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Not to belittle your point, but you're making a common mistake. Just because "80 years" feels like a big number doesn't make it significant.

You've presented the data point of two (2) drivers. On the other hand, there are hundreds of millions of drivers, just in the USA. Even a vanishingly small percentage of failure cases would still cause hundreds of failures, across so many billions of hours of driving. And easily not appear in any sample of two drivers' experience, no matter how much driving they've done.

Yeah right.

Limiting to a genre, in the old version, it used to be 1 or 2/10 that I didn't care for. I've tried a few times, but effectively have stopped using it. I can't find the same feature. The "moods" thing is not nearly as effective. It feels like it's become a radio station, and I don't listen to it for the same reason: I have no control over what it plays, and it seems to play "pop" (don't read that literally, just "things lots of people listen to") music all the time, and never what I want to hear.

I also, generally, find the new interface very difficult to use. Lots of mystery meat navigation and hard work to find what I'm looking for.

... one of the other mobile platforms. The OP listed four alternatives.

pv tarball.tar | tar xf -

And the output is great.

I think you mean: "Collaboration automatically opens up _privacy_ problems."

The N1 however requires one simple command (which can and probably does void your warranty, depending on how nice HTC/Google feels like being) and then you can flash whatever you like.

For other phones, there's usually a nonsupported hack that will let you do the same.

Social event.

Maybe we could have switched to something lighter, but the cost of all that development and testing would outweigh a handful of extra machines.

FUD. 20 seconds of Googling shows me:

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http://www.google.com/privacy_faq.html#toc-anonymize Why are search engine logs kept before being anonymized?

We strike a reasonable balance between the competing pressures we face, such as the privacy of our users, the security of our systems and the need for innovation. We believe anonymizing IP addresses after 9 months and cookies in our search engine logs after 18 months strikes the right balance.

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http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2010/01/1... Specifically, we are reducing the amount of time we store IP addresses from searchers to 6 months. Currently we keep that information for 18 months before we delete it. .. Then, after 18 months we take the additional step of deleting the IP address and any other cross session IDs associated with the query.

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"Cross session IDs"? What is that? Cookies? All cookies? In my mind, these policies are very equivalent. Google already does the same thing after six months. Probably the same thing at 18. Plus, Bing just announced this change a week or two ago.

> Unless your PHP server is sitting there idling (which is probably the case for many PHP servers out there) ...

Don't these two statements (abbreviated in my quote above, but directly one after the other as quoted) directly contradict each other? My personal experience is also that the CPU is never the bottleneck in (well written) PHP apps. You're usually always waiting for the DB or the network/io latency of something else like memcache.

In fact, I know at my last job (handling ~100s of millions of dynamic PHP requests/day) that PHP's gzip compression was turned on specifically because we had gobs of spare CPU, so using it to save bandwidth was a win both for speed and for the bill.

Among others: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1455

And, blindingly obvious in hindsight (I have definitely heard of HMAC before, at least) but new to me too.

The original post is about one really specific feature, completely under T-Mobile's control (and restriction in this case), and has nothing to do with Google or the Nexus or Google Voice, or anything else mentioned.

1) It's winter in New York City. Even outside there's not a lot of really bright sunlight.

2) The N1 has a feature (which I like) whereby, with a light sensor, it adjusts the brightness of the screen to compensate for ambient light automatically. Or: readable in light, not blinding at night.

This "unlock" is, as described, attaining root level permissions on the phone, thus the ability to do things in software that the stock firmware disallows.

... fools who aren't responsible enough to sign a contract in the first place, and just getting what comes to them.

Either way, it's cheaper to buy the unlocked phone.

https://www.google.com/phone/choose?locale=en_US&s7e=

Subsidized phone: $179 Subsidized service: $80 * 24 months (click "more") Total: $2099

https://www.google.com/phone/choose?locale=en_US&s7e=

Unlocked phone: $529

http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/cell-phone-plans-detail.a...

No-contract plan: $50 * 24 Total: $1729

If you're stupid enough to sign up for a contract that costs more than the no-obligation version, and then you want to welsh on that contract: you've got to pay the penalties.

I'm tempted to ask everyone who has _not_ been affected to do the same. Except that there are millions upon millions of them. I've used PayPal for years. I remember using eBay before PayPal. A morass of checks waiting to clear the bank and other nasty confusion was horrible.

To the original article: if you're running a business, just like with your computers, never have _any_ single point of failure. Including payment processors.

Used and loved this extension to solve that for some time: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/594

> 2) ... the status icon/indicator will get permanently stuck in "new mail" mode and you have to restart the app to get it to disappear.

Rarely seen similar behavior in TB2 (no upgrade yet). Goes away when I hit 'get mail'. (Forcing it to check the server, and notice the mail is read. I do IMAP exclusively.)

Or, of course, prepended.

It is my understanding that this is always on, but for a random subset of users. If you go drastically changing your cookies (like the instructions here tell you to) you are very likely to change the state of this flag, too.

I do exactly that, BUT with one critical difference:

I once had a catch-all address set up for everything@example.com, but I got lots of spam to random made-up addresses. I now use everything@sub.example.com, and I don't see any spammers making up addresses within my subdomain.

Where this unfortunately breaks down seriously is those sites that require you to log in with an email address, and require you to share that login with other people. Especially paypal -- I get spam to my paypal address, because anyone I've ever bought anything from on ebay knows that address. And there is no way to both use that service and keep my email private. There's a variety of similar sites out there.