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This conversation is about whether or not it's in everyone's best interest to try harder for criminal prosecution in these cases.. which should not be something determined by things like population size.

Betteridge's law of headlines is intended as a humorous adage rather than always being literally true.

Everyone pays their credit cards off every month because it's the law. If you are unable to pay, you can work out arrangements with the bank. If you need to use lots of money you don't have, you ask the bank for a loan and pay it back gradually.

It's my understanding that in the US, card companies make their money off fees and interest, which to me sounds like a much less appealing system designed to take advantage of the consumer.

The only reason I agree with you is that, if the hardware is the problem.. then why not just say that?

Then this begs the hypothetical question, 'If even only one person used encryption out of all of the devices sold, is it a feature worth keeping?'

I think most people here would say 'yes'.. but would most average company executives?

Americans don't hate public transport, it's just simply not available like it is in Europe. A lot of this stems historically from automotive manufacturers buying up streetcar companies and then dismantling them to force people to drive and also the antiquated rail infrastructure that gives preference to freight cargo over passenger trains.

Really?

Just last week there was a lot of fuss in the news about how reckless the tourists are becoming, and then the very next day after the news hype, a tourist was sucked out into the sea and drowned.. and this happens despite there being lots of other people nearby.

It's gotten to the point that some tour guides have just stopped going there because people just don't listen to warnings or understand the danger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone_(medieval)

IMHO, I think is sufficient evidence to say that it is reasonably likely they were using these.

Really horses are much more suited to our climate/landscape than other animals, so it makes sense.

A plane flying from anywhere that doesn't file a flight plan is just plain wrong, especially when it crosses foreign airspace.

This was a government lawyer who openly admitted his belief that the president could crush the testicles of a child of someone suspected of a crime and it wouldn't be torture.

Waterboarding was always considered torture before and after John Woo, and just because he muddied the legal definition in the US for a brief period of time, every competent person on the planet was aware that waterboarding is torture.

We do regular security audits from a security firm who goes the extra mile to try and social engineer and gain physical access to all of our sites.

Plus we're talking about things like processing fish in a town of 2,000 people. If I was operating a nuclear reactor, I would surely adapt better security measures.. although against government sponsored attacks using undocumented vulnerabilities, windows update isn't really going to do much.

The Target thing you posted has to do with internet access, which is something that goes against what I was saying. I'm talking about closed, physically secure networks, possibly not even using tcp/ip or ethernet.

I've seen many windows systems with uptimes of several years that have never required any maintenance.

Surely you're aware of the myriad of applications out there that will synchronize these things without issue.

Just because you have rights to something in one country, does not mean you have rights to that same thing in another country and so on.

Content providers are up against an amazing amount of bureaucracy, and only have limited resources to deal with these things.. especially considering we're talking about different laws and systems for virtually every country on the planet.

I'm certain Netflix would like to offer you as much content as they can, but they also have to respect existing law.

Also after a certain period of time, it becomes a bit of a stretch to suggest that nobody else would have thought of that same idea over a long enough time frame.

Now of course, I'm not really speaking to Mickey Mouse, so much as I am scientific breakthroughs and good ideas that improve on old concepts, but it's all IP.

I'm also merely giving my feedback as someone who (1) has a very good salary (2) enjoys readlang and uses it nearly daily (3) enjoys supporting indie software developers, that even I personally would balk at paying such a steep price, as the value would not be worth it to me.

I think feedback from consumers like myself can be valuable, as I also know others who use readlang, and none of them have anything more than a part-time job or PhD stipend which would price all of those people out of the software as well.

Also, I did not say to tweak the pricing, I was responding to the suggestion above to raise prices 5x what they are currently, and that I thought it was a bad idea.

I've been using readlang for about a year now, and while I love the product, would never pay $25 a month for it.

It's a great product, but $25/mo is 3x more than a netflix subscription, over 2x the cost of 1TB on Dropbox, etc.

This not to mention that the vast majority of users are students and people trying to train themselves to be able to work or study in new countries.

Hundreds of dollars a year might not be a lot to you, but I assure you it is for the vast majority of people who would want this product.

Where companies develop a good product to solve a simple problem, and because they already have developers and are gaining market acceptance that they just keep adding features way beyond the point of reasonableness.

Then inevitably the company tries to recover money from all of the extra effort they put in the product that nobody wanted and end up making their userbase hate them.