I was using the groups aspect of it until it started hassling me every few hours to upgrade it... but the permissions had changed to wanting access to pretty much everything on the phone.

Uninstalled. Not missed.

Ghostery
VPN
Delete cookies on exit
Telegram not Facebook
Don't play angry-birds!!

Join site(s) like 38 Degrees, Avaaz even with the god-awful tories in power, 38 Degrees have made a substantial difference many times.

Donate to EFF, UCL, etc.

Don't be creepy says the creepiest company on the web, spying on people worldwide to a degree that I'm sure the NSA envies.

Google analytics > Google glass, pot kettle black.

http://www.youtube.com/results...

"About 2,720,000 results"

". If someone robbed a store of $100 worth of merchandise, had an arrest warrant issued at the time, then spent nine years on the run, would it still be unreasonable for them to be arrested today?"

No, too long.

PS

Beta sucks, ditch it or at least listen to the criticisms of it and fix it accordingly.

I'll bet apple could access anything on the phone that the police wanted, after all, they have root, not the phone user.

Plug it in, make sure it's got a signal and supply Apple with a court order - is that so hard?

+1 to that although as others have mentioned, the fact that beta posts are being modded up and not down is a vote in itself.

But for now I don't think they're really hearing us - if they had heard us we'd be hearing about some kind of compromise - it hasn't happened.

Are you using the beta? Do you actually like it?

If you don't like us talking about the site we like then piss of to somewhere else and quit your whining.

Grow the fuck up and stop spamming the comments. The grown ups want to discuss the news.

This would come from a coward.

Why should people just lie-down and get rimmed, if you don't like something and you do nothing about it then you're a fucking pussy idiot.

Real adults know when to act decisively upon something, perhaps you're not an adult yet.

So shut the fuck up and get off of our site, COWARD.

Your summary misses a vital piece of information - on what possible grounds would the police body have for doing this, what rule does Wikipedia's fundraising break?

There won't be a decent place to "get back to discussing real issues?" if slashdot Beta goes ahead.

Yeah, fuck you too.

Sort out:
Black text, white background, anything else is absurd.

Ditch the boxes round the comments they are seriously ugly and not helpful.

When I ask for the desktop version, I want the desktop version FFS, my phones screen has the same resolution as some laptop screens.

Get rid of the option to choose all insightful, all interesting etc comments - it's pointless because of the crossover between these things and it would lead to some bizarre meaningless threads being displayed. Not useful.

Bring back the user info, friend foe, userid etc, slashdot looks raped without it.

Things worth keeping:
The ability to mod without scrolling to the bottom of the page and hitting the mod button (I open the post in a new page to mod it so as not to lose my place/it's quicker)

The ability to collapse threads.

But that's it, the rest is a seriously bad downgrade.

Things that should have been improved, why weren't they?
The text box I'm typing in right now is tiny - why?

There is 'allowed html' It would be nice to have some buttons to put those tags around some text when you highlight it.

To any damn fool who's answer is well 'why don't you go and re-write the code yourself', I have the question - why didn't you build your own house and car?

Sort out:
Black text, white background, anything else is absurd.

Ditch the boxes round the comments they are seriously ugly and not helpful.

When I ask for the desktop version, I want the desktop version FFS, my phones screen has the same resolution as some laptop screens.

Get rid of the option to choose all insightful, all interesting etc comments - it's pointless because of the crossover between these things and it would lead to some bizarre meaningless threads being displayed. Not useful.

Bring back the user info, friend foe, userid etc, slashdot looks raped without it.

Things worth keeping:
The ability to mod without scrolling to the bottom of the page and hitting the mod button (I open the post in a new page to mod it so as not to lose my place/it's quicker)

The ability to collapse threads.

But that's it, the rest is a seriously bad downgrade.

What makes slashdot great is there is often good debate in the comments, you don't get that so much on other sites. I don't think Dice understand that.