That would be a great point to make, if only for the fact that the revenue was $500,000, not the profit. But yes, since I doubt the album took 300k to make, other people are getting their cut.

I keep hearing that "we just don't have the money to fund education, the students have to bear some burden"; here my legislature is ready to fund a rail project mainly for the sake of creating (shovel) jobs, instead of increasing access to and the quality of education so that more people in the state have the resources to create jobs themselves through their business and innovation.

Then I read that these "leaders" have no idea where the money's going to come from, but they're hoping we'll be generally more prosperous later, in a state that spends more on prisons than it does on higher education.

Super Awesome Group of ANtennae?

Nope, mice are relatively cheap, easy to handle, and have physiology somewhat similar to humans' in English-speaking countries too.

I may be missing something about the process here, but if it's such a slam dunk, why is an appeals court hearing about it? Shouldn't that case have been cited in a motion to exclude the GPS evidence? Or are state court of appeals decisions not binding in lower courts?

At my university many of the engineering faculty are international. I would imagine working at a prestigious multinational corporation or even a small venture focusing on research would have a similar mix.

is to not give your real name to other users or to corporations we don't trust.

A legitimate attempt at verifying users' identities is exactly what I don't want; it makes their data more valuable, and for the benefit of using a nickname in front of people I already know? I'm more concerned about Facebook et al. getting my personal information than my friends. Also, with a credit card charge, it's not just your name that they get; they get a billing address too.

Agreed. But now you're actually talking about the idea itself, instead of following the OP's vein of misinformed personal attack.

Not her plan, she's just talking about it.

If the only trackers were for the campaign as I proposed, there shouldn't be an issue. Perhaps I should refrain from assuming this is what will happen though.

Agreed, an online purchase would be difficult to claim without selling out the customer, which is why I was thinking more along the lines of a print-out coupon. The transaction itself, then, does not give the merchant free personal data, and neither should the bank claiming its commission. As long as actually obtaining the coupon does not require any loss of privacy.....

There should be ways for the bank to get the kickback without the customer being identified specifically. A coupon could have a non-unique barcode to keep track of how many customers the bank sent the merchant's way without the coupon being specific to the client. Same goes for links in email; isn't it more trouble to have every click-through associated uniquely with an email?

Can someone clarify how viewing the email with downloaded pictures necessarily identifies the customer? I suppose my arguments would be moot if that was the case.

The Jarvik hearts are not custom-printed to be structurally identical to the patient's, but we can call them synthetic organs. The artificially grown bladders are made from the patient's (already differentiated) cells, but they are not custom printed either (they're bladders, they don't need to be).

These windpipes are both custom printed to match the structure of the patient's original windpipe, and are made with the patient's stem cells.

Synthetic is not the most salient descriptor, but none of the other factors make this a distinct first.

Dropbox? If a company can conceal/lie about compromises of sensitive information, it can lie about its security.