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  1. Re:If only! on More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You · · Score: 1

    What OS are you using?

    Short of using SELINUX or apparmor, which I do use this is the normal behavior. Windows will allow any application running as a user to access that users data, OSX is the same.

  2. Re:If only! on More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are aftermarket ROMs that do that. CM is one.

    There are tools that actually do one better, they let you give apps fake data. Let that stupid game have a GPS, one that shows you out in the Atlantic.

  3. Re:If only! on More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You · · Score: 1

    How are they vague? They have plain english descriptions.
    Torch:
    Hardware controls: Take pictures and videos
    System Tools: prevent phone from sleeping.

    If you can't read plain english you don't need a smartphone. A user who can't do that will just OK anything it ever asks for watcher or not.

    Why do you need a firewall if you don't leave ports open willy nilly?

  4. Re:I wish for optional capabilities on More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You · · Score: 1

    Some ROMs allow users to disable certain permissions.

    I would love to see that in AOSP. If an app needs advertising to survive and the user blocks networking it can check for that and just refuse to run until the user enables it. That is the best of both worlds, you can get the permissions you need and I can decide if you really need them.

  5. Re:You know nothing, Jon Snow on More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You · · Score: 1

    Each one has a nice explanation next to it, like so:

    Hardware Controls: Take pictures and Videos

    System Tools: prevent phone from sleeping.

    If you cannot be bothered to read the simple english explanations you are beyond all help.

  6. Re:Privacy apps - LBE on More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You · · Score: 1

    The developer should say that in the description then.

    You should still be suspicious since he could just lie. If it needs new dictionaries it should get them via an application update.

  7. Re:Fine grained options on More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You · · Score: 1

    Not if he wants to know what his apps are doing.

    iPhone has no mechanism for that at all.

  8. Re:If only! on More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually a lot of decent apps have a why in the description of the app.

    If it does not seem like it should need it and they fail to explain it don't install it.

    Still better than on the PC, where any application can read any of your files.

  9. Re:If only! on More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You don't. Torch, Done.

    What Google should do is let me search for apps by permissions. I also wish they would let me never see a freemium app again. I have zero interest in them.

  10. Re:And then... on $1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent · · Score: 2

    Morbo says: BANKRUPTCY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!

    I don't think this kind of debt can be discharged.

  11. Re:Yeah, because that makes sense on $1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent · · Score: 2, Informative

    Easy to say when you don't have to worry about looking like an ass.

    Get an account.

  12. Re:A lesson to you all... on $1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent · · Score: 2

    Any citation for that?

    Simple watermarking is not even recompression proof. So any that would survive that kind of change would be neat to read about.

  13. Re:Yeah, because that makes sense on $1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent · · Score: 2

    How is it more expensive?
    It is pretty cheap to make and sold for low low prices. Availability seems to be no issue either, every porn store has it and you can order it online or view lots of it for free legally from streaming sites.

  14. Re:Fracking is dangerous... on Volcano Power Plan Gets US Go-Ahead · · Score: 1

    I think this sort of dangerous stuff should be left to captain slow.

  15. Re:Huge problem in Texas - flash floods on the roa on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 1

    Actually I go there every year. Into what they call hill country.

  16. Re:My Plan on US Offers New Plans 1 Month Before UN Meeting To Regulate Web · · Score: 1

    Because it does not work the way you seem to think. Nor should we toss it out. It is a great forum for diplomacy.

  17. Re:My Plan on US Offers New Plans 1 Month Before UN Meeting To Regulate Web · · Score: 1

    What taxes does the UN currently impose and where the hell do you get these crazy ideas?

  18. Re:CO2? on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 1

    How is a lithium fire going to produce CO2?

  19. Re:Huge problem in Texas - flash floods on the roa on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 1

    So flash flooding occurs on top of hills or like all flooding in low lying areas?

    Because if the latter is the case, do not drive in bad weather in low lying areas.

  20. Re:Huge problem in Texas - flash floods on the roa on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 1

    No matter how deep 1 wheel getting into water is not an issue. The suspension will bottom and car will continue to move.

    I do not drive through standing water on the road if that is what you meant.

  21. Re:Why pick on EVs? on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 1

    Actually regular cars do occasionally catch fire from flooding. Plastic dashboards and damaged wiring are a bad mix.

  22. Re:Top Gear says your wrong on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Totaled does not mean not working. It means worthless.

    That Hilux was rendered worthless. I would not want to drive it nor would Toyota suggest anyone drive it after that treatment.

  23. Re:Your Tax Dollars at Work... on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 1

    Why are we spending tax dollars making scissors?

  24. Re:Huge problem in Texas - flash floods on the roa on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 2

    Why did you write Idiots twice?

    Driving through water is dumb, driving through water that you do not know the depth of is suicidal.

  25. Re:What if you drove into a flooded area? on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 5, Informative

    DO NOT DRIVE in a foot of water.

    A single foot of water moving sideways is more than enough to take your car off the road. If you cannot see the bottom do not drive through it.