That was my initial reaction as well, underwriters are going to love this one.
I'm surprised that they even release these crabs instead of just bleeding them dry.
Big pharma is really not a shining beacon of ethics and compassion.
I posit that this is just another smash and grab.
Do I "trust" Bitcoin, yes, probably as much as any Fiat currency.
Do I "trust" unregulated exchanges? No, how could anyone?
In fairness social psychology at least seems to be becoming a real science - it's apparently not nearly so difficult to model the behavior of groups of people as individuals. Just our luck that the only branch of psychology to be an actual science is the one that's really good for manipulating us (as a group) into buying shit we wouldn't otherwise want, and predicting just how far they can push a population before something snaps. Coincidence?
Sociology / Social Psychology is largely statistics though, they can't do much experimentation due to ethical reasons.
Corporations don't have these same constraints as they generally have the ample resources and lack of ethics in equal measure.
This is what happens when Sociologists go to the dark side.
This is Facebook we're talking about. They could have offered to charter a jet to take him where he needed to go if missing his flight was a possibility from long negotiations.
Yeah, Facebook caved over an airline ticket cost.
Yeah, that and it wasn't as though there were other parties lining up to throw $19B at him. Facebook could probably have "lowballed" him at $15B and still closed the sale.
No, I really have no use for the camera part. I perfer s SLR. My question is more what apps are out there?
Unless you're intending to develop applications for it,
I'm also going to hazard a guess that you could spend the money on other more fun (and/or useful) stuff.
DSLR Lenses, VR headsets, 3D Printers, alcohol and Cryptocurrency mining come first to mind...
Depends on the risk/reward analysis. Would you take a "double your lottery win or go to prison for 3 years" gamble? I wouldn't.
I think your estimate for the black market price of an exploit of this type might be way, way too low.
Killing people good. Casual Sex, baaaad.
Name three things that cannot be exchanged for real cash.
Peace, Tolerance, Humility.
They might as well make it a capital offense with a mandatory death penalty while they're at it.
Way to go Apple!
Allege that the alleged victim was using a third party charger, and insert marketing for bonus points!
To do nothing is to be nothing.