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8069. arkymalarky - 9/27/2014 4:27:20 PM the very greatest thing if you have kids is voice activation and control and drive mode. I never have to touch the phone to listen to music, take calls, get directions, or even send texts. 8070. arkymalarky - 9/27/2014 4:28:29 PM most stuff I post here is voice to text 8071. arkymalarky - 9/27/2014 4:28:31 PM most stuff I post here is voice to text 8072. iiibbb - 9/30/2014 3:36:38 PM "Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them."
-Leonardo DaVinci
I hope he's not talking about me. 8073. judithathome - 9/30/2014 7:53:56 PM On the contrary, I think he's talking about politicians. 8074. alIstaIrcOnnOr - 10/7/2014 11:59:09 AM Ah. I finally changed phones this summer. I don't like being on the bleeding edge, and I'm not a heavy consumer of either phone or data; but it's been very nice having a proper computer in my pocket.
My main criteria being :
1) I'm cheap,
2) I want something robust that will still work 2 years from now,
3) I don't want a big phone
4) I'm cheap,
I ended up with a Moto G. That's the X's little brother, targeted at developing countries (it's number one in Brazil, apparently). I waited until they had a 4G version, and jumped on it. Very happy with it. 8075. arkymalarky - 10/7/2014 5:54:19 PM Ooohh, good choice. Mine is my home office and my internet and my source of most information and social connection, my computer--in short, everything--so I need one that's very sturdy and very fast. I love my moto x and Stan loves his, and I'm hoping these will last us a long time. I truly don't know how rural people got by before cell phones. Commuting alone makes it almost indispensable, and keeping up with Mose and where she was on the road was huge when she was home and driving. 8076. arkymalarky - 10/7/2014 5:54:56 PM And just not being tethered to a laptop or a PC is very convenient. 8077. arkymalarky - 10/22/2014 3:06:09 AM got the moto 360 last weekend. great for work. also added two great free apps: news republic, I think i like better than ap, and slacker, which I had years ago on my blackberry. so far I like it better than Pandora. 8079. arkymalarky - 11/8/2014 9:46:47 PM Honor Aaron Swartz day today. Watch Pivot. 8080. judithathome - 11/9/2014 8:36:02 PM Do you mean Pivot TV? Because the only thing on here on Pivot TV is
b Farscape.
All day long...
Don't know who Aaron Swartz is...or was...but the word "hacktivist" sounds pretty cool until someone who has just stolen your credit card number claims they are one and that they hacked you bank account for your own and society's good. 8081. judithathome - 11/9/2014 8:37:04 PM Sorry...forgot where I was...that's Farscape...
No shortcuts here! 8082. arkymalarky - 11/9/2014 8:57:39 PM No no no. You need to look him up. He's a lot of what's made the internet so egalitarian, and what happened to him was criminal. It should scare everyone about what our government is becoming. 8083. arkymalarky - 11/9/2014 8:58:48 PM www.aaronsw.com 8084. arkymalarky - 11/9/2014 8:59:55 PM He also had a hand getting Elizabeth Warren elected. 8085. arkymalarky - 11/9/2014 9:02:29 PM Hacktivist are not common hackers, and they and had a role in Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, & a whole lot of other activities that most people don't bother to get involved in but which are very important to preserving what freedoms we have. 8086. arkymalarky - 11/9/2014 9:11:21 PM www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-brilliant-life-and-tragic-death-of-aaron-swartz-20130215 8088. judithathome - 11/9/2014 10:07:36 PM I think I immediately bristled at the mention of Pivot TV...that used to be my favorite channel...until it became Pivot. Previously, it ran all sorts of interesting documentaries and interviews with people in the arts.
Then it went "younger" and left all the previous programming behind and completely lost me as a viewer. (Can't even recall what the channel was called previously...)
But I'll read up on him...sad that he died so young. 8089. judithathome - 11/9/2014 10:09:50 PM Heh...looked up "Pivot TV" and the channel it took over was: The Documentary Channel. (eyeroll....) 8090. arkymalarky - 11/9/2014 10:52:47 PM I don't watch it regularly, but they show good progressive movies and documentaries. very left-leaning, but Megan McCain is on it. I have been an Aaron Swartz fan since his suicide. that's when I first heard of him. there's a major war over information, privacy, free speech, free access that will affect us all and imo he did more than any one individual to shed light on it.
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