Because you're pulling down the notification bar to expand it and get more stuff, which is a logical action. When you swipe up on iPhone, you're just pulling things out of nowhere.

I work in that industry. I would estimate that 3/4 of all consoles have an 1/8" adaptor sitting there ready to go at all times. Walk up. Plug in phone/laptop/whatever, and go. Nobody has a USB interface sitting there waiting for you. Don't get me wrong. The USB interface is the better choice for serious applications, but when you just need some quick background music, or you need to get somebody up and running fast...

I'm confused why everyone started talking about servers and datacenters and stuff. Surely if this actually happened, it would be done the same way as mini/micro HDMI & USB: The hubs switches and servers would all keep using the same old 8p8c, and the mini connector would just be used on the other end for the ultrathin laptops and stuff.

Disabling touch ID on a phone with a non- genuine sensor would be fine. People would just have to use their PIN instead. But that's not what apple has chosen to do. Instead they've chosen to entirely nuke the device, with no warning. That's not a reasonable behaviour for a consumer security measure.

Not sure if you're being facetious: you know there are 900Mhz ZigBee radios, right? (The throughout is weak though)

Sure. I'm glad to know what the intention of the rule is, but isn't it still likely that the easiest way for manufacturers to comply will be total lockdown?

This may not be the popular opinion, but the company should be able to run pretty tracking software if they want, assuming that it's their phone, and they disclose what is going on.
By the same token, a company phone can (and probably should, in most scenarios) go into the desk drawer in your office at the end of the work day.
If you're on call a lot, then things get a little fuzzier.

Well, when you design a board with all the Pi's features, with your choice of SOC, that can be effectively sold at a $35 price point, you let us know. Until then, why don't you just accept that there are various products out there, with various strengths and weaknesses (and various prices!), and accept that some people have managed to do some pretty cool things with the original Pi, and no doubt they will do more cool things with this version.

Actually mobile cell towers (legit ones) are a thing. They're widely used to expand tower capacity near large events, as well in emergency response.

This sounds just like when LTE came out, and everone's data magically got cheaper....Oh wait. That never happened...

at least in North America, mkv is really only common in the piracy scene. It's not really used in commercial video production, and not much for consumer stuff either. I don't know for sure, but based on the gear I see supporting it, I suspect its more widely used in asia

The basic idea is appealing, but surely you could do it better by rfid tagging the tools or something. The toolbox seems totally impractical:
1)You have to get out your phone/tablet to open my toolbox. Don't stick your phone charger in there!
2)This is super wasteful of space.The entire top tray of the box now holds 2 wrenches, 2 sockets, a volt meter, and a couple of things I can't really identify.Mine, without all the fancy foam and sensors holds a socket SET, a wrench SET, a volt meter, and some other random stuff. Now, maybe if you're building special task specific kits, that's not a big deal, but if all your tool boxes triple in size, surely at some point that turns into a health and safety concern for the technicians that have to drag the things around...

You know fire occupancy exists for a reason right? Fire marshals are strict because when fire code is ignored, people die
If the con had more people in that room/floor/whatever than fire occupacy allowed, the blame is 100% on them, not the marshal.

I agree with your first statement, and I agree that Fukushima should have been prepared for that size of tsunami, but seriously.

THAT'S NOT HOW STORM FREQUENCY WORKS

Valve actually SPECIFICALLY recommends against using wifi. Good old copper wires are very much the way to go in a low latency/high bandwidth application like this.