Posts by Nightops25 6 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2021
"Mexico is currently in the midst of a drought – as is US semiconductor boom state Arizona, incidentally – so if it does manage to move the needle on fabs, access to water for the liquid-hungry semiconductor process will need to be addressed."
So they don't have enough water, and even if they did, it wouldn't be drinkable. If they can't manage clean water, who thinks they can manage the clean rooms needed for chip manufacturing?
Change control processes for most organizations only come in after there is already a demonstrated need for them to be in place. Like the old saying "safety rules are written in blood." These controls are in place because someone didn't have the foresight to put them in before they were needed.
Unfortunately those little USB socket fillers are easily defeated, even without the application/removal tool. Having worked for an outfit that spent a considerable amount to equip an entire fleet of hardware with those filler plugs to prevent un-approved USB devices, then determined their relative uselessness, but still wanted them recovered when decommissioning workstations due to the cost spent on the useless/worthless plugs.
Switched outlets are quite common in the US. More for residential than commercial though. It is for controlling lamps of the table or floor variety at a conveniently placed switch next to a doorway instead of having to walk through a dark room to turn the lamp on, or to navigate out after turning it off. If you have multiple major ingress/egress points, then you use 3-way switches so that a single throw of either switch can toggle the lights/outlet.
I would imagine the OP's case was more by accident than design though
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