This has nothing to do with safety, this is to mute the press. The press follows the scanner conversations to report on all accidents and incidents. With police hiding records and conversations due to lawsuits, we dont need more "hidden" police communications, we them open to keep them honest.

Its bad enough the PR for police is on TV, almost 1/2 of the line up are some cop based shows, perfect cops fighting evil criminals.

In reality, we have a growing movement in the US to keep police honest due to the mega lawsuits in almost every major city. I'm in Seattle, and the police abuse is way out of hand here. The internal coverups, the blue code of silence, the getting ride of whistle blowers, the incompetent police are costing this state with awards and settlements in the millions. Its also sad that the state budget hides these lawsuits. The most open lawsuit loses, department of transportation, they list every payout in our budget. We need that detail for police.

Following that line, shutting down roads is ok, its "Their roads" after all.

I could swear this feature existed in old BBS forums. You subscribe to a thread, and it notifies you of updates via system email.

My favorite introduction to Google plus was it scanning my gmails, then asking me if I want to add my ex-wife. WTF?! is wrong with you Google?!

Lets not even get into the lack of public groups/circles, what a fiasco. I'm not going to add 500+ people individually to make a group.

This is almost on par of Google Wave, waited weeks to get in, and nobody was on to make it useful. Google killed it off by a horrible launch. This time its a horrible lunch and major flaws. I like Google, but too many people are giving undo fan praise and not real evaluation of the product.

Getting a warrant is too damn hard!

Yeah, not going to buy that excuse, not with the number of no-knock search warrants issued every day with no probable cause. Its pretty bad the people we want to protect our rights are fighting to remove them. What's next, my Doctor giving me a prescription for dorritos and beer?!

Companies have been burning the worker for years, we have so many exec's who rob a company blind, sell it off, while all the employees are screwed.
This time its the VC's to the execs, but the execs have excellent lawyers, but is it illegal? Sounds like it is.

Guess when wall street killed the middle class, the next logical victim is the execs.

Maybe the execs should unionize. ;)

*Amusing sidenote, firefox doesn't have unionize in its spell check.

Wood would be cheaper, but not as efficient. Also has a proven track record.

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-cars.html

If we had binary drivers as mandatory requirement for android, then we wouldn't be having these problems.

So many mobile devices using real IP's, (aka most are not phones).. Its crazy.

I was rather amused back in the day you could ping an ankle bracelet on home prisoners...

That's all we need, is more lists for the government to maintain. They do a bang up job already with no-fly.

The Not-Me posts are amusingly standard in any topic of performance issues on linux. Thus this patch shows visually in the videos what people have been talking about and ridiculed for posting about slow performance issues. Performance issues are real, but the whole circle jerk posts that there are no performance issues on linux, are yet again, proven wrong.

This is why I get annoyed at the liberals who think we need to pay more taxes. The layoff of police officers show how personal freedoms are up when police forces are downsized.

Of course, prime tv seems to be police PR gone crazy, seems like 60-70% of new shows are cop or legal shows.

Crazy.

I switched from Pandora to Slacker, I need caching with no coverage. Slacker for Android is awesome, caches on wifi. I cant do that with Pandora.

This is just an excuse so police can have full time access to your cars computers. Baby steps to full control of your cars.