Yeah, except; you know...good

Does that mean my Nexus 4 is now some sort of collector's item?

Yeah, that seems like a really round-about way of avoiding really useful NFC technology. My Nexus 4 has the "Android Beam' feature where I can just open an image, or a contact or something, press and hold it, and then touch it to another android phone to send to file over NFC. It works pretty well.

The one thing this isn't, shockingly, is a crime, at least according to Zdorovetskiy's attorney (Columbus, Ohio, prosecutor Ron O'Brien disagrees),

I hate you for thinking of that first

Are you sure you're just not getting confused by the universe being flat but space-time being curved?

Is it really? I've yet to hear a story about someone who had their phone stolen, called the police, and actually got it back: and do you know why? It's petty larceny. The cops are going to tell you to fill out a police report so they can file it and ignore it. Alternatively, the owner is going to march down there, get…

I was just watching this episode, and I realized that it doesn't make any sense for a species to communicate exclusively through metaphorical references to previous events. If one of their species wasn't present with Shakka when the walls fell; how would they ever understand that reference? How would they teach their…

True enough; there are only so many people with the intelligence necessary to work at the Apple store, lol.

Don't you already have to take your glove off to use your capactive touch screen phone?

No worries, iPhones don't malfunction.

Apple products 'just work' after all.

You realize that you are basically claiming your iPhone is magic, and that it can receive a signal from a network it is not connected to, right? Either that or the iPhone keeps communicating with the network even when it is supposed to be off.

Are you sure you didn't just turn your iPhone back on, didn't realize it…

Actually, I would think Apple would love that. It means more people have to bring in their phones because they bricked themselves and need a wipe and reset.

That's kind what I thought.

I can imagine some interesting court cases when someone gets frustrated that the police don't send SWAT out to deal with a petty larceny charge; try to take matters into their own hands, and get sued for assault or something. There's pretty serious restrictions in some states to what level…

You could say the same thing about someone who is smart enough to wipe your phone and do a reset on it; which is much harder than throwing a phone into a bag lined with tin foil.

How could you possibly use a network application to turn ON a phone that is OFF? Doesn't it need to be on in the first place to receive the "TURN ON" command over the network?

Think about that one for a minute.

That really wouldn't be that useful a feature. All a thief would need to do to circumvent that would be to throw the phone into a Faraday cage (think backpack lined with tin foil) and it's effectively disconnected from the network.

When everything is said and done, it's always going to be true that the person who is…

up next: the $50 iPhone made from cardboard.

Agreed; this is the 3rd time in as many years that I am looking for a new job not because congress cut my funding completely; but because until they actually pass a budget we don't get paid. I guess they figure we can all just live off our trust funds or something until they can be bothered to get their jobs done.

Get your facts straight. This is absolutely a reduction that has resulted in a good many people in my field (NASA Education/Public Outreach) losing their jobs and having to find new careers. I know this because I am one of them.