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Okay, there is at least a random chance that some of us or someone in our family got a new smartphone as a gift this year. Maybe you hand the old phone down to one of the kids for a wifi device. Maybe you thought better of trading it in, and having your data end up on the streets.
There are the usual perennial articles on this subject Such as this one from a site that appears somewhat reputable, or this one from BusinessInsider.
Note: Most GSM phones can be used to call 911 in the US/Canada even without a sim card present. Donations to Charities or Women's Shelters or Homeless service agencies is always an option as long as you wipe the phone completely.
So what does the Savvy Soylentil do with the old Smartphone?
[Update: removed derogatory phrasing that was present in original submission. -Ed.]
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Jaruzel on Monday December 28 2015, @11:25AM
1) Racial or otherwise, when reading the article I was shocked by the unwarranted slur against other countries.
2) Maybe not in the insular USA where everyone who isn't American is a terrorist, but out here in the rest of the world, there's nothing wrong with Pakistan.
Flaimbait down-mod for calling out something [I found] offensive? Wow.
I'm allowed to express MY opinion - it's called Free Speech, something this site purportedly encourages. I am SO done with you US-circle-jerks who now inhabit SN. This is why I didn't re-subscribe when my subs expired. Even at it's worst, Slashdot was so much better than this.
-Jar
This is my opinion, there are many others, but this one is mine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @12:15PM
Wow.
Wow, just wow. It's 2015.
Even at it's worst, Slashdot was so much better than this.
Ha! This is some great satire of the green-colored website's users.
Overall, 10/10.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by jasassin on Monday December 28 2015, @12:41PM
Hypocrisy
the behavior of people who do things that they tell other people not to do
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Gravis on Monday December 28 2015, @03:21PM
2) Maybe not in the insular USA where everyone who isn't American is a terrorist, but out here in the rest of the world, there's nothing wrong with Pakistan.
tell that to the people in Pakistan who only get power for part of the day because of corruption! Pakistan has a huge problem with corruption. Funny you should mention terrorists because guess where a lot of terrorist groups are started and go to hide? Hell, Osama bin Laden was found just outside the capital of Pakistan!
Flaimbait down-mod for calling out something [I found] offensive? Wow.
decrying racism where there is none is Flamebait.
I'm allowed to express MY opinion - it's called Free Speech, something this site purportedly encourages.
free speech doesn't mean you have your own special place where nobody will hurt your feelings. you haven't been censored, your post is still there and more importantly, you are not being thrown in jail or killed because that's what free speech is all about.
I think it's worth noting that the free speech you think is so great does not exist in Pakistan or any "-stan" country i know of.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 29 2015, @02:54AM
Obligatory read. [xkcd.com]