We have this kind of tax in Japan. It definitely helps keep house prices down. Every year you pay 1.4% of the value of the property (as assessed by a slightly mysterious formula). It's not a lot… (View Post)

I think hacking the government and cutting cables are different kinds of thing. The British are probably already trying to hack the Russian government, and for all we know succeeding. If you get brea… (View Post)

If you don't allow them personal phones they'll do all their personal stuff on the work phone and you're back where you started. Alternatively if you're going to lock down the wor… (View Post)

Having done IT security stuff it's never easy to get higher-ups to follow the security rules. The problem is that they tend to be quite petty and bureaucratic-seeming, and they really get in the… (View Post)

I think you may be on the wrong website. (View Post)