When you buy an Amazon Fire device it comes linked to your Amazon account unless you specifically tell it not to when buying it by unchecking the tiny checkbox with small print next to it somewhere in the checkout process... that option ISN'T EVEN AN OPTION ON PRIME NOW PURCHASES. So in all cases, by default, the table comes linked to your CC, and in some cases, you can't even tell it not to be.
I.E. By default, a new Amazon fire tablet... like... the kids version for $79 that I bought the other day directly from amazon... comes already linked to the credit cards on my amazon account and I had to specifically go add an account to the device and restrict it from being able to purchase.
I've purchased the cheapo fire 7" for myself and the kids version for my son so this is from recent direct personal experience that I say this.
Amazon is a shitty company who uses every social engineering trick in the book to rip you off and you let them.
What they've done is as bullshit and they are right to have all of that money torn away from them and should have 3-4x ripped away from them on top as punishment.
Yes, everything you say is true... it COULD happen.
But there is absolutely 0 indication that its going to happen anytime soon.
This douche is just jealous and trying to make some noise and get some attention.
If you think Apple has NIH, you don't know shit about Apple to put it bluntly. Unless you think they invented a whole bunch of OSS software... that everyone else likes to claim they 'stolen' and 'made proprietary'... while contributing back patches to the BSD licensed software...
Apple has the potential to be the new microsoft: a bloated corpse that is just carrying on via inertia. They DO however still have time to buy their way out of the mess they are in.
WHAT fucking mess are they in?
Lets list the places: Product sales not growing for the following products: None, ALL of their products are STILL selling more year over year, even iPhones and iPads.
Customer backlash due to crappy/buggy products: Nope. Other than a few loud mouths that scream 'OMG WALLED GARDEN' without actually understanding even the slightest what that means, Apple has extremely high customer satisfaction since they make quality products that work for people who use them. If you don't like them, that doesn't make a shitty product, it just means you don't like them and you're opinion isn't reflective of everyones
Those days however a loooong gone as the master of seeing what would be the next 'big thing' and making the next big thing is worm food.
Wow, you're not even an Apple fanboy and the reality distortion field fanboys have got you in their grasp. Jobs was not Apple for years before he died. Apple hasn't crumbled since Jobs left.
Sorry dude, its not going to be the year of the Linux desktop, no matter how silly stupid you get about Apple 'failing' its not going to magically fix your OS to be popular on the desktop, just fucking give up.
Short answer to your question: Swartz is a douche and so are you for mentioning him, and ESR is just a guy, ya know? Neither one of them changed the world view literally over night.
Long answer to your question: Because they are both hardly worth mentioning douchebags who get FAR more attention then they deserve.
Swartz was nothing more than a common thief who couldn't deal with the consequences of his actions. When you bring up Swartz as if he's a martyr you lose any and all credibility instantly. It shows everyone that you're just an uppity idiot who wants to rant and rave about something you completely don't understand the facts about.
Get this through your heads people: Aaron Swartz was nothing more than a common criminal. Stop romanizing a selfish thief. Best of Yet, he couldn't even cope with the consequences of his own actions and he was plenty old enough to fucking know better since... IT WASN'T HIS FIRST FUCKING OFFENSE.
ESR is just a guy who writes software and knows a few things and is an all around intelligent guy. You only mention him because you're a noob who doesn't realize that OSS was huge before anyone knew who ESR was. He didn't tell us anything we didn't already know through just looking at history. He just said it about a different technology, one that you now know and care about. Nothing wrong with him, but he didn't change the world.
Snowden, good OR bad, changed the world over night. Could have been anyone really. Snowden isn't special either, other than having the balls to do it and deal with the aftermath (something Swartz didn't).
My parents taught me that when I was about 3 years old.
What did yours teach you? To blame others for your own stupid life choices?
I'm tired of arrogant pricks like you not accepting personal responsibility for your actions and blaming everyone else.
You made a choice to ignore the safe option and took the stupid option. You paid for it with a hospital visit. You rode a bicycle with absolutely no protection around you in an area meant for objects that weight 2+ tons and are made of steel that won't even notice they turned you into a bloody smear and now you're trying to blame it on everyone else.
You're a fucking moron who makes stupid life choices. You made the choice to ride your bike in a dangerous situation. Its your fault, even if you can't bother to recognize reality and accept your part.
Neither I nor my children are stupid enough to ride their bikes in the road, and we use people like you as an example of why they don't want to ride their bikes in the street. Why is it that my 3 year old can understand this and you can not?
and the plates experience an attractive force. This is crazy.. but it had been actually measured.
No, they don't. This is your misunderstanding of how the universe actually works and a piss poor explanation that you heard leading you to this.
Everything you think of as 'attraction' is really repulsion from something else. The plates aren't 'pulled' together from an attractive force. They are PUSHED together from the outside because there isn't a balancing force inside pushing back.
Likewise, Airplane wings don't produce lift because of the vacuum on the upper surface. They produce lift because the pressure on the lower surface is higher than the pressure on the upper surface so the wing is PUSHED up.
I could go on with all the silly things that people say about physics like these:( However, my point is, when you demonstrate in the first few sentences you don't understand whats actually happening and you're just parroting what someone else told you... its fairly obvious and disappointing:(
The Institute said that under the program, intellectual property licensing, data collection and clinical trials across multiple centers will be unified for the first time.
So what? That does nothing to make it useful, it just makes it less useful cause you'll now have 6 groups competing to learn and gain from the shared research all while hiding the bits of research and data they think they can patent and make profitable.
If you want to actually cure cancer, make ALL THE RESEARCH ENTIRELY OPEN WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
THEN come talk to me about actually wanting to cure cancer and do it with collaboration and do it for the good of humanity.
This is just another advertising gimmick for someone trying to patent a new drug(s). 250m isn't really worth mentioning, these groups will eat 250m in money squabbling over what growth aggregate they should be using before the research even starts.
Stop pretending this bullshit is for the public good, its just another way to profit and you're being dup'd into thinking its something good.
Seriously. They are words. Stop being so offended by stupid shit and do your job, maybe you'll hear less insults if you focused on getting something done instead of taking every opportunity you can to get offended.
Its like you're mission is to try and be offended as possible by people, at least judging by this story and its posting.
Actually, while the post you're replying too is dumb, there is one really simple reason not to change the BSOD.
Reliability.
Lets go over the scenario and we'll see WHY the BSOD screen is SUPPOSED TO BE EXTREMELY SIMPLE.
A BSOD occurs when the kernel has detected a major failure or corruption within itself. At the point when its determined to BSOD, the system IS UNSTABLE AND UNSAFE. The system is deciding THE ABSOLUTE SAFEST THING TO DO IS STOP DOING ANYTHING, because THE SYSTEM IS UNSTABLE AND IN AN UNKNOWN STATE.
At this stage POTENTIALLY ANY INSTRUCTION CAN BE FATAL because you are no longer sure about anything in RAM, any data structures such as page mappings or anything else. (Sure there are some bug check BSODs that are relatively safe, but those don't happen in release/unchecked builds.)
You do as ABSOLUTELY LITTLE AS POSSIBLE in the BSOD phase of runtime. The mini dump is written to a pre-allocated location of disk... THE SWAP FILE, that the OS put into a protected region of ram so it couldn't be corrupted in the event of a problem. It doesn't allocate more space, it doesn't move space, it just writes to known good locations. If it tried to read the disk directory, it may be corrupt and read it incorrectly, then write to the wrong portion of your disk and destroy the data structure.
On the next boot, when the system is in a stable state, THEN that mini dump (or full dump if thats the case) is written to an actual file on the file system that you can access, but its in swap until the OS boots, sees it in swap, and writes it to a standard file.
Now some dip shit from marketing wants to put a 100% worthless QR code on the screen. Thats something that has to be calculated. That means intentionally doing more computations on an unstable system and ignoring all conventional wisdom. The QR code provides no benefit and adds risk.
Its a stupid fucking idea probably done by some young engineer to naive to understand why he shouldn't be playing in that code. Or worse still, probably some jackass in the phone group decided that crashes should have a QR code so they could sell phones with QR readers to admins.
Across the board, its a stupid fucking change with way bigger risk than benefits.
Before the replies about it come in, you do realize the point of posting this on the slashdot front page was to get page views as people ranting about Trump and the political flame wars that follow.
At no point did anyone involved in posting this story actually give a fuck that Fred Trump was a major asset to our species. Lets remember where we are and stay focused.
However, a lot of things go into making us who we are by the time we get to his age, and even the tiniest of silly little things 40 years ago can cause an otherwise intelligent person to pick up some silly and outright wrong logic.
Its all a matter of perspective and his has simply had some bad data feeds which resulted in him becoming what he is today.
The man is not stupid and he is not 'wrong' in every way. He is wrong IN A WHOLE BUNCH OF IMPORTANT WAYS, but not every one.
Replace the word Trump in this post with Clinton, Sanders, YourLastName and it still applies all the same.
Please stop trying to taint *BSD with the nasty ass disorganized chaos of GNU.
*BSD are nice, organized, predictable, maintainable OSes with good clean utilities that work in reliable and predictable ways.
GNU is a piss pot of everything doing everything THEY want and not giving one flying fuck about how anyone else might like it:
Examples:
Not using/usr/local systemd 4 trillion flavors of GNU/Linux that all work exactly the same... except different so that nothing actually will work out of the box across them without tweaks The Linux desktop
Stop trying to make a fucked up BSD, its not a god damn shitty GPL project, its actually open source.
JUST TAKE THE KERNEL PARTS YOU WANT AND LEAVE *BSD ALONE. WE DON'T WANT YOUR CORRUPTION.
Its kind of like scientology is a cult rather than religion. This is a religion rather than science. Most people on both sides are 100% sure the know the the right... whatever they know.
The reality of it is, both sides don't know dick and thats why nothing is going to happen.
If by propaganda you mean 30+ years of peer reviewed scientific work, then yes
Yea, they all agree too, except when they don't... or when they suddenly have to explain why they manipulated data to 'correct it'.
And btw:
<Bonnie> Hey Clyde, do you think we're bad people and we should go to jail? <Clyde> Hell no Bonnie, its those pesky anti-criminal coppers that are wrong, we have proof that they are holding us criminals back and harming us irreparable! Look how well we're doing and look at all this money we have since we started running this scam^H^H^Hervice. <Bonnie> Do you think that might have something to do with cherry picking the data we want to analyze so it supports or view point? <Clyde> I'm offended Bonnie, I'm a scientist, not a human being. I could never be biased, corrupt or looking for my next grant and riding the wave, thats just not possible. I'm a scientist, not a human!
Considering that gamers are entirely unimpressed with it, thats really sad.
I've yet to meet a single person that cares at all about Fallout 4. Its just another New Vegas... which is to say: Its a let down for all of us still hoping to get that feeling we got from Fallout 3 back.
or we just don't know everything thats going on in the universe.
We can't predict the weather tomorrow on our own planet with direct observation... yet people get retarded when it comes to space and think they know all about objects light years away that we've never actually seen with our own eyes beyond a tiny dot of light in the sky.
Why is it that we know so much more about galaxies than our own planet? Hmm? Whats that? I couldn't hear you explain to me why that is?
Unless there are so many super massive black holes that it makes up the difference...
You do realize we may not actually know everything about how the universe works right? Hence the point of this article... there are more black holes than expected... yet here you are immediately throwing out an idea because you think you know whats going on... while being shown you don't know whats going on.
Science doesn't allow for your preference for how the universe works. You don't get to say 'won't explain the effects' because you have no idea if it will or won't since you have no idea what the population is.
Because the device doesn't allow enough spying on you and the EULA for the service and hub don't allow Google a way to increase the spying on you.
In short, its anti-google, it doesn't let them watch you fuck your wife and know everything else you do in your home, so they don't want it to exist. If they give you the source you may continue using it instead of buying the next version that REQUIRES the ability to spy on you.
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Do you have kids, especially any young but mobile kids?
Of course not, he wouldn't have made such retarded statements if he had any experience with either kids or the way amazon does their tablets.
He's just talking out his ass about things he doesn't know anything about.
When you buy an Amazon Fire device it comes linked to your Amazon account unless you specifically tell it not to when buying it by unchecking the tiny checkbox with small print next to it somewhere in the checkout process ... that option ISN'T EVEN AN OPTION ON PRIME NOW PURCHASES. So in all cases, by default, the table comes linked to your CC, and in some cases, you can't even tell it not to be.
I.E. By default, a new Amazon fire tablet ... like ... the kids version for $79 that I bought the other day directly from amazon ... comes already linked to the credit cards on my amazon account and I had to specifically go add an account to the device and restrict it from being able to purchase.
I've purchased the cheapo fire 7" for myself and the kids version for my son so this is from recent direct personal experience that I say this.
Amazon is a shitty company who uses every social engineering trick in the book to rip you off and you let them.
What they've done is as bullshit and they are right to have all of that money torn away from them and should have 3-4x ripped away from them on top as punishment.
They just got approved to by TWC, they now own the majority of the united states home internet and cable connections.
Its not 'occasionally' anymore.
So you've effectively put yourself at war with the American people in that statement, do you realize that?
You've weaponized an asset of an American company and are intentionally putting the American public at risk to further your own agenda.
You should be hung from the highest bridge with care.
Yes, everything you say is true ... it COULD happen.
But there is absolutely 0 indication that its going to happen anytime soon.
This douche is just jealous and trying to make some noise and get some attention.
If you think Apple has NIH, you don't know shit about Apple to put it bluntly. Unless you think they invented a whole bunch of OSS software ... that everyone else likes to claim they 'stolen' and 'made proprietary' ... while contributing back patches to the BSD licensed software ...
Apple has the potential to be the new microsoft: a bloated corpse that is just carrying on via inertia. They DO however still have time to buy their way out of the mess they are in.
WHAT fucking mess are they in?
Lets list the places:
Product sales not growing for the following products: None, ALL of their products are STILL selling more year over year, even iPhones and iPads.
Customer backlash due to crappy/buggy products: Nope. Other than a few loud mouths that scream 'OMG WALLED GARDEN' without actually understanding even the slightest what that means, Apple has extremely high customer satisfaction since they make quality products that work for people who use them. If you don't like them, that doesn't make a shitty product, it just means you don't like them and you're opinion isn't reflective of everyones
Those days however a loooong gone as the master of seeing what would be the next 'big thing' and making the next big thing is worm food.
Wow, you're not even an Apple fanboy and the reality distortion field fanboys have got you in their grasp. Jobs was not Apple for years before he died. Apple hasn't crumbled since Jobs left.
Sorry dude, its not going to be the year of the Linux desktop, no matter how silly stupid you get about Apple 'failing' its not going to magically fix your OS to be popular on the desktop, just fucking give up.
Whats your companies valuation and how much cash do all of your companies combined have just laying around to blow when they want to?
It always amuses me when people who don't have 5% of what Apple has tell us how wrong Apple is in its choices.
Dear fucking god please let me be THAT WRONG about what people want.
Short answer to your question: Swartz is a douche and so are you for mentioning him, and ESR is just a guy, ya know? Neither one of them changed the world view literally over night.
Long answer to your question:
Because they are both hardly worth mentioning douchebags who get FAR more attention then they deserve.
Swartz was nothing more than a common thief who couldn't deal with the consequences of his actions. When you bring up Swartz as if he's a martyr you lose any and all credibility instantly. It shows everyone that you're just an uppity idiot who wants to rant and rave about something you completely don't understand the facts about.
Get this through your heads people: Aaron Swartz was nothing more than a common criminal. Stop romanizing a selfish thief. Best of Yet, he couldn't even cope with the consequences of his own actions and he was plenty old enough to fucking know better since ... IT WASN'T HIS FIRST FUCKING OFFENSE.
ESR is just a guy who writes software and knows a few things and is an all around intelligent guy. You only mention him because you're a noob who doesn't realize that OSS was huge before anyone knew who ESR was. He didn't tell us anything we didn't already know through just looking at history. He just said it about a different technology, one that you now know and care about. Nothing wrong with him, but he didn't change the world.
Snowden, good OR bad, changed the world over night. Could have been anyone really. Snowden isn't special either, other than having the balls to do it and deal with the aftermath (something Swartz didn't).
I'm seeing situations where a person is given a citation for "texting while driving" even though their vehicle is stopped at a red traffic light.
You mean the assholes who text through most of the green light so they are the only ones who make it through?
Fuck them just as much, they are just as dangerous since they end up causing road rage for the 20 cars behind them
You could have not ridden your bike on the road.
My parents taught me that when I was about 3 years old.
What did yours teach you? To blame others for your own stupid life choices?
I'm tired of arrogant pricks like you not accepting personal responsibility for your actions and blaming everyone else.
You made a choice to ignore the safe option and took the stupid option. You paid for it with a hospital visit. You rode a bicycle with absolutely no protection around you in an area meant for objects that weight 2+ tons and are made of steel that won't even notice they turned you into a bloody smear and now you're trying to blame it on everyone else.
You're a fucking moron who makes stupid life choices. You made the choice to ride your bike in a dangerous situation. Its your fault, even if you can't bother to recognize reality and accept your part.
Neither I nor my children are stupid enough to ride their bikes in the road, and we use people like you as an example of why they don't want to ride their bikes in the street. Why is it that my 3 year old can understand this and you can not?
and the plates experience an attractive force. This is crazy.. but it had been actually measured.
No, they don't. This is your misunderstanding of how the universe actually works and a piss poor explanation that you heard leading you to this.
Everything you think of as 'attraction' is really repulsion from something else. The plates aren't 'pulled' together from an attractive force. They are PUSHED together from the outside because there isn't a balancing force inside pushing back.
Likewise, Airplane wings don't produce lift because of the vacuum on the upper surface. They produce lift because the pressure on the lower surface is higher than the pressure on the upper surface so the wing is PUSHED up.
I could go on with all the silly things that people say about physics like these :( However, my point is, when you demonstrate in the first few sentences you don't understand whats actually happening and you're just parroting what someone else told you ... its fairly obvious and disappointing :(
Why is this a slashdot issue? Just because we went to school? Guess what, so did a lot of other people.
Having a student loan does not qualify as news for nerds.
The Institute said that under the program, intellectual property licensing, data collection and clinical trials across multiple centers will be unified for the first time.
So what? That does nothing to make it useful, it just makes it less useful cause you'll now have 6 groups competing to learn and gain from the shared research all while hiding the bits of research and data they think they can patent and make profitable.
If you want to actually cure cancer, make ALL THE RESEARCH ENTIRELY OPEN WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
THEN come talk to me about actually wanting to cure cancer and do it with collaboration and do it for the good of humanity.
This is just another advertising gimmick for someone trying to patent a new drug(s). 250m isn't really worth mentioning, these groups will eat 250m in money squabbling over what growth aggregate they should be using before the research even starts.
Stop pretending this bullshit is for the public good, its just another way to profit and you're being dup'd into thinking its something good.
But you guys are fucking pussies.
Seriously. They are words. Stop being so offended by stupid shit and do your job, maybe you'll hear less insults if you focused on getting something done instead of taking every opportunity you can to get offended.
Its like you're mission is to try and be offended as possible by people, at least judging by this story and its posting.
Actually, while the post you're replying too is dumb, there is one really simple reason not to change the BSOD.
Reliability.
Lets go over the scenario and we'll see WHY the BSOD screen is SUPPOSED TO BE EXTREMELY SIMPLE.
A BSOD occurs when the kernel has detected a major failure or corruption within itself. At the point when its determined to BSOD, the system IS UNSTABLE AND UNSAFE. The system is deciding THE ABSOLUTE SAFEST THING TO DO IS STOP DOING ANYTHING, because THE SYSTEM IS UNSTABLE AND IN AN UNKNOWN STATE.
At this stage POTENTIALLY ANY INSTRUCTION CAN BE FATAL because you are no longer sure about anything in RAM, any data structures such as page mappings or anything else. (Sure there are some bug check BSODs that are relatively safe, but those don't happen in release/unchecked builds.)
You do as ABSOLUTELY LITTLE AS POSSIBLE in the BSOD phase of runtime. The mini dump is written to a pre-allocated location of disk ... THE SWAP FILE, that the OS put into a protected region of ram so it couldn't be corrupted in the event of a problem. It doesn't allocate more space, it doesn't move space, it just writes to known good locations. If it tried to read the disk directory, it may be corrupt and read it incorrectly, then write to the wrong portion of your disk and destroy the data structure.
On the next boot, when the system is in a stable state, THEN that mini dump (or full dump if thats the case) is written to an actual file on the file system that you can access, but its in swap until the OS boots, sees it in swap, and writes it to a standard file.
Now some dip shit from marketing wants to put a 100% worthless QR code on the screen. Thats something that has to be calculated. That means intentionally doing more computations on an unstable system and ignoring all conventional wisdom. The QR code provides no benefit and adds risk.
Its a stupid fucking idea probably done by some young engineer to naive to understand why he shouldn't be playing in that code. Or worse still, probably some jackass in the phone group decided that crashes should have a QR code so they could sell phones with QR readers to admins.
Across the board, its a stupid fucking change with way bigger risk than benefits.
Before the replies about it come in, you do realize the point of posting this on the slashdot front page was to get page views as people ranting about Trump and the political flame wars that follow.
At no point did anyone involved in posting this story actually give a fuck that Fred Trump was a major asset to our species. Lets remember where we are and stay focused.
Trump is surely a very intelligent person.
However, a lot of things go into making us who we are by the time we get to his age, and even the tiniest of silly little things 40 years ago can cause an otherwise intelligent person to pick up some silly and outright wrong logic.
Its all a matter of perspective and his has simply had some bad data feeds which resulted in him becoming what he is today.
The man is not stupid and he is not 'wrong' in every way. He is wrong IN A WHOLE BUNCH OF IMPORTANT WAYS, but not every one.
Replace the word Trump in this post with Clinton, Sanders, YourLastName and it still applies all the same.
Please stop trying to taint *BSD with the nasty ass disorganized chaos of GNU.
*BSD are nice, organized, predictable, maintainable OSes with good clean utilities that work in reliable and predictable ways.
GNU is a piss pot of everything doing everything THEY want and not giving one flying fuck about how anyone else might like it:
Examples:
Not using /usr/local ... except different so that nothing actually will work out of the box across them without tweaks
systemd
4 trillion flavors of GNU/Linux that all work exactly the same
The Linux desktop
Stop trying to make a fucked up BSD, its not a god damn shitty GPL project, its actually open source.
JUST TAKE THE KERNEL PARTS YOU WANT AND LEAVE *BSD ALONE. WE DON'T WANT YOUR CORRUPTION.
And no, I'm not joking.
Its kind of like scientology is a cult rather than religion. This is a religion rather than science. Most people on both sides are 100% sure the know the the right ... whatever they know.
The reality of it is, both sides don't know dick and thats why nothing is going to happen.
If by propaganda you mean 30+ years of peer reviewed scientific work, then yes
Yea, they all agree too, except when they don't ... or when they suddenly have to explain why they manipulated data to 'correct it'.
And btw:
<Bonnie> Hey Clyde, do you think we're bad people and we should go to jail?
<Clyde> Hell no Bonnie, its those pesky anti-criminal coppers that are wrong, we have proof that they are holding us criminals back and harming us irreparable! Look how well we're doing and look at all this money we have since we started running this scam^H^H^Hervice.
<Bonnie> Do you think that might have something to do with cherry picking the data we want to analyze so it supports or view point?
<Clyde> I'm offended Bonnie, I'm a scientist, not a human being. I could never be biased, corrupt or looking for my next grant and riding the wave, thats just not possible. I'm a scientist, not a human!
No it isn't.
Find anything online on any gaming site that agrees with you.
Popular opinion is that New Vegas as a shitty sequel that added nothing to Fallout 3 except more brown and green.
Fallout 4 at anywhere between $150M and $250M
Considering that gamers are entirely unimpressed with it, thats really sad.
I've yet to meet a single person that cares at all about Fallout 4. Its just another New Vegas ... which is to say: Its a let down for all of us still hoping to get that feeling we got from Fallout 3 back.
I'd love to know where the money went.
or we just don't know everything thats going on in the universe.
We can't predict the weather tomorrow on our own planet with direct observation ... yet people get retarded when it comes to space and think they know all about objects light years away that we've never actually seen with our own eyes beyond a tiny dot of light in the sky.
Why is it that we know so much more about galaxies than our own planet? Hmm? Whats that? I couldn't hear you explain to me why that is?
Unless there are so many super massive black holes that it makes up the difference ...
You do realize we may not actually know everything about how the universe works right? Hence the point of this article ... there are more black holes than expected ... yet here you are immediately throwing out an idea because you think you know whats going on ... while being shown you don't know whats going on.
Science doesn't allow for your preference for how the universe works. You don't get to say 'won't explain the effects' because you have no idea if it will or won't since you have no idea what the population is.
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I think you might want to consider the same
Because the device doesn't allow enough spying on you and the EULA for the service and hub don't allow Google a way to increase the spying on you.
In short, its anti-google, it doesn't let them watch you fuck your wife and know everything else you do in your home, so they don't want it to exist. If they give you the source you may continue using it instead of buying the next version that REQUIRES the ability to spy on you.