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Originally posted by Psychopump
I believe that there are already killswitches in most of our electronic consumer goods. Have you noticed how things always seem to break down within days of the warranty expiring? Or that windows experiences more errors when a new version has been released?
These are no coincidences.
Originally posted by titorite
When the phonograph invented who ever thought it would evolve and one day be used as a device capable of brainwashing millions
through mass media propaganda?
Subsidization of electronic devices, appliances, and other articles of manufacture is coming. The term "subsidization" implies a subsidy is provided for the article of manufacture. Already the communications industry subsidizes a mobile phone and other wireless devices in exchange for a service contract. The user of the mobile phone (e.g., the "subscriber") receives a free, or nearly free, phone in exchange for a service commitment. Some people within the communications sector foresee subsidization spreading to any article of manufacture that requires communications service. As the latest washers, dryers, refrigerators, televisions, and even vehicles have communications capabilities, those articles of manufacture will require network access to communications networks. It may be inevitable that the purchase price for such networked articles of manufacture is subsidized in exchange for a service agreement.
Enforcing the exclusive service agreement, however, is a problem. When the service provider subsidizes a service, the exclusive service agreement is required to ensure the subsidy is recouped. If the user/subscriber reneges on the service agreement, and switches to a competing service provider, the subsidizing service provider incurs a substantial loss. What is needed, then, are methods, systems, and products that disable an article of manufacture when a subscriber defaults on a service agreement.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
Johnny, you have said a mouthful there and then some.
Tell us Johnny, do you trust our Government or any other Government that much?
I know I don't.
No, I'm not trying to jack your thread, I just thought it might be something that totally fit into everything you were already stating and add so much more to it.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by UFOTECH
I almost fell on the floor laughing at the reference to Dick Cheney having a "kill switch."
Not because I want to see him die, but because of this thread by JohnnyAnonymous :
May I offer you a Kill Switch?
JohnnyAnonymous and I were discussing the "human kill switch" with the Verichip/Digital Angel biochip.
And there's always been the mocking joke of Vice President Dick Cheney being Darth Vader :
[edit on 11-8-2008 by SpartanKingLeonidas]