I believe other apps (like Tasker) are broken now too because of this issue.

Ooooh, that might be a dealbreaker for me. I've been running Llama since almost Day One specifically to switch WiFi off when I leave my house and to flip it back on when I return. I also use it for brightness and volume controls and for running Tasker's Taskkill plugin.

While I have yet to see any reason to upgrade from KitKat (rooted, CM11M12) now I'll be extra wary of upgrading to L.

I went Android with my first smartphone in 2012 (McClane: "Welcome to the party pal!") and I never looked back. But as my family joined me on my plan, including my parents for a total of 6 phones, two wound up being Nokia 521s. One was my son's. He's a self-taught tablet jailbreaker and he only grabbed WP cos it was on sale and his hand-me-down starter Android phone was a pig of a thing. He liked WP well enough but, like others have mentioned, bemoaned the poor app support and went back to Android once he saved up enough for a proper device.

The other Lumia WP went to my Dad, later to the smartphone party than I was. As an intro phone, for a non-geek, it was perfect. It did everything he needed it to (GPS, news, basic camera) and the Tiles interface was easy enough for him to understand and customize to his liking. Ultimately though, he and my mom grabbed a pair of LG Optimus L90s for $100 each out the door and both are very pleased.

Apple and Windows never appealed to me personally because of their locked-down nature and my need to customize my UI to within an inch of its life. But I respect what both competitors have done with their OSes.

I think I just had a flashback...

[...] surrounded by the Musk's hype-and-media Reality Distortion Field.

I'm pretty sure Mr. Jobs both patented AND trademarked his innovative yet elegant Reality Distortion Field. Please select a non-infringing term when discussing Mr. Musk's abilities. Thank you.

Though if they continue to move towards human cargo that will change the equation significantly.

Honest question: You have a ticket to the ISS. You can choose a rocket that just came out of the VAB* or one that recently launched and returned whole and was turned around for this flight. Which do you trust more?

* Yes, I know SpaceX isn't using the VAB now but you get the idea...

I thought the only rocket-related thing reused from the shuttles was the fuel tank, and that only after reconditioning it post-ocean swim.

SpaceX wants to soft-land the whole first stage in a way that won't require a lot of reconditioning. If it works, it would be a different sort of thing than the shuttles.

A full day and nobody's commented? OK, then..

* Your schedule could be established with power and water cycles - known empty home would be more interesting to thieves
* From above, if your insurance company determines you keep odd hours they may find that to be higher-risk and adjust your rate
* Law enforcement may be interested if your power and water usage continuously exceeds the requirements for the number of occupants - are you running a grow room? Warrant time!

I'm not necessarily paranoid enough to expect these outcomes, but I *am* jaded enough to expect humanity to fail us in such a manner.

Not sure why I haven't seen them lately but I used to get scads of results from them doing searches for code snippets.

Heehee - I wasn't intending to hold you to editorial standards. It was merely the combination of the "hyphen-gate" discussion plus your extra apostrophe that got me.

And of course /today/ is the day I don't have points... +1, sadly true

[...] Every character has it's place [...]

All too easy...

Whoops - I missed this and here I am at work, alive again. I'll see what I can do tomorrow.

(because I'm swimming in karma and I have a bad case of "don't give a toss" today)

Because Twilight wasn't that bad of a love story + vampire action, if you weren't married to the classic monster manual vampires.

Team Ed by the way.

Is this not why you all like to carry guns about anyway?

See, here's the thing. Please reread my post. I never said I wouldn't go. I just questioned Anonymous's bravado. This is easily my most-replied comment in 8 years of /., and I find it interesting how many people assumed I would capitulate to the terrorists. All I said was I would exercise caution and think hard about the risks before acting.

And as has been said before, the hackers likely have no physical attack vectors. But their puppetmasters might, and that's where the real risk comes from. That, and there are enough unbalanced people who might take up arms and inadvertently or deliberately aid the enemy.

As for the guns, I'm more scared of open-carry zealots* than terrorists. By a wide margin. I know a couple. More than once I've had to hear how open-carry or workplace CCW would have prevented x or y standoff. Sorry, you can't sell that to me. And I don't feel like getting deep in that debate right now. Maybe later.

* I don't oppose gun rights. I just wish there weren't so many people itching to carry everywhere they go. Honestly, /. loves to talk about the need for computer licensing cos users are too dumb on average. Do you think the average American really has what it takes to have a weapon at hand at all times? We get mad at each other over the stupidest things - guns, or merely the threat of a gun, would needlessly escalate things...

Everything they said they were going to release, they've released (iirc). Their access has been as deep as bragged about. No, I don't expect the "keyboard jockeys" of the GOP have physical force projection. But whoever put them up to this (and apparently it *IS* NoKo) just might. Kim Jong Un and his lineage strike me as the sort that bluster all day long, but that will eventually make good on the crazy. I have no idea what his trigger is. If Dennis Rodman *isn't* a trigger then maybe he isn't all that volatile.

Snark aside, I don't think anyone thinks the GOP acted alone. If a nation-state is involved, that nation-state likely has resources it may be willing to deploy in terror attacks. Remember, they don't need to strike 5,200 locations, or as said above, 10%. Half a percent of theatres experiencing a real terror attack on Christmas day wouldn't require a lot of manpower, and would be paralyzing, fear-wise. Which is the point of terror, y'know?