Don't complain after you invent the problem.
From SusoSight
| Number: | 40 |
| Date created: | 2002-04-05 14:27:48 |
| Previous Thought: | Double standard |
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| Voting results: | Yes: 75 |
I keep seeing companies invent technologies have inbred faults from the beginning that cause trouble later down the road. But yet instead of fixing the faults of the technology, the companies take the seemingly easier route of attacking it's customers for doing wrong. Take cable TV for example. The way the coaxial cable was invented and the cable TV signal sent out, it almost encourages cable theft. How easy is it to split the cable signal four different ways so that you can watch TV in all the rooms of your house. How many black-box TV descramblers have been sold on the market to allow you to watch pay channels for free. Does it not seem as if there is a fault in the technology instead of the consumer. Yet in the over 30 years that the technology has been around, cable companies haven't done much to correct the situation. If billions of dollars per year is at stake, isn't it worth it to invest some money into research? Some companies just seem brain dead to me.
As a solution, how hard would it be to invent a device that sits outside each home and determines how signal power is supposed to be used by that home? History has shown (and will continue to show) that it's harder to prevent the consumer from doing wrong than it is just to fix the problem to begin with.