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I had an LG with really bad retention - I took it to an Apple store where the rep saw the issue. Two days later I picked it up and haven't had a problem since. It was very easy to get it replaced and is great for coding for me.

OpenXC had a really easy to way to get odometer readings, otherwise according to [1] "For a Ford vehicle, the odometer can be read via a mode $22 PID of $6180 for km clusters, and $6182 for mph clusters.". [2] Also talks a bit about reading Odometer. Shame there isn't a standard for reading it.

[1] http://www.mp3car.com/engine-management-obd-ii-engine-diagno...

[2] http://www.canbushack.com/blog/index.php?title=oh-no-odomete...

All cars will soon require blackboxes [1]. I agree it's a big deal and it will be interesting to see how good security / how accessible these are.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/black-boxes-privacy...

I was actually working on a project based on OpenXC but the license[1] is pretty restrictive. License aside, it's really easy to use and implement.

[1] http://openxcplatform.com/agreement.html

Musk said previously in a tweet that logging is always on for media but only on for customers with their written permission.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/301053361157988352

I remember reading the zoom lenses weren't possible because of having to keep a lubricating fluid wet. This posed challenges (heating from mar's extreme cold, etc) so it was scrapped for the time.

Isn't the Samsung Slate 7 around 1k and uses a Wacom digitizer?