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Could You Live Without a Smartphone For a Year? (techtimes.com)
shanen writes about Vitaminwater's latest "publicity stunt," where they will pay $100,000 to one select contestant who can live without their smartphone for a year: All you have to do is come up with the most amusing entry [about how you will spend 365 days without the device] and have sufficient willpower to give up your smartphone for a year. They obviously have to pick a power user to make it interesting, but that's not the reason I'm disqualified. I would just read more books, which is boring from their perspective. So maybe you want to share your idea here? If it's really good, you don't have to worry about someone stealing it. After all, you'd have the evidence that it was your idea first, but you might be able to refine your entry while amusing the mob. The company will reportedly give you a 1996 cellphone to use in times of emergencies. Also, they will reward you with $10,000 if you are able to get through 6 months. According to Tech Times, contestants can use computers or desktops, "but not smartphones or tablets, even those owned by other people, or anything which the candidate can scroll or swipe on." Always-listening smart speakers, like the Amazon Echo and Google Home, are permitted.
To make sure the candidate doesn't cheat, Vitaminwater will subject them to a lie-detector test at the end of the year.
To make sure the candidate doesn't cheat, Vitaminwater will subject them to a lie-detector test at the end of the year.
I've only been doing that since, well, the E52 died five years ago and I went back to the 6310.
A human can only go 7 days without water, 30 days without food, and 90 days without a smart phone. This is common knowledge.
That's easy-peasy for me as I don't own a smart phone.
And I'm not a senior citizen to boot!
CAP === 'objector'
I cut my landline years ago.
I could certainly go a year without it. In fact, I've never let go of my original MOTO RAZR for just this reason. I'd love a way to go back to just it. But, my employer has become addicted to Lync mobile, always-on email, the ability to randomly insert conference call meeting invites into my calendar, etc. Essentially, my employer sees "mobility" and smartphones as an excuse to have employees be "always on."
And before people say "just turn your phone off" to "deliver a message" to my employer. That has actually been tried before. Those people missed enough important emails and/or meetings that it showed up on their performance review and they were asked to go collect paychecks from a different employer.
I don't have a smartphone now.... I've got a candy bar phone with no camera, and no internet. I text about once per week, and make about 5 calls per day, mostly related to coordinating with a friend I give rides home to. I get that people find those things useful, the only really compelling need for me is I wish I had google maps at times... but yes, you can live without it.
So nothing with a multi-line display? Bring on the knobs, switches, and lights! Batch processing FTW!
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I managed to survive for 45 years before buying my first smartphone, back in 2010.
If I had to do without one now, I'd miss it, because damn those things are convenient... but I'd manage, just like I did before. And so would everyone else.
Wow, that was easy. Next question?
https://www.vitaminwater.com/l...
Phones are for boomers...
That one's easy. I'm a poweruser but giving up a smartphone for 12 months for 100 000$ sounds like a very good deal to me. No sweat. I'll check if I can apply as a non-USian.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
I spend most my time on desktops anyway, always one at hand except when I am going out.
The string attached is the ban on using other people's smartphones. Friend shows you a funny cat video on his smartphone, you're fucked.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
I'm not addicted to it unlike most people. I mainly use it just to read novels on the go. Could just as easily switch back to a tablet or lord forbid an actual book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Full keyboard, wide display, email, probably enough to run ssh to my server and a VNC client......
Where do I get my money?
I could totally live without a smartphone. Wouldn't miss it for a single second. But the rest of the world (my wife) seems to have an anxiety attack if I don't respond immediately.
"I will spend 12 months practicing defeating lie detectors." Thank you.
if we stopped clicking for even a few days?
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I've been living without a smart phone/cell phone for over a year and it's been SO nice.
I could effortlessly give up smart phone.
I could pretty easily give up cellular service entirely.
These are conveniences. If they are requirements for your life, you need to reevaluate your life.
And yet they can go their whole lives without ever being subjected to an accurate lie detector test. In fact, nobody has ever done anything else.
That should be:
"To make sure they don't get paid, Vitaminwater will subject them to a phony lie-detector test at the end of the year."
--- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
I've always had just a flip-phone. How many more articles need we read on Slashdot to prove that smartphones should not be used?
I keep myself busy with professional, family and social events, and everything goes into Google Calendar. Usually I add things from my Linux workstation, and those entries are all synced to my Google Pixel 2 phone. As something gets close, my phone will remind me, and Waze can also tell me it's time to start driving.
I had the Twitter and Facebook apps on my previous phone (a Nexus 5) and consciously didn't install them on the Pixel 2 -- I spend enough time on social media as it is, I don't need to be crouched over a phone when I'm out -- that's when I should be chatting with friends, family, and people in my network. I even use my smartphone as a .. phone. I'm self-employed, so my clients can call me with questions. I have a stand-up meeting with my main client every day or two. Sure, I could use a land-line for that, but if he calls me and I'm travelling .. pfft.
The smartphone's also my alarm clock and my camera. Giving up all (most) of the functionality of a smart phone isn't going to happen.
Theoretically we can.. of course we can!!! I've lived through decades without it. There was a time the Samsung sliding open phone capable of a color screen was the shit! Nowadays smartphones bring much more than just lifestyle. It brings basic necessity to the World such as news, text, emails, information, etc... Yeah sure we can live without it but why even bother asking the question? Does it bring any value?
Next question.
I can live without Vitaminwater for a year.
I require it for work and the whole "being on call" thing. Under normal circumstances I could get away with a "dumb" phone tbh.
NetBSD will never be SystemD ready.
And we have detected a bullshit-campaign. Lie-Detectors do not exist. The only thing that exists is elaborate pseudo-science scams that scare people into thinking their lies could be detected.
Probably some people calculated how much getting this amount of attention would cost them conventionally and found that 100k plus, say, another 100k of work was actually very cheap.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
It wouldn't even be a challenge. That includes hundreds of millions of people in the western world. I have four smart phones and a tablet. I would trash them without a second thought for $100000, and it would not cause any problems whatsoever, especially if I could still use a simple mobile phone. I could bring my own. I still have one that I actively use and one that I haven't taken out of the box yet. My ebook reader doesn't have a touch screen, so I assume it would not be prohibited.
I "went without a smartphone" for 35 years of my life, I think I could cope for a year for $100k.
-Styopa
I could live without any human interaction for a year. Bring on the EMP motherfuckers.
for only 100K (they are only going to pay 1 person, not *every* person that does it) they made slashdot and the local news last night. Great PR. The local news station did a poll and around 85% said they would. If they paid out every person that did it, then the moviepass people would be jealous.
I don't own a smart phone
I'd be completely happy with a old phone and an answering machine, I've kinda become a troglodyte lately.
If I add a G4 Wireless to my laptop I will get 99% of my smartphone functionality
The other 1 percent being communication services that your may employer or clients require of you and which are deliberately exclusive to iOS and Android and unavailable on Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux. Creation of a new account on the Telegram messaging service is one example. Restaurants' apps for ordering ahead are another.
thats what interests me about this.
would a what would have been called a featurephone be okay? those have internet too.
6310i has j2me, possibly the first phone to do so. so would it be okay?
or can I just haul my laptop around?
also the whole concept is fucking stupid exactly due to there being people who don't use one anyways. for me, I need to use them for development even if I participated. but then again it's just a publicity stunt.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Really, anywhere outside the interstate corridors and a certain population density they don't do anything but collect texts. I have a cell phone, but keep it forwarded to a landline as I am surrounded by mountains. $100,000 please.
A cell phone for about a year...
But no need for a "smartphone".
The US is primarily 3G/4G. 1G/2G and AMPS networks have been mostly turned off. Would a 1996-era cell phone even work today? Flip phones, sure, but not from 1996!
Easy as cake.
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If you couldn't, that says a whole lot about you, as it isn't difficult unless you have had your phone surgically grafted to your hand. Is this really what we've come to? Pathetic. Outlandishly pathetic.
My smart[hone sits unused on my desk most of the time
I use my desktop computer for all computing and my wired telephone for voice
I only use the smartphone when on road trips
I rarely take road trips
Arth1 = science fiction fable spewer in error & no intelligence as a wannabe sysadmin vs. https://linux.slashdot.org/com... & why?
* My post completely BURNED YOUR obviously SELF-UPMODDED by SOCKPUPPET +5 UPMODDED post w/ SOLID PROOF & TECH REASONS why ANY linux distro (a modern KUbuntu 18.04 LTS proves you wrong) would be STUPID ENOUGH to do DNS before file (hosts) in nsswitch as you said.
Especilally when I prove systemd (in most modern Linux) DEFAULTS to a more than potentially kaminsky flaw redirected ISP DNS!
(Which most will use by default unlike myself shifting to OpenDNS & most modems supplied by ISP's by default don't allow DNS change IN THE MODEM itself (which I just went thru getting 2 in a row that don't allow it - heck, 1 by technicolor from SPECTRUM (timewarner in my area formerly) DIDN'T EVEN ALLOW ME, or the remote TECHS mind you, INTO IT @ ALL (China supplied no less)).
APK
P.S.=> Answer that wannabe "sysadmin" ... apk
Arth1 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. https://linux.slashdot.org/com... & I'd like to know how you got a +5 when you are wrong vs. that proof & why you RAN vs. that?
* My post completely BURNED YOUR obviously SELF-UPMODDED by SOCKPUPPET +5 UPMODDED post w/ SOLID PROOF & TECH REASONS why ANY linux distro (a modern KUbuntu 18.04 LTS proves you wrong) would be STUPID ENOUGH to do DNS before file (hosts) in nsswitch as you said.
Especilally when I prove systemd (in most modern Linux) DEFAULTS to a more than potentially kaminsky flaw redirected ISP DNS!
(Which most will use by default unlike myself shifting to OpenDNS & most modems supplied by ISP's by default don't allow DNS change IN THE MODEM itself (which I just went thru getting 2 in a row that don't allow it - heck, 1 by technicolor from SPECTRUM (timewarner in my area formerly) DIDN'T EVEN ALLOW ME, or the remote TECHS mind you, INTO IT @ ALL (China supplied no less)).
APK
P.S.=> Answer that wannabe "sysadmin"... apk
Arth1 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. https://linux.slashdot.org/com... & I'd like to know how you got a +5 when you are wrong vs. that proof & why you RAN vs. that?
* My post completely BURNED YOUR obviously SELF-UPMODDED by SOCKPUPPET +5 UPMODDED post w/ SOLID PROOF & TECH REASONS why ANY linux distro (a modern KUbuntu 18.04 LTS proves you wrong) would be STUPID ENOUGH to do DNS before file (hosts) in nsswitch as you said.
Especilally when I prove systemd (in most modern Linux) DEFAULTS to a more than potentially kaminsky flaw redirected ISP DNS!
(Which most will use by default unlike myself shifting to OpenDNS & most modems supplied by ISP's by default don't allow DNS change IN THE MODEM itself (which I just went thru getting 2 in a row that don't allow it - heck, 1 by technicolor from SPECTRUM (timewarner in my area formerly) DIDN'T EVEN ALLOW ME, or the remote TECHS mind you, INTO IT @ ALL (China supplied no less)).
APK
P.S.=> Answer that wannabe "sysadmin"... apk
I have never owned any kind of mobile phone. My wife has a dumb phone, which we used while we were evacuated from southern California's Woolsey Fire.
Our land-line phone at home (copper line, POTS) is self-powered by AT&T. When Southern California Edison (SoCalEd) goes down -- which happens several times a year -- VoIP (voice over Internet phone) dies as do those cell-phone antennas whose backup power systems have not been recently serviced. AT&T, however, remains available for me to call SoCalEd to report their outage.
Our land-line phone gave us assurance that our house was still standing during the Woolsey Fire. We were able to call our house. The answering machine on the second floor answered, which meant that our house was okay and we even still had electricity. We know that Internet service (including VoIP) through Spectrum and some cell antennas were lost during the fire. In our community, however, the copper phone lines are all underground.
No, I am not a Luddite. My entire career was in computer software. I just like to get away from the phone when I leave my house.
I'd be a prime target for such a test since I make very heavy use of my smartphone.
But the thing is, a smartphone is simply a tiny, limited computer. It can be trivially substituted by any other computer in any circumstance where size is not a complete deal breaker.
For instance I have my lunch in a bar, where I watch videos on youtube. Doing the same with a laptop might be a bit quirky, but there's no reason why I couldn't do that.
Reading in the underground without a tablet would be inconvenient, as one needs to be seated to use a laptop. But it wouldn't be a particularly big deal. I could always print stuff, or perhaps use a Kindle if that's allowed.
I guess the main inconvenience would be music, as I use bluetooth headphones, and carrying a laptop everywhere to work as a source would be a pain. But I'm sure I could still get a dedicated player for that.
Overall, I could do this quite easily without really changing any of my usual patterns which currently heavily involve a smartphone.
Want to do something meaningful? Pay someone who doesn't have a smart phone $100,000 to buy and use a smart phone for a year, with a minimum of 3 hours of usage per day, and then at the end of the experiment give it up for 3 months. That would be much more meaningful a test.
You're disqualified if you don't have a Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and SnapChat account.
I lived without a cellphone for at least 50 years, and I didn't have a palmtop, laptop, fliptop or any of that. I did have a "home phone" but it was a definitely a "dumb phone". I used a home phone as a data link, acoustically coupled @ 300 baud, but that didn't actually make it smart, even if capable of downloading porn at several minutes per still picture. 50 years, don't know how I managed. Sitting here in 2018 I wonder how I was able to find anything without GPS, but for 100K I bet I could remember.
{Really, wtf is wrong with kids these days?}
If your laptop has enough CPU and RAM to run an Android emulator usably, good luck fitting its screen under the 2D barcode scanner of a quick-service restaurant's till when it's time to scan in for payment and rewards. And good luck lawfully acquiring applications in the first place if they're exclusive to Google Play Store. A lot of these applications aren't on F-Droid or Amazon, which I'm told are the primary app stores for users of Android emulators.
Then Telegram's account creation policy must have changed between when you signed up and when I tried a week ago. I put my phone number into the web interface on a PC running Firefox, and I got this error message:
I ownED a smart phone, and when it started flaking out I decided that the three years of use it gave me weren't worth the hundreds of dollars I paid for it. So I spend about 30 bucks on a dumbphone which has lasted over 4 years.
Talk, text, calendar, notes. Everything else is just frivolity.
My smart watch can be used for phone calls. For the rest I have a tablet.
IP = Internet Protocol not Internet Phone.
But the handle is ringing a bell.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
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I have a good sense of direction (which gets practiced by not relying on GPS).
I actually think my sense of direction has been honed and even improved by training against my smartphone. I've become better at retaining orientation in stairwell reversals and in "feeling" what maps actually mean on the ground without relying on distinctive landmarks as much as I used to.
These days I've become increasingly able to study the map in advance and negotiate complicated routes without needing the smartphone--but it's also reassuring to have it available if I need it.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
I work a professional job in a major city. I have a spouse and two kids, and fully participate in our household and parenting. I travel for work, and commute by mass transit, bike, or foot. We have a "home" phone. Up until December 2017, I didn't own a cell phone at all. It ain't hard folks. You just get used to planning a bit more ahead of time.
Support a few technologists in Washington.
That people actually think it is a severe hardship to go without the smartphone. Some people, the ad dept of this company, really think that everyone requires their smartphone, 24/7/365.
I'd do it for 1% of that 'prize'.
I've managed to live quite well without a mobile phone, let alone a 'smart' one. When I see the ridiculous expense, and all the absurdly insecure apps, and all of the problems people have with them ... including tensions and dependency ... I don't see how the word 'smart' applies.
It's a fucking telephone. It's also a computer with no keyboard and a 'monitor' like a game-boy. REtarded.
It's like high-sugar cereal. And then people bitch when their teeth fall out.
"You must try to forget all you have learned. You must begin to dream." -- Sherwood Anderson
Giving it up for daily texting / talking would be easy ( am an introvert and don't talk to anyone anyway ), not so much on the utility side of things though.
For example:
I use mine mostly as a music player. ( Both my active and inactive Smartphones have headphone jacks still :D )
I can't log into many websites without a " code " they feel they need to send to my phone as pseudo-2fa.
Some games ( think Steam and Blizzard ) both utilize 2fa via a Smartphone app. ( assuming anyone games anymore )
My phone receives text message and email alerts anytime my Credit Card is used so I know instantly if the card has been compromised.
My alarm system sends alerts via text messaging / email and the phone is first point of contact should it trigger.
Via VPN, my smartphone can connect to my home network and access any of the security cameras and / or the NAS if need be.
Prescription alerts and reminders come across as text messages.
I don't even bother wearing a watch these days.
So, it COULD be done, but I would be giving up a lot of convenience in doing so.
and have for the sixteen + years since the 'smart phone's "take off" in the north america market (i'm using the tmobile sidekick for a reference point here, 2002).
i've never even ever sent a text (sms) message. NEVER. not on my phone, not on anyone elses.
i also hate touchscreens (on tablets, laptops, all-in-ones, etc) of any kind, and don't own any except for by accident on a laptop (the feature has been disabled since day one of my ownership).
i do have a cellular phone. it's a 'dumb phone' (which is 'permitted' in this context) on a 20 year old service plan (complete with roaming charges and everything) that's super fucking cheap because data and smartphone surcharges didn't exist then), and sms is disabled at the carrier.
so where's my $1.6 million (and counting)??
I've already been living without one for a little over 53 years. Didn't get my first mobile phone until a couple years ago, and it's a cheap $15 flip Tracfone. Mainly bought it in case something comes up when away from the house. Rarely use it. Since the minutes roll over, I have over 1200 minutes accumulated so far.
"A Bird In The Hand Will Poop On Your Wrist"-Benny Hill,1982
The first question is whether the $100k will be in escrow and with a solid enough contract to trust you'll get it at the end.
If so, hire a cash-starved millenial for 50/50 split to be your valet for a year contingent on not allowing you to use anybody's smartphone by accident. Their secondary responsibility is to carry around appropriate equipment to act as your voice-activated internet terminal and secretary.
I haven't had a smartphone in a decade.
Where's my million dollars?
#DeleteFacebook
That's "best ya got" vs. me being RIGHT https://linux.slashdot.org/com... ? Weak & yes, I know it's YOU saying it like you TRIED to here too arth1 (albeit under your registered 'lusername' on 'mental' etc. https://slashdot.org/comments.... - do you REALLY think you've fooled anyone but YOURSELF that it's you again doing that bs - the default of FAILS online, lol? Please).
* You F'd up BIG arth1 - the past modems I've gotten from ISP's didn't allow DNS change in them (& IF you don't overwrite resolv.conf as I do @ bootup, systemd makes a BAD ASSUMPTION & uses it exposing users to KAMINSKY FLAW REDIRECT POISONING which a good 95% of ISP DNS aren't patched vs. NEITHER ARE THEIR CHINESE MODEMS (that even my ISP couldn't get into as I couldn't on Spectrum rebranded TECHNICOLOR one I had to get a BETTER one vs. after that)).
APK
P.S.=> You did this to yourself arth1, again (4 billion no disk storage bs on hosts same for malware makers stupid)... apk
See subject like arth1 did blowing it BAD https://linux.slashdot.org/com... & my post you replied to PROVES WHY EVEN MORESO (isp modems don't allow change from DNS default to their unpatched kaminsky flaw redirect poisonings MOST still aren't patched vs. TO THIS DAY - hence my need to switch to it (can @ resolv.conf level OS/IP stack side though overriding it) & NO PORT FILTERING which I demand in modems/routers).
I put out KUbuntu 18.04 fully patched LTS not doing what he said "most linux distros now default DNS as default resolver" - why hasn't HE put that out then in nsswitch? Modern Linux use systemd & it MAKES THAT BAD ASSUMPTION exposing users to unpatched ISP DNS (systemd blows it there worse).
APK
P.S.=> Spout your bs all day long but I am right as rain & RAINING SHIT all over "your kind" FAKENAME, lol - you can't DENY it... apk
Since a fixed-location computer can do everything a touch-interface computer can do (specific games, excepted), this is about turning a teenager's FoMO and real-keyboard incompetence into car-crash television.
_grokparsefailure.
arth1 4 billion failure https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & learn to read https://slashdot.org/comments.... "Rinse, Lather & REPEAT" & get your "HOOKED ON PHONICS" out troll...
APK
P.S.=> I think you understand YOU "F'd UP" BOTH TIMES just fine arth1 - yes, again, I KNOW it's you submitting by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous again & being stupid as usual for you vs. me - you did them BOTH to yourself trying to "take me on" & FAILING as always, lol... apk
I'd recompile OctoPrint in webasm and have my iPhone run it to manage my 3D printers.
That's easy-peasy for me as I don't own a smart phone.
And I'm not a senior citizen to boot!
CAP === 'objector'
A phone to me is a phone
To receive a call or to make a call
And I am still using that nokia my dad gave me, some 20 odd years ago.
swillden "Mr. Alleged 'security engineer'" RAN 3 yrs. ago from UPMOD proof on my posts on HOSTS https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... OR https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... calling them spam (despite upmods) vs. 117++ (now far more) users of hosts etc. https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... & he KNOWS registered /.ers here USE/LIKE/PRAISE my work (not his).
swillden ALSO ate his words & RAN on when I asked him WHY GOOGLE THE ADVERTISER PULLED HOSTS FROM ANDROID KITKAT https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
HE OUTRIGHT RAN when I compared addons to hosts too https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
APK
P.S.=> Dumbo, like I said - IDIOT wannabes like YOU start w/ me & I FINISH YOU OFF with facts you RAN from boy... apk
"(Disclaimer: I'm a Google security engineer" - by swillden (191260) on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @12:01AM (#49023323)
IF that's true, then WHY/HOW did I RUN YOU OFF on hosts on a plethora of levels https://slashdot.org/comments.... & LIES you said about my posts on hosts (calling them 'spam')?
(Which you also DOWNMOD HID & I reposted to burn you AGAIN, easily (just like you tried hiding my other posts too here))
* OH "you have REVEALED YOURSELF UNTO ME" / "I SEE YOU" Google ADVERTISER BIGGEST SPAMMERS OF ALL TIME you hypocrite calling ME that (at least people like/use/praise my work, NOT YOUR ADS they hate that track/slow/INFECT them).
Hosts stop your ads that track/slow/INFECT users = why you pull your CRAP boy.
APK
P.S.=> REAL SECURITY PROS disagree w/ YOU on hosts security efficacy etc. too BOY https://news.slashdot.org/comm... ... apk
Who's right here, me (w/ proof supporting me) or you (no proof of a distro defaulting to DNS over file/hosts) https://linux.slashdot.org/com... ?
* Why don't YOU quote what you said & post the URL for me, then we can discuss that too!
(& I'll dust your ass like always, remember this one "4 billion" https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... when I stopped that botnet w/ only 10 ENTRIES, lol - then your 'theoreticals' blew up in your face too (lmao)).
NOTICED YOU & swillden LIKE DOWNMOD HIDING YOUR FAILS vs. ME TOO like YOU did this post last time I posted it https://slashdot.org/comments.... = PROOF YOU KNOW YOU FAILED!
APK
P.S.=> Arth1, I didn't realize it, but I have literally 50 such BLATANT "F-ups", you starting w/ me 1st as always, only to KNOCK YOURSELF FLAT OUT for me, lmao - I don't have to TRY to win even - you SELF-DEFEAT yourself (lol)... apk
See subject & "Rinse, Lather + Repeat" https://slashdot.org/comments.... & you started up w/ me here again too: A pleasure exposing you then (which you seem to ENJOY proving your kind is ASS BACKWARD like all millenial SNOWFLAKE sjw types are, lol).
* Seems an AWFUL lot of REAL SECURITY PROS disagreed w/ you on hosts there too, lol Mr. "Google Security Engineer" (Google 'security' blows & tons of proof on that in recent breaches you've had too)! ... no comments?
APK
P.S.=> Of course not - all "your kind" (advertisers @ Google) do is FAIL vs. me constantly, lol... apk
Who's right here,
That is a stupid question. "What is right" is a good one, and people can judge for themselves, without you telling them.
NOTICED YOU & swillden LIKE DOWNMOD HIDING YOUR FAILS vs. ME TOO
No, that is your paranoia talking. Really, I have only one slashdot account, and cannot downmod or upmod anyone where I post. And no interest in doing so.
Others upmod and downmod depending on what they read, and if what they read is crazy talk, chances are probably higher it will be modded down.
Really, no one is out to get you. You're not that important.
Some seem to like to jerk your chain and see you go off on a tangent, for amusement. But no one really cares enough about YOU to go after you.
And when you say people are hiding or running, what really happens is that people roll their eyes and move on, not wasting more time. Again, you're not that important.
What's written is written, and people can judge for themselves. People don't lose anything by simply moving on.
Which I am doing right now. Call it running away or you smashing me or whatever you like - I don't really care, and I have better things to do than worry about you.
I am into my 7th month, not only without a smart phone, but without a phone altogether. I only communicate using email, remailers, AAMDirect II, and Bitmessage.
See subject: Who's right - me (proof supports me) or you (no proof distros default DNS vs. hosts) https://linux.slashdot.org/com... ?
MOST DO you SAY?? Which ones SO I CAN STRAIGHTEN THEM OUT ON THEIR BLATANT FUCKUPS! Tell me which do. I'll do THEM a favor & their users AS I HAVE SPECTRUM USERS WORLDWIDE due to the above.
(ANSWER THAT 1st question (2nd on a list too), no more "evasive maneuvers" & I'll dust your ass like always, remember this one "4 billion" https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... when I stopped that botnet w/ only 10 ENTRIES, lol - then your 'theoreticals' blew up in your face too (lmao)).
Don't try "play victim" w/ me SNOWFLAKE - you started it in the 1st link above - I just finished it & YOU with it, lol!
APK
P.S.=> For all your BULLSHIT now too? PLEASE, lol - you CERTAINLY aren't "moving on" are you?? Nope, lmao & you're AFRAID to "FACE THE MUSIC" as you DANCE to MY TUNE & you BROUGHT IT ON YOURSELF in that link above, boy... apk
My job requires me to have a smart phone. I make significantly more than $100K per year. I'll keep my job and let somebody else have the prize, thank you!
Yes I'm live without mobile for one year. Name-Pavan kumar Mobile No. +919616288996 From-(UP) INDIA
My hands and give me a real phone. Antenna, replaceable LARGE battery (Read: at least 7 days standby and 2 hours talk time), able to roam on every network available in the US.
Better yet: Give me a 3watt bagphone.