Any time I hear the term “commercial paper” in a crypto context, the first thing that pops into my mind is the relative quality of the toilet paper most “commercial” buildings tend to supply as compared to what I buy for home. I think there’s a metaphor in there somewhere

I wonder if maybe Apple should FACE the reason more people aren't buying phones you have to unlock with your face during a pandemic when you're probably wearing a mask on your face most of the time you're out using your phone. I specifically bought three new SE's for my family and skipped all the 12's (and the X's) because of TouchID. At the rate things are going, I may well be wearing a face mask during most of the life time of this phone. The number one buying decision on this phone was being able to unlock it with my finger instead of having to strip off my mask, enter a long passcode every time, or give up and use a crappy PIN. Number two was price, number three was size. Even with my man pants pockets, I don't like an oversided phone in my pocket to be the reason people think I'm happy to see them...

Even in a public forum, speech is not without limits. “Fire in a crowded room,” etc. Calls inciting violence are not protected speech.

Not on Mac. It's still a fully un-sandboxed app with global permissions equivalent to the running user's maximum access.

You'd be hard-pressed to find even a non EV that has separate radio, etc. from the rest of the system. Even basic radio/cd/mp3 player stuff is on the CAN bus in most cars made in the last few years. If the entertainment system has any kind of touch screen, you're pretty much guaranteed that it's integrated with the rest of the car's control systems via a CAN bus link. Odds of it having (maybe shipped disabled, maybe not) WiFi, Bluetooth, and/or cellular hardware approaches unity.

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Figure out how to run Final Cut or Premier on it.

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Profit!

No, I don't remember when Obama used it for political spam. Could you please cite sources?

the insurance company is bound by HIPPA laws, Fitbit is not

So that's an interesting question... Is it permissible for a HIPAA bound entity to require you to waive your rights by disclosing protected health information to a third party which isn't HIPAA bound?

If my doctor said, "I'll only see you if you agree to let me post your weight and cholesterol numbers in a classified ad in the New York Times," I can't see that working out well for Doc. (I also make zero distinction between the security/privacy standards of Fitbit and publishing in a national newspaper. Functionally equivalent as far as I'm concerned.)

Equate people torn from their home, kidnapped across an ocean, and forced to work without pay often in deplorable conditions, treated as inhuman animals and sold as property with people who are unable to conceive children. Yup. Completely equivalent. Well done.

Well-made LED's might. Crap that barely passed Q/A and got sold off as seconds, not so much. And that's not even accounting for crappy capacitors in the garbage cap dropper power supplies most of these have. Then they skimp on the cap values, and you get a nice barely perceptible 50 Hz flicker to really improve the experience.

Is that a Ras-pi, monitor, and keyboard in your pocket, or are you just happy to be doing off the clock work on the go?

Don't forget the human element of the badge either. If you're wearing an ID badge that looks passably genuine with your picture and name on it, I can be reasonably assured you belong here and know what name to call you. I can't eyeball your hand from across the room. Are you new? Somebody snuck in, got lost, etc.? Plankton here to steal the top secret crabby patty recipe???

Come on... We all watch sci-fi here. All you need to remove your own tracking implant is a dirty mirror, a dull butter knife, a bottle of vodka, and a lighter to cauterize the wound.

That said, I'm sure any doctor would remove a foreign body from your hand without needing your employer's approval.

If the only way you can trust your employees not to give their access credentials to someone else is by implanting them, you need better employees (or less paranoia in management), not implants.

"What can I buy with it?" more than "What is the next sucker willing to pay me for it?".

The difference between "currency" and "security".