Merchants incur added costs associated with cash as well. Additional accounting, risk of theft and counterfeiting, making bank deposits, etc. Plenty of merchants (generally high-traffic areas like airports, stadiums, etc.) decide that the risk/cost of handling cash isn't worth it and have moved to card only payments.

Yes, but consulting companies thrive on "pollinating" their target industries with former employees. When a MBB consultant gets hired as a VP of Strategy for Company, Inc. who do you think they are going to call when they get their consulting budget? Those best and brightest will go on to make those decisions regardless and MBB will continue to grind through a steady supply of fresh meat to fill associate roles as usual.

The sweet, innocent summary naively states: "Whatever the truth about that situation is, this all stems from a poor review"

By dear BeauHD, plenty of valid legal action stems from initial activities that are completely benign. Nobody gets shot for speeding, but speeding can and has initiated a sequence of events that ends up with someone getting shot. You can't claim they were "shot for speeding" any more than you can claim they were shot for getting out of bed that morning, no matter how much staying in bed would have avoided the incident.

While I don't know anything about Nigerian law I do know something about law in general, and "whatever the truth about that situation is" is exactly what this is all about. When "a poor review" escalates into claims that a product is killing consumers and whatever else isn't quoted in the article or summary, there can be cause for legal action. The implausible linkage presented is nothing more than clickbait, playing to the biased trope that third-world laws (and Africans specifically) are backwards.

Amazing, the Supreme Court shuts down a massive overreach on the part of the executive branch, and they figure out they can accomplish much of it by....drum roll....simply doing their existing jobs more effectively. How much have we paid all the people who did those jobs poorly for decades?

There is a lack of market incentive for private cybersecurity much as there is a lack of market incentive for private fire stations or police departments. From a paper I wrote earlier this year:

This emphasis on expediency over security (when, in reality, both are attainable with careful design) is similar to Carr's description of how companies' commitment to cybersecurity is strictly a matter of revenue maximization relative to the perceived risk associated with being compromised. Marcus Willet’s recommendation that company boards establish a full-time security official to treat security “on par with legal and financial risk” is ineffective if security does not, itself, result in any financial or legal risk to the company. There are no strong incentives to implement a more robust design in the systems integrations with flight systems, nor to effectively prevent network intrusions. It would take legislation creating strong incentives for security and driving accountability to get corporate America's attention and investment.

Just as frontier defenders would have greatly benefitted from the ability to mass responding troops directly and instantly at the point of conflict, so too would the network defenders of today. The challenge, then, is developing a way to take advantage of that capability, the way the police respond to a break-in or the fire department responds to a fire, and make it available to private network operators in a way that creates incentives to take advantage of it. Network security is a public good just as houses not being on fire, or prevention and punishment of crime is a public good. We would do well to de-privatize aspects of it and develop a more coordinated response.

"Here is their current position: 'while two elements in the IC leans toward the [human contact] scenario and one leans more toward the [lab leak scenario] -- each with low or moderate confidence -- the majority of elements do not believe there is sufficient information to assess one to be more likely than the other," Biden said

Really? Biden said that? Thats a direct quote in his own words? I don't believe that...those are the words of a statistician, not Joe Biden.

But can it play DOOM?

Also hot grits.

As a longtime android user I was shocked when I bought an iPad (still best platform for educational apps) and discovered that while I can set up an account on my android tablet and give it access to as little as 1 user-installed app (literally 1 single button) there isn't a concept of users on an iPad -- all I can do to limit someone to use a single app is set up screen time controls limited at 1 minute (because 0 isn't an option either) to prevent substantial use of the other apps.

This is an astonishing fail in terms of everyday use of tablet devices in a family setting. There really doesn't seem to be an equivalent to the desired functionality in Apple-world.

Lawsuit incoming in 3....2....1.....

It's still illegal if the private citizen or company is doing it as an agent of the government. i.e. I may not be able to search a house without a warrant as a police officer, but it's just as inadmissible if I pay someone else to search the house. You may say "well don't informants get paid?" and the answer is yes, but they are paid to do only what the police officer themselves could do if they had the same relationships, credibility, etc.

What needs to happen is a court needs to decide that if a law enforcement agency contracts with a private company to purchase data that the law enforcement agency could not legally acquire themselves, then the results as tainted. License plates not only being publicly viewable but in fact being property of the state themselves doesn't really make that apply in this specific case anyway.

Same here.

How much power is being saved due to heating uses that aren't necessary? Ultimately a computer turns electrons into heat while doing some useful stuff (like playing cat videos) while doing it. The heat is no less for playing the cat video. So a computer is effectively the same as a resistive heater like a space heater is. So if a computer is a space heater which turns its power almost entirely into heat, it must be offsetting heating needs some of the time and increasing cooling needs other times.

Youtube doesn't want their money.

Amazon's $350,000 contribution represents .00014 of its CY 2016 net profit.

.00014 what of its profit?

They aren't security people, they are marketing people who get to turn the publicity into an advertisement for their company when they find something.