...kind of the same reasoning they use to justify high ETF's that still cost over $100 one month before the contract ends.

T-Mobile pro-rates ETFs. My wife and I are changing plans with them in a couple of weeks to save $50/mo, but it'll be costing us $50 per line in ETFs on the current plan (presumably because the new plan is unsubsidized and the existing one isn't). The reason we're waiting two weeks is because we're right on the cut from when their ETF goes from $100/line to $50/line.

I believe there was a class-action lawsuit against some other carriers (Verizon I think?) about ETFs that basically forced them to pro-rate ETFs as well, so I don't think this is exclusive to our carrier.

like you don't xerox on a Cannon.

I tried to xerox on a cannon, but every time I fire up the machinery there's a loud bang.

I'd really like to know what kind of information you have that still needs to be a secret in the year 2111 when we'll all be driving fusion powered flying time traveling cars and vacationing in hotels on the Moon and Mars and carrying petabyes of data on our iMicrosoftPods with end-to-end DRM that terminates in chip implanted in our brains.

The keys to the DRM, of course.

Knowing people's fanatical devotion to their model M keyboards, I think they'd rather take the bullet than let the keyboard do it :-p

You're associated with industrial products, not big bouncing boobs? I'm sure there's an audience for that (Possibly NSFW).

In China, if your $180 camcorder breaks due to a burst electrolytic capacitor, you can take it to the corner electronics repair shop and pay somebody $10 to open it up, unsolder the bad capacitor, solder in a new one, and send you home with a working camcorder. In America, $10 wouldn't even pay the postage to ship it to a repair center, let alone the $100-200 or more you'd have to pay for the actual repair labor.

I have a TV that, due to some rough handling in a move, had one of the jacks for component input break off. It still worked if you could manage to get a cord to stay in just right (I think we had a solution involving tape, cardboard and clay), but otherwise was very fickle.

Presumably, somebody skilled in electronics could get a $2 jack and with 10-20 minutes or so solder a replacement into place. Instead, a TV repair shop wanted $75 just to diagnose the problem much less start fixing it.

I kept the TV (and did not end up getting it repaired), but the fact that someone here in the US would be more likely to spend $500+ on a new TV and just throw away the old one "because it's broken" is stupid, and I'd love to go to some shop around the corner and get it fixed for $10.

Instead of using email attachments, make it company policy to drop the attachments on a network drive, and instead share intranet links.

Anyone who spear phishes with attachments will fail. Now they will need intranet access, which can be significantly harder to acquire.

This works well, right up until the point where you need an attachment from someone outside the company.

Say... the latest revision to a requirements doc being sent back and forth between a client and a vendor...

Admittedly, I only skimmed it and did read that the results seemed to conclude that cell phones were not a cause. However, I was trying to explain someone else's post -- probably a futile cause. The word "speculated" in my post for a reason.

Perhaps I should have emphasized that other people have speculated and there's no real studies that prove or disprove it (I won't count a single study as disproving, for all I know the methodology was flawed.)

Increased EM radiation from rising cellphone use is one speculated cause of Colony Collapse Disorder

It's reasonable to assume the website is logically connected. CAs generally execute their transactions through the website. Especially for domain validated certs, usually the process of issuing a certificate is entirely automatic -- the customer logs in through the website, requests a certificate either by filling out a form or sending in a CSR. If they fill in a form and the CA generates their private key, the person who compromised the website might be able to steal the customer's private key, when the customer downloads it using the website.

It's been awhile, but I do not believe there is any point in the CSR process where the CA ever gets a copy of your private key.

For instance, suppose I register a box with round corners. Now you show that the real reason for round corners is so that the box, designed to go in a pocket, will not put too much stress on the pocket material.

I know a lot of people who store their tablets/ereaders/etc in a backpack, which is basically a giant pocket on your back... and it does seem a very reasonable assumption.

It also makes it easier to get into any sort of carrying case -- hard corners means you need to line it up perfectly, whereas round ones mean you can just get it mostly-right and it will slide in easier.

So, even if the original intent of the design is for aesthetics, it does have practical use.

A sword fighting game using a mouse to control the sword would be pretty interesting.

Daggerfall used mouse movement to determine how a weapon was being used. Thrusting the mouse forward while holding the attack button would do a forward thrust, and you could also slash side to side or diagonally.

I wonder, why wouldn't you include the right to life with the rights animals "should" have?

Mr. Lion, you are hereby sentenced to life in prison for murder of the first degree of one Ms. Gazelle.

Also, non-vegetarians would never go for that.