According to Neil Smith, a researcher from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, unauthorized access to those devices could be a very real threat -- if you happen to own a Samsung model.

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The life of an organization is a series of complex transaction costs, and sometimes you just have to squelch enthusiastic innovation, promise a CEO an obscene golden parachute and banish the thought of ever putting shrimp salad on the menu because, if you happen to be McDonalds, you could endanger an entire species.

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Given the political effect of the past month, you would think that the best thing that could happen for the Wisconsin GOP would be to allow things to return to normal as quickly as humanly possible.

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From a practical point of view, it will be as if we are simply adding one person to the organizational hierarchy, except that one person will just happen to be a billion-dollar company that could buy and sell each and every one of you like you were office furniture.

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