Meanwhile, the source code keeps moving more and more towards having a real runtime-permissions-manager. Honestly I think they'll have something soon, but probably not before 4.5 or 5.0. In the meantime, I've been loving XPrivacy, it's probably more granular than anything they would release anyway (and I've had exceedingly few crashes, blocked data is faked not broken).

Stupidity is negligence. Negligence is selfish. That makes it malicious. Its willful which ever way one chose to spin it.

IMHO, such phrases are not much different to ones like "what do you have to hide?". They are designed to look like one thing, confuse and win a point, while hiding the fact that something appalling is going on. Its the language of confusion to control.

Its too easy to be allowed to hide behind a false concept of stupidity. Too convenient.

False, in general. If you want to assert someone is using stupidity as a cover, you need evidence. I don't believe that should be the default hypothesis.

Check it out: "Don't call me stupid; I'll punch you for that!"

I'm not taking sides here, but you have to call a spade a spade.

Even by that definition Google never released it. You needed a 3rd party app to access the feature, Google's software alone was not enough. Google didn't fail here, they flat out never released it.

Or perhaps you could argue that they failed by not releasing it (or something similar), but that's different story.

If it's there and it works, then great for you, but you can't expect a whole lot more. It sucks that they didn't actually make it a published feature with an actual means of accessing it, and take on the responsibility of maintaining it, because it seems like something I'd like to use.