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Neil Young has been "Pono'd"...

AppleInsider said:

A Brazilian judge on Tuesday ordered the country's five cellular carriers to block access to Facebook's WhatsApp indefinitely, disrupting access to the popular chat/VoIP app for tens of millions of people.

The block is the third leveled against WhatsApp in Brazil, which has refused to hand over conversation data in at least two legal investigations, both of them involving drug trafficking. Today's court action is the most severe however, given the indefinite timeframe. Tech companies have run into mounting conflicts with government officials over encryption. While companies like Apple have argued that encryption is important on moral, profit, and security grounds, people in law enforcement and spy agencies have complained about communications "going dark," and warned that criminals like kidnappers and terrorists can use it to hide their actions.

I think that judge needs to go after local municipalities and regional government authorities for not building the minimum number of sewage treatment plants to keep their population and visiting Olympic swimmers and boaters healthy during the Olympics. Brazil committed to building over a  half dozen such facilities as a requirement for receiving the Olympics seven years ago and they only built one. That's a much greater immediate need to the population of São Paulo than shutting down WhatsApp. 

knowitall said:

GB exit of the EU is definitive, don't suggest anything else.
The scaremongering without basis certainly didn't help the 'stay' campaign.
Warnings by world leaders didn't help things either; especially Obama made an absolute ass of himself by threatening the Brits to stay and adding that they would be last in line with new trade treaty's with the US (TTIP seems to be the most undemocratic future treaty ever and seems to be centered around the idea to give large corporations more power than governments, so we have to buy iPhones or whatever in the future without choice of our own); after the fact, the US changed tone: it was business as usual and no problem at all. Wow!
I would say, cudos to all Brits voting to leave EU.
Never look back to this cesspool of bureaucratic layers and cover up of Germany to rule it all.
Now the hope is that more countries can vote to opt out and decide there own future.

No rational arguments were ever going to convince the "leave" campaigners of the folly of exiting the EU,  just as no rational, empirical economic or sociological data would ever convince Trump supporters of the folly of their ways.  The "leave" supporters were overwhelmingly older, whiter, and lesser educated (including a significant number of blue-collar working-class people) - the same demographic that supports Donald Trump in the United States.   These "leave" supporters were simply voting on the basis of xenophobia and parochialism. When asked in numerous "person on the street" interviews on Sky TV, BBC, or ITV why the subject voted to leave, they usually responded with some vague, unquantifiable nonsense like "Britain ain't Britain no more" or "We can't take so many immigrants".  Of course, returning to my point about empirical data, more immigration comes into the UK  from outside the EU rather than from within.    But, if these typical "leave" supporters had been presented with that data, they probably would've just shrieked "Eurocrats!"and trundled away to shoo kids off of their lawns.

So...a Galaxy S5 can be upgraded to a 2 year old OS the moment you bring it home. That should be noted in the original article. However, it should also be noted that a five-year-old iPhone 4s, if one purchased it used, could instantly be upgraded to the latest version of iOS the moment it is brought home. That does not solve the fragmentation issue within the premium android smartphone market and was the entire point of the original article in the first place.