You had me. I looked at the specs and then............... blah.

Yeah, I'd love to support the underdog manufacturer, but I live in the 50% of the country (geo. not pop.) where only Verizon has reasonable coverage.

I know, Qualcomm is the evil, but being able to make calls is worth something.

They can provide a polished, stable version of Android that is in many ways better than the original and provide support to the phone manufacturers (perhaps more cheaply than Google?), directly getting a cut from handset sales.

I've got an old Droid 3 that I like the hardware on but never did much like the software, which is now obsolete. One dev got 4.2 working except for the camera - if CM got the camera driver from Moto ($) and put out a KitKat build, I'd gladly pay $30-50 for that.

That's not a terrible business model. I'd also pay that kind of money yearly for an audited and updated build on any phone I carry.

What other sci-fi movies are there? It's all shit.

According to TFS, Buffy is Sci-Fi. I knew right then not to read the article.

I bet there are a lot of lessons there, including not giving your agents too much independence, they could screw things so badly that you will need to hire your enemies to get rid of them.

It is astonishing that at least two people who want to be president have such an appalling lack of understanding of a core concept such as freedom of speech. I expect to get plenty of conservative backlash of this, but really; freedom of speech is pretty straightforward and it is immensely straightforward that this guy's freedom of speech was not in any way violated.

The term "Christian" means so many different things to so many different people that it doesn't have much meaning at all any more. That said you do have a good point that there is potentially a lot more revenue available from people who call themselves "Christians" than from those who call themselves LGBTQ or are sympathetic to the same. Some have suggested this might be a publicity stunt on the part of A&E, although it is hard to imagine these guys getting more market saturation than they already have; hell Best Buy is selling a Christmas CD with the family singing carols.

Meh. I think it takes more than a name.

CyanogenMod is not Google. They're still young, and they built their whole company based on the idea that they're not like Google. It would be pretty unrealistic to just throw that all away, then expect to get anywhere.

But that's a completely different subject. Blocking an IMEI number has nothing to do with a "remotely programmable" device.

Would you care to enlighten us as to WHY you think that's "short sighted and technically ignorant"? Or would you rather just troll?

I knew IMSI could be overridden, but I didn't know IMEI.

I doubt they'll go the Google route, because their very reason for existence -- and why people use it at all -- is to bypass all that Google garbage.

If they just copy Google's business model, why would anybody want CyanogenMod?

... WiFi? Bluetooth? Maybe via YOUR PHONE?

You seem to forget that many ISPs sport bandwidth caps, which is a misnomer; they're actually limiting the amount of data transferred during a given timeframe. QoS doesn't stop a fat bill from showing up the next month showing you used up 1.5TB on an account purchased at a 200GB level.

Each of these things, when sold, incur sales and export taxes that go to our state and federal governments.

No they don't. Items purchased for resale (like things a local retailer buys in bulk to sell individually to customers) and components used in the manufacture of goods for resale are exempt from sales tax.

Then stop running Hummers, and other gas guzzlers. I lived in the USA for a while, in Texas it looks like everybody has a big pickup truck with cargo capacity they don't need just to drive a single person to/back from work every day.

Yes, I saw the exact same thing when I used to live in Arizona. Everyone there has a pickup truck or SUV with a lift kit getting 10 mpg, and drives an hour or more every day at 75mph; do the math.

However, Boeings are made in Washington state, not TX or AZ. I haven't actually been to WA myself, but I have been to Oregon, and I didn't see that kind of silliness there. I live in the northeast now, and I don't see it up here either; most people drive normal-size cars up here.

You guys need lots of Nuclear energy now.

We have nuclear power. More isn't going to change much; our electricity costs are actually very low I believe. Our coal is domestically-produced, so it's pretty cheap, and we have lots of hydropower, plus some nuclear, and more and more solar and wind. The problem is our stupid vehicles all need fossil fuels. Nuclear power won't help here, until we're all driving Teslas.