Posts by CompliantChaos

The billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on a mission to fight Tesla's FSD

I am not 100% convinced that publishing source will harden the OS. Still, maybe - only maybe - you have a point.

While we fire the boss, can you lock him out of the network?

Re: Likewise ...

I dealt with a slow paying customer a little differently: Set up a "draw down" account. They were requested to fund it with sufficient funds to pay for about 20 hours at my current rate. As I performed services, I drew down the account. When the credit in the account got low (around 15%), I reminded them to fund it again - and if they did not, no services were performed, even when there was some credit in the account. I did not have to chase them, they chased me. Oh, if they went lagging on funding the account, my fee went up slightly.

They did not like the arrangement and complained vociferously, and were encouraged to seek the help of other professionals. They did on some occasions, and were gobsmacked that my fee was as much as 30% lower than folks they found. They came back to "the fold" .EVERY.TIME! And funded the account again and again. Once a year I reviewed the work done and reset the funding level I required for me to even begin to work on the next issue. \C-L