To: antiRepublicrat
I think that if it were possible to come up with a microchip that "turned off" a product when not used by the original purchaser, companies would go for it.
Imagine if you started building a table or chair - which the tool's parent company also marketed - on your lath or table saw and a warning came up, stating "this is an unlicensed use" and shut your tool down.
To: struwwelpeter
"I think that if it were possible to come up with a microchip that "turned off" a product when not used by the original purchaser, companies would go for it."
Like 'smart' guns, passwords, fingerprint scanners, PINs. etc.
21 posted on
10/24/2003 11:59:48 AM PDT by
bk1000
(one of these days I simply MUST come up with a decent tag line.)
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