It wasn't the case this time (the video is quite informative!) but I've been hit just for coming to complete stops at red lights. Too many other drivers assume you'll do the "California roll" when making a right on red that people who actually stop (regardless of traffic) fluster them. So sick of seeing people's bumpers get that close then screech to a halt right behind me.

I would agree with you except I've been rear-ended and almost hit (sometimes with tire lockup) simply because I choose to stop at red lights before turning right, even if the traffic is clear. I seriously want a dashcam so the next time I get hit in this situation I'll be able to demonstrate I was following the rules when I was hit, regardless of what the fellow behind me is ranting on about.

Look, I'm not a perfect driver but to assume others will break the rules as you do is just asking for trouble.

Gamergate had nothing to do with misogyny...

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Maybe for the first picosecond of its existence. It may truly have wanted to shed light on unusually close ties between critic and dev. But my God man, how many hate-filled tweets of vitriol aimed at these women, tagged with #GamerGate have you seen?

Let me see if I have this right: You're positing she has a volunteer (or perhaps compensated) army of Twitter users with orders to publicly harass her online. And she wants Patreon money to hire a person or people to combat this army? Seems a hghly-inefficient way to make money...

Regardless of what you believe Ms. Wu experienced, do you truly not know any women in software or gaming who've experienced the kind of awful "boy's only club" attitudes and sometimes downright literal sexual harassment?

If you haven't heard it enough yet, you and your fellow devs'/critics'/gamers' example of not letting these regrettably small-minded folk drive you away from your passions is truly inspiring. Now the question:

How has what you experienced / currently experience affected your dev and planning processes? Does it enter into your spitballing/design sketch/engineering phases at all? Are you making certain decisions to emphasize your position(s) or expose theirs?

Because I'm bored... I think he would be fine if the market ConCast competed in was remotely fair. But with the usual municipality / utility contract exclusivity, they're often the only viable option in a given area. If the Utilities Commissions were forced to merely regulate the, you know, UTILITY of a service and the claims and promises behind a person's use of it, then we'd have two or three high-speed providers competing to offer good service at decent rates,

Though, as I hear it, such unrestricted competition would lead to boondocks areas being underserved because there's no tie-in incentive to serve them and far less potential return, for heavy infrastructure services at least.

I'm suffering from a sense of gluttony then. I have TMo's unlimited-unlimited option on my line (the rest are the 2.5GB / mo with throttling) and I routinely hit 30GB per month. 95% of that is Pandora, Twitch and YouTube streaming. I can't use WiFi at work (policies) and sadly, my WiFi at home doesn't reach my bedroom but I don't care - unlimited!

I got XPrivacy working one time in 5.0. Had to reinstall the ROM and was never able to recreate whatever alchemical magic got it going. Gave up and went back to KitKat. Even with XPrivacy (God's gift to Android) I still want an outbound firewall / logger so I can ensure nothing is communicating if I don't want it to.

I get remote deactivation for the examples you gave but a backdoor suggests far more capability - the ability to use the tools against their owner*, presumably without them finding out.

*Owner in the sense of the paying entity running it.

Where on earth did you find this many military quotes about logistics?

I'm curious what Hacking Team thought was worth the risk of watermarking their products to customer installations and having these alleged backdoors to backdoors. Seems like a lot of risk for no payoff unless they hoped one day to "flip the script" and hack their customer base...

You. I like you.

Very true, but I believe it's not so good on phones in portrait.

It does, but so far as I can tell, it wouldn't work well on a phone in portrait orientation.