medical devices, even those that are not going to be touching patients require a lot of safety testing, especially if this thing is spraying EM all over the place potentially interfering with medical devices in the operating room.

They maybe going for the low hanging fruit to get some revenue flowing in while they develop the device for more safety critical applications.

You're right. Also they should still make cars that look like the Model T

Thats a bad example, Model T ford had a steering wheel, pedals in the foot well etc.

In other words, the UI for modern cars is almost unchanged since the Model T while it's the constant UI changes in OSs that people are complaining about here.

Thirded...

In fact part (certainly not all) of the reason I switched to motorbikes as my only private transport was precisely because car stopped being about transport and started being fashion statements.

there are plenty of times you don't carry a phone, but would wear a watch. ....

Really? Like what. I cannot think of one. That even includes swimming!

I use a watch when I go camping because I found lighting up the display just to see what the time was ate into the battery life of the phone (an issue when charging availability is unpredictable). I also prefer to keep the phone in the rucksack or in the tent rather than carrying it in my trouser pockets like I do when not camping to save it getting wet or dropped in mud.

The watch I choose was a Casio Protrek PRG-240, it's solar powered, got a digital compass, barometer with history graph etc.

So although I am carrying a phone, the watch just makes a significantly better form factor compared to the phone in those situations and the functions of the watch are actually more useful than what I have on the phone.

I looked at G+ when it first came out, I was actively looking for an alternative to Facebook, something which didn't keep jerking around with privacy settings which I had already locked down 5 times. I was hoping G+ was going to be that system.

I was just about to sign up when stories of people getting banned from G+ because their names weren't real and because G+ was connected to their standard Google Account, also losing access to GMail etc.

I use GMail as my primary contact address, I decided I didn't want the hassle which could be caused if anything happened to that account so I didn't sign up and I just couldn't be bothered to create yet another account just to try out G+ so that was the end of the experiment for me.

Worse, for Google at least, was that as a result of this I took stock of all the services I was using and realized that a hell of a lot of my online presence was tied to Google in one form or another and if anything happened to my account it would be a nightmare trying to get everything working again. e.g. Bank login details, forum names, IRL social groups were all associated with my GMail account.

As a result, I moved the blog from Blogger to wordpress using my own domain name, which also provides my email address for all personal contacts so GMail isn't getting used for that anymore. I still use GMail for commercial contacts but slowly reducing my reliance on GMail for that as well.

If they are going to raise and fall in 1 day, why bother welcoming them at all?

The income to individuals from corps would then be taxable as ordinary income and we wouldn't have the whining about dividends being taxed twice, or the baloney about US taxes on corporations being high.

The problem with that is that people would just run their entire life as an employee of their own company.

They work as subcontractors to their employers who pay the employees wages to his company, the company owns the house provides the food etc.

He would pay himself minimum work wage and everything else would be owned by the company.

When I said out of hours voting, I meant wash-up period, I couldn't remember the proper term and meant to go back and edit it before hitting submit.

This is how we kill legislation. Delay it endlessly until a different government is elected and drops it.

The trouble is, this is the different government.

The DEA was voted in by the last Labour Government in out of hours voting which saw a grand total of 236 (189 for, 47 against) votes cast (out of 650ish MP who could have voted).

The Conservatives didn't bother voting one way or the other for the most part giving Labour a free run at introducing a law the Conservative wanted but knew wouldn't be popular.

DRM is trival to strip out as well, a decade of DRM for books, music and movies have done nothing to slow down piracy but has done a load of damage to public relations between each of the industries and their paying customers.

Watermarking provides some means of tracing a possible source of a pirated copy found on a file sharing service (although that is not necessarily the actual person who has uploaded the file) while not doing anything which prevents customers using the file they have brought.