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sqlrockstar​, your fire pit and yard furniture are beautiful! Well done!

If we all had a Solarwinds data warehouse, we could share NPM graphs of previous Black Fridays and Cyber Mondays with our bosses. Who would be amazed at our ability to show trends from ten or twenty years, and thus allow forecasting to occur . . .

Congratulations, All! Still watching, still learning, still innovating.

​Lootboxes?​ I'd never heard of them. But after reading the story, how are they NOT "gambling?"

Kudos for sharing your expertise!

Kids being taught to hack--to make a better future. Kids being taught to hack--to teach web site managers/owners/users a lesson about security. Maybe we're missing teaching ethics and requiring mandatory compliance to ethical behavior--from everyone in the world. Sure, it sounds impossible. So do most worthwhile goals. But…

That's it in a nut shell. IT staff have the skills and resources to find ways around corporate policies that aren't backed up with solid implementations and consequences. Locking things down protects EVERYONE.

I bet this is possible--if only we could discover & recognize & see & edit & copy & paste the original XML. But that's not easy (for me, at least). Bump!

Ugh! The story about Amazon . . . just Ugh! I can't say I know if either side is right/wrong, accurate & truthful or simply dissembling & prevaricating. But it reads like a classic corporate greed story, and there've been too many of those proven true in court. I don't want it to be true, but it sure sounds like what's…

The private train idea in Florida inefficiently only addresses the symptoms, not the problem. The problem is too many people and too few desirable places for them to work and live. No one's foolish enough to propose population control (yet), but the future looks grim if we can't keep our numbers stable and sustainable.

I like your idea, but I also offer the thought that your NCM service account's activities are easily tracked back to the user who caused them. Solarwinds logs who issued the original commands, and it takes only one step to reveal who ran the Job or scripts that caused a change actuated through the NCM service account.…

Having the USPS use electric vehicles sounds attractive to me. Better fuel efficiency, fewer emissions, increased demand for charging stations and specialized batteries should only benefit other users of electric vehicles. Using less gasoline could keep gasoline dependencies, and prices, from growing out of control. But…

Regarding the instructor of the class: He was older, sharp as a tack, and as intense and highly focused as a laser. Crusty, aware, mellow, soft as a pillow, hard as a Marine Corps drill instructor, as the mood changed by topic covered. Training under him was excellent, but grueling. He was in the military for 35 years, and…

That's always a great accomplishment!

Finally, a last question of the Mission that is actually a question!

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MS and GitHub make a suspicious pair, if only from the fact that MS has a long history of user dissatisfaction. What improvements will MS bring that won't be accompanied by increased user costs and decreased functionality? What Facebook-like information mining/theft will result? None? Amazing! Excellent! . . . prove it . .…

SW / Thwack staff have indicated there are 130,000+ folks active in Thwack. But participation in Missions and other events seems to be consistently less than 600. Depending on the exact item in which you're interested, you may only be competing with 50 people. Obviously the lower the number, the greater the chances of…

Don't miss out on peer review of products, either. Sign up for participating in the blogo-sphere or customer-support web sites (like Thwack.com) so you can see what questions and concerns and requests are generated by real customers--before you buy. Perhaps worst are popularity contests that present themselves as if they…

"Vote early, vote often!"

Seeing it in person is very different than watching it via video, even in real time. I recall a total eclipse I viewed in the 1980's in Minnesota, and it was not only accompanied by gloominess and a big drop in air temperature, but it felt very odd--even creepy.

Ransomware and Baltimore. I wonder how THAT happened? It's not like the entire world hasn't been preaching about ransomware and security for the last few years. And it's not like there haven't been MANY stories about people and businesses and governments falling victim to ransomware due to missing or poor or incomplete…

It seems to logical. All of this data is present--just in different views & products. Here's hoping SW (or someone in Thwack) knows how to

The TSA / Air Marshals monitoring airport users? No problem with that. "The no-fly list grew from about 16 people in September 2001 to 64,000 in 2014." I have a problem with that. " . . . law enforcement officials are generally free to surveil individuals as long as they do not do so based on criteria such as ethnicity."…

Kudos to you for continuing to be relevant. That which does not change stagnates and dies. May SW and Thwack live on and on!

I'll kindly agree with the criticisms others have offered, regarding this month's Mission questions. They were not always easy, nor intuitive. But I will also gently and kindly offer a reminder and proof that a positive attitude and a bit of patient digging and thoughtfulness may suffice to achieve the desired goals--to…

I wonder how many of those picturesque old boats in Nyhaven are functional versus there for the impressions they leave on tourists? I love the photograph of the waterfront you provided, but I immediately thought to myself "How practical is that sailing/fishing schooner? If it were "in business" for active netting, wouldn't…

The Bobble-Head Army just grew by almost a third!

Rebump.

I appreciate the degree this is off of the wall. Thank you for your silliness!