Comment Commit a crime (Score 1) 245
The police will then be able to ID you at all times via fingerprint, DNA & facial recognition.
Things like electricity supply are monopolies by their very nature. Most people can't choose to have another company's cables hooked up to their house.
Here in the UK, we can choose exactly this.
This is because the gubmint (in their infinite wisdom) separated the cables from the suppliers.
Thus we have National Grid in charge of distribution, but consumers buy power from one of dozens of energy suppliers.
Why would they use an auto-pilot for an airplane? Shouldn't they use a plane-pilot for planes?
Auto refers to automatic not automobile.
Before we Americans point too many fingers, let's not forget NASA is not immune to similar mistakes.
The company I work for made the Mass Spectrometer that NASA used to sift the spacey stuff from the deserty stuff, once they'd scraped all the bits up.
But she is being asked to enter the password, not share what the password is. So she can tell her lawyer, who will go over to the laptop and type it in without anyone looking. Thus its unlocked, and the police don't know the password.
Unless of course the police installed a keylogger before making their demand ^H^H^H request.
NASA bought "modded" DVD players (ie: region-free converted) from a firm in England for use aboard the ISS.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
