slate of fake-viral marketing, everyone wins.
Not entirely true... you're assuming that a 3 oz. glass of anti-matter water is an impossibility:)
Yeah, but then you'd have six ounces. And the TSA has already impressed upon us that, although 3oz counts as completely harmless, more than three can take down an airplane!
Cheapest solution possible (short of just going with VNC), and arguably the most flexible as well:
1) Get a normal 4-way KVM switch for your mouse and keyboard.
2) Get two monitors that support three inputs each (most do anyway these days).
3) Make sure all your PCs/laptops support dual monitors (again, almost ubiquitous).
Then just use the monitors' source selection to pick what you have on any given screen, and the dirt-cheap normal KVM to pick which box gets to have a keyboard.
Quite likely, your existing hardware already supports all of what I describe, except needing the el-cheapo KVM for kb/mouse.
TFA doesn't mean that as some sort of investment advisor, but rather, a manager over an accounting department (or a subspecialty thereof, for a large enough company).
In fairness, though, I do agree that makes a bad example, because in accounting, you have the skill levels across the corporate food-chain almost entirely inverted from IT - Companies tend to hire unskilled minimum wage people for the "boots on the ground" accounting functions, and trust a handful of people in the upper tiers of the department to make sure the work meets the various applicable regulatory requirements. No sane company would ever hire a generic MBA as their treasurer, even though in theory that job doesn't need to "do" anything but delegate to team leads.
In IT, by contrast, you simply don't have any unskilled doers (aside from the deadweights like the owner's nephew that everyone goes out of their way to give shiny but harmless projects to); yet two or three levels up the ladder, you have people who don't know a browser from a file manager (damn you, Microsoft, for putting the word "Explorer" in both their names!).
And that, I think, leads to the real reason we have a problem here - In most aspects of a modern business, the structure matches the accounting department - Peons in the field, and actual accountants near the top. Businesses really don't have any traditional frame of reference for how to manage some of the most highly skilled people in the company as bottom-tier employees. Sure, they understand that they need to throw money at us, but aside from that, most companies still try to treat IT as the equivalent of cashiers or delivery drivers or AP entry clerks. Even in the other "skilled" trades, people usually progress up the food chain based on experience. The grunts haul pipe / pull wire / etc, the apprentices get the easy-but-unpleasant tasks, the journeymen get to do most of the actual work, and the masters plan out how to make the project as a whole successful. You just don't have any useful positions below the "journeymen" skill level in an IT department (aside from interns, but most companies treat them as little more than either welfare cases or slave labor, they certainly don't plan to put anything an intern does into production).
The hard part here comes from "get it in writing".
When someone three layers of food-chain above you tells you "do this", you don't get to refuse until you have it in writing (unless you already have a new job lined up - and even then, don't expect that one to go any differently).
Now, you can certainly try to get them on record - You can ask them to write up a quick spec for what they want; you can ask them to submit the Change Management request because you don't have the authority to approve this one; you can send emails asking for clarification; and as a last resort, you can just document the change as "at the request of Boss X". In the real world, however, we've all dealt with people who refuse to do anything except by phone or in person.
And at that point, it becomes your word against theirs. Guess who can afford the better lawyer? And even that assumes it completely blows up - If it remains an internal matter, you won't even get the chance to present your side of the situation, just pack your belongings up and GTFO.
TFA doesn't really deal with the problem of deleting personally identifiable information, so much as aggregate statistics derived from personal data.
And in that context, I far, far prefer that they can't remove my contribution from their aggregates (although I do opt out of personalized collection whenever possible).
Why, you might ask? Simple - I lie to companies that ask me for information. A lot. I do my damnedest to poison their databases to the greatest extent possible. Now why on Earth would I want to make it easy for them to redact the "facts" that I own a Veryron and a solid gold iWatch despite living in a cardboard box beneath a highway overpass?
Sometimes, the box of chocolates has Ex-Lax in it.
now entering [...] will in not far long future [...] requirement for new cars [...] then some years later [...] some company setting up a webshop [...] will not be liable for not having [...] breaking the law by using the car [...] nice fantasy world you live in.
And sometimes I consider myself a bit on the paranoid side - You just did the slalom down a whole mountain's worth of slippery slopes just to cap it off with a weak ad hominem? C'mon now, you can do better than that!
Don't forget that you need separate camps for the FTM an MTFs - Not to mention the inters and pans. And of course you wouldn't want to mix preops and post ops!
Really, if we want to make this "fair", we should put every precious unique snowflake in their own class. And spare me all this Western CisHetWhiteMaleShitlord "STEM" crap - If they want to learn computers - or for that matter, brain surgery - by coloring pictures of pretty rainbow ponies, what the hell gives us the right to impose our beliefs on them???
They want Google to apply them to all searched from France regardless of the domain name. Today you can just type in google.com or any other national domain and bypass the law.
So the French government blames Google for the fact that their population contains evil, evil lawbreakers actively seeking a way around whatever restraints on free speech the CNIL may, in its infinite wisdom, decide to use to "protect" the French people?
Ford make it possible for me to exceed the speed limit. That doesn't make Ford liable for my tickets.
Seriously? Find a pole marked in orange (or in this case, manhole). Take the bolt-cutters to the only armored cable on the pole / in the hole. Make sure to repeat at least a few feet away to make it virtually impossible to splice cleanly.
This doesn't take "expert knowledge and specialist tools", any moron could do it.
Now, doing it without blinding yourself with a 40W IR laser beam...
Now that it has survived several years of the intensive hacking attempts that a virtual currency would obviously be first to undergo, banks are starting to deem it ready to track other kinds of transactions.
True, but extending the resilience of the BTC blockchain to privately controlled uses, ignores one key point...
The current BTC mining network pushes 407.7 PH/s. The entire TOP500 supercomputer list can manage 363.3 PFLOPs/s. One hash takes 12697 FLOPs (officially - The exact number depends on how you calculate it, since hashing doesn't actually involve any floating point operations). That means we have approximately 14000x the computing power on this planet dedicated to Bitcoin mining as we do "real" supercomputing resources available.
The Bitcoin network has such high resilience to attack because you would need more computing horsepower than it has to compromise it (and even that doesn't mean you can arbitrarily rewrite the past, just that you can force a fork in the blockchain that you control). Assuming some half-assed clone by a handful of companies would have anywhere near the same level of security ignores almost everything that makes Bitcoin so secure.
I would tend to agree with you, for hourly workers (the frequent misclassification of both sides of that fence aside). If my productive output for my employer depends solely on time, why should I get paid more for improving myself in some way (short of an actual promotion as greater skills allow it)?
For highly skilled "knowledge" workers, however, I have to disagree. The speed with which I can get my job done has almost no correlation to time. If I can more efficiently identify and meet the users' needs; if I can write higher quality and better performing code the first time; if I can write easily understood documentation, maybe even make it pleasant to read - All of those save the company time and money, and not just "my" time, but for everyone downstream of my own productive output. If I improve my real productivity per unit of time, unless employers want to start honoring what salaried really means (no, not "free overtime"), they could compensate me accordingly.
That said - Not saying we should require employers to reward the attainment of more job-related skills, but any employer that doesn't, needs to realize they now have an employee worth more on the open market. Not rewarding someone for improving their skills amounts to cutting costs by encouraging your best people to leave.
Agreed, but I think everyone so far has misinterpreted the GP's point.
Not that employers do or do not pay for (the direct cost of) Continuing Education (whether certs or degrees or what-have-you); rather, that they don't reward people for taking CEs.
Yes, sometimes the employer simply requires it and the employee has to find a way to comply or die. Sometimes the employer pays for it, and considers the cert/degree itself the "reward" for the employee. But very, very rarely will you make one single dime more in your current job because of a new cert.
That said, getting a major milestone (like a Master's degree) might qualify you for a promotion, but as long as you keep your current title at your current employer, all the education in the world won't (usually) boost your salary.
So relating this back to the FP - Whether or not I have an easy way to do so, what good would it do me to bother tracking every TED lecture I listen to? So, why bother tracking it at all?
The term vault shouldn't be used anyway, unless the "vault" computer is literally air-gapped.
Most vendors who really take BTC (as opposed to just using an instant-exchange payment processor to convert it to USD) do exactly that (though they use the term "cold storage").
They have a live (hot) wallet and an offline (cold storage) wallet (and usually a "watch" wallet, which allows verifying transactions to the hot wallet without any risk of compromise); the hot wallet regularly sends its balance (over a certain amount you want on hand) into cold storage, leaving only what you can bear to lose in the hot wallet.
The cold storage never even needs to power up unless you want to withdraw from it (which takes a few extra steps to do securely - Basically you need to make a new cold storage wallet and spend the entire old one between your hot wallet and your new cold storage wallet); but when talking about having a few million dollars on hand, only a moron would try to save themselves the extra five minutes it takes to do it right, once a month or so.
Uh-huh. Take Uncle Sam's dick out of your mouth and look around. Ever wonder where all those dollars the megacorps funnel through Ireland end up? Sure, they may at some point exchange them for your monopoly-money, but only to preserve the illusion.
You have the best governments money - Real money, good ol' American greenbacks - Can buy!
Another stupid AmeriKUNT butting in to a subject that she knows nothing about.
Spoken like the well behaved eurotrash we pay for - Bitterly defiant to the end, all while bending over and spreading those cheeks nice and wide for your real masters. So adorable! Pout for me, little lap dog, pout! Tell me how much you hate me while I save you from... Let's see, Russia, this time? Hard to keep track.
Jokes aside, I seriously suspect that as the real driving force behind this ban.
Within a decade, the bulk of the meat industry could become an effectively animal-free industry generating product in vats rather than on pastures. You know that the livestock/husbandry industry has to see that as nothing short of an existential threat.
I'd love to see where the dollars came from to promote this ban. I'd put good odds that it comes from exactly the industries it supposedly regulates.
Having used both, and knowing they share their ancestry... They diverged a looong time ago - MS SQL blows ASE out of the water; for performance, for reliability, for 3rd party tool and connector support, and even for their native tools (SSMS counts as just about the greatest IDE Microsoft has ever created; and I've tried a lot of FOSS clones with not a single one even close enough to stand in its shadow).
And no, not a MS fanboy. I love Linux but make my living in the MS world, and know both well enough to know what I love and what I hate about them. And MS SQL rules the DB world (Oracle aside... Though syntactically, I would still say I prefer tSQL over PLSQL) for a damned good reason.
I mean this in the nicest way - You count as your own worst enemy.
You feel some sort of sense of duty to your job, you feel that you need to cover for your coworkers' shortcomings, you (want to) feel that your job "matters" so much that the company can't keep going without you. Reality check - If the company doesn't value a project enough to give you adequate resources to get it done, you should value it exactly as much as the company does - Not at all. It will get done when it gets done. Bonuses, you say? Yeah, they don't exist in the first place. I theoretically get an annual bonus - That depends 0% on my performance, and 100% on the performance of people entirely outside my department. The salesmen rule the world, simple as that. Hell, even my annual "performance" evaluation depends less than 25% on my actual performance. I could literally score a perfect "C" without getting a single one of my formal duties done.
Put bluntly, as long as upper management can get their email, your success or failure means nothing to the company on the short term. Yes, your project may well make the company more in the long run than even its core business - For which you will get zero thanks, because the C-levels have no clue what you do.
Make no mistake, I give my employer a fair day's work. But from what you've written, you would hate working with me, because I care about my job exactly as much as my boss, and his boss, and his boss' boss, all the way to the top of the food chain, do. If they make success possible, I will succeed. If they expect "Scotty the Miracle Worker" on a shoestring, you've already failed, don't waste your time fighting it..
They changed it because serif fonts are hard to read at different resolutions and don't scale well on small devices...like phones and watches.
At 60pt, they could write it in frickin' Viner Hand for all it matters and people would still have no trouble recognizing it even on the tiniest of screens.
On an iPhone 5, for example, it literally spans a good inch and a half, and roughly a third that height. "Hard to read" just doesn't apply.
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Dear DARPA:
Try looking in the back of your own closet (over on the NSA shelf, third bin from the left), filed under Tempest.
You're welcome.
"Jupiter trojan asteroids"???
Wait, you mean the formerly-known-as-a-planet "Jupiter" has failed to clear its orbit?
Quick, someone let the IAU know! This error in nomenclature simply cannot stand!
"But Your Honor, we didn't get any applicants to our job posting for a minimum-wage principal engineer... We had no choice but to use H1Bs to fill this critical position!"
All iFixit has done here is made sure they won't receive any developer units from Apple in the future.
Apple has a looong history of "accidental" leaks. A month from now, Apple will quietly reinstate iFixit's account, and go back to business as usual. And yes, iFixit will continue to get pre-release gear.
It seriously wouldn't surprise me to someday learn that Apple outright conspired with iFixit on this one - iFixit looks good to their fans for "taking one for the team", Apple gets its standard slate of fake-viral marketing, everyone wins.
Not entirely true... you're assuming that a 3 oz. glass of anti-matter water is an impossibility :)
Yeah, but then you'd have six ounces. And the TSA has already impressed upon us that, although 3oz counts as completely harmless, more than three can take down an airplane!
Cheapest solution possible (short of just going with VNC), and arguably the most flexible as well:
1) Get a normal 4-way KVM switch for your mouse and keyboard.
2) Get two monitors that support three inputs each (most do anyway these days).
3) Make sure all your PCs/laptops support dual monitors (again, almost ubiquitous).
Then just use the monitors' source selection to pick what you have on any given screen, and the dirt-cheap normal KVM to pick which box gets to have a keyboard.
Quite likely, your existing hardware already supports all of what I describe, except needing the el-cheapo KVM for kb/mouse.
Just mount the partition from any ol' bootable CD and 'cat' the logs to get more information.
Oh, wait...
Wrong kind of "financial manager".
TFA doesn't mean that as some sort of investment advisor, but rather, a manager over an accounting department (or a subspecialty thereof, for a large enough company).
In fairness, though, I do agree that makes a bad example, because in accounting, you have the skill levels across the corporate food-chain almost entirely inverted from IT - Companies tend to hire unskilled minimum wage people for the "boots on the ground" accounting functions, and trust a handful of people in the upper tiers of the department to make sure the work meets the various applicable regulatory requirements. No sane company would ever hire a generic MBA as their treasurer, even though in theory that job doesn't need to "do" anything but delegate to team leads.
In IT, by contrast, you simply don't have any unskilled doers (aside from the deadweights like the owner's nephew that everyone goes out of their way to give shiny but harmless projects to); yet two or three levels up the ladder, you have people who don't know a browser from a file manager (damn you, Microsoft, for putting the word "Explorer" in both their names!).
And that, I think, leads to the real reason we have a problem here - In most aspects of a modern business, the structure matches the accounting department - Peons in the field, and actual accountants near the top. Businesses really don't have any traditional frame of reference for how to manage some of the most highly skilled people in the company as bottom-tier employees. Sure, they understand that they need to throw money at us, but aside from that, most companies still try to treat IT as the equivalent of cashiers or delivery drivers or AP entry clerks. Even in the other "skilled" trades, people usually progress up the food chain based on experience. The grunts haul pipe / pull wire / etc, the apprentices get the easy-but-unpleasant tasks, the journeymen get to do most of the actual work, and the masters plan out how to make the project as a whole successful. You just don't have any useful positions below the "journeymen" skill level in an IT department (aside from interns, but most companies treat them as little more than either welfare cases or slave labor, they certainly don't plan to put anything an intern does into production).
The hard part here comes from "get it in writing".
When someone three layers of food-chain above you tells you "do this", you don't get to refuse until you have it in writing (unless you already have a new job lined up - and even then, don't expect that one to go any differently).
Now, you can certainly try to get them on record - You can ask them to write up a quick spec for what they want; you can ask them to submit the Change Management request because you don't have the authority to approve this one; you can send emails asking for clarification; and as a last resort, you can just document the change as "at the request of Boss X". In the real world, however, we've all dealt with people who refuse to do anything except by phone or in person.
And at that point, it becomes your word against theirs. Guess who can afford the better lawyer? And even that assumes it completely blows up - If it remains an internal matter, you won't even get the chance to present your side of the situation, just pack your belongings up and GTFO.
And the reason vendors have chosen to NOT include that technology into their actual networking equipment is what again?
Because you-the-consumer won't pay an extra 4 cents per port for hardware that includes it.
TFA doesn't really deal with the problem of deleting personally identifiable information, so much as aggregate statistics derived from personal data.
And in that context, I far, far prefer that they can't remove my contribution from their aggregates (although I do opt out of personalized collection whenever possible).
Why, you might ask? Simple - I lie to companies that ask me for information. A lot. I do my damnedest to poison their databases to the greatest extent possible. Now why on Earth would I want to make it easy for them to redact the "facts" that I own a Veryron and a solid gold iWatch despite living in a cardboard box beneath a highway overpass?
Sometimes, the box of chocolates has Ex-Lax in it.
now entering [...] will in not far long future [...] requirement for new cars [...] then some years later [...] some company setting up a webshop [...] will not be liable for not having [...] breaking the law by using the car [...] nice fantasy world you live in.
And sometimes I consider myself a bit on the paranoid side - You just did the slalom down a whole mountain's worth of slippery slopes just to cap it off with a weak ad hominem? C'mon now, you can do better than that!
Don't forget that you need separate camps for the FTM an MTFs - Not to mention the inters and pans. And of course you wouldn't want to mix preops and post ops!
Really, if we want to make this "fair", we should put every precious unique snowflake in their own class. And spare me all this Western CisHetWhiteMaleShitlord "STEM" crap - If they want to learn computers - or for that matter, brain surgery - by coloring pictures of pretty rainbow ponies, what the hell gives us the right to impose our beliefs on them???
They want Google to apply them to all searched from France regardless of the domain name. Today you can just type in google.com or any other national domain and bypass the law.
So the French government blames Google for the fact that their population contains evil, evil lawbreakers actively seeking a way around whatever restraints on free speech the CNIL may, in its infinite wisdom, decide to use to "protect" the French people?
Ford make it possible for me to exceed the speed limit. That doesn't make Ford liable for my tickets.
Seriously? Find a pole marked in orange (or in this case, manhole). Take the bolt-cutters to the only armored cable on the pole / in the hole. Make sure to repeat at least a few feet away to make it virtually impossible to splice cleanly.
This doesn't take "expert knowledge and specialist tools", any moron could do it.
Now, doing it without blinding yourself with a 40W IR laser beam...
Now that it has survived several years of the intensive hacking attempts that a virtual currency would obviously be first to undergo, banks are starting to deem it ready to track other kinds of transactions.
True, but extending the resilience of the BTC blockchain to privately controlled uses, ignores one key point...
The current BTC mining network pushes 407.7 PH/s. The entire TOP500 supercomputer list can manage 363.3 PFLOPs/s. One hash takes 12697 FLOPs (officially - The exact number depends on how you calculate it, since hashing doesn't actually involve any floating point operations). That means we have approximately 14000x the computing power on this planet dedicated to Bitcoin mining as we do "real" supercomputing resources available.
The Bitcoin network has such high resilience to attack because you would need more computing horsepower than it has to compromise it (and even that doesn't mean you can arbitrarily rewrite the past, just that you can force a fork in the blockchain that you control). Assuming some half-assed clone by a handful of companies would have anywhere near the same level of security ignores almost everything that makes Bitcoin so secure.
I would tend to agree with you, for hourly workers (the frequent misclassification of both sides of that fence aside). If my productive output for my employer depends solely on time, why should I get paid more for improving myself in some way (short of an actual promotion as greater skills allow it)?
For highly skilled "knowledge" workers, however, I have to disagree. The speed with which I can get my job done has almost no correlation to time. If I can more efficiently identify and meet the users' needs; if I can write higher quality and better performing code the first time; if I can write easily understood documentation, maybe even make it pleasant to read - All of those save the company time and money, and not just "my" time, but for everyone downstream of my own productive output. If I improve my real productivity per unit of time, unless employers want to start honoring what salaried really means (no, not "free overtime"), they could compensate me accordingly.
That said - Not saying we should require employers to reward the attainment of more job-related skills, but any employer that doesn't, needs to realize they now have an employee worth more on the open market. Not rewarding someone for improving their skills amounts to cutting costs by encouraging your best people to leave.
Agreed, but I think everyone so far has misinterpreted the GP's point.
Not that employers do or do not pay for (the direct cost of) Continuing Education (whether certs or degrees or what-have-you); rather, that they don't reward people for taking CEs.
Yes, sometimes the employer simply requires it and the employee has to find a way to comply or die. Sometimes the employer pays for it, and considers the cert/degree itself the "reward" for the employee. But very, very rarely will you make one single dime more in your current job because of a new cert.
That said, getting a major milestone (like a Master's degree) might qualify you for a promotion, but as long as you keep your current title at your current employer, all the education in the world won't (usually) boost your salary.
So relating this back to the FP - Whether or not I have an easy way to do so, what good would it do me to bother tracking every TED lecture I listen to? So, why bother tracking it at all?
The term vault shouldn't be used anyway, unless the "vault" computer is literally air-gapped.
Most vendors who really take BTC (as opposed to just using an instant-exchange payment processor to convert it to USD) do exactly that (though they use the term "cold storage").
They have a live (hot) wallet and an offline (cold storage) wallet (and usually a "watch" wallet, which allows verifying transactions to the hot wallet without any risk of compromise); the hot wallet regularly sends its balance (over a certain amount you want on hand) into cold storage, leaving only what you can bear to lose in the hot wallet.
The cold storage never even needs to power up unless you want to withdraw from it (which takes a few extra steps to do securely - Basically you need to make a new cold storage wallet and spend the entire old one between your hot wallet and your new cold storage wallet); but when talking about having a few million dollars on hand, only a moron would try to save themselves the extra five minutes it takes to do it right, once a month or so.
This is Europe, they don't use dollars, dumbass
Uh-huh. Take Uncle Sam's dick out of your mouth and look around. Ever wonder where all those dollars the megacorps funnel through Ireland end up? Sure, they may at some point exchange them for your monopoly-money, but only to preserve the illusion.
You have the best governments money - Real money, good ol' American greenbacks - Can buy!
Another stupid AmeriKUNT butting in to a subject that she knows nothing about.
Spoken like the well behaved eurotrash we pay for - Bitterly defiant to the end, all while bending over and spreading those cheeks nice and wide for your real masters. So adorable! Pout for me, little lap dog, pout! Tell me how much you hate me while I save you from... Let's see, Russia, this time? Hard to keep track.
Wrong guy, no such luck.
Jokes aside, I seriously suspect that as the real driving force behind this ban.
Within a decade, the bulk of the meat industry could become an effectively animal-free industry generating product in vats rather than on pastures. You know that the livestock/husbandry industry has to see that as nothing short of an existential threat.
I'd love to see where the dollars came from to promote this ban. I'd put good odds that it comes from exactly the industries it supposedly regulates.
yeah it's called "sybase"
Having used both, and knowing they share their ancestry... They diverged a looong time ago - MS SQL blows ASE out of the water; for performance, for reliability, for 3rd party tool and connector support, and even for their native tools (SSMS counts as just about the greatest IDE Microsoft has ever created; and I've tried a lot of FOSS clones with not a single one even close enough to stand in its shadow).
And no, not a MS fanboy. I love Linux but make my living in the MS world, and know both well enough to know what I love and what I hate about them. And MS SQL rules the DB world (Oracle aside... Though syntactically, I would still say I prefer tSQL over PLSQL) for a damned good reason.
I mean this in the nicest way - You count as your own worst enemy.
You feel some sort of sense of duty to your job, you feel that you need to cover for your coworkers' shortcomings, you (want to) feel that your job "matters" so much that the company can't keep going without you. Reality check - If the company doesn't value a project enough to give you adequate resources to get it done, you should value it exactly as much as the company does - Not at all. It will get done when it gets done. Bonuses, you say? Yeah, they don't exist in the first place. I theoretically get an annual bonus - That depends 0% on my performance, and 100% on the performance of people entirely outside my department. The salesmen rule the world, simple as that. Hell, even my annual "performance" evaluation depends less than 25% on my actual performance. I could literally score a perfect "C" without getting a single one of my formal duties done.
Put bluntly, as long as upper management can get their email, your success or failure means nothing to the company on the short term. Yes, your project may well make the company more in the long run than even its core business - For which you will get zero thanks, because the C-levels have no clue what you do.
Make no mistake, I give my employer a fair day's work. But from what you've written, you would hate working with me, because I care about my job exactly as much as my boss, and his boss, and his boss' boss, all the way to the top of the food chain, do. If they make success possible, I will succeed. If they expect "Scotty the Miracle Worker" on a shoestring, you've already failed, don't waste your time fighting it..
They changed it because serif fonts are hard to read at different resolutions and don't scale well on small devices...like phones and watches.
At 60pt, they could write it in frickin' Viner Hand for all it matters and people would still have no trouble recognizing it even on the tiniest of screens.
On an iPhone 5, for example, it literally spans a good inch and a half, and roughly a third that height. "Hard to read" just doesn't apply.