I'm kind of hoping that my 2012 updates fairly soon. It's still on KitKat, and it's painfully slow, even after clearing the cache.

It's not that I'm looking forward to Lollipop particularly. It looks pretty ugly (well, maybe not as ugly as KitKat) but I'd like to test it out on a non-critical device before I allow it on my phone. It seems that each new version of Android has regressions, adding things I don't care about and remving things I find useful.

I liked Jelly Bean. Don't care much for KitKat. I'm skeptical of Lollipop.

They didn't refuse. If you go to their github page for the app, it says that it runs under either Android or IOS.

They chose not to push it through the Apple App Store, because of those terms and conditions. The code is there, though, if you want to figure out how to get it onto your iDevice.

Did you look on the EFF page about this app?

Here ya go.

Let me fix that for you.

1. Tell the telecom companies to leave the Internet alone, it's been working just fine for years. Use regulation if necessary to enforce it.

2. Let the telecom companies change the structure of the Net "to pursue 'innovative' partnerships" and create "tiers" of service depending on the source of the packets and whether that source competes with their own business model. This is what you are calling Net Neutrality.

On the other hand, they're also pushing free in-flight entertainment on those same newer 737s. It's over WiFi, but you don't get outside access, just what they have canned on the plane.

Most expensive music player? Not even close....

Astell-Kern-AK240-Mastering-Quality

Apparently this is what iRiver has morphed into. I had an iRiver H340 back in the day, but they've apparently abandoned the mass market in a big way.

Note that you don't have to buy the card to match the Sony -- the player you pointed to already had 128G internally. The card would add an *extra* 128G.

I used to think of Sony as a premium electronics company. But that was in the 70s and 80s. I kind of stopped paying attention for a while (all my electronics were already bought, and in those days they lasted) and then the 90s came along.

I bought a CD changer that lasted almost a year. Not learning anything, I bought another, which lasted less than that. And so on.

Sure, you could find something he could read. But for the vast majority of books, it would be more than new technology, it would be new concepts, new knowlege, new *memes*.

A police procedural thriller, a medical drama, a spy novel, etc. would have new vocabulary, but more importantly, new concepts behind the vocabulary. And none of it explained, because a modern reader would already understand them.

I heard somewhere (yeah, yeah, I don't have a citation handy) that English has something like 5 times as many words as it did when Shakespeare was around. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of those were added in the last hundred years.

While you may be correct, that's not an indication that English hasn't changed. The question might be asked, could a literate speaker from the early 1900s pick up an English language book from today and read it with the same ease that going the other way would be?

Modern English is a superset of English from back then. That's still significant change, even if it's not the kind of radical change that the "English" of 6 or 700 years ago would be.

Which don't?

I always check it, and every distro I've tried has root login set to yes. I don't try as many distros as I used to though.

That was the first thing that jumped to my mind. Kind of reminds me of retread tires -- a lot of the truck tire fragments you see by the side of the road are from retread tires that self destructed. A lot of companies buy them because they're cheaper, but the chances that they'll fail is far higher.

But the consequnces of your first stage failing are much worse than the consequences of your tire shredding on the freeway. And those are bad enough.

Yow. Is that why the 3.6.2 upgrade eliminated Daylight Savings Time? Couldn't find the code that supported it?

My car changes time zones when I cross to a new one. But during the summer you set it to the GPS time and then *manually* shift by an hour. Because the option for DST was removed.

I have a 2013 Fusion.

I keep seeing complaints about how unintuitive and hard to use My Ford Touch is. That hasn't been my experience at all (OK, let's ignore the nav system. I'll give you confusing and unintuitive *there*.) Most of the system, by and large, is pretty easy to use.

Now flaky? That's another issue. It crashes, freezes up, reboots, and is generally unreliable. The older version of MFT would re-index my music each time I started the car, and start playing the same song that it had decided should be the first in the list. Great song, but less great the 40th or 50th time in a row.

Once I upgraded to a newer version and learned all its tricks and what is likely to cause it to screw up, it's much more reliable, but I would never actually call it reliable. But unintuitive has never been my complaint.

Ken Thompson modified the original C compiler to put a back door into the Unix login program, as well as to modify any compiler that was compiled with that compiler to include the backdoor function. So for generations of code, and backdoor was inserted, with no evidence of its existence in any code you could examine.

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