The proposal in the article sounds stupid and is certainly not less confusing.

My suggestion- STOP F'ING WITH TIME. Just STAY on Daylight Savings time all year long and stop changing it. Done

No more adjustments. No more confusion. No more going to work in the dark AND getting home in the dark.

That is a fair assessment with Kickstarter stuff, although the Omate isn't really imaginary...

They are far past concept, past design, past prototyping, past beta, have apps already up, and are in pre-production and with an over one MILLION dollar project. Of course, something might happen, and it could be a total crapwad when it comes out. But there are lots of videos and photos and information on their sites to show it is not imaginary and what you can see simply blows the doors off everything out there.

The first major problem with the Samsung is that it is proprietary- working only with Samsung phones. This is a huge no-no for lots of us. In addition to that, it has very low functionality for something so expensive.

The Omate, on the other hand, is far, FAR more interesting. Being not only compatible with all phones, but also even being a real phone, itself if you want. And it is a full Android device with Play access and lots of local CPU/RAM/Storage with bluetooth, GPS, gyro, vibe, and WiFi. And also a better camera, better display, and much better face (a sapphire crystal) and it just has my wallet itching...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omate_TrueSmart

There is no REAL difference between Republicans and Democrats. They both want to take away our rights and give them to the government. They both want to spend too much. They both want to grab more and more power. They both ignore the Constitution. They are both working very hard to to turn our nation into a fascist police state.

The two-party system is broken and has been for a very long time. Nothing can really be fixed until we have a fundamentally different kind of voting system that allows other parties to participate. And since that is not in the interest of the two-parties, it will be a cold day in hell before that changes either.

And yes, I vote at every election. And usually it is for any non-Democrat non-Republican I can find. I might be throwing my vote away, but at least I am trying.

This is just stupid.

Fingerprints are left all over the place and can be used in ways that are opposed to freedom and privacy. You should never allow your prints to be registered, if you can avoid it.

If they want to use a safe biometric, it would have to be a vein pattern or retinal scan. Something that can't be obtained without permission/participation and can't be easily replicated.

>"The (voluntary) programs, like Progressive Insurance's Snapshot use onboard monitoring devices to track information like the speed of the automobile, sudden stops, distance traveled and so on. Safe and infrequent drivers might see their rates drop while customers who log thousands of miles behind the wheel and/or drive recklessly would see their insurance rates rise."

Fast acceleration, itself, is not unsafe nor reckless.
Hard braking, itself, is not unsafe nor reckless.
Hard lateral G-force, itself, is not unsafe nor reckless.
Speed, itself, is not unsafe nor reckless.

All of these things could be in AVOIDANCE of one or more accidents as a reaction to someone else's poor driving. They can also be done perfectly within the law and perfectly safely.

A spy device in your car tells them NOTHING about how safe or reckless a driver is, it just allows insurance companies to make ASSUMPTIONS about your driving which are very likely to be incorrect and/or unfair. And giving discounts for using one is the same as penalizing those who don't.

All this advanced stuff and it lacks gyroscopes so there is no motion control option? I would think that is a major oversight...

>"the year he and his girlfriend Morgan were born. They're doing it because their kids"

I guess they banned marriage too? Is that too modern?

>"Handing over a non-changeable biometric feature like a fingerprint for no better reason than that it provides 'some convenience' in everyday use, is ill advised and foolish. One must always be extremely cautious where and for what reasons one hands over biometric features.'"

This is much more important for biometric features that are "left behind" or can be remotely monitored. Those include:

* Fingerprints
* DNA
* Facial recognition
* Voice recognition

Other biometrics are far safer for the owner because they [theoretically] can't be collected or used to track the owner without knowledge and consent each time:

* Retinal scan
* Vein pattern

For example, without my permission, my fingerprints can be collected. Without my permission my latent prints can be analyzed and used for searches. And because they (and DNA) are left all over the place, it is far easier for someone to make copies, too- then use those for tracking, breaking into things, or framing the owner for a crime.

>"Congress, all of it, and the Senate, too, should be informed of what the executive branch does. Withholding information about the government itself from legislators is irrational."

Although I totally agree with you, the Senate and the House of Representatives are both parts of Congress. :)

>" 'The unauthorized disclosure of in June 2013 of a Section 215 order, and government statements in response to that disclosure, have engendered considerable public interest and debate about Section 215,' "

Well, yeah, amazing isn't it? That is the way a democracy is SUPPOSED to work. It DOESN'T work properly when tons of things are all held in secret.

I suspect that at least half what is currently kept secret from the public is unnecessarily secret. And probably much more than half of what is left could at least be shared with Congress committees.

>"Stephen Colbert and the Monster Truck of Tivos"

A SnapStream is not a TiVo, it is a DVR. So you can call it "Stephen Colbert and the Monster Truck of DVRs".

And the CORRECT term is even in the article that you were apparently trying to quote:

"Houston-based SnapStream makes a line of DVRs that scale to truly silly sizesâ"its products are the monster trucks of the DVR world."

So why the hell edit it to make it wrong and confusing?

We use Icewm for a Linux/X thin client environment (IceWM and apps runs on the host, not the desktop machine) and it works really well. It is simple, fast, reliable, low-resource, and controllable. I would hate to see it die or fade away. It does lack a few features that I had hoped would be added, but anything other than bug fixes stopped several years ago.

>"'So there remains a strange undercurrent of hope that somebody-Apple-will figure out,"

Oh please give us a break. As if only Apple can figure anything out. I find it humorous how much they copied from Android into iOS the last few rounds.

And no mention of Google as a major player in this space is a mistake. They are coming out their own watch too... (Really? You mention Samsung, Apple, and.... MICROSOFT??)

>"If someone steps out from between two cars and you hit them, you were going too fast."

In your example, they were jaywalking, which is illegal. If you hit them in a crosswalk, there would be far less question about liability. But you are not automatically at fault when someone just pops out in front of you elsewhere.