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elisto··on Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon
Major lesson: Don't put non-trained employees to do PR/client-facing soon after they were mentally drained by an action you took.
elisto··on Ken Thompson's Unix Password
Does that mean that it is embarrassing and can be tied to you or that it is just embarrassing to say? If the first, then wouldn't you risk being pwned and having that used against you?
elisto··on Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen
It makes me curious to know how much is bad Ux design and how much is simply people not being able to transition into a new set of technology since they have grown acustomed to the previous way of doing things.

It would be interesting to see the experience that new drivers may have with these designs and then ask them to compare it to the older version.

elisto··on Tesla Model 3 spoofed off the highway
There should be a lot of concern over stuff like this in the future when technology is expected to lead the way. Who pays the cost when something an accident caused by spoofing/etc happens? Who is in charge of checking the firmware/software to confirm what happened? What does the owner of the car do while there is an investigation (lease a car with insurance money?) How would the police find out the perpetrator? What if the perpetrator is out of their jurisdiction?
elisto··on Too Much of the World Cup Is Just Soccer Failing to Get Out of Its Own Way
According to Forbes [1] men's world cup generated $6b in revenue and shared $400m between participants. [1] The women's world cup is expected to generate $131m and share $30m between participants. This means that as a share of the pie, women's are actually making more % wise, even though there is less demand. This is likely needed, in part, to encourage more woman to participate in the world cup so that it can grow in the future.

It is difficult to dole out blame in scenarios such as this, should you blame FIFA? The country's soccer organizations? The media? The customers?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2019/03/07/world-cu...