Also, dude, it's a joke! Did Henny Youngman's wife file for divorce when he said, "Take my wife... please!"? Did Rodney Dangerfield's wife file when he said, "I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her!"?
How could it possibly be in the wireless provider's best interest to provide a method of limiting the amount of money they can make off of a customer???
The app not adding or removing quotas at all. It is adding itself as an activity interested in ALL incoming texts, then selectively consuming the texts it wishes to block while passing all other on to other activities.
A binary rule is not good enough. There is nothing odd or strange about an app sending an SMS here or there
When you are installing an app whose only purpose is to make it look like your display is fogged up, and it says it needs permission to send SMS messages, that should be a definite clue-by-four that there might be something suspicious going on. And yes, I do ask myself every time I install a free app "why would this app need these privileges?" If it doesn't make sense, I don't install it, period.
When you install any Android app, it explicitly asks for permissions to perform various categories of activities. If you granted the app permission to perform activities it doesn't need, e.g. SEND TEXT MESSAGES, then shame on you, not on the OS!
Uh... good point. In my defense, I certainly hope that this slashdot account is in no way traceable to my actual identity, even though one acquaintance has been able to deduce my actual identity from my posts.
Most laws are created by those with money and power in an attempt to maintain the status quo, e.g. keep the money and power in the hands of those that currently have the money and power. "Controlling people" is not necessarily a bad thing; as a society we agree that certain acts such as murder, assault, theft are harmful, and laws simply codify punishment for these antisocial acts. Other laws seem designed primarily to protect corporations' existing business models; these laws appear to themselves be antisocial. Laws are just tools; like any other type of tool, they can be used to achieve societal good or harm.
Yeah, just like we "experimented" with drugs and whatnot in college, some people apparently can now afford to "experiment" with membership in the "37 Mile High Club"!
Supply and demand, my friend. I have an acquaintance (John Rickman) who is a brilliant photographer and has done some very classy erotic photos. Where does he make the vast majority of his money? Off of family portraits...
Uh, no. My wife is quite attractive; people used to tell her all the time that she should be a model, and she even had an offer to go to work for a strip club (she declined). My sister in law is 7 years younger and even more attractive than my wife, and has noticeably larger breasts than my wife's 36-D's. She also dresses quite provocatively, and in many ways in nicer to me and more compatible with me than my wife, you has the exact opposite personality as I do. In short, it's unnerving because "foking" her is something that has crossed my mind...
Laugh if you will, but I constantly have to remind both my wife and my sister-in-law that the "r" in "fork" is NOT silent... and yes, it is a little unnerving when your sister-in-law asks you, "Would you like a fok?"!
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Sounds like a piss-poor study to me...
I'm pretty certain she doesn't read slashdot...
Also, dude, it's a joke! Did Henny Youngman's wife file for divorce when he said, "Take my wife... please!"? Did Rodney Dangerfield's wife file when he said, "I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her!"?
So, um.... whose basement are you living in now?
Sure, but both telephones and car interiors are difficult to clean after you've used them for extramarital purposes...
Perpetual virginity: the most effective divorce prevention known to man!
I'm too smart to ever have a Facebook account, and my wife is too stupid to set up a Facebook account without assistance...
More importantly, when a man and woman in Arkansas get divorced, are they still first cousins?
Once again, kiddies: Correlation does not imply causation!
I don't knowingly give my money to Disneycorp.
You obviously don't have any children. Just wait...
How could it possibly be in the wireless provider's best interest to provide a method of limiting the amount of money they can make off of a customer???
The app not adding or removing quotas at all. It is adding itself as an activity interested in ALL incoming texts, then selectively consuming the texts it wishes to block while passing all other on to other activities.
A binary rule is not good enough. There is nothing odd or strange about an app sending an SMS here or there
When you are installing an app whose only purpose is to make it look like your display is fogged up, and it says it needs permission to send SMS messages, that should be a definite clue-by-four that there might be something suspicious going on. And yes, I do ask myself every time I install a free app "why would this app need these privileges?" If it doesn't make sense, I don't install it, period.
Naked or fully clothed?
Hence the (admittedly misspelled) title, "Good news, Europeans!
When you install any Android app, it explicitly asks for permissions to perform various categories of activities. If you granted the app permission to perform activities it doesn't need, e.g. SEND TEXT MESSAGES, then shame on you, not on the OS!
Uh... good point. In my defense, I certainly hope that this slashdot account is in no way traceable to my actual identity, even though one acquaintance has been able to deduce my actual identity from my posts.
Most laws are created by those with money and power in an attempt to maintain the status quo, e.g. keep the money and power in the hands of those that currently have the money and power. "Controlling people" is not necessarily a bad thing; as a society we agree that certain acts such as murder, assault, theft are harmful, and laws simply codify punishment for these antisocial acts. Other laws seem designed primarily to protect corporations' existing business models; these laws appear to themselves be antisocial. Laws are just tools; like any other type of tool, they can be used to achieve societal good or harm.
This week would be an excellent time to put your PS3 up for sale on EBay!
Yeah, just like we "experimented" with drugs and whatnot in college, some people apparently can now afford to "experiment" with membership in the "37 Mile High Club"!
Five minutes is plenty of time for me, even including foreplay and a couple minutes of cuddling afterwards...
Supply and demand, my friend. I have an acquaintance (John Rickman) who is a brilliant photographer and has done some very classy erotic photos. Where does he make the vast majority of his money? Off of family portraits...
Uh, no. My wife is quite attractive; people used to tell her all the time that she should be a model, and she even had an offer to go to work for a strip club (she declined). My sister in law is 7 years younger and even more attractive than my wife, and has noticeably larger breasts than my wife's 36-D's. She also dresses quite provocatively, and in many ways in nicer to me and more compatible with me than my wife, you has the exact opposite personality as I do. In short, it's unnerving because "foking" her is something that has crossed my mind...
Warning: goatse is NSFW!
Uh, that should be "GNU/Linux Torvalds. Please turn in your geek card on the way out...
Laugh if you will, but I constantly have to remind both my wife and my sister-in-law that the "r" in "fork" is NOT silent... and yes, it is a little unnerving when your sister-in-law asks you, "Would you like a fok?"!