Chicago has ceased offering mentally ill people any help. But if they flip out, it sends a SWAT team to arrest them.

Most Americans are fed up with capitalism as it is today.

Capitalism was not always so narrowly focused. The idea that a corporation's primary duty is to its stockholders alone was not accepted in the US until a few decades ago, and in some European countries it still is not accepted.

Software vulnerabilities are frequently discovered independently more than once. When intelligence agencies keep a vulnerability secret so as to be able to use it, with the result that it isn't fixed, there is a substantial chance this gives someone else chance to rediscover it and exploit it.

Google's plan to correlate credit card purchasing with browsing is the target of a federal privacy complaint.

It is easy to make an informed decision about whether to pay by credit card: don't. If you pay in a way that isn't anonymous, someone will know what you bought, and give the data to someone else that will use that information against you. We don't know precisely how or when, but we don't need to know that to draw the pertinent conclusion.

The Tesla car version 2 was a tracking device. The Tesla 3 requires the driver to carry a separate tracking device (portable phone) and run a proprietary app on it.