It can work the other way around too -- if you get too far from your phone, it goes into pin/password lock mode. But if it is near a trusted bluetooth device, easily swipe to open. Works with any bluetooth (pebble, moto 360, your car) and Moto X 2013/2014 and Android 5+ devices. I assume iPhone has a similar feature.

Like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... ?

I hope you realize it is not FUD to bring up a company's own former strategy (EEE) and own past bad behavior.

You're talking about the embrace step. Certainly there should not be any OS lock-in there. That would be by design (assuming the worst of EEE for argument's sake). Platform lock-in comes with platform specific extensions, features, APIs, and libraries beyond the core. A very nefarious thing to do would be to introduce subtle bugs in other platform versions of the core or extensions. But that would be ridiculously hard to prove and I use it mostly just to dramatize how EEE could work.

I'm not saying MS is doing this, I am saying they should be watched with a very skeptical eye. Again... "be wary of your 'extended' dependencies".

This is the same silly logic FCC chief Wheeler used to in his blog post back when he advocated the T-Mobile + AT&T merger. It basically sums up as this:

"It we just give them some stuff then they will be ok with us regulating them"

How about the FCC just do it's fucking job? Regulation should not require give and take with the industry, that's exactly how regulation can go wrong.

I think you misunderstand how embrace, extend, extinguish works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Extend provides them with the platform lock-in, extinguish is only when extend has provided them enough market share that by being a de facto standard, they can steer the tech as they wish. They can let it languish. Or provide cosmetic updates, or add more platform lock-in.

Note that this framework is called "core" -- a perfectly normal name in most situations, but interesting when looked at from the perspective of embrace, extend, extinguish.

I guess the OSS lesson should be "be wary of your 'extended' dependencies". MS could be doing right here but I am a skeptic.

Medium is like a crowd-sourced blog with no ads... what's the issue you have with it?

Of all the BS on Slashdot, this is much more akin to its roots of aggregating less-know tech articles.

Quick, someone hire this guy a sarcasm tag.

This is also part of civil forfeiture law. In TFA they note that the only "suspicion" required for them to take a bank account was that the account holder be depositing large amounts but under $10,000 at a time (i.e. breaking no law). I'm honestly not sure it matters which violations are "worse" they are all egregious and unconscionable and must be stopped immediately as unconstitutional.

And has any of that coke vs pepsi shit been worth reading? It seems like you are arguing *for* the stupid bs.

Huh? Timothy added that to be incendiary. It's not part of the submission. And there is nothing about it in the github repo / article.

Thanks for the screenshot. It explains what you're saying better.

Still, do you think that they changed the search engine, left all those options for smart search on, then went to the OS setting for spotlight and turned that off, then sounded the alarm? Would seem a bit like manufactured outrage to me, but I suppose it's not impossible.

If those options were actually left on, then is a very non-story (at least that part)

Agreed, they have a very good track record but...

Huh? http://advertising.apple.com/

Sure, it's not their main cash cow, but they do sell ads, with targeting and analytics.