If you go with a Nexus phone or tablet, updates have been rolling pretty steadily. The same goes for the Moto * line of phones... Far better than any carrier at this point. From the start I've stuck with hackable devices that has been well supported by third party firmware... the issues always comes down to closed source drivers.

The issue is that the platform doesn't have a common boot, and initialization system... also, said devices are often packaged with only the drivers for that device, specifically compiled for that version of the OS... now that things are maturing, Google should come out with some common driver interfaces so binary drivers can work across platform versions. This would make sense as Google is breaking portions of the OS into upgradable units.

There's already a free fix.. Android 4.4.*, 5.0, 5.0.1 ...

There used to be a control-character sequence you could send on multiline chat BBSes such that if you entered it, all terminals receiving it would echo it back.

Needless to say you could enter the sequence and set off everybodys' terminals echoing it back and take down a large chatroom. The trick was doing it in such a way that nobody could tell it was you that did it. I think the sequence was [esc]-Z.

Never heard of it. Never heard of the website it was published on. Wouldn't have heard of it if Charlie Hebdo hadn't been attacked.

Sorry. Try again.

Yep. They dope kids up any time there's a possibility they might turn out to be a nerd.

Anti-vax?

You'll have to pry my MicroVax 3100 from my cold dead hands.

This is Slashdot, ya know. Take your politicking somewhere else

You mean the morons trying to tear down our whole Industrial State, correct?

Except for Teslas, some windmills, and biomass digestors to turn the bird carcasses that collect around the windmills into methane, of course.

That tech we can keep. So that the 1%, like algore, will have the power to operate their security fences.

There aren't thousands and thousands of scientists also working in 'this area.' It isn't that big a scientific discipline.

The 'thousands and thousands of scientists' who sign the petitions and 'speak out' on the issue are no more qualified to have an opinion than any other non-specialists.

Ooogy boogy.

You forgot to include:

[x] the monster under your bed at night.

Seriously, are you going to just toss out the same stereotypical list of boogeymen? You forgot to add Daddy Warbucks. And that evil dude in the volcano-mountain-island in the James Bond movie.

Rattle your bones, dude.

climate change hurts big oil, even if the business impact was small can you imagine the Republicans letting a political opportunity like that go to waste?

Yep. Politicization is definitely inevitable when people like you trash talk like that as if it is all just common sense.

Bill Clinton engaged in systematic sexual harassment and then a coverup when it started smelling really bad.

But yeah. Getting a blow job from an intern isn't an issue at all. Any corporate CEO can get a blow job from an intern and it's no problem. The HR staff probably screens interns specifically for that task at most major companies.

Yeah. Right. Just a blow job.

Not really. If I link to a white supremacist site to claim that the KKK never existed, it's worse than no citation whatsoever.

In Soviet Russua, the meme tires of you...

What concerns me, is how much this may be used as a strawman for more agency powers (MI6 is already asking for more). Seriously, there is nothing that can be done to stop a little bit of crazy, no matter how much data you collect, or who you spy on...