I'd be much more thrilled if CDMA was banned, or rather the hardware mandated to be SIM-based, rather than incorporating the entire handset, ala Verizon.

As a species, we've reached our peak. But it's all down hill from here, dragged back down into the Darwinian muck by greed, ignorance, the lust for power regardless of consequence, racist nationalism, misogyny, religious-driven intolerance and murder...

It was a nice try. Perhaps the cockroaches or yeast will succeed where we failed.

Someday soon, there will be the acknowledgement that - including taking our microbiomes into account - we only *look* the same but there are some weird cohorts below the racial and familial but above the DNA level that finally answers why studies like this and the same studies re-ran can be such a 'random walk' in their near-useless results.

We all need to get together and form some Big Dumb Companies:

* Big Dumb Pipe: High-Speed Symmetrical Broadband with no other restrictions, bells, whistles, nor even the ability to log your activities, given that it is only a Big. Dumb. Pipe.

* Big Dumb Appliances: No, they will not be running apps nor making predictive adjustments based on your FitBit. But they will have ALL user-replaceable parts and be so durable, most if not all will be handed down at least two generations.

* Big Dumb Panels: no built-in anything, such as DRM, locked-down SOCs, near-useless speakers, nor web cams, nor mics: just a big, beautiful screen, tiny bezels, a plethora of mounting holes, and damn near every type of video connection, period.

The ad campaign writes itself: "Big. Dumb. Ideas who's time have come."

You really don't think Intel / AMD / Broadcom / et al have TLA-mandated backdoors, Pollyanna?

No, no, no! You're only supposed to mention their middle names if they are SOUTH of the Mason-Dixon line! It's right there in the AP Style Handbook!

Please don't roll us LMDE folk into the festering shithole of Systemd.

Burning people alive? Yes, it IS barbaric: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/04/burning-victims-death-still-common-practice/

I won't hold my breath for this to be extended to us prepaid folks on Verizon, who are still treated with the same suspicion and distain as drug dealers and the homeless.

Citation: when I make a call, I first have to listen to "The time remaining for this call is... unlimited." If it's unlimited, why bother saying anything? Oh, that's right; how else to express their derision and lack of respect for someone that deigned to opt-out of an overly-expensive multi-year contract than to make them feel like low-rent trash with every call.

Every time I think of Gamergate, I'm reminded of that scene in PCU where the protestors break out the blank placards and start writing the latest liberal cause-of-the-moment slogans on them.

"We're not gonna protest! We're not gonna protest! We're not gonna protest!..."

More and more Craigslist purchases are occurring in police station lobbies to ensure the safety of both parties. This tech should be available as well for CL hookups (protected from tampering by either - any? - of the prospective partners, of course). I can't think a better way of striking a blow against STD transmission rates.

Of course, it will never happen as this puritanical country (US) still can't come to terms with adult, consensual, out of wedlock casual sex., so STD away, as it's God's Punishment (TM) for daring to enjoy the pleasure he 'created'.

to a Police State near you (under the guise of Title II classification).

I fear that if the Right loses on this issue (and face it: siding with the most-hated corporations of a most-hated industry is awful retail politics), they have one arrow they will pull from their quiver.

If it is re/classified under Title II, the right will quickly insist there be bans on every type pornography (with a definition that will even encompass old National Geographics), hate speech (read: not approved by their paymasters), and of course: effective, non-backdoored encryption.

Got to pound those bibles while thinking of the children, after all. #CarefullWhatYouWishFor

"Long-term excessive exercise may be associated with coronary artery calcification, diastolic dysfunction and large artery wall stiffening," wrote lead author Peter Schnohr of Copenhagen's Frederiksberg Hospital in a Danish study.

You sound fat.