The carriers say they want to encrypt and store the credentials in the phone's SIM card, the small chips placed in the back of phones to activate access to mobile networks.

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Making us mangle wire hangers to activate blindly some tiny reset hole in the back?

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By contrast, Apple allows up to five computers to access protected content, so I activate and de-activate the machines I want to use and if for some reason a machine crashes and takes an activation with it, I can de-activate all my computers and get my licenses back.

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You've got the conservatives who feel that we didn't pay enough attention to the social moral issues and that didn't activate our base, and you've got more libertarian conservatives who feel that the party turned its back on the issues of spending.

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