A lot of people in 2008 survived by living rent free in their foreclosed houses. If these folks had been renting the homelessness would have been much worse. banks did not move to take possession as noone was buying and if they did an eviction then they would have to pay to guard an empty house or have it vandalized.
This much is true.
People taking 0$ loans did not cause 2008.
You're starting to step on shaky ground here. There was more than zero down loans happening at the time. It was 80/20 loans. It was loans over appraised value. Ridiculously low rate six month and 1 year ARMs. A lot of shit was going down.
The Mortgage brokers reselling these loans as AAA in order to get big bonuses caused 2008.
The fact many or most of these loans were bad debt and mostly noncollectable caused a financial meltdown. Had these been good loans, there would have been no issue at all. Yes, financial bullshit artists misrepresented the risk of these mortgage backed securities, but the fact is that these loans did not appear out of nowhere or magically come into existence. The root cause was unrestrained lending that caused huge liability of bad debt.
If 0$ loans MBS had been priced properly we wouldnt have had a bust.
I bought a home just prior to that time frame. Any idiot could have seen this disaster coming. When my mortgage broker offered me a liar's loan and wanted to drop my wife from the credit app because my FICO was higher than hers I knew there was trouble on the horizon. Idiots were buying homes beyond their credit debt ratios on 3-1 ARMS thinking they would refi in a year or two because prices were jumping 10% a year or just flip for a nice fat profit. And then the recession hit and people starting getting laid off. Suddenly, you couldn't sell and prices plummeted. Owners were under water on their mortagages and couldn't get out. Then ARMs reset and people couldn't make payments.
You want to lay blame on those selling the paper, but EVERYONE was to blame. Buyers, sellers, speculators, bank lenders, mortgage brokers and appraisers. The bubble burst and everyone had their hand in the cookie jar.
Who needs 5 minutes to change a clock? Grandma maybe..
I have eight clocks in my home that require manual change, which include the stove and microwave and front patio light electronic timer. Ten if you count the car clocks. I usually change the batteries on those timepieces that require them at the same time. Trying to get them to hang back on the wall requires a great amount of patience and finesse. It takes me way more than five minutes to update my clocks each time we have this pointless exercise.
Bundle deal with Internet and TV: $89.99/mo (plus $10/mo local channels and regional sports surcharge)
In a situation like this, what's the benefit of cutting TV?
The benefit is that you are not paying all the taxes, franchise fees, box rentals, and other assorted bullshit they add on to the price. I'd rather pay $99.99 and not have to pray that they don't suddenly throw in some fee - just because - from one month to the next. I cut the cord five years ago and the cable company has probably spent several hundred dollars in that time on postage and high quality marketing materials I receive every other day begging my return. They offer all sorts of wonderful deals but unfortunately I played that game once before and know just how those deals work out in the end. Their plea falls on deaf ears.
Many public library branches keep inconvenient hours. By the time you take the city bus from work to the library, it may have closed for the evening at 6 PM. Visit on a day off? The branch near me is closed Saturdays and Sundays from the weekend before Memorial Day until Labor Day. (Source: ACPL.info)
There are easily 50 or more places within 10 (probably 5) miles of my home with free Internet access every day of the week. I'm at the point that I'm shocked if a restaurant doesn't have open WiFi. There's a WalMart down the road with free Internet. The grocery store has free WiFi. The church has free WiFi. McDonalds, Arby's, Taco Bell, Panera, Wendy's, Chick-Fil-A, Olive Garden, KFC, Starbuck's and dozens of other local restaurants have free WiFi. The indoor mall has free WiFi. The outdoor mall has free WiFi. Even my barbershop has free WiFi while you wait. I think I could find something if our local library branch was closed and it wouldn't take a 200 mile day trip or sitting around waiting for a bus to show up.
Maybe it's narcissistic to think reliable and easy data exchange is a killer feature for software, but I don't really see how.
I'll be kind. We'll chalk it up to naïveté.
A killer feature is something that causes unexpected and massive (voluntary) uptake. Adding the app store to IOS was a killer feature. Adding pre-emptive multitasking to Windows in 95 was a killer feature. Streetview on Google Maps was a killer feature. Killer features are the things that make people want to run out and buy just to get access to. I don't see anyone (except you) happy to pay more money and become Adobe or Microsoft's beta tester just so they can trade files a little easier. And I have never heard anyone say the value proposition is better than purchase once that subscription runs out and they have to renew or do without.
Eventually everybody gets tired of running on that upgrade treadmill. When you reach that point with your software subscription, you'll find you have nothing to show for all you payments but maybe a lot of "interchangeable" data that is totally useless to you.
A killer feature for those of us that interact with other organizations.
Your killer feature is merely a convenience factor for you. It has nothing to do with anything else but your personal convenience.
No file format issues, and no feature lacking issues even if the file format is the same.
Until the feature you use gets deprecated and you are forced to move on and get by without it. Software vendors don't drop features we like for no reason, do they?
The fact that I receive a file and know I can open it, or send a file and know it can be opened as increased the value of Creative Suite and even to an extent Office (though there's plenty of old copies of Office floating around, so it's a lot less true there).
So it's important enough to be _The Killer Feature_ unless it's not really.
No more does one need to back-save and hope everything remains in tact.
Clearly, you are an advocate for open file formats but you apparently just don't realize it. That is not the same thing as advocating subscription based software. If you at least put some thought into it an tried to claim an advantage with training or support, maybe you could have gotten away with it, but your killer feature is nothing more than a minor narcissistic convenience for you and nobody else but you. You think everyone else should pay perpetually for software so you can import files easier.
One of the killer features of software rental is that everyone has the same version. This makes the software actually worth more IMO.
Not sure if you're trolling or just stupid... A killer feature for who?
What about people who refused to upgrade Office because they hated the ribbon? Should they have just sucked it up and kept paying for something they didn't want and didn't like? How is it a killer feature when the "current" version drops the functionality you depend upon?
Technically, anything you buy which wears out is a subscription (rent).
The very first line of your entire premise is completely wrong. You cannot resale anything you rent. You can discontinue a rental at any time and you will have nothing left to show for your investment. You cannot pass of amortization as some sort of bogus rental strategy. They aren't even close.
If you buy a washing machine for $500, which dies after 5 years (on average) and needs to be replaced with a new $500 washing machine, you are paying $100/year for the washing machine.
I don't know where you've been buying washing machines, but I'd be furious if I spent $500 on a washer only to have to throw it away (no residual value) after five years. I have never in my life seen any washer fail catastrophically in five years - or less since you assert this is an average. A washer is considered a durable good.
I got my current washer used - it came with the house - eight years ago. I spent a grand total of $3.00 on maintenance to replace a set of plastic ratcheting dogs in that eight years My previous washer I bought new and left it at the old house when I sold after six years of service.
If you buy a car (new or used) for $20k, use it for 5 years, and sell it for $10k, your car ownership is basically the same as renting for $2k/year.
No it is not. The cost may be the same but the concept is drastically different. If you rent a car, or lease, YOU DO NOT OWN THE CAR. If you scratch the paint, tear the upholstery, or just decide to replace the horn with one that plays La Cucaracha, you had better have your name on the title. If you rent or lease, you are using someone else's property and are expected to return it in the same condition you took it. You are looking at this as a simple dollars and sense proposition and ignoring all the other rights that come with ownership. THIS IS WHAT THE GP WAS SAYING!
Software is the exception however. Software doesn't wear out.
Software is not an exception. The same rules apply. Just because tangible goods depreciate does not mean software does not either. TurboTax 2009 will not suffice for tax year 2018 but works just as well as it did when new. The only difference is that software does not (generally) become unsuitable for purpose during that time frame you own it due to wear and tear. Photoshop 1.0 does not suddenly stop working just because it's outdated.
Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription prices are actually pretty reasonable [adobe.com].
For some values of "reasonable". If it is your intention to run on the upgrade treadmill, then yes, it's reasonable. If you expect to keep a software purchase and use it for a long time because it works for your purpose and you do not need to arbitrarily upgrade, then no, it is unreasonable. The problem is that it is no longer an option. Businesses like it because they can expense rentals. They do not like to track assets and depreciate them. Home users are not so fond of adding yet another monthly bill to the already long list.
Except now that I do much less photography, the existing one-time-purchase copies of Photoshop and Lightroom I've still got are more than pulling their weight since I can still run them without needing to pay a subscription fee
And right here you undermine the credibility of your entire post by admitting that unless you have a desire for the latest new shiny, a purchase is a better deal.
I don't consider a subscription model valid for an OS though. The OS should work as long as the hardware works, because the two are useless without each other.
That little problem is already covered. Microsoft drops support for old hardware continuously. Now your hardware AND software are useless.
Of course when you're 14, adult women want absolutely nothing to do with you, so you have to settle for someone your own age.
Boy have you not been paying attention. Hardly a week goes by without some teacher somewhere who gets caught with her hands in the till. I suppose it's fair given the hysteria over men in the past decade.
You shouldn't have to. But if something bothered me that much, I'd start getting active instead of hoping that someone might one day do it for me.
Here's a better use of your developer time: Write a plugin to block all those annoying pop-over "Breaking News" banners on every goddamn news site. It's not breaking news if it's been on your site all day or sometimes several days. Or how about blocking all the "sign up for a better experience" or "give up your email for our newsletter" pop overs on every other site. I can browse with noscript, but it breaks 95% of all sites and I get tired of allowing scripts one by one hoping to make the site work again without getting all the shit at the same time. It's getting as bad as the old X-10 pop up days.
King Edward I "Longshanks":
Not the archers. My scouts tell me their archers are miles away and no threat to us. Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing.
As told over and over to the point of ad nauseam - hush money isn't illegal - UNTIL it's done to influence an election... Then it's a a crime that 100 years ago would have gotten Trump hanged.
Are you seriously making the claim that campaign finance violations were a capital offense in 1916?
I ran a private email server for the family (not Hillary Clinton) back in the late 90s - early 00s and was constantly being probed to try to crack the SMTP password. Had one guy make about one attempt every minute with a new password from some stock dictionary of common passwords. I wasn't concerned about anyone figuring that out (it was a large password) but finally threw in the towel after somebody spoofed one of the email addresses and sent out a ton of spam on behalf of it and I ended up on some black lists.
It's worth $12/year just to let my registrar handle it now!
Most blacklists are more sophisticated now. Nobody blacklists you for having one of your return addresses on a batch of spam. Everyone knows that spammers forge return addresses.
I've run a couple mail servers for many years and it's always cat and mouse with spammers. I use fail2ban and any IP that triggers fail2ban more than once is permanently dropped into my firewall rules for all ports. Obvious password guessers don't get a second chance. If I get multiple hits from the same CIDR block, I drop the whole lot in my rules.
Despite my policies, password guessing is fairly fruitless on my system anyway as my usernames are complicated and do not match the email addresses that are associated with them. Hackers have to guess the username AND the password. When I get an attempt to log in using an email address "username", I know it's a hacker/script kiddie and they get dropped into the blackhole. At this point the only ones I have left trying are slow distributed attacks that don't try often enough to trip fail2ban and never use the same IP twice anyway.
If you go with an apple laptop, an iphone will provide all those for your laptop.
I would rather gouge my eyes out than go with an Apple laptop. I have one, by the way, it was given to me. It's off. Used it for a while, enough to know to know exactly why the "Apple way" leaves me cold, let alone the lock-in, and the utter embarrassment of being seen with these things in public.
Clear?
For me, I will not use Apple (Mac) because: It just works wrong. Everything I do on OSX seems counter intuitive. I've been behind a keyboard for a very long time now and every time someone shoves a Mac in front of me because they can't figure something out, I shake my head at how Apple decided to do things their way. Case in point: when Apple brought out inverted scrolling as default. Yes, I know it's configurable and I would fix the problem on it were it my machine, but that's not the point. It's frustrating for the entirety of EVERYONE else for Apple to make such a boneheaded change to the default after years of precedent. My laptop/desktop is not a phone! I guess that's more of that courage they point out.
Just spent a day to fix broken internet on a windows 10 machine after a botched MS update. Since internet was gone they couldn't rollout another patch to fix it. Apparently the update broke the windows DHCP client. Had to set a fixed IP. Two weeks before an update broke audio on the other PC at home. Since Windows 10 installs its own drivers for everything, a simple install of the device driver from the manufacturer had no effect. Great work!
Maybe it's a good idea to fix this first to stop customers from fleeing?! WTF?
WTF Dude? You're supposed to go out an buy a new computer when Windows 10 updates brick your machine. You have deliberately deprived your computer vendor of two new hardware sales. Do you want them to lose money?
In short, this guy is in jail for lying to the court,not for refusing to unlock his phone. I think he'd been better off making a 5th amendment claim and refusing to answer the question on advice of his attorney. That way, he'd not be in contempt for lying and have a better case to appeal.
Wrong. He is in jail for refusing to comply with an order. Do you really believe that if he said, "It's my phone and I know the password but I'm not going to unlock it for you" he would be free? The judge believes he is lying about his ability but the contempt is just because he refuses to unlock the phone.
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My experience is about the same except:
- CP-642Bravo (Assembly)
- AN/UYK7&AN/UYK43 (Using CMS-2Y)
+ CP/M
+ Windows 2.11
+ OS/2 2.0
+ OS/2 3.0
+ Windows NT 4.0
I prefer Ubuntu or Mint
A lot of people in 2008 survived by living rent free in their foreclosed houses. If these folks had been renting the homelessness would have been much worse. banks did not move to take possession as noone was buying and if they did an eviction then they would have to pay to guard an empty house or have it vandalized.
This much is true.
People taking 0$ loans did not cause 2008.
You're starting to step on shaky ground here. There was more than zero down loans happening at the time. It was 80/20 loans. It was loans over appraised value. Ridiculously low rate six month and 1 year ARMs. A lot of shit was going down.
The Mortgage brokers reselling these loans as AAA in order to get big bonuses caused 2008.
The fact many or most of these loans were bad debt and mostly noncollectable caused a financial meltdown. Had these been good loans, there would have been no issue at all. Yes, financial bullshit artists misrepresented the risk of these mortgage backed securities, but the fact is that these loans did not appear out of nowhere or magically come into existence. The root cause was unrestrained lending that caused huge liability of bad debt.
If 0$ loans MBS had been priced properly we wouldnt have had a bust.
I bought a home just prior to that time frame. Any idiot could have seen this disaster coming. When my mortgage broker offered me a liar's loan and wanted to drop my wife from the credit app because my FICO was higher than hers I knew there was trouble on the horizon. Idiots were buying homes beyond their credit debt ratios on 3-1 ARMS thinking they would refi in a year or two because prices were jumping 10% a year or just flip for a nice fat profit. And then the recession hit and people starting getting laid off. Suddenly, you couldn't sell and prices plummeted. Owners were under water on their mortagages and couldn't get out. Then ARMs reset and people couldn't make payments.
You want to lay blame on those selling the paper, but EVERYONE was to blame. Buyers, sellers, speculators, bank lenders, mortgage brokers and appraisers. The bubble burst and everyone had their hand in the cookie jar.
I don't know but it looked like a giant dump from Omicron Persei 8.
Who needs 5 minutes to change a clock? Grandma maybe..
I have eight clocks in my home that require manual change, which include the stove and microwave and front patio light electronic timer. Ten if you count the car clocks. I usually change the batteries on those timepieces that require them at the same time. Trying to get them to hang back on the wall requires a great amount of patience and finesse. It takes me way more than five minutes to update my clocks each time we have this pointless exercise.
Say your cable company makes these offers:
In a situation like this, what's the benefit of cutting TV?
The benefit is that you are not paying all the taxes, franchise fees, box rentals, and other assorted bullshit they add on to the price. I'd rather pay $99.99 and not have to pray that they don't suddenly throw in some fee - just because - from one month to the next. I cut the cord five years ago and the cable company has probably spent several hundred dollars in that time on postage and high quality marketing materials I receive every other day begging my return. They offer all sorts of wonderful deals but unfortunately I played that game once before and know just how those deals work out in the end. Their plea falls on deaf ears.
Many public library branches keep inconvenient hours. By the time you take the city bus from work to the library, it may have closed for the evening at 6 PM. Visit on a day off? The branch near me is closed Saturdays and Sundays from the weekend before Memorial Day until Labor Day. (Source: ACPL.info)
There are easily 50 or more places within 10 (probably 5) miles of my home with free Internet access every day of the week. I'm at the point that I'm shocked if a restaurant doesn't have open WiFi. There's a WalMart down the road with free Internet. The grocery store has free WiFi. The church has free WiFi. McDonalds, Arby's, Taco Bell, Panera, Wendy's, Chick-Fil-A, Olive Garden, KFC, Starbuck's and dozens of other local restaurants have free WiFi. The indoor mall has free WiFi. The outdoor mall has free WiFi. Even my barbershop has free WiFi while you wait. I think I could find something if our local library branch was closed and it wouldn't take a 200 mile day trip or sitting around waiting for a bus to show up.
I'll be kind. We'll chalk it up to naïveté.
A killer feature is something that causes unexpected and massive (voluntary) uptake. Adding the app store to IOS was a killer feature. Adding pre-emptive multitasking to Windows in 95 was a killer feature. Streetview on Google Maps was a killer feature. Killer features are the things that make people want to run out and buy just to get access to. I don't see anyone (except you) happy to pay more money and become Adobe or Microsoft's beta tester just so they can trade files a little easier. And I have never heard anyone say the value proposition is better than purchase once that subscription runs out and they have to renew or do without.
Eventually everybody gets tired of running on that upgrade treadmill. When you reach that point with your software subscription, you'll find you have nothing to show for all you payments but maybe a lot of "interchangeable" data that is totally useless to you.
Your killer feature is merely a convenience factor for you. It has nothing to do with anything else but your personal convenience.
Until the feature you use gets deprecated and you are forced to move on and get by without it. Software vendors don't drop features we like for no reason, do they?
So it's important enough to be _The Killer Feature_ unless it's not really.
Clearly, you are an advocate for open file formats but you apparently just don't realize it. That is not the same thing as advocating subscription based software. If you at least put some thought into it an tried to claim an advantage with training or support, maybe you could have gotten away with it, but your killer feature is nothing more than a minor narcissistic convenience for you and nobody else but you. You think everyone else should pay perpetually for software so you can import files easier.
One of the killer features of software rental is that everyone has the same version. This makes the software actually worth more IMO.
Not sure if you're trolling or just stupid... A killer feature for who?
What about people who refused to upgrade Office because they hated the ribbon? Should they have just sucked it up and kept paying for something they didn't want and didn't like? How is it a killer feature when the "current" version drops the functionality you depend upon?
The very first line of your entire premise is completely wrong. You cannot resale anything you rent. You can discontinue a rental at any time and you will have nothing left to show for your investment. You cannot pass of amortization as some sort of bogus rental strategy. They aren't even close.
I don't know where you've been buying washing machines, but I'd be furious if I spent $500 on a washer only to have to throw it away (no residual value) after five years. I have never in my life seen any washer fail catastrophically in five years - or less since you assert this is an average. A washer is considered a durable good.
I got my current washer used - it came with the house - eight years ago. I spent a grand total of $3.00 on maintenance to replace a set of plastic ratcheting dogs in that eight years My previous washer I bought new and left it at the old house when I sold after six years of service.
No it is not. The cost may be the same but the concept is drastically different. If you rent a car, or lease, YOU DO NOT OWN THE CAR. If you scratch the paint, tear the upholstery, or just decide to replace the horn with one that plays La Cucaracha, you had better have your name on the title. If you rent or lease, you are using someone else's property and are expected to return it in the same condition you took it. You are looking at this as a simple dollars and sense proposition and ignoring all the other rights that come with ownership. THIS IS WHAT THE GP WAS SAYING!
Software is not an exception. The same rules apply. Just because tangible goods depreciate does not mean software does not either. TurboTax 2009 will not suffice for tax year 2018 but works just as well as it did when new. The only difference is that software does not (generally) become unsuitable for purpose during that time frame you own it due to wear and tear. Photoshop 1.0 does not suddenly stop working just because it's outdated.
For some values of "reasonable". If it is your intention to run on the upgrade treadmill, then yes, it's reasonable. If you expect to keep a software purchase and use it for a long time because it works for your purpose and you do not need to arbitrarily upgrade, then no, it is unreasonable. The problem is that it is no longer an option. Businesses like it because they can expense rentals. They do not like to track assets and depreciate them. Home users are not so fond of adding yet another monthly bill to the already long list.
And right here you undermine the credibility of your entire post by admitting that unless you have a desire for the latest new shiny, a purchase is a better deal.
That little problem is already covered. Microsoft drops support for old hardware continuously. Now your hardware AND software are useless.
Score: 5, Sarcasm
Homer, I can hear your sarcasm from inside the house, and the dishwasher is on. What's going on?
Just what I want: A closed platform with microphones, cameras, and Facebook spying on me 24/7.
Put the bots in cyber jail? Force them to do other cyber community service?
I say we put them in chroot jail
Of course when you're 14, adult women want absolutely nothing to do with you, so you have to settle for someone your own age.
Boy have you not been paying attention. Hardly a week goes by without some teacher somewhere who gets caught with her hands in the till. I suppose it's fair given the hysteria over men in the past decade.
If your own party has to cheat in order to stay in power, then you're no better than all the corrupt shit-hole countries you hate so much.
I'm confused. Are we discussing the DNC operative that disclosed debate questions to Hillary prior to the debate?
You shouldn't have to. But if something bothered me that much, I'd start getting active instead of hoping that someone might one day do it for me.
Here's a better use of your developer time: Write a plugin to block all those annoying pop-over "Breaking News" banners on every goddamn news site. It's not breaking news if it's been on your site all day or sometimes several days. Or how about blocking all the "sign up for a better experience" or "give up your email for our newsletter" pop overs on every other site. I can browse with noscript, but it breaks 95% of all sites and I get tired of allowing scripts one by one hoping to make the site work again without getting all the shit at the same time. It's getting as bad as the old X-10 pop up days.
King Edward I "Longshanks":
Not the archers. My scouts tell me their archers are miles away and no threat to us. Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing.
As told over and over to the point of ad nauseam - hush money isn't illegal - UNTIL it's done to influence an election... Then it's a a crime that 100 years ago would have gotten Trump hanged.
Are you seriously making the claim that campaign finance violations were a capital offense in 1916?
I ran a private email server for the family (not Hillary Clinton) back in the late 90s - early 00s and was constantly being probed to try to crack the SMTP password. Had one guy make about one attempt every minute with a new password from some stock dictionary of common passwords. I wasn't concerned about anyone figuring that out (it was a large password) but finally threw in the towel after somebody spoofed one of the email addresses and sent out a ton of spam on behalf of it and I ended up on some black lists. It's worth $12/year just to let my registrar handle it now!
Most blacklists are more sophisticated now. Nobody blacklists you for having one of your return addresses on a batch of spam. Everyone knows that spammers forge return addresses.
I've run a couple mail servers for many years and it's always cat and mouse with spammers. I use fail2ban and any IP that triggers fail2ban more than once is permanently dropped into my firewall rules for all ports. Obvious password guessers don't get a second chance. If I get multiple hits from the same CIDR block, I drop the whole lot in my rules.
Despite my policies, password guessing is fairly fruitless on my system anyway as my usernames are complicated and do not match the email addresses that are associated with them. Hackers have to guess the username AND the password. When I get an attempt to log in using an email address "username", I know it's a hacker/script kiddie and they get dropped into the blackhole. At this point the only ones I have left trying are slow distributed attacks that don't try often enough to trip fail2ban and never use the same IP twice anyway.
If you go with an apple laptop, an iphone will provide all those for your laptop.
I would rather gouge my eyes out than go with an Apple laptop. I have one, by the way, it was given to me. It's off. Used it for a while, enough to know to know exactly why the "Apple way" leaves me cold, let alone the lock-in, and the utter embarrassment of being seen with these things in public.
Clear?
For me, I will not use Apple (Mac) because: It just works wrong. Everything I do on OSX seems counter intuitive. I've been behind a keyboard for a very long time now and every time someone shoves a Mac in front of me because they can't figure something out, I shake my head at how Apple decided to do things their way. Case in point: when Apple brought out inverted scrolling as default. Yes, I know it's configurable and I would fix the problem on it were it my machine, but that's not the point. It's frustrating for the entirety of EVERYONE else for Apple to make such a boneheaded change to the default after years of precedent. My laptop/desktop is not a phone! I guess that's more of that courage they point out.
So, whats the engineer's answer to the meaning of life?
Easy. 42.
I saw it once on a TV show. They told the computer that one guy always lies and then he tells the computer that he's lying.
You need to update your references...
Robot Santa: Nice try, but my head was built with paradox-absorbing crumple zones.
Just spent a day to fix broken internet on a windows 10 machine after a botched MS update. Since internet was gone they couldn't rollout another patch to fix it. Apparently the update broke the windows DHCP client. Had to set a fixed IP. Two weeks before an update broke audio on the other PC at home. Since Windows 10 installs its own drivers for everything, a simple install of the device driver from the manufacturer had no effect. Great work!
Maybe it's a good idea to fix this first to stop customers from fleeing?! WTF?
WTF Dude? You're supposed to go out an buy a new computer when Windows 10 updates brick your machine. You have deliberately deprived your computer vendor of two new hardware sales. Do you want them to lose money?
A warrant grants the right to search. It does not guarantee the right to be successful in that search.
In short, this guy is in jail for lying to the court,not for refusing to unlock his phone. I think he'd been better off making a 5th amendment claim and refusing to answer the question on advice of his attorney. That way, he'd not be in contempt for lying and have a better case to appeal.
Wrong. He is in jail for refusing to comply with an order. Do you really believe that if he said, "It's my phone and I know the password but I'm not going to unlock it for you" he would be free? The judge believes he is lying about his ability but the contempt is just because he refuses to unlock the phone.