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Comment I'm waiting (Score 2) 82

I dirty-flashed my Nexus 4 (mako) with the new 4.3 nightly over the last/latest 4.2.2 nightly (and flashed the new gapps) and it was a disaster.

--Play Store broken, errors on every download/update even after clearing data/cache/etc
--No audio on phone calls
--Practically every Google app crashed
--No photosphere in the camera app

Bleh, I'll wait until it's stable.

Comment Terrorists are very rare (Score 1) 453

This just goes to show how unbelievably rare terrorists are. You have this huge, massive, exploitable hole that literally *everyone* know about....yet it goes unexploited.

That's because the number of terrorists who have the inclination to actually do something like this is almost 0.

Airport security is a solution looking for a problem. 9/11 was (1) a fluke and (2) airport security is it is now wouldn't have stopped it anyway!

Comment Re:Competition (Score 1) 490

Don't forget, there are people in Canada who come to the US to use our "shit" system, because they can't get care in a reasonable time-frame in their socialized healthcare system.

Yes, because they have MONEY to do so. Not everyone does. The US has the best healthcare in the world....IF you can afford it.

It is well and good to have a "right" to healthcare, but if you have to wait in line for a year to treat something that is going to kill you in six months without treatment, it doesn't do you any good.

Real, actual citations needed. And, by the way, insurance companies do this in the US now! Healthcare rationing is here already.

Healthcare should not be pay-to-play.

Comment Re:SMS via keyboard (Score 1) 172

Well right, but the sent messages won't have a "return number" of my normal SMS phone number for the recipient to reply tol they'll go to my gmail inbox instead and show up as emails.

What I really want is a totally transparent way to text from a PC. When the recipient gets the message, it looks like it came from my phone. When they reply, it's delivered to my phone (as well as to the web-based chat).

Thank you though! Maybe I can make it work.

Comment SMS via keyboard (Score 1) 172

The ONLY reason I use Google Voice is that it allows me to easily send and receive SMS messages via a web interface. Who the hell wants to type out messages on a cell phone when you can do it on a full keyboard, without messing with your phone.

If I could do that with my real T-Mobile number, via some T-Mobile web interface, I'd use that instead. Why the hell isn't that an easy thing to do? SMS via website?

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