I've been forced to start removing apps from my phone.

I have an older Android phone, and don't have (or want) a data plan.

A while ago, when I got voicemail and the the notification for it, I'd get a text message from my ISP saying that something on my phone was trying to connect to the internet.

Basically some app I had had decided that it needed to notify someone when I got a phone message, but it failed because I didn't have a data plan.

Then I started removing apps and testing, and eventually got it pared down enough that it didn't happen.

Basically most apps are written by greedy bastards who don't give a crap about your privacy and your security. And if Google won't give me fine grain control to say "I don't care if *you* want to connect to the internet" and disable it, then I'm simply not going to trust the apps.

It has gotten to the point where I have to assume most software is actually hostile to me. If ti can't pass the airplane mode test, it generally gets deleted.

I would definitely install this app, and use it to identify shady apps which need to be deleted.

Seriously? Would you really want the government educational system doing weird experiments with schools? Most likely this experiment will fail, like most startups fail.

I think it's kind of a good thing for an education system to be conservative (conservative in the sense of not chasing every fad).

No one deleted your comment, it got modded down because your question wasn't very interesting (or even relevant, really).

Agreed wholeheartedly. But then, I don't want to watch many shows. I want to mostly watch car stuff, and that is now better on youtube than it is on TV. I get both higher-quality video and more variety of content — which is also higher-quality than what's on TV. I mean, even when Top Gear was still a thing, they only did a handful of shows in a series anyway. You had to have something for the rest of the year.

I don't even care about your problems a tiny, tiny bit. My best internet option is $65/mo for 6/1 from a WISP with egregious downtime and customer support to rival comcast (Digital Path.) Quit your crying.

Then at least we'll have one that works in downtown San Francisco.

Given the quality of educational software I've seen, if they are depending on software to teach kids, I can't imagine this being a success.

As in, I've never seen any educational software that is good, and it only gets worse as the scope increases.

If it costs $26k per student, why do they need $100M in funding? What are they doing with all that money?

Different meaning of the word 'trickle down.' It's like a new technology......electric cars were primarily available to rich Tesla drivers, but the 'technology' is 'trickling down' as it becomes cheaper. Same thing happened with microwaves and plenty of other technologies.

You could have figured this out, but he's saying that if their school is successful, other schools will start using it.

You want people who believe in free speech to run and hide in the desert, what do you know of bravery? It's standing up for what you believe in, and you don't think people should do that. Why don't you just not log in, then you'll be labeled as what you are.

A plan with no drawbacks.

That's not at all comparable, and suggesting so is beyond ridiculous. The rules of the road are for everyone's safety. So is free speech.

What kind of environment are you imagining that has gravitational effects removed?

I'm really interested, what do you expect the US government to do about elephants going extinct? Invade Kenya?

No she didn't. You believe her for some reason, but there have been time periods found missing from the archives, and there is no way to verify what she deleted.

There are some people who are so blindly partisan that they will support Clinton in everything. Everyone else realizes that what she did was wrong.

It can work out poorly in practice, because the scientists think they know best, and try to come to the answer by logic; whereas politics doesn't usually have a 'right' answer, it's merely balancing the desires of different groups of people. In the extreme case think of Lysenko in the USSR.

Although it couldn't be worse than electing lawyers......