I wish I had mod points because this is legit. Podcast Addict is the best podcast app I've ever used, bar none. Even better, the developer is responsive and it's actively developed constantly!

It said in the article it asked them to remove it, but they must do so to retain access to mobile company email.

So, I can keep my freedom of choice and not be expected to be chained to the company communications system on my own time? Apart from the spywire-laden app thing, I don't see a lot of downside.

I actually had a horrible boss back in '92. I did some research and signed him up with a money order for the NAMBLA newsletter to be delivered to work.

He was gone about a week after the first one showed up. They put a change of address in to his apartment. I have no idea what knock-on effect that had with his wife.

I used to report every advertisement for random things. Hundreds of them... but then I figured out what to do to make them stop. For every ad you see on Facebook, choose "why am I seeing this?" Tell it you don't want to see anything from the advertiser anymore. Also, go into options it offers for lists you were pulled from or other advertisers it thinks you will like. Do the same for every one of them. It will take time (a couple weeks), but after telling it I am not interested for almost two thousand advertisers, many hashed email lists, lots of networks, etc., ads on Facebook finally stopped showing for me, both mobile and desktop.

If, like me, you're a US person sitting in in the US making a comment on a US website over a civil matter... well, sue me. GLWT

Hey! Found the PHB!

I've got AT&T fiber down in the Houston area and it works just fine currently. Ditto with someone I know in the Austin area.

Medical devices with Windows 7? That's a laugh. We have medical devices around here running Windows XP. How's that for a nightmare?

Okay, I'll grant you that. I've seen issues for all kinds of things. I have had to submit things like pronunciation changes because... well, who comes up with these pronunciations? I don't even live in an obscure area (fourth largest city in the US), but it has no clue on certain things!

I guess it depends on what sources of information they can use. I would even think changes to the signs collected during a Streetmaps run would help, or information on a business at an address and possibly suite number found during web crawls conflicting causing them to investigate more. They have a lot of data they could integrate.

You'd think a few people getting this data and just calling up to confirm with existing phone numbers, but Google isn't put together like that, sadly. So if you want it nicely integrated with maps we need to contribute more. (Doing work to enrich Google's data is a whole different debate, though.)

If you don't like the lack of data on Google Maps, submit. Be the change you want to see in the world. I've done it for places I've been that had nothing and amazingly, next thing you know other people review or submit photos. I've notified them about places being closed. I've told them about new places being open.

You're thinking of a TPM. This is a TPU.

I prefer Lenny, but there's also the Jolly Roger Telephone Company.

Keep an eye on Gadgetbridge if you use Android. They have already replicated a lot of what keeps your Pebble working, and if we're lucky they'll tie into using Google's voice recognition or a service of your choice. If their app would download METAR reports to give you the weather for wherever you are that would pretty much give you everything you need (that I use, anyway) that is cloud-connected.

That wasn't my experience when I used Speakeasy DSL up to eleven or twelve years ago. The phone was flat-rate and cheap, and Covad was the CLEC and passing through to Speakeasy.

The problem comes when something breaks. The ILEC has no incentive to fix it because you're not really their customer. My DSL was out for seven weeks while AT&T and Covad pointed the finger at each other and miss each other's appointments at the central office. The only time they actually fixed it is when AT&T started to mess with it and the voice on our phone also went out, then they realized that whatever hardware at the CO our line was plugged into had a problem and replaced the blade... and voila!

Very disappointing.

I wondered when this was going to come up. It totally reminds me of this short story.