UM, you lied, there are NO waterproof phones, just water resistant, 'er', somewhat. Do not confuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Due to shape (large flat rectangle, think water pressure on the that large surface area, squeezing down as you go deeper and then expanding as you rise, like a pump, pumping out air and pumping in water) and cost and weight, an actual water resistant phone would need to be solidly encased in non-conductive plastic (cast into the plastic right down to the surface of circuit boards etc), with an area exposed for battery connection (water resistant) and heat exchanger, the circuit board would also need to be heat conductive to get it back to the heat exchanger. It is all about a more expensive proprietary connection and nothing more, another chance for profit.
How about, just maybe for a change, I know most people might consider silly and many others consider it worthless, maybe, just, maybe, HONESTY.
Nah, honesty as the best qualification for a politician, what a stupid idea. Right down there with those other stupid ideas, like INTEGRITY, can have that any of that either.
So let's all sing the "Hopey Changey Song", just imagine it in Sarah Palin's voice, here don't imagine it https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
money, MONEY, I don need no stinkin monies, I make my own. So if those are patents on crypto currency and crypto currency is so great, then surely you must be able to pay those patents fees with your crypto currency or are they saying crypto currency is shite and they want to get paid with real money, so what does that make crypto currency and those patents worth - nothing?!?
In this case the underlying claim behind "US companies dominate the international market as far as encryption technologies that are available through these various apps, and I think we will continue to dominate them,", is extremely threatening. The US under the guise of the North American Territorial Occupation farce is also claiming cross border hacking is a declaration of war and should result in a military strike. So that claim of dominance is really pushing the bound of , block our backdoors and we will consider you a foreign threat and take you out. Pushing dominance brooks no peace, brooks no diplomacy, preserving dominance demands killing all opposition in the most bloody and violent manner possible to send a message. That maroon is an idiot threat to world peace and should be put out to pasture, where he can grumble and makes threats at passing flies and annoying weeds. Keep talking the demand for dominance America and everyone is going to tell you to fuck off.
The problem with those that supply the infrastructure being allowed to supply content, is that they will always strive to hamper competition, subvert legislation and run that infrastructure as cheap a manner as profitable, to the point of collapse as long as this quarter looks good and the network collapse occurs after they run with the money. The only thing that makes sense to actively limit their activity to network connectivity only by law.
Generally speaking arbitration is either good or evil dependent upon on clause being in there or not and that would be the legally binding clause. Non-legally binding arbitration is good because it allows an arbiter, basically a neutral referee with knowledge, to provide a venue for those in dispute to discuss the problem and gain the neutral opinion of the arbiter and a reasonable outcome to resolve the dispute. The parties either accept the consultation provided by the arbiter or take the matter to court. Arbitration is truly evil when they try to make it legally binding and the arbiter is a representative of an industry club of which one side is a member and the arbiter is not neutral and only serves the interests of industry club member.
Evolution explains cancers past reproductive prime, good enough to breed, good enough to survive, that's just the way it is. Being the best does not mean survival, the low numbers and random chance guarantee that, numbers are just against it (when you are in the minority, low numbers means, insect bites, random predators, infections and clumsiness, takes all equally and so low numbers increases the odds of disappearance of traits, no matter how positive. Evolution just demands those least able to reproduce die out, this then shifts the average and the species evolves. Significant mutation tends to require a vacancy in the localised ecology to survive. something that allows low numbers to reproduce quickly. So cancers tend to occur post prime reproductive age because it makes little difference. Of course that does not take into account lead addled fuckwits toxifying our environment and giving cancers to younger persons than would be normal, that is also evolution, an entire species dying out due to, hmm, greed driven stupidity.
Even at that speeds the galaxy has been around for billions of years and even those closest to us in evolutionary terms, cropping up every at logical minimum hundred thousands year to a logical maximum 10 million years, means they have had a shit bucket ton of time to place satellites around every likely planet so they can watch the next species tear itself apart as it tries to evolve from it's planetary cocoon to become a galactic species.
So what this statement really says is, "I can not imagine any way it can be done by a species 1 million years more advanced than me, even though 1 thousands years ago, posting this stupid message on an electronic forum was completely unimaginable". What the fuck is it with the bullshit that more advanced species have to be stupider than us. Alien contact is far most likely to occur the very instant they feel like it is appropriate to present it to the entire population because they want to accelerate it to the next stage because https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., yeah, suck it up.
A whole bunch of three letter agencies have mod points. In fact forums across the board are full of professional trolls, likely the majority of the first 10 posts in any article to do with anything even slightly political. In forum after the forum, you see the first post go one way and than the following posts, by far the majority of posts going the other. Professional trolls waiting at their keyboards and punching up PR=B$ marketing as so as any thread starts and then it all gets shot down over the next 24 hours.
Politically speaking knowing their strategy doesn't provide any real benefit. What does real benefit is, taking there strategy book and presenting it to the public as the lies the opposition intends to tell. You get in first, you show no fear of the information and you demonstrate the scamminess, the scumminess of the opposition, fuck policy, those losers want the very worst of politics, they want pathetic gutter talk as they hide behind holier than though attitudes.
Trump has just gone through that, with the masters of it, the Republicans and it just shows the gross incompetence and exactly how like the Republicans the corporate pseudo democrats are. This campaign is going to drive a huge number of people to the third and fourth political parties, the Greens and the Libertarians, those who wish to escape the PR bullshit of marketing agencies and corporations, people who treat lies as superior to the truth because it is more profitable, this election is going to be a hilarious mess, at least from the outside.
What will be interesting is the vote scams that will be going, neither side shows complete indifference to cheating the public, voter purges, closed polling stations, cooking electronic votes, losing millions of votes. I wonder if this time around the winner will be the one who simply is better at cheating the voting process (the most fake election in US history).
F35 200 million a pop http://defense-update.com/2014..., can do an awful lot with that money, other than burning resources, generating pollution, blowing people up and then tossing it on the scrap pile. Scrap the whole thing and you could build a whole series of industrial plants to make anything you want but hey, you want to burn resources, generate pollution, blow people up and then toss it on the scrap pile, then go right ahead, good luck to you and the people you take with you, you'll need it.
For one just clusterfuck jet (F35), they could build the plant to make the phones needed for all government officials, just one less clusterfuck jet that will in the end be scrapped. So no excuse, they need smart phones, than build the infrastructure to make those phones. Than they could export, those security, milspec phones to the rest of the world, oh wait, no one trust the US government any more, well, that at least could provide it to all US agencies.
It is all down to money grubbing worthless middle men, publishers. Basically the old world publishers RIAA et al won out against the ISP publishers. Basically the ISP wanted to kick all the other publishers off the internet and take over, they wanted their APPLE iTunes style kickback, 30% of all digital sales to go to the ISP or your traffic won make it through, that is all it was about. Nothing to do with bandwidth or traffic congestion, the ISP wanted a percentage of all digital sales and if you didn't pay they wanted to kill your ability to sell and upload your content.
Not correct, as this time the Russian government has a very powerful interest in exposing corruption in the US and forcing the US government to prosecute that corrupt because it completely disrupts that corrupt activity, which includes trying to fomet a cold war to increase arms sales, manipulation of diplomacy to disrupt normal trade and favour specific corporations and corruption of US intelligence services so they provide false data to promote war and arms sales.
They will also release that information as suits them and so as to create maximum disruption. Right now the US government is blatantly, publicly not pursuing government corruption, preferring instead to focus in whistle blowers, so only US government corruption that targets other countries can be exposed, if those countries choose to act on it or just bend over and accept the US government intrusion. Extortion wont really work, unless it is first proved to be substantively effective by taking down a whole bunch of corrupt politicians and corporate executives first.
The likely forecast, a series of explosive, well detailed documentaries (with evidence available for download) to be released one after another, to cause maximum embarrassment to the US government and force the US government reputation to be severely tarnished when they yet again failed to prosecute exposed government corruption (for profit war based on WMD lies and torture to fabricate confessions to justify the WMD lie, just the most glaring examples of extreme corruption within the US government not to forget the recording of the US state department picking the next leader of a foreign country in which they had staged a coup).
That seem to be the real developing driver for phone updates or waiting off the current series. Which phones will come out with the best USB virtual reality headsets, enabling people to carry a bigscreen TV in their pocket and hugely expanding the usability of smart phones.
Inherently it is also a betrayal of American technology manufacturers. The President of a country should be a walking billboard for that country. All clothing and carried items should be US made. Seriously it makes no sense for some crazy rich bitch to wear thousands of dollars imported ego coat, when a custom, tailor made and fitted one, of the finest material imaginable that looks very similar for a fraction of the price. Beyond insane narcissistic ego, it's not the real worth of the item but purely how much it cost). No matter how shitty the phone is there only one acceptable excuse, the US does not make any. That US citizens stupidly accept this pathetic state of affair whilst cheering trillions spent on war machines to be scrapped, is just fucking nuts and more proof of lead making it's way through the US human biome.
If you are talking about Ronny Raygun the crazed greed obsessed actor who slithered into politics and with his buddies gutted mental health services, than you are 100% correct. This event, like so many others shows the exact same pattern. Crazed individual discovered to be violently nuts, with a pattern of violent behaviour and due to lack of mental health services, gets not treatment and works themselves into a killing rage over any cause what so ever.
Nothing to do with any causes, whether Islam or Christianity, or which direction bananas bend, whether to the right or to the left (they are threatening a global war over that one). This is about one thing and one thing only. Mental health services cost to much and who gives a fuck, were talking poor crazies and they only kill other poor people, so who gives a shit. Yep, nothing to do with terrorism, this is all down to the rich not giving a fuck about poor people and leaving mentally disturbed individuals out on the streets to kill other people, oh and of course to be used a target practice by law enforcers.
Here you go, http://store.steampowered.com/.... When I was young $5 would only get you shareware crap, games have not changed that much in price, the majority are pretty much at the same price they used to be and for the price of a new release you can buy a bunch of other games. Some of the really cheap games are really good, just old and don't sell any more. Seriously not worth taking the risk running an exe from an unkown source, when the starting price is 99 cents. Patience can save you a lot of money.
Problem is matey, I have bought so much high tech junk over the last few decades that has routinely fucked up, in fact software programmers claim it as the norm and seriously, what do you expect perfect software. Well, yeah, when going 100km an hour down a road I expect perfect software, you can't deliver, well then, no thanks. Generally I have found appliance based application to be more software reliable but sometimes of questionable engineering quality. Now I have no problem with automated vehicles in a subway tunnel system with a controlled environment so in the event of system failure, high hazard risks are very limited, but out in the open air, with trees, rivers, cliffs, buildings and vehicles going in all directions, typical software warranties scare the crap out of me, when my life would be dependent upon them.
How stupid is it really. Think about it, really stop and think about it. A ten year old required to contractually agree to using their government ID to access the internet, if not they get punished, jail sentence, fine. So how many licences do you need one for every device. So if you have a licence somehow it automagically stops you from lying. Damn I want those licences and I immediately demand every politician be issued one as soon as possible, although I could imagine any card issued to a politician to stop them lying would go into melt down with in a very short time of being issued to a typical politician.
So why the licence, obviously so that they can take it away and that is the only reason for the licence, don't like your critics, silence them or just threaten their entire family with being kicked off the internet, digital non-persons.
I want a more primitive, all appliance based. A brake chip that looks after brakes, a service chip that looks after servicing, a communications chip that looks after communications, a dash board chip that looks after the control GUI, a throttle chip that looks after the throttle etc. and maybe, just maybe a chip that ties it all together, this chip with a big red button that switches it off and allows those others chips to be individually manually controlled.
No way in fucking hell, I want a wireless computer that looks after the entire vehicle and can drive me off a cliff, or into a train or into a river. Just no way, no thank you. Well, at least without an off switch that enables the car to keep going whilst that chip is shut down and cut off. Three letter agencies with laws that allow hacking of that chip, fuck I'll be a seventies car thank you very much.
It really makes no sense any more though, why bother a little bit of patience and http://whenisthenextsteamsale...., you end up with games you have bought and simply don't get around to playing because, so, so many games and so little time (let alone the time vacuum of free to play MMOs). No hurry to buy new games because there are so many old games I have yet to play. It's like kids stealing stuff, just to steal stuff, even though they just throw it away (the pleasure of the risk over any value from the reward).
Problem with apps, whilst cool and novel, sometimes fun to use and serve some temporarily useful service, they all tend to clutter up the phone and make it more complex to use. Beyond the core apps, the rest, meh, download them, install them, rarely use them and every now and then clean up you phone by deleting them, going back to the core apps or just keeping apps that replace core apps that are not that good. Not having used an iPhone I don't know the value of their core apps but between Android and Google default apps as well as manufacturer default apps, there is not much beyond that (yahoo weather because bigger clock and date, I'm old and don't want to reach for my glasses every time and two for one, weather and time/date). Perhaps one day alphabet keyboard or not, meh.
Makes not difference what ever the opinion of the US, it is only an illusion of control, brought about by the claimed value of that illusion. DNS data entries in a database aligning a string of characters in the form of an IP address with a string of easier to remember text. That power is an empty illusion and all the governments of the world can set up their own servers to favour themselves and strip the US servers of value beyond what it has in the US and remains only so long as people choose it or even ISP choose to point to it rather than alternate DNS choices. Why give you customers away for free, for another corporation to make money out of, when you can selectively mirror certain entries and sell others, from your own databases, super cheap to set up and could be very profitable, mirroring the bulk of DNS addresses and only selling the high sticker value addresses makes sense or just charging for the default config. Want us to point our customers at your database so that you can make money, well, your going to have to pay for that.
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UM, you lied, there are NO waterproof phones, just water resistant, 'er', somewhat. Do not confuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Due to shape (large flat rectangle, think water pressure on the that large surface area, squeezing down as you go deeper and then expanding as you rise, like a pump, pumping out air and pumping in water) and cost and weight, an actual water resistant phone would need to be solidly encased in non-conductive plastic (cast into the plastic right down to the surface of circuit boards etc), with an area exposed for battery connection (water resistant) and heat exchanger, the circuit board would also need to be heat conductive to get it back to the heat exchanger. It is all about a more expensive proprietary connection and nothing more, another chance for profit.
How about, just maybe for a change, I know most people might consider silly and many others consider it worthless, maybe, just, maybe, HONESTY.
Nah, honesty as the best qualification for a politician, what a stupid idea. Right down there with those other stupid ideas, like INTEGRITY, can have that any of that either.
So let's all sing the "Hopey Changey Song", just imagine it in Sarah Palin's voice, here don't imagine it https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
money, MONEY, I don need no stinkin monies, I make my own. So if those are patents on crypto currency and crypto currency is so great, then surely you must be able to pay those patents fees with your crypto currency or are they saying crypto currency is shite and they want to get paid with real money, so what does that make crypto currency and those patents worth - nothing?!?
Try finding a public phone now dipstick :/.
In this case the underlying claim behind "US companies dominate the international market as far as encryption technologies that are available through these various apps, and I think we will continue to dominate them,", is extremely threatening. The US under the guise of the North American Territorial Occupation farce is also claiming cross border hacking is a declaration of war and should result in a military strike. So that claim of dominance is really pushing the bound of , block our backdoors and we will consider you a foreign threat and take you out. Pushing dominance brooks no peace, brooks no diplomacy, preserving dominance demands killing all opposition in the most bloody and violent manner possible to send a message. That maroon is an idiot threat to world peace and should be put out to pasture, where he can grumble and makes threats at passing flies and annoying weeds. Keep talking the demand for dominance America and everyone is going to tell you to fuck off.
The problem with those that supply the infrastructure being allowed to supply content, is that they will always strive to hamper competition, subvert legislation and run that infrastructure as cheap a manner as profitable, to the point of collapse as long as this quarter looks good and the network collapse occurs after they run with the money. The only thing that makes sense to actively limit their activity to network connectivity only by law.
Generally speaking arbitration is either good or evil dependent upon on clause being in there or not and that would be the legally binding clause. Non-legally binding arbitration is good because it allows an arbiter, basically a neutral referee with knowledge, to provide a venue for those in dispute to discuss the problem and gain the neutral opinion of the arbiter and a reasonable outcome to resolve the dispute. The parties either accept the consultation provided by the arbiter or take the matter to court. Arbitration is truly evil when they try to make it legally binding and the arbiter is a representative of an industry club of which one side is a member and the arbiter is not neutral and only serves the interests of industry club member.
Evolution explains cancers past reproductive prime, good enough to breed, good enough to survive, that's just the way it is. Being the best does not mean survival, the low numbers and random chance guarantee that, numbers are just against it (when you are in the minority, low numbers means, insect bites, random predators, infections and clumsiness, takes all equally and so low numbers increases the odds of disappearance of traits, no matter how positive. Evolution just demands those least able to reproduce die out, this then shifts the average and the species evolves. Significant mutation tends to require a vacancy in the localised ecology to survive. something that allows low numbers to reproduce quickly. So cancers tend to occur post prime reproductive age because it makes little difference. Of course that does not take into account lead addled fuckwits toxifying our environment and giving cancers to younger persons than would be normal, that is also evolution, an entire species dying out due to, hmm, greed driven stupidity.
Even at that speeds the galaxy has been around for billions of years and even those closest to us in evolutionary terms, cropping up every at logical minimum hundred thousands year to a logical maximum 10 million years, means they have had a shit bucket ton of time to place satellites around every likely planet so they can watch the next species tear itself apart as it tries to evolve from it's planetary cocoon to become a galactic species.
So what this statement really says is, "I can not imagine any way it can be done by a species 1 million years more advanced than me, even though 1 thousands years ago, posting this stupid message on an electronic forum was completely unimaginable". What the fuck is it with the bullshit that more advanced species have to be stupider than us. Alien contact is far most likely to occur the very instant they feel like it is appropriate to present it to the entire population because they want to accelerate it to the next stage because https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., yeah, suck it up.
A whole bunch of three letter agencies have mod points. In fact forums across the board are full of professional trolls, likely the majority of the first 10 posts in any article to do with anything even slightly political. In forum after the forum, you see the first post go one way and than the following posts, by far the majority of posts going the other. Professional trolls waiting at their keyboards and punching up PR=B$ marketing as so as any thread starts and then it all gets shot down over the next 24 hours.
Politically speaking knowing their strategy doesn't provide any real benefit. What does real benefit is, taking there strategy book and presenting it to the public as the lies the opposition intends to tell. You get in first, you show no fear of the information and you demonstrate the scamminess, the scumminess of the opposition, fuck policy, those losers want the very worst of politics, they want pathetic gutter talk as they hide behind holier than though attitudes.
Trump has just gone through that, with the masters of it, the Republicans and it just shows the gross incompetence and exactly how like the Republicans the corporate pseudo democrats are. This campaign is going to drive a huge number of people to the third and fourth political parties, the Greens and the Libertarians, those who wish to escape the PR bullshit of marketing agencies and corporations, people who treat lies as superior to the truth because it is more profitable, this election is going to be a hilarious mess, at least from the outside.
What will be interesting is the vote scams that will be going, neither side shows complete indifference to cheating the public, voter purges, closed polling stations, cooking electronic votes, losing millions of votes. I wonder if this time around the winner will be the one who simply is better at cheating the voting process (the most fake election in US history).
F35 200 million a pop http://defense-update.com/2014..., can do an awful lot with that money, other than burning resources, generating pollution, blowing people up and then tossing it on the scrap pile. Scrap the whole thing and you could build a whole series of industrial plants to make anything you want but hey, you want to burn resources, generate pollution, blow people up and then toss it on the scrap pile, then go right ahead, good luck to you and the people you take with you, you'll need it.
For one just clusterfuck jet (F35), they could build the plant to make the phones needed for all government officials, just one less clusterfuck jet that will in the end be scrapped. So no excuse, they need smart phones, than build the infrastructure to make those phones. Than they could export, those security, milspec phones to the rest of the world, oh wait, no one trust the US government any more, well, that at least could provide it to all US agencies.
It is all down to money grubbing worthless middle men, publishers. Basically the old world publishers RIAA et al won out against the ISP publishers. Basically the ISP wanted to kick all the other publishers off the internet and take over, they wanted their APPLE iTunes style kickback, 30% of all digital sales to go to the ISP or your traffic won make it through, that is all it was about. Nothing to do with bandwidth or traffic congestion, the ISP wanted a percentage of all digital sales and if you didn't pay they wanted to kill your ability to sell and upload your content.
Not correct, as this time the Russian government has a very powerful interest in exposing corruption in the US and forcing the US government to prosecute that corrupt because it completely disrupts that corrupt activity, which includes trying to fomet a cold war to increase arms sales, manipulation of diplomacy to disrupt normal trade and favour specific corporations and corruption of US intelligence services so they provide false data to promote war and arms sales.
They will also release that information as suits them and so as to create maximum disruption. Right now the US government is blatantly, publicly not pursuing government corruption, preferring instead to focus in whistle blowers, so only US government corruption that targets other countries can be exposed, if those countries choose to act on it or just bend over and accept the US government intrusion. Extortion wont really work, unless it is first proved to be substantively effective by taking down a whole bunch of corrupt politicians and corporate executives first.
The likely forecast, a series of explosive, well detailed documentaries (with evidence available for download) to be released one after another, to cause maximum embarrassment to the US government and force the US government reputation to be severely tarnished when they yet again failed to prosecute exposed government corruption (for profit war based on WMD lies and torture to fabricate confessions to justify the WMD lie, just the most glaring examples of extreme corruption within the US government not to forget the recording of the US state department picking the next leader of a foreign country in which they had staged a coup).
That seem to be the real developing driver for phone updates or waiting off the current series. Which phones will come out with the best USB virtual reality headsets, enabling people to carry a bigscreen TV in their pocket and hugely expanding the usability of smart phones.
Inherently it is also a betrayal of American technology manufacturers. The President of a country should be a walking billboard for that country. All clothing and carried items should be US made. Seriously it makes no sense for some crazy rich bitch to wear thousands of dollars imported ego coat, when a custom, tailor made and fitted one, of the finest material imaginable that looks very similar for a fraction of the price. Beyond insane narcissistic ego, it's not the real worth of the item but purely how much it cost). No matter how shitty the phone is there only one acceptable excuse, the US does not make any. That US citizens stupidly accept this pathetic state of affair whilst cheering trillions spent on war machines to be scrapped, is just fucking nuts and more proof of lead making it's way through the US human biome.
If you are talking about Ronny Raygun the crazed greed obsessed actor who slithered into politics and with his buddies gutted mental health services, than you are 100% correct. This event, like so many others shows the exact same pattern. Crazed individual discovered to be violently nuts, with a pattern of violent behaviour and due to lack of mental health services, gets not treatment and works themselves into a killing rage over any cause what so ever.
Nothing to do with any causes, whether Islam or Christianity, or which direction bananas bend, whether to the right or to the left (they are threatening a global war over that one). This is about one thing and one thing only. Mental health services cost to much and who gives a fuck, were talking poor crazies and they only kill other poor people, so who gives a shit. Yep, nothing to do with terrorism, this is all down to the rich not giving a fuck about poor people and leaving mentally disturbed individuals out on the streets to kill other people, oh and of course to be used a target practice by law enforcers.
Ronny Raygun kills again.
Here you go, http://store.steampowered.com/.... When I was young $5 would only get you shareware crap, games have not changed that much in price, the majority are pretty much at the same price they used to be and for the price of a new release you can buy a bunch of other games. Some of the really cheap games are really good, just old and don't sell any more. Seriously not worth taking the risk running an exe from an unkown source, when the starting price is 99 cents. Patience can save you a lot of money.
Problem is matey, I have bought so much high tech junk over the last few decades that has routinely fucked up, in fact software programmers claim it as the norm and seriously, what do you expect perfect software. Well, yeah, when going 100km an hour down a road I expect perfect software, you can't deliver, well then, no thanks. Generally I have found appliance based application to be more software reliable but sometimes of questionable engineering quality. Now I have no problem with automated vehicles in a subway tunnel system with a controlled environment so in the event of system failure, high hazard risks are very limited, but out in the open air, with trees, rivers, cliffs, buildings and vehicles going in all directions, typical software warranties scare the crap out of me, when my life would be dependent upon them.
How stupid is it really. Think about it, really stop and think about it. A ten year old required to contractually agree to using their government ID to access the internet, if not they get punished, jail sentence, fine. So how many licences do you need one for every device. So if you have a licence somehow it automagically stops you from lying. Damn I want those licences and I immediately demand every politician be issued one as soon as possible, although I could imagine any card issued to a politician to stop them lying would go into melt down with in a very short time of being issued to a typical politician.
So why the licence, obviously so that they can take it away and that is the only reason for the licence, don't like your critics, silence them or just threaten their entire family with being kicked off the internet, digital non-persons.
I want a more primitive, all appliance based. A brake chip that looks after brakes, a service chip that looks after servicing, a communications chip that looks after communications, a dash board chip that looks after the control GUI, a throttle chip that looks after the throttle etc. and maybe, just maybe a chip that ties it all together, this chip with a big red button that switches it off and allows those others chips to be individually manually controlled.
No way in fucking hell, I want a wireless computer that looks after the entire vehicle and can drive me off a cliff, or into a train or into a river. Just no way, no thank you. Well, at least without an off switch that enables the car to keep going whilst that chip is shut down and cut off. Three letter agencies with laws that allow hacking of that chip, fuck I'll be a seventies car thank you very much.
It really makes no sense any more though, why bother a little bit of patience and http://whenisthenextsteamsale...., you end up with games you have bought and simply don't get around to playing because, so, so many games and so little time (let alone the time vacuum of free to play MMOs). No hurry to buy new games because there are so many old games I have yet to play. It's like kids stealing stuff, just to steal stuff, even though they just throw it away (the pleasure of the risk over any value from the reward).
Problem with apps, whilst cool and novel, sometimes fun to use and serve some temporarily useful service, they all tend to clutter up the phone and make it more complex to use. Beyond the core apps, the rest, meh, download them, install them, rarely use them and every now and then clean up you phone by deleting them, going back to the core apps or just keeping apps that replace core apps that are not that good. Not having used an iPhone I don't know the value of their core apps but between Android and Google default apps as well as manufacturer default apps, there is not much beyond that (yahoo weather because bigger clock and date, I'm old and don't want to reach for my glasses every time and two for one, weather and time/date). Perhaps one day alphabet keyboard or not, meh.
Makes not difference what ever the opinion of the US, it is only an illusion of control, brought about by the claimed value of that illusion. DNS data entries in a database aligning a string of characters in the form of an IP address with a string of easier to remember text. That power is an empty illusion and all the governments of the world can set up their own servers to favour themselves and strip the US servers of value beyond what it has in the US and remains only so long as people choose it or even ISP choose to point to it rather than alternate DNS choices. Why give you customers away for free, for another corporation to make money out of, when you can selectively mirror certain entries and sell others, from your own databases, super cheap to set up and could be very profitable, mirroring the bulk of DNS addresses and only selling the high sticker value addresses makes sense or just charging for the default config. Want us to point our customers at your database so that you can make money, well, your going to have to pay for that.