lemgandi’s Comments

• Jul 30th, 2015 @ 5:16am

  Ambrose Bierce said it best

  on The Drug War Is Creating Problems Too Big To Fix
  "As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be
  proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a
  scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which
  certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a
  flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were
  sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more
  thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which
  so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and
  human reason are alike destitute of value."
• Nov 1st, 2014 @ 7:22am

  Plus there's the Verizon scandal..

  on Mobile Providers: No One Has Complained* About Our Service, So Net Neutrality Shouldn't Apply To Us
  Wired magazine says every packet you send through Verizon's cell network has a tracking number unique to you attached ( http://www.wired.com/2014/10/verizons-perma-cookie/ ). But heck, that's something only geeks would care about, right? Right??
• Apr 24th, 2014 @ 8:08am

  Also it's a security risk

  on The Stupidity Of Installing Bloatware That No One Uses... And Everyone Hates
  That bloatware is also a fair-sized security hole. If an attacker can rely on an installed application to subvert your phone, she will.
  
  The best solution to this is a 3rd party build such as cyanogenmod. Installing it is the first thing I do to any purchased cellphone.