This is how it should work: supermarket wants to use high tech stuff such as connected fridges, they get a cyber insurance policy as part of all the other insurances they have. The insurer then has domain experts to figure out what the insured needs to do to meet a risk threshold (or they adjust fees accordingly).

This model has worked fine for many other types of risks.

In practice this insurance (which already exists!) just creates another compliance checklist and not a meaningful focus on actual security.

Many of these supermarkets are part of big brands but operate independently. I doubt cyber insurance is top of mind for those small owners

It will be soon. How many refrigerated cases of product can they afford to lose?

Not to mention other ways cyberattacks can paralyze their business, eg. their POS system

These companies have several weeks to respond to this risk, and yet here we are. Much sadness.

> several weeks

So few time. Approval processes can take a lot of time.

Things become error prone once you realize that the precedence rules are different across languages!

    E.g. 1 & 2 == 0:
    Python => True
    C => 0 (False)

Similarly, I don't like people who write code like `if 0`, because 0 is false in C and JavaScript and Python, but 0 is considered true in Ruby!

IANAL but US law allows making backups/copies for private use and you aren't redistributing/making the copies available to others.

Productivity went down because an engineer spent 2 weeks doing what nobody would have previously done /s.

On a more serious note, the productivity increase is the time which will no longer be needed to maintain two production systems instead of one.

>Productivity went down because an engineer spent 2 weeks

Yes, that is something you have to be careful of. In this case, as I mentioned I believe, it was done in spare time, not full time, and it was mostly the AI that spent 2 weeks, I'd guess he probably spent a day or two, and the testers probably spent another day (however, I think this ended up coinciding with our quarterly "full site" test, so it would have happened anyway).

Bring back WML sites?

note: WML/WAL was a way to enable browsing a web-like thing on low powered devices.

For a bit of time, popular websites were available in two variants, wml and html (more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol)

No who remembers WAP has any desire to see anything like it return. A 'lite' subdomain is far easier and more effective by not trying to reinvent the entire stack.

As for WML, I'd say transport-level compression made that pretty much academic.

AFAIK, party lines were when N people were physically hooked up to the same phone line. All N people could talk to each other at the same time without dialing out/having to pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)

My family had a party line when I was growing up. The other parties who shared the line weren't very happy when 13-year-old me got his first 300 baud modem.

Ouch. Related, https://www.explainxkcd.com/ has been taken down for now.

http://caltechrejects.com/ takes you to https://mit.edu/: you don't need a .sucks TLD to be funny.

Similarly, someone I know set up http://factoryfloorsweepings.com/ to redirect to AliExpress. :)

tesla.com or amazon.com would have been too obvious. /s

Would be fun to build this using cryptography (probably some kind of MPC).