In this case, the concern, which I think is fairly small but I can't deny that weirder things have happened, is that what's considered a normal, "meets expectations," level of productivity could be based on results obtained through the use of these grey-market or black-market drugs. This takes an already high-strung workforce and puts unreasonable expectations on them, such that more people may abuse these drugs and suffer the negative ramifications of them, who wouldn't otherwise be inclined to try them in the first place.

I struggle enough with caffeine and the negative effects of trying to keep intake manageable that I can't imagine how bad an addictive substance with much worse withdrawal symptoms would be.

Bitcoin has no inherent worth. At least fiat currency, in physical form, can be burned for heat or used to clean-up after using the bathroom, or melted down and used for weights for fishing.

Bitcoin has no tangible component at all, so it has no inherent worth. It's value is entirely dependent on the demand for it by others.

I really, really wanted to buy a Nexus 6, but between the lack of modular battery and the lack of SD slot, I don't think that it's the right phone for me. Shame really, I want the right LTE bands and all of the other stuff that it has, but I also want the ability to have modular storage.

When the officer comes to your window with exasperated claims about the speeds he had to reach to catch up to you, and then asks you why he pulled you over instead of telling you why he pulled you over, then the tone of the traffic stop is set by officer.

Up until that point I had operated under the assumption that the police would treat me fairly. That stop combined with the two court appearances to get the citation dismissed completely dispelled any belief in the Joe-Friday cop.

...make people, not computers, buy and sell.

It'll never happen, but given that it may be hard to convince a jury that the DoJ's claim is true due to the technical nature of the 'crime', I don't see how it's going to improve when commodities and stock traders can manipulate the markets simply through the act of offering to buy and sell.

Officers can find ways to bring criminal complaints if they want. I was once pulled over for supposedly squealing tires and was issued a misdemeanor citation rather than a civil traffic citation because the officer had a bug up his ass. Even the prosecutor felt it was a waste of his time, so it got dismissed. Thankfully it resulted in citation with a requirement to appear rather than arrest, but either way the officer had a choice in how he handled the situation and he chose to be a dick.

Or when a lack of mobile version actually matters?

I've been using small devices to get to the Internet since the days of my Palm T3. There have been lots and lots of sites with mobile versions that were or are utter crap, and using the 'desktop' version on the mobile device is preferred or even necessary to use the site well. I don't see necessarily having a mobile site as being good.

The thing is, in a real wiretap, they're only tapping the one call. In this thing's case they're intercepting all calls for everyone in the area whose phones end up using it, not just the one call. That's why I think they need to go through the carrier, so the carrier can tape the one line or the series of lines that they have a legitimate claim through the courts to gain access to.

I don't think that regular rank-and-file police should be in the business of intercepting cell phone traffic in the first place. They should have to submit warrants to the carriers and those carriers should present them with only the data that the warrant calls for.

A pipe dream, I know, but what the hey.

The closest I've ever heard where such mismatches caused non-function in normal cars has been when PCMs and BCMs get swapped, and even in those cases, I'm not sure if it was a lockout condition, or simply some kind of incompatible mismatch.

...because Mr. Gates, a good friend of Mr. Jobs, personally chose to continue releasing versions of Microsoft Office for Apple's products to help Apple remain a viable platform for Microsoft's customers.

Please tell me how an anecdote from a couple of years ago is news...

Hence the technical exam. If you don't pass it, you don't get to speak with tier-2 CSRs unless a tier-1 CSR escalates the call.

An apology doesn't really mean anything in this case, does it?

You know, I would be willing to take an online test to demonstrate my technical acumen, if the results of that test would guarantee that i could skip tier-1 agents and get right to people that actually know how to handle technical descriptions and advanced problems. After all, by the time I've called tech support I've already power-cycled the equipment, removed NAT devices from the equation, and tried with multiple devices.

...they be denied the right to merge until they've satisfied all lack-of-service complaints within their respective monopolistic areas, fixed their customer service so that it's not abusive, and stop charging exorbitant amounts of money to customers for equipment that they've already depreciated for tax purposes?

Oh, who am I kidding?