I think many of you are missing the point, on both sides.

A person or company has the right to refuse to sell their product to people who misuse it. If the Auto manufacturers want to sell their new cars only to dealerships who can service them, that is (and should be) allowed.

The problem is state laws that say the Auto manufacturers can prevent Other manufacturers from selling other products. That is not good and is probably unconstitutional.

It really has nothing to do with the difficulty of maintanance. 8-)

That answer is easy! Cat scratches and blood dripping from your arms. Been there done that long ago, sort of. 8-)

Um ... You cannot successfully argue a point with someone who uses binary logic consisting of a single digit.

Interesting post, though. 8-)

Time flows in all directions, but you only see one direction. That direction depends on which direction -you- are from the "big bang".

Actually, no.

Repetitive events may not have a beginning or end, within the data gathering period. It is quite common to not be able to tell which is "first". In that test condition, the result can "come before" the cause, at least mathemetically. Or on the display screens. It's called "phase reset", and probably other things in other tech dialects.

And most of the questions discussed on slashdot are repetitive events...

The article seems practical, though. The cause and effect both have noise. The noise from the cause is transferred to the effect. So, the effect has much more noise.

Of course, the normal troubleshooting technique is to inject artificial noise. As in: Touch it with a square wave, and see if it comes out the speakers! 8-)

There was at least one of those "trailer based mobile facilities." found later, I saw photos of it. I think there were also others.
They were not operable at the time they were found, but I would not expect them to be.

And don't forget that Irag dropped chemicals on at least one Kurd city and killed most of the people there, so the munitions actually worked.

Also, the Democrat politicians were just as convinced as the Republican politicians and the UN, it was not until later that they complained.
I was listening to both... 8-)

They -do-. It's called "sales" or "old game special", or "Steam sale".

All of this happens already, for hundreds of years. I'm a Tech, but I still know that much business!

Besides, having the same price all over and at all times just means some people can't play the game. Why do that, when allowing a download is only $.02 extra in electricity?

And no, someone selling the game for $.02 somewhere does -not- mean that the value of your game becomes that. Value is not constant, and is what you want it to be. Value is entirely imaginary, until you either buy or sell the item. Then it is very real, until the deal is done. Then it becomes imaginary again.

Is that enough to "blow you mind"? 8-)

We all complain about CEOs that know nothing about the tech their products use.

Now we hear about a CEO that knows tech, and they get dumped on!!

What do we want? ... Or is the dumping just hired Google psychwar mercinaries? 8-P

"And, it has a cover made entirely of Bacon, at extra cost!"

Wow, I think you guys covered every buzzword that I have heard recently... 8-)

This is the real problem. I have seen people ignore the most raucus pop-up warnings, because they were accustomed to them and assumed they were false posives. Any app that pops up too much alarm will harm all of the secure sites.

I remember hearing about that occurrance. I am glad that you sent your email, I thought our people should have been more polite. 8-)

And, your reply email is still unique, no matter what...

You mean Cuba will return to what it was before Castro? 8-)
Lets hope not...

BMWs are for people that drive the car -themselves-. The prics don't drive.
Hell, you can still get a BMW with a -manual- transmission, doesn't that tell you something? 8-)

Those others are great fun. 8-)

But the 25120 WOM chip was the only one I know of that was in the actual company catalog, has an actual copyright and the data sheet could be ordered from the company!

And it actually created "buzz" and sales for the company (for other chips).

One guy I knew, insisted for years that it was real... 8-P

Some places do, particularly for machine controls.
And strangely enough, they never get Viruses or Trojans!