What kind of wifi hardware are you using? I want some! Around here at least, you'd be lucky to get 50 meters of detectable signal. Realistically usable speeds at closer to 25.

I would bet that the radios in these bodycams are decidedly low power devices, and that means low range.

This is going to be a shocker, so you might want to sit down. There are laws other than just the ones in the constitution. There, I said it. When you wake up you might want to re-read this lest you get yourself into trouble.

When you finally calm down, I'll sucker punch you again. There are rules in society that are not explicitly written into law. I know. Shocker, right?
[/sarcasm]Some people's kids... sheesh!

Others might describe it as one of the most solid and useful pieces of tech ever invented. As evidenced by the fact that it's widely popular after so many years and even those with no technical skills at all can send and receive faxes.

Personally, I prefer email. However if someone with no tech skills needs to send me a document image it's often far easier to just send a fax rather than spend an hour trying to teach the person to scan, then save in whatever format, and then send via email or other method (if the file is too large for email, often a problem). You get the idea.

Faceid is a feature of ios, not the iphone hardware. There's lots of new features in the latest Android, too.. but other than marketing hype, it has no place being discussed at a phone launch event.

That's not the issue here. The issue seems to be that the taxi lobby finally got politicians to put the smack down on their competition. Are there really cars that are dedicated to uber? Every time I've gotten a ride it's been some guy who was just earning some extra cash while he wasn't working his real job. The issue here seems to be that someone wants to turn an easy way to make a few extra bucks into a full time job.

Not if you're using a reasonably current version of windows. Honestly, until this idiotic thing got posted to slashdot I had forgotten about having to "eject" storage devices back in the day. Maybe it's a concern if you're using osx or some flavor of *nix. It is not a concern with windows.

Also, every usb device I own, and I have a large bag (probably 30 of various sizes) of them from tech conventions and the like... every one has an LED on it to indicate if read/write is going on. If the bright light is flashing, don't pull it. It's not rocket surgery. The article and ensuing discussion is a waste of electricity to post on the internet, and a waste of oxygen to feed the brain cells of the people thinking about it. The very definition of "slow news day" I guess.

You are doing it backwards. You're supposed to pull out before ejecting.

Nobody would buy IOT devices that had to be replaced every year. Most manufacturers only offer firmware updates for a short period of time. It would be the end of IOT for anyone except enterprises that could afford to roll and maintain their own.

Much easier said than done, unless you're a company with the means and desire to roll your own device every single time. Your investors might decide it's stupidity and fire the executives, if you waste your resources here...

Many (most?) IOT devices require Internets access in order to function. Here's a more practical and common example of iot devices: IP security cameras. Few and far between are the IP cam's you can use without internet connectivity.

Another example? Streaming video player devices.. guess where they stream content from? Want a thermostat that trends your cooling data, crunches the numbers, and attempts to reduce your power consumption? it's going to send that data off to a server farm for number crunching. There's a long list.

They should institute caning. After 3 dives, a player could elect to receive 12 strokes to regain eligibility. Alternatively, they could find a new job.

Nothing, so long as the game clock continues to tick while all that mess goes on. I guess for people who bothered to attend the game it would still suck since it's that much less game they get to watch.

One would hope this incident would be in the file even if nothing else was.

Uh-huh. I remember hearing that junk when we were talking about going from SD to HD for video. Then again a similar argument for framerates. It's easy for anyone who does not have vision problems to discern 1080p from 4k video. Maybe you're thinking of a situation where someone is watching 4k content on a 1080p display. Maybe you're thinking of someone watching 1080p content on a 4k display. Maybe you're talking about a situation where the video has been poorly compressed and degraded to a point where it looks bad no matter what. Maybe you're just trolling.

I agree with the rest of your post. Especially the part about:

True enough. Nail meet hammerhead.

Or any of the many many others they made after that.

It's pretty obvious that Ryan Shrout just doesn't know what he's writing about.