No it doesn't at all, if you spray the liquid where the bar meets the tube, there's plenty of space to get it in there right onto the part that does the locking...then one good hammer blow and that's my bike! It's only the lock bar, not the entire mechanism that needs to break, and you have direct access to it where the bar penetrates the tube.
It also looks like you could easily spray into the slot below the 'keyway' onto the lock itself...and there would be way more room inside to fill with liquid. Worse, it looks like the end caps are anodized aluminum, which won't even need a liquid, just a good hammer! (maybe that's wrong, but it looks that way)
Neat lock, but totally breakable....like just about any lock. A better plan might be a lock with a temp sensor and wireless to alert you theft is immanent.

This is the worst kind of sci-fi to me. In fact, I don't even consider movies like this science fiction--they're science fantasy since they're not based on science at all.

Using our brain's capacity more efficiently will allow us to intercept wireless transmissions and read them NSA-style in our heads, grow and change our hair at will, and break every other known law of physics?

Give me a break. I'll pass on this one. Even if it is Sucker Punch redux.

The US is possibly the only place that has a worse situation for internet and wireless providers than Canada. And we hate our RoBellUs Cartel.

Not necessarily...

1) This truck is broadcasting the song over the CB.
2) This truck is broadcasting the song with a wireless FM modulator.

Personally, #1 seems more likely.

#1) It's called fear-mongering and the media loves it
#2) There are various exploits available to intercept wireless communications.
#3) New computers are set up for the lay-person who doesn't know the first thing about security and thus has many security features turned off.
#4) It's EASY to spoof 802.11 WiFi access points and act as a man-in-the-middle
#5) 3G/4G are not very secure protocols and are similar to 802.11/802.16
#6) I really doubt there are legions of hackers standing at the ready to take all UR DATAZ. These are most certainly automated attacks.
#7) Apple computers suck bloated donkey balls.

really need more details about this... When they had brand new devices, does that mean they were un-patched for known security holes? Or are all these exploits the Russians use unknown, and there are currently no patches, such that a completely patched/updated device is still vulnerable?

Any WiFi captive-portal "login" page could inject known browser exploits into the html - If you use your own MyFi (personal hotspot), and are willing to pay huge for roaming international data, then this form of attack isn't possible.

And the coffee shop owner probably doesn't know that their wireless access point is serving up malicious code. It was either hacked by who they bought it from, or whoever installed it, or by some hacker who went to the shop. But shame on the airport's IT security - if they have official WiFi that was also hacked. (but the criminals might have set up their own wireless and called it "Free Airport WiFi")

Every OS on every device (not just Windows) has security holes, Mac OS X included. The hole gets exploited to allow running some piece of software that the user didn't intend, and that software (malware/virus) collects user data and uploads it back to the criminals servers on the network (these 'data collection' servers are also usually attacked/compromised computers, so they can't be traced directly back to the criminals).

My advice to tourists would be to bring a "dumb" phone for voice calls. (keep bluetooth turned off though) Then you'll remember how great it was to only charge it once a week

I apologize for my delay.

A key feature of every part of my bike is that I can repair just about any damage myself. This box of electronics just adds more parts prone to failure, not to mention the added weight (~5kg) or the attention it attracts, primarily from thieves.

And wireless connectivity? Hell no, I'm surrounded by bugs as it is.

(Still, anything that gets people to switch their cars for bikes is good in my book.)

Yo Grimm-Have you heard anything about whacky John McAfee's secret FTS project, the Anonymous Hieronymus Box??
Wireless mesh network-type stuff, wave of the future of privacy??

Don't see how it'd work.

However the more I think about phones and how I see them in the future. I don't see them remaining as a one device "thing" like it is now.

I see them being more like a PC. With a processor/storage/etc "brain" bit, a display, extra stuff you have now like headphones etc....and maybe a battery/powering device although I'd hope eventually batteries wouldn't need to be as big as they are...or solar/some other kind of wireless power shows up.

The reason I see it this way is that eventually we're going to have displays where having a big chunk of extra stuff attached to it is going to be really damn annoying....like google glass....or displays that be rolled up....or holographic..or whatever. And I hope we advance past touch screens, because I really dislike them. Really don't like having my finger/hand in the way of what I'm trying to see/accomplish.

So people are going to want a display of choice when "other" stuff shows up.

Then the other guts of the phone....well if you can get them in a case that fits in your pocket, wristwatch, wallet, shoe, keychain, whatever...they are going to be a lot harder to break and need replaced less...or be pretty cheap. Plus if done right they could tie into your home, car, office, etc for more processing power if needed. Then work as more of a conduit to your display than the main processor in circumstances where you're near faster devices.

So in essence, your display would replace a lot of "other" displays potentially as your brain unit connects to other devices to serve up it's abilities to your display....tv, home pc, work pc, car hud, etc.

Course there'd need to be some speed increases in wireless communications...and either some sort of wireless power or some big changes in batteries.

It's also my hope this is the way it goes, because carrying around tech like a phone and trying to work with a tiny display just wears me out.

This guys points are very valid.
I'd be happy to see a modular standard (like ATX) for notebooks/laptops, but there is none.

Truth is - for portable devices consumers demand them to be smaller, cheaper, and have better battery life. PhoneBloks would be larger, more expensive, and more power hungry than the highly-integrated designs for portable electronics nowadays.

I think a practical starting point would be a standard "socket" for an SoC, which could be upgradeable. The part you keep would be the screen, pcb, antennas, etc. The SoC could itself be an MCM, with multiple stacked layers. You would have to upgrade this "base" once in a while too, but only with release of new wireless standards that work at different frequencies.

Having a standard size & voltage lithium battery for phones would be nice too. Could anyone imagine how much it would suck if AA and AAA batteries didn't exist for other electronics?

I also vote microSDXC as standard for flash storage.

Jeez, any Ford with SYNC is a wireless hotspot.

That is......concerning

Or compromises it via the existing wireless link to your tyre pressure sensors?

Or someone installs a wireless connection inside of your vehicle?

I'm not going to claim this stuff isn't worrying...but it currently requires physical access to the inside of the vehicle...none of those signals are wireless and accessible without popping in and messing with the wires, I believe. The scary thing will be if they do make the control systems externally accessible...

Back in '86, I slept over at a friends house and we stayed up late watching this movie. When we got to this part, we started rewinding the tape and replaying it over and over again, laughing our asses off.

But what we forgot was my friend's parents had a Rabbit, which was a device that allowed you to wirelessly hook up multiple TVs to one VCR in the house, and his Mom had also been watching it in the back bedroom too. After the 14th replay, she finally came out and read us the riot act.

Good times.