Comment You remember when... (Score 1) 579
... the music, film and TV industries recognized that technology advances had rendered their business models moot, and so they faded away quietly and gracefully? Same will happen here.
Android has had a good permission manager for years: LBE.
You can do blanket bans, whitelists, etc or drill down into granular permissions for each app. It can also block abusive texts, etc. You do need root.
It's pretty incredible but sadly predictable that Apple can keep winning over juries in its home county of Santa Clara to award it damages mainly for a patent (pinch to zoom) already declared invalid twice by the USPTO. Thanks however to the US's weird system, Apple can go on appealing until 2017 or 2018 before it finally runs out of people to whine to. I'd like to think that sanity could prevail then, but as recent experience shows, the US President would have no qualms about vetoing any adverse judgement against Apple but would be okay letting it stand against Johnny Foreigner.
The research being conducted with the data collected in MOOCs is one of the most socially valuable results possible since it leads directly to better education for the world.
This scans like marketing newspeak. Astroturf?
Good lord, the thermal mass of cities and the heat energy produced by human energy production have nothing to do with global warming. The Sun puts as much energy down on the planet in less than an hour than humans use/produce in a whole year.
Mankind has always dreamed of extinguishing the sun. *tents fingers*
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
