I am in the same boat. I would like a OLED screen, but.... I do not want a physically bigger phone. I do not want to give up the 3.5mm headphone jack (which I use everyday, while charging). I actually prefer Touch ID over the new Face ID garbage. I like having a home button I can physically feel and press without needing to look at the phone.

But my battery had fizzeled out. Wouldn't keep a charge, kept shutting down when cold. But Apple offered a new battery for $25, so now my iPhone 6 is good as new, and in my opinion, better in almost every way over the current gen models except for the OLED screen.

Make a phone a I WANT to buy, and at a reasonable price, and I might bite. Until then, I will probably replace the battery in my iPhone6 again 2-3 years from now. I don't care if I stop getting iOS updates.

But I still use pine! When I'm on my Linux machine. When I'm on my phone I use (grudgingly) iOS Mail. When I have to use Windows, I prefer SeaMonkey over Thunderbird.

Does iOS12 Mail app finally bring back the Edit... Move All Messages to Trash for IMAP folders?

Introduced in iOS9. Removed in iOS10. Still missing in iOS11. Sadly needed to be a fully competent email application. (Have Edit... Mark All as Read, and we have Edit... Delete All Messages, except Delete All Messages only works for the Trash folder!)

If it has been brought back, I will upgrade to iOS12 immediately. If not, I will wait to make sure there are no ill side effects from the new iOS first.

True, but it would take an act of Congress to do so. Not just an Executive Order.

This. My wife's 2010 MacBook Pro was starting to act flakey and she wanted a new one, but all the new ones are a step backwards. No MagSafe port, no multiple USB boards, no built-in CDROM reader, no headphone jack, the new keyboards are not fun to type on/keep clean, and really not much improvement in RAM, CPU or graphics either. (I already upgraded the ram to 8GB). Since the flaky booting/sleeping behavior I suspected was the HDD, I instead cloned a new SSD drive and swapped the drives. Now it boots several times faster than before, and it "feels" like a new computer, and it's still the nice rugged, well equipped (IO ports), good keyboard, etc. Mac Book Pro I would expect out of a $2500 laptop.

Anything new that costs $2000+ I expect to be a major step up from that MBP but.... sorry Apple, for that much $$$ I'm much more likely to go get a top of the line Carbon X1 or something. (and no $2000 laptop should require an external keyboard to be able to properly type on it).

Also, in case consumers haven't made it clear yet -- thinner is not necessarily better!!! Too many compromises (laptops and cellphones) lately all because of thinness.

You mean the customers will *complain*. Revolting would probably mean something like cancel their service. But with most places in the US with just 1 or 2 options for high-bandwidth ISPs, actually hitting these ISPs where it hurts (cancel service and monthly bills) means Denial of Service to the customer.

Hence why Title II regulations really ought to still apply, and vertical integration should NOT be allowed. (You can either sell an internet pipe, content/services, but NOT BOTH). It's such a blatent conflict of interest.

(Also note historically, like 20 years ago, Net Neutrality rules didn't have to have as much meat in them because most ISPs didn't own the last mile, the phone company did, so ISPs could compete, and the phone company played it's TitleII card (we just pass bits, so we don't look at the traffic at all, and also not liable!).

Now the ISPs, telcos, content providers and distribution systems are all owned by the same entity.... how is this good for the consumer and where does "market forces" actually play when dealing with companies with federally granted monopoly power (and using that power to extend their influence in other markets... vertically).

I agree it's a bad misnomer. An airplane autopilot basically maintains altitude, heading and speed. When combined with a navigational system, it is also capable of making turns. When combined with ILS and radio navigation signals, it is capable of performing automated landings. Planes at altitude have big open space and no imminent threat of collision with other planes or objects. Even so, if another airplane is on a collision course, that's not the autopilots job, that's for the TCAS system (which may tie into the autopilot to automatically take evasive action).

In other words, the Tesla system is more like the basic autopilot - maintaining speed and current lane... it's a driver assist. It does not do all of the other functions which on an aircraft are handled by other systems, from GPS, to navigation computer, TCAS, ILS. The autopilot by itself just steers the plane where other systems (or pilots) tell it to go.

Car are surrounded by objects (stationary and moving) at close range that can cause major accident issues.... an autopilot is not advanced enough to respond to and handle all scenarios that could be thrown at it. Airplane autopilots are relatively easy because of the lack of immediate threats on its flight path - and its the pilots job or other systems' to detect and handle those situations.... NOT the autopilot!

Meltdown is more serious, but the mitigation is straight forward with some degree of performance degradation.

Spectre is entirely different. The mitigation to the bounds check bypass requires examing and modifying source code, and recompiling binaries and libraries with special compiler settings. There is no magic quick fix on the software side for Spectre, since examing, recompiling and re-releasing all known software in the world is intractable.

A hardware fix in future CPUs for this is harder but not impossible. It is harder in that the only sure way to eliminate the vector is to remove performance enhancements like speculative execution and branch prediction, but that's a major feature of all modern processors. How to make these features secure and keep most of the performance gains will be a hot area of future research. The 80486 is slow, but does not suffer from these issues. (Who wants to go back to 1990 performance levels?)

Wrong. ARM has confirmed their Cortex A75 CPU is vulnerable to Meltdown (Variant 3). Please see their official statement here: https://developer.arm.com/supp...

The point of the X1X is 4K and HDR. While to some people that is not a big deal (especially if you do not have a 4K/HDR TV), it is nevertheless a technological jump from 1080p, just like the jump from 480i 4:3 to 720p 16:9 when the 360 came out.

But why does the X1X seem like less of a deal then the 360 was? Because lots of stuff are NOT changing. It's the same cpu (but faster). It's the same UI interface. It runs the same games, has mostly the same features (the One S can play 4k BluRay too). Know what? That's GOOD. Because last time we had a technological jump (720p 16:9), the 360 was all new, and that meant everything from the original Xbox was completely obsolete. No game compatibility, accessories, controllers, keypads, headsets, etc. Nada. Same issue with 360 to Xbox One (until some amount of backwards compatibility came along, but no hardware compatibility).

So for me, this is a big deal for consoles: adopting newer technology (4K/HDR) without making every previous console purchase (controllers, steering wheels, HDDs, cables, and most notably, GAMES) completely obsolete. I think the "dump everything you had and start over" paradigm for consoles is finally dead, and I for one welcome that shift to a "better experience" with the newer hardware, but able to keep older stuff. (And dropping older platforms only when they get 2-3 updates behind, so people have to upgrade maybe once every ten years, not every 3). And for those who do not want to upgrade, they can still play newer games but with "less fluff/detail", and not be forced into upgrading to be able to play at all.

does that not mean ISPs would no longer be under liability protection and be able to turn a blind eye to the data that crosses their networks? If they inspect the data traffic, and throttle the rate of some packets vs others, are they not signing up for being liable for illegal or copyrighted content that traverses through their switches?

Or is this they get to keep the Title II protections but do not have to abide by any of the specified regulations? In which case we have just fundamentally altered what "common carrier" means.

But also what I find worrisome is the ISPs ability to restrict access to certain sites of open information, possibility for censorship (even if just unwittingly by favoring OTHER sites which pay to get better service), the snuffing of open discourse and equal access to all participants... as someone previously mentioned - I do not want to see the current Internet turn into a modern AOL or CompuServe, where you can subscribe to the content machine, but cannot use the Internet as you see fit.

WAR IS PEACE.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

And then follow up with a feel-good "Two Minutes of Hate".

Whoops, I have to turn in my sci-fi geek card. That should be 0.3 decaliters/day.

It will still take quite a while to collect millions of them. But when we have enough...

It should be 30 deciliters. C'mon, get the units right. It's a windtrap.

--Shai-Hulud