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spdrun
ParticipantActually, they don’t. CPU power and memory is cheap. No reason for a learning thermostat or controller to need to communicate with the Borg Collective, back and forth.
All data that it needs to develop its program is available locally or via the user’s phone.
IPv6 (practical meaning: static IP ranges for all homes) is coming. There shouldn’t be any need for an intermediary (other than data theft for profit) once every home is routable. Phone can talk directly to a thermostat, possibly via a VPN.
I’d be willing to pay say 2-3x the price of a Nest for a thermostat that doesn’t engage in data rape.
Good stuff here:
http://www.networkthermostat.com/products/wi-fi-thermostatsAbout $450 a device, but WiFi enabled, built in Web server, and cloudfree.
ParticipantSure, but none of this requires Scroggle, Crapple, Amazon, or M$ to act as intermediaries. Just a few sensors, a hub/brain box, and a few motor controllers.
If there was a common standard for connecting to devices in the home, I shouldn’t need to use an intermediary to fire up the jacuzzi either, just connect to my home’s router (ideally with an outward-facing static ipv6 addy) and be able to see my Jacuzzi’s mobile web interface directly.
ParticipantShades and windows don’t need to communicate with anything outside the home.
ParticipantBig difference between putting a hot microphone in every home, and people posting information that they choose to post on social/dating sites.
Also, most social/dating sites are free, so no need for them to be tied to a real identity. A lot of people use burner emails and a second prepaid cell for such things.
BTW – music, schmusic. It’s free on Bittorrent, and then it’s stored on your own HDD under your control. If you want to support the band, go to a concert, don’t buy their songs.
ParticipantSpyware, plain and simple. Unless it talks to a device directly via NAT/VPN or ipv6, of course. Goes for Apple, M$, and Google equally.
ParticipantConnect it to a cheap Linux box, NAS it. File system format become irrelevant.
ParticipantOn the other hand, the Euros’ cash holdings in dollar value just took a massive haircut over the last year or so. Yay for a strong dollar!
I’m almost hoping that Trump wins and causes massive chaos through misguided policies. That would be fun to watch and an investment opportunity. But, nah, he’s too hateful against people whom I really love.
ParticipantFlyerInHI: Plenty of non-boring parts of the US. You just have to venture off the beaten path and not only go where everyone else is going.
Participant(Ethnic food in US is always Americanized)
Not always. But you have to go to an area that’s populated by recent immigrants from $country to get the good stuff.
Participantdupe delete
ParticipantOther than when traveling for business with tools/equipment, I haven’t checked a bag in years. Unless I’m going to the Klondike, there will probably be a way to do laundry once a week or so.
Participantyou give an employee a $50 gift certificate to a favorite restaurant for a job well done, that’s more valuable than $50 cash. …
If you give an employee some lousy antique looking clock for decades of service, he will proudly display it on his mantel and tell this grandkids.
How do you know the wife would like that particular restaurant? Unless the certificate is to all restaurants of a particular group, like Darden, in which case 90% of the restaurants that accept it will be crap. Gimme the cash or shut your yappa.
The clock? “I slaved for those idiots for 30 years and they fired me two weeks before I was eligible for a pension. I’d like to shove that clock up my old boss’s bum.”
ParticipantAren’t they supposed to re-open CLD airport to commercial flights? Yeah, SNA has problems — runway is very short, no space for expansion. So aircraft have to take off light in hot or windy weather. Meaning either a lower pax load, or a lower fuel load and a stop in ONT to refuel.
ParticipantIf the corepiration for whom I worked gave me a gift, my first thought would be “f you, your momma, poppa, and your children – I’d prefer to have the money to spend as *I* wish.”
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