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Comment Casio Tough Titanium Solar Radio "Nerd Watch" (Score 1) 232

CASIO Watch Lineage Tough Solar Radio Watch Titanium MULTIBAND6 LCW-M100TD-1A3JF Men's Watch
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCASIO-L...

This watch is always on time because it synchronizes with atomic radios globally.
The battery never runs out because the watch face is a solar cell.
You don't have to take off the watch because it is water resistant to 5 bars/50 bars.
It looks like an "adult" watch though it has standard digital features:
Date, world time, stopwatch, countdown, and alarms.

The titanium makes this watch almost indestructible.
The sapphire glass only had a minor scratch when a person fell pinning my wrist to a rock face.
Everything still worked, but I replaced the glass anyway.
Not bad for 4 years.

tl:dr; ... this watch will outlast YOU.

Submission + - Power -- And by that I mean Free Broadband -- To the People

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: Slashdot member and open source developer Ben Kallos @KallosEsq — who is now a NYC Councilman — is pushing to make it a precondition to Comcast's merging with Time Warner that it agree to provide free broadband to all public housing residents in the City (and by free I mean free as in beer). Kallos, along with NY's Public Advocate, Letitia James, are leading a group of state and local politicians calling on Comcast to help bridge the digital divide in NY.

Submission + - Councilman/Open Source Developer submits Open Source bill (gothamgazette.com)

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: New York City Council Member Ben Kallos (KallosEsq), who also happens to be a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developer, just introduced legislation to mandate a government preference for FOSS and creating a Civic Commons website to facilitate collaborative purchasing of software. He argues that NYC could save millions of dollars with the Free and Open Source Software Preferences Act 2014, pointing out that the city currently has a $67 million Microsoft ELA. Kallos said: "It is time for government to modernize and start appreciating the same cost savings as everyone else."

Comment Re: Voting Machines & DOJ (Score 1) 228

New York State passed very stringent laws to protect their constituents right to vote. At the heart of the matter and the DOJ's filing is New York State's requirement for Escrow of Source Code. Every vendor uses a Microsoft OS and Microsoft refuses to put their various source codes into escrow. Escrow means taking something important be it a document or money and putting it under lock and key where it is safe and secure. Eventually this important document or money can be released from escrow, this safe and secure place and is safely and securely transferred to a pre-determined destination.

In the context of New York State, Escrow does not mean that all of sudden the world will have Microsoft's Source Code, only the Government and only in the case of an Election gone wrong.

New York State needs your help. New York State needs technology talent like Slash Dot readers to do more than just read and write about our Democracy going down the drains. New York needs you to take active steps towards building an alternative to proprietary hardware based on proprietary software and replace it with open hardware based on open source or free software. Feel free to comment or shoot a message to kallos@votersearch.org.

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