Now how many shades of foolishness does a device
like this present.

Cut the wires on the speaker and place it some place interesting.
hack the data stream or server and you have a nearly impossible to
discover and defend from listening device. Made in the zillions
anyone could have more than one.. so any could deny having
purchases this one.

Clearly the FlyBI and child protective services will demand full transcripts
of all the voices in a home. Since no parent can be trusted to be
a good parent all are suspect and need to be monitored up to the
time that they come off the parental healthcare coverage....

Here we go... TV plays "the slap" and thugs bash the door down
and the surviving children are swept up into CPS care seriously
in need of hearing assistance and assistance for the blind because
of the 600 flash bangs used to ignite the house. Only guide dog
breeders will see value in this.

Because they are unwilling to disclose the use of these devices it is possible that
a very long list of prosecutions will be undone including this plea should the information
see the light of day.

There is some reason to believe that a court order to demand the police retain all records could be justified.
It is not clear if the records can be released but this and other actions with these tools implies the legal footing
is not clear and that the tool is astoundingly broad and effective in what it gathers.

I might note here that it has been recently disclosed that the keys to SIM card codes
have apparently been stolen by one or more TLA. http://www.ign.com/articles/20...
One article gave a four year window to this key theft perhaps more.
If these devices are sold and if these stolen keys are involved it gets interesting.

One very real issue is where someone grew up
and learned the rules of the road. Phones and distracted
walking make it all worse.

There are nations with left hand and right hand auto driving.
Pedestrian bias is shaped by these early days and parents.

Many communities now have a large enough community of newcomers
that these habits collide on the sidewalk. Mericans in Stralia, Brits
in France, .... India, Japan, Indonesia,,.... all nations now have a large enough
influx of newcomers that this is important.

I first encountered this at airports. Then the powered walkways seemed
to make it go away but.. no it is still there....

Worse or perhaps more importantly Mericans have highly controlled cross walks
for K-12 students. Students do not learn to look all ways for traffic. They simply
step out -- many will wait for a light but many not. No officer blows a whistle and
hollers get yer butt off the road. No one hollers get a move on you are blocking
traffic. Entitlement like turtles goes all the way down...

Universities have always had pedestrian accidents as egg heads oblivious to the world forget that
they have left the safe roads of the school and stepped into townie roads. This and the
localized communities of H1B visa holder make this obvious in some parts of the US.
Other nations have the same problems with clusters of expats.

What is it with this rush to thinner and lighter?

There is a point for many of us where thin is thin enough
and durability and battery life and even a second disk rule.

I would love to see less drive to vanishingly thin and fragile
to a more middle ground of durable, capable and functional.

The 3200x1800 display does appear inviting.
But for any power user the keyboard often matters more.

I happen to have an HP laptop that is nearly 18 years old.
It has a fine keyboard as laptop keyboards go and more importantly
the display has a lot of vertical pixels which makes it nice to read
text and code. Ubuntu keeps it ticking... I think it came with DOS ;)

Sadly the BIOS has a hard wired white list for WiFi bits so I cannot
upgrade the WiFi. It is so old that a replacement battery costs
an arm and a leg and has much less life than I like. It is not silent 0db
it has a noisy fan, it has a spinning disk.... it weighs in at 6 or 7 lb.

Darn I just convinced myself to check this one out when it hits the
local stores.
         

But wait....
Each and every owner of a smartphone I know complains about terrible battery life.

My gut reaction is to craft an audio tool that mumbles and speaks at my TV all day and all night when
I am not using it. I would seed it with all manner of mumble foo including banned words and implications
of my neighbors. I would turn FoX news on the internet and AM shock radio perhaps passing it through
a re-tuner (not auto tune to musical notes) and reshaper.

Not so much me thinks.

A test and or a tester is very different than a cure or immunization for Ebola.
The ability to further screen someone identified by a remote non touch fever
sensor is the gold here.

Hospitals had issues sorting 80 some common infections that presented like Ebola.
The only unique Q&A answer that identified Ebola as a likely infection was "did you travel to _Africa_?".

Should Ebola have surfaced with a vengeance in one or more modern cities the options that
health departments have are few. One is to isolate the city and divide it while Ebola burns itself out.
The collapse of commerce for food and other common needs would be difficult to sort out.

And more importantly because this is not a treatment the testing and approval time frame
could be very short. And more importantly there are cities in Africa that could use it now.

There are some social implications but from the containment side of the option list
this is a good thing.

OK model UN46D6050 From todays online chat...

Xyzzzz:: The particular TV come with 2011 smart hub interface. Thus, this particular TV does not support multiple profiles in netflix app.
Visitor: Sigh... I am disappointed. Such a fine TV matched with little or no software support. Makes me sad...
Xyzzzz: Multiple profile option for netflix is only available in F and H series models.
Xyzzzz: I can understand how important this is to you.
Xyzzzz: Netflix 3.1 app is available on your TV. This updated Netflix app will allow you to use:
Xyzzzz: Subtitles on supported movies.
Xyzzzz: Multi-Audio Tracks on supported movies.
Xyzzzz: 5.1 audio tracks on supported movies.
Xyzzzz: Full HD (1080p) on supported movies
Visitor: But not profiles?
Xyzzzz: Yes, only for the F and H series model TV's you can see that feature.

For a long time folk have said that moderation and alcohol go hand in hand.
For a number of reasons the first 1/2 to 1 standard drinks has a place at the table in my mind.
About the second standard drink most of the advantage is undone and by the 4th for sure
the only advantage might be social lubrication. But that is a slippery slope that gets
increasingly dangerous.

Adding the smallest amount of alcohol vastly changes the way water and
common fats interact. Surface tension changes and the ability to emulsify
fats so a lot of surface area for digestion is available improves. This solubility/ surface
interaction can also apply to fats in motion in the blood and how they interact
with plaque in the arteries. Mostly it has interaction with bile and the fat in the gut.

A number of common bacteria in the gut generate some alcohol but as a rule
this is quite small. Some cases of walking intoxication from gut bacteria are known.
Given the legal consequences of alcohol I find this biologic reality and lack of data on
this combined with wanting instrumentation precision and accuracy to be appalling.
The lack of science in this area is deafening.

Anyone that has noticed the burbling of a beer fermenter or the tooting of a
person with lots of healthy fiber in their diet should realize that bacteria
and bacteria byproducts happen.

Of interest in a freedom of speech context there is a talker and
a listener. If it is impossible to listen (or read) then the freedom of
speech has been infringed.

Not in the Samsung case. A wonderful Samsung screen with "smart" features and
Samstung is unable or unwilling to update the Netflix software. No Amazon app...
on my perfectly good TV AND Smart Blu Ray player. Android tablets and phones
are now seeing incompatible application update notifications as Android moves and
cell service and phone makers conspire to constipate and control the update and
bug fix process.

The life of a $1000 TV is not one or two years... If you purchase one of these about
the time the new model is out you will see a corresponding shortening of the update
stream. If you purchases it early you will see some bug fixes and feel good but
all new computer hardware will need an update just because software takes time
and testing on a simulator is so much slower than real hardware.

Sorry you have had your two updates... you are SOL.

Samstung needs to be slapped with a DCMA or some such tampering
statute. A content stream is Copyright. They are modifying it for
the purpose of generating $$ and that can be illegal all across the
globe. The fact that the author and owner of the stream cannot easily
see this tomfoolery is perhaps the only thing keeping an attorney
from turning the company upside down and shaking money out.

Do these countries happen to be countries overrun by war?

Enormous parts of European cities were emptied of citizens that were stuffed into camps and vanished
or simply displaced by destruction and war. Some laws were crafted to legalize the good,
bad and ugly parts of this chaos.

Basically I am impressed with some of the old hardware emulators and
interpreters.

This just killed a month of Sundays for me, my SO will be pissed.

Wow research like this is a total blast.

LOVE it....