There's a belief - even within large organizations, that organic innovation is killed off by bureaucracy. Google and Microsoft are trying to buy back their youth by throwing around money. They believe that their core business may lose relevance in the future, and need something new to keep them alive.
Yep. Sometimes it just works. Like when they bought Keyhole. Or Urchin. Not sure that Postini has really worked out, no idea if any of that trickled down to Gmail or not.
Don't act like everyone's sensitive. Give it a few generations and the few of you there are will be bred out of existence. Please don't have any children.
When you're away from home for the weekend, and you didn't know when you'd get back. You can turn on the AC/Heat a couple hours before you get home. That way, you could go without paying for heating/cooling the entire time you're gone.
They are overpriced, I'll give you that. But it's not hard to make up the cost in energy savings and have it pay for itself. I never bought a programmable thermostat before, because most of them have a lousy UI. This one programs itself if you let it. Or, you can program it from a full computer GUI, putting in different set points for each of the 7 days a week.
The fact that it has a concept of "away" and can tell that no one's home is the source of the big savings. I might set a programmable thermostat with my daily work schedule, but it doesn't know when I decide to leave home on the weekend. It also wouldn't know when I have a vacation day or holiday off, either. I would have to be actually aware of my thermostat to get any savings. And I would have to remember to turn the thermostat on if I were home for whatever reason.
Overall, I decided it's worth it. It's totally dependent on the Internet. On the other hand, this means it can look up the current outdoor humidity via the Internet. If the outdoor humidity is low, then the Nest can turn off the compressor early when running the AC and continue to blow cold air over the condenser coils without worrying about blowing condensation back out of the vents. This is a pretty big energy savings in summer. And it really does work.
Plus, I can't help but like the ability to kick on the AC/heat remotely when we're still on our way home from vacation. We don't have to know when we'll be home, we just have to log in a couple hours before we get there.
I'm not a shill, and I've had a few glitches. I can't say I'm coming out way ahead for cost, but I don't think I'll be coming out behind over the life of the unit.
Most of these failure modes come out of not using a common wire in your system (a recent requirement of smart thermostats) and doing what other smart thermostats with rechargeable batteries do - charging by pulsing the heater relay. This fries all the relays in your heating system and sometimes fries the relay board on the Nest.
You're right - they don't need to use the POS for that. But when rolling their own pin pads, they are being lazy and just making it a dumb terminal instead of a black box - because they're not really hardware people. They're most likely embedded Windows people.
Sale may actually start Wednesday. Their sales usually go Wednesday - Saturday. Buying things on sale saves you something like half off on just about everything - especially if you're able to combine sales with coupons. I rarely pay over 60 cents for the name brand mac and cheese (sale/coupon combo). I assume you mean generic.
It probably was, but it could have been social engineering. If you put on a red polo and khakis, they'll probably let you walk anywhere in a retail store without thinking.
I once made the mistake of wearing a blue polo to Best Buy and the employees said hi and asked when I started.
CEO doesn't work in IT. No reason to believe he was presented with enough details to even take the blame. Besides, this security failure attacks what was once standard practice. Attacks are getting more sophisticated.
Firing everyone who is even remotely involved is just going to delay the company's recovery.
but how'd they know the executable binary that was running?
It was scanning the RAM. They didn't need to know what binary. They were likely just looking for credit card data using the luhn algorithm against ALL of the RAM for any string of 15 or 16 digits. With a hit, they can widen the net and grab all of track 1 and track 2 data. RAM is very fast.
To gain access to the RAM, you only need a privilege escalation exploit.
I think the problem is that the card terminals the banks issue aren't that great from a UI standpoint, and big businesses want to design that hardware, too. Target actually has a great UI as far as button sizes and ease of use. They should rethink integrating them at that level, but it's much harder to make their own black box. I think they'll have to look into that now.
Bananas are 29 cents/lb. and grapefruit 29 cents each at ALDI this week in my area. Pineapple is 99 cents/lb. And their produce is very fresh. How much is Mac 'n Cheese, prepared?
I agree - the problem isn't that there's a handout. It's that it's open to massive abuse (by some definitions of abuse). Now that the government's on the hook for the rising healthcare costs, there's more incentive to not make that handout turn into frozen dinners and junk food.
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There's a belief - even within large organizations, that organic innovation is killed off by bureaucracy. Google and Microsoft are trying to buy back their youth by throwing around money. They believe that their core business may lose relevance in the future, and need something new to keep them alive.
Yep. Sometimes it just works. Like when they bought Keyhole. Or Urchin. Not sure that Postini has really worked out, no idea if any of that trickled down to Gmail or not.
Yes, Google is looking to make the smartphone the center of your universe. And make sure it all integrates better with Android.
And it has a small rechargeable battery that can't really run the screen all the time.
Don't act like everyone's sensitive. Give it a few generations and the few of you there are will be bred out of existence. Please don't have any children.
When you're away from home for the weekend, and you didn't know when you'd get back. You can turn on the AC/Heat a couple hours before you get home. That way, you could go without paying for heating/cooling the entire time you're gone.
They are overpriced, I'll give you that. But it's not hard to make up the cost in energy savings and have it pay for itself. I never bought a programmable thermostat before, because most of them have a lousy UI. This one programs itself if you let it. Or, you can program it from a full computer GUI, putting in different set points for each of the 7 days a week.
The fact that it has a concept of "away" and can tell that no one's home is the source of the big savings. I might set a programmable thermostat with my daily work schedule, but it doesn't know when I decide to leave home on the weekend. It also wouldn't know when I have a vacation day or holiday off, either. I would have to be actually aware of my thermostat to get any savings. And I would have to remember to turn the thermostat on if I were home for whatever reason.
Overall, I decided it's worth it. It's totally dependent on the Internet. On the other hand, this means it can look up the current outdoor humidity via the Internet. If the outdoor humidity is low, then the Nest can turn off the compressor early when running the AC and continue to blow cold air over the condenser coils without worrying about blowing condensation back out of the vents. This is a pretty big energy savings in summer. And it really does work.
Plus, I can't help but like the ability to kick on the AC/heat remotely when we're still on our way home from vacation. We don't have to know when we'll be home, we just have to log in a couple hours before we get there.
I'm not a shill, and I've had a few glitches. I can't say I'm coming out way ahead for cost, but I don't think I'll be coming out behind over the life of the unit.
Most of these failure modes come out of not using a common wire in your system (a recent requirement of smart thermostats) and doing what other smart thermostats with rechargeable batteries do - charging by pulsing the heater relay. This fries all the relays in your heating system and sometimes fries the relay board on the Nest.
You're right - they don't need to use the POS for that. But when rolling their own pin pads, they are being lazy and just making it a dumb terminal instead of a black box - because they're not really hardware people. They're most likely embedded Windows people.
Sale may actually start Wednesday. Their sales usually go Wednesday - Saturday. Buying things on sale saves you something like half off on just about everything - especially if you're able to combine sales with coupons. I rarely pay over 60 cents for the name brand mac and cheese (sale/coupon combo). I assume you mean generic.
It probably was, but it could have been social engineering. If you put on a red polo and khakis, they'll probably let you walk anywhere in a retail store without thinking.
I once made the mistake of wearing a blue polo to Best Buy and the employees said hi and asked when I started.
CEO doesn't work in IT. No reason to believe he was presented with enough details to even take the blame. Besides, this security failure attacks what was once standard practice. Attacks are getting more sophisticated.
Firing everyone who is even remotely involved is just going to delay the company's recovery.
Only shop at $0.99 stores
What do you eat? Canned tuna and generic oreos?
and start X somewhere above 5 figures. Each person would get that payout. How serious then would corporations take data security?
What businesses would be left? $10,000 x 70,000,000 puts Target out of business. And overall, I'd rather see them survive than Wal-Mart.
but how'd they know the executable binary that was running?
It was scanning the RAM. They didn't need to know what binary. They were likely just looking for credit card data using the luhn algorithm against ALL of the RAM for any string of 15 or 16 digits. With a hit, they can widen the net and grab all of track 1 and track 2 data. RAM is very fast.
To gain access to the RAM, you only need a privilege escalation exploit.
Right. With credit cards, you're basically getting free insurance paid for by people who keep loads of interest-bearing debt.
I think the problem is that the card terminals the banks issue aren't that great from a UI standpoint, and big businesses want to design that hardware, too. Target actually has a great UI as far as button sizes and ease of use. They should rethink integrating them at that level, but it's much harder to make their own black box. I think they'll have to look into that now.
Do you hear that wooshing sound just above your ears?
They usually use those flyovers as training exercises. So think of it as a sunk cost that's being made more cost-efficient by having a dual purpose.
Bananas are 29 cents/lb. and grapefruit 29 cents each at ALDI this week in my area. Pineapple is 99 cents/lb. And their produce is very fresh. How much is Mac 'n Cheese, prepared?
Fresh carrots - 49 cents for 2lb. Fresh mushrooms, 59 cents/lb.
Buying things on sale is a much better strategy if you're poor.
Even if you don't have a faucet in your home that charges by the 1,000 gallon measure, even bottled water is cheaper than soda or orange juice.
I agree - the problem isn't that there's a handout. It's that it's open to massive abuse (by some definitions of abuse). Now that the government's on the hook for the rising healthcare costs, there's more incentive to not make that handout turn into frozen dinners and junk food.
because corn syrup would go through the roof
Real sugar is cheaper than unsubsidized corn syrup. Every food company will just stop substituting artificially cheap corn syrup.
You mean Papa Murphy's? Papa John's is definitely baked.
And ate them?