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Comment Re:Justified? That depends... (Score 1) 259

Physical connections, for the most part. You'd have to make an adapter, and keep in mind that changes the element spacing (eg the lens is now a bit farther from the sensor/film)

There's also some extra bits. For example, the lens assembly for my Canon has an electrical connector to support the focus mode switch (that's on the lens body) as well as to drive the focus servos.

Comment Re:Justified? That depends... (Score 1) 259

You could put conditions in to (effectively) apply this to only mass manufacturers.

How this is done I leave unstated, but I'd imagine you could do it by looking at a variety of factors.

This way, big companies making thousands of identical items can provide parts (because they have (require) the infrastructure to store/ship all the bits and pieces) play fair, but small folks like you or other "craftsmen" don't have yet more unreasonable demands placed upon them.

Comment re: samsung (Score 1) 185

Who would have thought that just randomly poking memory of a laptop would brick it. Long ago Samsung told me that it was just fine to be doing this, and that there would not be any problems (I based the samsung-laptop driver on code that Samsung themselves gave me.)

Hmm... so the firmware is so retarded that bad values in RAM can permanently break the hardware?

That sounds safe. Hope that thing comes with ECC RAM!

Comment Re:*sigh*.... Java... (Score 1) 270

But most hackers aren't interested in your cable box, or your DVR. They want something they can use to brute force passwords with, send email to others through, force into a ddos, or just use to plain straight up steal personal data with.

They should be. Those kinds of always-on always-connected low-demand systems would make perfect botnet zombies in great numbers, and I'd argue there are more of them out there than computers. Hell even if the botnet slowed the thing down, how many folks would you expect to notice? Even fewer than that are the amount who could/would do anything about it.

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