This is an important lesson. Anytime you're onboarding a new user/employee, your documentation will benefit by getting that person's feedback. What's incorrect? Where there any steps that weren't clear? Or missing steps? Is there information that's outdated?
I've even gone as far as forcing the developers to answer questions by incorporating new information into the documentation. If you start having out-of-band communication (email, chats, in-person conversations) between the newbie and the team, there's a strong chance that extra information will never find its way back into the documentation.
It's not the case with GoDaddy. I just had a hosting client run into this a few weeks ago -- someone they know had registered their domain for them long ago, and they didn't have the GoDaddy login. I tried to help out when their domain expired and spoke to GoDaddy support. They do not provide any way to renew domain without logging into the account that owns the domain. They were fortunately able to get in touch with the person who originally registered it, so that person could renew it and work on transferring it to an account controlled by the true "domain owner".
I personally don't see a security issue with allowing anyone to renew any domain. It's not like you can change WHOIS information or the authoritative name servers -- you're just paying to continue with the existing ownership/configuration.
Digi International embedded it into some of their XBee wireless radios (802.15.4-based and Cellular models) to allow customers to run an on-device application without compromising any certifications for the radio portion of the firmware. Easier than needing to design hardware with an additional host processor and work out the serial communications between that host and the radio module.
While MicroPython was designed to be "bare iron", it wasn't overly difficult to port it to run as a separate task inside the XBee firmware, and connect it up with internals for I/O and file system access. These are ARM Cortex products with firmware sizes in the area of 500KB to 700KB.
Check your math. It was 70,000 tapes over 30 years. At $5/tape that would be $11,666/year or just under $1000/month.
The movie trailer mentioned the multiple homes she owned, so she definitely had money. Being a Communist organizer shouldn't imply that someone lacks resources.
I saw this in house rabbits allowed to roam the backyard supervised. When the crows alerted to raptors in the area, the rabbits would get low and head for cover.
A real-world example of this technique shows up in ColorDMD, an LCD to replace DMD displays used in pinball machines from the early 90's until just recently. Most of the displays were 128x32 with 4 (and later 16) brightness levels.
ColorDMD first had artists create color overlays for the images and animations, and then emulated the display with colored dots instead of the red/orange color from the original DMD.
A later firmware release included upscaling, with some impressive results. This thread on Pinside (a pinball discussion site) shows some examples from the game "The Simpsons Pinball Party". I've linked directly to a comment that shows an original rendered DMD frame along with colorized versions with and without upscaling.
This. I recently worked on updating an embedded TLS implementation from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.2. I was told that it didn't need to implement TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1, but once deployed we found a lot of non-HTTPS servers still using TLS 1.0. In particular, Microsoft's Hotmail/MSN SMTP servers and multiple RADIUS servers on WPA/WPA2 Enterprise networks. It now allows for client connections to TLS 1.0 servers, but will only serve TLS 1.2 itself.
If over 50% of the domains out there are in the .com namespace, why will creating more gTLDs change that? If the 14 gTLDs created in the past 28 years haven't gained traction, what makes you think .lol or .youtube will?!
It's been interesting to see Daisey's position change over the course of this incident. It seems that he's slowly coming to terms with the fact that he lied in his story. Listening to him in the This American Life podcast last weekend, it was almost as if he had started believing the things he's been saying in his performance.
I still think he's an entertaining storyteller, and he's brought attention to a real problem. It can only help him if he's more honest with himself and his audience moving forward.
IIRC, their streaming costs were based on number of subscribers. With this plan, they ensure that only people who actually use unlimited streaming (and are therefore willing to pay for it) will be included in that subscriber count.
How can a lease be "unused" if it hasn't expired and the client that requested it never released it? Are you saying that the DHCP server pings (ICMP or ARP) each address and re-leases the ones that don't get a response?
I've even gone as far as forcing the developers to answer questions by incorporating new information into the documentation. If you start having out-of-band communication (email, chats, in-person conversations) between the newbie and the team, there's a strong chance that extra information will never find its way back into the documentation.