In this particular case, he was after transferring an employee of Oracle India who already had worked with the team (albeit remotely) and knew the systems involved, so arguably the pool of equally qualified Americans who weren't already employed by Oracle was probably pretty small.

From TFA, he is suing because he was (he alleges) sacked for asking to hire the Indian at a salary they would have offered one of the rest of the team and complaining when they wouldn't.

Given they haven't yet shipped all the kickstarter orders, I'm afraid it will be a while, although I did hear they were shipping some pre-orders in black, so perhaps not that long if you don't mind that colour.

Battery life is (for me) ~10days
Mostly, yeah most apps are silly on that screen*. However for what it is designed to do (which is basically act as a second display for notifications from your phone) it is fine.
$150 for a device that means I don't miss calls / txts when out because I didn't hear it go off / was listening to music at the time? Easily worth it. If you don't need that functionality? Then no; but then again that is true of any device.
Oh, and actually yeah, the hipsters do rather like the pebble, from the ones I've met. Heck, they (and a few geeks) are the only ones who know what it is when they see it.
*The one app I have installed is the google authenticator which is ideal for the form factor. I've not found / thought of another one.

also don't forget encfs as an option - lacks the license issues with truecrypt, plus it can be got to work under linux, osx and windows.

close. encfs. Yeah it leaks some intel regarding #files and dir structure, but its much more sync friendly

zfs snapshots are much more akin to a block level version of rsnapshot. lvm snapshots are more like zfs clones (although not quite, as even they are done Copy on Write (CoW).

don't forget the intent log -being able to recover from failed power issues is great, but unless you use a separate flash zil device, it ain't quick ('course, that assumes they are using sync'd writes).

I admit I am intrigued. Any pointers on where on the site to find these images / where to look for the docs? I've *mostly* migrated core server funcs to openindiana now, but there are a few things which it would be handy for.

not if the drive's serial number no longer matches. plus the original xbox (don't know about the 360) used a little used feature of the ide spec involving a HDD password that was encoded into the bios - drive ignores any read/writes until someone transmits the correct code, making it somewhat difficult to dupe the drive

As has been said above (and will probably be said below in various forms) - it cuts both ways. To rephrase that in line with your (mildly inflammatory) tone:

Unfortunately, it is awkward since its fairly hard to be a seriously large company these days without operating in both the states and in europe (q.f. the problems one company (I forget who) had when the Sarbanes-Oxley stuff came in, which contradicted French law, making it (at the time) technically impossible to continue).

Top tip: don't shave it off, then its already there when you need it!

Eh? more like under a minute actually. (couldn't see any particular speed figures, but assuming mars earth distance is ~5.5x10^10m, and assuming perfectly linear accel / deccel (which in space ain't that wrong I guess), you get a deltav of ~1.7x10^3ms^-2, now given his trip was only under 1.3x10^6m, using good old a level mechanics that gives you a time of just under 40s...*

*of course, this assumes vast amounts of stuff, including no air resistance and instant change from accel to deccel, but hey.

Apart from that ruddy blue shell. A couple of games with friends and that was enough to put me off playing it again. I mean, fine give better weapons / bonuses to the players at the back, but regularly simply bomb the guy in the lead with no recourse whatsoever? Meh.

Which makes a lifetime (to date) attach rate of what, just over 4? That is not that much, really.