Max LTE bandwidth (~10mbps) times 30 days is a bit over 3 TB of data. Verizon is being honest about the fact that they'd never be able to provide that. Neither could the other carriers, their marketing just ignores that fact (or hides the fact that their plan isn't really "unlimited").

They're also saying it's highly doubtful that you NEED 3TB of cellular data per month. If you do, it's not unreasonable that you should have to pursue a networking solution different than what your mom uses to browse Facebook on her iPad.

Tip - if you hold an iPhone over a reader it'll automatically wake-up into payment mode, and you just need to scan your fingerprint.

Still overkill, but here's a $50 case that adds less than 1/4" to the thickness of the phone and doubles capacity. That leaves it thinner than the iPhone 3G.

My point isn't that an external battery pack will solve every user's problems. I take issue with OPs the claim that the marketing and design staff of two of the largest electronics companies in the world are either incompetent or controlled by some vast conspiracy because they aren't making a phone that suits his needs.

For less than $30 you can buy a phone case with an integrated battery pack that will double the thickness of your phone (++structural integrity) and quadruple your battery capacity. If you're on an iPhone it'll even effectively replace your Lightning charge port with some variant of USB. These things aren't a big secret, and yet the vast majority of smartphone users don't seem to own one.

Why? Maybe it's because massively profitable consumer electronics companies are actually pretty good at reading the market, and people complaining about not having a massive battery in their phone are a niche.

That's fair. So the FBI comes to you with their lawyer and their lawfully obtained search warrant you'll hand over your encryption keys? I think that's exactly what the federal government wants, but experience has taught all of us that in the real world people's reaction isn't "Oops, you got me, here are my keys."

By making that family sedan go 0-60 in 2.5 seconds.

If the passengers can be considered pre-identified because they have a credit card and billing address on file, how are drivers not pre-identified by the requirements of Uber? Uber may not mandate safety checks on the vehicle, but they do mandate that it be no older than a certain model year, and all drivers are tracked by a review system that quickly weeds out those that provide a sub-optimal experience. The big ride sharing companies are playing by different rules than taxi companies, but they are playing by a set of rules. Their success has shown that consumers prefer Uber/Lyft's coporate policies to the taxi regulations imposed by the government.

Audi isn't trying to solve the problem globally. They're trying to add a feature to their cars that their competitor's don't have.

If I don't know how to cook something I can find a step-by-step video or article telling me exactly how. Thanks to the internet, this knowledge isn't lost forever even if the required skills are a bit rusty. If this generation isn't cooking, I think it's more because they don't want to, not because they can't.

...it'll be at least 20 times safer than people who drive automatic.

This is nothing like a suicide bomber. They strapped a bomb to a stick and then strapped the stick to a remote controlled car. It's a smart bomb, if anything.

Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Exchanging keys over a public channel is a solvable problem. Presumably Facebook will follow basic crypto protocol if they're at all serious about end-to-end encryption.

"Most of Cheshire is middle of nowhere"? It's less than 20 miles from Manchester and Liverpool, both with a population of 500,000ish. If that's "middle of nowhere" by English standards, it only reinforces OP's point about population density.

"Political correctness needs to die" is an overly broad statement. It's not a bad thing that we live in a society that considers it inappropriate to use racial or homophobic slurs.

They already have: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/i...