I see where I was mistaken - thank you all for the corrections. I shall now go through the comments and see what more people add and what more I can learn. That/this is why I love /. so much and have stuck around all these years. Some of you might be tough or rough but by tomorrow all is forgiven or forgotten (unless you are a continued asshole and then you get what you deserve).

Thank you for the correction. As I read the remainder of the thread I was wondering about that aspect. I think something like that should be included in the summary so we know if it is vendor specific or if it is from Google directly. You can not turn off automatic OTA updates?

I don't trust or use eBay so I can not speak for them nor their pricing. I do use Amazon a lot. Okay, so I use Amazon way too much. Anyhow, when it comes to cables my first stop is here: https://www.cablesdirect.com/d... as they usually have good/great pricing on the cable(s) I require. They have great customer service where you can call them up and say, "So I have this funny looking cable with 18 pins and...." and they are great at helping you out. I am not affiliated but I am a fan and certainly recommend them - more so when they're non-standard cables. My spool didn't quite have enough left in it so I called them and they made me a 100' CAT6 for a very excellent price. I am not sure if the pricing was standard or if they cut me a deal because I have placed a lot of orders over the years and they know me by name from having just called in to get a cable name or whatnot. I've spent a good deal of money there over the years. The price has been right and the service has been unbeatable. There has yet to be a cable, and I have had some rarities, that they have not been able to find for me, Not all products are on the site, an example is I wanted a VIC20 power supply cable and it, obviously, was no longer on the site but they had a few in stock in the back room. They had three left, I bought all three. So, as I said, I am not affiliated but I am a very happy customer.

That sounds like complete bullshit to me. Got a source for that information? I've had many OTA updates and all of them included vendor supplied bloatware and new "features" for you. Now unless you are speaking of JUST the Nexus branded device (your comment is tough to determine your intent) then that may be true and I would not know as I don't own one. However I would still like to see a source or two. (I will even accept Wikipedia.)

That is what I was thinking. This isn't a Google issue, they most certainly did NOT perform the OTA update. They provide vendors (and probably manufacturers) with the update. They are then supposed to vet the update, ensure all is well, and then do an OTA update. The issue really has (and I'm not trying to make excuses here) nothing whatsoever with Google. Google did their part completely and should not be subject to the blame. The blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the vendor.

You might be able to outrun the cop but you can not outrun his radio.

Interesting. I have six Pi's that do exactly nothing. All of them have memory cards in place. My goal was to build a cluster for the enjoyment of it but it never got any further then that. Now I may have to take one, or go ahead with clustering first, and then give this a try. It is all automated, right? I won't have to run around with some exactly tuned directional antenna ever time I want to share? I am way too lazy to do that and would give that up in just a few days.

It is probably less time to install, play with, discard or learn it, than one spends on /. daily or, most certainly, cumulatively.

Yup. No Linux version, I've been running nothing but a mix of Linux OSes on my myriad machines and I prefer it. If there's no Linux version there then there is no use for it here. I could boot to Windows but I see no reason to do so simply for a browser that probably spies on me, has few (if any) plug-ins meaning no ad blocker, and will likely eventually try to charge me money, I gave the site a good going-over and did discover an interesting slide show app and will look at that more later as it appears to be similar to to PowerPoint which may have some value at a later date.

Sweet! Much appreciated, I didn't dig any deeper than the TrueCrypt site (I guess I should have). The question is, then, do THEY have any NSA backdoors? There was a time when I'd have simple trusted open source but these days there is so much and so few eyeballs. Either way, I appreciate your reply a great deal. I will play with both later this afternoon when I have a bit more free time.

You do realize that TrueCrypt is out of development and the shop's been shuttered, yes?

If your description is accurate then that deserves a day in court, some public apologies, maybe some jail time (simple assaults are usually just fines or MAYBE a weekend in jail), and a loss of his job. He should also be blacklisted from the industry but that isn't going to happen. He'll have a new job in a week if he wants one. Ah, as you said, to be famous...