No iPhone older than the 4S

iPhone *4* (I'm running it on one right now!!). Can't you Apple Haters learn to read a spec sheet right just once?

So if your iPod touch is more than one year old

Then it may still work because the 5th gen iPod touch launched on October 11th, 2011.

Do you know what year it is now?

Then again, why the hell are you bringing the Touch into this when we are talking about Apple TV?

A newer AppleTV that supports games is not out yet but neither is the XBox one, so the point of ages of devices that support iOS7 is utterly irrelevant to my point or anything else. It's just your Apple Hater Tourette's forcing you to post anything you find slightly negative about Apple even if irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

Google Glass?

Did you happen to notice that people have an issue with that also?

Anyway the 'by design' part doesn't matter

A whole bunch of people disagree with you.

Malware on everything else has to turn on the camera/mic and then record data without triggereing indicators (for instance on IOS you would need to be running an app AND grant permission to access the camera/microphone)..

Malware running on an XBoxOne just has to get to the cached data the system is using to figure out what is happening, or possibly Microsoft sends some of that data over the network for analysis and you can monitor it there (remember the heavy emphasis on the cloud processing for the XBoxOne).

Basically the XBoxOne comes shipped one step further than most other things to doing something that you don't want done - and all because it saves you from having to find a "power on" button. The tradeoff is just not worth it for many people.

How do you know the camera is really on or off?

Since where it is pointed will not ever capture anything I care about, that doesn't matter.

Or some malware background service or Apple/Google turned it on to record you?

Apple and Google don't ship it that way, that is the difference.

I don't hate MS at all. But the truth is that the Kinect default is not a good one. It makes way more sense to make it optional the other way.

The Apple TV doesn't come with a controller and play games.

Yet.

Is it really so hard to note that iOS7 includes an API for game controllers and divine the medium term future?

Tell that to Germany with 32 gigawatts of solar installed and counting.

You mean the country with enormous economic wealth, that is spending vast sums more money than they should have to after panicking and shutting down nuclear reactors all over?

I am wondering just what nation in Africa you image can afford what Germany can afford.

German solar power is the equivalent of a tiny poodle perfectly manicured in a little pink sweater. Pretty to look at but an entirely impractical luxury that most cannot afford.

If the statement had said "and we're helping Africa fund nuclear stations" that would have been one thing, but we all know that would never be uttered by the same people that claim to want to help the environment.

how is the Xbox One Kinect any worse than any smartphone, tablet, or laptop that has a webcam and/or a mic that people take around with them everywhere, even to bedrooms and bathrooms?

When you take a phone or tablet into the bathroom, do you have the cameras pointing at your face/floor - or ceiling / groin?

Also, do you turn on your camera while in the bathroom? What tablet or smartphone BY DESIGN always is listening through the mic and monitoring the camera?

and its sister stars are only 4 LY away. One would think we'd have gone over them with a fine tooth comb and all we've found is 1 molten hell hole around Cb. Why? Wouldn't even a smallish planet be a lot more visible around AC, Cb, or pC than some galaxy 13.6 billion LY away?

Why get this when you can soon get Xbox One?

Well, it really depends on how much of an exhibitionist you are.

So how about supporting solar power in Africa instead? I've heard that they have quite a lot of sun there.

But no money and solar is many years away from being viable for large scale energy use.

Not to mention the emissions caused making the panels...

Africa has the most to lose with global warming.

And that would be... what? SInce we all know now that global climate change does not specifically mean warming all over.

But if it did mean Africa getting generally warmer, remind me again what life saving air conditioning runs on?

I mean, if you really thought Africa was getting warmer it seems like you would make some allowances to help them, not specifically to yank help away and let more people die than have to. That is, if you wanted to help people at all.

Well, I didn't think it was possible for the U.S. to fuck over third world countries any harder. But then!

To that end, the plan calls for the end of U.S. support for financing coal power plants in foreign countries ... And STAY down, Africa.

There seem to be a lot of RTL sticks out there. I know of a dev who is working on a server app that takes an RTL stick and creates a routable Ethernet stream from them with the intent of making it compatible with my SdrDx app. I do support USB soundcard SDRs, but quickly grew less than enthused with USB as people constantly complain about windows installing the wrong USB drivers over the ones that are correct and things stop working, plus it's a PITA to maintain the separate code bases for USB across Windows and OSX. Ethernet based SDR setups are *so* much cleaner to handle, plus Qt (which is what I use to make this cross platform) has network drivers that work well, and identically, on both platforms. The real win, though, for a lot of people is the ability to remote the SDR away from local noise.

I travel into and out of the USA all the time with thousands of songs, dozens of movies and hundreds of books as pdfs for my personal amusement and edification, and it's all on a hard drive the size of a deck of cards. Why would you bring disks? They're bulky! Just dump it all on a TB drive - it'll cost what, $90? Stupendously more convenient.

But the light from those places will never reach us since it is trying to fly towards us on a kind of conveyor belt ("space itself") that's moving the other way more rapidly.

Yep, that's pretty much the hard argument for what I said. Keeping in mind that light doesn't give a north end of a southbound rat how we define anything. Of course, since that light never reaches us, its existence is wholly theoretical, but I just go with the last semi-sane thing I hear from a cosmologist. :)