It's not just location services. I had an app by a local road toll company to show your account balance etc. It wanted access to "motion and fitness sensor data" .... This is linkt app used by millions in Australia.

Or you could just... Use another carrier and educated users so they could make an informed decision. Also your anger is misplaced. You focus it on just one of the several parties involved. If you are being tracked, you are visiting sites that knowingly deal with these people and get income from dealing with these people. So your actions would just harm the very sites you seem to want to visit so much. Wouldn't it be a better idea to just not go to sites who use these ad companies? Not use the network of these carriers?

Ummm the customers and Verizon have a contract. It's either broken or it isn't. It's only corruption if they are breaking the contract and rigging the justice system so no one can get at them for breach. I'd say it's much more likely people are just lazy and don't read any of the terms and conditions they agree to. In many countries there are free/cheap isp's who work by injecting ads. Under net neutrality these wouldn't exist.

If they are injecting headers, that still won't work. Every http request will be identifying you. You need to browse in https and comfirm that your Verizon phone isn't using some dodgy built in Verizon CA. It is always a good idea to browse in privacy mode, especially because bank sites and other sites could have flaws like cross site scripting.

So Verizon inject encrypted cookies that identify the user, then sell the decryption key to add companies, so they can track users. I'd be reviewing the terms and conditions of the internet service. Surely they don't allow tampering? People should shame Verizon publicly and leave them, but calls for net neutrality laws are misguided. Verizon makes money from this, so they should end up cheaper than competitors who don't do this. Customers are free to choose to have less privacy for a cheaper service. Regulation isn't needed.

They trick even smarter users. For example windows checked check boxes can be made to grey out looking like they are disabled, but they are still uncheckable. Plus if you choose standard install instead of custom, it can jump straight to installing the crap ware before you even realise the mistake.

Portable apps dot com is all I recommend for non geeks anymore. They recompile the open-source programs to leave nothing on your computer, and there is no installation bull crap. Has 99% of the free apps a typical user will need. Also comes with its own little start menu just for its programs. Plus the programs can be selected through a repository like select screen.

And what does writel do?

Several of them have. Users need to trust them and/or only give then a small amount of currency and bit coins at a time, which is what pretty much everyone who isn't an idiot does.

Not coins have value because they have useful properties of money that facilitate trade. They can not easily be created/mined. They are easily divisible, easily transported, they don't rot or wear out. So they value for the same reason gold has value: their intrinsic properties are close to that of ideal money. Tabasco sauce can easily be made, will go off, is annoying to divide and measure, and must be transported physically in a container. It is terrible for use as money.- Money is meant to be something that can store wealth, in that people will accept it for wealth and give it when given wealth. They are not banks, they are exchanges. A bit coin is basically a secret long number, you can store it however you want. Most people store them in a common file format that is encrypted called a wallet.

That's not what he is talking about. Apple 128gb iPhones have about 8th reserved for over provisioning, even with out the OS and courting in base whatever, you never get 128gb. Apple is still on the right though, the box says that 128gb is the physical flash available on the chip. Actual space available is that, less provisioning, less formatting, less OS etc. The real question is when will these morons be suing over a 8gb ram desktop not having 8gb ram available one Windows is running.... The number of people trying to make a buck of Apple's success is ludicrous.

You clearly know nothing about economics. If pay decreased because of scarcity, so would the price of things you spent your pay on. It's a complete myth that currency has to expand with the economy. Before modern fiat currencies when gold was money the economy out grew the mining of gold, wages deceased and goods decrease in price, economic growth continued. Modern fiat currencies require no deflation because the currency is not moved but created as debt.

A lot of them have been done before. However they are all front wheel, with no pedal assist, and have external batteries. Its interesting that there is a lot of mocking of the wheel on slashdot. Both copenhagen wheel and flykly have pre-sold over $1 million dollars worth each, and copenhagen has at least another $4 million in funders who are expecting a large profit. E-bike sales are over 3 million per year, normal bike says are at 100 million per year. So 97% of people with bikes don't have e-bikes. One they start mass producing these wheels could come down to $299 or less. I think eventually they will be standard on most bikes.

Good thing they are not selling only to boston then.

The problem with those kits is that they are not illegal. In most places on earth 200W is the limit, or 250W with pedal assist. Essentially no kit is really pedal assist. The whole point of this wheel is that its street legal and pedal assist, and all in one so you can swap between bikes quickly and easily. It also has a compeditor in flykly.com which was on kickstart, both are trying to ship ASAP and beat each other.