$640k is enough money

Certainly not criminally illegal in most jurisdictions barring some specious argument about theft of trade secrets - trade secrets being the salary scale.However, some jurisdictions will allow this to be a valid part of an employee [adhesion] contract. In such jurisdictions revealing salary information could be a violation of the employment contract and possible grounds for dismissal. Not illegal in a criminal sense, but a possible contract violation.

"Its radius is about three-and-a-half times larger than Earth's but the planet is around 39 times more massive." Since mass goes up with the cube of the radius and the cube root of 39 is around 3.4 one would expect a planet with a radius of about 3.5 that of earth to be around 39 times as massive as the earth. Nothing startling about this observation though the sentence posits it as some kind of anomaly that warrants further investigation or discussion.

The article lost its credibility with this last sentence from the first paragraph "Multi-Stream Audio will solve that, as it will allow a single device, such as a smartphone, to stream flawlessly synced audio to multiple audio devices at the same time. " Anytime they throw the word flawlessly around you know they are lying.

Apparently the WSJ article refers to recorded music only for the $4-5B revenue number. Apparently performing artists are pulling in a good bit more "2018 was a record-setting year in the concert business, with more than $10.4 billion in sales, representing 152.1 million tickets, according to data released Dec. 17 by Pollstar, the trade publication that covers the worldwide concert industry." https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbestclassicbands.com%2F2...

I've had the same problem in many places. Last week the wife and I went to the neighborhood Mexican restaurant and they wanted to seat us out on the patio. The first table that they brought us to was directly under a speaker [inoffensive music] that was blaring way too loud. I asked to have us moved as far away from the speakers as possible. It was fairly vacant out on the patio but I have refused seating and left restaurants because of intentionally loud background music that hinders normal intercourse.

This would not work well when one corporation has a joint venture with another (e.g., KFC USA used to have a 50:50 JV with Mitsubishi for KFC Japan - KFC Japan was its own corporation owned 50% by each of the two parents). You expand to other countries and the process may repeat itself. There are many other legitimate reasons for a corporation to own, in whole or in part, another corporation.

I just saw the fleet pulling up outside of Phoenix

Working in Tempe AZ I am familiar with the area of the intersection. This area is not a high volume pedestrian area like South Mill Avenue. I really can't imagine anything more than infrequent pedestrian traffic on a Sunday evening at 10 pm. You go a mile south on Mill Avenue (walk under the 202 Freeway overpass, and then cross over the Tempe Town Lake bridge and yes you will find plenty of pedestrians. But looking at the Google Maps this area is pretty much undeveloped desert park on the east and a theater venue on the west. O.T. Genasis was playing at the theater Sunday night at 7:30 so if I had to guess I would place money on the pedestrian having attended the show (bar in the theater) and may have parked in the park parking lot some distance to the east (free parking versus pay or full parking at the venue). I am just guessing, but this is a plausible informed guess. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fmaps%2Fpl...

Can we mod this senator up?

It makes sense to impose some or all of the cost on the retailer because the retailer controls the number of terminals involved. If a retailer wants a greater number of secure transaction points it makes sense that the retailer pay for this business decision.

They've had most of my adult life to figure out how to set up a Universal Remote Control to connect all the devices in my living room and every universal remote marketed has been a cruel, cruel lie. If they can not figure out how to do this for my home theater, given the relative simplicity and low (or no) security concerns for my cable converter, television, DVD, amplifier... what makes me believe that they will do this on a consumer level with everyone trying to control the user interface (and revenue stream) by establishing their Dominant Software Layer? They may get it close to right on the industrial level, but too much greed and sloppiness on the consumer level will delay or prevent the IOT from happening on the consumer level. Look to your lack of ease for moving music and movies that you have bought (licensed) from one platform to another and the major impediment is not a lack of technology, but greed and control.

My 2012 Nissan Frontier has bluetooth but is only limited to phone use, I have to use AUX input for music and podcasts.

Apparently not. FTFA "Jenny Fry, 15, was found in woodland near her home in Chadlington, on June 11 this year after texting a friend telling her she would not be going to school and intended to kill herself. " I'm sure the cell phone on her person is blasting out all kinds of RF.