Fanbois downvoting, eh?

Have you ever bothered to read the notes on Windows 7 updates? You'd be disgusted to realize how many of them "may require a system restart". Over half. WAY over half.

Same here, and that's on an *ancient* NVidia card (fanless 8600 IIRC) and a P4 3.8GHz with only 800 MHz memory.

Raw Debian had some issues with tearing prior to their latest driver updates from NVidia, but I've no doubt those issues have been addressed with their latest stable release (which has newer drivers.) Most of the tearing was with Flash playback, though -- VLC did a pretty good job with upscaled 720p videos.

you are reinforcing my point. this is not 'broadcasting' since its priv'd info and radio bands have been blocked for about 20 years or so, now.

I remember buying a radio shack scanner that could do the 'diode trick' and you could easily unblock the analog phone bands. I never did that, I just read about it. yeah, read about it.

but now, even when the analog bands are no longer used for phones, the freq's are still on the block list, afaik.

and gear to decrypt digital phone rf data is NOT legal for regular people!

in no way am I 'broadcasting' where I am, other than to the technical limits of what is needed in order TO communicate.

am I walking around telling everyone that I'm about to drive on route 66 or that I'm now crosing state borders? the only ones who would know this are SPIES. if it takes a spy to know something, by definition I'm not 'broadcasting' anything.

weird to see people on this kind of forum taking the opposing view. are the shills THAT easy to buy off, these days? that many false flags registered here? must be, since no techie would be saying the anti-privacy things I'm reading (more and more) on this kind of forum.

at least they are easy to spot. they say batshit crazy things.

you're an idiot, then. only an idiot talks to cops unless under arrest.

talking to a cop can ruin your life even if you are fully innocent and have the best intentions. go watch the famous youtube video 'dont talk to cops'. you need to learn a few things.

oh, and btw, they train cops to lie and to weasel info out of you. its formal training. they know the game. shame that you are still ignorant of how its played.

btw, who DO I know that the cop is not trying to seek revenge against someone? lets say you are in a black neighborhood and a cop comes looking for a guy. you going to just give that info out? really?

bad idea all around. this is what warrants are for. get a warrant and we'll talk, but not until then.

The basis of your premise is wrong.

iCrap isn't any more popular than Android despite your whining.

> When there's a new version of Windows, I get it the day it's released.

This is just unwise.

> When there's a new version of Ubuntu, I get it the day it's released.

This is really unecessary.

The idea of cramming a new OS on old hardware automatically and without any care for the process has always been stupid. This idea is primarily an artifact of a particular company that lowered everyone's expectations.

Shoving new IOS on an old router doesn't even automatically makes sense.

if there is no privacy, in the future, all the privates wil get to SEE our privates!

eww. gross. I don't want to be part of that future.

OT joke: its been said of C++ that the concept of 'friends' is: friends can see each others' private parts. lol

anyway, privacy is CORE to the human race. it will never go out of style. its only the spooks and bad guys (ceos, etc) who try to connvince you (no, not a spelling error) that privacy is dead. of course, they all say that from their fenced in estates, with doormen and guards. they don't publish their emails or phone numbers or addresses. but of course, 'privacy is dead!'. right?

don't believe it and don't go easy into that good night.

'broadcasting' in the tech sense, yes, but NOT in the usual PUBLIC SENSE. convenient that you leave that part out.

to get your location, special equipment that The Public can't get (!) is needed. how is this 'broadcasting' then? its encrypted AND locked down so that only special people can see or tune it. that does not meet the definition of 'telling everyone around you where you are'. just the opposite!

why do you hate america and freedom? or, are you just trollin' ?

we can't answer this question, but take a guess: how do you think the framers of this country and its constitution would feel about this? you think they'd fine 'fine and dandy' with the government getting your 'person to person' conversations; the content, location, everything? you really think that would have approved of this?

of course not. we are not even close to the same spirit of freedom that STARTED this country. shame. damned shame, in fact. we once stood for something great.

This company is not worth that much. This is some derivatives market magic accounting.

Don't ever expect any help from your carrier anyway. All your shit belongs to them. Check your contract, chances are they have your consent to do what they want.

I'm not saying we have it now, but in the 50s, all the way up to the 70s, before security theater, it could be trivially done. Up until just a few years ago we could cross the Atlantic in 3 hours. We even had the ability to travel to the moon and back, but in the words of the famous inspector, "Not anymore"

Some people actually believe that, yes, though they will evade and obfuscate to no end. An open market with equal access is an anathema to their ideals, and though they claim to be all for 'freedom' and stuff, what they really want is an privilege/entitlement system, a caste system, with indentured servitude. They dream of personal aristocracy. Some will even tell you that only property owners should be allowed to vote. To these people, a collective's investments and consensus and self defense are socialism, communism, terrorism, the cause of all their personal failures.

still stuck on a nexus one with 2.2 os. no security updates AT ALL in years.

I'm not asking for gpu updates or new apps. I am asking that the google apps (gps, gmail, etc) WORK. they all crash and are not reliable on my N1. if I start out on a road trip, I have to be sure to reboot my phone so that gps won't crash. every day, several times a day, the touch screen locks up and buzzes at you (a day1 problem for n1 users which google has never even tried to fix).

the hardware is fine! it all still works. but its insecure as hell, apps don't often run right and I had to use another mail client to read my gmail mail (if that's not a slap in the face to google, I'm not sure what is. yes, gmail app on a google phone does not work and won't work from now on since its not supported anymore; nothing is 'supported' anymore on my phone).

why do I keep this phone? well, I now know google's story and this will be repeated again and again and again. if I buy something android it will fail in a year or two and I'll be abandoned again in short order after that. I'm already tired of the whack-a-mole mentality google has on their 'products'. they simply don't care. quality at google is a sorry joke. not sure when it all went to hell, but it surely has.

apple is not my cup of tea. windows, well, it USED to be the bad guy around town but now, I'm not sure its the worst thing out there anymore. but I'm not excited to spend any money on 'phones'. the whole subject matter is a sore area; all the players suck, the offerings are buggy and inconsistent, its more about money grabs than giving users good gear, and the spying - the spying by EVERYONE really gets me down.

back to fragmentation: its real, its makes google a laughing stock to those who know better and to say that you can't get kernel or ip-stack or security o/s updates because 'your gpu is too old' does not pass the smell test. it just is a bullshit excuse.

regular linux can be updated. phones are not regular linux. they all pretty much suck when you know how things COULD have been.

How about building a transit system that lets me get from new york to california in under EIGHT HOURS!

We've had that since the 50s...

Because, getting back to your original question, it is 'bad' when the collective (you and me, and everybody else) works together and does it, as opposed to merely allowing itself to be subjugated by the private businessman, who, if he does it, then it is 'good'. The act itself is almost irrelevant. Perception is everything. According to one person's book here, each man is an island, and is on his own.