Of course, most Cyanogenmod installations currently exist on rooted phones...
Yes.
It's not clear to me what your point is. Are you suggesting something about root (which I generally don't use on my devices), or about having to install CM in order to get some kind of permissions controls?
the next step is that applications start crashing when you revoke their permissions, or the authors simply refuse to let them run.
A good sandbox makes it hard or impossible to find the sides of the box.
The way things are implemented by Cyanogenmod's Privacy Guard, the application gets an empty data set and has no way to know if the permissions have been revoked. In the context of text messages, it might not even be able to tell the difference between having permissions revoked, being on a tablet without SMS, and being on a phone that's never received a text.
Are they weird because they've never met bacon, or are they weird because they don't like bacon?
Most likely because they don't like bacon enough, but trying to understand the motives of anti-bacon people is futile. I mean, can you believe that there are people who don't eat bacon simply because they heard that some dude in the sky tells them they're not allowed to eat it? Madness. And don't even get me started on vegetarians and other health nuts...
I've known people who consider eating little more than a chore of cramming calories into their gut, and would probably go for something like this at least two meals of the day.
I've also known people who prefer heavily processed foods because of a sense that there's more consistent quality control. Seriously. One guy flat out said he preferred to go to McDonalds where he knew the staff couldn't mess with his burger than eat the shawarma the guy at the Lebanese restaurant a few doors down makes every day, because "who knows what he might be doing behind that counter? What if he's not washing his hands?"
I'm quite sure the larger contributing factor to the flu spreading is people going to work while sick, not a suppressed fever.
They aren't necessarily unrelated. If you can't suppress symptoms enough to be functional, going to work while sick is a lot more difficult. I'd hope the study accounted for that effect.
Anyone who resorts to violence over somebody who is simply being annoying...
That's not the point.
The point is that if you have behaviour that is known to pretty near universally annoy the shit out of people, and that behaviour isn't a consequence of some kind of necessity (i.e. the reason we cut crying babies a lot of slack), and you combine that behaviour with a pile of stressed out people in an enclosed, unescapable environment for a few hours, then you're inevitably going to have some nasty situations.
No, that doesn't excuse people resorting to violence, but so what?
The fundamental goal of flight safety is to take reasonable steps to prevent problems from happening in the first place. I'd like to think that something like this is a no-brainer for the airlines, but I'm not entirely sure I trust them not to fuck it up somehow for reasons involving money (i.e. "yeah, you can talk on your phone, but you'll have to use our premium wi-fi calling service at $x/minute").
We don't need the FCC legislating cell phone use in movie theaters and cell phone use in planes can be dealt with the same way
Well... I'd like to think the FAA should become involved. Allowing behaviour which is pretty much guaranteed to piss of passengers and crews to the point of pulling out weapons (i.e. that shooting in a Florida theater the other day over texting) should be considered a flight safety issue and should be regulated by air safety authorities.
Yeah, here in NE Ohio we're expecting lows about the same as we saw in 1994, while this is an unusual cold pattern it's not like it's unprecedented.
Here in eastern Ontario, we're expecting lows roughly the same as the highs we saw last week. If it weren't for all the #$^*@! ice it'd actually be a nice week.
They're probably as lactose intolerant as the rest of the canine population. But the real problem is that they're more than a little bit food driven, and one's a hound.
I have a feeling the roadkill rate might go up a bit, and I'd hate to think about trying to walk my dogs on a sidewalk or street coated with processed dairy...
Android might have been designed for the touchscreen, but it's pretty solid as a singletasking desktop too.
Not without a touchscreen.
I've tried various versions of Android x86 over the years, and (ignoring hardware compatibility bugs and stuff like suspend not working), it's nowhere near "pretty solid" without touch. Scroll bars, for example, seem to appear randomly. If I had to compare it to something, I'd say it's about as usable as KDE 4.0.1.
I fail to see why a desktop or laptop maker would use Android and not Chromium OS.
Because Android has a gazillion name-brand apps, and Chromium OS... doesn't? Granted, many of those apps have web versions which will work fine on Chrome, but it's not even close to the same number.
I'm also thinking that PC makers (who, in many cases, are also tablet and even phone makers) have a lot more product experience with Android than ChromeOS. Yeah, there are some ChromeOS device makers, but nowhere near as many and they haven't been doing it as long.
The shell company that holds the patents itself produces no products, but Apple and Microsoft certainly doÃ"it's just that they hold the patents jointly through this 'Rockstar' entity.
None of the patents held by Rockstar were invented by Microsoft or Apple and none of the parts of Nortel that actually built products based on the patents were purchased by Rockstar, Microsoft, nor Apple.
That's pretty much the essence of a patent troll. That the owners might do some of their own stuff doesn't really change anything.
Just don't stop taking your meds. The reason you are feeling better is because of the meds. Just don't stop.
Amen.
My mother did community mental health outreach work for years (post-release patients, etc), and by a good margin, the number one cause of problems in followups was people not taking their medications.
The number two cause appears to have been incredibly abusive, unsupportive or just generally dysfunctional families, which fortunately doesn't sound like an issue for the OP.
Before we try and get and that additional freshwater - has anyone found another possible _deposit_ location for all the rubbish and toxic waste we're producing?
Transit riders and drivers/pedestrians are all navigating... they're just navigating entirely different sets of routes. The transit rider has a much simpler set of possiblt paths, but with the added complexity of time constraints (i.e. last subway at 3am, this bus line doesn't run on the weekend, if I catch this one I have to wait an extra 45 minutes *here*, etc).
Actually, I think most people are looking at a picture of a lump of scorched metal that used to be a car which was going fast enough to be completely wrapped around a small tree, and blaming the driver.
You don't need to know the technical specs on the engine or the portfolio of the driver to spend a whole lot of time coming to that conclusion.
Looking at the pictures of the scene its hard to imagine that they were driving anywhere close to the 45mph speed limit.
Yeah, that's pretty much my sense of the whole thing without even RTFA. There are relatively few vehicles certified for road use that would be inherently dangerous when driving near posted speeds under typical conditions. That these "experts" are even considering a problem with the car rather than the driver points to a fundamental problem with the "fast car" enthusiast mindset. If you're driving very fast while barely in control outside of a closed track with full safety gear, you're an idiot.
Never give personal information to a cold call. Never believe anything you hear from a cold call. If you think it could be legit, conclude the call, look up the *real* number of whatever institution purports to have called you, and call them. Real institutions (even creditors) will understand when you insist on doing this. Do I really have to say, do *not* believe a cold call when they give you a number to call back.
Can't mod you up more than you're at, so I'll say that if this was placed verbatim on a placard stuck to every single device with a connection to the outside world, there'd be a whole lot less of this nonsense.
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Yes.
It's not clear to me what your point is. Are you suggesting something about root (which I generally don't use on my devices), or about having to install CM in order to get some kind of permissions controls?
A good sandbox makes it hard or impossible to find the sides of the box.
The way things are implemented by Cyanogenmod's Privacy Guard, the application gets an empty data set and has no way to know if the permissions have been revoked. In the context of text messages, it might not even be able to tell the difference between having permissions revoked, being on a tablet without SMS, and being on a phone that's never received a text.
Most likely because they don't like bacon enough, but trying to understand the motives of anti-bacon people is futile. I mean, can you believe that there are people who don't eat bacon simply because they heard that some dude in the sky tells them they're not allowed to eat it? Madness. And don't even get me started on vegetarians and other health nuts...
Which part of "People are weird. Really, really weird." did you miss?
People are weird. Really, really weird.
I've known people who consider eating little more than a chore of cramming calories into their gut, and would probably go for something like this at least two meals of the day.
I've also known people who prefer heavily processed foods because of a sense that there's more consistent quality control. Seriously. One guy flat out said he preferred to go to McDonalds where he knew the staff couldn't mess with his burger than eat the shawarma the guy at the Lebanese restaurant a few doors down makes every day, because "who knows what he might be doing behind that counter? What if he's not washing his hands?"
They aren't necessarily unrelated. If you can't suppress symptoms enough to be functional, going to work while sick is a lot more difficult. I'd hope the study accounted for that effect.
That's not the point.
The point is that if you have behaviour that is known to pretty near universally annoy the shit out of people, and that behaviour isn't a consequence of some kind of necessity (i.e. the reason we cut crying babies a lot of slack), and you combine that behaviour with a pile of stressed out people in an enclosed, unescapable environment for a few hours, then you're inevitably going to have some nasty situations.
No, that doesn't excuse people resorting to violence, but so what?
The fundamental goal of flight safety is to take reasonable steps to prevent problems from happening in the first place. I'd like to think that something like this is a no-brainer for the airlines, but I'm not entirely sure I trust them not to fuck it up somehow for reasons involving money (i.e. "yeah, you can talk on your phone, but you'll have to use our premium wi-fi calling service at $x/minute").
I said FAA, not FCC.
But yeah, you could also just let the airlines deal with it. I don't know how much I trust them to get it right, though.
They don't allow most lethal weapons on planes. Plenty of other weapons are available. Fists, feet, luggage straps, pens, etc.
Well... I'd like to think the FAA should become involved. Allowing behaviour which is pretty much guaranteed to piss of passengers and crews to the point of pulling out weapons (i.e. that shooting in a Florida theater the other day over texting) should be considered a flight safety issue and should be regulated by air safety authorities.
Here in eastern Ontario, we're expecting lows roughly the same as the highs we saw last week. If it weren't for all the #$^*@! ice it'd actually be a nice week.
They're probably as lactose intolerant as the rest of the canine population. But the real problem is that they're more than a little bit food driven, and one's a hound.
I have a feeling the roadkill rate might go up a bit, and I'd hate to think about trying to walk my dogs on a sidewalk or street coated with processed dairy...
Not without a touchscreen.
I've tried various versions of Android x86 over the years, and (ignoring hardware compatibility bugs and stuff like suspend not working), it's nowhere near "pretty solid" without touch. Scroll bars, for example, seem to appear randomly. If I had to compare it to something, I'd say it's about as usable as KDE 4.0.1.
Because Android has a gazillion name-brand apps, and Chromium OS... doesn't? Granted, many of those apps have web versions which will work fine on Chrome, but it's not even close to the same number.
I'm also thinking that PC makers (who, in many cases, are also tablet and even phone makers) have a lot more product experience with Android than ChromeOS. Yeah, there are some ChromeOS device makers, but nowhere near as many and they haven't been doing it as long.
None of the patents held by Rockstar were invented by Microsoft or Apple and none of the parts of Nortel that actually built products based on the patents were purchased by Rockstar, Microsoft, nor Apple.
That's pretty much the essence of a patent troll. That the owners might do some of their own stuff doesn't really change anything.
Amen.
My mother did community mental health outreach work for years (post-release patients, etc), and by a good margin, the number one cause of problems in followups was people not taking their medications.
The number two cause appears to have been incredibly abusive, unsupportive or just generally dysfunctional families, which fortunately doesn't sound like an issue for the OP.
China?
Transit riders and drivers/pedestrians are all navigating... they're just navigating entirely different sets of routes. The transit rider has a much simpler set of possiblt paths, but with the added complexity of time constraints (i.e. last subway at 3am, this bus line doesn't run on the weekend, if I catch this one I have to wait an extra 45 minutes *here*, etc).
Actually, I think most people are looking at a picture of a lump of scorched metal that used to be a car which was going fast enough to be completely wrapped around a small tree, and blaming the driver.
You don't need to know the technical specs on the engine or the portfolio of the driver to spend a whole lot of time coming to that conclusion.
Yeah, that's pretty much my sense of the whole thing without even RTFA. There are relatively few vehicles certified for road use that would be inherently dangerous when driving near posted speeds under typical conditions. That these "experts" are even considering a problem with the car rather than the driver points to a fundamental problem with the "fast car" enthusiast mindset. If you're driving very fast while barely in control outside of a closed track with full safety gear, you're an idiot.
I'd like to think so, but I'm not a xenobiologist.
Can't mod you up more than you're at, so I'll say that if this was placed verbatim on a placard stuck to every single device with a connection to the outside world, there'd be a whole lot less of this nonsense.