>FireEye is a reputable security organization that is publicly traded. If they were lying and it was discovered as a company their business would go away rapidly and some of their executives might even go to prison.
I think a more likely outcome would be their stock price would drop for a few weeks, maybe executives would resign, and then it would be forgotten.
How much does a porn subscription cost? Something tells me the kind of person who pays for porn won't mind too much if they have to buy a little extra bitcoin sometimes.
This does not feel radical. This feels like pandering. My unborn child will be driving by the time this goes into effect. Radical would be new vehicles must be zero emissions in 2025, which still gives even the Dodges of the world enough time to get their shit together.
I work in a university affiliated cancer center lab, inside of the largest hospital in my area. Due to a weird contract signed many moons ago, we are very restricted in the lab tests we are allowed to run for the cancer center physicians (employed by the university). the dumbest example is this: the total/direct bilirubin ratio. Total bilirubin is one test that we run on almost every patient as part of the comprehensive metabolic panel. Direct bilirubin is less common, but we do run a fair few of them. The calculation for the ratio is simple division. But when the ratio is ordered as a standalone test, it must be sent to another lab in the hospital megacampus. But not the gigantic lab in the main building, the lab in the children's hospital. Nobody has a good explanation for why I must send this test off into the wild blue yonder instead of simply doing some arithmetic, and I'm beginning to doubt that there is one at all.
Doctors, Nurses, clinical trail coordinators, paying a lab to process specimens, the list goes on. I work in a medical lab that charges a low flat rate for literally holding onto the specimens for a couple hours, and a high flat rate for any amount of processing, i.e. centrifuging specimens, pipetting into little labelled vials, adding certain preservatives, etc. This processing isn't really automation friendly and regulations require a CAP accredited lab to do the processing so it can't really be outsourced to a lower bidder.
I get the impression these companies aren't too concerned with the actual costs involved.