Watch that stock graph trend down in a few months when they announce the actual solution. Anything they could do that would prevent workaround (via refils, spoofing, etc.) without adding prohibitive cost to the pods and/or impacting the user experience. Seriously - punishing people who buy their unremarkable coffee makers like this - if their business model (sell machine cheap and consumable materials dear) they can go suck it. It's not like he printer market where there are few alternatives - they have just found a way to make coffee makers as annoying as printers.

I can imagine a scene from Office Space 2 where they take the coffee maker out back for some batting practice.

If you really want to go to coffee heaven, start roasting your own beans. Takes 5-10 mins and makes a world of difference. Plus green beans cost a fraction of roasted.

Wow - people have more faith in Google than I thought.
I thought this was a joke story at first. I interpreted it as "mortality is the number one cause of death in the world".

At least put some sort of qualifications in place lest we preserve a planet full of douchebags.

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Hey, my Faberge eggs just arrived via drone....crap.

For package delivery you would likely be flying in urban areas that have restrictions on unmanned aircraft, autonomous or not. I believe in the US you need at least one operator/spotter with line-of-sight (with their own eyes, not a camera) to the aircraft - not easy in urban areas unless you are in a helicopter yourself.

Nevertheless, I am sure this will happen in a few years, but it will be messy.

Sounds more like a drone notifier than a drone shield.

Sounds like something that was mildly hot in Japan 6 years ago:
http://www.nttdocomo.com/technologies/future/audio/index.html

And yet this still makes the front page of Slashdot - with a spin-laden misleading title.

MojoKid - you are an ass, and so is the moderator.

I would check out used/cheap PNDs. You get a minimal enclosure with enough room for a pcb and battery (you might even reuse the battery and maybe the charging circuit if possible). I bet you can find some older ones with 3-or-so inch resistive screens for under 40 bucks - probably 10 at a garage sale. As long as the enclosue, screen and battery are ok (you may not even want the battery) it should be a safe bet.

Pawn shops (ahem) tend to have lots of these as well.

Granted you are just hoping you can gracefully separate the components you want from the PND guts - it might be worth checking to see which PNDs have some open source projects around them - the component specs are probably known and you can find the datasheet - maybe even in English :D.

Thanks for the correction. So many scumbags, only so much money to grub.

I recall reading an article a few months ago where MZ openly admitted to casting ethics to the wind and diving into whatever advertising scheme he could to generate capital in the early years of FB with no regard for privacy or transparency. No, I don't care enough to find the link and reference it.

There is no question of selling out - MZ had a clearance sale on business ethics years ago.

Actually, having a guy called "dungeon master" telling prisoners what to do sounds just like prison.