Probably more people have heard of them as HID Global and not iClass.

When I saw iClass, my thought was "I can't remember, is that one of HID's brands?"

The HID products where I work are flaky as hell too...

This.

I've had so many devices that people claimed had shitty battery life, when I had no issues whatsoever. Like the Nexus 4.

(The N4 DID have some issues on initial release with the GPU frequency governor and broken wifi ARP offloading, but once these were fixed the device was great.)

Same with the Nexus 5. Google had some nasty power management bugs that killed battery on some wifi networks, but they had commits on AOSP within days that fixed the issue on the next OTA.

This is only if the phone's broadcast/multicast filters are broken.

A proper wifi chip SHOULD filter out broadcast/multicast when the device is suspended.

Unfortunately, it's a common item for vendors to screw up. The Nexus 4's ARP offload was broken for example, leading to all sorts of issues. The original Galaxy S2 had a Broadcom chip that fully supported ARP offload and broadcast/multicast filtering - but Samsung disabled the filters, allowing everything through!!! (They do this on a regular basis on multiple devices...)

"Two NVIDIA Tegra processor modules are at the heart of the electronic components in the Model S, which "command a sizable price tag," according to Rassweiler. Here is a look at how they work."

Um no... Nearly all of Tegra3's design wins (including 2012 Nexus 7) were due to it being cheap...

Also, how is this news? It's been known for ages that the Tesla HU used Tegra3. http://www.theinquirer.net/inq... (March 2013) - and I've seen documentation dating back as far as 2012 that Tesla was using the T3.

Except that it doesn't. I click "not spam" on a regular basis. I've been doing that for three goddamn years.

Despite this, the following routinely go into my spam folder:
Anything from Amazon
Anything from another gmail user
etc.

gmails handling of forwarded email is 100% broken, and there is NO way whatsoever for a user to fix it. I've explicitly whitelisted some addresses, but the end result is gmail now has a gigantic banner on every such email saying "This was not sent to spam because you overrode it".

Just stayed in a Marriott for a week. The wifi did not require a login, so accessing it did not require you to have paid a room fee.

Well, that falls under "Unless you're considering people who received a live vaccine to be "infected"..." - since a live vaccine will cause antibodies to be present.

Recovery (which is used to apply OTAs) has read/write access to system. Official OEM recoveries will only apply ZIPs that were signed by the OEM. (This is to prevent, for example, people just flashing SuperSU to gain root access, or some app maliciously altering /system with a bogus "OTA" update.)

Samsung was preloading useless crapware on their phones LONG before Google started becoming more restrictive with GMS licensing.

"Ever wonder why Samsung installs a fucking duplicate app on your device for everything Google does? Samsung Calendar, Samsung memo, Samsung voice, Samsung Apps Store, Samsung Translator, etc?" - Yeah, they're arrogant idiots who think their shit doesn't stink. Samsung's apps are utter and complete shite (especially the apps store) compared to Google's stuff. They're a blight on Android, and cause a major negative perception of Android in general when the issue is Samsung-specific.

I agree with this, except for the "dealing with false positives" issue.

About 50% of my spam folder is false positives... And Google refuses to learn.

Nope, it hasn't been used in ages. It was largely obsolete even back when I was diagnosed with Type I diabetes close to 2 decades ago.

I'm not sure if it's cheaper, but human insulin IS more effective than pork/beef insulin. Also, pork/beef consumption was going down and insulin demand was rising decades ago, which is why insulin-producing bacteria are one of the first genetically modified organisms ever created.

These days, human insulin isn't actually that common - there has been a move to modified insulins that have slight differences from human insulin to achieve certain goals. (Lispro/aspart aka Humalog/Novolog reduce insulin's tendency to "clump", which greately speeds up the time to take effect when injected. Insulin glargine, aka Lantus, is designed to provide a very long "peakless" baseline effect for 24 hours.)

Nope. Best free wifi I've ever used was at a Marriott, and best wifi I used on my last vacation was at the most expensive hotel we stayed at (we were always at budget hotels though). Many of the networks were set up my totally incompetent idiots.

This is not Marriott corporate policy - this happened at a single location that happens to also be a convention center, and is more about the practices of the convention center and not the hotel.

To play devil's advocate - That's pretty much what the people here were trying to do - prevent a disaster like what happened at the 2012 Big Android BBQ, where exhibitors/speakers couldn't use the network because it was completely jammed, or 2013 BABBQ where they at least kept most people off of the convention center network but all of the hotspots around caused everyone's wifi to be flaky.

Keep in mind this happened at a single Marriott location which was a convention center - it's not standard corporate policy. I've been staying at various Marriott hotels for years and the wifi has always been free.

H1N1 is a "real virus".

And even though the case mortality rate of H1N1 is FAR lower than Ebola - the reason H1N1 is so scary is because it is FAR more contagious than Ebola.

e.g. it is MUCH easier to keep an Ebola outbreak contained if your healthcare system is even remotely decent than it is to keep flu contained. It's pretty much a given that each year, 1-2 different strains of flu WILL spread globally, and even with vaccinations, that spread is inevitable because it's so damn contagious. Also, I BELIEVE that it is possible for someone to be contagious but not symptomatic with flu.

With Ebola - I am fairly certain that you are not contagious unless symptomatic (which is where the comments about "zero risk of infection" on his flights comes from), and even when symptomatic, transmission requires direct contact with bodily fluids.

WHAT? You're claiming that one quarter of the US population caught the H1N1 virus?

That's TOTAL AND UTTER BULLSHIT.

Unless you're considering people who received a live vaccine to be "infected"...