Except for:

- the iPhone 6 is, well the S3 is so old its not even in the comparative benchmarks published today by anandtech.... http://www.anandtech.com/show/..., but since the iPhone 6, 6+ and 5s are all faster than the Galaxy S5 we can assume that they are also faster than the S3

- the iPhone doesn't run Andoid ... nuff said

- the iPhone is not build by Sammy.. more nuff said :-)

Here is an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That demo is actually with Impinj's last generation reader. Their newer reader also supports this.

Newer Gen2 readers can do limited movement detection. It would be possible to detect direction. But possibly not reliably (if the tag orientation is not correct WRT to the antenna it becomes more difficult.)

Yes, but that is no different than any other inventory sticker.

In other words... the rfid tag becomes the inventory sticker. The difference is that it can be visually inspected OR inventoried quickly with an RFID reader.

Yes, but the US citizen accessing the data from the Irish servers might at that point be breaking Irish law.

The real issue is that if somebody in the US wants data from a foreign server then they should server warrants in that jurisdiction.

This boils down to can a US court force an american entity to break a foreign law.

If for example Microsoft has enough access rights then the US Court can force them to access the data. If they did this there may be a cause of action in Ireland and it would be interesting to see if the US would allow extradition of a US citizen for charges based on this scenario.

If there is no access but Microsoft controls the foreign entity that does have access, can the court force Microsoft to direct the foreign entity to comply. And the foreign entity (remember a Microsoft owned company) refuses, what can the court do to Microsoft?

The proposed bill presumably all about removing these ambiguities.

Would a device reset maintain the extended timeout between tries?

Better yet, maintain a second iTunes/iCloud account with a different install image for your device.

Simply backup and then restore your device to a nice generic image with nothing indiscreet on it. With a simple (or no) passcode. Bonus points for also setting it up with some secondary gmail (or similar) accounts with some light traffic (mailing lists work well.)

Anyone looking at your device will see a simple normal device with nothing exciting.

You can of course restore to your main image later.

Yes I'm sure that anybody who doesn't want their data to be read by the authorities won't be able to afford to buy an iPhone with TouchID.

The US courts CAN compel you to disclose your keys in some specific circumstances. The canonical example was when child porn was seen on a screen and the owner managed to then turn the laptop(?) off. When rebooted it could not be seen because it was encrypted.

In that case the courts held that because the government already knew (had seen) that the kiddie porn was present they where not forcing the owner to disclose something unknown. So they could force him to hand over his keys.

People with pre iPhone 5S phones use 4 digit passcodes because they don't want to enter more than that everytime they unlock their phone.

Anyone with a 5S (or 6) will use TouchID for most access and a much longer passcode for when a passcode is required.

Kind of like the way carrier cell phone stores push Android.

And why Apple is happy selling iPhones their way in THEIR store.

So if the referenced article is to be believed...

Sometime early in August Apple decided to to with ion strengthened glass for the new iPhone 6 models. They then cancelled the orders for sapphire screens and did what... with only six weeks to go before launch, probably several weeks into full production, they placed an order for 10 million or so screens? Its not like you can phone Digikey and ask for 10 million screens and please have them here in 24 hours please and thank.

Any decision about screens was made many months ago so that the Ion Screen manufacturer would have sufficient time to make them and ship them prior to when the iPhone 6's production needed to start. And initial production was probably in June.

So more likely March or April.

And this is how different from now?

Other than many human drivers will be distracted and might not notice... but if they do notice you get the same panic effect.

Which is also why (at least in BC) most over passes (especially pedestrian ones) now have fences so that idiots cannot throw things off them.

In other words this has nothing much to do with autonomous vehicles.

With feedback (there is this Internet thing...) and / or official documentation from the owners of the particular road you are driving, eventually your model of the driving environment will be reasonably accurate.

So mostly you are looking to see if there are any changes today (like a car stopped, or cones and a flagger out, or a mattress or other obstacle.) Although again if feedback is active and the obstacle has been "seen" by another vehicle, your car may actually know about it before it arrives.