Please download my fake defibrillator app. $12.88.
, And just in time for April 1st, fake heart condition popup warnings that tell you to go to the closest emergency room immediately, spoofing your GPS connection to make you drive in circles.
I) It was cheap at the time and my previous dumb TV had died
2) It was dumb as dirt. HDMI ports with some CEC support.
If this one goes, I'll probably buy a smart tv (since there aren't any choices) and toss a streaming device on it like an android TV box. Netflix, and kodi support are pretty much all I use, with the occasional chromecast from my computer. If the streaming device dies or needs to be replaced, it's usually less than $100.
No smart TV will have any access to any Internet access. If they start putting 4G/5G sim cards in their devices, I'll be removing them as well.
If the current prices aren't sufficient to support Vizio's profit model, they may want to rethink their business.
but I did notice that if you really want to speed up web page loading, a combination of uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and NoScript can drastically reduce your load times. They will save you tons of bandwidth as well if you're facing cap issues.
It is amazing how much faster browsing becomes.
If you REALLY want to speed up your quick access to Internet web sites, elinks seems to be a good way to quickly extract text. You can also pipe pages to scripts...
they could be deleting photos like Flickr is doing.
I guess that's always the risk of using other peoples computers (I mean cloud services)
The other thing you should think about is the EXIF information in your photos, like GPS location of where the picture was taken. You may also be concerned about cloud service manipulating your EXIF information for their own purposes...
LASIK is down to about $200 per eye, if you can afford a pair of glasses, you could probably afford to never buy them again.
The last time I got new astigmatic contacts, I discovered their focal length was further out than my arms could hold something I was trying to read. The brilliant solution of my optometrist was to try to sell me reading glasses...
but No Customer Service is a subset of Bad Customer Service.
It also is immensely profitable.
Why bother outsourcing your calls to a third world country (or US state where English isn't even a second language) when you can create "customer" interfaces that are designed to make it impossible to actually access?
Sometimes it's better to cut your losses, toss the offending hardware or software and do some reviews before you re-purchase.
Google for anything but heavily overpaid corporate support is a good example of this. Have you ever found a problem with a Google Service and tried to report or have it fixed?
There are other companies that are basically stealing anything you pay them for customer support.
They can't do anything about your problems, except bump them to "valued third party" support companies, who charge you even more.
The casino industry works on tips. No one is going to tip a robot waitress or robot dealer. Their non tip wages are probably the same as the maintenance cost of the robots.
Totally agree. Also sexual harassment of cocktail waitresses will be eliminated, except for the drunken robosexuals.
Will be outlawing the sale of "previously enjoyed" VHS/DVD/Blu-rays.
The obligatory extension of copyright date "To Infinity and Beyond"
Editing (or pretending it doesn't exist) anything more offensive than pg-13 from their "vault" . Direct to streaming crap that people wouldn't pay for any other way.
You forgot all the banks. What happened to talk of breaking up the banks after the 2008 financial crisis?
LOL, of companies sponsoring candidates with their generous lobbying money, I'd guess banks and wall street companies could just drive armored cars full of cash into Washington all day, every day, and not even have an effect on their bottom lines. Why would career politicians ever do anything to mess up that gravy train?
I can't wait for the 2020 election to start taking off./s
All the lies, fake news, and the decision on who to vote for based on the principle of "Least Worse" candidates, again.
I guess if you wanted to break them all up for the betterment of the people of the US, there wouldn't be any corporate entities left to contribute to:campaign finances", which would also be a good thing.
What is this doing on Slashdot? Is it literally because "Women technologists like Saujani who were tapped to appear on the show-"? I don't not care about issues like this.... It's just stupid that it's on "News for Nerds that Matters." (yes I'm aware more and more often we're getting stuff that doesn't really relate to that.... but FFS) How many people on Slashdot even watch 60 Minutes?
I guess changing clocks is too hard. When I thought some more about it, the only clocks I actually needed to change were the mechanical clock in the living room and the dumb stove and dumb microwave in the kitchen.
It seems like everything else knows when to spring forward or fall behind. cell phones, tablets, TVs, computers...
The things I hate most about DST is when I wake up at 7;00 and can't figure out if it's AM or PM since the alarm clock can't do 24 hour time.
That and the dark drive to work, to the windowless cube farm, and the dark drive home 9-10 hours later.
So, could I use the excess energy the house generates to mine cryptocurrency so it will pay for itself?
To be honest, I get the feeling it might be exhausting to live in a house that's working harder than I am.
It would probably be more cost effective to create a grow room for umm "hydroponic vegetables" or something, depending on the local laws regarding growing things which can vary by county and state.
Unless you own shares of Berkshire, or have signed up for "Haven Prime" your ambulance will take more than 2 days to take you to a hospital, and no gurney, they'll just toss you onto the steps,/s
With backers like that, why not just buy some Health insurance companies?
I looked at the actual article, and the article it references - and they're all short tabloid blabs without any link to the full article.
Nothing obvious showing up on Georgia Institute of Technology's websites.
Like with most reports on early reporting on scientific studies, it helps to see what the actual text says - reporters have a tendency to, well, sensationalize findings to meet their own needs.
Ryan Fenton
I believe the reporters are trying to cite the study from Veridian Dynamics (2009):
Slashdot Mirror
Please download my fake defibrillator app. $12.88.
,
And just in time for April 1st, fake heart condition popup warnings that tell you to go to the closest emergency room immediately, spoofing your GPS connection to make you drive in circles.
Yay technology.
I'm sure telecom carriers would welcome local competetion and build out their infrastructure for everyone:
http://www.startribune.com/tel...
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/...
https://www.bizjournals.com/de...
https://arstechnica.com/uncate...
https://www.reddit.com/r/cordc...
It's almost a first for /.
Does anyone have a good list of IPs to block to make the ads in all the apps unreachable?
If I read the summary correctly, the voltage is the equivalent of 1.3 million subway cars end to end...
How many Library of Congresses is that? /s
And what about AMPS or WATTS? I checked the article and it didn't bother guesstimating anything other than Volts.
Maybe they could try standing on a high spot with a kite and a voltmeter to further science...
for it.
I) It was cheap at the time and my previous dumb TV had died
2) It was dumb as dirt. HDMI ports with some CEC support.
If this one goes, I'll probably buy a smart tv (since there aren't any choices) and toss a streaming device on it like an android TV box. Netflix, and kodi support are pretty much all I use, with the occasional chromecast from my computer. If the streaming device dies or needs to be replaced, it's usually less than $100.
No smart TV will have any access to any Internet access. If they start putting 4G/5G sim cards in their devices, I'll be removing them as well.
If the current prices aren't sufficient to support Vizio's profit model, they may want to rethink their business.
but I did notice that if you really want to speed up web page loading, a combination of uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and NoScript can drastically reduce your load times. They will save you tons of bandwidth as well if you're facing cap issues.
It is amazing how much faster browsing becomes.
If you REALLY want to speed up your quick access to Internet web sites, elinks seems to be a good way to quickly extract text. You can also pipe pages to scripts...
Google could have been charging for Picasa & THEN shut it down.
Oh come on, you're probably thinking of Microsoft...
they could be deleting photos like Flickr is doing.
I guess that's always the risk of using other peoples computers (I mean cloud services)
The other thing you should think about is the EXIF information in your photos, like GPS location of where the picture was taken. You may also be concerned about cloud service manipulating your EXIF information for their own purposes...
LASIK is down to about $200 per eye, if you can afford a pair of glasses, you could probably afford to never buy them again.
The last time I got new astigmatic contacts, I discovered their focal length was further out than my arms could hold something I was trying to read. The brilliant solution of my optometrist was to try to sell me reading glasses...
"Those who can, do; those who can't, teach."
but No Customer Service is a subset of Bad Customer Service.
It also is immensely profitable.
Why bother outsourcing your calls to a third world country (or US state where English isn't even a second language) when you can create "customer" interfaces that are designed to make it impossible to actually access?
Sometimes it's better to cut your losses, toss the offending hardware or software and do some reviews before you re-purchase.
Google for anything but heavily overpaid corporate support is a good example of this. Have you ever found a problem with a Google Service and tried to report or have it fixed?
There are other companies that are basically stealing anything you pay them for customer support.
They can't do anything about your problems, except bump them to "valued third party" support companies, who charge you even more.
The casino industry works on tips. No one is going to tip a robot waitress or robot dealer. Their non tip wages are probably the same as the maintenance cost of the robots.
Totally agree. Also sexual harassment of cocktail waitresses will be eliminated, except for the drunken robosexuals.
Will be outlawing the sale of "previously enjoyed" VHS/DVD/Blu-rays.
The obligatory extension of copyright date "To Infinity and Beyond"
Editing (or pretending it doesn't exist) anything more offensive than pg-13 from their "vault" .
Direct to streaming crap that people wouldn't pay for any other way.
You forgot all the banks. What happened to talk of breaking up the banks after the 2008 financial crisis?
LOL, of companies sponsoring candidates with their generous lobbying money, I'd guess banks and wall street companies could just drive armored cars full of cash into Washington all day, every day, and not even have an effect on their bottom lines. Why would career politicians ever do anything to mess up that gravy train?
I can't wait for the 2020 election to start taking off. /s
All the lies, fake news, and the decision on who to vote for based on the principle of "Least Worse" candidates, again.
Such entertainment.
the twitter command and control accounts of botnets/terrorists...
Scanning for vulnerabilities is a start, but eliminating the accounts is probably a whole other kettle of fish.
Walmart
Microsoft
AT&T
Oracle
Disney
Koch Brothers
and so on.
I guess if you wanted to break them all up for the betterment of the people of the US, there wouldn't be any corporate entities left to contribute to :campaign finances", which would also be a good thing.
This reminds me of when I used to play Netrek.
I was on a 5Mb/s cable modem, destroying pretty much everyone playing using a 56K (or less) dial-up modem.,,
What is this doing on Slashdot? Is it literally because "Women technologists like Saujani who were tapped to appear on the show-"? I don't not care about issues like this.... It's just stupid that it's on "News for Nerds that Matters." (yes I'm aware more and more often we're getting stuff that doesn't really relate to that.... but FFS) How many people on Slashdot even watch 60 Minutes?
Probably to equalize the article from March 4:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
I guess changing clocks is too hard. When I thought some more about it, the only clocks I actually needed to change were the mechanical clock in the living room and the dumb stove and dumb microwave in the kitchen.
It seems like everything else knows when to spring forward or fall behind. cell phones, tablets, TVs, computers...
The things I hate most about DST is when I wake up at 7;00 and can't figure out if it's AM or PM since the alarm clock can't do 24 hour time.
That and the dark drive to work, to the windowless cube farm, and the dark drive home 9-10 hours later.
for constantly updated tzdata files.
Otherwise, how would you know what time it is someplace else? Unless you use UTC...
So, could I use the excess energy the house generates to mine cryptocurrency so it will pay for itself?
To be honest, I get the feeling it might be exhausting to live in a house that's working harder than I am.
It would probably be more cost effective to create a grow room for umm "hydroponic vegetables" or something, depending on the local laws regarding growing things which can vary by county and state.
Unless you own shares of Berkshire, or have signed up for "Haven Prime" your ambulance will take more than 2 days to take you to a hospital, and no gurney, they'll just toss you onto the steps, /s
With backers like that, why not just buy some Health insurance companies?
Which is the least of my worries.
The power my current TV uses is pretty much non-existent compared to the 120 lb 32 in CRT it replaced.
I do wonder how HDMI, Ethernet (yeah I know) RCA, VGA, S-Video and Antenna are supposed to work 'wirelessly"
Unless there is another proprietary Samsung "Brick" that transmits to the TV,
I looked at the actual article, and the article it references - and they're all short tabloid blabs without any link to the full article.
Nothing obvious showing up on Georgia Institute of Technology's websites.
Like with most reports on early reporting on scientific studies, it helps to see what the actual text says - reporters have a tendency to, well, sensationalize findings to meet their own needs.
Ryan Fenton
I believe the reporters are trying to cite the study from Veridian Dynamics (2009):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Most coal plants that were shut down were converted to natural gas.
And the piles of coal ash from as long ago as 1882 just magically disappeared when they were converted?