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Right here, at home, in the Nexus!
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Behind the curtain. I love gadgets.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Web design at it's finest! clickity[^]
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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The cardboard armour battle[^] link on the same page is worth checking out.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Yesterday I discovered that the Test Runner for xUnit tests was no longer discovering tests, among other issues. Submitting an issue got quick, but incorrect, response from the MS team. Brad Wilson, author of xUnit, added his, correct, 2 cents and I'm off to the races again.
If you are interested in the discussion and solution, https://github.com/aspnet/Testing/issues/108[^].
I must say, despite the issues with working with Beta code, I am very impressed with Asp.Net 5 and the dnx451 and dnxcore50 frameworks.
Learning to use Grunt, Gulp, Bower, Npm has been interesting as well.
Compilation is FAST, and you can mod code on a running non-debug instance and the changes take effect. Very cool.
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I tried getting Gulp Grunt (scuse the noob) up the other day, inside and outside of VS2013, and all I can say is, I can't wait for 2015 where it's 'properly' supported. Npm is quite sweet just in PowerShell.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
modified 1-May-15 2:08am.
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So yesterday the news (I forgot which) reported how both iPhones and Android phones were busily tracking and recording your locations, storing them on your phone. Disabling this feature (should you find out about it) is buried several layers deep, particularly so for the iPhone.
I'm a privacy nut but it doesn't bother me. I don't have an iPhone (or iAnything). I don't have an Android device. If it weren't immodest of me, I'd chastise everyone I know with hearty I-Told-You-So. They'd respond that it doesn't bother them and then, when I'm safely out of sight, fret about it.
So - my advice to you - one and all. Protect yourself with the blessed insight of none other than Michael Faraday: wrap your phone in aluminum foil and never be tracked (or otherwise disturbed) again.
Which emoticon is symbolizes gloating?
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I don't really care if the FBI tracks me by my cell phone. I really don't.
When I become an international bad boy, then maaaybe, I might care.
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If it were 'only' the FBI, CIA, or NSA it wouldn't be so bad.
It's elephanting apple and google. To them, your info is a commodity.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: To them, your info is a commodity.
Lets be honest... to large corporations your existence is a commodity.
None of this really bothers me though... as for the FBI, CIA, NSA - I don't do anything they'd be interested in. As for Apple, Google, Microsoft - I've learned to 100% completely ignore online advertisement. Its a gift! 
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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After recently helping a friend pay for adwords...
I was SO SHOCKED at the prices. We are talking $5.00, $12.00 and $20.00
click through charges! OMG. Maybe because we chose a geographic area,
but the fees across the board are SO much higher than we thought.
His results. He spent $600 and got one person to call him. We both
decided a direct mail piece was probably a better way to go.
So, now, when I get an annoying ad. I click on it. A LOT! In different
sessions. In fact, I was thinking about writing an App for that! This
led to the an ugly conclusion about the net... LOL.
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I find it useful that my phone knows where I am and where I go. It allows it to tell me of any upcoming traffic problems and it always knows how to get me home if I don't. It can even tell me of interesting things or places nearby when I am away from home.
For someone as essentially lazy as me I find this very useful.
I also fail to see that this has, or could have, any negative impact on me at all.
It might get more adds that are targeted to me, big deal, I have been happily ignoring the ones that aren't for years now.
If I do decide to take up a life of crime and take a smart phone along with me then I don't think it is them being evil that would get me caught, but me being a dickhead.
So Google, please remember where I am, because sometimes I can't.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Try to imagine going into a Starbucks that happens to be next door to the Radical Islamist Book Store, and having your cell phone just slightly misinterpret the GPS location. This happens three times, and suddenly you discover (at the airport, when trying to go on vacation) that you're on a No Fly list, with no way to get off.
You're still not an international bad boy. Are ou still ok with being tracked?
The problem with automated data collection is that the inferences that are automatically extracted from the data don't start with the presumption of innocence.
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SeattleC++ wrote: that are automatically extracted from the data don't start with the presumption of innocence.
Rather certain that almost all of the methods associated with the No Fly list do not start with a presumption of innocence.
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I wonder why the media is making a big deal of this now. When I bought my Android phone 2+ years ago, the first thing I did was set my privacy options.
/ravi
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Well - most people don't have the wit to even know there are privacy options, followed by too lazy to make the effort to do anything with them. In apples case, as they demo'd on the TV report, it's about six layers down from the main screen - and remember that each layer has options.
It's something like an opt-out vs. opt-in button when people install software - hence the preponderance of malware.
In the US, credit cards, banks, etc. have privacy policies that they must disclose annually and give the consumer the option to opt out of some and, at the least, make them aware of the rest. In the state of California, most of this type of stuff is (by law) opt-out default. Not so much for apple/google.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: In the state of California, most of this type of stuff is (by law) opt-out default.
Because California passed a law to do just that. Until then it wasn't.
And they can pass the same sort of law for phones.
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Why do you care if anyone tracks your location???
So what?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Coder (Hired) wrote: Why do you care if anyone tracks your location???
..very much lots. It is a limitation in movement, in safety and liberty, since it would also contain the daily patterns of politicians and other interesting people. During wartime that information becomes even more valuable, and companies have been shown to gladly share with all sides.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Nothing you posted here makes any sense, nor has any remote chance of effecting your daily life..
1) Movement.. You can move around just fine - with or without your phone on you.
2) Safety.. not sure how safety comes in here. What's unsafe about location tracking?
3) Liberty.. what rights would you lose with this feature on?
4) "politicians and other interesting people" - wait, what? huh?
5) Wartime - there's a war on now.. How has your phone's location services had any effect on it, or been affected by it?
6) Sharing - Again, so what.. This has been going on for years with all kinds of advertising.
I really don't get the "phone => location" hysteria. The only reason I turned by off is because it means apps are running -and my battery dies faster.
Personnaly I don't care about any of the things you point out. All are non-issues, and some are way out there whacko.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Coder (Hired) wrote: How is it unsafe?
I assumed the previous already explained the danger of sharing sensitive information 
Coder (Hired) wrote: What rights did you lose?
Freedom is not just about rights.
Coder (Hired) wrote: ... none of which effect you whatsoever.
It cannot otherwise than affect me, as it would be rather global, not local.
Coder (Hired) wrote: How exactly does this effect you? We're at war now... how are you effected?
I'm Dutch, and not in any war AFAIK. In the case your "we" is American, I will have to refuse to answer.
Coder (Hired) wrote: All are non-issues, and some are way out there whacko.
Thanks.
I would not trust any government with all that information, so no chance I'd trust a company with it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Again, you've replied with nothing to substantiate any real danger of phone location tracking.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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