if you can afford this thing, you can afford a roundtrip to shanghai

fabulous, now what about us cyclists with those metal cleats at the bottom of the shoe (or at least the bolts thereof...)

in my opinion, it is bad hardware design if it *can* be irreversibly damaged by software. there should be checks at the hardware level against that, as well as ways to factory-reset any piece of hardware that commercially ships.

yes but the problem we are facing these days is overuse of tasers.
tasers are designed to be usually-non-lethal replacements for gun use when a person is physically threatening a cop or another individual.

in cases where the person is no physical threat at all -- for example, passively resisting arrest, simply sitting there and not obeying orders, shouting but not fighting, or simply not responsive -- tasers should not be used. unfortunately, far too many cops feel the need to use them in such non-violent scenarios where it is much more humane to simply just pick them up and transport them.

bottom line is that tasers are NOT a compliance tool, they are a defence tool.

i don't. i have a crapload of gentoo and ubuntu disks though.

sure, it's the same deal everywhere in europe, incoming text messages are free.

but when i lived in europe i had to pay 1 euro per outgoing message. and 1-2 euros/minute for calls (including voicemail), so i hardly used any of this. instead i used data to access gmail, which was running at about 0.015/KB, and used email for communication almost exclusively.

sad, but true state of the aggressive and horrendous costs of european cell phones. (sure, domestic everything is cheap in europe but i'm talking about international within europe; when you live in countries so small you're bound to have friends in all kinds of countries like i did)

http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/

i'd be scared to use it, in case my cell phone battery dies ...

i agree. it hangs over near a smoking area and is too high, where nobody ever looks; it also doesn't look 3D because you really can't see the inside of it from the floor of the HB. i think they should take it down, put it on a big table, and have it on display like that.

personally i'd like to hear the gossip and rumors too, because often it brings out some things which are true, much earlier than you would normally find, as long as said gossip and rumors are clearly marked as such.