Another problem is people not researching what's available until they need a new phone.
I'm not sure how many phones are sold this way but that's how I bought my current phone. A slight impact killed the screen (it was already old and had survived harder impacts, but this must have been the proverbial straw).
At this point I look around the internet for a few minutes studying a few options. I was really busy that day and didn't want to spend much time. I already know I'm going to the Verizon Store, because I just want a phone right now so I can get on with other things.
I don't regret my choice. It may not have been the best choice for me, but unless someone is a loyal customer of one brand or another and will always go with that brand's latest and greatest or unless they have been persuaded by advertising a lot of us don't really know which phone we would get if we had to buy one right now.
My biggest complaint is that the promised Marshmallow update isn't available for it - even though Verizon still says I'm going to get it....someday.
They've had that for a while. They're just expanding it.
No, I don't want NFL Mobile on my phone. I know lots of people are fanatical about sports, but I just don't care. It's not the only 3rd-party bloatware that came with my phone that I cannot install (just disable).
Is it an outrage? Did he say something besides if he doesn't win it's because the system is rigged? I must have missed the "outrage" on that one. Maybe on some left-wing blog it's an "outrage", but Trump, in my opinion, just looks silly saying that. Some of his supporters will no doubt be outraged when he loses. I believe he's pre-making excuses for it.
Heads I win. Tails, you cheated.
And it seems to resonate well with you since you're already complaining that people are saying it's an outrage when I have seen no evidence of that.
People were outraged by his 2nd Amendment comment. People were rightly outraged by his comments about the Khans. People were outraged by his comments about Russia and Clinton's emails. People were outraged by his idea to use religion as a litmus test for entering the country.
"We" are not deforesting. Mostly third world nations are.
Wow. They must have a lot of excess lumber.
Maybe they sell it or something?
I wonder who buys that.
Probably nobody buys the wood that burns up in the Amazon.
Brazil does have a timber industry but that contributes to increased fires. Slash and burn farming techniques also contribute to the problem.
From an interesting article on fire in the Amazon:
Those stories draw attention to how difficult it is to escape the cycle of accidental fire. Logging causes fire; drought causes fire; fire causes fire. With the increasing threat of fire, landholders are reluctant to use their land for anything that might be wiped out by fire or to spend their money on fire prevention measures on their own property when they are just as threatened by their neighbor’s land management decisions.
Informative, really mods? I can go to ANY right wing site RIGHT now and say "GOP is the rich old white people party" and I will NOT be banned...compare this to how many left wing sites will ban your ass immediately if you talk about how Hillary is a crook that deserves PMITA prison.
Really? A number of years ago I was somewhat interested in a presidential election and I really wanted to like the Republicans and so I joined some right-wing forums and gave some honest opinions. I got banned from a number of them even though I was trying not to be trollish or rude.
I didn't say anything like the "GOP is the rich old white people party" (that is trollish), but I did give my thoughts on a number of issues and some people even agreed with me on some of them. But the people who ran those websites couldn't stand any dissent within their ranks. They weren't even willing to offer any arguments as to why I was wrong.
Not that the left is any better. Or to be more accurate, there are idiots and intolerant people on both sides of the aisle. There are also sometimes reasonable people willing to present logic behind their views and to at least listen to other people's ideas.
Political discussion on the internet really sucks. Too many people view it as some sort of college football rivalry when ostensibly both Democrats and Republicans want what is best for our country even if they disagree on what exactly "best" is. It too quickly turns into insults and petty squabbles while the actual issues at hand are ignored or just turned into 140 character tirades.
I've heard of him, but only a couple of times. I think your comment: " You can't throw a dead cat over your shoulder without hitting a video on how he was treated unfairly by Twitter." was a bit hyperbolic.
I guess it has to do with what one seeks out on the internet. I don't mean that to sound judgmental but if you keep seeing videos of this Milo guy and I've only heard of him a couple of times and that other poster has never heard of him at all then it's clear our internet habits are somewhat different. My content consumption is not necessarily better than yours. They're just different. We're both on slashdot so there is some common ground.
How many of us really have anything blackmail-worthy that would be revealed by our internet usage?
The worst they could get on me would be some kinky, but legal, porn searches. I wouldn't want everyone in the world to know about that, but if I were a judge I wouldn't let someone blackmail me over it either.
If the information came out and I had to even address it, I'd simply say "Yeah, I have viewed porn on the internet. So what?"
Maybe it would be more typical for someone to casually "pirate" movies or TV shows or music. I really doubt the public is going to be very shocked by that either.
So unless their internet activity involves something like taking bribes or some other abuse of power - or looking at child-porn which most people don't have any desire to do, they really aren't in much of a position to be blackmailed.
There are surely corrupt judges in the system and ones who maybe just cheat on their spouses, but I'd actually like to think that most of them aren't corrupt. Perhaps I'm naive in thinking that, but for many people as long as we protect our identity and bank acount and credit card information, there really isn't much to fear, is there?
And if I were a corrupt judge or cheating on my spouse, I would be very careful not to use anything but a burner phone to set up a meeting in person. No text messages and definitely no e-mail would be used.
Well, it must vary because now that I double-check you're right. The last time I checked I could have sworn it was a few miles further from Houston.
I see I have been moderated as Flamebait, but I'd like to point out that I was replying to a comment which said "Fuck Texas".
How that comment isn't moderated Flamebait and mine is, I'm not even going to try to figure out.
The local news has been doing this for as long as I can remember. They'll tease a story during primetime programming. Find out on your local news at 10!
Okay, so you're wondering what it's all about and it really sounds interesting. The teaser could be about anything, crime, entertainment, the latest fad it doesn't matter. So you tune in. You watch as they go through a few not-very-interesting news stories. You watch a boring weather report and then they cover sports - as if anyone who cares about sports didn't already know if their team won. Then they tease the story some more and cut to commercial.
Then you finally find out what it was they were teasing you over - and it's not even that interesting.
Fortunately these days we have the internet at our fingertips so when I see a teaser like that on the local news I can get to the uninteresting part almost immediately and turn off the TV.
I've only been asked to use a chip reader twice and the card I normally use doesn't even have a chip, despite it being replaced earlier this month.
Swiping is fast and easy and for a lot of purchases I make I'm not even asked for a signature.
That may be fairly insecure, but the fraud detection department seems very efficient. The reason my card was replaced was because they noticed suspicious charge attempts, which were in fact fraudulent. I've also never been held liable for these charges so security is not a great concern to me.
If I'm going to have to wait up to 30 seconds for my transaction to go through, then for me it's just worse all around.
My other credit card does have a chip, but I almost never use it.
Security may be more important for anyone using a debit card, but I refuse to even have one because of the risks.
I can only offer anecdotes about my own personal experience but the patch didn't deliver enough for me. It could be because as a smoker I was more used to occasional larger doses rather than a lower continuous dose.
The gum gave me too much nicotine at once. Maybe I could have learned to use them so I didn't experience those effects, but I know of one smoker who claimed the gum eventually just increased his addiction to nicotine.
I've been using e-cigs for a few years with a couple of brief relapses to real cigarettes, but I *think* e-cigs are not as bad. However I still see it as unhealthy. I've coughed from them as well as getting dry mouth.
Another aspect of e-cigs I found is I don't know when I'm "done" "smoking" so I have a tendency to vape quite often at times. My current e-cig has a "puff counter" but I am not always consistent with puffs either. It's possible that I've actually increased my nicotine usage. I really don't know.
And if the e-liquid even contains an ingredient list it generally include a vague "and flavorings", whatever that means and I think consumers should have better protections than that. At best they really are basically harmless or at least reduce the harm from real cigarettes. I dislike having this habit though and intend to work on quitting. Messing with e-juice and constantly charging batteries and maintaining the cartridges is much more of a pain in the ass than just buying a pack of smokes and carrying a lighter around. I can't even stand most of the flavors I've tried.
I really don't understand the more enthusiastic vapers or why they're so reluctant to accept that they might not be so harmless after all.
Why exactly? You think wherever you're from is better?
Texas has its faults to be sure, but the interesting thing is most people who live in Texas aren't even from Texas.
It's also large enough that you shouldn't make generalizations. People in El Paso are closer to Los Angeles than they are to Houston.
But I think I can speak for every Native Texan when I say Fuck all you people who are bigoted towards us whether you're from Pennsylvania or New York or California. If you hate Texas so much, why the hell do you people keep moving there?
I wanted to chime in with that same sentiment. In my experience most cops won't even blink if you're 10 over the limit on a highway where the speed limit is 75 (or even 55). In fact, in some places you're a road hazard if you're not doing at least 10 over the limit. Let's stop pretending that speed is a major factor in causing accidents. It is usually a lack of paying attention as in this case that causes collisions and hurts or kills people.
Speeding doesn't cause accidents, although it can make them worse when they do happen.
And how much should internet service cost? I was paying $80 per month for 40 Mbps down but only ever getting 20 and often getting about 2. As it turned out, they were willing to lower my bill to about $35 per month and no doubt they're still making a profit. So where was that extra $45 going?
And of course, they still aren't providing more than 20Mbps down.
the only words any ISP I've ever had seem to understand are "I want to cancel my service." That's the only time they pay attention to anything.
How much does Netflix cost again? $10 per month? It's so insignificant that I'm not even sure. I look over my credit card bill every month making sure all the charges look legit and I don't even usually notice Netflix.
It might not work for all customers, but I would still pay for Netflix if it was $25 a month. I would complain at that price, but I wouldn't cancel my service.
cable TV? Screw that. People complain about the paucity of things to watch on Netflix, but have you looked at your cable TV lineup? That's even worse and I used to pay close to $150 per month for that
Am I the only who is struck by this wording in the article?
the door "could have killed somebody. The fact that it didn't was because an emergency stop was activated,"
So, the door could have killed Deckard, but there was an "emergency stop" which apparently prevented his death, even though he was still injured.
It sounds to me that although imperfect, the prop had safety features which prevented him from being killed.
based on what little I know of the actual details, I'm going to say the prop company did their due diligence. Sometimes things can be dangerous, but there was an "emergency stop" which prevented his death.
Back in the '80s, probably about 1984 or so there were people protesting the fact that 7-11 sold Playboy and Penthouse and probably Hustler too. Really, there were people out there with protest signs exercising their First Amendment rights to shut down a couple of magazines.
They actually succeeded 7-11 stopped selling porn magazines.
It didn't really matter because every other convenience store sold porn mags, but it was a thing.
So you can't watch porn in McDonald's or Starbucks anymore? I mean you could if you want to go the VPN route or whatever, but who the hell cares?
I mean I never voted for Gingrich, but some of us did and we also voted for all the other people in Congress. And many of us didn't vote at all which certainly didn't help keep "these people" out of government.
I find Newt's words very disturbing. He's striking at the very heart of what many people came to this country for which was religious freedom. It's right there in the First Amendment.
"It's not appropriate under the Constitution, and historically, we've always said if you fought against the United States, that the correct answers were basically jail as opposed to deportation,"
So, is he acknowledging that we cannot deport citizens for their religious beliefs, but saying we should imprison them instead? Sharia law seems ill-defined and I'm sure many Muslims cannot agree on exactly what it is and Newt is advocating throwing people in jail for believing in it, whatever it is?
Well, he did say "if you fought against the United States" - that kind of changes things from just having particular religious beliefs.
But just visiting a terrorist friendly website should be a felony?
Someone should ask Newt Gingrich if he believes in the Bill of Rights or if he's ever heard of it.
As an android user, I'm very aware of this. That's why I use my phone primarily as a phone and sometimes a GPS navigation device. If it were lost or stolen my banking and credit card information would not be compromised. The most sensitive information that would be exposed would be my contacts and a few text messages. There aren't even any interesting photos on it. I have an actual camera for that.
But a couple days ago I was kind of curious about this Pokemon Go thing and I almost installed it until I reviewed what it wanted access to which appeared to be just about everything. I understand that it needs some permissions which I find sensitive (location, camera, network) but why would it need access to my contacts? And it also stated that automatic updates to it may be given even more permissions.
And am I wrong, or does Android not have the concept of file permissions? Obviously some apps need to read and write files, but is there any reason my Pokemon app needs to be able to read the files saved by some other app?
I get the impression that a lot of people say "Who cares if they can read your contacts? Every app does that! They aren't really doing anything with it." But if they weren't doing anything with it, why do they go to the trouble of getting permission to do so?
I'm actually tempted to get a burner phone just so I can go wild in the app store and not have to worry about my privacy.
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Another problem is people not researching what's available until they need a new phone.
I'm not sure how many phones are sold this way but that's how I bought my current phone. A slight impact killed the screen (it was already old and had survived harder impacts, but this must have been the proverbial straw).
At this point I look around the internet for a few minutes studying a few options. I was really busy that day and didn't want to spend much time. I already know I'm going to the Verizon Store, because I just want a phone right now so I can get on with other things.
I don't regret my choice. It may not have been the best choice for me, but unless someone is a loyal customer of one brand or another and will always go with that brand's latest and greatest or unless they have been persuaded by advertising a lot of us don't really know which phone we would get if we had to buy one right now.
My biggest complaint is that the promised Marshmallow update isn't available for it - even though Verizon still says I'm going to get it....someday.
And now, third-party bloatware
They've had that for a while. They're just expanding it.
No, I don't want NFL Mobile on my phone. I know lots of people are fanatical about sports, but I just don't care. It's not the only 3rd-party bloatware that came with my phone that I cannot install (just disable).
Which makes my DSL broadband (45/5 Mbps).
I suppose I should be glad I have this alternative to the cable giant.
I might add that for my purposes this is more than I need about 95% of the time. The uptime beats the crap out of the cable giant.
Their customer service and pricing are as bad though.
Is it an outrage? Did he say something besides if he doesn't win it's because the system is rigged? I must have missed the "outrage" on that one. Maybe on some left-wing blog it's an "outrage", but Trump, in my opinion, just looks silly saying that. Some of his supporters will no doubt be outraged when he loses. I believe he's pre-making excuses for it.
Heads I win. Tails, you cheated.
And it seems to resonate well with you since you're already complaining that people are saying it's an outrage when I have seen no evidence of that.
People were outraged by his 2nd Amendment comment. People were rightly outraged by his comments about the Khans. People were outraged by his comments about Russia and Clinton's emails. People were outraged by his idea to use religion as a litmus test for entering the country.
I have yet to see any outrage over this remark.
If they did that to me, my workaround would be to just sign up again.
If they wouldn't let me do it under my name, I would make up a name.
I have ever had to show my ID to get phone, internet or cable TV.
They always ask for a SSN, but I always tell them I don't have one. And they will tell me I have to pay in advance - not a problem
"We" are not deforesting. Mostly third world nations are.
Wow. They must have a lot of excess lumber.
Maybe they sell it or something?
I wonder who buys that.
Probably nobody buys the wood that burns up in the Amazon.
Brazil does have a timber industry but that contributes to increased fires. Slash and burn farming techniques also contribute to the problem.
From an interesting article on fire in the Amazon:
Those stories draw attention to how difficult it is to escape the cycle of accidental fire. Logging causes fire; drought causes fire; fire causes fire. With the increasing threat of fire, landholders are reluctant to use their land for anything that might be wiped out by fire or to spend their money on fire prevention measures on their own property when they are just as threatened by their neighbor’s land management decisions.
From Forest to Field: How Fire is Transforming the Amazon
Informative, really mods? I can go to ANY right wing site RIGHT now and say "GOP is the rich old white people party" and I will NOT be banned...compare this to how many left wing sites will ban your ass immediately if you talk about how Hillary is a crook that deserves PMITA prison.
Really? A number of years ago I was somewhat interested in a presidential election and I really wanted to like the Republicans and so I joined some right-wing forums and gave some honest opinions. I got banned from a number of them even though I was trying not to be trollish or rude.
I didn't say anything like the "GOP is the rich old white people party" (that is trollish), but I did give my thoughts on a number of issues and some people even agreed with me on some of them. But the people who ran those websites couldn't stand any dissent within their ranks. They weren't even willing to offer any arguments as to why I was wrong.
Not that the left is any better. Or to be more accurate, there are idiots and intolerant people on both sides of the aisle. There are also sometimes reasonable people willing to present logic behind their views and to at least listen to other people's ideas.
Political discussion on the internet really sucks. Too many people view it as some sort of college football rivalry when ostensibly both Democrats and Republicans want what is best for our country even if they disagree on what exactly "best" is. It too quickly turns into insults and petty squabbles while the actual issues at hand are ignored or just turned into 140 character tirades.
I've heard of him, but only a couple of times. I think your comment: " You can't throw a dead cat over your shoulder without hitting a video on how he was treated unfairly by Twitter." was a bit hyperbolic.
I guess it has to do with what one seeks out on the internet. I don't mean that to sound judgmental but if you keep seeing videos of this Milo guy and I've only heard of him a couple of times and that other poster has never heard of him at all then it's clear our internet habits are somewhat different. My content consumption is not necessarily better than yours. They're just different. We're both on slashdot so there is some common ground.
How many of us really have anything blackmail-worthy that would be revealed by our internet usage?
The worst they could get on me would be some kinky, but legal, porn searches. I wouldn't want everyone in the world to know about that, but if I were a judge I wouldn't let someone blackmail me over it either.
If the information came out and I had to even address it, I'd simply say "Yeah, I have viewed porn on the internet. So what?"
Maybe it would be more typical for someone to casually "pirate" movies or TV shows or music. I really doubt the public is going to be very shocked by that either.
So unless their internet activity involves something like taking bribes or some other abuse of power - or looking at child-porn which most people don't have any desire to do, they really aren't in much of a position to be blackmailed.
There are surely corrupt judges in the system and ones who maybe just cheat on their spouses, but I'd actually like to think that most of them aren't corrupt. Perhaps I'm naive in thinking that, but for many people as long as we protect our identity and bank acount and credit card information, there really isn't much to fear, is there?
And if I were a corrupt judge or cheating on my spouse, I would be very careful not to use anything but a burner phone to set up a meeting in person. No text messages and definitely no e-mail would be used.
And I'm not cheating on my wife, I swear.
"Chrysler/Jeep owners should always make sure their vehicles are locked!" And other people shouldn't?
As a Chrysler owner who has lived in Houston, I thought the advice was to never lock your car. They'll just stick a knife through the convertible top.
It has happened to me before. The alarm still went off though. It costs more to replace the top than it would have to replace the stereo.
but I owned a Chrysler, I didn't replace the top. I just lived with it.
But really, are there people out there who don't lock their cars up if they are not convertibles? Why would you do that?
Well, it must vary because now that I double-check you're right. The last time I checked I could have sworn it was a few miles further from Houston. I see I have been moderated as Flamebait, but I'd like to point out that I was replying to a comment which said "Fuck Texas". How that comment isn't moderated Flamebait and mine is, I'm not even going to try to figure out.
The local news has been doing this for as long as I can remember. They'll tease a story during primetime programming. Find out on your local news at 10!
Okay, so you're wondering what it's all about and it really sounds interesting. The teaser could be about anything, crime, entertainment, the latest fad it doesn't matter. So you tune in. You watch as they go through a few not-very-interesting news stories. You watch a boring weather report and then they cover sports - as if anyone who cares about sports didn't already know if their team won. Then they tease the story some more and cut to commercial.
Then you finally find out what it was they were teasing you over - and it's not even that interesting.
Fortunately these days we have the internet at our fingertips so when I see a teaser like that on the local news I can get to the uninteresting part almost immediately and turn off the TV.
Very often porn doesn't make any sense either.
Lazy phone makers don't bother upgrading the OS on non flag ship models
But the flagship you buy today will not stay the flagship for long.
I've only been asked to use a chip reader twice and the card I normally use doesn't even have a chip, despite it being replaced earlier this month.
Swiping is fast and easy and for a lot of purchases I make I'm not even asked for a signature.
That may be fairly insecure, but the fraud detection department seems very efficient. The reason my card was replaced was because they noticed suspicious charge attempts, which were in fact fraudulent. I've also never been held liable for these charges so security is not a great concern to me.
If I'm going to have to wait up to 30 seconds for my transaction to go through, then for me it's just worse all around.
My other credit card does have a chip, but I almost never use it.
Security may be more important for anyone using a debit card, but I refuse to even have one because of the risks.
I can only offer anecdotes about my own personal experience but the patch didn't deliver enough for me. It could be because as a smoker I was more used to occasional larger doses rather than a lower continuous dose.
The gum gave me too much nicotine at once. Maybe I could have learned to use them so I didn't experience those effects, but I know of one smoker who claimed the gum eventually just increased his addiction to nicotine.
I've been using e-cigs for a few years with a couple of brief relapses to real cigarettes, but I *think* e-cigs are not as bad. However I still see it as unhealthy. I've coughed from them as well as getting dry mouth.
Another aspect of e-cigs I found is I don't know when I'm "done" "smoking" so I have a tendency to vape quite often at times. My current e-cig has a "puff counter" but I am not always consistent with puffs either. It's possible that I've actually increased my nicotine usage. I really don't know.
And if the e-liquid even contains an ingredient list it generally include a vague "and flavorings", whatever that means and I think consumers should have better protections than that. At best they really are basically harmless or at least reduce the harm from real cigarettes. I dislike having this habit though and intend to work on quitting. Messing with e-juice and constantly charging batteries and maintaining the cartridges is much more of a pain in the ass than just buying a pack of smokes and carrying a lighter around. I can't even stand most of the flavors I've tried.
I really don't understand the more enthusiastic vapers or why they're so reluctant to accept that they might not be so harmless after all.
Why exactly? You think wherever you're from is better?
Texas has its faults to be sure, but the interesting thing is most people who live in Texas aren't even from Texas.
It's also large enough that you shouldn't make generalizations. People in El Paso are closer to Los Angeles than they are to Houston.
But I think I can speak for every Native Texan when I say Fuck all you people who are bigoted towards us whether you're from Pennsylvania or New York or California. If you hate Texas so much, why the hell do you people keep moving there?
I wanted to chime in with that same sentiment. In my experience most cops won't even blink if you're 10 over the limit on a highway where the speed limit is 75 (or even 55). In fact, in some places you're a road hazard if you're not doing at least 10 over the limit. Let's stop pretending that speed is a major factor in causing accidents. It is usually a lack of paying attention as in this case that causes collisions and hurts or kills people.
Speeding doesn't cause accidents, although it can make them worse when they do happen.
And how much should internet service cost? I was paying $80 per month for 40 Mbps down but only ever getting 20 and often getting about 2. As it turned out, they were willing to lower my bill to about $35 per month and no doubt they're still making a profit. So where was that extra $45 going?
And of course, they still aren't providing more than 20Mbps down.
the only words any ISP I've ever had seem to understand are "I want to cancel my service." That's the only time they pay attention to anything.
How much does Netflix cost again? $10 per month? It's so insignificant that I'm not even sure. I look over my credit card bill every month making sure all the charges look legit and I don't even usually notice Netflix.
It might not work for all customers, but I would still pay for Netflix if it was $25 a month. I would complain at that price, but I wouldn't cancel my service.
cable TV? Screw that. People complain about the paucity of things to watch on Netflix, but have you looked at your cable TV lineup? That's even worse and I used to pay close to $150 per month for that
Am I the only who is struck by this wording in the article?
the door "could have killed somebody. The fact that it didn't was because an emergency stop was activated,"
So, the door could have killed Deckard, but there was an "emergency stop" which apparently prevented his death, even though he was still injured.
It sounds to me that although imperfect, the prop had safety features which prevented him from being killed.
based on what little I know of the actual details, I'm going to say the prop company did their due diligence. Sometimes things can be dangerous, but there was an "emergency stop" which prevented his death.
How can I prevent the next episode of a show from playing automatically?
I wasn't even aware of this feature. It must not be turned on for me.
Back in the '80s, probably about 1984 or so there were people protesting the fact that 7-11 sold Playboy and Penthouse and probably Hustler too. Really, there were people out there with protest signs exercising their First Amendment rights to shut down a couple of magazines. They actually succeeded 7-11 stopped selling porn magazines. It didn't really matter because every other convenience store sold porn mags, but it was a thing. So you can't watch porn in McDonald's or Starbucks anymore? I mean you could if you want to go the VPN route or whatever, but who the hell cares?
We (collectively) elected them.
I mean I never voted for Gingrich, but some of us did and we also voted for all the other people in Congress. And many of us didn't vote at all which certainly didn't help keep "these people" out of government.
I find Newt's words very disturbing. He's striking at the very heart of what many people came to this country for which was religious freedom. It's right there in the First Amendment.
"It's not appropriate under the Constitution, and historically, we've always said if you fought against the United States, that the correct answers were basically jail as opposed to deportation,"
So, is he acknowledging that we cannot deport citizens for their religious beliefs, but saying we should imprison them instead? Sharia law seems ill-defined and I'm sure many Muslims cannot agree on exactly what it is and Newt is advocating throwing people in jail for believing in it, whatever it is?
Well, he did say "if you fought against the United States" - that kind of changes things from just having particular religious beliefs.
But just visiting a terrorist friendly website should be a felony?
Someone should ask Newt Gingrich if he believes in the Bill of Rights or if he's ever heard of it.
Android is a security disaster.
As an android user, I'm very aware of this. That's why I use my phone primarily as a phone and sometimes a GPS navigation device. If it were lost or stolen my banking and credit card information would not be compromised. The most sensitive information that would be exposed would be my contacts and a few text messages. There aren't even any interesting photos on it. I have an actual camera for that.
But a couple days ago I was kind of curious about this Pokemon Go thing and I almost installed it until I reviewed what it wanted access to which appeared to be just about everything. I understand that it needs some permissions which I find sensitive (location, camera, network) but why would it need access to my contacts? And it also stated that automatic updates to it may be given even more permissions.
And am I wrong, or does Android not have the concept of file permissions? Obviously some apps need to read and write files, but is there any reason my Pokemon app needs to be able to read the files saved by some other app?
I get the impression that a lot of people say "Who cares if they can read your contacts? Every app does that! They aren't really doing anything with it." But if they weren't doing anything with it, why do they go to the trouble of getting permission to do so?
I'm actually tempted to get a burner phone just so I can go wild in the app store and not have to worry about my privacy.