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On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:14:58 -0700, Joe Snodgrass wrote:

> After all the scary news about smart phones broadcasting people's
> locations, I can't believe that
> 
> 1) Some genius doesn't build a smart phone with no location tracking and
> corner the market on people who want no part of it.  There's money to be
> made, genius!
> 
> 2) Manufacturers don't put a control (preferably a hardware switch) on
> the annoying things to *reliably* leave the feature turned off.
> 
> 3) Customers don't raise a ruckus and demand that the feature be put
> under their control, or else.
> 
> Americans are heroin addicts, who will suck up anything, as long as they
> get their shot every half hour.

What does any of that have to do with Java, C++, or PHP, Snodgrass?