To quote Dark Helmet: "Evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb"

Motorola did this back in the day with their MVME141 (or was it 147?) board. It listed certain drives as compatible, including whatever the CDC 300MB SCSI drive was. But it wouldn't work with an off-the-shelf drive; it needed Motorola approved firmware.

I canna change the laws o' physics, Cap'n!!!

Nope, technically under CFAA that's exceeding authorization (unless it was an IT insider, in which case it MIGHT be civil).

Disclaimer: IANAL. If you need legal advice please consult an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction.

If the SS trust fund wasn't full of IOUs from Congress borrowing from it, it probably would be solvent.

Otherwise known as the Osborne Effect

Exactly. After all, Corporations are people!!!!

Since you have achieved adulthood, and do not grow or shrink (outside minor variances), therefore you can not absorb oxygen, food, or water.

"This is my use case, so nobody else has a different one."

At which point, all that information is immediately available to law enforcement without a warrant, under the Third Party Doctrine.

And who is responsible when that personalization information gets hacked?

The Tigers are on track to outdo the 1995 Angels choke.

Yet another reason for me NOT to use Edge.

Which games did Twilight see?

Advertisers. And they'll include sound.

These products should be forced to have a privacy setup which guarantees that even if Facebook does accidentally get some private data, it goes no further and gets used for nothing. If they aren't safe for use in medical situations, they aren't safe to be released onto the street.

A ha ha ha ha!!! AHH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

Oh wait, you're serious?