which is why they're now saying it will cost 30% less, which is still disappointingly low, compared to elon's previous $60M minus $250K statements. and which is why you have to take what people say with a grain of salt (like launch timeframes!).

Lenovo has been doing fingerprint auth for years on their laptops.
News outlets are making it sound like this is some new-fangled tech.
Yes, i know in light of recent NSA developments.. but I still feel this is a non-story.

that's because it's not a watch in the sense you're talking about and trying to compare. if you want something that lasts 30+ days, buy a timex. if you want to wear a computer and have it last that long then you'll have to take your time machine 20 yrs into the future where battery tech is that advanced.

The screen is 1/3 the size of a high-end smartphone. The resolution is 1/4 that of a high-end smartphone. The battery is 1/4 that of a high-end smartphone. Sounds fine.

not just search engine results, but identify them from even a website's local content. how many times have you gone to a site to download a file and had to figure out which button was the real download button?

"More than 90 percent of American soybean farms use Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" seeds"

wouldn't this be considered a monopoly?

This may be true, but how far can you take this argument?
Let's put this GM on another level with an analogy.
Let's say a company developed a process so that you could choose the genes of your baby. Not too far off in the future I imagine. They took an embryo and modified the genes to make the human with the desired traits, then patented it, and invitroed someone.
The resulting baby and future adult then is bound not to have any offspring because doing so would violate the company's patent. That's not right, even if you think you're doing something for the good of society by creating a better race of humans.

You should not be allowed to patent self-replicating organisms, period.

Denver also has a little known out in their camera laws.
All traffic tickets must be given out in person by a law enforcement officer.
So if you get a red light camera ticket, speed monitoring van ticket, etc.. in the mail, don't pay it.
They'll send it again, and again, and eventually the TTL on the ticket expires and you go along your merry way.
I've heard of very rare instances where an officer will come to your house after the 2nd notice to actually hand you a ticket.

Why is this hard to detect if you're monitoring the checksums on your server binaries?

On an Android phone, the code the carrier's firmware is based off of has GPLed code in it (kernel, etc..) So how is locking the entire firmware not a violation of the GPL?

All Microsoft had to do to make windows 8 a success, both financially and critically, was to make applications load faster. Think about it. People are simple, impatient creatures, as are their bosses. Imagine an app that loads in 10 secs on windows 7 and then 5 secs on windows 8. Companies would jump on that upgrade ship in a heartbeat! It's all increased productivity. That's it, that's all they had to do. But no, they go messing around with interfaces and workflows. Bunch of idjits.

i actually think i saw a "Made in China" bumper sticker on our drones.

It will also allow individuals to share data across different 4G LTE devices

does that mean we can now share our 4G cell phone data plan with a 4G usb stick and not have to buy another stupid data plan for it?? because i'm all for that.

"Despite the fact that the rightful owner was able to locate his iPad within hours of the theft, thanks to the anti-theft application he had installed"

It's not a very good anti-theft application if the iPad was stolen!
They should call it something else, no?

20 billion for a spaceport to go see a big ball of rock. Believe us, we've been there. There's not a damn thing there. Why don't they spend their time on something they're good at. Like letting their citizens live in slums, cold and hungry. I'm sure 20 billion for space travel does a lot more good. .