Comment SCOTUK (Score 1) 80
UK has a Supreme Court, you know. It broke off from the House of Lords in 2009.
There's absolutely no reason at all you should use
"Absolutely no reason" is strong words when some tools for creating mix CDs still prefer
It'd be nice if apps had a base set of privs then expanded sets that could be allowed on install or later by request to the system/user.
That's already possible in current Android. Offer one app in Google Play Store that needs a small set of permissions, then offer other apps in Google Play Store that act as content providers for the main app. For example, there might be a "Swype" keyboard app that needs only the input method permission, a "Swype auf Deutsch" app that adds a German dictionary, a "Swype Local" app that adds nearby businesses to the dictionary (which requires the location permission), and a "Swype Knows Your Name" app that adds your contacts to the dictionary (which requires the read contacts permission). If they're all digitally signed by the same publisher (such as Nuance), they can share data structures intimately as if they were one app.
Also it'd be nice if the privileges were a lot more restricted, like "Use Ad Service to show you ads" instead of "Use Internet"
The example you give is not possible unless you want all ad-supported apps in Google Play Store to move to a single monopoly ad provider. If you whitelist communication with one hostname, that host could act as a proxy to access any other host.
Android is *NOT* Linux based, it is merely Linux hosted. Android is its own OS, its own environment.
And now you know why Richard Stallman was right about calling the familiar desktop and server operating system "GNU/Linux". Android has a completely different userland on top of the same Linux kernel that underlies GNU/Linux.
If an app needs new permissions in an update it must be explicily accepted by the user.
Recent changes to Google Play Store's permission display mean that a new permission will be automatically accepted so long as the new permission is in the same group as a permission that an app already has. Predictably, Slashdot users female dogged and moaned about it.
But just for shits and giggles I took a 320k MP3 and recoded to 128k and compared it to the CD where I ripped it as 128k and honestly? I can't tell a difference between the two.
If you can't ABX a difference between CD to 128K mp3/aac/ogg and CD to 256-320K mp3 to 128K mp3/aac/ogg, then I guess that problem is solved. Thanks for testing this for us.
I'm am only interested in your responses when poked with a bit of truth about your real animal nature that you try so hard to suppress.
Consider life as a journey along a course called "destiny". The "animal nature" you point to is the sinful, rebellious desire to go off course. Remind me again why I want to be off course?
What he doing that is so different from any other preacher touting your conformity? He only conducting business like they do.
I realize you're trolling, but seriously? You don't understand the difference between teaching people to be mature, spiritually aware adults vs. looters?
your Jerry Falwell types
You would have to visit my church to be grasped by the paradox at work in this formulation.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
