Actually usefull comments seem to hardly get any attention on Slashdot anymore.
The ticle of the story is so full of journalism tactics to make the right look bad.

Does Bluemic (Logitech) have the money power?

Thanks!

How many are because it is clubbed with HotStar?

I am myself weary of yhe Pakistani connection though.

The real reason for such a drastic measure is because most of the protest is actually only a front for the seperatist movement called Khalistani movement ( to complicate it further there is a lot of speculation that those seperatists are really Pakistanis). Most protestors wonat have any real concern for farmers. They just want to break down India to pieces. This is a highly co-ordinated attack on the moral and cultural strengths and integrity of India.

Henve the drastic measures.

It may seem silly to comment this based on a video game controller. But as we move more and more towards controlling cars and spaceship with off the shelf electronics components, these engineering quality levels can make or break not only financially expensive projects, but also those that affect human existence in the universe.

It would be astronomical!

Also, if they can make a datacenter waterproof, why not a humble mobile phone?

Using cases would get annoying. Really.

Good point. But somehow they have not caught on.. Yet .. think about it .. the computing and the technologies packed into mobile communications have been growing at a phenomenal rate. But proper waterproofing is still a "high premium" and still questionable if it truly works! We definitely have been prioritizing the wrong stuff. That is the point I want to stress.

People who use boats often for work or pleasure often find they have dropped their phone in water. They drop it into shallows, which is usually the case as they drop phones accidentally when climbing / alighting the boats. In such scenarios, it is easy to retrieve the phone, but it would just be a brick by the time it is retrieved. The possibility of communication is vital in such circumstances where they might be traveling over water, possibly alone.What is the point of spending thousands of dollars on communication technology if the communication device is lost when it is needed the most? Precious, unreproducible data such as personal photos of events could be lost too. All this despite years of evolution of the technology?

The last I checked most phones would fail and lose water-proofing if they start ringing underwater. Or their touch sensor won't work, or some sort of handicap like that.

This must go the way of dinosaurs. More accurately, the bicycle licenae and the television reception license.
Don't know about the US, but in India, you needed a license to ride a bicycle on public road till 1947 and TV broadcast reception licence 1984.

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