Oh, you sweet summer child. You think you turn it on twice a year.

The data transfer is background noise in the sea of other things our phones do, and passively looking for BLE devices in the background is something that is already being done.

*yawn*

For a small enough thing, insurance becomes unnecessary. Everything is relative.

Wal-Mart insuring the store and the merchandise inside is like me insuring a pair of my own shoes.

It would suck if the solar panels on my shoes caused my shoes to catch on fire, but I'd rather just buy new shoes and complain really loudly about the guy whose gear set them on fire than to hire a profitable underwriter to insure them.

If Fidelity doesn't want anyone to see its advertisements, then nobody will.

And nothing of value will be lost. Buh-bye, now.

It's a more cromulent measure than you think.

You know what an ox is, right? And a plow?

An acre is the amount of land that one man and one ox can reasonably expect to plow in one day.

To put this into perspective, it would take over a year for one man and one ox to plow the area that NASA cleared.

Negative. Not nonsense.

It is the basis of what I do.

Yes, troubleshooting a lawnmower is something that an understanding of physics helps me with. It is one thing to recognize that a part is broken or wrong somehow, and another entirely to recognize how that failure relates to (or does not relate to!) the problem being resolved.

Almost anyone can disassemble a thing and replace obviously-broken parts. But some people can diagnose symptoms and predict those broken parts.

Meanwhile, I don't proclaim to be a physicist -- anything but, in fact. Just because I use physics to help me understand the world doesn't mean that I'm a master at any broad concept of it. Keep such red herrings to yourself, and off of my lawn.

I cannot agree more.

I'm considered by most that I know to be intelligent and knowing in many technical fields, but I have no education: I went to high school for 3 days before I became home-schooled, and I did not do very much "home-schooling" aside from independent study, passing annual tests, and eventually getting a wonderful score on the GED (which is as close to a diploma as a home-schooled kid ever gets).

I am, therefore, mostly self-taught.

Everything I do is grounded in physics, whether I'm working with RF, computer, networking, or audio systems (which is how I've been buttering my bread for decades -- check the UID).

With a basic understanding of wave dynamics, I can troubleshoot any circuit -- and I can even learn from it as I go. Without it, I must leave it to someone who has that understanding. And all of this tech stuff relies upon circuits of various types, from getting the new high-cap circuit into the datacenter to maintaining a UPS to designing a GPU.

I even use my understanding of physics for fixing my car and my lawnmower: It is easy to extrapolate many basic concepts into fairly complex systems.

I'm good at teaching myself things, and I recognize that not everyone is autodidactical. But I think people need some good grounding in physics, regardless, if they are thinking people who intend to be working in any technical field, for (again) most of what I do is grounded on physics.

From there, they can branch out to material science or wave theory or how-to-operate-a-stamping-press-effectively or whatever it is that is suited to what they're doing.

We need to understand how physical things behave and interact.

Cellebrite is a company, not a product. They made their name by having the best, and perhaps only completely viable, system for copying personal data (contacts, photos, etc) from one dumb phone to the other.

They've been doing this for a long time.

When you own the world's largest battery factory, you build things that use batteries.

Nobody's suggesting getting rid of the clock.

But even as it stands, some businesses are open from 6-2, some are 7-4, others from 8-5, some are 8-4, and some are 10-6 [...]. It seems that we get along just fine with these already-wide variations in operating hours, where the first-shift factory worker's day is half-gone before the shop that is open from 10-6 even opens the doors. This is normal and it works as well as it needs to. Further discussion of this aspect is a really stupid thing to be doing.

Plenty of us are fed up with the twice-yearly tomfoolery of changing the clocks, though.

Solar noon happens at the same time every single day of the year for a given meridian.

If we stop doing DST, then the days just get shorter as winter approaches: The sun comes up a bit later, and goes down a bit earlier. The opposite happens after winter is over and the days get longer. No big deal.

If you need daylight to perform your job, you're already adjusting your schedule based on the sun.

The rest of your questions can be answered with "Figure it out once, and then write it down. And then change it later if it seems like a good idea." Just like every fucking thing else in business.

Good thing that such a thing only needs sorted out one time for the benefit of many, then -- eh?

It's not like we all have to individually file our own lawsuits.

So what you're saying is: This one aspect of an automobile will look dated as time marches on, just like many other aspects of any given automobile also do?

So it's a $1 chip that needs a $1 breakout board.

Or: Custom PCBs aren't difficult or expensive anymore, ranging from Osh Park to Dirty PCBs. There's *lots* of options, even if the only goal is to break out the interesting interfaces and put them on 0.1" headers so you can breadboard easily with the things.

(And more to the point: It only takes one person to design such a PCB, and then everyone else can benefit from that design.)

The S5 has regular micro USB, and works perfectly well using any gas station micro USB cable.

It can support USB 3, using a wider (and quite standard) connector, but nobody ever gave a shit about that *and* it is optional *and* those extra pins have nothing to do with charging the device.

So the outlier here is early HTC. Fortunately, that's not very representative of the Android market.

We're on the home stretch, boys!