Some people insist that they do need to see the content. They were often brought up in an environment where they were told they can have it all. And every politician will always promise everything for free (or at least cheap), as that is the way to get (re)elected.

Around my neighborhood almost no one parks in the garage (they park in their driveway, or the street). The garage is where you store stuff (and you rarely open the garage door).

As I recall, some older garage door openers do not report the status such that the ratgdo can report on it. Caveat emptor.

Translation: "We are chasing the highest revenue markets today to goose our next few quarterly numbers in order to maximize the C-level bonuses".

You do believe, do you not, that if the manufacturers have to pay more, you are going to pay more (for that soldered in ram)? The only way to win is not to buy.

For those with no long term memory remaining, go back and research the time when Apple cornered the market on flash memory.

The software change is reportedly to roll back to a previous version of the software (which did not have this particular issue, although the updated version was presumably introduced to fix some other issue).

Most airplanes already require regular daily checks (think of it as checking the oil levels, but there is a lot more to check on an airplane than the fluid levels) usually performed at night when the planes are not being flown. Adding a few hours of software rollback to an aircraft's daily checks is not ideal, but should be able to be accomplished for many aircraft quickly (although for the airplanes that also need new flight hardware, that will take a bit longer).

One recommendation from the NTSB a number of years ago was to add cockpit cameras to assist with their investigations. As I recall, the pilots unions, on behalf of their members, strenuously objected (and the airlines were not keen on the additional expense either). Neither the FAA (nor other regulatory bodies) added regulations to require cockpit cameras. Perhaps this incident will be the one that forces the recommendation over the regulatory line.

For the purposes of chain of custody (which may be very important if this ends up being criminal investigation as some point, but also goes to the trust of the entire process), all access to the evidence, when it is not otherwise secured, must be in person, with colleagues and witnesses present, when the evidence is opened and accessed using certified equipment suitable to the task. The 787 uses two EAFRs (a combined flight data and voice recorder), with one in the forward part of the aircraft and one in the rear. One was extensively damaged, and required more extensive data retrieval work.

A leading theory by people who actually know the plane (including pilots) is that this appears to be another EgyptAir Flight 990, which was suicide by plane (with Egypt insisting publicly that their co-pilot would never do that). The preliminary report by the AAIB did not provide any evidence to contradict the suicide by plane theory (and even strengthened it a bit, much to the consternation of the pilots union). It is possible the NTSB and the AAIB will come to different conclusions.

Follow the money

A CEO's job is to promote their company (marketing) so that their owners (which includes Tim, personally, in this case) make more money.

There was the old joke, which was Q: "how can you tell when a marketing individual was lying to you". A: "Their lips were moving". I you listen to a CEO and believe they are not lying to you, you did not internalize the essence of the joke.

If there is money to be made, someone will (at least try to) do bypass any restrictions put in place. And, just like icebergs, you are likely to only see 10% of the actual transactions that are happening.

Disney has used it's O&O ABC stations to force ESPN and Disney Channel into most TV packages. When ESPN costs were much smaller many customers just did not care all that much. Now that ESPN adds somewhere in the ballpark of $10/mo to the monthly bill, customers who don't watch sports are far less likely to let that slide. While the numbers are a bit fuzzy, only about a third of a TV providers customers are serious sports fans who might pay for ESPN if it was offered a-la-carte. I don't think that it is a coincidence that that somewhat aligns with the $30/mo ESPN DTC offering pricing.

Yes, and it is rather well respected in the field of hospitality management in the US (I don't know if they are still ranked #1 in the US, but they are certainly in the top tier). The graduates tend to be able to find work with the top tier hoteliers in all the nicer places.

Rust cannot address some fundamental logic errors (having code to allow "evil doer" to do nasty things), but eliminating the low hanging fruit of memory safety helps avoid an entire class of issues that are far too easy to not notice in initial coding and review. And the more guardrails that are enforced during development the better.

There are some people who suggest that C can be safe, as long as the developers are reliably and consistently careful in their design and codes. And those people are probably mostly correct. However, hiring only the top 0.05% of developers, and continuously validating their designs and codes, is not viable or sustainable in most organizations. People are fallible. Rust makes them better by checking.

All companies need some form of senior C-level (and especially CEO) succession planning (bus's happen). Those plans might change (the candidate(s) may end up being poached, or themselves end up being bus victims), but a board who does not have a plan deserves to be ousted as incompetent.

While the details were not fully disclosed for years, Berkshire Hathaway (considered a highly successful company) had a plan for Warren Buffet's replacement (should it be needed) for a long time before he decided to retire.