Actually, it is MUCH more insidious than this.

Look at iBeacon or eddystone or equivalents.

Bluetooth beacons enable fine-grained location tracking, at 1/10 of a second intervals.

Retailers and others can place these in stores, track your location and behavior while walking through their store, and match it with a physical person at the register when paying with a credit card.

Tim, I would like more control of my iPhone so I could assure privacy myself.

a few quick examples:

- Can I use my apple phone without apple knowing who I am?
- Can I block some apps from internet access at all times (not just over cellular)?
- Can I create/adjust my own content blockers?
- Can I have a firewall, bidirectional? Please?

As to loss, thicker wires would eliminate the issue.

I think it would be great for off-grid applications.

I believe the car is holding back SO MUCH stuff that folks using a smartphone is their only recourse.

The PC industry was based around a "screwup" on IBM's part - it opened the PC architecture. They tried to correct it (remember the PS/2 and OS/2 and the proprietary microchannel architecture?)

The rise of windows was based on this open architecture. Microsoft pushed to have PCs become a commodity so windows sales would be strong. (Read up on substitutes and complements - if peanut butter prices go down, jelly sales will rise).

I believe if the car manufacturers opened up their cars like the IBM PC and it's bus, put in *simple* plug-in slots or something similar for computer hardware, all kinds of crazy and useful stuff would come to your car. Imagine if you (not an installer) could change or add to your car stereo like plugging in a graphics card or sound card? (probably would work better like a rack - think smaller 19" rack mounting for audio equipment, except with standard interfaces in the back)

why not both?

vs SATA SSDs. The post title is misleading, they're not talking about hard disks.

First Reddit, Walmart next...

Do you have any idea how much $7.99/month is to an average Cuban? More than what they make.

But how many people can you piggyback on one account?

Yeah, what has happened? Before it seems I was able to skip through DVD previews and now I can't. Has this been changing?

I'd vote for Intelligent omnipotent Toasters.

Buy toll house cookie dough at grocery store.

take out of fridge, break along pre-cut lines into chunks and place on cookie sheet.

12 minutes later, hot chocolate chip cookies.

I find it pleasingly simple. Sometimes a little fiddling with mixing bowls or config files ends up eating your free time.

Why does everything have to be an "in-app purchase" type transaction?

decimal math is orthogonal to ebcdic.

I wonder if visa might NOT WANT widespread acceptance of Apple pay.

As soon as apple pay is the standard, there's no reason that competing
payment systems could be plugged into it circumventing visa, right?

Historically, more space just means more passengers.

Some airlines would remove aisles and exit rows if authorities would allow it.