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Is there a DRM scheme that works?

We help our clients to manage and publish their media online - images, video, audio, whatever. They always ask my boss whether they can stop users from copying their media, and he asks me, and I always tell him the same thing: no. If the users can view the media, then a sufficiently determined user will always be able to make a copy. ...

How to deal with managers who always seem to know best?

Hi All, I am Team Lead for development and systems admin within a small company. I answer directly to the Director of the company. She is fairly difficult to work with as she almost always knows best, regardless of her level of technical expertise. She changes her mind on what should be a priority and consistently comes up with new grea...

Convincing management to rewrite a product

A hypothetical organization (we'll call them Sprockets Incorporated) spent millions of dollars to rewrite a product. The rewrite ended with lost time, more bugs, and a harder to maintain version of the product. Does anyone here have anecdotal precedence for convincing upper management to support a rerewrite? Or even a rewrite? How can su...