I dreamt on these pages about mesh networking, having (then) recently spent a bit of quality time on top of towers looking at things from a different perspective.
I got shot down rather severely: Too expensive, too impossible, too local, blah, blah blah.
But I remember that I used to run a BBS, using a phone line and a modem, and that dozens (dozens!) of people used it regularly, one at a time.
I also remember that good, fast modems at the time were a bit more than $350 (not accounting for inflation). In modern times, it might even be doable.....
Wait, do you mean: The more that we piss them off by fucking with them, the more likely they are to be angry and vengeful, or do you mean that by way of our loss of freedoms that they've already won? Or both?
One used to be able to board an airplane without a pat down, porno-scan, or a strip-search. One cannot do that now, because we've been terrorized into requiring these procedures.
It's not unusual that the CC folks have been getting a bit of pressure to remove ND and NC - if you really et down to it, ND+NC is only a minor variation away from "all rights reserved"
After reading your commentary, I think it means more that "this content is afraid of money," than "all rights reserved."
According to EIA data, national, annual electricity transmission and distribution losses average about 7% of the electricity that is transmitted in the United States.
Sounds pretty good to me.
(And please realize that liquid fuel doesn't happen for free, either. And that all electric heaters are damn near 100% efficient at converting electricity into heat.)
We've got technology businesses shutting down their services because they are now afraid of (i.e.: terrorized by) their own government? Did the terrorists actually win this war on terror?
The terrorists won as soon as we had to take off our shoes and throw away our nail files in order to get on an airplane, starting around 12 years ago.
It's been an easy slide down the slippery slope since then.
Around large-ish cities in Ohio, I see similar signage. It is normally spot-on.
However, in Ohio, these seem to work on data provided by little solar-powered Doppler units mounted on poles and signs along the highway, not Bluetooth. This gives a perfectly reasonable picture of average traffic speed, while remaining completely anonymous and requiring zero end-user hardware except for a large enough vehicle to generate an echo.
(The results from these Doppler units are available, presumably with additional data mixed in, at ohgo.com.)
Every car owner has the option: There is no security threat here that cannot be solved by a pair of diagonal cutters in skilled hands, or a Sawzall in less-skilled hands.
The problem, if there is a problem to begin with (and I'm not convinced that there is), is that folks are increasingly blind to the way that radios work, and remain blissfully unaware that this could ever be a problem.
I think my great grandpa probably knew more about radios than most folks today, and all he was trying to do was pick up an AM radio station on a tube set.
If incomplete MACs are recorded, then those logs can still be useful to TLAs if you can figure out how to shove the following into an SQL statement:
"Which MACs are in our vehicular bluetooth database that contain 0E:5A:B2? Which ones of those those are associated with vehicles registered within 20 miles of Vancouver? Which of those belong to a grey Buick?
Oh, look! It looks like one of them might be Joe Smith's grey Buick.
I have nothing to hide in my daily travels, and I welcome this advancement in the field of traffic study. It is my hope that such technology can be used to make my driving experience better.
I don't see the problem here. I normally don't give a hoot what they do with their data about what my radios broadcast on public ISM bands, nor how personalized it might be. If I do care, then I can always, you know, stop shouting to anyone in earshot at 2.4GHz about my whereabouts.
And you know what? If you care all the time, you can elect to not shout your whereabouts as well: Stop traveling with active, transmitting 2-way radios. Done.
That was different: The trouble Google had was that they were recording actual data packets of actual data transmissions, and that this data has no non-nefarious use.
Had they been merely documenting the broadcast beacon sent by APs, it would not have been an issue. (Just as it has not been an issue for Wigle or Skyhook, both of whom collect geolocation data for APs based on BSSID.)
I'm not sure how much of a big deal chargebacks really are. It seems to me, as someone who once began to do a chargeback against a local small business one time, that it's a pain in the ass. (The local small business eventually fixed the problem themselves, and all was well -- no chargeback required.)
There is a corner bodega that I frequent. Locally owned by a friendly fellow of Indian origin.
Some of his risk/fee is mitigated by a $5 minimum for CC purchases. (I go there often enough that this minimum does not seem to apply to me in practice, but it is a posted policy.)
Meanwhile, a locally-owned (and awesome) coffee house that I spend way too much money at: They also have a $5 minimum, or a $0.50 surcharge if under $5.
In either case, charging back a $5 pack of smokes of a $2 cup of coffee isn't worth my time. Certainly others may have more free time than I do, but meh: This does not seem to be the realm of chargeback heaven.
And chargebacks aren't free for the credit card company, either: There can be actual man-hours involved in disputing a charge, which is a cost that they have to eat. I imagine that if I were to regularly initiate charge-backs, that I would not have a credit or debit card for very long.
Meanwhile, as the guy who fixes PCs, I prefer to have business instead of not having business. If that means that my clientele get to use a credit card (as in: actual credit, not cash debited directly from a bank account), then that might mean that I get my customer's problem solved sooner instead of later, without me (myself) extending them any credit or payment terms.
Of course I still prefer cash, but I'm both an altruist and a realist: I like solving people's technological problems and would gladly do so for free if I could afford to do so, but I also recognize that I cannot continue to eat if they do not pay me.
And we're digressing pretty far from TFA at this point, which I think was meant just to say: Order & Pay with Smartphone == Win for Everyone: No cashier required! Efficiency! Win! Win! (Which is not something that I disagree with.)
As someone works very closely with a few small businesses as clients (and does business with far more of them), and as a quasi-hobbyist who fixes random computers for random people for money: They hate credit cards. Oh, sure: They're happy to take (some of) your money, even if it means a percentage cut off of the top, but cash is (still) king.
I can take credit cards, myself, using Square or Paypal, and the rates sure are reasonable...but in the low-hundreds-of-dollars-per-day volume that I might handle on a great day, I'd rather deal with cash.
It is instant, irrefutable, free to trade, and is at face value. Mugged on the way to the bank? Not a worthwhile consideration with the small businesses I work with daily, and certainly not for myself.
Replace android with cyanogenmod. You can then install these apps, and selectively retract such permissions. So you can deny the app access to camera & contacts. Maybe it'll work anyway, but it won't be able to spy on you.
I used to do this with Cyanogenmod on my OG Droid. It worked well.
On my Droid 4 with much later builds of Cyanogenmod, I can no longer find this functionality.
Where is it?
Another great use is to retract internet permissions for games like angry birds. That way, no more ads . ..
A better way to get rid of ads is Adfree Android (it used to be on the Market/Play Store, but Google decided it was bad for business).
(Cue apk and an obligatory hosts file rant, since this is both a hosts file hack AND an apk...)
Without reading TFA (obviously) I can see one advantage:
Ordering. If I can order fast food from my phone, I'm a step ahead (physically) and the chances of actually getting what I want increase dramatically.
And once I've got my order in using my pocket computer, I might as well pay for it that way too.
I can then skip the ordering line and go straight to the pick-up counter.
Or: If I've got several random people at the house and each of the picky bastards wants something special from $fast_food_place, I can presumably order it all up at my leisure and tell the $fast_food_place to have my order ready for me in 10 minutes (or however long it takes to drive there).
This may or may not be better than my current method, which is "You don't like pickles on your cheeseburger? I guess you'll have to pick them off yourself."
But, again: I think it's the ordering that is the important step, not the payment methodology.
(I already do something similar to this in Small-Town Ohio with Redbox: There are often throngs of people on a Friday or Saturday night gathered around the kiosk, browsing away in a manner not dissimilar to an indecisive fast food line. I just order what I want with my phone while they're doing this, and when the machine frees up I approach it, push a button, swipe my credit card, and my movies come out.
And I've been doing it with both pizza delivery and takeout since...well, forever. I cannot remember the last time I ordered a pizza using a telephone.)
I looked for 3 seconds, just as you suggested. Didn't find one.
Maybe you can point my in the direction of one of these phone chargers that draw 2A @ 12V, since they're apparently very common. Perhaps I'm just not looking in the right place.
"your charger or phone misbehave at all... Something simple like leaving a navigation app running in the background could do it."
Presumably, the purpose of emergency charging is to charge the phone and get it back into the user's hands, not to see how quickly it can kill a car battery if left unattended for long periods.
I said nothing flippant nor hysteric. Instead I explained in great details why your suggestion could get people killed. I called you incompetent because you made it extremely clear that you are. Suggesting emergency procedures that could get people killed is about the worst possible thing that can be done on/. yet you make no excuses nor apologies for it.
You've never been flippant nor hysteric on these pages? Well enough then - if you want to be that way, I guess I'm not incompetent, either.
It's not like I'm writing "Adolf's Fool-Proof Guide to Disaster Survival" here, nor is it as if I am the Earth Czar and everyone must follow my lead. I'm under no order to write for the lowest common denominator of stupid.
Indeed I think you hold my prose to a mighty high standard for a random pseudo-anonymous person on a website that anyone can write on. In this context, I have nothing to apologize nor excuse myself for.
Meanwhile, in an emergency: Obviously, it is important to know how to use the tools you have. Charging a phone from a car can be good use of available tools. If gasoline is in short supply, the car is in bad shape, or whatever, other methods may rise in prominence according to local conditions, including conservation.
Myself, I have multiple devices that are capable of charging a cell phone, off grid, scattered around the house, including an adequate solar panel. I could go for a few weeks, hunkered down in the house, with mildly-conservative mobile phone usage before I would -need- to venture outside to find some other method of charging a phone (be it a car, or direct sunlight). I also keep some gasoline in the shed, which gets rotated to stay fresh enough to be useful. I maintain my car so that long periods of idling are not an issue for it. And I have other air-cooled gasoline-fired things which generate 12VDC which are designed to idle for hours on end. And I have a gas stove, and I keep extra propane on hand for the grill in case both the gas and the power go out at the same time. I also have PEX plumbing that survives freezing very well, know how to let a faucet drip, live just a couple of blocks from a water tower, and know how to dress for cold weather (even if the cold happens to be indoors), and how put everyone into one room of the house to stay warm. I can charge batteries during the day using the sun, and run lights with them in the evening. I can do a lot of things with the crap I've got laying around here.
But excuses? Nope, sorry: I ain't got none of them. Ain't got no apologies, neither.
And please remember, flippant Safety Nazi, that TFA is about a camp stove that charges devices using an open fire: At least the most potentially-unsafe of any of my methods use internal combustion instead.
It's a neat device for camping. It seems like a lousy device for unexpected emergencies: There are better, cheaper, or more widely-available things to use unless having an open fire (to cook supper with, or gaze at, or whatever) is the primary goal.
Meanwhile, one thing that a lot of people always have on-hand is a car, that has a large battery, with an appropriate charging adapter already in it, and a means of recharging its own battery using a consumable energy source called "gasoline" which may or may not be a precious entity at that time.
Why rotate it? From what I can see, the video is already rotated appropriately: Up on my monitor is up on TFV.
If you don't like the vertical viewpoint, just crop it and zoom it and bend it 90 degrees. You -will- lose information in doing so, just as you must in doing so with still pictures, even if the latter is "a breeze." (There are tools that make it "a breeze" with video if that's what you really want.)
Or are you requesting that image sensors on cell phones be a 1x1 matrix instead of a 4x3 or 16x9 matrix? Because then you've got a whole different, and perhaps very interesting, fight on your hands.
Myself, I'm just pleased to be in 2013, wherein a passing motorist (or the passenger, or whoever) can quickly whip out a video camera from their pocket, record video of an event, and easily share it with the world, no matter what orientation the video camera is in, and have that video be displayed appropriately to viewers.
Which, again, is what was done here.
(Go record your own Tesla fire if you think you can be a better videographer.)
And, again, where do you live, crazy Internet person? I still want to do my own independent research to see if your actual, documented local water issues are any match for your bark on/..
I'll take you 3 seconds on Amazon to find car chargers that draw and output more than that...
Did you mean "It'll?"
Anyhow, you're right! There are higher-output chargers. Of course these require more input power than those with lower output. None of them draw 2A @ 12V.
But a cellular telephone can only draw so much total power (in terms of Joules or kiloWatt-hours or horsepower-fortnights or whatever) before its battery is charged, and then they tend to sip current. On a week-long scale, which seems to be the premise for your disjointed attacks, they're all about the same, and again none of them draw "a couple amps".
And there are few devices which an actually accept and use this additional current: Indeed, many devices require special tricks to get them to draw more than 500mA at 5V, but I won't hold that against you because the total energy to charge the battery and operate the device is the same either way.
Nonetheless, apparently, modern mobile devices are smarter than you are.
I never understood why people try to deflect their own mistakes and incompetence by name calling, and generally being argumentative fools. I've been around long enough not to be bothered by such things, and anyone else reading through this discussion can easily see the whole thread, and will know exactly who is the one continually spouting utter nonsense.
You called me incompetent, first. Later on, I described your commentary as flippant and hysteric, but not before I praised your obvious superiority.
So: Best case in the "name calling" game: Pot, meet kettle. (You're the pot.)
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Why would these tricks ever stop being useful?
Oh, come on. There's got to be something in Animal House that can provide an adequate analogy.
Good deal.
I dreamt on these pages about mesh networking, having (then) recently spent a bit of quality time on top of towers looking at things from a different perspective.
I got shot down rather severely: Too expensive, too impossible, too local, blah, blah blah.
But I remember that I used to run a BBS, using a phone line and a modem, and that dozens (dozens!) of people used it regularly, one at a time.
I also remember that good, fast modems at the time were a bit more than $350 (not accounting for inflation). In modern times, it might even be doable.....
Wait, do you mean: The more that we piss them off by fucking with them, the more likely they are to be angry and vengeful, or do you mean that by way of our loss of freedoms that they've already won? Or both?
In any case, PLEASE STOP MAKING SENSE.
K, thx.
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It doesn't matter if I still fly or not.
One used to be able to board an airplane without a pat down, porno-scan, or a strip-search. One cannot do that now, because we've been terrorized into requiring these procedures.
That's a win.
After reading your commentary, I think it means more that "this content is afraid of money," than "all rights reserved."
From the US Energy Information Administration:
According to EIA data, national, annual electricity transmission and distribution losses average about 7% of the electricity that is transmitted in the United States.
Sounds pretty good to me.
(And please realize that liquid fuel doesn't happen for free, either. And that all electric heaters are damn near 100% efficient at converting electricity into heat.)
Is LESS a good thing or a bad thing?
The terrorists won as soon as we had to take off our shoes and throw away our nail files in order to get on an airplane, starting around 12 years ago.
It's been an easy slide down the slippery slope since then.
Around large-ish cities in Ohio, I see similar signage. It is normally spot-on.
However, in Ohio, these seem to work on data provided by little solar-powered Doppler units mounted on poles and signs along the highway, not Bluetooth. This gives a perfectly reasonable picture of average traffic speed, while remaining completely anonymous and requiring zero end-user hardware except for a large enough vehicle to generate an echo.
(The results from these Doppler units are available, presumably with additional data mixed in, at ohgo.com.)
Every car owner has the option: There is no security threat here that cannot be solved by a pair of diagonal cutters in skilled hands, or a Sawzall in less-skilled hands.
The problem, if there is a problem to begin with (and I'm not convinced that there is), is that folks are increasingly blind to the way that radios work, and remain blissfully unaware that this could ever be a problem.
I think my great grandpa probably knew more about radios than most folks today, and all he was trying to do was pick up an AM radio station on a tube set.
If incomplete MACs are recorded, then those logs can still be useful to TLAs if you can figure out how to shove the following into an SQL statement:
"Which MACs are in our vehicular bluetooth database that contain 0E:5A:B2? Which ones of those those are associated with vehicles registered within 20 miles of Vancouver? Which of those belong to a grey Buick?
Oh, look! It looks like one of them might be Joe Smith's grey Buick.
Let's keep an eye on Joe."
You know what?
I don't care.
I really do not care. At all.
Not a bit.
I have nothing to hide in my daily travels, and I welcome this advancement in the field of traffic study. It is my hope that such technology can be used to make my driving experience better.
I don't see the problem here. I normally don't give a hoot what they do with their data about what my radios broadcast on public ISM bands, nor how personalized it might be. If I do care, then I can always, you know, stop shouting to anyone in earshot at 2.4GHz about my whereabouts.
And you know what? If you care all the time, you can elect to not shout your whereabouts as well: Stop traveling with active, transmitting 2-way radios. Done.
That was different: The trouble Google had was that they were recording actual data packets of actual data transmissions, and that this data has no non-nefarious use.
Had they been merely documenting the broadcast beacon sent by APs, it would not have been an issue. (Just as it has not been an issue for Wigle or Skyhook, both of whom collect geolocation data for APs based on BSSID.)
I'm not sure how much of a big deal chargebacks really are. It seems to me, as someone who once began to do a chargeback against a local small business one time, that it's a pain in the ass. (The local small business eventually fixed the problem themselves, and all was well -- no chargeback required.)
There is a corner bodega that I frequent. Locally owned by a friendly fellow of Indian origin.
Some of his risk/fee is mitigated by a $5 minimum for CC purchases. (I go there often enough that this minimum does not seem to apply to me in practice, but it is a posted policy.)
Meanwhile, a locally-owned (and awesome) coffee house that I spend way too much money at: They also have a $5 minimum, or a $0.50 surcharge if under $5.
In either case, charging back a $5 pack of smokes of a $2 cup of coffee isn't worth my time. Certainly others may have more free time than I do, but meh: This does not seem to be the realm of chargeback heaven.
And chargebacks aren't free for the credit card company, either: There can be actual man-hours involved in disputing a charge, which is a cost that they have to eat. I imagine that if I were to regularly initiate charge-backs, that I would not have a credit or debit card for very long.
Meanwhile, as the guy who fixes PCs, I prefer to have business instead of not having business. If that means that my clientele get to use a credit card (as in: actual credit, not cash debited directly from a bank account), then that might mean that I get my customer's problem solved sooner instead of later, without me (myself) extending them any credit or payment terms.
Of course I still prefer cash, but I'm both an altruist and a realist: I like solving people's technological problems and would gladly do so for free if I could afford to do so, but I also recognize that I cannot continue to eat if they do not pay me.
And we're digressing pretty far from TFA at this point, which I think was meant just to say: Order & Pay with Smartphone == Win for Everyone: No cashier required! Efficiency! Win! Win! (Which is not something that I disagree with.)
Yep.
As someone works very closely with a few small businesses as clients (and does business with far more of them), and as a quasi-hobbyist who fixes random computers for random people for money: They hate credit cards. Oh, sure: They're happy to take (some of) your money, even if it means a percentage cut off of the top, but cash is (still) king.
I can take credit cards, myself, using Square or Paypal, and the rates sure are reasonable...but in the low-hundreds-of-dollars-per-day volume that I might handle on a great day, I'd rather deal with cash.
It is instant, irrefutable, free to trade, and is at face value. Mugged on the way to the bank? Not a worthwhile consideration with the small businesses I work with daily, and certainly not for myself.
Wait. Mesa stopped supporting GLIDE?
For some reason, upon reading your comment, I immediately found those three words and just kept laughing.
Whatever you have to say that is based on a concept of "an honest congress" must also be similarly hysterical.
"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."
- John Adams
I used to do this with Cyanogenmod on my OG Droid. It worked well.
On my Droid 4 with much later builds of Cyanogenmod, I can no longer find this functionality.
Where is it?
A better way to get rid of ads is Adfree Android (it used to be on the Market/Play Store, but Google decided it was bad for business).
(Cue apk and an obligatory hosts file rant, since this is both a hosts file hack AND an apk...)
Without reading TFA (obviously) I can see one advantage:
Ordering. If I can order fast food from my phone, I'm a step ahead (physically) and the chances of actually getting what I want increase dramatically.
And once I've got my order in using my pocket computer, I might as well pay for it that way too.
I can then skip the ordering line and go straight to the pick-up counter.
Or: If I've got several random people at the house and each of the picky bastards wants something special from $fast_food_place, I can presumably order it all up at my leisure and tell the $fast_food_place to have my order ready for me in 10 minutes (or however long it takes to drive there).
This may or may not be better than my current method, which is "You don't like pickles on your cheeseburger? I guess you'll have to pick them off yourself."
But, again: I think it's the ordering that is the important step, not the payment methodology.
(I already do something similar to this in Small-Town Ohio with Redbox: There are often throngs of people on a Friday or Saturday night gathered around the kiosk, browsing away in a manner not dissimilar to an indecisive fast food line. I just order what I want with my phone while they're doing this, and when the machine frees up I approach it, push a button, swipe my credit card, and my movies come out.
And I've been doing it with both pizza delivery and takeout since...well, forever. I cannot remember the last time I ordered a pizza using a telephone.)
a record-breaking American runner of African descent whose gender has been in dispute in the past?
I looked for 3 seconds, just as you suggested. Didn't find one.
Maybe you can point my in the direction of one of these phone chargers that draw 2A @ 12V, since they're apparently very common. Perhaps I'm just not looking in the right place.
Presumably, the purpose of emergency charging is to charge the phone and get it back into the user's hands, not to see how quickly it can kill a car battery if left unattended for long periods.
You've never been flippant nor hysteric on these pages? Well enough then - if you want to be that way, I guess I'm not incompetent, either.
It's not like I'm writing "Adolf's Fool-Proof Guide to Disaster Survival" here, nor is it as if I am the Earth Czar and everyone must follow my lead. I'm under no order to write for the lowest common denominator of stupid.
Indeed I think you hold my prose to a mighty high standard for a random pseudo-anonymous person on a website that anyone can write on. In this context, I have nothing to apologize nor excuse myself for.
Meanwhile, in an emergency: Obviously, it is important to know how to use the tools you have. Charging a phone from a car can be good use of available tools. If gasoline is in short supply, the car is in bad shape, or whatever, other methods may rise in prominence according to local conditions, including conservation.
Myself, I have multiple devices that are capable of charging a cell phone, off grid, scattered around the house, including an adequate solar panel. I could go for a few weeks, hunkered down in the house, with mildly-conservative mobile phone usage before I would -need- to venture outside to find some other method of charging a phone (be it a car, or direct sunlight). I also keep some gasoline in the shed, which gets rotated to stay fresh enough to be useful. I maintain my car so that long periods of idling are not an issue for it. And I have other air-cooled gasoline-fired things which generate 12VDC which are designed to idle for hours on end. And I have a gas stove, and I keep extra propane on hand for the grill in case both the gas and the power go out at the same time. I also have PEX plumbing that survives freezing very well, know how to let a faucet drip, live just a couple of blocks from a water tower, and know how to dress for cold weather (even if the cold happens to be indoors), and how put everyone into one room of the house to stay warm. I can charge batteries during the day using the sun, and run lights with them in the evening. I can do a lot of things with the crap I've got laying around here.
But excuses? Nope, sorry: I ain't got none of them. Ain't got no apologies, neither.
And please remember, flippant Safety Nazi, that TFA is about a camp stove that charges devices using an open fire: At least the most potentially-unsafe of any of my methods use internal combustion instead.
It's a neat device for camping. It seems like a lousy device for unexpected emergencies: There are better, cheaper, or more widely-available things to use unless having an open fire (to cook supper with, or gaze at, or whatever) is the primary goal.
Meanwhile, one thing that a lot of people always have on-hand is a car, that has a large battery, with an appropriate charging adapter already in it, and a means of recharging its own battery using a consumable energy source called "gasoline" which may or may not be a precious entity at that time.
That is all.
Why rotate it? From what I can see, the video is already rotated appropriately: Up on my monitor is up on TFV.
If you don't like the vertical viewpoint, just crop it and zoom it and bend it 90 degrees. You -will- lose information in doing so, just as you must in doing so with still pictures, even if the latter is "a breeze." (There are tools that make it "a breeze" with video if that's what you really want.)
Or are you requesting that image sensors on cell phones be a 1x1 matrix instead of a 4x3 or 16x9 matrix? Because then you've got a whole different, and perhaps very interesting, fight on your hands.
Myself, I'm just pleased to be in 2013, wherein a passing motorist (or the passenger, or whoever) can quickly whip out a video camera from their pocket, record video of an event, and easily share it with the world, no matter what orientation the video camera is in, and have that video be displayed appropriately to viewers.
Which, again, is what was done here.
(Go record your own Tesla fire if you think you can be a better videographer.)
And, again, where do you live, crazy Internet person? I still want to do my own independent research to see if your actual, documented local water issues are any match for your bark on /..
Did you mean "It'll?"
Anyhow, you're right! There are higher-output chargers. Of course these require more input power than those with lower output. None of them draw 2A @ 12V.
But a cellular telephone can only draw so much total power (in terms of Joules or kiloWatt-hours or horsepower-fortnights or whatever) before its battery is charged, and then they tend to sip current. On a week-long scale, which seems to be the premise for your disjointed attacks, they're all about the same, and again none of them draw "a couple amps".
And there are few devices which an actually accept and use this additional current: Indeed, many devices require special tricks to get them to draw more than 500mA at 5V, but I won't hold that against you because the total energy to charge the battery and operate the device is the same either way.
Nonetheless, apparently, modern mobile devices are smarter than you are.
You called me incompetent, first. Later on, I described your commentary as flippant and hysteric, but not before I praised your obvious superiority.
So: Best case in the "name calling" game: Pot, meet kettle. (You're the pot.)