Point is the same regardless of branding. A company selling something locally should be forced to stand behind it's product in some form of consumer protection. Our laws didn't just appear they were an extension of the "fit-for-purpose" clauses and I would expect even an unbranded piece of garbage to last a year.

Remembering warranty typically covers manufacturing / design defects, not abuse. Is it unreasonable that we buy a product that actually does what it says on the box for only 1 year?

Ok call the feature "dongs" does it change anything if you RTFM for "dongs"? Does the specific name of the feature change the way you RTFM or did you not RTFM because you made some assumption on what it was supposed to do and then complained because you didn't RTFM?

I agree with the latter part though. We do need a decent way of searching, but as far as the verbatim search goes it works exactly as it says it does if you look it up. It searches for words or phrases in the exact order.

Congratulations. For the routes I typically fly frequently they have quartered in price. For routes I typically fly infrequently they have halved in price but given how they were more expensive to begin with this too is a massive win for me.

In fact the only time I have seen an increase was when the fuel cost sky-rocketed. They added that increase as a fuel surcharge on the ticket. When the price dropped the government forced them to adjust the surcharge accordingly.

What is with the latest trends to require such massive jumps in new standards? Didn't we have a similar problem with 4G and then companies not being able to meet the standard?

This is wireless. More speed in the same bandwidth is a really difficult problem to solve. More bandwidth is a really expensive problem to solve in existing frequencies. Different frequencies is a really difficult problem to solve.

Why not have 5G be twice 4G, or even 4x 4G? Why the huge jump?

Why is the solution to identity theft using biometric data, identify theft using something orders of magnitude easier to replicate?

I don't follow your argument at all. If you're worried about a company using this data then surely you'd want to pick the hardest metric to duplicate.

Snowden exposed data collection for tracking purposes. So does that mean by putting quotes around 'tracking purposes' we are no longer actually using them for tracking and are just using them to deliver lunch?

Think about it grammatically for a second. When you put scare quotes around a scary word, does it mean it's not being used for scary purposes? This has nothing to do with Snowden and everything to do with piss poor choice of text.

Ahhh so they'll invent the paleo diet next?

As a person who lives in a country where a seller is legally obligated to provide a 12 month warranty on a product I am astounded.
As a person who lives in a world where electronics are getting cheaper and more poorly made every day I am astounded.

Why do I see this as a step towards hardware subscription payments? Force people to buy cheap shit without warranties, and charge for upgrades constantly.

The success of Net Neutrality certainly had a role in making the bureaucrats bold enough to fine AT&T.

of crap they were going to do anyway that they're blaming on the evil govmint and their nasty nasty net neutrality. I've long since noticed businesses doing this; blaming every evil thing they do on gov't regulations because if only they'd just leave us alone to innovate we'd play nice. Didn't happen in the robber baron era and it's not gonna happen in my life.

video on my phone can be 240p and it looks fine. 480p looks like high def to me (I'm old, sue me). Compressed 480p video with 128kbps audio is generally 5 megabytes a minute. What I"m getting at is that these networks are looking like they'll have the capacity to do away with caps. Now if we can just get enough people to believe that and demand their government do something about that. Not sure about Europe but here in America there's so much anti-gov't sentiment that might never happen :(.

It won't be discredited anymore than any of the other miracles of religion are. For this kind of stuff to be discredited you need journalists with cameras and travel options.

is the thought that a large organization (public schools) could potentially have finger prints for every single person in the country with the exception of a few rich kids who go to private schools where room and board are included in the crazy, crazy fees.

Couldn't we just stop being petty bastards and just give out free food to kids at school? Food is not expensive in America. All this bitching about budgetary constraints is just another example of the middle class and poor at each other's throats...

"Trust no one." --Fox Mulder :P

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