This law will be about as effective as giving light as a lighted match in the dark outside in a hurricane.

This discussion seems like the Jeff Danziger cartoon of 12/14:

Pub patron 1, "Wot? You voted for Johnson?"
Pub patron 2, "Well... I had to. He was funnier, wasn't he."

I once observed a common blue jay, a member of the crow family, find an acorn in my back yard and push it down into the lawn grass then pick up a leaf and cover the acorn while tapping the leaf down over the spot. This seems the blue jay was protecting his saved food for later. This is not just response to an immediate need but planning for the future. I sure wish I had a camera with video capability handy at the time.

I believe Willie Sutton originally made this statement. That doesn't mean Mr. Kelly didn't repeat it.

By adding US government approved software to Huawei devices to be sold in the US such devices wouldn't be banned. This would be mimicking Russia. A Win-Win for US customers, the US government, Huawei and maybe the Chinese government. Some of this may already being done from other hardware manufacturers.

I the earth is flat, then, if one went up in a balloon in California to an elevation higher than the highest point in the Rockies, one should be able to see New York City with a nice telescope. You could also watch the soon to be had big golf tournament in Australia at the same time while viewing NYC.

Are they using the Macs with a terminal app to access some large database on a mainframe, preparing documents, spreadsheets, managing sales and support using email, reading manuals for IBM stuff for phone support, doing software development with some programming language, or more? It would be nice to know the fraction of employees using their Macs for each kind of activity.

but they could sell Fitbit's information, and anything about you they find out, to someone else that will use it for advertising.

If you need to pay for each kind of Apple TV, it'll cost you a bundle and Apple will make a fortune. Perhaps you get a discount on the complete bundle of Apple TVs.

Form before function? I like some ability to modify the appearance of Firefox, but not at the expense of how things work.

Depends. If you want to make your own yogurt using store bought yogurt as starter, it better be fresh. If the bugs in the yogurt are dead, your home made stuff won't be yogurt.

US patents have a lifetime of 20 years from the filing date. Design patents have a 15 year lifetime. So, if you want to make and sell this device without paying the patent holder, if payment is accepted, one needs to wait awhile. That should be plenty of time for the Navy to manufacture or have manufactured the device. If the devices don't show up in that time, well, the device is either a dud or better designs available that may work.

How do these numbers compare with those from community owned cable/internet providers? Some smaller communities have done this, but I haven't heard about the quality or cost of community owned services.

... as well as local police departments, foreign governments, etc. And, $200 seems pretty cheap for these things. The developer probably could charge in the tens of thousands of dollars or more for each cable.

What about the folks that expected a deposit in their bank accounts or a check in the mail? Some people live from pay check to pay check and when one is not forthcoming, especially if some bills are autopay, could be in trouble. Hopefully employers managed to get folks paid on time. Or not?