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Comment Re:can anybody explain? (Score 1) 172

>You certainly would use streaming audio in that situation...

Considering the size of a music file, you would most likely already have the entire song buffered, so that's pointless.

>And you might check your phone when getting out of the car and send a message of some kind.

Easy solution: system waits to switch from cellular to WiFi until after the message has been sent.

Comment Re:DRM is not useless (Score 3, Informative) 142

Actually AZW has long been cracked. It was initially done to create DRM-free copies that Amazon could not revoke (remember the incident with 1984?). Of course, there are those who use it to share ebooks without permission to do so. There is even a plugin that integrates into Calibre to strip DRM out of your books,

Comment Re:This is FUD (Score 1) 162

Is it really that friggin' difficult to read the summary? 'They shared their activity between each other and she noticed he was active at 1-2AM, when he was supposed to be home.' She didn't gain access to his location, he gained access to the fact that he was moving around. Presumably on most days, he would be asleep, as opposed to being active.

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