Azeolus
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Less than 10,000 US citizens migrate to Canada annually. Approximately double that number (20,000) Canadians immigrate to the US annually.
Seems you're ranting into the wind about nonsense.
> It's unbelievable how much blind and naive trust there is
Do you sweep every hotel room you use for listening devices?
Building a wired network to residences is prohibitively expense. So much so that the only way cable was originally run was by the government heavily subsidizing it. In return for their investment cables companies received local monopolies on their service. DSL became a thing because the phone company already had access to the house, thus only the cable company and the phone company was allowed to run physical wire into your house.
So, today we'd have to repeal these monopolies, and then new companies would have to run all new infrastructure, or somehow get the incumbents to allow new companies to use their infrastructure, which is unlikely.
Frankly, new highspeed wired ISPs are highly unlikely, what we'll probably see is wireless because it's more economical to install.
I see you have little experience with Suburbia...
Your chances of living next to one of those people are pretty low, but it's a big country, and there are a lot of busybodies just waiting to trounce someones fun.
Correct, Twitter is not. The judge made no ruling regarding the functionality of Twitter. What the judge ruled on is what a government employee is allowed to do in respect to using the tool. You are still welcome to block people. Trump is not.
If you ever find yourself in a situation that Broadcast television would have us believe, you'll be excellent at coding that hotfix into a real time system as the president of the United States looks over your shoulder.
> I take issue with the fact that the company has any say in the matter at all, tbh.
What? How does that make any sense. Someone stole their property, it's still theirs, of course they have a say in what happens to it. "Finders Keepers" is not how the world works...
No. There is a simple explanation too. Once a valid sale happens ownership changes. They still own these devices, because they were stolen. That means they can do whatever they please, the devices are still theirs.
His post is mostly nonsense, but not entirely. First while the burden of proof is not necessarily on the purchaser, if you have in fact purchased stolen goods, you must still forfeit them to law enforcement. There are no jurisdictions that let you keep stolen goods. In most jurisdictions you then need to get restitution from whomever sold you the device, and they can obviously face charges.
The manufacturer can definitely brick, or do whatever they want. The devices are still their rightful property, this isn't a gray area, they were stolen, no one has rightful claim to them except the owner, who was the manufacturer.