At it's heart, Amazon is a technology company. It's filled with technologists, and the success it has had in retail is, in some ways, a side effect. At it's heart, Walmart is a bulk purchasing company and a real estate company. It is filled with buyers and real estate experts. Microsoft doesn't care about Walmart succeeding in retail, it cares about selling more cloud processing to Walmart, by making things more complicated and AI-driven, requiring more computing power. It's like teaming up with IBM. I shop at Walmart all the time in their brick and mortar stores, but Walmart will never be able to compete with Amazon online, because the experience will be clunky, due to the factors above. Amazon has a very seamless online buying experience, and excellent customer service, and that's what people care about when purchasing things online.

It's Google Glass all over again. The folks running this program are looking at it as a technological curiosity, not how it could be integrated into society.

This. A sudden voltage fluctuation will crash the phone, and then they'll be mad about that.

The funny thing with BitCoin is that you have technology specialists mostly talking about it, instead of economists or historians. Some history is helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Agreed. The purpose of this lawsuit is to force the courts to make a decision on how these patent infringements will be decided. I gives them precedent and understanding for future patent decisions, for both companies.

It's not just a patent that says "a colorful grid of icons." For example, one of Apple's patents is 364 pages with 293 illustrations. Scroll through this puppy a bit. The trial was also detail focused to this same degree. So it's not "we have a grid of icons". It's "let's take several weeks to show you how specifically we were copied." There is a fairly high bar to show patent infringement, imho. IANAL. http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?P...

Apple is looking at mitigation techniques as well: https://9to5mac.com/2017/09/11...

Agreed: https://www.schneier.com/blog/...

Which makes sense, because they are working for you. As a California resident, think of yourself as one of the executives of the company. Of course you should know the salary of the people that work for you, because you're paying them.

From reading the blog post carefully, it looks like this is designed for credit card processing verification at the point of service. Allowing the gas station's credit card processor to verify you really are at the gas station your credit card is being used at. So in that use case, they would already have your location because they know where the POS terminal is located. This doesn't seem too concerning to me, but they should probably provide an opt-out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... This is a great example of the problem of requiring "disruption".

Replying to cancel an incorrect feedback. Carry on.

Honestly, many of the folks that go to Burning Man are Juicero's target market. They're relatively wealthy (enough to fund a week of living in the desert, often in quite a bit of style). They're focused on nature and on being healthy. A lot of other wealthy people attend. If he's looking for customers or a purchaser, that's an ideal place to go. So think of it more like attending a critical industry conference.

Civilization is three square meals from anarchy. Always sobering to remember. And it's true - if you have kids, and they don't have food to eat, how long do you think you would maintain the status quo, before trying to find some way to feed them?

Yeah that's not an easy option if you spent lots of money on weather station hardware they produce, and want to be able to remotely interact with it. Accuweather is also a leading weather hardware company.