maury markowitz

Once again, with feeling:

The idea of the Level is that you replace the cylinder with the one you already have in your door. That means you can keep using your keys, which you probably have all over the place. This is the entire design concept and it is why it is laid out like it is. There are hundreds of YouTube videos showing you how to do it.

So the Level is exactly as pickable as your current cylinder because it uses your current cylinder. It's like the same cylinder though, as it's a completely standard 5-pin model that you can even re-key to use your existing keys.

There are LOTS of reasons not to buy this lock, but pickability is not one of them because almost every lock out there is easily pickable. Better reasons include:

1) If you touch it with any body part, even just brushing it, it will lock/unlock. It's so annoying almost everyone turns it off

2) the auto-lock will re-lock the door even if its open, which means you you go to close it, BANG

3) the auto-lock will re-lock even if you deliberately unlocked it. there's no way to leave your door unlocked if you're expecting someone. If you don't have a storm door you can keep closed... well, tough.

I don't think Apple is their risk factor.

I think the fact that people are is interested in VR as they were in 3D television is the risk factor.

The number of people who want this crap in any near future is a rounding error.

... which is why there's basically 1 in 20 games on the Mac?

Its not like they can blame weak GPUs any more.

> It's a shame if this is true, because the HomePod does sound amazing

Sure, but my Yamaha stereo with two nice Mirage speakers sounds better. And that setup cost the same as a Home Pod.

It's just too expensive. This is an accessory, it can't cost as much as a full-blown iPad. And everyone knows it.

If you can't do it $199, don't do it. It's not like someone was forcing them to sell one.

It is important to note that these systems will NOT stop robocalls. That’s non-trivial in the VOIP era when those calls can come from anywhere, most of which don’t care what laws the US passes. 

hypoluxa said:

I can't see them (yet) removing the MacPro from their roster. The PCI expansion slots are a niche market for some Pro users who use them, they still have a customer market for it albeit a shrinking one.

Could this not be addressed with a working external PCI expansion system?

lotones said:

When that comes down everybody will want one. 

I've been reading some form of this statement for 20 years now.

I really don't think people want to strap something to their face until it's the same form factor as a pair of glasses.

TechnoTacno said:

It’s alarming that the BHMA has rated a lock that can be picked in seconds with a AAA rating. 

How can a consumer find a secure lock if the rating suggests AAA and can still be picked in seconds?

Almost all locks can be picked in seconds. All you need is the tool. The high-security locks for homes generally add security by making the keyhole have a weird shape so the pick won't fit. So the Norman, for instance, uses a key that looks like an S in cross-section, so a normal flat pick won't fit into the curved slot. But that's it, after that it's the same mechanism. So all you have to do is use a different pick, which is why you have a lockpick SET, not a lockpick.

avon b7 said:

I wonder how the Chinese will take that 

... they took that by raising their tariffs again.

No, not liquid metal. Liquidmetal.