If you are actually the admin of these 30+ machines (which I doubt), you should be looking for another job because your comment suggests you shouldn't be left in charge of a toaster.
Just to see what it would say I ran it on my secondary machine that has a Q6600 and GTX 460 1GB. Nothing was displayed apart from the "loading" and "testing" prompts but the results finfally came up that I was right at the top of the scale in terms of readiness for VR, right where I would expect something like a GTX 980 Ti coupled with an i7 to appear. Perhaps Valve just don't expect people to even try it on such old hardware (although saying that I can still run pretty much any game with settings turned down, with older games the 460 can still churn out amazing graphics as long as you aren't going above 1920*1080).
The question isn't is it worth the security risks, it's is it worth the bother in the first place. For some things I can see how it could be useful (lights, heating etc. in a house), but trying to connect as many random things as possible is nothing more than a novelty.
That could be a blessing in disguise. The bitrate Netflix uses on Dolby Digital Plus was reduced and now gives a horrible quality centre channel, considering that's the most active speaker because it's for dialogue it's painful to listen to. Voices sound garbled, constant sibilance artifacts and the telltale "underwater" sound similar to a low bitrate mp3. I've had to resort to forcing my player (a PS4) to report to Netflix that it doesn't support DD+, causing it to output multi-channel PCM which sounds fine. I'm fairly sure the DD+ codec allows you to specify more bits to specific channels so that's all they need to do, it's definitely not my hardware either as it used to be fine before they made the reduction. They surely can't be making so much of a saving in bandwidth that it's worth wrecking the audio for.
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When I went to school they taught us Latin. Not being able to speak Latin is almost pathetic. Idiot.
If you are actually the admin of these 30+ machines (which I doubt), you should be looking for another job because your comment suggests you shouldn't be left in charge of a toaster.
Just to see what it would say I ran it on my secondary machine that has a Q6600 and GTX 460 1GB. Nothing was displayed apart from the "loading" and "testing" prompts but the results finfally came up that I was right at the top of the scale in terms of readiness for VR, right where I would expect something like a GTX 980 Ti coupled with an i7 to appear. Perhaps Valve just don't expect people to even try it on such old hardware (although saying that I can still run pretty much any game with settings turned down, with older games the 460 can still churn out amazing graphics as long as you aren't going above 1920*1080).
The question isn't is it worth the security risks, it's is it worth the bother in the first place. For some things I can see how it could be useful (lights, heating etc. in a house), but trying to connect as many random things as possible is nothing more than a novelty.
Welcome to The Internet.
You won't, it isn't true. It's just the first thing that popped into the poster's head when he tried to think of hardware "hacks" to lie about.
Getting an article posted on Slashdot recently is as easy as getting to the front page of Reddit. Is anyone even editing submissions anymore?
That could be a blessing in disguise. The bitrate Netflix uses on Dolby Digital Plus was reduced and now gives a horrible quality centre channel, considering that's the most active speaker because it's for dialogue it's painful to listen to. Voices sound garbled, constant sibilance artifacts and the telltale "underwater" sound similar to a low bitrate mp3. I've had to resort to forcing my player (a PS4) to report to Netflix that it doesn't support DD+, causing it to output multi-channel PCM which sounds fine. I'm fairly sure the DD+ codec allows you to specify more bits to specific channels so that's all they need to do, it's definitely not my hardware either as it used to be fine before they made the reduction. They surely can't be making so much of a saving in bandwidth that it's worth wrecking the audio for.