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Comment Almost. there. (Score 5, Insightful) 156

Hardware feature I would like to see:
-LED on when camera is taking pictures/recording.
-LED on when microphone is recording.
-Looking like a normal phone, If it screams PRIVACY phone, one might think ik have somthing to hide.

Software features:
-Restrict apps to a sandbox without telling them that. (feed apps fake data instead)
-Some kind of firewall/virtualiszation between apps i use at home and work and real private part.
-Secure boot. rootkit prevention. Including option by bypass the secure boot for open source mods.

Marketing features i would like to see:
-Real use cases. (like work/home phone virtualisation.)
-privacy is always a tradeoff. being online means giving away some of your data. what trade offs are made?
-Access to some more technical details HOW the pricay part is implemented and what has not been implemented.
-Respected names from the pricacy industy who did have to do something in the design/implementation phase. trust is important.

and ... open source... so useful parts can be reviewed and ported to populars android mods.

Comment Re:Freeloaders (Score 1) 120

Yes.. that is right.

developers do not care about users. They are just a statistic that is needed to get to the very small percentage users that manage to report a good reproducable error report, create some overrated documentation.

And the stats are pretty accurate: for every 100 binary download there 1 one source download in my expierence. after that i am not sure who of those 1 percenta actually compile and look at the source.

Comment Re:The story isn't over (Score 1) 132

They can charge the US what they like. it would never be a penalty, but money for service.

In this case polishing the statue, making some more pictures of it in front of the chines space buggy would be far more valueable. (and adding a list of the challenger/discovery flight crew, to point out the failure of the NASA flight program)

And yes, of course make a 3d scan for a copy/reproduction of it.

And as of the outer space threaty, if someone finds out a way to make a profit from space mining..... well see Iron Sky (2012)

Comment deliberate maliciousness (Score 1) 112

Why bring up that point.

If the road database is not correct, the only result is that some extra fuel is burned because the predections were wrong. En even then i think that not a lot is won this way. (compare the combusion engine efficiency of a Volt and a prius and you can see ford still has a huge gap to fill)

The driver still is fully responsible.

The fully automated prototypes still have lot of scanners and cameras to do the 100% automatic driving.

Comment Re:i'm all for it... (Score 1) 112

Hmm, That is not the issue. on a crowded road, there are 100 cars. If one of those drivers is not using Cruisecrontrol, and not paying attention, all the cars behind him have to break. And since the road has less capacity below 70 km/u ( ~50 mph) a traffic jam is created.

Conclusion: the cruisecontrol has to be mandatory to solve the problem.

Modern cars just need 3 extra buttons (on/off, up, down) to implement cruise control anyway. Motor control is electronic anyway. with normal cars margins and priceup those 3 buttons would cost 100 dollar/euro.

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