You can change the default search engine in Chrome for Android (and iOS): e.g. https://www.technorms.com/4060...
You can install other browsers on Android and set them to be default to open URLs (actually, you're prompted for which browser to use the first time after installing another browser then open a URL).
You can turn off Google Location Services: e.g. https://support.google.com/nex...

Can't argue with the Skyhook thing though (e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2011/...)

You make a convincing point.

It seems like Indiegogo is where tech projects go when they cant meet the criteria of Kickstarter (e.g. having a working prototype). Putting money into optimistic (but plausible) tech projects on Kickstarter seems a lot like betting, but putting money into the same on Indiegogo seems like burning money.

Having your personal conveyance device break is abnormal or unexpected function. The bot buying (at random) whatever was available was the intended function.

Sure, but that was winning 52% of the time where each individual loss or win were essentially irrelevant to the casino.

Funny thing: most Australians don't share your view that the current licensing regimes (such as needing a valid reason for owning a gun, and 'self defence' is not considered a valid reason) in Australia are infringing on personal rights. We like to refer to it as 'good sense' (although you can always find some who will disagree).

On the other hand, we in Australia also don't have the constant stream of *other* shootings that happen in Texas.

Sure, because there is one and only one factor which determines the amount of terrorism that occurs in wealthy western countries.

On a tablet, the one-finger vs two-finger swipedown makes sense (because it is easier than reaching from the right corner of the screen to the left) but on a phone the right-vs-left makes much more sense because you're more likely to be holding and operating the phone with the same hand (Note: my N5 is broken atm so I can't check the on-phone behaviour).

There are other things I dislike about Android on a large tablet, but the biggest one has been around since 4.0... having the 'navigation' buttons in the middle of the device where neither hand is conveniently close to them.

If you can't take the time to actually know the context of an event, you're unlikely to have any comment worth posting.

You'd have a good point, except that there are precedents for internet-delivered threats being credible too.

Depending on the ratio of illegal/inappropriate discharges of firearms vs valid defensive discharges of firearms, it may be that the one-in-ten-thousand failure to fire actually *reduces* murder and assault rates.

That's not really relevant in this context. In order to bypass the iPhone fingerprint lock, they need a clean print, a good photograph of that print, and a bit of time. It is easier to just go and buy a gun than to go through that process, if you've got the time to mess around doing such things.

In contrast, this is useful when someone else has just picked up your gun and you *really* don't want them to be able to fire it.

I'm looking forward to the next change when speakers start piping in the wailing of the dying into the economy section, and if you don't want to listen to the wailing then you should be paying for the 'economy plus', which has mysteriously increased to include half the seats from the old 'economy' section. Maybe just remove the cushions and have 'economy' sitting on planks of wood, with a full inch of open-cell foam in the 'economy plus' section and perhaps an extra $5 for each additional inch of foam.

Yes. You substituted a sex-specific characteristic for a non-sex-specific characteristic. Bravo.