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  1. Re:ScummVM games are paid on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 1

    I have the 2 first monkey islands on floppies, then again in a lucas arts collection with dig and full throttle on CDs. I also have the third one on CD. No need to build any crazy adapters or anything.

  2. Re:Why is this done by anything but automation? on Redistricting 2.0: Cloud Lets Voters Take Part · · Score: 1

    I agree, fat people should get smaller candy bars. :)

  3. Re:Take a cue from Iowa on Redistricting 2.0: Cloud Lets Voters Take Part · · Score: 1

    It's not a holy scripture, we have changed it before. Heck, 17 times since the thing was first ratified. Last time was in 1992, which is not that long ago.

  4. Re:Take a cue from Iowa on Redistricting 2.0: Cloud Lets Voters Take Part · · Score: 1

    Better yet, get rid of districts and use proportional representation.

  5. Why is this done by anything but automation? on Redistricting 2.0: Cloud Lets Voters Take Part · · Score: 1

    This could be automated and cheaply. Split the state into as many blocks as there are seats each starting at the north east. Make them square and only big enough to contain population/seats amount of people.

    In reality this is really about gerrymandering not actually doing this in a fair way.

  6. Re:If your doctor or dentist actually needs this.. on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    You will be the one doing the suing. They will have your comments removed and you will have to sue to get your ownership right back.

    Any other bright ideas? Hopefully ones that don't end up with the victim in jail.

  7. Re:Following Google to Stupidity on Mozilla Labs: the URL Bar Has To Go · · Score: 1

    And yet Palestinians with only shovels do breach it.
    If you want to slow down illegal immigration you will need to go after those who employ them. Oh wait, they are the ones profiting from low wages and using that money to buy politicians.

    I don't have any troubles, I make quite a comfortable living. That does nothing to change reality. The reality the middle class is shrinking, real wages are not growing, and the middle class is being attacked on both ends. I might be able to keep myself comfortable, but it does not mean I want to see others suffer.

  8. Re:If your doctor or dentist actually needs this.. on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You would have to go to court and spend thousands of dollars you may not have to fight such a thing.

    Legal or not, the mere cost of fighting it will silence many people.

  9. Re:It's called "Being Fair"! on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He is a troll and you are ignorant.

    Demons of stupidity be gone from this man, rAmen!

    Educate thyself:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical

  10. Re:It's called "Being Fair"! on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    You realize health insurance pays for placebos as covered drugs, right?

  11. Re:How could this possibly be binding? on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    A golf game is not an emergency.

    If you cannot make your appointments have your secretary call the people who will be impacted and reschedule. If you want to charge $40 for a missed visit, I should be able to charge my hourly short term contractor rate for time I wait beyond a reasonable 5-15 minutes.

  12. Re:The Generation of Faux Connoisseurs on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 2

    That bike shop should have changed its name. That is what one should always do if such a massive change is made.

    If I am going to a restaurant I want to know if they serve soggy lettuce. Doctors often charge if I am late but make me wait hours so the damn chairs better be comfortable, and hell yes if I am paying the workers can try to pretend to be working.

  13. Re:If your doctor or dentist actually needs this.. on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    Just wait until the ER wants you to sign this while you are bleeding from a headwound or some other serious injury.

  14. Re:Following Google to Stupidity on Mozilla Labs: the URL Bar Has To Go · · Score: 0

    Why do you want to keep those hardworking folks out?
    I say we trade one of those working folks for one trailer park welfare collector.

    How are you going to lockdown a border that size?
    What is cheap enough and not defeated by a ladder, shovel or other simple tools?

    His point is the rich want to turn the middle class back into peasants, and it sure seems to be working so far.

  15. Re:Following Google to Stupidity on Mozilla Labs: the URL Bar Has To Go · · Score: 1

    Use vimperator and you get that space back plus gain a bunch of functions. Not for noobs though.

  16. Re:Those aren't Android apps on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 1

    RIO is ad-free and free. Because it is one big ad, for that movie. That seems a like one way to pay for it. Honestly I just don't care how they pay for it, not my problem. If it reduces my choices, I will just stick to SCUMMVM games.

  17. Re:Local service businesses on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 1

    Sure it is pretty broad, so give them only some fake information.

    The barber might sadly find himself advertising to people no where near him, that is what you get for trusting user input. If you have Internet access try using that for geolocation.

  18. Re:Plain text passwords.... on Sony Suffers Yet More Security Breaches · · Score: 1

    You also just reduced the length of the password to 3 chars. Nice and guessable. Even if it changes which three, you are increasing the odds of a collision.

  19. Re:Was it really worth it, Sony? on Sony Suffers Yet More Security Breaches · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So instead of fixing their security issue they decided to steal value from consumers. What a wonderful company.

  20. Re:Seriously, that was the stupidest thing Google on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 1

    In this case you get the appearance of the former case not the latter. It may well just give you a predefined fake location. Removing permissions surely would cause that issue, but the article indicates it fakes at least some of this data.

  21. Re:Seriously, that was the stupidest thing Google on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 1

    In this case that is not what happens. It instead gives you a fake GPS location. At least that is the end goal. Your app can't tell if this location is real or not.

  22. Re:Display cached ads for a week on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 1

    Fine so then you cache adds great, but that is not what most people want to block. What they really want is to give the advertisers a fake phone number, a fake location, a contacts list that only includes Ben Dover and Harry Baals, and a sampling of SMS messages that include nothing but rude phrases about advertisers.

    Ads are not the problem, the issue is the amount of information the advertisers want before they serve them.

  23. Re:Those aren't Android apps on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 1

    I do use busybox on android, is that enough for you?
    Angry birds indeed does operate that way. It could also just be like angry birds RIO which the whole game is an add. Lots of options.

    Looking at languages on my phone now, English(Canada), English(India), English(New Zealand), English(South Africa), English(United Kingdom), English(United States) all exist. I would assume we can safely say Australia and New Zealand are the same damn thing. Languages spoken in different countries even though they claim to be the same are not and the phone language settings recognizes that. Either way you app needs to be able to handle the user being inside without wifi access, or him having a GPS location off shore or at Antarctica.

  24. Re:Seriously, that was the stupidest thing Google on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 4, Informative

    That is what this does. You ask for contacts, you get an empty contacts. You try to use network and sadly there is just is no network connection at all now.

  25. Re:So That's What Slashdot Is Today on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 1

    So then your app never works when you have no internet access? Because the app is not going to know if it was bocked or there just is no access available. You are not going to get a security exception, just no internet access.