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  1. The original poster is asking for something low end, and doesn't consider $150 as low end. A pebble at $50 would be nice (and that's what I paid for one of mine on sale)

  2. Both my pebbles were purchased off the shelf at BestBuy (because BestBuy ran them on sale way cheaper than you could get them direct).

    James

  3. Then add a daemon in the background that watches for your something you wear (bluetooth watch/nfc ring) and when it's out of range lock everything down.

  4. Re:Humans... on ISS Completes 100,000th Orbit of Earth (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    > How many fingers do you have?

        The numbers of digits on your primary manipulators is a silly way to chose a number base.

  5. Re:Hardly surprising on Nearly All New Diesel Cars Exceed Official Pollution Limits (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The NOX issue (the one in the article) has nothing to do with the fuel and everything to do with the temperature of combustion. Diesel engines are efficient because of the combustion temperature and that causes NOx to form. If Gasoline engines were raised to similar efficiencies they would start to develop similar NOx issues.
          Diesel engines aren't more complex than petrol engines (especially with the advent of modern common rail injector systems). They don't have a throttle or ignition system of any sort. They have to be built heavier because of higher compression ratios.
          Diesel is used in tractors and big rigs because of efficiency. The gallons per mile per ton are lower with diesel.

  6. Stallman is right on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 2

    if you don't have the source and the ability to compile that source into working binaries, you don't actually own it.

  7. Re:I can't speak for anyone else on Pebble Lays Off 25% of Its Staff, Smartwatch Bubble Set To Burst? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally I feel naked WITHOUT a watch on my wrist, I've worn a watch of one sort or another since I was..7 nearly without break.
          I've worn a connected smartwatch for 4.5 years now and wouldn't go back to the unconneced smartwatches I wore before.
          My current is a pebble time I bought on sale.

  8. Re:Ownership vs. Renting on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 2

    If you own you can be forced out through tax increases, special assessments, and eminent domain. I've seen all 3 happen.

  9. Re:Code absolutely can convey ideas on EFF On Why FBI Can't Force Apple To Sign Code (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    I remember my "this T-shirt is a munition" shirt.

  10. Another reason to not fly anywhere. on Airbus Patents Adjustable Seats, In-Seat Storage For Aircarft (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Haven't been on an airplane in years and am having less and less desire to do it in the future.

  11. Re:Of course it is. on North Korea Accused of Testing an ICBM With Missile Launch Into Space (examiner.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    All except Vanguard were atop converted ICBMs until the Saturn boosters came along, and the first Saturn was basically cobbled together from ICBM parts so it could also call it ICBM based, The Saturn V was mostly not ICBM based.

  12. Re:I never heard of Ford on Elon Musk Cancels Stewart Alsop's Tesla Order Over Complaints About Launch Event · · Score: 1

    Ford rarely deals directly with customers, they have a dealer network to deal with customers.

  13. Re:After Reading the Article on Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have To Fix Copyright Law (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a link in the article, the issue specifically referred to was

    "He just wanted a better way to fix a minor hydraulic sensor. Every time the sensor blew, the onboard computer would shut the tractor down."

          A failure in a sensor disabled the whole tractor, annoying and expensive in a lost work way.

  14. Re:Again? on German Automakers Working On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tech (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    H2 fuel cells are being investigated as they are a way to get an electric car without the problems of a battery electric car. Battery electric cars still have the issue of long long charge times.

  15. Re:This was _outlawed_ in the USA? on Federal Law Now Says Kids Can Walk To School Alone (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I doubt many cases actually happen in Podunktown USA, only larger cities have the resources to waste on this sort of idiocy. I know this because I live in Podunktown and most kids are on the free range plan here. If you would call the police on a kid playing in the park alone they would say, "So what's the issue? Is he/she valdalizing park equipment or beating up on other kids?"

  16. My problem is with poorly made mobile web sites on Which do You Prefer: Mobile Web Apps or Mobile Websites? (Video) · · Score: 2

    you click a deep link into someone's web site on your phone and the page says OOOOO you are coming from a phone and redirects you... to the home page of the mobile site.

  17. Re:still advocating for extreme mitigation on Paris Climate Change Talks Yield First Draft (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Arguing time frame is rearranging the deck chairs. If anyone cares about society as is, the sooner we reduce CO2 emissions, the better"

          So how are YOU reducing your CO2 emissions since you have decided it's such an important thing to do.

  18. Re:Apple Music on How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    yea, all the useful accounts live in LDAP.

  19. Nervous about older CIOs on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 2

    Not sure if they can understand that human beings aren't terminators with their learning chips locked. Real programmers can learn anything, and their background can sometimes help make things work.
          Just finished rewriting an interface to some devices and couldn't use the COM interface the vendor recommended to us, so I pulled out the vendor's documentation and used their 'old' C interface. When I said that was the way we went they said they didn't recommnend using that API, when I asked for clarification on why to not use their documented API they stated that they didn't have anyone who could help if we ran into issues as all their support staff only knew the COM interface.
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  20. these were Mace B cruise missiles, no silos needed, there were container and portable versions.

  21. Re:The Science In a SciFi movie... on What Ridley Scott Has To Say About the Science In "The Martian" · · Score: 2

    In the book O2 wasn't an issue, they used a Zirconia Electrolysis Cell to strip the carbon atoms off CO2. The issue was food.

  22. I'll admit the 1541 was slow, but not expensive I only paid $225 for mine and at the time the Disk II was around $400. The real sad part was the slowness was because of the overhead in the serial protocol, you could load replacement firmware into the 1541 and C64 that made the drive as fast as any floppy of the time.

  23. Re:Future market on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    from the 80's it would likely have electronic ignition, but from the early 70's you might be able to experience the joy of tuning breaker point ignition.

  24. Re:Sometimes even your hack gets outdated... on Ask Slashdot: Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 2

    >"Back in the early 90s my dad repurposed an old Tandy laptop..."

    >Couldn't have been too fucking old.

        The tandy model 100 came out in 1983, so it could have been 7 years old.