1) Tried it out before the privacy debacle hit the fan, then found myself held captive with Facebook flat out refusing to delete me even though I followed the 2 week removal procedure to the letter.
2) Some of my friends have already been suckered in and Facebook has many communication facilities locked down to members only, so I dusted it off as the only way to stay in touch with them.
Especially if a prosecutor with an axe to grind makes the note disappear on purpose just to stick the defendant with a 20 year contempt sentence handed down by his buddy buddy judge.
Unlike a real physical safe, though, you can't crack it with brute force.
If you lose the key to a real safe, you can always get a locksmith to pick the lock, and as a last resort, good old oxy acetylene cutting torches can open it.
Which is exactly what happens when the owner "loses" the key.
It's not quite like having your bank account drained. It's more like buying an expensive cheese collection (and spending a shitton of money in the process) and having it mold out and get worthless on you (long after you've spent the money).
Where GPS is a politically entrenched industry with the FCC in their pockets, which gives them a long leash to hog all the spectral elbow room they can get away with.
GPS saw nothing but tumbleweeds, so it let itself go with lax filtering, and now it's "too big to fail" when LS shows up trying to move in next door.
It might not change whether LS gets to use the spectrum it paid for, but it means everything when determining who, if anyone, coughs up to LS to compensate for a blunder that may or may not have been theirs.
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Only reasons I have a facebook now:
1) Tried it out before the privacy debacle hit the fan, then found myself held captive with Facebook flat out refusing to delete me even though I followed the 2 week removal procedure to the letter.
2) Some of my friends have already been suckered in and Facebook has many communication facilities locked down to members only, so I dusted it off as the only way to stay in touch with them.
Especially if a prosecutor with an axe to grind makes the note disappear on purpose just to stick the defendant with a 20 year contempt sentence handed down by his buddy buddy judge.
The only shortage of air is caused by pollution.
Which industry gets away with doing for free.
See also: greed.
I'm also betting you that prices won't ever come down to their pre-shortage levels unless a glut develops
What we have then is a circuit split, so SCOTUS will almost certainly get involved at this point.
Unlike a real physical safe, though, you can't crack it with brute force.
If you lose the key to a real safe, you can always get a locksmith to pick the lock, and as a last resort, good old oxy acetylene cutting torches can open it.
Which is exactly what happens when the owner "loses" the key.
No such analog exists with encryption.
Even if it's right for the fools to be parted from their money I'm still against the crooks getting to keep it.
Yeth
Dihydrogen monoxide is even deadlier.
They lost it when they bought the stock.
It became worthless some time after.
It's not quite like having your bank account drained. It's more like buying an expensive cheese collection (and spending a shitton of money in the process) and having it mold out and get worthless on you (long after you've spent the money).
I wasn't complaining about anything. I was explaining the same point you did.
Not really.
One of the advantages of corporations is limited liability.
SCO shareholders won't be on the hook for a penny.
Unless said oligopoly is united by a common enemy.
Such as OPEC.
How about let DOCTORS fucking decide if people need it?
For the same reason that you let engineers design bridges and geeks work with computers.
Well they call him the Random Number God for a reason.
Imprisoning the population is exactly what the elite want.
The fewer rabble rousers out there with free speech that can upset the congress critters driving the gravy train, the better.
So that they can get arrested and join the fastest growing slave class in america!
Next, profit.
So how the fuck does the hospital get to patent it instead of the guy whose genes they are?
Not even that.
It's an issue of economics, and how Monsanto will always win because they have bigger legal muscles.
Please don't insult dioxin.
They're also lobbying the crap out of the politicians to make sure things STAY that way.
Amen to that.
For national security reasons though, LS must fail.
At least in its bid to use the spectrum. National security trumps everything else. The question is whether LS should be the one to pay for it.
Where GPS is a politically entrenched industry with the FCC in their pockets, which gives them a long leash to hog all the spectral elbow room they can get away with.
GPS saw nothing but tumbleweeds, so it let itself go with lax filtering, and now it's "too big to fail" when LS shows up trying to move in next door.
It might not change whether LS gets to use the spectrum it paid for, but it means everything when determining who, if anyone, coughs up to LS to compensate for a blunder that may or may not have been theirs.
When you hire your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate to be your system administrator.