... or we take all you cute guys for a weekend at the Bohemian Grove.

You choose.

Yeah. There are a number of ways to encode instructions.

Connect to what? My old Kindle connected via 3G. They'd have to rebuild the 3G cellular system to brick that. It will also connect via USB to allow access to its storage for side loading PDFs and open format compatible content. Since that requires no Amazon app, it will be fine. It still has many good years of life ahead of it.

You transmit using a secure protocol (burst, frequency hopping) and then move. The enemy can only track your position to where you last broadcast from (you can bet the Iranians knew roughly where the missing pilot landed). At some point, the subject can stop transmitting and listen for instructions from the rescue team.

... one of these.

You can buy a rough civilian equivalent from REI.

The bad guys will continue to innovate and find new vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, the bug hunters have all been laid off, to be replaced by this new system. Until someone realizes that, up until now, it has been finding bugs based on the training it has scraped from the far corners of the Internet. And since there is no training data on these new attack methods, it falls on its face.

Why? Because it might upset the purchasers of the more expensive 6-core models? So, ship them with a few dead pixels and you can still call it the budget model.

As in "Take the money and run"?

Maybe not laziness. Chrome -> Google -> Major PG&E customer.

Back when I worked for Boeing, we were a Macintosh shop. Then, Bill Gates started his annual dinners for the movers and shakers in the IT industry. The more Microsoft stuff your company had, the closer they seated you to Bill. Our CIO had to sit in the back of the room. He came back and announced that we'd be scrapping all the Macs and switching to Windows.

When it comes to corporations, you can never tell from which end the technology is driven.

That's the ticket!

Viet Nam: Oooh! I'm so scared.

Perhaps someone wrote a browser extension that can log activity between itself and remote systems.

Maybe walk the DOM for their own document. But what moron would build their core browser to allow sites to walk/query content from other, unrelated sites? That just sounds like content theft to me. Just the kind of scraping that LinkedIn claims to be detecting.

Maybe. Why do you think other browsers report installed extensions. Either to the extent Chrome does? Or at all?

That's globally. US cattle number around 88 million. And that's the number which will be replaced by bison. Because bison are not native to other countries. They all have their own varieties of ungulates that will step in to a cattle vacuum. And even more important: Very few other countries are willing to "go vegetarian" and get rid of their cattle. Brazil (240 million cattle) and India (195 million) would just laugh. And India doesn't even eat them. Between Hinduism and lactose intolerance, they have no food value there.