A warranty cannot be voided if you replace a part that has a limited life due to being used up, for example ink-cartridges, paper in a printer, brake-pads on a car etc etc..

If someone claims otherwise they are wrong. Just check the Magnusson-Moss Warranty act regarding "Tie-in sales".

The only time you can void your warranty in this kind of instance is if you use 3rd party replacements parts even though the original manufacturer supplies the replacement for free OR if your 3rd party replacement breaks the equipment.

Some people saw this coming when WhatsApp was sold.

How do you think Facebook where going to recoup the money? By turning their users into a product they can sell of course.

Surprised?

You shouldn't be, this how it works with social platforms; you aren't a user - you are a product.

But but but how then are they going to be able play paid content containing ads about something totally irrelevant?

...that they post reverse-get-rich-quick scams.

It's like a bad hi-tech variant on those spam messages touting obscure stocks.

"A fool and his money are soon parted" comes to mind.

So Japan can now watch American p0rn faster and American can watch Japanese p0rn faster also! ;)

The biggest problem with being poor that people often overlook is that it's very expensive being poor. Almost all their earnings goes to their subsistence which means having the money to get a higher education is almost impossible.

Do you really believe that poor people doesn't want better education and jobs? Your comment makes it sound like poor people are lazy slobs waiting for government handouts.

It's the same reasoning the super-rich uses when talking about "ordinary people" (ie. wage slaves), "ordinary people" are lazy slobs trying to get as much money as possible from them.

All the shit Microsoft have pulled the last year only mean that a lot of people gets pissed off.

Microsoft has become that guy in the office nobody can stand because he is a total asshole but they have to deal with him on a daily basis anyway - which means when they get the chance to get rid of him they will.

Most likely a variant on the scroll compressor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_compressor...

TANSTAAFL!

In this instance you seem to get a free/forced OS-upgrade when in reality Microsoft makes you and your information a product which they can capitalize on.

Do car makers really have good incentives to fix their security?

Not really, since they can sell a new car paid by the insurance company when someones car gets stolen. The only downside is negative reporting - but that can be fixed by massive ad-campaigns; just look at VAG, they are running ads like crazy in Europe right now, but they have dropped their tag-line "vorsprung durch technik" (lead by technology). I guess they don't want to use the new and improved tag-line "vorsprung durch betrug" (lead by cheating).

The whole wireless key fob thing is a pure convenience thing that when it fails becomes extremely inconvenient because convenience is security's biggest enemy. I can't understand that people would accept that their car have no physical security to speak of since it is quite a huge investment for many people.

The only mitigation I can think of if you still want the convenience of a wholly wireless key fob is that they introduce a check for max latency for the key-challenge response which is like 27 picoseconds(?) for a 4 meter radius not including the electronics internal response time. This means of course that the timing of the key exchange must be wholly deterministic.

First time I saw a photo of Ted Cruz I thought that he looked like Richard Nixon for some reason, go figure...