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Comment explanation (Score 2) 136

What level of access do they have? I need details explaining more. Can they see what you are doing when you are on a cellular network, or when you are on wifi too.

Can they see what you are doing when you are using private browsing? Are they capturing passwords and storing them? Is the device pushing back secure information to them?

Does a VPN prevent tracking?

I expect some things when using a cellphone. Having them essentially listen in on all my communication or interaction with others is not one of them.

Comment Side effects (Score 2) 121

Ive had some pretty nasty side effects from a drug that weren't on the label. It really sucked. I'm still dealing with them.

Let me tell you that if you goto a doctor and say that you think that side effects are related to the drug he put you on and those side effects aren't yet on the label they will treat you like you are crazy. It was really eye openning to see how doctors can talk down to patients. The drug I was taking for example can cause tendons to snap. That was known. The doctor flat out didn't believe that incrediblely painful tendinitis could be related to taking the drug.

It really sucks. I got lucky though because a month later the FDA released a new list of side effects that for this drug that included my ones. Then I got a doctor to pay attention and help me out.

I knew the side effects were related to the drug thanks to a quick google search that showed thousands of other people had experienced the same things that I had. There were literally 100,000 posts in a forum discussing what I had experienced in the previous weeks.

I can't even imagine the complexity when combining two drugs and what havoc that could cause.

Comment android? (Score 1) 478

Depends on what you consider private, but I would put the Android phone last because of the tight Google integration. At least on the iPhone you can have everything local, not synced to the cloud.

The days of privacy are over for the most part. If you are using cloud services, you can be sure your data is being mined in some way.

Comment try it in winter (Score 1) 204

My boiler broke this past winter and I had to run 2 space heaters a week until it was fixed.

Let me tell you, electrical heat is super expensive. Those space heaters for that week cost more than the 1955 natural gas boiler did in a month.

Comment plenty of money for research. (Score 2, Insightful) 306

Just imagine how much cash we'd have for research if we would have forced the banks to do the same thing that GM was forced to do.

Declare bankruptcy, wipe out shareholders, and trim bond holders. Those are the people that invested in risky behavior and they should have paid the price.

The swedes did it and they recovered from their banking crisis.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/06/go-swedish-part-47/

Comment more cops? (Score 1) 377

I'd settle for more than .9 cops per 1,000 people in a crime ridden city before switching to something like this.

It doesn't matter if you know where the crimes will be occurring in a city like Detroit or Flint. You don't have enough cops to cover those areas, let alone the larger city. Less than 1 cop per 1,000 doesn't cut it in crime areas, which is what we have in the crappy parts of Michigan.

Comment Re:Really bad idea. (Score 1) 1173

I couldn't agree more with strength_of_10_men. I love roundabouts when they are done right. The one near my house has saved me days in travel time in the two years I've been in the area.

The worst part of the example he cites above as being a fucked up roundabout was that it was the first one installed in the area, located next to a giant shopping center. So everyone's first encounter with a roundabout was pretty terrible.

Comment trolling think tanks (Score 5, Insightful) 477

Hmm, the american thinker article seems pretty trollish, utilizing descriptions that I would generally find in political hate speech, blaming environmentalists for the flooding. The articles point isn't to find root cause, but to spread hate at environmental groups.

A quick google search reveals that the american thinker is indeed a conservative online magazine. I would hope that folks realize there is a war of information out there between extremes of the political spectrum and that we are better off not spreading those words of hate. The extremists are always going to be looking to enlist you in their war, by claiming the other side is outrageous.

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