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After Lafayette Square, Gates told both Milley and Esper that, given Trump’s increasingly erratic and dangerous behavior, they needed to stay in the Pentagon as long as they could. “If you resign, it’s a one-day story,” Gates told them. “If you’re fired, it makes it clear you were standing up for the right thing.” Gates advised Milley that he had another important card and urged him to play it: “Keep the chiefs on board with you and make it clear to the White House that if you go they all go, so that the White House knows this isn’t just about firing Mark Milley. This is about the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff quitting in response.”
Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals
newyorker.com
Windows also uses an unhealthy dose of security-through-obscurity. It hides password salts in the obscure “ClassName” field of the Registry key. The “security” here relies entirely on the fact that the default Windows REGEDIT program cannot view or edit the ClassName of a key. Anyone with a binary editor can get around this restriction trivially.
Why the Windows Registry Sucks … Technically
rwmj.wordpress.com
The industry that most avidly grabbed on to the term “creative” to glamorize what it did was the very motor of consumerism: advertising. In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, ad agencies abandoned the old “reason why” mode of advertising a product (“Here is what you need it for”) and replaced it with branding. They were no longer selling a product. They were selling an idea about the product. People were buying an image they wanted to be associated with. It was the adman’s job to create that image.
The Origins of Creativity
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