I completely disagree with you. I certainly DO NOT want automated driving systems to be supervised by a human, because compared to machines humans make horrible decisions and are slow to react to stimuli. In fact, I don't want a a human to be able to control the vehicle at all. Such is my nirvana.

Automated driving systems DO NOT need to be foolproof.

Near 100% of highway accidents are the result of humans. The amount due to equipment failure is so small as to be statistically insignificant. Even if the automated system is only 95% foolproof, it would still reduce the number of traffic accidents by a huge margin by removing fallible humans from the equation.

Which is why in my original post I said reclining should be removed/banned.

It's coming soon you can be assured. Airlines won't keep putting up with the costs of these disruptions, they'll just disable reclining. And we shall rejoice.

There is premium economy available on all top tier carriers, including Air Canada.

Oh go BZZZT yourself.

Look, you can pontificate on and on about the glory days of yesteryear where you had enough legroom to roast a pig until you're blue in the face, but the simple FACT is that TODAY there is not enough legroom in coach to offer reclining. This is due mainly to the downward price pressures of a fiercely competitive airline industry with razor-thin margins.

If you want room to recline, then feel free to purchase a premium economy seat (which by the way costs LESS than the same economy seat did 10 years ago). If you're too cheap to do this, then suck it up.

Look, I don't even blame these people that much. When someone reclines in front of you on a plane, it is HORRIBLE.

If you want to take a nap on a plane, then upgrade to premium economy or first class. Otherwise, keep your damn seat upright. I hate how reclining is still allowed on flights. Reclining your seat on plane is SO INCONSIDERATE to the person behind you. It jams the seat into their legs, it screws up their tray table angle, and it makes it IMPOSSIBLE for the person to get any work done in the plane. The only course of action you have is to ALSO recline your seat to try to re-gain some room, even if you didn't want to. Now you have not only screwed over the NEXT person behind you but you also might be hurting your back because you need to sit upright. Awesome.

Honestly I don't know why airlines still have reclining seats in coach nowadays. If they would just eliminate the ability then fights like this would not occur.

so-called deep-packet inspection devices, which can also be used to prevent piracy, the spread of malware, and website access, all at the Internet provider level....

Er, no, that is not what full packet capture devices are used for AT ALL.

Full packet capture devices are typically used for digital forensics. For example, your company gets hacked using an APT and you know that probably data was exfiltrated, but you don't know exactly what data was taken and you don't know how these guys got into your system. A full packet capture device can help here. Another way they are typically used is to produce evidence for court cases where employees steal company data and so forth, or browse child porn at work, etc.

They are NOT typically used to "prevent piracy" or "spread of malware" or "website access", I don't even see the use case here. I think the OP is confusing full packet capture with layer 7 application state firewalls, which ARE used for the above.

The people posting these reviews have had the watch for a few days, but I wonder how much education they got on it from Motorola, or if they were going in blind?

The reason I ask is that it has been well advertised today that the battery life of the watch will be HEAVILY INFLUENCED by it's distance from your phone. If the watch is seperated by the phone often, then it will constantly be using more power to communicate with it and/or be probing for the phone. This will significantly impact it's battery life, according to Motorola - and it makes sense. I know that for myself, the watch wold always be close to the phone so this would never be an issue.

You did "precisely what" because what you describe has nothing to do with what the OP or myself posted about.

This is about stockpiling LOANERS for use when warranty is being invoked. It has nothing to do with stockpiling parts.

Sorry for being so blunt but this is the third such post I have had to reply to that did not RTFA.

The size of the phone is irrelevant to the discussion, it is the COST of the phone and the DEPRECIATION that matters. If I have to keep 10 Galaxy S5s in inventory for possibly repairs, that costs me $6500 in inventory. Oh, and they depreciate at a rate of basically 50% a year or more so I am losing $3500 a year just having them sit there. Multiply that by 5 new phone models a quarter and 4 quarters a year and you have a net capital expenditure of $70,000 a year in this inventory. I could hire two employees with that money. It's TOTALLY infeasible.

If your system does not offer any kind of brute force protection mechanism at all, which Find My iPhone does not seem to have based on my readings, then your system is broken by design. Brute force protections like 'only allow 10 login attempts within 5 minutes, and then block that IP from all login attempts for 30 minutes" are so trivial to implement that they should be part of any authentication system.

Car rental will not be the exact same model so the analogy does not hold. OP wants a law that says if your car needs to go in the shop they should provide you with a loaner of the EXACT SAME type.

And how many of each of those models do you need to stock? 5? 10? This is not a zero-cost proposal.

Furthermore, it doesn't invalidate any of my previous analogies. Home Depot only carries probably 3 models of chainsaws so the analogy holds.

There is nothing special about cell phones that should require this kind of discussion, It most certainly should not be regulated. If this is really that important to you then voice your concerns to the store, if enough people want it the market will take care of it.

Having spare parts on hand has nothing to do with providing loaner vehicles while the car is under repair whatsoever. This (silly) article is about loaner phones, the analaogy is therefore loaner vehicles. It is common practice for dealerships to give you a loaner vehicle if your car will be in the shop for multiple days, but the loaner is just a random vehicle, not the exact same type. Just like this guys loaner phone was not the same type.

This article is foolish. I could write the same diatribe for any object under warranty.

Car dealerships should be required to keep an inventory for every model on-hand in case my car needs to go in for warranty service for an extended period.

Home Depot should be required to keep a loaner inventory for every power tool in case I need to ship mine away for warranty service

Best Buy should be required to keep a a loaner inventory for every refrigerator model...

etc etc...

You should count yourself lucky that most cell shops offer you a free loaner phone AT ALL, because they are under no obligation to, and some do not without a fee.