Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 2, 2013 0:50 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
In reply to: Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS by heijo
Parent article: Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

A large part of the exercise is to make a phone which brings the modern mobile internet to people who can't afford a 600€ phone. You may not be able to play Hero's Duty IV: The Slaughterfest on it, but it looks like you can have decent mobile web access, with all of the communication, social, and utility benefits that provides.

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Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 2, 2013 0:53 UTC (Tue) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link] (4 responses)

As long as I can play blackjack on it while I'm stuck in line at the DMV... it'll meet my particular needs.

Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 2, 2013 1:07 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (3 responses)

I think you may be to settle for solitaire at this point. If that doesn't work for you, though, maybe you could use the web browser to renew your license so that you don't need to stand in that line.

Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 2, 2013 1:13 UTC (Tue) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link] (2 responses)

How dare you presume that I live in a state that is actually progressive enough to have invested in online driver license renewal infrastructure.

How dare you sir.

-jef"no seriously that would be great... feel free to write my governor to actually extend online renew to driver license instead of requiring in person every other renewal"spaleta

Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 4, 2013 7:18 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] (1 responses)

Or adopt the EU model, where your driver license is valid at least until retirement age? That'd require offloading the functionality of identification to a separate document, though, something that US and UK libertarians seem to have an irrational fear about

(as a result of which, too many organizations in the US require driver license and SSN, which arguably is a dangerous invasion of privacy)

Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 5, 2013 11:16 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

> (as a result of which, too many organizations in the US require driver license and SSN, which arguably is a dangerous invasion of privacy)

A more widespread problem is that it facilitates identity theft.