[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mikedenney:
Endless...Love (i.e. 'SNAAAAARK')

An XDA 'superior user' gang-bang...nice, just what I wanted to see this morning.

Rooting--and the 'currently forbidden' jailbreaking, are often so very hand-in-hand processes--more than 50% (stat pulled randomly from my anus) of people who root their phones, do so to jailbreak them, and an even higher percentage of those are jailbreaking them to sell 'em, often to scam the military out of money.

BTW, Active U.S. officers overseas (or just out of their network provider area) should be given priority consideration in avoiding prosecution.

The Librarian of Congress is really the best guy to ask about all this, since he is so current, tech-savvy, and knowledgeable, to have [caved to AT&T lobbying and] had the law passed in the first place...so all us legal Eagles should Twitter him regarding this statement, instead of taking points and positions on sarcastic, tiny, forum posts (and so offending and alienating well-intentioned commenters who think they're playing to a higher-level audience).

I've had to read 2 separate 'exposition pieces' sounding off on my hasty (dearly regretted), miniscule comment yesterday...Jeeez.

If I were burning people at the stake, I'd have strapped myself to one and said "FLAME ON", just to be clear.

I 'joined' XDA's site for one reason, and one, only: to read about innovative Android-related hardware/software developments--whether legal, highly 'radical', or maybe just murky enough to be interesting. I did not come here for public scrutiny over ant hill statements. Some people are just caustic--I suspect they also never learned how to make friends. But hey, that's me--I'm so social, sometimes I wonder if I'm sociopathic (we could gotten off to SUCH better starts...'pals').

Obama 'liked' rooting, but so far, not enough to drop his BlackBerry and tell the LoC to keep his opinions to himself.

Hhmmm...keeping our opinions to ourselves....hmmmm....guess I'll say this in defense of my hasty, sardonic little self.

I guess it would be similar to making brash anti-government statements online, (right now, anyway)--you are definitely legally allowed under the law, and well within your Constitutional rights, but then there's the NSA, who polices tons o' stuff said online, and may not be practicing the capacity, understanding, and heck--the moral restraint, to resist pulling the plug on said 'enemy combatant', just because he/she is a patriot along the lines of the founding fathers.

Anyone wanting to 'ROOT' their phones can always do what they want (so far--legally--as far as the government is concerned...in the U.S.), as usual signing off on the consequences (not going to bother--this has been weird already)...but when a government is spookily going about redacting laws that were the basis for even buying an Android phone, it also stands to reason WE should be a little wary of going about talking about rooting so much to draw any unnecessary attention to ourselves, until that madness ends.

I root...I have rooted...and I will continue to do so...I enjoy the hell out of it, and it's a primary reason to buy any phone with an Android OS on it.

It's at once a tech-savvy, and consumer-savvy, move, to buy Android. Plus, it's exciting when you realize you may have found someone 'out there' who has found a way to get your particular model to do some new tricks, or some old ones, and they're out there just 'giving it away' for free--much less an ENTIRE WEBSITE consisting of literally thousands upon thousands of members, entirely devoted to this purpose.

Again, #1 reason to buy Android.

Basically, I guess I'm trying to make it clear that rooting your phone inherently gives you the power to then go on to unlock it (thereby breaking the law). In fact, the process of unlocking or jailbreaking an Android device requires rooting it as a prerequisite. Some roots even go straight on and 'break' it, right? Just so we clarify how dumb I really am on all this.

If anyone was GOING to read my statement and 'unroot' their phone, jumping on me would be more than necessary...I don't see it deserves the time, really, in context of what I said, much less, as cheekily as I made my idiotic original statement.

I was being sarcastic--I stepped outside rational, legalistic thought and even logic...pretty sure no NEARBY black holes collapsed, and I did not disrupt the space-time continuum, even though I absolutely did give it my very best.

If I wanted to hear so much clap-trap over a brain-fart I made, I'm sure I'd position my fat ass in the front row at church, thanks.

Otherwise, try and teach 'the choir, here' something new...this stuff is getting worse than frikking Youtube.

Toodles!:p