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> Microsoft never amassed the data on their "customers" that Google and Facebook and every Tom, Dick, and Harry do now. They caught wind of their "mistake" and "corrected" that err…

> Why on earth would they need separate infrastructure and the rest of us do not? I imagine they wanted to build their own version of SIPRNet. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…

> ...we tend to call them "vendor staff" internally... There was a time when MSFT called them "dash trash". Good times. /s

> How do you find such contract work? It's a misnomer[0]. You usually find this work through vendor companies that actually hold the contracts with BigCo's. To the BigCo, you're a …

For 1, I use Temporary Containers[0] and have it set to auto-start and delete the containers as soon as the last related window closes. It's a PIA for logging into things (e.g.: co…

> That's the "monitor from the customer's point of view" approach the OP alludes to. ...but now you're in a recursive problem: Who watches the watcher? If the watcher goes down, yo…

> I wonder if OP was referring to any of the more immediately concerning positive feedback loops Yeah, that's why I prefaced it with it being a dumb question. :) If the feed backs …

> The average July high for Alert is 7 C. ...and... > Environment Canada says Canadian Forces Station Alert hit a record of 21 C on Sunday. If we're talking about the same exact re…

Correct, as the NASA link clearly delineates: > The researchers point out that the gain in greenness seen around the world and dominated by India and China does not offset the dama…

I think that their critique of the overall judicial system was a tangential aside and didn't - directly - apply to this specific situation. Admittedly, I could be wrong here but th…