Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Reversing the law that prohibits unlocking your cellphone Date: 17 Mar 2014 10:39:07 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <130320140939144749%timstreater@greenbee.net> <130320142330216781%timstreater@greenbee.net> <140320140901222515%timstreater@greenbee.net> <1YqdnVzqsKLBgrjOnZ2dnUVZ_oednZ2d@earthlink.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net Ov/fNJM82Q4wdV2TVPz0YgrXADgXnaZecTdAVnFKg82gSJTlij Cancel-Lock: sha1:lrpnUV80Uj+5dOTUcOOP1WIK1Fk= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:1710 On 2014-03-16, Whiskers wrote: > On 2014-03-16, David Harmon wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:01:22 +0000 in comp.misc, Tim Streater >> wrote, >>>I didn't say it is a physical impossibility full stop. I said it is a >>>physical impossibility for *me*. Obviously it can be done - my main >>>dealer has done it twice for me. It just involves removing some >>>components that I'm unwilling to touch, either at the roadside or at >>>home. >> >> So, not so much a physical impossibility as an unwillingness >> impossibility. > > Some models do seem to be designed to discourage the user from any > maintenance beyond topping up windscreen washer liquid. I discovered on Saturday that replacing a front sidelight bulb on my Discovery 3 (US: LR3) involves removing the radiator grill and headlamp cluster. It's all do-able without tools, but IME plastic clips break off once they get old and brittle ... -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 3rd day of Discord in the YOLD 3180 A non-empty Hausdorff topological space is a continuous image of the unit interval if and only if it is a compact, connected, locally connected second-countable space.