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Care to explain the technology in the $10,000 toilet seats?

The Air Force says that with the Lockheed's C-5 production line no longer active, there is no company with a fully staffed assembly line ready to produce exactly what it needs. That means the government has to hire a manufacturer to make a mold of the original toilet seat cover, redesign two-dimensional drawings to make sure the cover fits, manufacture a mold for the part, and then produce it - effectively reverse-engineering the toilet cover and building it from scratch.

Add to this, I read that China offered Musk permenent residency (citizenship?) recently.

Turn off Cortana.

Remove Groove.

Ads? Is that Windows thing, or is that from your browser?

It is disingenuous to say that they did not favor Trump. Yes the primary goal was to sow discord however they favored Trump because they wanted sanctions eased.

So, despite that it was Macron and John Kerry who wanted to lift sanctions against Russia, and despite the fact that Republicans passed and Trump signed new sanctions against Russia in 2017, you believe Russia was betting on Trump and the Republicans to lift sanctions?

People are so damn crazy now I can't even separate satire from reality. I can't tell if you are a world class idiot, a troll, or a Russian bot.

lol - https://gadgets.ndtv.com/lapto... - " HP Leads Global Laptop Market, Apple Takes Fourth Place" I think you meant Apple, not HP.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/... - "Market intelligence provider IDC has released a report detailing the state of the worldwide traditional PC market for the first quarter of 2018 (1Q18). According to the data, both Dell and HP have seen increases in market share in comparison to the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17).

No bumper after driving in the rain
No car because I ordered the lower-cost models
No clue that emissions just go into someone else's airshed
No fun after summoning vehicle crased https://gadgets.ndtv.com/trans... ...and on...and on...and on...

hey put fluoride in ice cream CHILDREN's icecream.

No no no. It was rats.

https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/w...

* Zinc, B12, and about a dozen other micro-nutrients that are NOT optional are hard to get for a vegetarian and impossible for a vegan. Popping a bunch of dietary supplements is a poor substitute and no way to live.

* There has never been a sustained human population that was fully vegetarian.

It's not like there are millions of Indians who are vegetarian, is it? Oh wait, there are.

Are you talking about these millions of Indians: https://food.ndtv.com/opinions...

But hey since you hold India in such high regards maybe there's other ways we could save the environment, e.g. I could pipe up my toilet to your bath tub and you could could wash yourself in my excrement. Maybe we'll throw a dead body or two in there too. After all if it's okay for millions of Indians, why not! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

How about asking "what is your location"?

That's exactly what these apps do. The user can choose to deny location services to a particular application through the operating system's Settings. This would cause a movie streaming application to display only those movies to which the provider owns worldwide rights. Browse and search results would include a notice:

Results are limited because location services are disabled. Learn More

Tapping "Learn More" would display a help page:

Some studios make movies available only in specific countries or groups of countries. AppName needs your location in order to determine which movies can be viewed in your country. To provide your location to AppName, open your device's Settings and follow these steps:

On Android, it'd show steps like these; on iOS, it'd show steps like these. Does asking the user to turn on location services count as "asking"?

If you meant providing a list of countries and allowing the user to choose one, this approach would encourage the user to defraud the provider by knowingly providing an incorrect location. Relying on a location provided by the operating system deters casual fraud.

How about asking "what is your location"?

That's exactly what these apps do. The user can choose to deny location services to a particular application through the operating system's Settings. This would cause a movie streaming application to display only those movies to which the provider owns worldwide rights. Browse and search results would include a notice:

Results are limited because location services are disabled. Learn More

Tapping "Learn More" would display a help page:

Some studios make movies available only in specific countries or groups of countries. AppName needs your location in order to determine which movies can be viewed in your country. To provide your location to AppName, open your device's Settings and follow these steps:

On Android, it'd show steps like these; on iOS, it'd show steps like these. Does asking the user to turn on location services count as "asking"?

If you meant providing a list of countries and allowing the user to choose one, this approach would encourage the user to defraud the provider by knowingly providing an incorrect location. Relying on a location provided by the operating system deters casual fraud.

The 3.5mm headset jack is more efficient for most headsets available on the market.

No, the current analog headsets are generally less efficient(their efficiency greatly changes depending on what headset is hooked to what source). Audio Device Class 3.0 (ADC 3.0) headsets use less power since the ADC/DAC is balanced to the microphone/speaker and not just specced to some rate so that most speakers work-ish. http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobile...

You can buy cheap, power efficient USB-C headphones if you want($5). You can buy Noise-Cancelling USB-C headphones if you want(they don't need batteries like 3.5mm versions). Currently the only headphones that use ADC3.0 "hotword detection" are bluetooth(Google and Apple's earbuds). If you use things like "Hey Siri" or "OK Google", then the power savings are potentially huge with "hotword detection" happening on the earpiece.

au contraire. As a device engineer, I can attest the word, and the relevance of this article, covers far more than you're thinking.

Devices that I'd expect to last decades have been running Linux kernels and even Android for quite some time now. Here's a refrigerator introduced in January 2013. The more recent Samsung refrigerators are much fancier than this with massive screens.

In addition, every major appliance manufacturer now has WiFi-enabled appliances of every variety I can think of. Even dishwashers are WiFi connected now.

This article was about Linux kernel support, not just Android, and I'd bet the majority of the WiFi-enabled appliances have a Linux kernel.

Here is the proper link : http://gadgets.ndtv.com/intern.... Reason for the block : https://thewire.in/162841/amit.... (deleted pages are accessible through the archive).

It's too bad Microsoft lost that claim to fame as soon as it acquired Swiftkey and cross-contaminated people's dictionaries while porting the application's backend to its Azure platform.

While very impressive numbers, when you adjust for inflation things look different.

Adjusted for inflation:
- Cisco had a market cap of 758 billion in March 2000.
- GE has a market cap of 816 billion in August 2000
- Microsoft had a market cap of 871 billion in December 1999
- IBM had a market cap of 1.3 trillion in 1967
https://qz.com/335147/apples-m... http://gadgets.ndtv.com/others...

But they all dwarf compared to the Dutch East-India Company (VOC), 1602-1800, the first publicly traded company in the world, which had a market cap of over SEVEN TRILLION inflation-adjusted dollars at its peak.

The specifications look pretty good...

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/nokia-...

However, not really anything that will differentiate it substantially to make it the next big thing. I think the primary cause of the failure of Windows Phone was the fact that Nokia simply didn't produce hardware as sexy as Apple's or Samsung's, in fact I would describe the first Nokia Windows phones in comparison to the iPhone or Samsung offerings at the time as bricks.

It's a loophole that has been abused too many times to count and there's absolutely no sign that it will ever be closed.

This NDTV article states,

President-elect Donald Trump has said he would not allow Americans to be replaced by foreign workers, in an apparent reference to cases like that of Disney World and other American companies wherein people hired on H-1B visas, including Indians, displaced US workers.

"We will fight to protect every last American life," Mr Trump told thousands of his supporters in Iowa on Thursday as he referred to the cases of Disney world and other US companies.

We'll see how hard he pushes Congress on this matter.

Is Samsung being unfairly further beat up here because of the laser of media attention on it now?

Yes.

What do the objective facts say.

The public i don't think is privy to much in the way of real stats.
But anecdotally...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

http://www.phonearena.com/news...

http://www.windowscentral.com/...

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobile...

From which we can objectively say that other phones catch fire too.

And I wouldn't worry about the J5 too much... it looks like a cut down version of the S5. Hardly cutting edge or pushing any boundaries. It came out in June 2015. So 18 months... one handset. People are definitely just attaching it to the samsung hype.

Like the old joke about standards, there are so many to choose from. None of them depend on NFC however. One worth mentioning is Paytm, which has recently launched QR code based cashless payments, which simply requires you to scan a QR code at the participating vendor outlet to initiate a payment.

Others using these solutions are movie theater chains and online shopping portals like Flipkart. Some of the other solutions are Momoe, Payzapp, Pockets. The last two are owned by 2 of India's largest banks. Momoe partners with restaurants, letting you view your bill in realtime and split it with friends.

Maybe I'm being naive here, but I see little reason why we don't have SSD class storage in our phones at this point. Can someone please explain it to me? Does it require too much power? It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to have a phone with a 120 GB SSD in it. Maybe the phone would be a bit thicker, but I think it's a feature a lot of people would like to have. I really hope Samsung can find a way to put this SSD in their next phone.

I saved the file, so I could watch it on an airplane. Or going through a tunnel. Or on the camping trip in the middle of nowhere (besides the why are you going camping then argument) ..

Some versions of the YouTube app have an offline feature that loads the entirety of select videos and allows playback within the next 48 hours.

So, I've obviously never seen what FB is offering, but this sounds like it's partitioned:

Yet the Free Basics program was controversial from the start in India, where critics accused Facebook of creating a "walled garden" for poor users that only allowed them access to a portion of the web that Facebook controlled.

Dozens of well-known tech entrepreneurs, university professors and tech industry groups spoke out against it, saying that the curated app, with its handpicked weather, job and other listings, put India's scrappy start-ups and software developers at a disadvantage.

So, are they really getting "pretty much the rest of the net"? Or are they getting to see the stuff FB controls and nothing else?

I ask because multiple sources confirm, split-view multitasking only works on iPad Air 2 and newer.

If it's working on your iPad Air 1, you must have one of those rare ones that lacks a mute slider; e.g. an Air 2.

More to the point,

1) Someone surrendered under an EAW, in order to be extradited to a third state, requires the consent of both states taking part in the EAW request, rather than just one. Being extradited under an EAW only further complicates any attempts at third party extradition.

2) Sweden is one of the few countries whose extradition treaty with the US flatly bans extradition for military or intelligence crimes, and has a consequence long been a place to where defectors and spies flee (the most famous being Edward Lee Howard, the greatest CIA defector during the Cold War period)

3) Sweden was so mad at the US extradition program ignoring their ban on use of their airspace for extradition flights that they caused a diplomatic rift with the US in 2006 by disguising their special forces soldiers as airport workers to sneak aboard a suspected extradition plane. And how do we know about this event? Why, Wikileaks of course!

4) Sweden has the world's strongest whistleblower protections, so the point where it's not even legal to look for the source of a leak, let alone prosecute them for it.

5) While no country's judicial system is completely devoid of controversial cases (Sweden included), as a whole Sweden has one of the world's highest rankings on judicial fairness according to the peer-reviewed World Justice Project. They actually use it as an example of fairness when discussing how other countries can improve.

6) Assange himself thought so much of Sweden that he was applying for a residence permit there and repeatedly called Sweden his "shield". Funny how Sweden instantly became evil US lackeys the instant he was investigated for rape, isn't it?

As of June 28th, it was announced that Samsung effectively doubled the capacity of Lithium Ion battery technology.

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobile...

I am tolerant

Tu le rant, en effet

... of alternate views but you sockpuppets really should just go somewhere else. your cover is blown ...

You like people to agree with you. When they do not: "sockpuppet!" I seldom agree with you, hence the outrage. Nothing has changed in 10 years.

yes - I am quite sure that there are many paid and unpaid (not directly) people who are doing all they can to discredit those who are the real heros.

On the contrary, I honour real heros ....

French Resistance heroes inducted into Pantheon in Paris
Veterans to receive French Legion of Honor for World War II service
'British Schindler' Sir Nicholas Winton dies aged 106

. . . and call others to justice ....

Julian Assange Demands Rape Case Files Before Sweden Questions Him

It is Independence Day in the United States. Do you celebrate, or mourn?

So, my only option is to buy a 6 inch behemoth, since the Nexus 5 is now being discontinued. Another great move by Google. I have a 5 inch phone and it just barely fits in most of my pockets. I couldn't imagine carrying around anything larger on a daily basis.

Tell that to these people

http://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news...
This driver has now confessed to having raped more women earlier, using the same modus operandi .

Don't forget the rapes

Chicago

Boston

Los Angeles

India

Yeah, because the "regulated" taxi industry *never* has these problems. Oh, wait.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/ci...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes...

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/s...

Note the last one there is a gang rape.

The problem, as always, is that people like you think that "regulation" of the taxi industry has anything to do with the stuff that the regulators claim it's about. Look up "regulatory capture" when you have a spare hour or so. I'll warn you - your world view is about to get a dramatic overhaul.

These people likely don't know what smartphones are

Wow, good to know stone-age ignorance is alive and well still. Are you trolling or genuinely 'that ignorant'?

"India Has Higher Smartphone Usage Than the US: Study"

"Smartphone users in the country have among the highest rates of smartphone usage daily globally, spending over three hours on an average on their devices" - http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobile...

"Smartphone explosion in 2014 will see ownership in India pass US " ... "Phone users in India and China will together buy more than 500m smartphones in 2014, comprising half of the total that will be sold in 47 key countries" - http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

But yeah, those primitive brown won't even know what a smartphone is hurr hurr

How inexpensive?

* $200 Nexus 7
* $299 nVidia Shield Tablet http://shield.nvidia.com/gamin...
* $350+ Nexus 10

Some tech specs comparisons ...

* http://gadgets.ndtv.com/nvidia...
* http://versus.com/en/nvidia-sh...

Also illegal, so far... It's illegal to use something other than the ActiveX plugin authorized by the Korean government to do online banking in South Korea. The current president promised to change things, but so far, nothing has changed. Here's his promise being reported:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/So...

The problem is that Korea requires use of their own national encryption standard, which has a governmental back door (and for which exploits have already been demonstrated at BlackHat) in order to "secure" banking transactions from snooping by foreign powers (guess they called that one correctly).

Here are some other articles about where the plugin is required to establish secure communications channels:

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/intern...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

what's the matter? angry that your overpriced, limited function idevice spontaneouly bursts into flames? sucker

But he said he didn't buy a Samsung - http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/galaxy-s4-burns-out-samsung-says-it-will-replace-unit-after-user-pulls-video-report-456867

Free, unencumbered license for "non commercial use"? Makes no difference, they already have it all boot legged.

About perfect timing for the entrance of those sugar powered batteries isn't it!

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobile...

If that's at risk from Normandy, I'd expect their lawyers to be all over it.

easy:

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/rs-1-crore-package-for-12-iit-kanpur-students-455434

12 students were offered north of 10 mio INR, and the top was 13.6 mio (roughly 205k, depending on the fx rate on the given day). By the way, they turned that number down.

And this isn't just one person. This is large sets of grads from all the different IIT branches commanding these wages now. Not the top 1 or 2 people

ASL is my son's first language, and there are plenty of people in his life who refuse to learn to speak with him.

If its a hard sell, there's probably a reason for that.

Technical solutions are the focus of this article.

ASL to text is drastically harder problem, but it appears to be under development.

Text to ASL is starting to be available but probably only useful for people too young to read. (Showing them the text would be quicker if they could read). However it might serve as a teaching aid for other to learn ASL.

The deaf seldom speak clearly enough for any speech recognition to work. Siri and Android speech recognition is haphazard enough when any random accent is involved, and becomes useless when a speech impediment issue exists.

Just google "Motorola Sues" all the links won the first few pages is google suing people. Several of these are in the past few months. Google is suing people all over the place.

Here is Google suing Apple in August: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/08/21/and-now-google-sues-apple/
Here is Motorola Suing Apple in September: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/googles-motorola-mobility-sues-to-reopen-apple-mobile-patent-lawsuit-417692

Google has filed at least as many patent lawsuits as Apple and a lot more than Rockstar.

Google beat earnings estimates. Google's Android OS drastically beat expectations on how soon it would totally dominate the smartphone market.

What good is "dominance" if you're not making money? Android has been a net loss for Google when you count the acquisition cost of Motorola and the fact they have been losing more money every quarter.

On top of that, Google bought Motorola mostly for their patents which they can't use either as a weapon or a defense since most of them are FRAND and courts worldwide have been coming down on companies that try to use FRAND patents to sue every one.

Google's plan for Android was to make sure they would not get shut out of the smart phone ads business. The plan far exceeded expectations all around.

Yes by paying Apple $1 billion a year for being the default search engine on iPhones....

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/apple-charges-google-1-billion-per-year-for-being-the-default-search-engine-on-its-devices-analyst-330228

Where the majority of their mobile profits are earned....
http://9to5mac.com/2011/09/21/google-23rds-of-our-mobile-search-comes-from-apples-ios/

And sinking billions in Motorola....

I think very many Indonesians did: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/blackberrys-decline-in-established-indonesian-market-a-lesson-for-apple-samsung-423555

Perhaps the decline was inevitable much like the decline of ICE prop planes.

Every gov knows what Russia, the UK and US do with their "Consulate" floors

Oh come now A., the club is bigger than that! The majority of countries get in on the spy game at some level.
The Germans: The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy
Very involved in the current crisis: Assad did not order Syria chemical weapons attack, says German press
The Finns and Swedes can't be left out: Supo wants expanded net surveillance powers
Nor the French: France 'runs vast electronic spying operation using NSA-style methods'
The club is bigger still: Think US snooping is bad? Try Italy, India orCanada
Thousands of Russian spies in US: ex-CIA agent
Gordievsky: Russia has as many spies in Britain now as the USSR ever did
Chinese Spies Targeting U.K., MI5 Warns
But of course! Chinese use honeytraps to spy on French companies, intelligence report claims
Germany accuses China of industrial espionage
Germany targets Russian, Chinese spies
Spies in Sweden mostly from China, Russia, Iran
Number of Foreign Spies on the Rise in Finland
Austrian capital ‘filled with Iranian spies’
Foreign spies targeting Polish shale - Natural Gas Europe
Spain arrests three suspected of spying for Iran
Russia warns Ireland it will retaliate in spy row
FBI releases papers on Russian Irish spies in US - ‘Ghost Stories’

Sometimes the trails can get very complicated.

For some reason this video comes to mind: Its a Small World

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/others/news/hp-acknowledges-the-presence-of-a-backdoor-in-its-storage-products-391370

Dont you read?

What I'd really like to know is whether Merkel's rule only apply to US corporations. In other words, will France's DGSE's collection of the same information as that the USG is collecting through US Corporations get a free pass? From the info I can find, it seems so...

Chances are that Germany has spy programs every bit as intrusive as the US does, and that every German telcom and data retention company is every bit as "backdoored" to agencies of the German Government just as the are in the US.

It was only 5 days ago that Merkel was justifying not only her own government's spying, but also the NSA spying.

To now expect the US firms to adhear to a level of privacy that firms in her own country flaunt is simply playing to the masses. She will sell them out behind the scenes in a heartbeat.

Both Wipro and Infosys are the worst in terms of H1-B visa abuse and should not be allowed to operate in this country.

http://profit.ndtv.com/news/industries/article-us-senator-accuses-infosys-wipro-tcs-of-abusing-h-1b-visas-321282

But, unfortunately they're connected with Washington's elite and throw money around in DC to keep things like the H1-B program alive. Remember that during the next election cycle.

This batch was entirely manufactured by Kalong Technology of Shenzen, China.

[citation required]

Microsoft says Outlook.com IMAP support "coming", promises better Mac support
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/microsoft-says-outlookcom-imap-support-coming-promises-better-mac-support-253444

Access Your Account Using IMAP or POP E-Mail Programs
http://help.outlook.com/en-ca/140/cc875899.aspx
"Applies to: Office 365 for professionals and small businesses, Office 365 for enterprises, Microsoft Exchange, Live@edu."

Webmail war: Gmail vs. Outlook.com vs. Yahoo Mail
http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/feature/webmail-war-gmail-vs-outlookcom-vs-yahoo-mail
"Outlook.com does not support IMAP"

I'm Irish. Note that there is a massive brain drain following the economic crash (...which shouldn't have surprised anyone. Bust follows boom...). The (relatively) smart young people are literally leaving Ireland by the planeload for the usual UK/USA/Canada/Australia, leaving various blundering buffoons in charge. So we get idiotic irish newspapers demanding fees to link to them, and unbelievably successful attempts to introduce full-blown internet censorship in Ireland at the behest of some idiotic record companies that haven't been relevant in years and should already be dead, we get religious bigots in power in hospitals letting women die.

I'm still here mostly because my retired aging parents are here and my brother's already gone and I didn't really want to leave them alone. So I haven't been actively looking for work elsewhere and I've been trying to fight on here. But if someone offered me a visa and job in Canada,say, out of the blue, I'd be very tempted to go at this stage, despite Harper being stupid and evil too. Too many people my age I know who would be pro-choice, anti-internet-censorship, nonreligious etc. have already left, and I think it's starting to give wankers like the child-rapey catholic church renewed confidence they can regain control of Ireland.