Xposed Framework + XPrivacy. It breaks out ALL permissions under the main groups and each is selectable per app. In most cases, denying permission will provide fake / empty data so that app functionality is maintained. It lists ALL permissions and marks the app's requested ones so you know what it wants to use.
Best yet, it has a sort of permissions tripwire - a usage log shows you when an app has tried to use a blocked permission. In very rare cases, I've seen apps call permissions they didn't explicitly request up front.
Pretty much every app on my phone (and I don't install many) is denied accounts, contacts, location, sensors, phone ident, and web access. If an app force-closes under this template, I check the usage log and decide if I want to allow the failed permissions until the app works. I can either groan and take it or uninstall and look for a better behaved alternative.
Ah, the amazingly useful Borland "Like a Book" license. As I recall, you could install to your heart's content (possibly limited to your own household or business), subject to the agreement only one person can "borrow the book" at any given time. They didn't manage this with technological measures, just the good ol' fashioned honor system.
(Obligatory IANAL here, however I do work in healthcare)
So far as I understand HIPAA, you can voluntarily disclose all the protected health info you want. Got diagnosed with something awful and can't help updating your Facebook status? That's perfectly legal. And your interactions with your phone don't constitute any kind of healthcare relationship (yet) so I don't see the legal angle on Samsung doing something with the data. I have to assume using the app requires agreement to share the data.
That said, I'd love to see more and better medical monitoring tech in phone accessories. As mentioned below by mythosaz, wellcare almost always costs less than illness care. And that doesn't even take into account the personal costs of time to see the doc, missed work, lowered quality of life, etc.
Oh no! I've hurt someone's feelings! On the internet! Remind me to apply for a patent!
Seriously tho', biodegradeable? Sure, if they dissolved within days or so *maybe*. But they don't. And why should I have to pick inconsiderate smokers' trash out of my yard? Or out of my car's radiator?
Trash is trash and butts lying all over the roadways and down the sides of buildings is bad and just uncivilised. But "people" who smoke at children's parks and leave the butts in the play area are the ones who need to be flushed.
I never *once* called for a ban on smoking, or for higher tariffs. Just that people be decent and clean up their *own* messes!
Wow. Such logic. Why do you have the right to harm me via second-hand smoke?
Live alone or with smokers only? Smoke up, Johnny! But if you have kids or live with non-smokers, be a decent human being and keep your fumes and butts to yourself.
It's my fault I don't want to be given migraines and or cancer from my co-workers? Or have to (indirectly) pay for the extra cleaning and maintenance caused by the smoke - walls, air handlers, etc.?
I've thought about it, but knowing the litigious world we live in, I feared a returned ciggie which led to a fire in the car would equal charges for me. Especially if someone got hurt or worse.
You clearly do not live near speed trap towns. There are several in Florida. The AAA got onto them by placing billboards ahead of the enforcement zones (55 to 25 MPH in the span of a block or two) and the towns sued as I recall. Lost badly. One actually declared bankruptcy! Hampton, FL is looking at its end because of lost ticket revenue.
Oh how I wish they were able to feasibly enforce already-in-effect statutes regarding smoking where prohibited and for littering. I've long said that if I had Powerball money, I'd hire dozens of off-duty cops to do nothing but stand visibly at major intersections writing littering citations for smokers who throw their butts out (usually lit) rather than stuff 'em in the ashtray.
I'm also sick of people who smoke all the way to the entrance to a store and drop the lit end at the threshhold cos they couldn't be arsed to put it in the provided ashcan / pole thing because it's off to the side of the entrance.
To be fair, Adriax, the AC (somewhat rudely) did set a threshold for the fever. Yes, absolutely a fever that high and unresponsive means a doctor's visit. But having worked for three years with a healthcare group specifically established and funded by the city and the major area hospitals specifically to keep ER frequent fliers away, the AC has a valid point.
Our company took treatment data from the ERs and with our own nurse case managers and a multispecialty physician network rivaling paid insurance carriers, we worked to divert uninsured and underinsureds to PCP care for non-emergent issues. This was for far more than fevers - we did diabetes and hypertension management, obesity and smoking interventions, the works. The hospitals ponied up because they were sick (ha!) of eating the $6,500 average unpaid ER bill when people without insurance would skip out on paying. And because an ER is a/terrible/ place for routine health care. The people who complied with their care plans did better and had fewer ER visits and the hospitals and the city were happy,
Until budget cuts from the city and a lack of federal grant renewal put the kibosh on the whole thing. 1,400-odd covered folks went back to their old ways...
Because not everyone can be arsed to buy a commercial product to fill a specific need, choosing one designed for that need, and then removing core software or hardware in order to make it "open". Some people like to buy things without having to re-engineer them when they get home.
Don't get me wrong. I rooted both my cellphones shortly after purchase, and I have a Linksys home router running custom firmware. I mod things for performance reasons or because it's interesting or enlightening. But not everyone can or should do so. In an ideal world*, the routers would have sane security by default.
I'll take off my rose-tinted specs now and go back to yelling at the kids on my lawn.
... Getting a little tired of this disingenuous strawman. The purpose of personal property is to belong to its owner. The purpose of clothing is to cover our bodies. Neither suggests access is explicitly or implicitly granted to third parties.
Now, put a water fountain up at a public park with the intent (but no access control measures implemented) to limit its access and then let's talk. A publicly-available website's purpose is to disseminate information! Robots.txt is a timeworn and standard way to show your intent for access. As is having a log in page or similar. If you put up a public-facing website which conveys information relevant for public consumption, don't be surprised when the public uses it! Heaven forbid a speedreader with eidetic memory accesses pages too fast for your liking...
Now, if you implement a page cap and someone uses tricksy browsing to bypass THAT, then I agree that that is bad form. Until then, if you put the site up and effectively say "OPEN FOR BUSINESS"...
re: the summary's title: One simple word would have needed all this hand-wringing. "Siphons Work PRIMARILY Due To Gravity [...]"
Also, help me out. Isn't reducing pressure at one end how siphoning is started? I understand gravity's role in moving the column of fluid along, but as pointed out, you need both gravity and pressure, right?
I'm completely spit-balling here, but what if each component needing drivers brought their own? I haven't seen the interconnect specs but could a firmware chip on the new component provide its own driver when connected?
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lol - 10 points to Pedant House ^^
Still, have you seen a 2J? Crazy ground-effect sucker car. More downforce than weight. Fairly unreliable. Amazingly inventive tho'!
What do you use to manage this?
Xposed Framework + XPrivacy. It breaks out ALL permissions under the main groups and each is selectable per app. In most cases, denying permission will provide fake / empty data so that app functionality is maintained. It lists ALL permissions and marks the app's requested ones so you know what it wants to use.
Best yet, it has a sort of permissions tripwire - a usage log shows you when an app has tried to use a blocked permission. In very rare cases, I've seen apps call permissions they didn't explicitly request up front.
Pretty much every app on my phone (and I don't install many) is denied accounts, contacts, location, sensors, phone ident, and web access. If an app force-closes under this template, I check the usage log and decide if I want to allow the failed permissions until the app works. I can either groan and take it or uninstall and look for a better behaved alternative.
Ever heard of Chaparral? Their cars /really/ sucked!
Ah, the amazingly useful Borland "Like a Book" license. As I recall, you could install to your heart's content (possibly limited to your own household or business), subject to the agreement only one person can "borrow the book" at any given time. They didn't manage this with technological measures, just the good ol' fashioned honor system.
I suspect the typical Tesla S buyer is neither a DIY-er nor the sort that takes his baby to Pep-Boys for repair...
If they had gone Microsoft, Bada-Bing would soon be followed by Big Bada-Boom ^^
Why would a one-time supervillain wannabe turned adoptive father want to eat a poor, endarkened Slashdotter?
(Obligatory IANAL here, however I do work in healthcare)
So far as I understand HIPAA, you can voluntarily disclose all the protected health info you want. Got diagnosed with something awful and can't help updating your Facebook status? That's perfectly legal. And your interactions with your phone don't constitute any kind of healthcare relationship (yet) so I don't see the legal angle on Samsung doing something with the data. I have to assume using the app requires agreement to share the data.
That said, I'd love to see more and better medical monitoring tech in phone accessories. As mentioned below by mythosaz, wellcare almost always costs less than illness care. And that doesn't even take into account the personal costs of time to see the doc, missed work, lowered quality of life, etc.
Umm, how is running a SCD off the road that way any different than if I did that to you? How would you react differently?
Oh no! I've hurt someone's feelings! On the internet! Remind me to apply for a patent!
Seriously tho', biodegradeable? Sure, if they dissolved within days or so *maybe*. But they don't. And why should I have to pick inconsiderate smokers' trash out of my yard? Or out of my car's radiator?
Trash is trash and butts lying all over the roadways and down the sides of buildings is bad and just uncivilised. But "people" who smoke at children's parks and leave the butts in the play area are the ones who need to be flushed.
I never *once* called for a ban on smoking, or for higher tariffs. Just that people be decent and clean up their *own* messes!
Wow. Such logic. Why do you have the right to harm me via second-hand smoke?
Live alone or with smokers only? Smoke up, Johnny! But if you have kids or live with non-smokers, be a decent human being and keep your fumes and butts to yourself.
It's my fault I don't want to be given migraines and or cancer from my co-workers? Or have to (indirectly) pay for the extra cleaning and maintenance caused by the smoke - walls, air handlers, etc.?
I've thought about it, but knowing the litigious world we live in, I feared a returned ciggie which led to a fire in the car would equal charges for me. Especially if someone got hurt or worse.
You clearly do not live near speed trap towns. There are several in Florida. The AAA got onto them by placing billboards ahead of the enforcement zones (55 to 25 MPH in the span of a block or two) and the towns sued as I recall. Lost badly. One actually declared bankruptcy! Hampton, FL is looking at its end because of lost ticket revenue.
[...] smoking in public [...]
Oh how I wish they were able to feasibly enforce already-in-effect statutes regarding smoking where prohibited and for littering. I've long said that if I had Powerball money, I'd hire dozens of off-duty cops to do nothing but stand visibly at major intersections writing littering citations for smokers who throw their butts out (usually lit) rather than stuff 'em in the ashtray.
I'm also sick of people who smoke all the way to the entrance to a store and drop the lit end at the threshhold cos they couldn't be arsed to put it in the provided ashcan / pole thing because it's off to the side of the entrance.
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking, that TWoWS is cruel and unusual punishment?
I'm so very disappointed it took this many posts to get to this one. I figured it for FP, myself.
Not really. How close are we now to digital copyrights lasting a millennium?
To be fair, Adriax, the AC (somewhat rudely) did set a threshold for the fever. Yes, absolutely a fever that high and unresponsive means a doctor's visit. But having worked for three years with a healthcare group specifically established and funded by the city and the major area hospitals specifically to keep ER frequent fliers away, the AC has a valid point.
/terrible/ place for routine health care. The people who complied with their care plans did better and had fewer ER visits and the hospitals and the city were happy,
Our company took treatment data from the ERs and with our own nurse case managers and a multispecialty physician network rivaling paid insurance carriers, we worked to divert uninsured and underinsureds to PCP care for non-emergent issues. This was for far more than fevers - we did diabetes and hypertension management, obesity and smoking interventions, the works. The hospitals ponied up because they were sick (ha!) of eating the $6,500 average unpaid ER bill when people without insurance would skip out on paying. And because an ER is a
Until budget cuts from the city and a lack of federal grant renewal put the kibosh on the whole thing. 1,400-odd covered folks went back to their old ways...
Because not everyone can be arsed to buy a commercial product to fill a specific need, choosing one designed for that need, and then removing core software or hardware in order to make it "open". Some people like to buy things without having to re-engineer them when they get home.
Don't get me wrong. I rooted both my cellphones shortly after purchase, and I have a Linksys home router running custom firmware. I mod things for performance reasons or because it's interesting or enlightening. But not everyone can or should do so. In an ideal world*, the routers would have sane security by default.
I'll take off my rose-tinted specs now and go back to yelling at the kids on my lawn.
... Getting a little tired of this disingenuous strawman. The purpose of personal property is to belong to its owner. The purpose of clothing is to cover our bodies. Neither suggests access is explicitly or implicitly granted to third parties.
Now, put a water fountain up at a public park with the intent (but no access control measures implemented) to limit its access and then let's talk. A publicly-available website's purpose is to disseminate information! Robots.txt is a timeworn and standard way to show your intent for access. As is having a log in page or similar. If you put up a public-facing website which conveys information relevant for public consumption, don't be surprised when the public uses it! Heaven forbid a speedreader with eidetic memory accesses pages too fast for your liking...
Now, if you implement a page cap and someone uses tricksy browsing to bypass THAT, then I agree that that is bad form. Until then, if you put the site up and effectively say "OPEN FOR BUSINESS"...
Waaait... Is Mike Bolton on the dev team for this? I hear he always messes up the mundane details.
re: the summary's title: One simple word would have needed all this hand-wringing. "Siphons Work PRIMARILY Due To Gravity [...]"
Also, help me out. Isn't reducing pressure at one end how siphoning is started? I understand gravity's role in moving the column of fluid along, but as pointed out, you need both gravity and pressure, right?
I'm completely spit-balling here, but what if each component needing drivers brought their own? I haven't seen the interconnect specs but could a firmware chip on the new component provide its own driver when connected?