What's with these App permissions?

[Ed B]

I don't know if it's an option in this case, but I'd look for a PDF version of the book.

I treat books just like music. When I buy it I want to keep it. I want it on my hard drive, my phone and backup drives.

If you grab the PDF you can use a different program that doesn't require weird permissions.

 

[circles]

Last week I finally broke down and got a cell phone. I got a non-smart phone, mostly for 'emergencies', so no app issues. Good question though.

 

[b3john]

Cheap Chinese crap built in a sweatshop (with an unbelievably high suicide rate of its workers)

The suicide rate at Foxconn is actually far lower than the rate for China as a whole.

And nothing approaches the suicide rate at US colleges. They build suicide nets there too.

And other public places.

Now I'm depressed.

...the world needs more Teslas and less Edisons.

Truer word were never spoken.

 

[acstorfer]

You don't read the book. The book reads you.

[ame]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7LQKNhV7L8[/ame]

 

[Ed B]

Cheap Chinese crap built in a sweatshop (with an unbelievably high suicide rate of its workers) and sold for a ridiculous price.

'Murica.

When did Capitalism mean, "No Morals, f**k over everybody in the name of the Almight Dollar?"

...or did it always mean that?

I guess humans don't feel any need to better their society and instead just focus on themselves? ...seems like it.

No wonder we're going to sh*t as a species.

I couldn't live with myself if I had that attitude. When everyone's only in it for themselves, we all lose out in the end.

TL;DR

...the world needs more Teslas and less Edisons.

 

[Dilemma]

I guess humans don't feel any need to better their society and instead just focus on themselves? ...seems like it.

No wonder we're going to sh*t as a species.

Of all the things in your little rant there, this one bothers me most. (Not that you really give a shit) There's a lot of good people out there trying to make a difference every day. I'm not saying you're wrong necessarily, but don't fall into the 'fuk it' mentality.

 

[GitFiddle]

"This flashlight app requires: Your contacts list, identity, access to your camera"

Exactly.

FWIW: I still read books with printed paper and use a flashlight full of D Cells.
I still use a flip phone with texting disabled, for the sole reason of calling AAA if my car breaks down on the road.

I spend all day working with computers and the internet.

I don't trust or find anything beneficial about the internet enough, to carry it around with me at all times.

Our phones are turning us into marketing pigs, led to slaughter.

I know I rail about zombie texting drivers all the time, but this morning I saw a new one that just takes the cake. There are tree trimming crews working around the local area clearing power lines. They have a guy posted on each end of the trucks with STOP/SLOW signs to control traffic.

So I pull up to the guy holding the stop sign. He is playing with his smartphone completely oblivious to traffic. I just kept inching up closer and closer until he could hear my engine running before he even looked up. My first thought was that he either needs to be run over, or fired on the spot. How hard can that job be?

 

[b3john]

You don't read the book. The book reads you.

And even that reports back.

 

[Hairless_Ape]

This is why I don't install any apps on my phone. I only use it for basic web browsing and email. I install the junk on a tablet that has absolutely no personal information and electric tape over the camera.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

Of all the things in your little rant there, this one bothers me most. (Not that you really give a shit) There's a lot of good people out there trying to make a difference every day. I'm not saying you're wrong necessarily, but don't fall into the 'fuk it' mentality.

I do like broad brushes in my rants.

I never mean everybody. I know there's good people in the world,...but the majority (from my viewpoint) seem insane to me.

..not that I'm saying I'm the perfect picture of sanity either,...but...different values I think.

Many try to give to the world,..but the majority seem like they just want to take and take and give nothing back while they live in their little bubble.

...and it creeps me out that in 20 short years the entire world has become unrecognizable. Like waking up in a nightmare you can't get away from.

...the feeling (for example) of standing in the subway train and seeing everyone around me staring at their phones,..not talking,..not looking at each other,...just zoned out..staring at tiny glowing screens like zombies...creeps me the phunk out!

I don't want to be a luddite. I don't want to be one of those guys going, "I just want to live in a cabin in the woods." ... but the world has become so unrecognizable and people have become so bizarre to me,...it freaks me out.

when life feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone you can't get away from,...something's not right.

 

[Dilemma]

I do like broad brushes in my rants.

I never mean everybody. I know there's good people in the world,...but the majority (from my viewpoint) seem insane to me.....

...something's not right.

It's definitely getting to be a challenge to find good deeds these days when we're bombarded with garbage. I certainly get in my 'Fuk this noise' place from time to time, but it's usually short lived.

One thing I've noticed. When I get away from my job and all that bullshit and back home with the people and thing that matter, my viewpoint adjusts dramatically.

 

[HenryHill]

Of all the things in your little rant there, this one bothers me most. (Not that you really give a shit) There's a lot of good people out there trying to make a difference every day. I'm not saying you're wrong necessarily, but don't fall into the 'fuk it' mentality.

He's not.

Let's consider a public restroom as a metaphoric example of the quality of life as a whole.

100 people may use that restroom, but if just a couple of people, um, decide to break accepted convention of use, and defecate and urinate all over the whole place, do you not point to the mess they've left, and not lament the way it looked before?

The quality of life I grew up in, people were Good Sams, and went out of their way to make sure they could help. Business aimed for a measly 10% markup and paid their taxes dutifully.

My how things have changed in the shithouse.

And now they want to use your webcam to watch you use it.