No, it is pointless to pretend something that isn't so.

God wouldn't that be something to respect some dumbass enough to just ignore them. That would be amazing.

The problem is that you were the one who used the words "spurning hysterical people" you don't win an argument or friends or convey tolerance or respect for others by "spurning" people no matter what you think of their ideas. This isn't a civil course of action it is acting like a child which is why the jist of your argument is an oxymoron.

Shouting down people you disagree with isn't being civil and does not make you look cool no matter what nonsense they are peddling. There are more effective ways to communicate that don't involve "spurning".

Physical switches are cheaper and more reliable than touch screens... quite frankly they are also much easier to use and much safer. My system was designed to be fully controllable with tactile feedback so I never have to look at it while I'm supposed to be driving.

Non-integrated entertainment systems can be swapped out with your choice of dirt cheap bluetooth enabled equipment purchased at your local WallMart.

The point isn't whether or how they comply. The point is they lose actual sales for not complying. This is all that matters. Technical means of compliance is irrelevant.

Hard to imagine a dealer just silently losing sales over stupid shit like this and not pushing back on their suppliers for a solution.

This is fucking nonsense. You will have no clue or way of knowing what the spy shit was doing or who it was talking to. Those undecipherable open ended polymorphic legal agreements cover the rest. They have more and better lawyers than you can afford.

In the real world corporations do anything and everything they can get away with to maximize their profits. Consumers pushing back against bullshit has always been a critical part of maintaining the system. Whether it is standing in line to return a defective product or telling all your friends x, y or z sucks. If corporations don't see a cost they will go for it.

Ignoring/tolerating people who say or do things you don't like is so very superior.

This is an oxymoron.

"Grow up" is a good response to anyone publically engaged in calling someone out for farting in public.

When people compare Jar Jar to Black peeps they are not really being serious.. it is all a faux argument intended to stoke controversy and whore attention for fame and profit. No matter how repetitive and stupid it becomes people still fall for it over and over again. I am outraged by *** please give me another 15 minutes.

Something I never quite understood is why don't agencies just characterize every bit of data produced and make all non-exempted data available online automatically? No more wasting time answering piecemeal FOA requests and doing one-off searches. Let the news agencies conduct their own searches at the expense of their own employees time.

Perhaps not worth the effort for historical/archived data yet going forward how hard is it just make this a standard part of an agencies workflow?

For the record FOIA requests are free to file however you can be charged for costs associated with search and reproduction of materials sought.

Any objective figures to share?

How should I know? Was any useful information provided that would be helpful in making a determination? All I see are articles teeming with loaded words.

As for why a news outfit would bother to do their job... I don't know... neither does Volvo I suspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Google play services is spyware on a grand scale.

This isn't really all that difficult to understand.

Wikipedia's ISP is subject to CALEA. Wikipedia itself acting as an information service is not.

Providing access to the Internet is a telecommunications service. (Your ISP is acting as a telecommunications service)

Offering content is an information service. (Wikipedia is an information service)

It is also possible for a single company to act as both a telecommunications service and an information service. (Google provides Internet Access and offers Content)

While all a part of the "Internet" here in the US each aspect is regulated differently. CAELA explicitly does not apply to information services such as Wikipedia. All US ISPs however are already obligated to comply with CAELA requests with or without Title II.

If you have Android and root steal a wakelock and run tcpdump for a day.

I think someone already did. It was part of the plot line in one of the die hard movies.

OMFG NOOOO!!!

VOA... ugh.. I mean CNN is scarring to most people. I now have PTSD thanks to 24x7 coverage of security industry shills including Mr cherkoff himself masturbating about "possible" July 4th ISIS plots all last week.

If you ask me too many people are currently engaged in "imagining if it did". Bet against Hanlon at your own risk.

ICANN is full of bottom-feeding scum-sucking algae eaters.

They don't care about policy which furthers the best interests of Internet users they only care about enriching themselves and their fellow algae eaters at the expense of Internet users everywhere.

If you want to encourage domain owners not to lie when registering a domain the only policy available to you is offering *EVERYONE* privacy controls so there is less incentive for them to do so.

I only see two possibilities. 1. You are up to shady shit in which case you won't much care if your domain is taken away given it takes two seconds to register a new one.

2. You are a legitimate business or individual willing to go through extra hoops including paying extra fees to protect your privacy (while still offering some way to be contacted) from the mobs of idiots who inhabit the Internet. You and ONLY you will be fucked over by ICANN policy.

Those in the first category will not be affected in any way because they don't give a shit about rules and there is no credible threat of force to keep them in line. This only hurts people who want to protect themselves.

What I would very much like to see operators get together and create just the threat of an alternate root to put these assholes on notice.

You need to provide a coherent reason if you want people to do what you ask. "Cuz it's crap" does not convey objectively useful information.

Lost me at GPL. Lack of SRP and DTLS also deal breakers.

I'm happy it works for you.

I *believe* this is pure psychobabble nonsense much like responding to "just be yourself" with "I can't not be myself".

You can make a conscious decision to seek evidence which changes or invalidates your current beliefs. People change and or ditch religions beliefs all the time.