The post is misleading in several ways.
After which you engage in vapid pseudo-libertarian apologia. Are you dissapoint, too?
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As a capitalistā¦
Capital is one of many vital social institutions. Itās not an ism. At most, its -ist is a job descriptionā¦ a remarkably flexible job that can handle some piddling rule changes.
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I figure itās like Boston Dynamics, this doodad isnāt good for delivery of ads
Itās just like when that dang Thomas Edison stopped making the wax cylinders for my dictograph machine. How am I supposed to record my notes on the aero-plane device Iām inventing? It will change the world, I tell you!
As it happens (no doubt much to Edisonās dismay, he was kind of a dick about āIPā); an enterprising 3rd party has you covered. No need to worry as you plot manās conquest of the aether!
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how many armaments sold can be remotely disabled ?
But many things are connected to the internet these days. Most operating systems update themselves over the internet. Will they be bricked if the update server goes away? Tesla cars do that. Will they stop working if the update service is cancelled?
I think it worth asking these questions now. We may hear some surprising answers.
More than youād think, probably.
I remember a story from a few years ago that DARPA were working on networked self-propelled minefields. Remotely disarm when you want to move your troops through; hit the recall button at the end of the war and watch them all (in theory) jump back into the minelayer truck.
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i was thinking missiles that come back to launch location, jets that fall out of the sky !things you sell to an ally and if things changeā¦big disable button !
Shit, why not? Might as well. Weirder the better at this late stage in the game says I.
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Very sloppy 
Edited now, thanks!
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As a side note, most of the reason that Hollywood exists in California is that it was as far away as they could get from Edison and his legal reach about how exactly his film inventions were supposed to be used. That the weather turned out to be remarkable was a secondary concern.
Always amusing to think of 20th Century Fox as an indie film company.
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I think I prefer the other option the world has been working towards of not putting out landmines in the first place and killing kids going for water in five years.
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Edison was the original movie pirate. He would illegally obtain copies of films (like Le Voyage dans la Lune / A Trip to the Moon), mass-duplicate them, and show them across the US. Often with the original filmmakers uncredited altogether.
He also had a history of patenting other peopleās inventions.
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Sony did something similar with their standalone DVRs. These expensive devices were built with an exclusive agreement with Rovi, the company that makes TV schedule guide software. The Sony machines were built with no way for the user to set the date or time. It had to be acquired over the air from Rovi software used by broadcast stations to supply scheduling info. When Rovi decided to stop supplying broadcast stations with its service, it in effect bricked all Sony DVRs. They could still record in real time and play, but scheduling a recording manually became an arcane and impractical exercise in translating the unitās erroneous time/date into the equivalent for the actual time/date. The hardware was booby trapped as well, and was banjaxed by any attempt to change the HD or tinker with the electronics. Sony told its unhappy customers to get flocked.
Itās worth mentioning Blu-Ray discs, which use High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) system. HDCP has multiple encryption keys, assigned to different manufacturers. If one of the keys leaks, it could be ārevokedā - future Blu-Ray releases would refuse to play on devices with that key.
Meaning that your Blu-Ray player would simply stop working with new movie releases, because Sony for example had a security breach.
The only reason that hasnāt happened is that the master key also leaked, making revocation of the other keys pointless.
Back in 1998 more than 200 consumer electronics, security, ISP and recording industry companies came up with the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). This had key revocation and other nasty features. While that fell apart thanks to public resistance, some of the features live on, unused, in SD cards.
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