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Apple Uses Bluetooth LE To Enable Apple TV ‘Touch To Set Up’ Via iOS 7 Devices(techcrunch.com)
44 points by swamp40 13y ago|31 comments
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by swamp40 13y ago
What would you suggest as a replacement?
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by swamp40 13y ago
Back in the early 90's I bought a $30 VCR from some no-name foreign brand no one had ever heard of here in the US. 1/3 the price of the name brand stuff. Then I went to Seoul and saw that same company brand on top of the largest
844.
by swamp40 13y ago
Well they certainly look cool, but a DNA analysis might be nice...
845.
by swamp40 13y ago
So is there a simple solution?
846.
by swamp40 13y ago
Well, I can't disagree with that.
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by swamp40 13y ago
I'm a hardware engineer. I agree with you about patterns and mathematics - also beautiful, but cold (sorry, best I can explain it). But when we see a complex physical problem , and then see a nicely designed and implemented real-lif
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by swamp40 13y ago
Yes, my personal pet theory is that something really smart made a 3D printer-like life machine, and then gave it to thousands of other not-so-smart individuals - who then came up with all these crazy and inconsistent life forms on Earth.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Well, I was just explaining why I used the word beauty . Maybe whatever created these gears was being tortured by an evil master until it made something satisfactory. I really can't say for sure...
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by swamp40 13y ago
Engineering beauty. Like a Saturn V rocket, or an AC induction motor. Things that make you proud to be an engineer.
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by swamp40 13y ago
I agree with you 100%. Don't know why you got downvoted.
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by swamp40 13y ago
It is for beauty like this that I believe all living things were originally designed by some intelligence, somewhere. Perhaps designed to mutate and evolve, or perhaps that was a limitation in the source materials, but there are some bea
853.
by swamp40 13y ago
Yes, pure FUD.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Or scrolling thru a classmates friends list on Facebook. And then scrolling thru all the friends lists of all their friends on Facebook. (Especially if they have nicely sorted their friends into "High School" friends.) Twitter l
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by swamp40 13y ago
If you know the high school and year(s), you go thru the friends list of every person on Facebook who did post their high school from that year (or nearby years), and does show their friends, until you see her face. That's only a c
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by swamp40 13y ago
Wish I could upvote that twice !
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by swamp40 13y ago
It would make for a good conversation starter, though.
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by swamp40 13y ago
WOW. Forget the Photoshop stuff, this needs to be integrated with 3D printing immediately . Spit out a design file into Tinkercad[1] for some minor adjustments and BAM, you've made a printable 3D model. [1] https://tinkerca
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by swamp40 13y ago
>> The team today started selling their ‘plant egg’, called Beyond Eggs, in Whole Foods in California - and say it could soon be available in supermarkets worldwide. It's also backed by Bill Gates.
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'Artificial egg' made from plants set to revolutionize cooking(dailymail.co.uk)
7 points by swamp40 13y ago|1 comments
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by swamp40 13y ago
That's a good point. From the article: I’m also guessing that despite its more homebound nature we’ll see that fingerprint sensor very quickly on the iPad too. The iPad is a perfect shopping tool and one-scan shopping would make that
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by swamp40 13y ago
So, after studying this for the last four hours, I've come to the conclusion that Apple is NEVER going to implement NFC, and in fact is trying to intentionally nosedive the technology into the ground, as a way of hurting the competitio
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by swamp40 13y ago
The scanner scans subdermally, so it's a little trickier than just lifting fingerprints. I don't deny that it's replicable, just saying that the hacker would probably only have info on one finger.
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by swamp40 13y ago
I've been watching this space like a hawk for years now. How did I miss the iBeacon?
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by swamp40 13y ago
But you have ten fingers...
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by swamp40 13y ago
How does it work now when you have to type in your iTunes password to authorize an in-app purchase? I thought the password got hashed and sent out to Apple's servers to authenticate? If so, wouldn't a new fingerprint based passwor
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by swamp40 13y ago
Yup.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Or a Kickstarter selling replica Bin Laden fingers. 10,000 of those would keep the NSA quite busy. (I guess you'd need a live terrorist's finger to replicate though. Those NSA types are pretty smart.)
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by swamp40 13y ago
The battery life is fine nowadays, it's a mature technology. They now send out a small pulse a few times a second, and then watch the decay on their own antenna. A change in the decay rate means another resonant antenna is nearby and s
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by swamp40 13y ago
Honestly, to effectively market this technology in today's waters, they have to say that it's kept local. If they send out 8 bytes of your fingerprint data hidden in every picture you take (so your fingerprint can be regener

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