All economies are zero sum.
The whole Universe is zero sum.

Or you could wash the wings once in a while. You're on the tarmac for over an hour while:
  - Passengers are busy boarding despite their boarding group not being called.
  - Crews are not loading your luggage.
  - The pilot is working on his second cup of "sober up" coffee.
  - The flight attendants are gossiping about who fucked whom.
  - Etc.

Might as well have a guy spend 2 minutes hosing off the wings. Impact of build-up during a single flight surely falls below the point where applying and maintaining a fancy coating is cheaper than having Jose hos-e off the bugs.

Hopefully you move onto something you understand.
Do you REALLY think you're the first person to think they've got good DRM?

What, exactly, is "Windows CLI"? (Hint - there is no such thing.)
Further, you can fake any and all responses to such queries. It's not too hard if you're admin on the box. Or you can take the easy way out and run the thing in a VM.

Burned-in MACs? My nForce 2 motherboard's NIC (the nVidia one, not the Realtek one) has a MAC that's user-definable in BIOS.

Hash collisions happen.
The real solution is to NOT use a generation algorithm for keys. Generate strings, then approve only those you actually sell and distribute.
Software installation/runtime checks locally against the generation algorithm, allowing for offline installations, bundled installers, old version installs, use in 50 years after all the servers are gone, etc.
Updates ask for your key and the server decides if it's valid (an approved string that hasn't been used by thousands of PCs across the net).
Allow manual updates from pre-downloaded files for offline use, use after the servers are gone, bundled installers, etc. If you want to be nice, allow anyone to download these updates, perhaps after some time period, or perhaps only when the software is EOL.

No, they're failing to recycle NASA tech from decades ago.
These are solved problems. Hire the old guard and learn from them.

How about Musk let the actual engineers talk about what happened.
Distilling this catastrophic failure into a fucking tweet by a PHB who only takes an interest when he needs to run PR damage control is fucking insulting to the people who are actually working on shit.

And to anybody who has. They fucking copied shit exactly.

Fucking lawyers just never stop.
Google illegally copied Oracle's shit. Deal with it.

And I don't think it fucking means anything. It's fluffy bullshit.

No, we're talking about pressure-sensitive inputs, and retards like you are acting as if it's a new thing.

Like the Nintendo DS / DSi / 3DS? Or the other decades-old touch screen devices I already own?
Why is this news? The resistive touch screen has been around for ages, and it's still superior to capacitive trash.

They aren't. And if they were, that doesn't grant someone else the hijack the airwaves in retaliation.

Yup!
They had no need to divert the planes, they were just pissed someone dared to watch public officials doing their jobs, so they decided to not do their jobs and rob the guy.