Being in the US is also why it's smarter just to sue Wells Fargo. Not only does Wells Fargo have deeper pockets, but no law enforcement organization is going to admit guilt (or issue an apology) under a civil suit. Worse, any money you win from them comes from you eventually in the form of taxes.

Lobbying for greater regulation and smarter laws is how we change police culture, not civil lawsuits so much.

I find it really sad that this was my first thought upon reading that the pastor voluntarily went to the police station. You'd think a pastor would be able to trust that his word would be taken seriously and in good faith, but not even our pillars of the community get the benefit of the doubt anymore.

The police are not on your side, unfortunately. Don't talk to them without a lawyer, you will get burned.

If you're going to complain about Microsoft's government contracts, I suggest you also look at Boeing or Lockheed-Martin. Defense contractors have a massive stranglehold over government operations.

Which is exactly what happened to AT&T. Most of the Baby Bells have been rebundled into what is now Verizon. Breaking up monopolies only works if the government routinely intervenes in business acquisitions to avoid new monopolies from forming.

I did, did you? From the article:

It is unclear how much the generic product -- manufactured by Teva Pharmaceuticals -- will cost.

Teva is an Israeli company. As far as I can tell, it has no links to Mylan. If you know differently, care to share?

Right. I never heard of anyone taking them to make themselves smarter. Just to get stuff done, like studying or papers/projects. I'd be interested to see a study done on knowledge retention for learning done on adderall vs without.

Git is not commonly associated with Microsoft. Talking about Git Virtual File System does not sound like you're referring to a Microsoft product.

Yeah, I think a lot of people forget that learning in schools is not strictly academic. There's emotional, social and physical learning as well. The ability to empathize with another, to follow directions, to cooperate and collaborate, to manage social structures and people more or less well liked than you, etc.

Depends. If they want to cause trouble, being suspended would give them freedom of movement inside the school for the most part. Most teachers would not be expecting to see them in class, and would not be on alert for a missing student that way. Depending on how well patrolled the hallways are, a student on suspension could get access to areas they would normally not be able to during the day due to class schedules, or confront students/teachers that they may not normally see at a time of their choosing.

Yeah, I'm curious about this technology in regards to suspended students. How do you deal with legal issues of consent for the image of a minor? Especially in regards to a third party potentially handling these images for processing. I can't imagine they can do all the storage and processing at a local server on site at the school, most facial recognition requires a networked system (i.e. the cloud), and so this basically means the school is passing on images of their students to a third party. This isn't like taking a picture of a child in a public park, public schools are not "public" buildings in the traditional sense, these are specific, identifiable pictures of students being given to a third party for a commercial purpose.

When did I talk about requiring ID for cc gift cards? You might be replying to the wrong post, or you're reading things that aren't there.

Merchants can choose whether or not to accept signatures. But yeah, all the security associated with cards is slowly evaporating.

Do you shop online at all?

Your Loonies and Toonies, too, eh?

Prepaid cards often have setup fees and other pitfalls accompanied with them. It's not exactly a 1:1 cash to card transfer, and those fees predominantly hit people who have less money to begin with.