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Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go write some audio-processing software for my printer.

If you have a 3D printer, someone has already done that

I'm sorry but PalmOS and even Windows Mobile did all of this way before the iPhone even hit the drawing board. There were even mobile phone versions in the the form of the Treo and Tungsten C.

The only revolutionary thing about the iPhone is it broke out of the techie niche that previous devices had been trapped in and brought it mainstream, but I suspect the biggest reason for that is fashion rather than technical.

Exactly. Multi-touch aside, the iPhone wasn't particularly innovative technologically, but it was the first mainstream non-techie smart phone.

Not unless you want years in prison: http://www.engadget.com/2016/0... Of course we have plenty of examples in TFA of abuse of drones, and Castle Doctrine lets you kill someone who's invaded your property without permission, but shoot down a $400 dollar toy and they can jail you for years and years for Federal Crimes. Fucking bastards.

It's 2016, where's my holodeck?!

right here

But they bought the tool, which means some non-government org did the reverse engineering.

In the seven years of Obama, things aren't any better. The changes you posit are window dressing to the real issues underneath.

If you want a really good example, take a look at what major figures in both the (D) and (R) parties say about Snowden ... "he is a traitor"

http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/...

The only person who REMOTELY understands is Rand Paul, who says Snowden needs Jail (alongside Clapper).

I am a libertarian, and while Snowden may have violated the law (and I don't care why), he exposed to the world that nothing has really changed. And still, nothing has really changed.

All you need to know is that there are secret courts issuing secret documents that nobody can talk about. Obama has done NOTHING to stop them

http://www.engadget.com/2016/0...

Go ahead, and make excuses why one party is "better" than the other. IMHO that is equivalent to saying one turd smells better that another.

You obviously read the first link but not the second link (see below) that mentioned the SIMM modules, as someone else already pointed out to you.

http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/05/samsung-first-to-market-with-10-nanometer-dram/

Actually Tesla are making the car business look easy.

And the 115,000 doesn't represent annual production or anything. It's just the number of people who paid a deposit on the first day.

You remind me of this guy.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/1...

With their utter failure to have any meaningful presence in the mobile phone world, Microsoft is using Cyanogen to infiltrate:

http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.techtimes.com/artic...
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/20...
http://www.engadget.com/2015/0...

Keyless entry is ridiculously insecure - many systems out there can be easily broken into if there is a key somewhere in the vicinity: http://www.engadget.com/2016/0...

Nope, that was uTorrent

http://www.engadget.com/2015/0...

"Apple makes money on hardware and not on the sale of customer data."

iAd ... http://advertising.apple.com/
iBeacon ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
iTunes ...

All of these use user data to facilitate advertising or other revenue for Apple.

iAd is being discontinued.
With no new ads being accepted once current campaigns end it will be gone. The sales team has already been dismantled.

All of that other stuff like iAd/iBeacon is probably a rounding error.

iAds and iBeacons earn the company revenue by driving hardware sales, a platform that doesn't offer an ad revenue method for developers to monetize their applications isn't going to do well.

Oh and: http://www.engadget.com/2016/0...

"What is happening, is that the similarly-named iAd App Network, which allows developers to advertise their own apps through iAds, is going away."
So what's your point?

"Apple makes money on hardware and not on the sale of customer data."

iAd ... http://advertising.apple.com/
iBeacon ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
iTunes ...

All of these use user data to facilitate advertising or other revenue for Apple.

Revenue breakdown for Apple:
http://www.statista.com/statis...

So they make 80% of their revenue from hardware. iTunes exists because of the hardware. All of that other stuff like iAd/iBeacon is probably a rounding error.

Oh and:
http://www.engadget.com/2016/0...

If only there was someone in charge that could tell the FBI to stop this.

Like who, this guy? This doesn't sound very promising:

As a practiced politician, Obama avoided coming down too hard on any one side, and he said he wasn't able to discuss the ongoing FBI vs. Apple case at all. But by and large his message was that sacrificing some degree of privacy for the sake of our safety has served the country well for hundreds of years, and he expects we'll figure out a way to do so digitally as well.

Here he is pondering:

"The question we now have to ask is if technologically it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there's no key or no door at all," Obama pondered, "how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?"

I'm going to answer his question with another question: why does he think that people feel like strong encryption is necessary? If he doesn't know the answer to that, he should ask Edward Snowden. If the government only ever used its authority responsibly then we wouldn't be having this argument. Here's another gem:

As to how to balance these things Obama said we'll have to figure out "how do we have encryption as strong as possible, the key as secure as possible and accessible by the smallest pool of people possible, for a subset of issues that we agree is important."

The "smallest pool of people possible" is 1, the person who owns the data. No one else needs that key. As far as "the subset of issues that we agree is important", I'm pretty sure that you don't set up encryption where you have one key that you can give to the government which only works to decrypt the data if they are actively pursuing a child porn investigation and have a warrant for your phone. I'm pretty sure the key always works, regardless of who is using it. But I'm not a cryptographer, so don't quote me on that. As far as the government only using that key if it was part of a legal investigation, see above about Snowden and how much trust we have in the government to use its authority responsibly.

Benjamin Franklin would like a word, see below.

Forgot link http://www.engadget.com/2007/0... so TFA is wrong, it doesn't even beat records for and intel processor it literally is just a new skylake record.

Sounds like a reimplementation of the telecrapper.
tho the telecrapper is over 10 years old now I can understand how people would forget..
http://www.engadget.com/2005/0...
http://myplace.frontier.com/~p...
http://soundbytes.org/forums/t...

Then you must live in the great capital city of my state, Santa Fe.

Being one of the greybeards who still reads Slashdot, I'll add a few:

- Add the ability to edit comments until they are moderated or have a reply
- Stop linking to Forbes articles and posting Slashvertisements
- Stop running articles about Martin Shkreli or other things that have nothing to do with "News for nerds"
- For the love of all things absurd, please add CowboyNeal back as the final poll option
- If you need money to operate the site, try asking for it from readers. That way you can reduce or eliminate advertising useless junk that nobody wants

Wonder how many of those 4,000 people are actual gun owners today. Also wonder if the survey respondents have heard about the numerous shortcomings with smart guns. http://www.thebangswitch.com/t... - for example, a $1399 .22lr handgun is not going to have much of a market around gun savvy people. EnGadget does a good run down of the technical limitations and issues - http://www.engadget.com/2014/0...

No, dude, seriously, read closer ... he's going to block the ads already there, and then put in his own ads:

When Brave is ready, it'll replace the missing content with its own ads.

The ad newtwork can't track you because it doesn't serve ads to you.

And then he charges someone else to sell you ads.

The now mysteriously missing engadget link is the source of that quote.

Let's get a grip on reality here and at least read the site before jumping to conclusions.

Oh, do lets.

Because the business model is replacing existing ads with new ads under the guise of giving us less tracking and more security.

This is about creating his own ad network, and telling us it's for our benefit.

So, the main selling point of this browser is that it will block ads, right?

The summary fails to mention that the plan is to start inserting its own ads.

You know, I hate ads as much as everybody else. But that just feels dirty to me.

I am just waiting for the drone that comes, lets you harness yourself into some hanging restraints and transports me to work.... bonus if it can deliver me right to the 12th floor window....

Wait no more .. Ehang 184

3D printing hype is getting out of hand.

Why would anyone buy an unfinished looking $53,000 3D-printed car like THIS, when you could buy a 500+ horsepower 2016 Shelby GT350 for about the same price? The resale value alone would make the 3D printed choice foolish.

If 3D printing was as promising as this article makes it sound, then why can't I buy individual parts like custom 3D printed hoods? It's certainly more realistic to buy individual parts than 3d printing an "entire" car. It's just not anywhere close to being cost effective.

Or worse http://www.engadget.com/2016/0...

I've posted this, today, on slashdot and I'm posting it again.

In particular, Fuck Ethan Siegel, the handle resembling a human name used by the StartsWithABang guy, well-known Internet troll and manipulator of disinformation ("digital strategist" in today's Internet dysphemism), who is claimed to be "professor" perhaps of nothing but the art of aggressive marketeering.

dieethandie.

Forbes is a well known scam site.

The website "offers" 17 trackers on a single page serving what they claim to be "content", by the count of Ghostery. In comparison, Slashdot serves 6.

The site claims to promise "light ad" and nags you to turn off the ad blocker. In reality, it's 4% content and 96% ads.

What's worse, the blogs hosted there offers no information that is so unique that is worthy of whitelisting the site in your content blocker. The "Starts with a bang" blog, for example, "publishes" stories that are actually regurgitated, thinly-wrapped, dumbed-down, borderline plagiarism from science journals, websites and blogs. The link to the actual news is usually buried with a wall of distracting text and images copied or re-phrased from the original source. The whole blog serves no other purpose than baiting the reader for the purpose of tracking.

In addition, it appears that the purpose of hosting ads includes malware delivery.

The behavior of Forbes.com is at best sociopathic and outright criminal at worst. They look really desperate.

It's only a matter of time before this hub of mal-adverts gets its page ranks bitchslapped by Google, and pulling down the rank of all prolific referrers, including Slashdot.

Which is completely deserved.

Forbes is a well known scam site.

The website "offers" 17 trackers on a single page serving what they claim to be "content", by the count of Ghostery. In comparison, Slashdot serves 6.

The site claims to promise "light ad" and nags you to turn off the ad blocker. In reality, it's 4% content and 96% ads.

What's worse, the blogs hosted there offers no information that is so unique that is worthy of whitelisting the site in your content blocker. The "Starts with a bang" blog, for example, "publishes" stories that are actually regurgitated, thinly-wrapped, dumbed-down, borderline plagiarism from science journals, websites and blogs. The link to the actual news is usually buried with a wall of distracting text and images copied or re-phrased from the original source. The whole blog serves no other purpose than baiting the reader for the purpose of tracking.

In addition, it appears that the purpose of hosting ads includes malware delivery.

The behavior of Forbes.com is at best sociopathic and outright criminal at worst. They look really desperate.

It's only a matter of time before this hub of mal-adverts gets its page ranks bitchslapped by Google, and pulling down the rank of all prolific referrers, including Slashdot.

Which is completely deserved.

For years I've been wanting something that would enable me to see inside my refrigerator without opening the door and wasting electricity. I always kinda figured the solution would involve a thick glass door and a light switch though. This is cool and all, I guess, but I'd rather have something simpler, with less things to go wrong and break down, and if my last fridge is any indication, that's kinda an issue.

Also, here's the link that was omitted.

1. A ton of industrial printers work like this; "upgrades" are done by a technician coming out and updating firmware.
2. The microphone on the Pebble Time series watches was disabled in software upon shipping and enabled via a software update later
3. Intel did this in 2010 on some models of processor

And there are a lot more. In some cases, this is reasonable -- it's cheaper to make one version of something and then remove features to make it affordable, especially if it's something you're leasing/licensing; or the software to adequately support a feature just isn't ready yet. In other cases, it's market segmentation gone amok.

Even JPMorgan Chase or PayPal are doing censorship by not allowing people doing sex trade legally to access their money.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/1...

Too bad it's also impeding weaker parts of the population to access money they need to continue to fight for LGBT rights.

If you accept to eat the shit of "ball is mine, you can't use the service to say what I don't like" you deserve to have all the websites bought by Donald Trump and to be banned from speaking your mind because you don't post the N word five times in a row for every single post you make, and make your pledge to the Rebel Flag: "No, I will not help you protest the Bush administration because that would help terrorists win".

Think if slashdot fucking banned every single post criticizing the Patriot Act and 9/11.

First, the original poster describes that aren't quite there.
- It's not a turbine. There are 36 ducted electric fans.
- It can lift 430lbs, but a large portion of that is batteries, followed by motors and the unit itself. Don't expect your fat cousin to soar to new heights
- Specifically the video only shows it hovering in ground effect (IGE). That means it BARELY makes enough thrust to lift the 180lb guy just high enough to hover. The restriction that "it can't hover over water" reinforces that it only hovers IGE..
- If you watch the video it's clear there is no effective stabilization.

The Arca thing has 272 horsepower. A Robinson R-44 helicopter has 225 horsepower at maximum takeoff power.
The Arca thing can lift 430lbs. The same Robinson helicopter can lift 2500lbs.
Yes, there's a huge difference between energy density and weight penalty of heavy electric batteries vs 100 octane low-lead aviation gasoline, but this just shows how absurd the concept that you need 272hp to achieve *only* 430lbs of lift, most of which is spent to lift the batteries and the enclosure.

Finally, to add insult to injury, most observers believe it to be vaporware:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/1...
http://uncovermichigan.com/con...
http://financialjuneteenth.com...

Happy holidays to all!

E

No they don't.

Insightful? Really mods? How are you supposed to capitalize on that lead when the competition bribes the OEMs not to use your chips no matter how much lead you have?

News Flash R&D? It costs TONS of money, money AMD simply couldn't make because Intel bribed all the major OEMs to not take AMD chips. People here keep bringing up that 2 billion "settlement" which was frankly wrong in the first place because what Intel did was a criminal offense not a civil one, but riddle me this...how much money did Intel make from 2000-2008 when it was settled? anyone want to bet that 2 billion wasn't even a full year's profit? 6 months? How is AMD supposed to pay for the R&D to stay competitive when Intel is allowed to profit from bribery and market rigging?

For there to be equal footing then Intel should have lost every dime it made when it was doing illegal activity otherwise all you have done is made crime profitable for that company, sadly because of intense lobbying after the MSFT case to pull the teeth of government regulators that is EXACTLY what we got, a company that got to profit from blatant criminal acts.

For those who don't know, Samsung marketed this digital picture frame in 2006, long before the iPad was even a rumor, and even pre-dating the iPhone.

But not before what would be the iPad was sold as a Tablet Mac rumor (or rather Patent) in 2005. Note that the Samsung picture frame is not a copy of that patent, because it actually doesn't look all that much like it.

For those who don't know, Samsung marketed this digital picture frame in 2006, long before the iPad was even a rumor, and even pre-dating the iPhone.

But not before what would be the iPad was sold as a Tablet Mac rumor (or rather Patent) in 2005. Note that the Samsung picture frame is not a copy of that patent, because it actually doesn't look all that much like it.

For those who don't know, Samsung marketed this digital picture frame in 2006, long before the iPad was even a rumor, and even pre-dating the iPhone. Notice how the front looks identical to the later Samsung tablets, just with bigger bezels and no button. And it contains all of the distinctive elements of the original iPad that Apple sued over except the home button - flat, rounded corners, black bezels with white/silver edges. As if Apple simply ripped off Samsung's design, then turned around and sued Samsung for ripping them off.

The argument against that version of history has always been that the back of the picture frame looks nothing like the back of the iPad. Well, now we have this image of the back of an early iPad prototype, lending support to the theory that Apple used Samsung's picture frame as a starting point for their iPad design.

Up to SP2 are Wacom digitizers. SP3 and up are from Ntrig, a company MS acquired specifically for their digitizer tech

Found this out while evaluating SP2/SP3 models as a "cheaper than a Cintiq" method of getting into all-digital drawing.

---PCJ.

What if... Windows 10 would also run Android apps? Perhaps without the Google frame work and with a different store, but essentially the same apps?

You already can do that. In fact, the app has the seventh largest Android user base, beating companies like Xiaomi and Sony.

No, the insurance company will not pay for injury or damages when the car was being used as an illegal hire car.

Even if this were true, that would've been a direct result of the driver's conscientious decision.

But it is not true.

It has nothing to do with Android, it was the EU that did that:

http://www.engadget.com/2014/0...

And thus Apple will need to do the same by 2017 ?:

http://www.geek.com/apple/appl...

Important to understand that due to Apple's restrictions, this is not a port of the Gecko engine to iOS. It simply embeds a Safari's UIWebView into Firefox's 'skin'. Same goes for Chrome on iOS. Furthermore, Apple uses unexposed JavaScript optimizations to make Safari faster and doesn't allow those same optimizations in a UIWebView embedded in third party apps. So, unfortunately, Safari will always be the fastest browser on iOS. Yay, Apple. http://www.extremetech.com/mob... http://www.engadget.com/2011/0...

To be fair, I copy/paste all the time on my Android 4.4.x phone all the time. It is a little awkward, but it works fine.

Stereos that "glow"....sound so great, and look so cool in the room with the lights turned down low.

Smiley face noted but there is nothing cool about fake vacuum tube amps.

They sound warm. And at least part of the reason is Synesthesia.

I have a 2.5 year old phone that I otherwise love and while it's EOL, I still use it extensively.

The idea that a phone can be not even 3 years old and not have any hope of getting updates is something I balk STRONGLY at.

I have a solution for that...

I have a 2.5 year old phone that I otherwise love and while it's EOL, I still use it extensively.

The idea that a phone can be not even 3 years old and not have any hope of getting updates is something I balk STRONGLY at.

'Reports suggest that TalkTalk was subjected to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that enabled the attackers to utilise SQL injection techniques. SQL injection allows an attacker to feed commands to a database (that shouldn't normally be accessible) via a poorly-designed website form or input box.'

Yes. They even still make phones. They released a couple of new BlackBerry models (the Passport and the Classic) last year, though those phones may be the last classic BlackBerry phones. They recently announced a new phone, Priv, which is based on Android with added BlackBerry services and security software. (According to Engadget it will start shipping on November 16 - http://www.engadget.com/2015/1... )

The comment was actually intended as a joke; however, if their new phones are based on Android, then they are a Joke. See this, and other similar articles regarding Android's "Security".

Yes. They even still make phones. They released a couple of new BlackBerry models (the Passport and the Classic) last year, though those phones may be the last classic BlackBerry phones. They recently announced a new phone, Priv, which is based on Android with added BlackBerry services and security software. (According to Engadget it will start shipping on November 16 - http://www.engadget.com/2015/1... )

due to their love of robots, low birthrate, and lack of young people to make nurses out of.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/0...

But anyways... sounds like what you need is full smartphone capability (including ability for you to write your own apps) PLUS roomba's self-mobility and self-charging capability. Have you tried welding an iPhone to a roomba?

The simple bottom line is that no one is "forced" to use Android.

Where else will you get Netflix in wireless VR on an unlimited data plan?