WiFi routers: from lockdown to lock-open

Posted Oct 23, 2015 4:49 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: WiFi routers: from lockdown to lock-open by wahern
Parent article: WiFi routers: from lockdown to lock-open

> Contemporary organic food[2] preferences of most consumers are largely based on non-sense promulgated by small groups of activists;

Organic food preferences are driven by recurrent food scandals. Whether such scandals are blown out of proportion or not (and unlike you I won't pretend I know either way[*]) they're effective anyway because human beings react to emotions and not to proportions or any other kind of number. Numbers are just too abstract. One interesting exception: money. Money is about numbers... and about emotions even more.

Whether some important change happens through regulation or free market forces, it's always rooted in people's emotions either way. In other words, in democracies not much will change as long as John Doe doesn't give a sh*t about his Wifi router. Try some scandal?

[*] except for induced sugar addiction and obesity; this scandal doesn't even need to be blown out of proportion.