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The ability to quickly turn off the phone is useful when you need to activate a long password so that you cannot be forced to use your fingerprint to unlock it.


If you are in a place where you can be forced to unlock it with your finger they'll force you to give out the password too, it would probably even be more painful.

The only place where you would not want to use biometrics are western* countries which would allow the police to compel you to give out your fingerprints to unlock the phone.

With the exception of the UK in which not giving out a password or decryption key in the course of an investigation even if you are not the suspect of a crime can land you 7 years in prison these days.


"Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest"

How do you do this when secret courts can keep you silenced?


Especially considering that the NSA has proven itself willing to tell bold-faced lies directly to congress? I mean, how do you whistleblow about that kind of thing without stealing classified information and releasing it publicly?

This whitehouse response is a cruel joke.


Agreed. And, of course the NSA only uses "lawful tools." Nope, never are they found unconstitutional.


The same way William Binney did. He did things responsibly through the proper channels. The public didn't give a shit. The government wishes Snowden would have followed his example.


Can you provide some references? I've been prescribed T and get it via a compounding pharmacy in liposome cream form, so now I'm curious if it's actually worth it.


I'll try to find the ones I was referring to. In general absorption rate on the skin is poor. From experience weekly shots are much better for me.


Now can we figure out a way to split expenses like cable (some may not want it), lawn services (how frequent), etc?


I've been using Abine's DoNotTrackMe for a while. Is this any different/better?


I am wondering as well. Using https://github.com/RequestPolicy/requestpolicy on Firefox as a more aggressive way to control which website request can get through.


This is my favorite feature that Udacity has and the others don't.


The color of each gang is quite important.


"Google will retain the vast majority of Motorola’s patents, which we will continue to use to defend the entire Android ecosystem."

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/lenovo-to-acquire-mot...


- I like your icon.

- Maybe change the tint color of your app to match the orange from the icon and screenshot backgrounds.

- I would get rid of the status bar in the first screenshot.

- I would change "If you're a woman, living in London, in your 20s or 30s" to just "If you're a Londoner with too many dresses"

- Is the designer description provided by the user, or automatically generated by the app? This would be a cool feature.

- The font of the item and designer description doesn't go well with the look of the rest of the app.

Great first app!


You are a VERY good science writer btw.


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