I honestly didn't bother with most of it because it was such a rambling dumpster fire of a post I tried to find something of value. Eg, "would you continue to support an organization that has proven to be a failure/propaganda mouthpiece of an oppressive state".

Your answer is obviously "yes". Not really much else to discuss.

The WHO has already caused large numbers of people to die, simply by parroting Chinese propaganda and being unwilling to declare a pandemic because its leadership is bought and paid for by the Chinese government.

Should such an organization be destroyed, or sustained so that it has the chance to do it again?

Agreed. And the impact of just the 20 largest container ships is more than the emissions of all cars world-wide. On a global scale automotive emissions aren't negligible, but they certainly aren't the worst offenders. They're just the most maligned because it's easy to screw the individual consumer than some global mega-corporation that either has no oversight or can bribe enough people to turn a blind eye.

Because it isn't worth the effort for a product that obviously isn't selling?

As it is, it's just safer (from a liability standpoint) to brick the devices and pay off the owners. If they just leave them "unsupported", what happens 2-3 years down the road when somebody discovers a vulnerability that allows remote access? Who is liable when somebody remotely unlocks your front door and walks off with all your stuff?

Better to just brick them and force people to find a supported solution.

Almost a year exactly.

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LOL. You want to do something hard and constructive instead of an ultimately meaningless gesture that everybody is on-board with for the next few days. Did you forget where you live? In another 2 weeks some other item will be shoved down our throats and nobody will remember the flag the same way that everybody has already forgotten about Bruce/Catlyn Jenner.

And please don't misunderstand - I think the underlying topics for both issues are worth discussing, but the idea that corporate entities embracing or decrying an issue *fixes* something is absolutely absurd.

Yes, right at the time that LCDs for extra physical displays are so cheap that it's completely irrelevant. Awesome indeed.

Google's time and money is what it probably comes down to. Somewhere deep in the accounting department they figure out that the quality of data they are mining is not enough to offset the actual cost of running the service. It's true that a larger user base would create a larger data set and therefore be more likely to be profitable for them, but if it's just a different representation of the same data there really isn't any point. They can figure out what we're interested in from Search, what we actually buy from the email receipts in our Gmail boxes, etc. A new service like Keep might give them new information, but if not there's no reason to continue it.

Damn right. Openwin was way better.

In the Google Privacy Policy on my phone, in the Service section it says:

"Location information
When you use a location-enabled Google service,we may collect and process information about your actual location,like GPS signals sent by a mobile device. We may also use various technologies to determine location,such as sensor data from your device that may,for example,provide information on nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers."

That's one of the things I'm assuming they're using it for.

That's part of the EULA and the "anonymous statistics" I believe. When you use Google Maps it uploads your position periodically, from which it can deduce your average velocity. It correlates that with other reports from other users in geographically similar areas and creates congestion maps.

I don't think stand-alone GPS (like Garmin) upload any data, so they probably purchase it from Google. That's most likely why it's a subscription or ad-based service on those devices.

Apparently you don't need it. The article ridiculously claims that focusing on physical keyboards and long battery life was a "failure" on RIMs part. Somehow they manage to overlook several multi-day network outages as a factor...

-- Posted with love from my iPad

If FunnyJunk isn't suing anyone, why does Carreon's letter ask for $20,000 payable to FunnyJunk, LLC? At least the version posted on The Oatmeal does.