Posts by mlynx

Jet packs are real – and inventor just broke world speed record in it

Upper body strength

Watched a video about him a while back. He had to train to support his body weight on his arms the whole time while flying. So the technique might be bicycle easy, it's not something you can just jump into and go.

Lawyer: Cops dropped robbery case rather than detail FBI's StingRay phone snoop gizmo

Re: @Lucre

I don't even believe it's a grey area. I seriously doubt the cell companies, who pay billions of dollars for their spectrum, agree to someone manufacturing a device that purposely operates in their spectrum for the purpose of disrupting legitimate customers communications. Every piece of evidence gathered under one of these devices would be tossed out in an instant if they had to operate a device illegally under federal law to obtain it.

Barnes & Noble sheds Nook tablet albatross, will focus on ebooks

Too bad

As usual, excellent hardware is being dropped because of poor marketing and stupid management moves. B&N really tried to lock the devices down and then heavily mark up the content. Why pay $.99 for an app that the rest of the world gets for free from the Play store? It was a non-starter.

The thing is, it's some of the best hardware out there when it comes to tablets. The NC and Nook Tablet are some of the most durable, comfortable tablets out there. Add in some super cool hackability and you've got a fantastic device. I should know, I've bought over 10 of them for friends and family. Add a microSD card with an android OS and you're dual booting to a much friendlier environment and able to get all the free goods.

My youngest has dropped her tablet numerous times, to the point where there's a 1cm chunk of the frame missing and it's still running. You can't do that with an iPad, Nexus or Fire.