They need to do this to force users to dispose of old consoles and buy new consoles (and keep doing this). But I am surprised by the lack of character of marketing departments wanting to promise the impossible (real 4K on a console when neither expensive computers can do this)

A Intel current-gen CPU with 40 PCIe lanes is ridiculously expensive, you should take this into consideration.

In Brazil we have a phrase for it: "Maldita inclusão digital!" (Damn digital inclusion!). Meaning that has become so easy to use a computer that now any fool can comment on ./ (gives a beer to NotAPK).

Do not forget that the giant robots, for unknown reasons, must be piloted by troubled teenagers.

Speak only for yourself. One of the biggest reasons I ignore Twitter is the inability to be able to write any comment minimally useful because of size limitations. It is like a conversation between brats.

I failed to understand your ignorance (or arrogance) ... Try putting a battery that can not be replaced in a flashlight, in a notebook or on any device whose lifespan is far greater than any current battery. Go back to your basement, you are not able to understand the real world.

Implications, implications... In this case the dog would be just another way to accuse you of having a "suspicious pendrive", as another Slashdotter noted the dog's reaction needs to be interpreted by the police and this can interpret what he wants when his goal is to plant a false proof. And for reasons? Well, a fascist not need a lot of reasons. You do not having the correct skin color and the right clothes can be reason enough for him.

My honest guess is that puny humans are terrified of the possibility of an artificial intelligence that try to analyze their actions and conclude that they are completely illogical and irrational, and then try to fix it.

I'm having a hard time trying to decide if your comment is funny, ironic or tragically true.

let's be more specific. The problem I'm seeing on the issue is that it leaves open the possibility that the mere possession of an USB stick would be reason to suspicion, and if the police wants you to be "suspect" would be simple to him put some crime evidence inside your pendrive or exchange it for another. In fact it does not have virtually nothing to do with the subject of the topic (flash drive sniffing dogs), which have to do is what the police will do with them.

110010001000, is you? :-)

Just ignore him, he is too stupid to understand the implications.

The 110010001000 is just yet another asshole, just ignore him. He lives into a fantasy world.

I see what they say here on Slashdot about you being a rude jerk is very well deserved. No my dear moron, I'm not narcissistic. I'm just another person worried about being accused of crimes for not obeying like a puppy the commands of a person who usually is in a powertrip or who simply did not like my face. Now go back to your basement okay? Since your rude behavior shows that it is you who can not live out of a basement.

... a police officer decides that he does not like your face and "magically" find a hidden USB drive in your luggage in places where you would never think of putting one? Where I live no one trusts the police (for good reason), and if the possession of something small and easy to plant as a USB stick becomes a crime so will be even more reason for me to avoid the US as one avoids a city infested by ebola.

P.S: No, I not a international terrorist or something like that (only the Dark Lord of Hell, but this is not a crime right?). But I'm not willing to test my chances facing a TSA gorilla and ruin my vacation because he had not liked my face.