But to come back on earth, why would your bank/ mail provider/ Facebook have a higher risk than the corporate versions?
Secrets going out doesn't need to happen during working hours.

Places that have a standard policy forbidding data carriers like SD cards or USB sticks are a different domain, I sincerely hope they'll have set up their network equally tight, like air-gapped.

And you missed the discussion about Volkswagen (and now BMW), they had reason to block access to corporate mail for certain non-working hours.

Besides, a lot of these things are not 'leisure time', they are a recognised and essential part of a person living or even surviving in the 21st. century.

Just as much as they (the company) expects you to check your mail before bedtime you can check your kids/ wife's/ mistress's mail in company time, nothing unusual.

You have a contract for a job (task), you under-perform you get called in, nothing unusual.
You do your job, the boss should (will) stay off your back.

We Europeans see a distinct difference between what's the companies policy and what's an individual's action.

Yes I know, the concept of individual is /has disappeared from US corporate law.

See, if you're on a Company Facebook, Twitter, you name it, account you speak for the company, once you are on your personal account you might be the same prick but it's on your name.

Pretty easy to distinguish I would say.
Logging and tracing of IP's is only an issue in places like wikipedia where corporate/ political shills are frowned upon.

But the company I work for is Anglo-Saxon and that's a whole different kettle of bad fish...

Indeed they have a front page telling you it's their network and they reserve the right (any right) to protect it.
The proxy servers are in the UK and US, although both governments luve to gather anything and either don't have a constitution or no privacy legislation they do serve employees in other more enlightened EU countries.

One day they'll find out they are overstepping both common decency and laws.
At least in The Netherlands the Works Counsel is on it and has been able to rectify some of the grossest breaches of privacy like a top banner with a public list (log) of any and all sites visited by any individual employee, at least including the management.

In hindsight it would have been quite interesting to see who or management is interested in now there's rumour of a billion-Euro take-over :)

I think the mechanism for having the motor lower onto the tire with the right pressure, and also store in a compact state is likely where all the 3d printing time went. Making sliding/folding/compacting devices like that, that don't seize because one of your angles is a fraction off, is not easy.

In NYC, a lot of the delivery guys ( well the Chinese guys ) have some sort of clockwork style bike mod on their delivery bikes. It mounts under the seat and attached to the drive train, and they must be storing energy into a spring or some other mechanical way, then they pop a button and you hear 'click click click' and the bike goes up the hill as they guy coasts on the pedals.

I'm always leery of those contraptions. Just waiting for one to fail catastrophically and send metal gears into bystanders.

Roll your taxi savings into a gym membership nearby your work. End at the gym, shower and change there. Bonus for lifting. You do lift, right bro?

Selling millions - Not if it can only fit on one bike type. Fix that and maybe.

It works on many bike types ( not just rentable citi-bike with the triangle dock)

I heard from Tim Cook that they plan on replacing the gas and brake pedals, with just one pedal. The context of applying pressure to this single pedal will determine whether the car speeds up or slows down.

This is the problem with Hydro power. This is why we should go 100% solar and not use electricity at night. We can't safely use Hydro, it's too dangerous, the pressure levels and engineering is too dangerous and a single mistake could kill an entire ecosystem.

Think of the children down river from this dam!

If you have any incandescent bulbs, _YOU'RE_ to blame as well.

-Francis Candlemaker

Especially in the United Kingdom and also in the rest of (developed) Europe executives can and will go to jail for wrongdoings on their watch.

There's a Preview and then an Edit button, just like the ol' ways :)...