Googled the code, read link; still confused. Aereo's conceit was that each antenna / paid stream was a single performance to a single person. I don't see what your line regarding the antenna wire passing any number of anybodies has to do with it.

I'm no Supreme, but I saw it like this. Am I allowed to receive OTA broadcasts in my market? YES. Am I allowed to time (see Betamax) and place shift (see Cablevision) my reception? YES.

Is the real issue that Aereo made money off this rather than me personally finding a nice rooftop and willing landlord to put my own antenna on? I'm so disappointed by this...

Well, depends on your definition of voluntary.

Because, after all, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Or their comfy chair!

lol - 10 points to Pedant House ^^

Still, have you seen a 2J? Crazy ground-effect sucker car. More downforce than weight. Fairly unreliable. Amazingly inventive tho'!

What do you use to manage this?

Xposed Framework + XPrivacy. It breaks out ALL permissions under the main groups and each is selectable per app. In most cases, denying permission will provide fake / empty data so that app functionality is maintained. It lists ALL permissions and marks the app's requested ones so you know what it wants to use.

Best yet, it has a sort of permissions tripwire - a usage log shows you when an app has tried to use a blocked permission. In very rare cases, I've seen apps call permissions they didn't explicitly request up front.

Pretty much every app on my phone (and I don't install many) is denied accounts, contacts, location, sensors, phone ident, and web access. If an app force-closes under this template, I check the usage log and decide if I want to allow the failed permissions until the app works. I can either groan and take it or uninstall and look for a better behaved alternative.

Ever heard of Chaparral? Their cars /really/ sucked!

Ah, the amazingly useful Borland "Like a Book" license. As I recall, you could install to your heart's content (possibly limited to your own household or business), subject to the agreement only one person can "borrow the book" at any given time. They didn't manage this with technological measures, just the good ol' fashioned honor system.

Repair shops are going to hate this game.

I suspect the typical Tesla S buyer is neither a DIY-er nor the sort that takes his baby to Pep-Boys for repair...

If they had gone Microsoft, Bada-Bing would soon be followed by Big Bada-Boom ^^

Why would a one-time supervillain wannabe turned adoptive father want to eat a poor, endarkened Slashdotter?

(Obligatory IANAL here, however I do work in healthcare)

So far as I understand HIPAA, you can voluntarily disclose all the protected health info you want. Got diagnosed with something awful and can't help updating your Facebook status? That's perfectly legal. And your interactions with your phone don't constitute any kind of healthcare relationship (yet) so I don't see the legal angle on Samsung doing something with the data. I have to assume using the app requires agreement to share the data.

That said, I'd love to see more and better medical monitoring tech in phone accessories. As mentioned below by mythosaz, wellcare almost always costs less than illness care. And that doesn't even take into account the personal costs of time to see the doc, missed work, lowered quality of life, etc.

It probably won't be hard to force one off the road just by aggressively encroaching into their lane and matching their rate of deceleration.

Umm, how is running a SCD off the road that way any different than if I did that to you? How would you react differently?

Oh no! I've hurt someone's feelings! On the internet! Remind me to apply for a patent!

Seriously tho', biodegradeable? Sure, if they dissolved within days or so *maybe*. But they don't. And why should I have to pick inconsiderate smokers' trash out of my yard? Or out of my car's radiator?

Trash is trash and butts lying all over the roadways and down the sides of buildings is bad and just uncivilised. But "people" who smoke at children's parks and leave the butts in the play area are the ones who need to be flushed.

I never *once* called for a ban on smoking, or for higher tariffs. Just that people be decent and clean up their *own* messes!

Wow. Such logic. Why do you have the right to harm me via second-hand smoke?

Live alone or with smokers only? Smoke up, Johnny! But if you have kids or live with non-smokers, be a decent human being and keep your fumes and butts to yourself.

It's my fault I don't want to be given migraines and or cancer from my co-workers? Or have to (indirectly) pay for the extra cleaning and maintenance caused by the smoke - walls, air handlers, etc.?