His keyboard complains are about how the buttons pressed correspond to the behavior of auto-correct, which is software-based on the device, and about the software keyboard's mode-switching when it detects a web field (to make the @ and / more quickly available).
I'm pretty sure the physical buttons weren't the problem.
The common argument here is that police can always find something. Any car can be pulled over, but it *generally* takes a fairly lengthy investigation for them to obtain a search warrant your house (if you didn't already let them in the door).
Probably the example I can think of with the least work would be search warrants based on power usage to find marajuana grows, but even those seem to be corroborated with routine investigative work -- or at least tips from disgruntled customers or smaller fish bargaining for a better deal. But even when you're dealing drugs from your house, generally speaking it's going take multiple confirmed buys from CI's or UC's before the warrant gets executed. The feds coming for your file cabinets are similar. Sure, there's some rubber-stamping judges out there, but most departments seem to know they've got a "reasonable" barrier to meet before warrants are granted for houses....cars? Not so much.
The phone's auto-correct changes single-quotes to double-quotes in contractions -- for example, when you type you're, the phone auto-corrects it to you"re.
Neat. Thanks for your informative review. Can you be bothered to take a moment and tell us WHAT KEYBOARD WERE YOU USING that included this behavior? It's obviously not the stock android keyboard, since it doesn't behave that way, and LG has clearly bundled some other keyboard, but for the love of the FSM, don't tell us which one...
When you backspace over part of a word that you've typed and then type the rest of the word, auto-correct corrects based on the letters that you type after you've finished backspacing, rather than the letters in the entire word that you've just completed. [SNIP!]
Ditto.
Taking a screen capture still doesn't work, just like it didn't work on the Stratosphere 2. There are official directions on how to do it, but you can follow the steps and nothing happens.
Fair.
The first time I launched the voice mail application, the app prompted me to freely choose a new PIN code, and then sternly warned me, Mao-like, that my supposedly freely chosen PIN code was "incorrect". (I never got it working, and just called in to the voice mail number manually whenever I wanted to check my messages.)
The LG Optimus voicemail app, or the TMO one? I assume you're not talking about shovelware. Before you wrote this awesome article, and you talked to TMO about this, what did they say?
When I bought a movie on Google Play and wanted to "pin" it to the phone -- i.e. download a static, non-streamed copy so that I could watch it offline, e.g. on a plane ride [SNIP!]
What you're describing may not be what you want, but it certainly sounds like the software is working as intended - that offline movie downloads aren't supposed to be saved to removable storage. It's hardly a "bug."
Unlike the other bugs
Yeah. Not a bug.
In the Messaging (i.e. texting) app, you cannot search for messages by the name of the sender.
Also, not a bug. Simply a feature that you'd like in your text messaging app.
On certain mobile website forms (the Fandango site, for instance, and some others that I don't remember -- it's not clear why this happens on some website forms but not others), the phone won't let me type "special characters"
FFS. First, how about some article organization. Maybe we could discuss the keyboard first AND last, since it seems like your only real gripe...
Here's a concise version of your article:
I bought a low-end smartphone from TMO. The stock keyboard was a bit wonky, and the shovelware voicemail app didn't work right. I couldn't be bothered to call TMO about the voicemail app, but I did do a Google search before writing this article.
The police certainly can bust you if they find something else while searching for your house for {something _else}, provided that {something_else} was found while legally executing the original search.
If the police have been following your bookmaking or money laundering operation for some time, and they come to your house with a nice broad warrant to collect all files, records and ledgers, they can still bust you for the marijuana grow room they walk into while looking for file cabinets.
You were pretty much always allowed to have an alias.
I played one of the early games on the G+ platform, got quite involved in the community. It was fairly common for players to have multiple characters, which required multiple accounts, and there was no shortage of fake "real" names. For every John Michaels in that game, there was a Michael Johnson alongside them.
Arguably *something* like this could be placed remotely to power the search and rescue device at the end of a trail in a national park... It could spend months just making sure that it keeps its own battery topped of for when someone needs to signal for help.
...and in case you missed the implication of what Rockoon is saying, once they say they're recording it, even in a two-party state, you've got their consent. They already know they're being recorded, so no issues.
There's some caveats about not being in the same state as the person you're recording, and it generally means you have to use the most restrictive law of the two states.
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I'll wave at you when I pass by in my Leaf in the carpool lane by myself.
And, the largest producer of CO2, by nearly double #2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Ideal solar or wind conditions are only available in certain states, so throw those out of the results too, yes?
His keyboard complains are about how the buttons pressed correspond to the behavior of auto-correct, which is software-based on the device, and about the software keyboard's mode-switching when it detects a web field (to make the @ and / more quickly available).
I'm pretty sure the physical buttons weren't the problem.
IANAL, TINLA
The common argument here is that police can always find something. Any car can be pulled over, but it *generally* takes a fairly lengthy investigation for them to obtain a search warrant your house (if you didn't already let them in the door).
Probably the example I can think of with the least work would be search warrants based on power usage to find marajuana grows, but even those seem to be corroborated with routine investigative work -- or at least tips from disgruntled customers or smaller fish bargaining for a better deal. But even when you're dealing drugs from your house, generally speaking it's going take multiple confirmed buys from CI's or UC's before the warrant gets executed. The feds coming for your file cabinets are similar. Sure, there's some rubber-stamping judges out there, but most departments seem to know they've got a "reasonable" barrier to meet before warrants are granted for houses. ...cars? Not so much.
The phone's auto-correct changes single-quotes to double-quotes in contractions -- for example, when you type you're, the phone auto-corrects it to you"re .
Neat. Thanks for your informative review. Can you be bothered to take a moment and tell us WHAT KEYBOARD WERE YOU USING that included this behavior? It's obviously not the stock android keyboard, since it doesn't behave that way, and LG has clearly bundled some other keyboard, but for the love of the FSM, don't tell us which one...
When you backspace over part of a word that you've typed and then type the rest of the word, auto-correct corrects based on the letters that you type after you've finished backspacing, rather than the letters in the entire word that you've just completed. [SNIP!]
Ditto.
Taking a screen capture still doesn't work, just like it didn't work on the Stratosphere 2. There are official directions on how to do it, but you can follow the steps and nothing happens.
Fair.
The first time I launched the voice mail application, the app prompted me to freely choose a new PIN code, and then sternly warned me, Mao-like, that my supposedly freely chosen PIN code was "incorrect". (I never got it working, and just called in to the voice mail number manually whenever I wanted to check my messages.)
The LG Optimus voicemail app, or the TMO one? I assume you're not talking about shovelware. Before you wrote this awesome article, and you talked to TMO about this, what did they say?
When I bought a movie on Google Play and wanted to "pin" it to the phone -- i.e. download a static, non-streamed copy so that I could watch it offline, e.g. on a plane ride [SNIP!]
What you're describing may not be what you want, but it certainly sounds like the software is working as intended - that offline movie downloads aren't supposed to be saved to removable storage. It's hardly a "bug."
Unlike the other bugs
Yeah. Not a bug.
In the Messaging (i.e. texting) app, you cannot search for messages by the name of the sender.
Also, not a bug. Simply a feature that you'd like in your text messaging app.
On certain mobile website forms (the Fandango site, for instance, and some others that I don't remember -- it's not clear why this happens on some website forms but not others), the phone won't let me type "special characters"
FFS. First, how about some article organization. Maybe we could discuss the keyboard first AND last, since it seems like your only real gripe...
Here's a concise version of your article:
I bought a low-end smartphone from TMO. The stock keyboard was a bit wonky, and the shovelware voicemail app didn't work right. I couldn't be bothered to call TMO about the voicemail app, but I did do a Google search before writing this article.
Oh, you bought your HTC ONE from AT&T or TMO instead of buying a Google Play Edition, and you wonder why it has AT&T and/or TMO crap on it?
https://play.google.com/store/...
The police certainly can bust you if they find something else while searching for your house for {something _else}, provided that {something_else} was found while legally executing the original search.
If the police have been following your bookmaking or money laundering operation for some time, and they come to your house with a nice broad warrant to collect all files, records and ledgers, they can still bust you for the marijuana grow room they walk into while looking for file cabinets.
She doesn't call me near as much as FOGHORN! This is your captain speaking.
I've never understood this tact either, but for a different reason.
Follow the money.
About exactly one FTC investigator should be able to sign up for some card member servicing...
ITT: Idiots who give their real phone number with their voter registration.
It's an accomplishment that EVE lasted this long. Complaining that even in its decline that it has an extremely long tail is silly.
Except they never, ever have a BTC.
They don't do anything after the fact with them, because they never touch one.
They touch USD, transferred to them by their payment processor - and nothing else.
They might be keeping 10k/mo in BTC, but they're doing under (but near) 0.1%, that's about 1M in sales in BTC a year.
That's not a joke.
Because, as is made clear in the summary, Dell does not accept BitCoin, they only accept USD.
A third-party payment processor gives Dell USD on your behalf, the same sort of USD Dell gets when their payment processor accepts a credit card.
You're kidding, right?
Said reclamation company is a warehouse downtown filled with commercial deep fryers, cold-cut-slicers, and an endless pile of banquet chairs.
[It's a great place to buy a sturdy table for cheap...]
Restaurant fails to pay the lease.
Landlord slaps a new lock on the door.
Equipment is sold to a restaurant supply reclamation company, of which any city of any size has.
Supply company puts their crap on eBay.
Or even "why" they use "quotes" on things.
It's hard to imagine that used equipment was sold with the default password...
I always include employee data, but I make the new purchaser guess my password.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but you mean amother.
Strictly speaking, there is only "unique" and "non unique", but there's no "more unique."
I suppose that depends on the trail, but sure.
You were pretty much always allowed to have an alias.
I played one of the early games on the G+ platform, got quite involved in the community. It was fairly common for players to have multiple characters, which required multiple accounts, and there was no shortage of fake "real" names. For every John Michaels in that game, there was a Michael Johnson alongside them.
Arguably *something* like this could be placed remotely to power the search and rescue device at the end of a trail in a national park... It could spend months just making sure that it keeps its own battery topped of for when someone needs to signal for help.
...and in case you missed the implication of what Rockoon is saying, once they say they're recording it, even in a two-party state, you've got their consent. They already know they're being recorded, so no issues.
There's some caveats about not being in the same state as the person you're recording, and it generally means you have to use the most restrictive law of the two states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
IANAL, TINLA