I'm sure plenty of hospitals abuse their position, but I've seen hospitals where "not overworking" their workers means people die. Strange ethical dilemma. Town is too small to attract more workers and too poor to pay a regionally competitive wage, yet there is still demand for people to not die.
I think I already covered that -- hospitals that are short staffed need to provide longer hours for their employees -- and those longer hours need to be paid overtime. That overtime needs to be billed against the insurance companies, who will then come up with some creative way to get more workers in the local hospitals to defray their costs. The only difference is, in one case it's the workers who suffer so that people don't die, and in the other case it's the hospital and insurance companies (and by extension the insurance companies' customers) who suffer a little so that people don't die. The ethical dilemma becomes a bit clearer now, doesn't it?
Um, iTunes didn't delete ANY files. The files on your device were deleted. After that, you then had to re-load from iTunes, and if you used another library, you then had to re-load from there as well. Not rocket science.
That's a bit out of context... Apple threw up an error message when it detected the music DB had been messed with, and then restored the iPod contents from what was stored in iTunes. All Apple was testing for was that things had been messed with. If the rival music services (read: Real) had properly reverse engineered the sync process, there would have been no problem. Also, if they hadn't included DRM on their music and had pushed it through a regular iTunes sync, there wouldn't have been a problem. The only problem was when Real was attempting to sync their hacked-up version of FairPlay-DRM'd audio through their hacked-up version of an iTunes sync session to the iPod DB. If they got it wrong, everything was reset.
Real got bitten again by embracing PlaysForSure, which eventually stopped being supported by MS altogether (you can't actually PLAY stuff encrypted with PlaysForSure anymore).
Of course, Apple made it slightly more difficult by changing the sync protocl part way through this, which indicates they were putting up a token effort to prevent people doing an end-run around the sync process and the FairPlay DRM.
The real losers here were people running Linux who wanted to use an iPod -- same thing happened there. But that group wouldn't be as useful in a class action suit -- plus, the number of people affected is significantly smaller.
The problem was that AC was trying to get a CD onto its iPhone -- iPhones don't have an optical drive.
AC obviously didn't realize that it needed a computer where it could insert a CD while iTunes was running, and after the auto import job was done, plug in the iPhone via USB to automatically sync the music.
That's what this lawsuit was all about. The problem here is that the plaintiffs bought their DRMed tunes prior to Apple stopping that practice, but didn't buy a PMP until AFTER Apple had a solution.
Your last point is the only relevant one: if tracking hours is impractical, a different metric should be used. Otherwise, if everyone else uses the standard overtime rate, there's really no issue. With medical, it means that if you work more, you get paid more. That means that hospitals have to balance between overworked overcompensated staff and proper work balance. If the hospital is understaffed, their employees shouldn't be the ones to suffer. Same goes for teachers, IT, and anyone else that can track how they contribute to the business based on hours spent at the job.
For jobs that are more results-based than hours-based, where you agree to certain results going into the job, overtime doesn't really make sense. This is true for many executive positions and sales positions, as well as IT contractors (but not salaried IT).
And tai chi is basically a first step on a route that takes you through baguazhang, Hsing I or liuhebafachuan (my specialty).
That's pretty much exactly the point I was making. The discipline and internalization of the forms of Tai Chi is great for reflexes, concentration, discipline and body awareness, but you will also need to learn to fight, which is additional training. That, or master your Chi to the point where the entire concept of fighting is superfluous, as you know by reflex how to "be" to promote life and wellness in yourself and the environment around you (and it devolving into fighting generally implies you lost your internal balance).
My grandfather was a Tai Chi master, and never had to kick anyone's ass -- he was much better at preventing or diffusing violence in the first place by returning balance to the situations he encountered. Seeing him encounter a violent dog for example was quite amazing to watch.
All that said, I'd still like to see someone kick a bandit's ass while performing Stand High Search for Horse or Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg.
Um, can we as a world community, just cut the cables to N. Korea and then the only hacking they can do is internal to their country?
And how is that in the interests of the PRC exactly? Or are you suggesting we do the same thing for mainland China?
What gets me is that anyone who is part of this hacking elite has to be allowed access to the Internet... which means they're going to know what the rest of the world is really like. Seems to me like this would be a good hunting ground for tech companies in the PRC, assuming that this team as a whole is actually any good at what it does. Having to start from scratch at age 17 puts them at a bit of a disadvantage. By that point I'd already learned how to find bugs in network printing protocols and disassemble/tweak computer programs. Learning to code was a decade in my past. And this was back before cell phones.
Tai Chi. Seriously, if you want to increase your mindfulness and ability to concentrate and learn new material, learn to do taichi. It takes a while, but you start to get benefits right away. Unlike yoga, you get to move around and if bandits come while you're meditating, you'll be able to kick their asses and send them on their way.
I'd like to see someone kick a bandit's ass while performing Stand High Search for Horse or Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg.... if you learn the 24-form variety, you're going to be in even worse shape.
Tai Chi may teach you all the forms, but it sure doesn't teach combat. You still have to learn to apply "wax on wax off" at speed against an aggressive moving target.
But it's probably worth learning the 24-form variety anyway, just to see if you like it and if it helps re-develop concentration:)
Swimming is also useful for this, assuming you're actually attempting to master specific strokes,, breathing and kicks. Both also have the added benefit of keeping you in shape without much risk of RSI, meaning your brain will be more responsive and able to cope in general.
And here's where I have problems. If all of them had repeat convictions, I'd agree that they were known repeat offenders, and giving them special treatment would be a good idea. I'd like to know a lot more about the ones who don't before I agree with this approach.
You're correct; you aren't missing anything, except the real reason that utilities are bumping rates to connect solar to the grid: it's because the current infrastructure isn't set up to handle an influx of unconditioned (dirty) power from a bunch of small points scattered across the grid: it's designed to distribute centrally generated power. The more people that want to feed back into the grid in a random way from solar endpoints, the less control the utility has over how the electricity gets distributed, and the more it has to manage the entire line.
It can be done, but it takes extra money to do the upgrades. Guess where they're getting that money from? That's right -- fees for hooking up solar to the grid.
The end result will be a less efficient system that still handles more power due to more energy collection locations.
But you're never going to get the solar going back into the system into the high tension lines; it will always be limited to the local community. What this means is that for communities with a lot of people on solar, there will be less power fed off the high voltage lines, and the community will be depending on themselves for most of the electricity generation. This requires a significantly different network setup than a single source feed, and is prone to different kinds of failures.
And yeah; the utilities have no (or little) incentive to do all this work to change how they operate to a less efficient system unless they're pushed into it.
I think you'll need to plead more than typo to get out of this one... The entire point of the lawsuit is to do with the iTunes sync protocol and how DB errors on the device are handled. The only bit of what I stated that is post-suit is the iCloud bit, which is why I only included it in the part about getting up in arms, and not the part regarding the problem itself.
Real will have to prove that Apple intentionally threw up the error when they detected Real attempting to manipulate FairPlay/iTunes Sync -- which doesn't look like what happened at all. What it looks like is that after Apple locked Real out of syncing via iTunes itself, Real didn't implement the sync protocol correctly, resulting in DB checksum mismatches. As a result, the integrity checking on the iPod flagged an error and triggered a reset -- which only restored iTunes-based audio because that's all it knew about.
Hey.. I actually remember back when Real was the best thing to happen to online audio! RealAudio player back in the day beat out Windows Media, Quicktime, and whatever else was available. They made their player fully unencumbered and free, and charged for the streaming software and the encoding software.
Then they created their own music locker, streaming video service, bundleware agreements, etc. and the rest is history.
I even remember using their streaming radio back in the day; they had some good features (Rolling Stones 500 sponsored by Chrysler comes to mind). But by that point they were already past their best before date.
The only thing I can figure is that Apple's throwing an error when the iTunes_Control library on the device doesn't match what the sync DB managed by iTunes says should be there. This indicates data corruption, whether it be by gremlins, failed SSD write, or RealNetworks only partially implementing the (closed) sync specification. Since Apple doesn't throw this error when iCloud updates the iTunes_Control library, this means that there exists a way to sync from multiple sources and still not get the error -- which points to a problem with how the third party is doing it. If they want to be able to use the device without getting these errors at all, just create a Real_Control directory and use a RealPod app to play its contents. For pure iPods with no App capabilities, this isn't going to work, and they'll need to add their tracks via iTunes, or fully implement the closed sync specs.
Those closed specs are the one part of Real et al's argument that makes sense -- if Apple is using such a mechanism, it would make sense to make those specs open so that anyone can write software to communicate with the iOS iTunes_Control library. But there's nothing saying they have to.
What it appears to boil down to is this: 1) User has an iOS device 2) User syncs some stuff from iTunes to that device 3) User uses a third party system, such as that run by Real, to sync some stuff from the Real media manager to the iOS device 4) Device needs to be wiped and reset 5) iTunes wipes the device and restores from backup, which doesn't include music (or a bunch of other things). 6) iTunes then restores the music its settings indicate was previously synced to the device 7) User gets all up in arms when they realize that iTunes didn't magically restore the music residing in the Real media manager (which may not even exist on the host anymore.
Basically, this isn't an issue regarding your music, it's an issue regarding iTunes and what iOS lets you back up off your device. Thing is, iOS actually provides the functionality to copy the entire contents of the iTunes Media folder on the device via USB, so the Real Media manager could easily do this, and then restore the backups after the device is wiped and refreshed.
Added to this, Apple's wording is actually quite clear as to what gets backed up and how. I don't see anything malicious going on here; just a lack of planning on the part of third parties to fully implement their alternative media manager, complete with backups, or the end user's failure to appreciate that they haven't backed up music that doesn't go through iTunes or iCloud.
Write wear isn't everything anyway. Another thing to test is whether the drive can brick if the power fails while the drive is writing. Better drives have capacitors to deal with this event. Consumer drives lack them and can lose data or fail unrecoverably.
This is one reason to check that the computer you're using includes capacitors to deal with this event -- so you can use consumer drives and not have to worry about whether they've got built-in protection circuitry.
I think you've got a good point -- except that we're not talking about people getting arrested here; we're talking about known repeat-offenders (most of them have repeat convictions). The idea here is to spend less time on the "repeat" portion and just put these guys away, so that all of that time they were wasting in the courts and for police on the beat can be spent looking at the cases they currently can't handle appropriately due to volume caused by repeat offenders.
So it'd be more like a study that tries to figure out if there was any similarity in the missions that caused the bombers to go down, and then mitigate the commonalities (did each plane that went down go over a specific hill with anti-aircraft weapons? Take out the weapons instead of another target), so they can send the bombers out on more (effective) runs.
There are plenty more examples where people will settle for cheap over expensive. Apps are just another one - once people are in the habit of not paying for an app, you'd better be in the top 0.1% of apps to justify getting paid.
And yet I bring to your attention http://apple.slashdot.org/stor... -- it seems that there are still enough people willing to pay that an app that does nothing but pretends to be a popular *free* app will still convince people to pay for it.
I'm the CTO in a Chinese technology company. The government has never paid us to install spyware or anything else for that matter.... Your own government couldn't even be bothered installing spyware on your computer, why would the Chinese government?
While you make some good points, I've repeatedly had to clean the same state-sponsored spyware off of laptops coming out of China. Now this is probably just done to computers that go through customs "screening" as they could be transporting "something" in and out of the country, but I've also had to deal with situations where foreign companies operating inside China have been required to install state-sponsored spyware on their computer systems.
You're right -- they don't care about individuals, just like the US doesn't. But in both cases, they highly desire the monitoring capability, so that automated systems can flag up potential issues. Neither China nor the US is the first country to do this -- the first state sponsored spyware I've seen originated in Germany, and was installed only on targeted computers. That was a long time ago, and since then, the barrier to install has dropped siginificantly, and the number of participants has grown to include most governments around the world.
Normally this kind of proxying happens on an edge server, and the server does a man-in-the-middle on the traffic -- so all internal machines have the server's cert, and their https goes to the server. The server then pulls from its cache, or makes an https request to the upstream server, whichever is best.
This is (almost) always legal, usually not a big deployment issue, and actually limits the security footprint as you just have one central point to defend for inbound data (it becomes obvious pretty quickly if there's an attack going on).
What people like to believe in is the spirit of entrepreneurship that Apple and others emulated. The garage isn't so important, the idea of a garage is powerful stuff.
Exactly. This is the axe to grind of my great great grandfather.
The larger huts I've been in have had different variations, but it's all based off the same base ingredients -- and the crusts always tasted to me like they used stale flour, and the sauces were always too sugary. Of course, I haven't stepped in the door of a Pizza Hut in over 10 years, so it is remotely possible that their quality has improved -- but based on feedback from others, I haven't felt it worth checking. They are indeed the McDonald's of pizza; I listened to a good interview with the founders recently. Excellent business plan, but their goal was never to make the best pizza.
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I'm sure plenty of hospitals abuse their position, but I've seen hospitals where "not overworking" their workers means people die. Strange ethical dilemma. Town is too small to attract more workers and too poor to pay a regionally competitive wage, yet there is still demand for people to not die.
I think I already covered that -- hospitals that are short staffed need to provide longer hours for their employees -- and those longer hours need to be paid overtime. That overtime needs to be billed against the insurance companies, who will then come up with some creative way to get more workers in the local hospitals to defray their costs. The only difference is, in one case it's the workers who suffer so that people don't die, and in the other case it's the hospital and insurance companies (and by extension the insurance companies' customers) who suffer a little so that people don't die. The ethical dilemma becomes a bit clearer now, doesn't it?
Um, iTunes didn't delete ANY files. The files on your device were deleted. After that, you then had to re-load from iTunes, and if you used another library, you then had to re-load from there as well. Not rocket science.
That's a bit out of context... Apple threw up an error message when it detected the music DB had been messed with, and then restored the iPod contents from what was stored in iTunes. All Apple was testing for was that things had been messed with. If the rival music services (read: Real) had properly reverse engineered the sync process, there would have been no problem. Also, if they hadn't included DRM on their music and had pushed it through a regular iTunes sync, there wouldn't have been a problem. The only problem was when Real was attempting to sync their hacked-up version of FairPlay-DRM'd audio through their hacked-up version of an iTunes sync session to the iPod DB. If they got it wrong, everything was reset.
Real got bitten again by embracing PlaysForSure, which eventually stopped being supported by MS altogether (you can't actually PLAY stuff encrypted with PlaysForSure anymore).
Of course, Apple made it slightly more difficult by changing the sync protocl part way through this, which indicates they were putting up a token effort to prevent people doing an end-run around the sync process and the FairPlay DRM.
The real losers here were people running Linux who wanted to use an iPod -- same thing happened there. But that group wouldn't be as useful in a class action suit -- plus, the number of people affected is significantly smaller.
The problem was that AC was trying to get a CD onto its iPhone -- iPhones don't have an optical drive.
AC obviously didn't realize that it needed a computer where it could insert a CD while iTunes was running, and after the auto import job was done, plug in the iPhone via USB to automatically sync the music.
That's what this lawsuit was all about. The problem here is that the plaintiffs bought their DRMed tunes prior to Apple stopping that practice, but didn't buy a PMP until AFTER Apple had a solution.
To whoever moderated this redundant: based on the responses, it obviously wasn't.
Your last point is the only relevant one: if tracking hours is impractical, a different metric should be used. Otherwise, if everyone else uses the standard overtime rate, there's really no issue. With medical, it means that if you work more, you get paid more. That means that hospitals have to balance between overworked overcompensated staff and proper work balance. If the hospital is understaffed, their employees shouldn't be the ones to suffer. Same goes for teachers, IT, and anyone else that can track how they contribute to the business based on hours spent at the job.
For jobs that are more results-based than hours-based, where you agree to certain results going into the job, overtime doesn't really make sense. This is true for many executive positions and sales positions, as well as IT contractors (but not salaried IT).
And tai chi is basically a first step on a route that takes you through baguazhang, Hsing I or liuhebafachuan (my specialty).
That's pretty much exactly the point I was making. The discipline and internalization of the forms of Tai Chi is great for reflexes, concentration, discipline and body awareness, but you will also need to learn to fight, which is additional training. That, or master your Chi to the point where the entire concept of fighting is superfluous, as you know by reflex how to "be" to promote life and wellness in yourself and the environment around you (and it devolving into fighting generally implies you lost your internal balance).
My grandfather was a Tai Chi master, and never had to kick anyone's ass -- he was much better at preventing or diffusing violence in the first place by returning balance to the situations he encountered. Seeing him encounter a violent dog for example was quite amazing to watch.
All that said, I'd still like to see someone kick a bandit's ass while performing Stand High Search for Horse or Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg.
Um, can we as a world community, just cut the cables to N. Korea and then the only hacking they can do is internal to their country?
And how is that in the interests of the PRC exactly? Or are you suggesting we do the same thing for mainland China?
What gets me is that anyone who is part of this hacking elite has to be allowed access to the Internet... which means they're going to know what the rest of the world is really like. Seems to me like this would be a good hunting ground for tech companies in the PRC, assuming that this team as a whole is actually any good at what it does. Having to start from scratch at age 17 puts them at a bit of a disadvantage. By that point I'd already learned how to find bugs in network printing protocols and disassemble/tweak computer programs. Learning to code was a decade in my past. And this was back before cell phones.
So, what are we going to do about the cyber-gap?
We already had nuclear weapon gap, bomber gap, and icbm gap.
The cyber gap is here.
Tai Chi. Seriously, if you want to increase your mindfulness and ability to concentrate and learn new material, learn to do taichi. It takes a while, but you start to get benefits right away. Unlike yoga, you get to move around and if bandits come while you're meditating, you'll be able to kick their asses and send them on their way.
I'd like to see someone kick a bandit's ass while performing Stand High Search for Horse or Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg.... if you learn the 24-form variety, you're going to be in even worse shape.
Tai Chi may teach you all the forms, but it sure doesn't teach combat. You still have to learn to apply "wax on wax off" at speed against an aggressive moving target.
But it's probably worth learning the 24-form variety anyway, just to see if you like it and if it helps re-develop concentration :)
Swimming is also useful for this, assuming you're actually attempting to master specific strokes,, breathing and kicks. Both also have the added benefit of keeping you in shape without much risk of RSI, meaning your brain will be more responsive and able to cope in general.
And here's where I have problems. If all of them had repeat convictions, I'd agree that they were known repeat offenders, and giving them special treatment would be a good idea. I'd like to know a lot more about the ones who don't before I agree with this approach.
Good point.
You're correct; you aren't missing anything, except the real reason that utilities are bumping rates to connect solar to the grid: it's because the current infrastructure isn't set up to handle an influx of unconditioned (dirty) power from a bunch of small points scattered across the grid: it's designed to distribute centrally generated power. The more people that want to feed back into the grid in a random way from solar endpoints, the less control the utility has over how the electricity gets distributed, and the more it has to manage the entire line.
It can be done, but it takes extra money to do the upgrades. Guess where they're getting that money from? That's right -- fees for hooking up solar to the grid.
The end result will be a less efficient system that still handles more power due to more energy collection locations.
But you're never going to get the solar going back into the system into the high tension lines; it will always be limited to the local community. What this means is that for communities with a lot of people on solar, there will be less power fed off the high voltage lines, and the community will be depending on themselves for most of the electricity generation. This requires a significantly different network setup than a single source feed, and is prone to different kinds of failures.
And yeah; the utilities have no (or little) incentive to do all this work to change how they operate to a less efficient system unless they're pushed into it.
I think you'll need to plead more than typo to get out of this one... The entire point of the lawsuit is to do with the iTunes sync protocol and how DB errors on the device are handled. The only bit of what I stated that is post-suit is the iCloud bit, which is why I only included it in the part about getting up in arms, and not the part regarding the problem itself.
Real will have to prove that Apple intentionally threw up the error when they detected Real attempting to manipulate FairPlay/iTunes Sync -- which doesn't look like what happened at all. What it looks like is that after Apple locked Real out of syncing via iTunes itself, Real didn't implement the sync protocol correctly, resulting in DB checksum mismatches. As a result, the integrity checking on the iPod flagged an error and triggered a reset -- which only restored iTunes-based audio because that's all it knew about.
Hey.. I actually remember back when Real was the best thing to happen to online audio! RealAudio player back in the day beat out Windows Media, Quicktime, and whatever else was available. They made their player fully unencumbered and free, and charged for the streaming software and the encoding software.
Then they created their own music locker, streaming video service, bundleware agreements, etc. and the rest is history.
I even remember using their streaming radio back in the day; they had some good features (Rolling Stones 500 sponsored by Chrysler comes to mind). But by that point they were already past their best before date.
The only thing I can figure is that Apple's throwing an error when the iTunes_Control library on the device doesn't match what the sync DB managed by iTunes says should be there. This indicates data corruption, whether it be by gremlins, failed SSD write, or RealNetworks only partially implementing the (closed) sync specification. Since Apple doesn't throw this error when iCloud updates the iTunes_Control library, this means that there exists a way to sync from multiple sources and still not get the error -- which points to a problem with how the third party is doing it. If they want to be able to use the device without getting these errors at all, just create a Real_Control directory and use a RealPod app to play its contents. For pure iPods with no App capabilities, this isn't going to work, and they'll need to add their tracks via iTunes, or fully implement the closed sync specs.
Those closed specs are the one part of Real et al's argument that makes sense -- if Apple is using such a mechanism, it would make sense to make those specs open so that anyone can write software to communicate with the iOS iTunes_Control library. But there's nothing saying they have to.
What it appears to boil down to is this:
1) User has an iOS device
2) User syncs some stuff from iTunes to that device
3) User uses a third party system, such as that run by Real, to sync some stuff from the Real media manager to the iOS device
4) Device needs to be wiped and reset
5) iTunes wipes the device and restores from backup, which doesn't include music (or a bunch of other things).
6) iTunes then restores the music its settings indicate was previously synced to the device
7) User gets all up in arms when they realize that iTunes didn't magically restore the music residing in the Real media manager (which may not even exist on the host anymore.
Basically, this isn't an issue regarding your music, it's an issue regarding iTunes and what iOS lets you back up off your device. Thing is, iOS actually provides the functionality to copy the entire contents of the iTunes Media folder on the device via USB, so the Real Media manager could easily do this, and then restore the backups after the device is wiped and refreshed.
Added to this, Apple's wording is actually quite clear as to what gets backed up and how. I don't see anything malicious going on here; just a lack of planning on the part of third parties to fully implement their alternative media manager, complete with backups, or the end user's failure to appreciate that they haven't backed up music that doesn't go through iTunes or iCloud.
Write wear isn't everything anyway. Another thing to test is whether the drive can brick if the power fails while the drive is writing. Better drives have capacitors to deal with this event. Consumer drives lack them and can lose data or fail unrecoverably.
This is one reason to check that the computer you're using includes capacitors to deal with this event -- so you can use consumer drives and not have to worry about whether they've got built-in protection circuitry.
I think you've got a good point -- except that we're not talking about people getting arrested here; we're talking about known repeat-offenders (most of them have repeat convictions). The idea here is to spend less time on the "repeat" portion and just put these guys away, so that all of that time they were wasting in the courts and for police on the beat can be spent looking at the cases they currently can't handle appropriately due to volume caused by repeat offenders.
So it'd be more like a study that tries to figure out if there was any similarity in the missions that caused the bombers to go down, and then mitigate the commonalities (did each plane that went down go over a specific hill with anti-aircraft weapons? Take out the weapons instead of another target), so they can send the bombers out on more (effective) runs.
...and yet they appear to be doing it. So it's probably worth a "Well done!"
I was impressed with the fact that they had enough of a clue as to be emphasizing how they keep the data fresh and don't rely on stale information.
Sure, justice is supposed to be blind, but that doesn't mean that the DA has to be.
There are plenty more examples where people will settle for cheap over expensive. Apps are just another one - once people are in the habit of not paying for an app, you'd better be in the top 0.1% of apps to justify getting paid.
And yet I bring to your attention http://apple.slashdot.org/stor... -- it seems that there are still enough people willing to pay that an app that does nothing but pretends to be a popular *free* app will still convince people to pay for it.
I'm the CTO in a Chinese technology company. The government has never paid us to install spyware or anything else for that matter. ... Your own government couldn't even be bothered installing spyware on your computer, why would the Chinese government?
While you make some good points, I've repeatedly had to clean the same state-sponsored spyware off of laptops coming out of China. Now this is probably just done to computers that go through customs "screening" as they could be transporting "something" in and out of the country, but I've also had to deal with situations where foreign companies operating inside China have been required to install state-sponsored spyware on their computer systems.
You're right -- they don't care about individuals, just like the US doesn't. But in both cases, they highly desire the monitoring capability, so that automated systems can flag up potential issues. Neither China nor the US is the first country to do this -- the first state sponsored spyware I've seen originated in Germany, and was installed only on targeted computers. That was a long time ago, and since then, the barrier to install has dropped siginificantly, and the number of participants has grown to include most governments around the world.
Normally this kind of proxying happens on an edge server, and the server does a man-in-the-middle on the traffic -- so all internal machines have the server's cert, and their https goes to the server. The server then pulls from its cache, or makes an https request to the upstream server, whichever is best.
This is (almost) always legal, usually not a big deployment issue, and actually limits the security footprint as you just have one central point to defend for inbound data (it becomes obvious pretty quickly if there's an attack going on).
What people like to believe in is the spirit of entrepreneurship that Apple and others emulated. The garage isn't so important, the idea of a garage is powerful stuff.
Exactly. This is the axe to grind of my great great grandfather.
The larger huts I've been in have had different variations, but it's all based off the same base ingredients -- and the crusts always tasted to me like they used stale flour, and the sauces were always too sugary. Of course, I haven't stepped in the door of a Pizza Hut in over 10 years, so it is remotely possible that their quality has improved -- but based on feedback from others, I haven't felt it worth checking. They are indeed the McDonald's of pizza; I listened to a good interview with the founders recently. Excellent business plan, but their goal was never to make the best pizza.