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Google's Android OS To Power Dashboard Displays (go.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the take-that-Apple dept.

schwit1 shares a report from The Wall Street Journal: Google is making a major push into the auto industry, partnering with the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance to use the tech company's Android OS to power media displays (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source) that will eventually be sold in millions of cars world-wide. The auto-making alliance, which together sells more vehicles than any other auto maker, is picking Google to provide the operating system for its next-generation infotainment system, marking a major victory for the Silicon Valley tech giant, which has spent more than a decade trying to replicate the success it has had with the smartphone in the car. The alliance, which last year sold a combined 10.6 million vehicles globally, will debut the new system in 2021, giving drivers better integration of Google's maps, app store and voice-activated assistant from the vehicle's dashboard, the companies said. The move comes as other auto makers have been reluctant to cede control of this space to tech rivals, in part because they see the technology as generating valuable consumer data that can be turned into new revenue streams. Slashdot reader schwit1 adds: "But can I get it unlocked and can it be turned off, like this traveling telescreen?

77 comments

  1. Cars I won't be buying... by DogDude · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The last thing I want in a car are more stupid gadgets. Driving is already dangerous enough with every other person staring at their phones while driving. Most people are not smart enough to do both at the same time. I know I'm not.

    And, why do I need more electronics that can break? Consumer-grade software today is so incredibly shitty (just ship it, we'll fix it later), that I couldn't imagine having something as buggy as Android running my car. No thanks. My dials and gauges work just fine, and never need software updates.

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    1. Re:Cars I won't be buying... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And I sure as hell don't want Googles spyware on my car.

      I can just hear it now "This speeding ticket has been proudly bought to you by the AAA", or "Your crash has received 1056 likes on YouTube, for more likes please exhibit road rage" , perhaps "Your driving record has been forwarded to your insurance company, they have just cancelled your insurance"

      Until these companies become liable (as in like RIAA liable) whereby they have to pay millions to EACH person impacted by a breach, or misuse of data and the board of directors serve a minimum of 12 months in prison, then they can bugger off and stay out of my life.

      You can just see your speedometer being tampered with in real time to ensure that you get caught in a speed trap as a revenue gathering exercise, maybe they will even give 30% to Google.

    2. Re: Cars I won't be buying... by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

      Those flashy Android gauges are going to look incredibly dated in a few years. This is a good example https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

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    3. Re: Cars I won't be buying... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Put me down for one without garbage gadgets as well

    4. Re: Cars I won't be buying... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yuck. As much as I hate androidâ(TM)s development tools and fragmentation, a car that relies on this is likely going to suffer the same.

      It would be nice if the vehicle manufacturers standardize on a coherent UI like most stock Android phones, but unless the car manufacturers plan on swapping it out every year, this is dead on arrival tech.

    5. Re: Cars I won't be buying... by adolf · · Score: 1

      So what you're saying is: This one aspect of an automobile will look dated as time marches on, just like many other aspects of any given automobile also do?

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    6. Re: Cars I won't be buying... by ItsJustAPseudonym · · Score: 1

      They can re-skin the gauges with an update. It's not the *appearance* that is problematic, but rather all of the integration within a vehicle's systems (even though they will doubtless restrict it to non-critical systems).

    7. Re:Cars I won't be buying... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      After working in Android development world for a few years, I can agree. Google is abandoning their OS versions in two years from security patches point of view but still force pushing all the newest beta spywares onto them. So the car dashboard will be unusable most of the car life cycle.
      Last thing I would want to do with my car is to investigate how to free disk space after Google filled it with new software which can not be uninstalled..

    8. Re:Cars I won't be buying... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      Tesla has this problem. Both the instrument cluster (IC) and large screen can crash and need rebooting... While you are driving. There is some button combo you have to do, holding down the steering wheel controls to force a reset.

      So you can suddenly lose your IC, or it can freeze and give you false information. The main screen controls everything else, including basic stuff like windscreen wipers and lights in the Model 3, so that crashing is pretty serious too.

      This is the problem with allowing software updates - you get beta quality code with vague promises to fix it later that never get fulfilled.

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    9. Re: Cars I won't be buying... by dunkelfalke · · Score: 1

      That actually looks pretty cool in a retrofuturistic 1980s cyberpunk kind of way.

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    10. Re:Cars I won't be buying... by mikael · · Score: 1

      You already have 150+ embedded electronics systems in your car; cruise control, anti-skid lock braking, electronic ignition control, electric windows, remote locking, diagnostics, indicator light timing, entertainment system, radio, CD player. Upmarket vehicles in Europe already have touchscreens that have replaced mechanical controls. Just a wipe clean screen.

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    11. Re:Cars I won't be buying... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And the reliance on those systems it not helping road safety.

    12. Re: Cars I won't be buying... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Your driving record has been forwarded to your insurance company, they have just cancelled your insurance"

      I like this. Why would insurance be required to cover bad drivers?

    13. Re:Cars I won't be buying... by jenningsthecat · · Score: 1

      The last thing I want in a car are more stupid gadgets.

      The last thing I want in a car is an "Operating System" without which the car won't run, which also tracks my car's every move and gives all kinds of personal data to an advertising company. When the spyware in my car is also the software that allows the car to run, then I might as well be driving a Windows 10 computer with wheels but no power switch.

      And, why do I need more electronics that can break? Consumer-grade software today is so incredibly shitty (just ship it, we'll fix it later), that I couldn't imagine having something as buggy as Android running my car. No thanks. My dials and gauges work just fine, and never need software updates.

      Not to mention that your car could become the next victim of the people responsible for Gnome 3, Unity, Australis, and the like. Wouldn't it be fun to wake up and discover that you have to learn how to use your car all over again? "Oh, we put the speedometer on the passenger side because we thought the new dark-grey-on-black 12-point text theme looked cooler over there. And BTW, your radio volume control is now a toothpick-thin virtual slider on the edge of the screen-that-is-your-dashboard. We could say that we hope you like these design changes, but frankly, we don't care".

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  2. What could possibly go wrong... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh yeah, that's just what I want, Google having yet more access to me, with no way to block or remove it. Looks like vehicles from the "Renault-Nissan-Mitsubish Alliance" are now on the list of vehicles I will NEVER buy.

    1. Re:What could possibly go wrong... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I was already never-ever-ever-fuck-that going to buy a Nissan just because of their fucking horrible COMMERCIALS! God they are the worst and need to die.

    2. Re:What could possibly go wrong... by bobbied · · Score: 1

      Oh yeah, that's just what I want, Google having yet more access to me, with no way to block or remove it. Looks like vehicles from the "Renault-Nissan-Mitsubish Alliance" are now on the list of vehicles I will NEVER buy.

      Well, my Nissan quest wasn't a bad Mini-van considering... But I'm with you, I don't want Google as my Co-Pilot, unless I can turn them off and the "do not track" setting is actually honored. With Google, heck, with Apple too, you cannot ever be sure the security settings are being honored, but you can at least turn a phone off or place it in a faraday cage if you don't want it phoning home with personal data.

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    3. Re:What could possibly go wrong... by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 1

      Sorry, you lost me at "Mini-van".

    4. Re:What could possibly go wrong... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Some of us are virile enough to need to haul around kids.
      Also, dumb enough.

    5. Re:What could possibly go wrong... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have been running Android as the dash on my custom motorcycles for years. The phones are so freaking cheap and you get wifi, bluetooth, touchscreen, everything for like $30. I replace the OS with LineageOS and there is nothing Google installed whatsoever. I use only custom developed apps but F-Droid offers open-source stuff if you want/need it. I mount the phone in a custom waterproof enclosure that flows with the bike and it looks 100% factory exactly like the computer dashes they are installing these days.

      Also, if the device crashes or has bugs or something it doesn't affect the running of the motorcycle in any way.. I can pull the whole dash out and the bike works fine. The bike's ECU (if it has one) still runs all the normal stuff.

    6. Re: What could possibly go wrong... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We know what google is doing in China, are we supposed to believe they won't mine/sell our data in the US? F*CK google and their tentacles, I'm chopping them off wherever I can.

    7. Re:What could possibly go wrong... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, yes. Some should consider that kids actually are smaller than adults.
      But anyway, it's just a car.

    8. Re:What could possibly go wrong... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How do you get phones that support Lineage for $30? must be old used ones or specific fire sale stuff.
      It's what I paid for a six year old high end phone and that was well under market price.

      (and since I messed with it too much, file transfers don't work on Windows PC. Fuck that USB Mountr thing. I probably have to reformat and start over. And the ftp/sftp server I installed doesn't seem to work. fuck.)

    9. Re:What could possibly go wrong... by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      That will probably be true because they were idiots that made stupid decisions. The smart decision for an auto mobile association is a dock standard. Here is our dock standard, this is the connector and these are the mounts. Here is the power and here is the data from various sensors, cameras and temperature controls and of course speakers. We will fit which ever tablet from the manufacturer that provides us the most cash and is not dick brained about it or pisses off our customers.

      A standard on connectors gives the automotive manufacturers the whip hand, they can always swap out tablets and if the shit really hits the fan, they can recall the vehicle, pull out the existing tablet and fit a new brand, to many screams of anguish from the existing content seller controller. Hell people could get a cheap one standard, keep it as a spare and put in a much better one.

      What ever they should do, they should not listen to Google, evil is as evil does. They should go with an open standard for a vehicle tablet connector and have the tablet manufacturers always competing, that is the only smart decision to make. So a vehicle industry connector and mounts, connectors for temperature sensors and controls, probably a vehicle speed input, connectors for speakers, and probably a digital output for an amplifier and camera inputs, maybe an antennae jack, probably a microphone connector.

      Honestly if it controls nothing in the vehicle beyond the vehicles speakers it would probably make the most sense, keeps it by far the simplest and cheapest and most reliable for the auto manufacturer themselves and some companies will pay to have their tablet fitted and if it is shit the customer can just pop it on out and buy another and pop that one in. That would be smart thinking and fuck alphabet and google.

      Fuck all the hassle of a media centre, far simpler to to create a vehicle tablet dock standard, done and finished, apart from bragging about your extra special amplifier and speakers, far more sensible (offer a full range of tablets pre-fitted, customer choice, means you will not lose customers who own existing content with other suppliers, see smart thinking not the lies Google will feed you).

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    10. Re:What could possibly go wrong... by bobbied · · Score: 1

      Sorry, you lost me at "Mini-van".

      Ah, haven't had multiple kids yet. Well, stop at two or the Mini-Van is going to be something you need....

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    11. Re:What could possibly go wrong... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have been running Android as the dash on my custom motorcycles for years. The phones are so freaking cheap and you get wifi, bluetooth, touchscreen, everything for like $30. I replace the OS with LineageOS and there is nothing Google installed whatsoever. I use only custom developed apps but F-Droid offers open-source stuff if you want/need it. I mount the phone in a custom waterproof enclosure that flows with the bike and it looks 100% factory exactly like the computer dashes they are installing these days.

      Also, if the device crashes or has bugs or something it doesn't affect the running of the motorcycle in any way.. I can pull the whole dash out and the bike works fine. The bike's ECU (if it has one) still runs all the normal stuff.

      And everything you just said is completely irrelevant to this topic. What we will end up with when it is installed by the manufacturer will be complete shit and will be impossible to disable or replace with your own version short of replacing all associated hardware. And since so many manufacturers are directly integrating vehicle systems into the entertainment systems, replacing the hardware may not even be possible without making some extreme changes. And at that point, you'll realize it would have just been better to buy a car from another manufacturer and not deal with this garbage in the first place.

    12. Re:What could possibly go wrong... by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      The smart decision for an auto mobile association is a dock standard.

      The smart decision for an automobile manufacturer is lock-in. That's why they don't want a standard like that. Instead, they want amenities which they can use to sell cars. Now that all automakers are basically competent to produce a car worth driving, they are competing primarily on features. But they also want to be able to sell the buyer another car in a few years, so they're not going to give them features that let them feel like they've got a new car without buying one.

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  3. Don't worry by viperidaenz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apple will partner with the other big car brands. Except their implementation will receive software updates continuously. Your cars performance will lower slightly with every update until you feel you need to buy a new car to gain back what you've lost.

    1. Re:Don't worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yeah but the hip, stylish car will mean you get laid an order of magnitude more often.

    2. Re:Don't worry by viperidaenz · · Score: 0

      .... by other hip, stylish men

    3. Re:Don't worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Wow. A homophobe on Slashdot? Who woulda thunk it.

      Fucking bigot.

    4. Re:Don't worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Then they will remove the volume knob

    5. Re: Don't worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And in the apple car, only people with apples approval and their gadgets will be allowed to drive it

    6. Re:Don't worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are a fucking n1gger.

    7. Re:Don't worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not everyone is a homophobe, many just think they're disgusting. I think you have the right to be disgusting if you please.

    8. Re:Don't worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "homophobe" - a MADE UP word, made up by homosexuals to prevent people from pointing out the disgusting things they do to each other.

      Let me think...
      Was the anus designed to be a sexual organ, and to accept a penis? No, clearly not.
      What is the most disgusting part of the human body? Why - it's the anus, isn't it!
      What sort of person gets turned on by the smell of human excrement?
      A homosexual!

    9. Re:Don't worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apple will partner with the other big car brands. Except their implementation will receive software updates continuously. Your cars performance will lower slightly with every update until you feel you need to buy a new car to gain back what you've lost.

      Imagine your battery will be gamed so that you'll have to buy a new car. Yeah, trust Apple (or any big business where you are the product) and you will regret it.Apple fan boy pie in the sky belief.

  4. Ah, the graduate... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ah, the graduate from THE UNIVERSITY OF DUMB in you again per where I made that abundantly clear about you when I point out how STUPID you are hypocrite!

    You're internet trash c6gunner, LYING & IMPERSONATING me. Post your name, address, and phone number, you FAKE NAME COWARD FUCK.

    * Yes - thanks for showing your face (as usual HIDING behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous on your part weezil) so I can point that one out to everyone so they can laugh @ you too!

    APK

    P.S.=> Unbelievable - your IQ must be 10 below plantlife level... apk

  5. c6gunner IMPERSONATING me again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    c6gunner your FAKEname's on a post impersonating me & worse is you altering /. user's words https://linux.slashdot.org/com... as I challenged you to show you do better work and you can't after you tried to mock me you hypocrite LYING loser https://linux.slashdot.org/com... .

    * You're online FAKENAME trash c6gunner & a childish dishonest punk!

    PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH TOO saying what I don't on spectre/meltdown https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... & I haven't had a MacOS X version recompiled for me yet (I don't own a Mac but I have a friend who does & can code (to a good extent, good enough to load FreePascal 3.0.4 + patches & Lazarus 1.8.2 IDE for it in 64-bit to do so but he is a BUSY guy, just waiting on him for it to do this as a FAVOR to me...))

    APK

    P.S.=> Impossible to deny FACT of your FAKEname (for your FAKE wasted lie of a so-called life) on that 1st post link above you unbelievable loser... apk

  6. Agreed by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

    Can't wait for the inevitable crash or freeze up and now my dashboard shows nothing. Android would be the last of my OS choices.

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    1. Re:Agreed by Kaenneth · · Score: 1

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Lag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Cool, now we get to experience lag not only on our phones and laptops, but in our car as well.

    At some point, the OS-ification of common, basic goods is going to introduce lag *everywhere*. Many common tasks *already* feel like they take much longer than they used to, and it's really, really annoying.

  8. c6gunner IMPERSONATING me again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    c6gunner your FAKEname's on a post impersonating me & worse is you altering /. user's words https://linux.slashdot.org/com... as I challenged you to show you do better work and you can't after you tried to mock me you hypocrite LYING loser https://linux.slashdot.org/com... .

    * You're online FAKENAME trash c6gunner & a childish dishonest punk.

    PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH TOO saying what I don't on spectre/meltdown https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... & I haven't had a MacOS X version recompiled for me yet (I don't own a Mac but I have a friend who does & can code (to a good extent, good enough to load FreePascal 3.0.4 + patches & Lazarus 1.8.2 IDE for it in 64-bit to do so but he is a BUSY guy, just waiting on him for it to do this as a FAVOR to me...))

    APK

    P.S.=> Impossible to deny FACT of your FAKEname (for your FAKE wasted lie of a so-called life) on that 1st post link above you unbelievable loser... apk

  9. Crash by hawguy · · Score: 1

    Great, I look forward to my dashboard crashing while I drive with no instruments until (if?) it reboots, maybe it'll get stuck in a reboot loop like my last Android phone.

    I don't care if they want to make an android display for secondary information, but I hope they keep some traditional gauges for things like the speedometer, gas gauge, and highbeam/turn signal indicators.

    1. Re:Crash by 2ms · · Score: 1

      They'll certainly do everything possible to control everything in the car. And tell you it's "free" even though they're just mining your ass for data to use to take over other things.

  10. Lock in by PPH · · Score: 1

    As long as it's a DIN standard box, I can pull it out and replace it with something else. Over-the-air software updates? No thanks. I'll bring it into the shop rather than wait for the script kiddies to push crap onto my ECU.

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    1. Re:Lock in by 2ms · · Score: 1

      In the beginning. Then Google starts controlling the lights, then the ac, then the steering, the brakes, the engine/motor...

    2. Re:Lock in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Then some dude at Google who dresses up as a woman starts crashing cars that have privileged people in them.

    3. Re:Lock in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Then the dashboard says "this car isn't supported by google anymore. please buy a new car"

    4. Re:Lock in by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      As long as it's a DIN standard box,

      Not only won't it be, but most car stereos aren't either. And even the ones that are often have faceplates of nonstandard sizes so you need some special bezel kit. That's true even in my 1998 A8. DIN standard box, oversized face. At least that's just a bit of plastic away from being fixed, though.

      However, nobody ever used a DIN-standard cluster AFAICT, not even in trucks and buses.

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  11. Just what we need by 2ms · · Score: 1

    Google stealing all our personal information through our cars as well.

  12. Now our cars will spy on us! by Chas · · Score: 1

    Yay!

    "You are speeding. I am calling the police and downloading the logs..."

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  13. Upgrades and hardware replacement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Do I get a new every 2 on my dashboard like I'm forced to do with my phone. It's funny how my pristine looking phone with minimal apps slows and lags to a complete halt after 2-3 years of android upgrades.

  14. NO touchscreens in cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How is this somehow legal!?!?

    1. Re:NO touchscreens in cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hear, hear. All touchscreens should be ILLEGAL for the same reason that using your phone while driving already IS illegal.

    2. Re: NO touchscreens in cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Practice makes perfect

      That being said, touchscreen tech in cars is a step back from tactile feedback, since tactile streamlines the "I don't have to look" experience

      With so many "ux experts" being churned out these days, it's weird to see such regressive experiences

      "Put a touchscreen in there, it's 2018!"

    3. Re: NO touchscreens in cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bang goes every Tesla then! Big Oil will be laughing all the way to the bank.

  15. DNW by Hallux-F-Sinister · · Score: 1

    NO, thanks. Just say no to more unnecessary tech cluttering our lives. I do not need a DASHBOARD to be "Android"ed. The dashboard of a car is a place we've pretty much got licked, thank you very much. There is no way this tech SIMPLIFIES anything, except MAYBE wiring, if you don't mind the possibility of RF interference jamming your INSTRUMENTS, or making them display something incorrect. I'm sure it won't be long before cars start getting hacked into displaying a speed that is either higher or lower than actual, causing traffic jams, speeding tickets, or collisions, perhaps even pileups. This one's a hard NO.

    Tell you what, automakers... when there have been zero exploits, compromises, etc., to Android for more than the lifetime of a car, I'll think about it. In the meantime, NO. You make a car with an Android-based-computing-device powering the dashboard, and you've made a car I'll never buy. Screw that noise.

    This idea makes as much sense as an Android-powered HAMMER. It's an unnecessary over complication that is just a problem waiting to happen.

    Also, I don't want to have to wait for my DASHBOARD to BOOT to drive my car. This idea is full of "fail."

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  16. obligatory by astrofurter · · Score: 1

    In Soviet American car, speedometer watches you!

  17. No escape by tsa · · Score: 1

    Good deity, there really is no escaping Google anymore is there?

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  18. Google no longer relevant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As shitty as alternatives are I sleep better at night knowing all of Googles domains are blocked on my network. This constant maneuvering to enlist absolutely every physical thing in existence into Google's global creepy stalker spy network is as over the top as it is ridiculous and disgusting.

    Google needs to be broken up and dismantled. ASN 15169 needs to be immediately blackholed globally.

  19. Do you know how fast you were going? by Daralantan · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry officer, I don't know how fast I was driving. My car was too busy offering me advertisements based on recent driving experiences. Oh hey - it's telling me about nearby lawyers right now!

  20. Seems ripe for abuse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So everyone can see this will just turn into a baby monitor right?

    You don't need, and probably shouldn't want thus kind if tech just hanging out in your car for no good reason, because eventually it will be used against you

    You will probably not be able to control the data it sends back for "improving the software experience" and it will probably do that secretly

  21. c6gunner = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!"... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    c6gunner shot himself down w/ his FAKEname on a post impersonating me https://linux.slashdot.org/com... & w/ c6gunner altering /. user's words there.

    All since I challenged c6gunner to show better work than mine he did & you can't c6gunner "ne'er-do-well"!

    Right after you tried to mock me 1st https://linux.slashdot.org/com... for no good reason & I didn't bug you @ all!

    YOU DEMAND PROOF OF OTHERS "I've yet to see you provide any evidence of that." by c6gunner on Monday March 15, 2010 @10:02PM (#31490942) ?

    I DEMANDED IT OF YOU & YOU FAILED!

    * You're FAKENAME trash you childish dishonest punk + YOU are a DO-NOTHING "ne'er-do-well" CHATTERING dolt w/ ZERO to show for yourself!

    APK

    P.S.=> You say hosts are shit here https://slashdot.org/comments.... ?

    50++ /.ers & security pros + RESULTS SAY DIFFERENT:

    Proof's here from /.ers https://slashdot.org/comments.... https://slashdot.org/comments.... https://slashdot.org/comments.... https://slashdot.org/comments.... https://slashdot.org/comments.... https://slashdot.org/comments.... from SECURITY PROS https://slashdot.org/comments.... & REAL RESULTS w/ hosts working vs. threats https://slashdot.org/comments.... so EAT YOUR WORDS... apk

  22. and you'll get software updates ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    For roughly six months after you buy the car. Then nothing.
    If you need a patch for a security hole, you'll have to buy a new dashboard.
    Oh, wait ......

  23. Wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What is happening here? Lots of hate and skepticism for both Google and Android.

    Remember when Google was one of the most trusted companies in technology? What happened?? I mean I know the story, but it is still surprising to me how much attitudes towards Google seems to have shifted. Or is this just a /. thing?

  24. Pulled me over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Officer: "Are you high?"
    Me: "Am I what?'
    Officer: "High".
    Me: "Hello".
    Android: "Showing directions to Hello, Finland".