Seriously. Nobody cares as long as it doesn't affect them. If people cared then most scams would fail because the tools that scammers use would be shut down long ago.

Did you ever wonder why it's so easy to find your personal information and so hard to find the scammer. Because nobody cares about the vulnerable.

People are motivated to pass the problem off to others just like "think of the children" campaigns.

So why wait at all just release the bugs you found. So if you find a vulnerability in Chrome don't even bother sending an email to Google. Eventually Google will find out and fix the bug. /s

A coupon book is a marketing opportunity to attract new business with a limited production, a rewards card increases the cost of every product and service while directing a portion of the cost back to the consumer and a big profit to the card companies.

Visa and Mastercard used to charge less than 1.5% when every part of the transaction was manual. Now that everything is automated we have fees surpassing 5%.

The only reason that this is possible is because there is very little choice. As a merchant, you either don't accept any cards or you apply the fees on all sales. Some here will say that this is not a monopoly but the industry acts as one.

In order to accept Visa and Mastercard you only deal with one representative which offers almost identical contracts with most cases the only difference is the name of the credit card. They even dictate the terms of every payment method that you may accept. The only reason they can do this is because there are no other options. In effect a monopoly.

With that said this will do little to change the situation since it puts the merchant in conflict with the client where the cause of the problem is the impositions of an oligopoly's terms on all payment methods.

The sad part is that people believe that they are not paying a 5% premium for that 3% reward.

Why do you need to fill out anything if everything is already reported by your employer and financial institution?

we are looking at the wrong measure. How about looking at consumption rather than just production. North America shifted production to Asia but still consumes the products manufactured by the polluting countries. So no I would say NOT.

Why do you need cloud?

It's expensive. It puts an additional layer of potential failure. It makes you dependant and locks you in. The list just goes on and on. It might makes sense for a startup that doesn't want to commit to capital investment but even then there are less expensive options.

Artificially increase your revenue while taking a write off as a donation too schools with the benefit to use this as a PR opportunity to increase the value of software you can't even give away...
AI adoption numbers are increasing by leaps and bounds...

The US is not a democracy and is looking more like a dictatorship with every passing day. I'm not sure what argument you are referring to.

So every country can rule that Microsoft also supplies the US military so therefore can be banned due to national security reasons. Intel, Nvidia, Boeing, etc... as well.

With the hostile attitude that the US has presented to it's allies I would say that the US will find itself isolated in a decade. Everyone is playing nice right now since the economies are so intertwined but they are starting to develop policies that reduce the dependence on US.

At that price range we are talking custom software to for custom solutions. There is no forcing old systems into new. This is not an off the shelf accounting system.

On one end we have government who are used to passing laws without consideration to the consequences and on the other we have greed with lawyers who do not take responsibility for the products they are peddling. This is all done behind closed doors under a pretext that this is democratic but leaves the citizens holding the bag. Why would anyone think that this would work when nobody is accountable?

Is not name brands but concepts and theory. Name brands come and go. This is a perfect teaching experience. chances are the students may teach the school board something.

I don't know what Linux you tried, but as someone who works with multiple operating systems, I can say Windows does NOT work without any effort especially if you are migrating systems.
  When you lock yourself in a Windows solution, you are right since Windows doesn't work well with others.

You lost me there. Everything that is wrong with computers is due mostly to Windows.

If only there was a way to register your own domain and have the Instagram account direct your users to it. /s

Seriously, social media is not about you. Why do you devote so much time building it up for them? Use it as a tool to direct people to something you control.