amiga

The last smart TV I had flashed an annoying light if there were no wifi connection.

Cover the light, I thought!

...the annoying light is adjacent to the IR receiver.

Cover the light, no remote.

Is this intentional?

I'm a guy who has disassembled and reverse engineered a standard Jazzy power chair, and what I noticed was the attention to detail regarding failures. The chair is thoroughly designed to shut down at the slightest bit of trouble. There's some redundancy in things like the controller, where it used redundant hall effect sensors that were identical to the others, but ran in an inverted power profile, to detect any weirdness in the sensor outputs.

I ended up adding a long range remote control to it. A remote control power chair is fun to drive around. People do get a little concerned when they see a chair rolling around without a driver

The red text seems to be closer than the other text. As if it were floating above the other text.

Anyone who has ever seen an MS acquisition play out before knew this was coming.

Minecraft has been open for some time, and that has an effect counter to the control that MS seeks over its products.

"Embrace, extend, extinguish" has been the strategy for decades.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off has some inspiring hacks :^)

How do you feel about the opposite end; a candidate who's been with a single company for a decade?

Anecdotal, the last "unsmart" TV I found was hobbled to the point of not even having a power indicator LED.

It wasn't used much until putting a "good smart" device behind it...in this case a Roku.

Orwellian prophecy in real life, the Roku sends data back to the company about anything you watch using that device.

The only difference between this setup and a "plus good smart" TV is that anything else displayed on the TV(pc, pirated movies, photos, playstation/xbox/nintendo consoles, etc) will be fingerprinted and sent back to the company analytical department.

My opinion is it is none of their business.

This is all acceptable because manipulation via marketing/advertising is considered a necessary evil, and, the device is easy to use.

This would mean we're responsible for emissions in China - I'd imagine that's not a popular opinion

A good thing for Microsoft marketing?

...which might be because their life focus is something other than being a computer scientist.

Sometimes it seems like we (technological adepts) expect people to be proficient in mechanical engineering because they own a car.

Can we extrapolate that to 1000x more infectious than the original strain?

"Pay more" does seem like the best response here

The meters used in my area can be wirelessly shut down by any nearby power technician.

They have vans with very visible PVC pipes mounted on the roof to interact with the meters.

And, just like that, donating your body to science has new meaning.

bacus

To beef fair, the title was begging for it.

Logically correct. The wrong class has less to lose that would benefit the company.

Are you a robot?

Where do you draw the line between marketing vs flat out lies? There's a conflict of interest between consumer and sales person.

I just tire of the subterfuge.

The hardest part of getting people to do this is people dont want backups.

They want restores.

Today, I learned the awesome bar is a keylogger to some individuals.

George was sucked under those treadmills as well.

You know you need to track location for that to work, right?

Back then it was radical!

In IT, changed career goals to a less demanding role, including a new team, manager, etc. Its amazing how refreshing a change like that can be.

The Penn and Teller series, Bullshit, features an episode on polygraph machines and interviewer techniques. It's a good watch.

One could argue Facebook makes zero sense in any context.

Futurama is a great show.

...and the idea of a secure computer in general...

HL3