To save more than $100,000, 4ormat decided to skip Internet Explorer, "opting to only allow users to access its service through Mozillaâ(TM)s Firefox and Google Chrome browsers," the article states.
How is this any better than an IE-only website? It just exchanges one group of disadvantaged surfers for another. If it truly works only through Firefox and Chrome, most blind folks are out in the cold (see ELinks or Lynx), to mention only the first group that comes to mind.
What's wrong with Viewable with any browser?
I wonder how the Supremes would get around that one? 'Cause you know at least five of them would be upset.
Have you ever parked at a meter without plugging it, "hoping" that you'd not get caught? How is that different from stealing from society in other, larger ways, such as robbing a bank (beyond severity of the betrayal)?
It seemed germane to me—how society deals with defectors is an important part of the whole.
In that case, you can honestly say you can't decrypt the drive.
Seriously---check out Pro Publica and follow a couple of links to see how much money the supporters got from the movie and recording industries.
I'd like to think that if I were to sell out the Constitution, it would take at least $5M.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky