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[Still Thinking]

It's not just a matter of cheap toner or compatibility issues. The same restrictive rationale and techniques can be applied to limit safety and reliability inspections for a vast range of critical products -- everything from electronic voting machines to security systems to computerized car-engine controllers.

When applied to consumer products, the closed nature of the systems also raises the possibility that the digital systems are doing something averse to your interests, despite the fact that you paid for them and are entitled to be sure they are not working against your interests.

[Dimensio]

Where's Bush2000 to defend the DMCA and the anticompetitive practices that it allows?

(Oh, and people are aware that the Tom Daschle pic used in that fundraising advert is fake, right?)

[Bogey78O]

To defend Bell (as I usually do). The phones back then were the equivilant of the cable box. Bell owned the equipment and access to the lines and people simply leased it. As such you had no right to modify it.