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Why cannot they charge today? If the phone does not work on any network in the country, surely that is equivalent.
Anyway, they cannot charge if they activate the kill switch. If the kill switch can be circumvented by carriers, it is completely useless. The whole point of it is that it is irreversible (except possibly by the manufacturer).
You have demonstrated no such thing. You still basically cannot import any non-English word from any other language and have it sound remotely the same. Advising people to pick names that are pronounceable in English is practically the same as advising them to pick native English names. The world is poorer for it.
You still haven't explained what the difference is between what can be done today by the authorities and what will be possible with a kill switch. There is no significant difference.
Yet none of those imported words sound anything like the original.
One: Can we expect petty criminals to be up on this latest news and be aware of this feature BEFORE they have already mugged you and tried to fence the phone?
Yes. Criminal communications are good. I would be surprised if it took as much as a month for robberies targeting a protected model to stop.
Two: If the phone is deactivated accidentally (or intentionally as a prank or malice against the owner), how much would you trust your mobile carrier to be reasonable in their process to reactivate the phone?
This is a kill switch. The carrier should not be able to fix the phone afterwards. The phone manufacturer might be able to fix it, but not if the kill switch is properly implemented.
All of which is extremely easy to accomplish today. Yet even in Turkey or Egypt it does not happen. Well they do shut off cell phone towers completely of course.
Today people get robbed for 3 things: money, passports, and phones. Cash is going away, so you have to bring the victim to an ATM to get the money out, and most people do not carry passports so you have to be really careful selecting your victim. Phones are easy to spot, so you know that there is something to rob, and they are extremely easy to fence.
If we take phones out of the equation, the criminals are likely to switch to other types of crime. Hopefully types which are less devastating to the victims.
They know they can still sell the phones for parts and make more money than they would just selling a phone.
I doubt that. Phone parts are relatively cheap because few people buy original parts. The only ones who do buy official parts are the official repair shops, and they are unlikely to buy parts from thieves.
The pool of people who are willing to steal is dramatically smaller than the pool of people who are willing to (intentionally) commit murder. Usually the robber does not start the robbery with the intention of killing the victim. If we cut robberies down to only intentional murders, the police will have lots of resources to deal with much fewer cases, and that should take those murderers out of circulation fairly rapidly.
As an extra bonus, if a fenced phone is likely to come from a murder victim, a lot more people will think twice about buying it. Maybe we can finally make fencing socially unacceptable.
IMEI is almost entirely useless. Few carriers care about IMEI block lists, and it's easy enough to export the phones to a place which doesn't care anyway. In addition you can sometimes change IMEI numbers, but that is unnecessary.
The companies get new sales and the government gets a stealthed system to quickly kill organized protests and evidence of police brutality with the push of a button. Win-Win!
If you think that shutting down cell phone communications to a specific area is difficult and requires new software, you are deluded. Sorry.
Parents who give their children names that aren't pronouncable in major languages like English are bastards.
Nothing is pronounceable in English. You basically cannot import any non-English word from any other language and have it sound remotely the same. The set of available sounds is both small and weird.
Not much. Most of that population growth comes from other areas, like China or India.
China? Population growth? Seriously?
Both sides can make their claims. But unless someone can do a proper experiment with a control planet, and make that experiment repeatable while you're at it, its all speculation. Not proper science.
That is a ridiculous view of science. You have just declared history to be non-science.
And Smith forgot to make an important point about the Keystone Pipeline. Stopping it doesn't mean that carbon stays in the ground. It means the Chinese will burn it. And they will do so with less rigorous emissions standards. But then I can't prove that either. Its all speculation.
Indeed, you cannot prove that. It is difficult to transport bitumen to anywhere useful in reasonable quantities without the Keystone Pipeline. Without the Keystone Pipeline, there is a limit on how much you can economically extract. It is possible that the bitumen will get extracted eventually, but without the pipeline this extraction will at least be delayed.
I have a Linux XBMC HTPC connected to my TV and I have a Linux laptop. Tell me how I can control my HTPC from my Linux laptop using X. Opening a new XBMC on the HTPC with the display remoted to my laptop is not particularly useful, especially when doing so loses all hardware video acceleration. Even running a 3D game that way does not work, for the same reason. The use cases you are proposing are not handled by X today, so your implication that Wayland is a step backwards is unfounded.
Using tablets as X terminals does not really work anyway, as the risk of losing all windows due to a connection interruption is too great.
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