It won't ever hit the news, because it will be ordered by a FISA court and it will have a clause stating Apple can't disclose that this was a government mandated opening.

Or you forced departments to pay back double or triple plus court costs for improper seizures.They'd suddenly be much more careful.

It doesn't cost more than the phone. It's perceived to cost more than the phone because they've hidden the cost of the phone from you. The base model iPhone 6 (16GB) costs $650.

My kicker with the Pebble is that it can only do one thing at a time. I want a time watch-face up, and I want a fitness tracker in the background, for example.

It's no more clunky than carrying a bag full of spare batteries to swap out.

They can bask in their pure capitalist sunshine as soon as they buy right of way access for every mile of line they use, instead of leveraging the government sponsored right of way access they've been given. They can also pay a requisite sum for the monopoly access they were granted. Then they can setup any internet they want. Until then, they need to deal with regulations.

The device was great, but no one really buys a Kindle for the device. They buy it for convenience and content. The Sony ebook store had a terrible selection. Worse, you had to buy it on the computer and transfer it to your device. Nirvana is achieved when you can pick up your ereader, decide you want a book, and can complete the selection and sale immediately. That's why Amazon was willing to eat the cost of the cell subscriptions, because it meant people could complete a purchase when they wanted, not when it was logistically feasible. That's become easier now with more ubiquitous wifi, but Amazon won on content and ease of availability.

I still own a PRS-505 and it's a wonderful device, especially paired with Calibre, but it's used almost exclusively to lend to people while I used my Kindle Paperwhite.

They are actively considering whether to regulate EHRs. https://www.bostonglobe.com/ne...

Unfortunately, companies like Apple are developing services to aggregate health data from things like wifi BP cuffs, scales, activity trackers, pulse oximeters, etc. And, physicians and regulators are already looking at ways to integrate that information into a broader plan of care. So, regardless of it's novelty, it's going to be used for very real medical decisions. At the very least, there needs to be better education about the lack of oversight and the potential for wildly inaccurate data, and I don't get the feeling that's happening.

This is a good way to hide your snooping in sensitive environments that are running adaptive intrusion detection systems. It's also a way to get secure computers that aren't connected to the network, to talk to less secure computers that are. Think military. Jim falls prey to a USB based piece of malware and puts it on a DoD machine that is on their internal, secure network. It talks to an Internet-connected computer to move data from one to the other. The USB vector is exactly how the US/Israel got malware onto Iranian centrifuge controller systems, so it's a valid concern.

Why is it sad that people didn't donate money to a for profit company?

Note also that healthy food from scratch takes more time to prepare, which is also a luxury that isn't available to the single mom taking the bus to 2 and 3 jobs.

We just need a political angle and maybe we can get Glenn Beck to "ask some questions"...

It's not necessarily a status symbol, but I do see more people realizing that there are services that fill the needs to "moving the occasional couch". Most people don't need the utility aspect of the vehicle but 1-4 times a year, and likely spend way more in gas and other expenses (tires, etc.) for the privilege than they would if they rented a truck for those purposes.

Thanks for clearing that up for us. I stand contrite and corrected.