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  • China's Xiaomi shows off new $460 4K camera drone

    josha said:
    jdgaz said:
    As an added feature all of your video is saved and evaluated at PRC headquarters and will be used to seek ransom from unsuspecting folks.
    I warn you drones, if you pass over my property my trusty slingshot will put you down!  :p
    And that is against the law to fire upon an airborn vehicle.  Check the laws as the FAA says so.

    sockrolid said:
    Hey.  Kickstarter people.
    I'd pay up to $100 for a drone signal-jamming transmitter.
    Push the button, signal is jammed, drone operator can't get their now-cliché hover shot.
    Note: the jamming signal will only cause momentary loss of directional control, not crashing.
    Net effect: drone operator thinks there's a defect and wants their money back (again and again.)
    And if I am in the right to fly it, what right do you have to interfere?  As long as I am not over your property, below a certain height which I can't recall, I would be in the right.  Although, etiquette says to stay away from places you should not be.
    muppetry
  • How Apple Watch became the iPod of the future

    ...
    Last year alone, it generated around $7 billion in revenue with high margins. That's comparable with the performance of Amazon Web Services cloud business, and by itself as a product is already far more valuable than the entire hardware business of Amazon Fire, Google Nexus, Alphabet Nest, or Microsoft Surface.
    ...
    How interesting...a "failed" product is more valuable than those other products that have been on the market for quite awhile.
    baconstangcornchipcaliradarthekatlatifbpmessagepad2100
  • New details in 'iPhone' trademark case punctuate Apple's ongoing legal problems in China

    apple ][ said:
    I agree.

    In the future, robots are going to solve many problems in general, not just for Apple.

    Maybe that can lead to more American manufacturing also. Unlike the workers, it's not like a Chinese robot can be paid less than an American robot. They'll both make the same income, zero. They are mechanical slaves for life.

    Do you remember all of the recent fast food worker strikes that have been taking place? Where these burger flipping geniuses believe that they are so highly skilled and so highly valued that some teenager still in school should be making a minimum of $15 an hour?

    Companies are already coming up with their own solutions to combat the embarrassing entitlement mentality displayed by certain groups of ignorant individuals who do not grasp basic economics.

    Wendy's to replace workers with machines due to rising minimum wage

    http://www.fox32chicago.com/money/142139984-story
    Wait until the food prep is replaced with automated machines.  ...
    You are referring to a vending machine...
    doozydozen
  • Previewing Apple's WWDC 2016: Big news for iOS 10, iPhone 7, new iPad Pro

    I think iOS on the iPad feels like a stretched out iPhone. 3rd party apps have done well designing their apps that takes advantage of the bigger screen but Apple at the OS level and their own apps have not. Lots of wasted space and not taking advantage of the big screen. That is what's keeping the iPad from really being a true laptop replacement and the Pro from being a true pro device. Apple needs to do better with iOS on the iPad.
    Version upgrades for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote annually would be a good start.
    jony0lolliver
  • OLED iPhone with curved screen could appear in 2018, research forecasts

    "Curved screen" gets thrown around too much.  Just tell me what that will offer to the usability of the phone before mentioning it again.
    1983