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there's an argument that the best people around are the people who have already (or almost) made some big mistakes.

I have made a couple of huge ones - luckily I kept my job

at highlevel, you must know what you're supposed to deliver, which can be extremely difficult when not everyone does (incl yourself) so people start to second guess things to 'get things moving' which can be a huge risk and potentially completely wrong.

Understand the actual problem , write it down and repeat back to get confirmation.

write down the (non)functional requirements from the stakeholders, the exact scope of work before doing anything, again repeat back to get confirmation,

In the murky world of greyness where people do not really know information or the full set of data, agree (again before starting work) on little subtasks/ plans to get the information (PoC)

Write down the Risks/ Assumptions/ Issues/ Dependences of your actions and again get them signed off

all this takes time and can be extremely boring relative to getting stuff done, so a lot of people just do stuff they think is right

I'm not defending ME/PSP at all, i would happily burn the CPUs off, if I could. I totally agree completely on your statement

> That society is ok with that is a huge problem to say the least.

but you could compare any bad actor actions to ME/PSP and say it's the same or not as bad

it's bordering on Whataboutery

I'm a divergent thinker and like to bounce ideas off other divergent thinkers, so I can work alone or with others, but/ ideally they need to be creative/ open

Once we have a list of ideas, then whittle the list down with the realist and pessimistic people of the group; until there's one obvious way forward or a couple of least worse ideas.

Generally most people are better at telling you what you can't do,

I doubt you can compare superfish against bloatware antitheft "feature"

I look at Boardgamegeek almost ever time I make a purchase of a game and to get ideas. To see what other peoples think, their reviews about the game and game play, strategy vs luck element, type of game etc

It's similar to imdb for movies, its a place full of opinions. I take everything with pinch of salt, but it's the best review site around

that's sounds awesome, much better than my experience.

I genuinely believed at the time my mind would not be able to go back and I'd die or go brain dead (no psychedelics or drugs taken)

each company is different, from my experience it would depend on the severity of the fix, and the severity of the issue. the problem would get resolved by any means ie temporary sticky plaster if necessary.

Another team would then assess and analyse the root cause from a company wide perspective and then assess the risks, costs and impact and then make any modifications (possibly redoing the temporary fix, and fixing it properly)

Real issue, a call center main telephony system and one of the management servers kept crashing causing over 1400 call center people to stop working. Temporary fix was to re boot the servers every 4 hours causing minor pain, but the call staff was up and running.

After a whole stupid week of the engineers not being able to find the route cause it was escalated extremely high and our team was brought in and we found the root cause in seconds (literally)The servers was VMs and the engineers hadn't checked the physical ESX server they were hosted on. another VM on the box caused the server to go unstable (ESX not configured correctly).

BAU project set up to audit/ report and fix all the ESX servers in the company for other stupid config issues

I'm no where near an expert and I'm not a big fan of software patents,

on the subject of prior work, and just thinking out loud, but I wonder if USPTO could set up some rules whereby the person asking for a patent has to do some sort of search for prior art, in order to get the patent

and if they don't or do it badly/ not to the rules, then a penalty is applied, financial or immediate ban on patients?

I had the experience whilst being under hypnosis and your comment > it's the most fucked up experience of my life

describes it very well. I was so freaked out by the thought of not getting back into my body, I panicked and woke my self up.

I believe/ heard that it can can recreated at will

I've just signed up to the equivalent in the uk called government gateway

you have to provide information and details from two of the following: Passport, last tax submission or driving licence

the sign up to the internet healthcare system used by my doctor seemed to be run by a 3rd party (not happy) needed general information and a picture of my passport or driving license. I declined, because it's a third party and I could not be bothered reading the large list of ways they will likely sell your data and partially because I don't need my doctors info online