Not in modern bean-counter business management. All the product/service has to do is pass the bar of "good enough" and how much of it you can accomplish is the primary metric after that. For many businesses now the good enough bar is just what the competitor offers. As long as they are not significantly better in the same price class there's no reason to do better.

And since healthcare is a for-profit venture most places, that's what's used. How many people can we get in/out the door in a day?

Curious what that means exactly. The poor person working the counter/phone has no say in the stupid procedures they are being made to follow or impart to the customer, and the real decision-makers are in their ivory towers, insulated from the consequences of their edicts.

By April nearly 120 civilians had already travelled to the edge of space, CBS News reported earlier...

Are we going to have to see an article about this every time they make a trip? It's not like they are doing anything important with these launches. Just rich people doing rich people things.

If they don't defend it then they can lose it, and it will become fair game for everyone else, too.

Probably just corporate me-too stuff.
When blockc-- er I mean, A.I. is hot, everyone starts doing something with it simply so they can be "part of the latest trend", even if the thing has nothing to do with the business's core product.

"Health Secretary Wants Every American Wearing a Tracking Device Within Four Years"

Welcome Chrome users to Firefox of several years ago.
Also Firefox has uBlock Origin on Android.
And Mozilla can't read the bookmarks/passwords in your Firefox account (unlike Google syncing).

That's not really the same at all for precisely the reason you give. You don't take possession of the merchandise until it's paid off, so it's not a debt. The retailer still maintains control and if you didn't pay it off they could sell it to someone else at full price. They don't take any loss by your inability to pay. Layway plans were only a few months at most so depreciation of the merchandise wasn't a concern. You could even cancel the layaway and get the money back you had paid up to that point (minus a restocking fee perhaps).

No it's not. You're talking about the "Rent-to-Own" industry (Aaron's, Rent-a-Center, etc). This is about the "quick finance" people where you're on a product page online and instead of paying the amount you're offered the ability to break it up into four or more payments, and there's little or no interest. Affirm is one of the players here -- they are even mentioned by name in TFA. Paypal also offers this option when you use PayPal checkout.

Okay... and your point? We're not talking about any industries where data-sovereignty is a concern. The article is about private U.S. tech companies outsourcing their support to overseas companies to save money (like it says in sentence one of TFS), then being surprised when those outsourcers have less-than-honest employees. They're on the other side of the world from their clients, it's much less risk for them to not follow data security requirements.

Have higher standards in hiring/outsourcing, and be willing to pay for those types of employees. When you're paying the same as the local McDonald's don't be surprised when you get fuckheads for applicants.

Yes, it might drive demand for larger and larger screened phones, just like what made the iPhone, and all the profits Apple made from it, possible.

They get people to pay $200 for an additional 8 GB of RAM in their laptops.
Seems they already have verified their users will fall for a scam.

n/t