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> What, exactly, should Walmart's response to shoplifting be? The article seems to make a point of the low dollar-value of some of the items stolen vs. how much the police spend ar…

This is sadly one of those situations where the guy's heart is in the right place but he is simply wrong on the number. $11-15[1] by 2020 is a reasonable national range for a minim…

> Microsoft has retroactively removed the ability of companies to turn off access to the Windows Store in its Windows 10 Pro version. Yes but by "upsell" you mean "extort by way of…

> It's trivially easy for Google to do this already without the NHS data, and they don't face prison time for doing it. See all the pregnant teens outed by supermarket loyalty card…

Well, they'd also need the codebook where you store the passphrase to get the other half of the password. So if you change the master password regularly, they'd need to hack a data…

1) I have a disagreement with bait and switch data privacy laws that are publicly sold as anonymous when everyone can tell from the implementation details that they are not. 2) You…

Its psuedononymous data the NHS has previously admitted can be deanonymized given sufficient effort but such deanonymization carries criminal and civil penalties.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-16021240 > "All necessary safeguards would be in place to ensure protection of patients' details - the data will be anonymised and the process will be ca…

> Why are people astonished? Because politicians keep making promises in regards to privacy that they don't keep in regards to "confidential" information. Similarly, most of the me…

> To me that's just bizarre. It's like Trump saying he'd be a great president and Obama meeting with him and saying he's the real deal, it'd just wouldn't happen. It would happen i…

Massive capex.

> About 2 years ago the tenor of the publications shifted from libertarian to more and more reactionary (bordering on proto-fascist). When I skip the articles nowdays, I think that…

> (Bloomberg LP competes with Zero Hedge in providing financial news and information.) Does anyone else feel this is particularly generous? ZeroHedge is borderline conspiracy theor…

There is a different between "legal to do" and "within one's jurisdiction". They are clearly lying through indirection unfortunately. :P

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/business/amazons-shrinking... I think a couple years ago they got tired of their stock tanking every time they reported a lower profit than previo…

> You assume a constant price for gasoline, which is a bold assumption, given that the oil markets are currently gyrating wildly, and have been for some time - we're likely to see …

Yep. I use encrypted drives for my financial information and other sensitive information I store on behalf of family (e.g. legal docs), etc. I wouldn't have a desire to reveal that…

> Hiring in CS / IT is massively more objective compared to most of other fields. That is the illusion many people have convinced themselves of but literally 0 of my coworkers coul…

Employed properly, drone strikes against legitimate targets [e.g. Military bases, arms shipments] are perfectly reasonable and effective. Really the only problem we have is the fac…