... add support for audible feedback that did not require one to look at the screen, it would be useful for someone that was either blind, or that could not look at the screen for some other reason (perhaps someone driving?)
And to actually control functions in individual apps where it made sense, as well, such as music apps, maps/navigation, etc.. Some of that would require app developers to add hooks/definitions of the different functions.
"Ok google, open Pandora and select 'classic rock' station"
So many opportunities missed. Like for instance Google Now's location based reminders. For example "Remind me the next time I am near the pharmacy to stop and get aspirin" - only works if you happen to be LOOKING at the screen as you drive by said pharmacy.
More likely, you'll get home, get out of the car, and only THEN look at the phone and see the reminder, when its too late.
It should ANNOUNCE, AUDIBLY something to actually REMIND you, like "(beep) You are near a pharmacy and asked for a reminder at this location"
No, I don't. But I don't enter the number on my physical card in any Internet-connected situation, on any website, any online store.
I'm sure you don't need me to give you links to all the various cases where merchant databases of credit card numbers have been compromised.
If they compromise my temporary issue one that has a charge limit of $20, no big deal, I can turn it off, issue a new temp number in 5 minutes.
If they compromise my real card that has my full credit line available, MUCH bigger deal. And while I can turn it off with a phone call, I then have to WAIT while a new one is issued and mailed to me. No thanks. Using the temp numbers completely avoids this risk.
And don't even get me started on giving some merchant direct access to my checking account. No, I insist that money is only taken from me as a result of individual direct action on my part. (I don't let utilities or any other such services direct bill my CC or bank account, either - the few services that won't do billing get a limited temp CC number with a 6-month expiration.)
My iTunes account (which is mainly used by my son since I no longer use an iPhone) DOES NOT HAVE a credit card on file, and we load funds via iTunes giftcards.
If it had required one, I would have got a $10 prepaid vanilla visa and given it that.
You can buy "prepaid" cards to load finds for purchases made via their respective "stores".
I cannot imagine any situation where you would register a real world credit card to allow direct charges with either of them.
It's sad that people blindly accept that giving a service provider direct access to their credit card or bank account number is a suitable way to pay anything, and its what leads to situations just like this one.
My son has an iPhone. It has a preloaded balance. It CANNOT spend anymore than that. If he runs low he can ask me for a another iTunes card.
I have an Android phone. Same setup - preloaded balance that it CANNOT exceed. It does not have the ability to use anymore than the balance that I have loaded, which I (and ONLY *I*) can replenish as needed
For any service that will not bill any way OTHER than to a credit card, or for any online purchase, I use this:
Since a good portion of folks still rely on cable providers for their broadband Internet in order to use Netflix (and similar services) they don't need to do anything other than slowly raise their prices for broadband.
Netflix doesn't scare them (and if they claim it does, they are lying)
Projects like Google Fiber scare them. The FCC enforcing neutrality scares them. SCOTUS declaring anti-competitive bans on municipal/community fiber scare them.
Establish a new connection dispatch service that all all other services would use. All interconnections would first establish a connection to the dispatch, which would establish a TLS or PGP type of encrypted session, and THEN transit information about which service to connect to.
Yes, I see this as far more useful for fixed installations rather than mobile.
Think neighborhoods banding together to set up their own Internet Co-op ISP's, installing bulk bandwidth in one central location and sharing it among a few dozen homes. The telecoms are going to HATE it, which means its something to celebrate.
will be made using these bands so that individuals can set up their OWN access points to connect to from their OWN client devices, rather than making the "head end" side so expensive only big businesses can afford to buy and run them.
I pay for mobile mainly for Internet access. Voice calling is just a side effect. And Its around 50 bucks a month. Pretty cheap.
And when you want to reach a business, many have no real-time want to contact them except phone. I doubt your local mom&pop hardware store has skype. ANd even if they have facebook, its unlikely they sit there monitoring it.
The issue is, if you're a big company with 50 phone lines, you want your "main" number to appear regardless of which line you call on.
If you're a small phone(VoIP/etc) company, that uses wholesale services from multiple providers, if your customer places a call and it is handled by one provider, but their number might be provided by a different provider. The providers have to let you specify what their CID is, for it to NOT be a false CID. And they have to trust you to set it appropriately.
And yes, callerID is not and will not be 100% trustworthy. Consider it an "advisory" only.
I use google voice to a similar effect, but even more strict.
I only give out my google voice number. Only calls from a select list of close family and very close friends (less than a dozen numbers total) ring through to my actual phone(s). A few direct family members have my direct cell number in the extremely rare case where GV has an outage they need to reach me urgently. EVERYTHING else, gets voicemail. If its important, they'll leave a message. If they refuse to leave a message, I don't want to talk to them. Occasionally I'll research the callerID of hangups, mostly just to humor myself.
Even when I do give a phone number out, its a google voice number, and its set to only ring through for calls from direct family and a couple close friends.. Everyone else gets voicemail without it bothering me. Legitimate callers will leave a legitimate message and I can call them back. scammers and telemarketers just hang up.
there is literally no other choice, and even then I "pay as a guest" (deleting cookies to get around their attempt to only let me do so once) and I NEVER give them any bank account numbers or my real phone number. And I use temporary "one time use" credit card number my credit card providers offer, as well as a unique email address each time at a domain that I run my own email service on.
There was a product called DesQview, that did all that before win3 ever came out. And it did it better, more reliably, faster, and with the existing app. software.
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... add support for audible feedback that did not require one to look at the screen, it would be useful for someone that was either blind, or that could not look at the screen for some other reason (perhaps someone driving?)
And to actually control functions in individual apps where it made sense, as well, such as music apps, maps/navigation, etc.. Some of that would require app developers to add hooks/definitions of the different functions.
"Ok google, open Pandora and select 'classic rock' station"
So many opportunities missed. Like for instance Google Now's location based reminders.
For example "Remind me the next time I am near the pharmacy to stop and get aspirin" - only works if you happen to be LOOKING at the screen as you drive by said pharmacy.
More likely, you'll get home, get out of the car, and only THEN look at the phone and see the reminder, when its too late.
It should ANNOUNCE, AUDIBLY something to actually REMIND you, like "(beep) You are near a pharmacy and asked for a reminder at this location"
one source lighter!
No, I don't. But I don't enter the number on my physical card in any Internet-connected situation, on any website, any online store.
I'm sure you don't need me to give you links to all the various cases where merchant databases of credit card numbers have been compromised.
If they compromise my temporary issue one that has a charge limit of $20, no big deal, I can turn it off, issue a new temp number in 5 minutes.
If they compromise my real card that has my full credit line available, MUCH bigger deal. And while I can turn it off with a phone call, I then have to WAIT while a new one is issued and mailed to me. No thanks. Using the temp numbers completely avoids this risk.
And don't even get me started on giving some merchant direct access to my checking account. No, I insist that money is only taken from me as a result of individual direct action on my part. (I don't let utilities or any other such services direct bill my CC or bank account, either - the few services that won't do billing get a limited temp CC number with a 6-month expiration.)
these, its unclear what is the device and what is an accessory for the device. Also unclear which are legit sellers and which might be spam.
The the link to the ESP-01 in the make article leads to a discontinued page.
Anyone got a link to a known reliable vendor to buy these?
No, they don't.
My iTunes account (which is mainly used by my son since I no longer use an iPhone) DOES NOT HAVE a credit card on file, and we load funds via iTunes giftcards.
If it had required one, I would have got a $10 prepaid vanilla visa and given it that.
You can buy "prepaid" cards to load finds for purchases made via their respective "stores".
I cannot imagine any situation where you would register a real world credit card to allow direct charges with either of them.
It's sad that people blindly accept that giving a service provider direct access to their credit card or bank account number is a suitable way to pay anything, and its what leads to situations just like this one.
My son has an iPhone. It has a preloaded balance. It CANNOT spend anymore than that. If he runs low he can ask me for a another iTunes card.
I have an Android phone. Same setup - preloaded balance that it CANNOT exceed. It does not have the ability to use anymore than the balance that I have loaded, which I (and ONLY *I*) can replenish as needed
For any service that will not bill any way OTHER than to a credit card, or for any online purchase, I use this:
https://www.bankofamerica.com/...
Ok, its NOT the full article, and I can't seem to find it from a non-Forbes' site... Ugh.
I see the same thing. It just redirects to some sort of "welcome to forbes" site.. Not sure if they want you to pay or what.
Forbes' site is a hot mess. Its even worse on mobile.
This seems to be a copy of the same article without Forbe's garbage:
http://scienceblogs.com/starts...
Since a good portion of folks still rely on cable providers for their broadband Internet in order to use Netflix (and similar services) they don't need to do anything other than slowly raise their prices for broadband.
Netflix doesn't scare them (and if they claim it does, they are lying)
Projects like Google Fiber scare them. The FCC enforcing neutrality scares them. SCOTUS declaring anti-competitive bans on municipal/community fiber scare them.
Windows ... is an unfolding disaster and always has been
Fixed that for you...
"Windows 10" hasn't uninstalled anything on any of my workstations.
Could be partly because nothing I own runs any version of any Microsoft OS.
Nah, I'd go with option 3 - find a different site.
Maybe the next generation of ad blockers will download the ad content, let the site think the ad was shown, and then just not display it.
Plain text ads like google uses would be fine.
Popovers? Animated ads? Anything that covers or obscures other content? No thanks.
or did the engineers have to take manual control of it and do so?
and start deprecating ALL unencrypted protocols.
Establish a new connection dispatch service that all all other services would use. All interconnections would first establish a connection to the dispatch, which would establish a TLS or PGP type of encrypted session, and THEN transit information about which service to connect to.
Yes, I see this as far more useful for fixed installations rather than mobile.
Think neighborhoods banding together to set up their own Internet Co-op ISP's, installing bulk bandwidth in one central location and sharing it among a few dozen homes. The telecoms are going to HATE it, which means its something to celebrate.
will be made using these bands so that individuals can set up their OWN access points to connect to from their OWN client devices, rather than making the "head end" side so expensive only big businesses can afford to buy and run them.
Unlike how WiMax went down.
But you do have to be smarter than the average corporate drone.
http://www.debian.org/
http://www.linux.org/
Expensive? My google voice is free.
I pay for mobile mainly for Internet access. Voice calling is just a side effect. And Its around 50 bucks a month. Pretty cheap.
And when you want to reach a business, many have no real-time want to contact them except phone. I doubt your local mom&pop hardware store has skype. ANd even if they have facebook, its unlikely they sit there monitoring it.
The issue is, if you're a big company with 50 phone lines, you want your "main" number to appear regardless of which line you call on.
If you're a small phone(VoIP/etc) company, that uses wholesale services from multiple providers, if your customer places a call and it is handled by one provider, but their number might be provided by a different provider. The providers have to let you specify what their CID is, for it to NOT be a false CID. And they have to trust you to set it appropriately.
And yes, callerID is not and will not be 100% trustworthy. Consider it an "advisory" only.
I use google voice to a similar effect, but even more strict.
I only give out my google voice number.
Only calls from a select list of close family and very close friends (less than a dozen numbers total) ring through to my actual phone(s).
A few direct family members have my direct cell number in the extremely rare case where GV has an outage they need to reach me urgently.
EVERYTHING else, gets voicemail. If its important, they'll leave a message.
If they refuse to leave a message, I don't want to talk to them.
Occasionally I'll research the callerID of hangups, mostly just to humor myself.
the work site.
There is a REASON browsers are slowly eliminating support for this sort of crap.
Even when I do give a phone number out, its a google voice number, and its set to only ring through for calls from direct family and a couple close friends.. Everyone else gets voicemail without it bothering me. Legitimate callers will leave a legitimate message and I can call them back. scammers and telemarketers just hang up.
So the question is, will they actually try to call themselves.. and if they answer, will it create a black hole?
I'm not too worried, since I'm pretty sure they wont answer.
there is literally no other choice, and even then I "pay as a guest" (deleting cookies to get around their attempt to only let me do so once) and I NEVER give them any bank account numbers or my real phone number. And I use temporary "one time use" credit card number my credit card providers offer, as well as a unique email address each time at a domain that I run my own email service on.
There was a product called DesQview, that did all that before win3 ever came out. And it did it better, more reliably, faster, and with the existing app. software.