Yeah, they didn't. This is just some user-interface weirdery that makes it look like you're rating in the app, and you only get forwarded to Google Play to do the real rating (again) if you chose 5*.

Never mind that it doesn't actually *do* anything. You can only rate apps from Google Play itself, the star rating in EA is a *separate* star rating system, that happens to forward you to Google Play (to rate again) if you clicked 5 stars.

It's sneaky and shit, but not actually a security issue in Play ratings.

Not what it says on my passport...

Hell, I would never say you shouldn't cover yourself, but advising someone to run before they've even found out what the management are like seems a bit presumptuous to me. They could be shit and looking for a fall-guy (but really, that's alot of expense and effort, why bother?), but they could just want someone to contribute to their project...

If you want to be unprofessional and only ever want to take easy jobs, fine that's a route you can take. Other times you can work like an actual adult and solve the problems.

Depends depends. People scoffed at buying Youtube but that seems to have worked out alright. There's a (slightly breathless) but interesting take on what Nest might be for here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

ie it's about the server tech for running appliances.

Gotta say this is probably a better state for Android to be in from a "standard platform" point of view, a company making hardware and licencing its software to other hardware manufacturers hasn't work out very well in computing in the past. Either own the lot (Apple) or provide yourself as a service but don't compete (Microsoft pre-Surface). If you compete and licence, you end up being Apple during the clone years, or Palm. Companies might take a free ride on a crocodile, but they'll get off when they can cause it's not very safe...

Lenovo has done a decent job with Thinkpad, so it's not entirely doom for Moto either.

Excellent. Please don't, though.

As a phone user (as well as a developer) I appreciate fast, easy to use, properly designed software. I have yet to see any piece of javascripted HTML that comes close to what a native app achieves. Even after all this time, all those javascript engine improvements, all those faster processors, anything that isn't pretty basic web *sucks* on mobile. That and the culture of web development never seems to take offline / unreliable connection as a serious issue, or supporting less-than-latest phones. Can we give up on the web-app emperors new clothes now?

That's pretty extreme myopia to decide that it doesn't matter because 'ordinary citizens' aren't affected... it doesn't have to directly immediately target normal people to affect them.

But to answer your question, ordinary citizens *are* directly affected, they have jobs in these companies. Ordinary citizens are shareholders of these companies (Even non-explicit shareholders, of you have a pension then you have shares one way or another).

That's not really how art or artists work... Good art is nearly always the product of a strict hierarchical or one-man's-vision approach to a creation. And OpenTTD is a bit more than just 'inspiration' isn't it... the interface and graphics and copied *exactly*, with extra features. It might be entirely legal, but we're not jumping off from inspiration to new game, we're copying the first game and extending it.

Also, it's not a matter of free-speech, he's not tried to shut the project down, he just doesn't like it. That is entirely his prerogative.

Funnily enough, *I* miss the days before people started telling everyone that the site was better in the old days...

Yes, it should be. So must we tolerate falsehoods now?

They don't have to charge you! They can take you into custody without charging you for 48 hours! (72 in some states). I don't know how you can not think that's a problem. You want to play hardball, they can also do that.

Also, I'd like to see how well your police system works if everybody genuinely followed that advice. It would be impossible.

Your empathy with someone wrongly harassed and detained is impressive. Tell me, can you be so sure when faced with professional interrogators that you would do exactly the 'correct' thing that you claim? They know what they are doing, you know, they're not idiots. Wouldn't they just change their tack... can you anticipate their every move?

Try to be annoyed at the right people, this stuff matters. Rights are not supposed to be just for the people who know how to play the system.

Don't worry about it, it's just an interesting conversation...