Kids today got respect!

Oh and GET OFF MY LAWN!

Hey wait, can you come back and show me how this new phone works?

I look at this article and I see the other article today at http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/10/23/2213237/top-us-lobbyist-wants-broadband-data-caps for broadband data caps and clearly these two things are opposed initiatives, both designed to make more money by treating the public as money pinatas.

I'm so relieved that you were here to give us some solid facts on the officer's state of mind. Part Betazoid?

This argument has never impressed me. As if unless you are a kernel coder, your opinion is irrelevant. He is critiquing some points of the UI style, and he's not alone in how he feels about them. Maybe you could step back from the debate, get some perspective and contribute to the discussion instead of just adding snarky comments

Your comments exactly mirror the ones I intended to post. I would have expected that slashdotters would have taken a more intelligent response to this article instead of an instant "pile on" mentality

Why would you post technology in a home just because the home was built after 1986?

I've been a fan of the iPhone since it came out. Love it or hate it, it did change the landscape and it does a lot of things really well. Unfortunately the whizzbang features with the faster processor and fingerprint scanner and such, while nifty, are less compelling to me than getting a larger screen for my aging eyes. That alone knocks it out of my "time to upgrade" category. It feels like too small of an incremental enhancement and not anything singularly so substantial that it's worth plunking down money for.

According to the speakers at the event, the fingerprint data is not transferred to any servers or backed up in icloud for precisely these security issues.

Has anyone else noticed that N Korea has been making a lot of noise the past month

Monday was the national celebration for the leader's grandfather the founder of N Korea. A day many analysts pointed at as a likely turning point in their ramp-up.

Tuesday Ricin letters were delivered to the White House and other locations.

I think I need to find a blank to go hide under.

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument" -William G. McAdoo

Fault 1: You assume any conversation I have with my table companions must be obnoxious laughing?

Fault 2: you assume you cannot have a conversation with your distant loved ones from a quieter spot such as the lobby or outside where you hear them better and they hear you better and you do not generate irritation in the room around you?

You sir, seem to have some latent hostility creeping out.

/golfclap

On this I agree :)

There are devices on the market that block cell traffic except for 911 calls.

The study you quote did not draw the conclusion you assert.

"We didn't study why cellphone conversations are more distracting,"

The difference could easily have been tonal or volume differences of one person on a cell phone versus two people speaking face to face. They stated that they need to do further research to find the cause.