Criticallity is easy; just take out the screwdriver.
*Controlled* chain reactions, on the other hand.....
I learned how to type, in the early 90s, on a typewriter, by watching the Alemdia method tape one single time. And I still remember the jingle.
But I *perfected* my typing on Sierra On-Line games and the like.
Me: you know, many businesses already change between summer and winter schedules; many retail stores, many services, many public transit operators.....
how the hell could they make the "just one administrator" mistake?
It's not a mistake, because it's not a 'permissions/who can be administrator' 'mistake.' It's the account owner. It's the person who's credit card is on file.
Why would Apple 'comply with a court order' that has nothing to do with them?
If the court ordered the father to disband the account, and he didn't disband the account, he needs to be taken back to court to force compliance.
That being said, the article DID make clear that there WAS a court order for him to disband the account, and even if he was using in all the right ways for all the right reasons, not-complying with a court order is extremely problematic.
Then her remedy is to go back to court and compel the target of the order, aka the ex-husband, to do as ordered, not to claim that a third party with no standing in the case is at fault.
If you and I contract that I will sell you may Ford Escape for five grand, and you give me five grand and I don't give you the keys, you don't go to Ford and ask them to make you a key. They will, correctly, say "....and what does this have to do with us?" when you wave the sale contract at them.
And nothing Apple did or didn't do prevented the mother from having that custody.
She had a remedy from day one: make new accounts for the kids. Inconvenient? Sure. But way less inconvenient than most of the stuff that goes along with 'we're separating.'
*Should* Apple develop a system to deal with this a big more gracefully? I'd say so. But to conflate this with 'they're violating a court order for custody' is utterly ridiculous.
I'm going to chime in with getting to university in Europe is a lot harder than in the United States. I know the schools in Switzerland have high stakes exams regularly that *do* filter the majority towards what we could consider trade-schools.
Those who do get in, as you said, their university education is essentially free.
I worked for a HMO from 2000s to 2010s. During my time there, we consolidated to a single building and were issued new badges that contained a RDIF that could be read remotely.
Every couple of minutes security would 'ping' the building and see where everyone was in the name of safety and security.
One day I had a gastro-issue and spent a lot of time in the restroom, and to my horror, there was a knock on my stall's door from security to see if I was okay.
After that, I would leave my badge at my desk while in the office.
So, basically not new technology, just using WiFi to do the checks vs RF.
Well, yes, you do, because the BMS keeps track of that.
A gas car, on the other hand....
All laws are simulations of reality. -- John C. Lilly