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by kefka 11y ago
> That makes it sound like their primary concern is keeping control of the devices. In reality I think it's just laziness. I sincerely believe that many of these entrants into IoT do want to remain in control of the devices and the
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by kefka 11y ago
I can imagine a much scarier scenario... You use whatever app to summon a car. You give it a destination, and instead, the car makes a detour to the local police station. the address you entered is in a higher crime rate locality, and there
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by kefka 11y ago
Ah. Now we see the end of the beginning of the age of IoT. I have consistently complained that these companies are completely deficient in requiring some cloud service (read: other peoples' servers). And guess why I had those issues? B
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by kefka 11y ago
Unfortunately it's not solid tracking. It's the standard structured IR light over the scene. Which means that sunlight, reflected sunlight, florescent lights, or any other IR emitter will wreck havoc over the SLAM algo they have r
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by kefka 11y ago
(I'm not the parent or GP) My answer is: I can't afford US goods costs. I can afford Chinese costs. I'm not a company whose decisions are to move away from the US for an extra $1 billion profit. My choices are : Get it from C
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by kefka 11y ago
> They covered a lot of those -- SLI and VSync will get fixed in a May update, they showed off mods for Age of Empires II, they talked about overlay support. Unfortunately, I've been around the block and then some. I've heard t
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by kefka 11y ago
What about the horrible performance issues with Universal Windows Apps? http://www.howtogeek.com/243012/why-you-shouldnt-buy-rise-of... In a nutshell... No SLI or CrossFire VSync is Always On Always Bo
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by kefka 11y ago
Oh, you mean the password their agents set, AFTER the city unlocked the iPhone using the standard administration interface? The phone was a City Phone, was managed by the City, and had all the standard controls of a Managed iPhone. Well, as
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by kefka 11y ago
I think the other part here, is that IFTTT is making it sound blackmail-y... IFTTT to users: Weeeeelllll, we had great integration with X service, but they refuse to play ball with us any more. And now, their connector broke, and they refus
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by kefka 11y ago
Zrgiu_ , I'd recommend looking into writing a Node-red node. That way, your work stays yours, and integrates in a wider open source community. Your work should stay yours, and as current as you choose. You will have to deal with the i
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by kefka 11y ago
I'm a mere user of IFTTT. And the more I read this train-wreck of a thread, along with what you're putting developers through, I'm done. All of my further work will be done purely with local instances of Node-Red and Apache N
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by kefka 11y ago
> Corporations are legal persons. Only persons can be parties to legal actions. True, only due to bad precedent. "Should they be?" is a question we the people should have had a chance to argue and debate. Instead, it was by a j
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by kefka 11y ago
Fortunately, because everything is a cryptographic sum, it would be trivially easy to state "IPFS Hash Qm....... is a trojan, please sanitize this hash on all machines". I would expect things like this coming from CERT or other se
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by kefka 11y ago
The only problem with webapps is they they are fragile and depend on a set of materials. If we had a way, we could make a completely contained webapp, call it a dApp... Oh wait, we now do: IPFS can do the storage mechanism and contain the w
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by kefka 11y ago
$Companies have a tendency to say what will get them the sale, or even include features initially... and then fail to come through with their promises. So it is a breath of fresh air to see this happen.
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by kefka 11y ago
When I want files available on IPFS, I just pin them to the appropriate machines. Ipfs pin add [key] And my material now has another seed machine. It works, and is clean and efficient. One thing: I share everything in a directory,
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by kefka 11y ago
Right now, I'm running an IPFS node. Now, say I store a set of files. What happens is that: /set_of_files -> /ipfs/[key_1] Now, these files change because they were your GIT repo of all your projects. So what happens
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by kefka 11y ago
The underlying problem with this method is that the OLED screens put out almost 0 UV radiation. UV is what the resins need to harden. "Because of submitting too fast..." REPLY: Ok. I just came back from MRRF (Midwest RepRap Festiv
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by kefka 11y ago
SLA printers (resin) print the models upside down. Thats because they pull up to break from the bottom container with the liquid, and lower back down to do the next layer. Usually for post processing, you'll use a UV lightbox to cure t
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by kefka 11y ago
That's why I'm looking into IPFS( https://ipfs.io ) as part of my infrastructure. How that would look then, with IPFS... > "So what you're saying is, your computers cannot possibly not continue damaging the
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by kefka 11y ago
Nope. Usenet died because of 2 reasons: The burden of carrying alt.binaries The burden of pirate media on distributed Usenet servers from alt.binaries They made a great point of attack for the MPAA and RIAA member associations. And
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by kefka 11y ago
Not only that, but K5 also charged for accounts. Right now, the login/password field is bugged so you have to type in the URL string to get to your account. ICU/brain dead is about right for K5 now, unfortunately.
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by kefka 11y ago
Document and lose the 8 hours/week. Its not your 8 hours.
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by kefka 11y ago
Ah. "Error code 23, extreme gravity present" It's OK, we don't know what this error means. We'll override it.
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by kefka 11y ago
> However, telling a woman she doesn't take her career seriously is a different matter. You cannot assume to know that woman's situation, her commitment to her job, her resources for child care, etc. She may have a stay at home
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by kefka 11y ago
> Telling a woman she must not take her career seriously if she is pregnant. I'm for equality, and the area around FMLA is not equal, by any means. That issue is caused by the risk that women of child-bearing age have with regar
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by kefka 11y ago
"I'm offended so you need to shut up." Is no way to have proper communication. And that's the point with branding things as "micro-aggressions". Its an effective social construct to silence someone by branding
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by kefka 11y ago
I remember discussing this back when Xanadu was first brought public. The "hell" scenario is when every page is attempting to monetize content. Not only that, but adverts would charge you to read them, text could be split per word
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by kefka 11y ago
I really don't care why they chose to do this hijack-update. When I'm lied to about updating, and it takes bloody forever normally, it pisses me off. When you start trying to hijack my machine for your purposes "for Win10
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by kefka 11y ago
"To read this content, please pay $0.01" Yeah. That wouldn't at all be abused.

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