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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 2352
Message ID: 12
#12, RE: Things You Didn't Know About ZC, cont'd
Posted by MoonEyes on Apr-22-17 at 05:33 AM
In response to message #9
LAST EDITED ON Apr-22-17 AT 05:36 AM (EDT)
 
>The thing is, that's my own damn fault and I can own the fuckup.

Sure. You can. On the whole, considering the general level of the human race...what do you think the statistics say about people like you versus them others?


>Like, I'll happily void my warranty and render my own stuff
>nonfunctional using unsanctioned parts. I'm less happy if a device is
>explicitly built to detect unsanctioned parts and ceases to function
>if they're used. Like when Keurig was talking about making its
>coffeemakers detect, and reject, non-Keurig branded coffee pods.

Which is, you know, annoying. But if the thing would potentially go very loudly BOOM, for instance, if you fuck with it, and SOMEONE would fuck with it, this is a certainty...then I can not only understand, but firmly agree with it bricking.


>Hell, we're getting to the point where devices are rejecting
>sanctioned, first-party parts if you don't pony up cash back to the
>original seller. Farmers in the midwest are resorting to the Ukrainian
>hackers to jailbreak their John Deere tractors because in order to
>swap a part out, a Genuine John Deere Technician(tm) has to plug in a
>dongle and tell the tractor to accept the thing, a process whose only
>purpose is to transfer money from the farmer to John Deere.

Which, in a way, does fall under the above. A tractor is the sort of thing that can cause severe injury. You think SOMEONE wouldn't sue John Deere if they fucked around with it on their own, got it wrong, and harmed themselves? This isn't the Information Age or the Modern Age or any of that. It's the Litigation Age. THAT is the purpose.

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