Apple is trying to go back to it's roots
Was time, when you went into a school, the computers you saw, were apple.

Then Jobs and his Gucci/Yves St Laurent thinking came in.

Unfortunately, as has been proven over and over again, engineers don't consider privacy concerns... Management does. And what THEY consider is what the impact to revenue is. For every engineer who has qualms, there are a dozen in line waiting to step up for the bucks and reputation as the person who made it happen.

"part of what is striking in all of this is the sheer mundanity of the announcement. Because there have been no consequences "

They got away with it in the US, but I think the EU will be a whole different shootin' match

Here's hoping the EU will hand Sony a nasty surprise

What they'll have to do is to relieve the strangle hold state medical associations have on medical school training slots.
They are modern guilds, controlling how many incoming doctors, nurses and other professionals there can be.

You mean they weren't already?

Let's start with the English/Chinese Opium wars?

before or after the "do what insurance says" step

They have to have subscriptions so that they can continue to pay ridiculous salaries so developers can make needless changes.
The is how IP perpetuates "do it once and get paid forever"

I learned most of what I know today from FAQs and how-to documents
The WHY of changes are usually documented.
I learned VERY little from was RFCs and specs.

I can point to a widely disseminated piece of code that very faithfully implements an RFC very carefully specified behavior... And in even slightly complex environments causes issues, proving "broken by design" is very real.

Right.

BEVs are like Gucci.
Honda isn't seen to be Gucci.
No one wants a Honda BEV.

Charging time, even for the kewl new Chinese BEVs make them... Difficult to justify. Unless your time isn't constrained (read "you're rich").

When ARE taking off around the world, is hybrids of various kinds. FCEV hybrids, etc.
The most interesting that I've seen is by Mazda. They call it a plug hybrid, but it's a BEV with a small wankel engine (with re-engineered edge seals) that ONLY charges the batteries while you drive.

Private client info is exactly what they're selling... because it's NOT private client info. It's private company info the bankrupt company owns.
Sorry gang. If you worked there and generated documents that identify you, those are in the same class.

The bankruptcy trustee is bound to turn whatever they can into cash to settle the debts.

It's a set of rules I don't like, but until the controls of government can be yanked back from the oligarchs the masses worship, those rules aren't gonna change.

And if you work for some company and bet the stock is gonna pay you like gold-in-them-thar-hills, you're supporting those rules.

It's all fun and games until that happens

"Mathew Boderick" almost touched off a global thermonuclear war... And walked away.
"Mr Robot" was fighting the good fight... As if THAT really happens.

The fact is, investigating your own gear is a-ok. stuff that belongs to others... It get's dark gray really fast. Make bucks at it... It's not gray at all. Pitch black.

And then I turned off my ad blocker

Voila! It works

I have... On three different PCs

slash has rendered firefox partially inoperative... At least MY installation no longer properly updates stuff on slash.

Zactky!