This is probably related to them getting in trouble for scanning networks while mapping. If I remember correctly they were doing a bit of port scanning and looking for share drives in an attempt to id which SSID was attached to which address. This is probably part of the wrist slap they got from FCC. "Oh well you can totally opt out now so it's ok"
It’s better than fax -barely.
I worked for a company that builds HR software for gov customers including digital versions of forms with encryption etc. Day one I was faxing all of my own HR forms to HQ in another state.
This. It's cheap and upper management doesn't care because they still get an office. Has there been any proper research on productivity loss / gains beyond the anecdotal? I have no idea and management doesn't read books anyway so we are stuck with open plans.
Cons: Not seeing any advantage over JSON. If you want a type for objects just add a type field and have your code read it. Then you can use any of the existing parsers.
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