Meteorologists and climatologists will obviously consider a continuous imagery of a cloud of gold chaff much better than looking at the boring old earth.

/rolleyes

an appropriately edited "Stephen King is dead" troll post, but I just don't have the heart.

RIP, roblimo.

Or maybe the site was updated with a message designed to delay pursuit while the miscreants continue to skedaddle.

How would you know? At least, until some time had passed.

Because.... in this case, some one could provide their readout of location to 20 decimals. Incredibly precise!

And, be off in real location by 300', so, not very accurate.

Independent devs like at XDA Developers have been sideloading gapps against the terms of its license for just about forever. The Google Services framework is Google's magic handcuffs, without which the users have no meaningful experience (because apps depend on it). So Google's desire to abandon AOSP by making it meaningless (because of insufficiency) will no longer be thwarted. (Without clever hacks. But let's face it, it's getting harder and harder to find clever hacks. Safetynet has been out there for a while, and if you root or alter your phone, odds are good Safetynet will bust you and prevent paranoid apps (like Google Pay) from running.)

This is just the Safetynet experience made broader. Good for Google; meh for users. But most users are comfortable inside their pens.

I hate to break it to you, but that's a copycat. A fairly poor knock-off, actually.

Oh, well, that's the troll ecosystem for you.

/epiphany

We've elected Zaphod Beeblebrox. FML.

Which explains SCO right now.

'Cuz they were WAAAY salty after losing all of their cases.

just queue up Dave Mason's "Feelin' Alright" (I recommend the live version from "The Very Best of Dave Mason"), and go from there. Create a Pandora, a Google Play Radio Station, or just listen to Dave Mason, Steve Winwood, Traffic.

"Feelin' Alright" will point you in the right direction, it's almost involuntary how it perks you up. Helps me forget what's happened to music since 2005-ish.

There really is a LOT of good music out there, even today. It's just that mainstream caters to something they think is mainstream. I don't get it, I know a lot of others who agree.

"I just get more work done while the Uber-free is driving all over and am a unique individual who never pays attention to ads anyway."

Which is a neat trick when the car ejects you from the seat and forces you to either go inside the damn store or cool your heels in the parking lot for 15 minutes.

Still, the business case is completely absent. The folks you want to drag into a store can afford to not need an enforced-shopping-trip-subsidized ride. And the impoverished needing to get from Point A to Point B at the least possible cost won't be spending a damn cent in those overpriced consumerist hell-traps.

The FCC's own rulemaking process requires it.

However, nothing obligates them to give a rat's ass about what they learn from it. Your tax dollars at work.

Never confuse "We want to hear from you" with "We care about what you say."

I've been here a pretty long time, but I wonder... is this a record-setting dupe? I mean, the two are almost right next to each other, separated by one story and less than two hours.

Have we ever had dupes right next to each other? Because that's the only thing that would exceed the egregiousness of this.