No, that's not true. Insurance companies are interested in Profit not Sales. So, if you pay $100/month for car insurance, but you get into an accident every year that they have to cover, they hate that.

The behavior that they want is for you to pay $90/month ("safe" driver discount) and NEVER get into an accident as a "safe" driver. Therefore, they pocket all the money.

It doesn't have to prove you were at the scene. It only has to persuade the JURY beyond a reasonable doubt. It doesn't even have to eliminate all doubt. Just eliminate the reasonable ones.

Basically, if you claim you were home alone, but your phone was at the crime scene, you're in a world of hurt. Why was your phone at the crime scene? Did you lend it to someone? Did you lose your phone? When/where did you lose your phone? If you have no alibi, you're sunk.

This is slashdot. We don't know what "wife" means.

I'm so glad somebody made a coherent argument. You hit the nail on the head exactly.

Remember when Microsoft changed VB to VB.Net? From MSDN:

"All but the most trivial applications will take a significant amount of effort to port from VB6 to VB.NET. Backward compatibility appears not to be one of Microsoft's high-priority goals with the new .NET environment." (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa239677%28VS.60%29.aspx)

How many people on Slashdot complained? Where was the outrage? Where was the boycott of MS due to its "closed" system?

Or as a better comparison, remember when the PS3 came out, and every game company had to scrap their PS2 codebase? Where was the outrage?

Technology changes every 3-5 years. Adapt or die. If people haven't learned that by now, they should not be in this industry.