Watch the cost of 4K cameras soar as a direct result.

Oh, excuse me, I'm the flight attendant I've noticed that you're breathing more than the other passengers. We're going to have to charge you for that.

Oh? No more limit on your credit card? Step outside, please.

If nature were perfect we wouldn't be here.

One could test for ACTH, another hormone that is often co-morbid with adrenaline as a stress reaction. That would seal the deal: animals are in fear, stressed, and are ready for men to do bad things to them. Women are comparatively harmless, as a result, in terms of invoking stress, were both adrenal and ACTH products present. Ought to be an easy test.

While I like the electromechanical precision of Swiss watches (and those from other countries), the exactness is important perhaps once a year. So long as the carriers reference an accurate time source, the world doesn't need more accurate time for civilian purposes.

But the smartwatch will intrigue a few with disposable income. And they'll get banged up, require new wristbands, and get lost, just like watches have. They'll need to be water resistant, and won't be for long, and they'll get plentifully scratched and abused.

This is an answer looking for a question in some revenue-starved MBA's marketing mind.

IN a world that gets the time from their smartphone, having largely abandoned watches save to those that enjoy being bejeweled, this is an answer looking for a question. GPS on your wrist, like a BoyScout/GirlScout compass? Watch a movie on your wrist? Take a picture like Dick Tracy? The watchmakers are right. If the medium is the message, the the watch on a wrist used to be interesting until time moved to a smartphone, which all the carriers will tell you is an HDTV, too.

Better still: hit them in the wallet. Get an all-you-can eat deal with tee mobil if your favorite areas are signal-covered. My bill dropped by 60%. Yeah, I loved Verizon coverage. But they're also a proponent of the end of net neutrality. My strong suggestion: if you're a Verizon customer, vote with your wallet and get the hell out of there. Not that GSM and LTE via t-mobile might be any less fraught with location-based crap, rather, we don't have a vote in America any more: just your $$$.

There are options other than sedition. It requires organization of the electorate and fundamental and pragmatic disciplined marshalling of voter resources.

Campaign reform as a campaign agenda. Requisite methods of information dissemination in an open atmosphere. How many more must die in oil wars? What does a pledge of allegiance mean when the government is a plutocracy?

Even former pros at this, like RIM/Blackberry, HP/Palm, and others are in the ditch. Sony-Ericsson, both of them bleeding heavily. Dumb phones are going the way of the landline, and in the land of less developed areas, growth will be huge-- and those will huge portfolios of patents are already parachuting in.

Microsoft wanted to be like Apple, and control its supply chain, which is barely do-able because they don't have the militarism of Apple when it comes to discipline. They might get a few points but it'll be a battle against Huawei, HTC, LG, Samsung, and the supply chains of Softbank, etc, that Microsoft will have to pull together.

It's not like how Google bought then divested of Motorola. Microsoft's been making billions from Android in pre-court settlements over patent issues. It was a bastard way of soaking Google's OEMs, and it worked.

Civics mandates preservation of public safety and the common good. Not your common good, rather, everyone's common good.

While a small amount of discretion is plausible, it's a slippery slope into divisiveness in the way that poor people are currently abused. It's a wonder that they have a shred of dignity left after the process that they must now go thru.

The democratic republic that we were has now become a plutocracy, especially when one considers the vastly pro-business/anti-citizen decisions made recently by the Roberts Supreme Court. We need to bend it back towards the citizenry.

More and more, I believe that it's already taken place, and the NSA buys its own policies via blackmail and extortion, J.Edgar Hoover-style. It's one of the few non-partisan issues that seems to be stanched by, ummm, important officials.

You offer binary solutions to a problem that has none. There's often a time-out period for government employees that's imposed as a condition of their employment, before they can lobby the entity from where they were employed. It's a good practice.

Your voice == 1. Paid voices, those that hold the purse strings to campaign funds and legal bribes== an exponentiation of 2.

If you're looking to seek a rational or workable solution, consider campaign finance reform. Consider the mandate of arduous public policy hearings to vet such radical changes. Consider that the telecoms have a monopoly attitude, and the real concept of historical common carrier law is now in a ditch, run off the road by unbridled greed in the quest for shareholder rewards in a world that is run by Wall Street, not the voting booth!

Lots of easy constructive ideas:

1) vote
2) boycott
3) inform those in Wash DC of their folly
4) vote with $$ just like the big guys do
5) present the facts, and let people decide.

Etc. Doesn't take imagination. We've been here before.

You're naive.

Often, such abuse only surfaces after the damage is done, and after fabulous sums in attorney's fees are paid, with a likely outcome of plea deal-- if it gets that far.

The ethics problem here is huge. These were insiders, and party to all of the internal sausage that makes decisions work, and know intimately, the vulnerabilities. Fueled with the grease of lobbying money, they arrive again with seemingly wonderful arguments, except that instead of representing the people of the United States, they now represent shareholders looking for revenue, two completely and potentially opposite ideals.

This very constructive complaining, as net neutrality is the egalitarian backbone principal of Internet access. It's being destroyed with a "more equal than other equals" sort of Orwellian lie perpetrated by the telecoms strictly for favor of their shareholders. Open your eyes to what's happening in front of you: a new privileged Internet, where privilege comes directly out of your wallet.

You dismiss the authority of the NTIA, White House pressure, Congressional pressure, and the FCC's own rules.

This will come up for comment. The FCC will put it to a vote after comment.

Oh, sorry, after all checks have cleared.

Ummm, no. Look up isochronous media and QoS to get a better understanding.