honestly, i think that you did something wrong with your test app. there are tons of highly intricate apps that do not request permission to make calls. now, if your app wanted to go to the background when a call came and relaunch when the call is over that's something different. however, that permission is "read phone state" which does not sound the same at all.

so, recognize that the ACLU is asserting that the Maryland's law against wiretapping is unconstitutional and plan to challenge it. this is a fairly simple concept, it is right in the summery.

no, you are either a dick or you don't know what you are talking about.

i have twenty years of experience shooting on fully manual 35mm cameras. i take my time and only shoot when i am really happy with what i have in the view finder. for every 10 times i lift the camera and compose a shot i take maybe one frame. i am not trying to get my photos published in a magazine, but these days i am pretty happy with over half of my shots. the reason pros say that they are at a 1-3% keepers is that they are shooting dozens at each subject but aren't going to sell or show a series all taken at the same time. since i am shooting for me and no one else i can take one and get in my car and go somewhere else if i want to.

not speaking to you directly, but if you only have one keeper out of a hundred it's time to find a new hobby.

the most reliable car i have ever owned was purchased for $50.

no one is asking for Motorola to honor the warranty, they are pissed that Motorola is going to intentionally sabotage the product after it is sold to their customers.

to reiterate: void warranty, fine; brick phone, bad

try BatteryLife by Curvefish. it is a widget which is nicer since it is always running, it requires no permissions, and it doesn't seem to have any effect on my battery consumption.

it is the best one that i have found so far. i particularly like that it tells you the battery temperature, and i can set what % the battery turns orange and red at.

that's pretty funny. you have been going on and on yourself, but there are zero rulings saying the kids were guilty of "malicious defamation".

that sounds like the plan my friend has through MetroPCS...a lot of the regional cellphone companies have very cheap plans. some of them will flash your phone to work on their network if you buy a compatible phone online.

nice catch, it was a reference to that particular crash.

i am not flying the plane.

there is no amount of concentration on my part that is going to help when the plane banks sharply on take off, slams into the ground, and begins cartwheeling through a cornfield spewing burning jet fuel while rows of seats tear off the floor and fall out of holes in the plane.

but if i could listen to music, at least i wouldn't have to hear everyone else screaming as i burned to death in an aluminum tube

put the micro-sd card in a hollow nickle and no one will ever know it is there. .5 Euro coins also available. pretty reasonably priced at $30.

i have been trying to find an excuse to buy one because i think that they are cool as hell.

did you read the summary, the GP, or the article?

the worst case scenario is that browser gets slow on large pages or that it might cause your phone to hang/reboot. i am pretty sure that in the normal use case for a smartphone a reboot every now and then isn't going to cause immediate death. if you work in a life or death environment you should be provided with a dedicated communications device, such as a radio

fair enough, but for what it's worth it is working fine on my Moto Droid. i am not going to be using it as my primary browser yet, but the UI is pretty slick.

my point was why are you afraid to test it yourself? as soon as i saw that they said that worst case scenario was rebooting i was ready to try it. shit, i have 'professional' apps that have crashed my phone before (google sky map, i am looking at you). i was willing to put up with a little slowness to test drive a shiny new browser.