Besides, the front of the fridge is a natural place to have an entertainment device is many homes.
Besides, the front of the fridge is a natural place to stick stuff on in many homes. It's why stainless steel fridges have a steel plate in the door - magnets don't stick to stainless steel.
There may be a ton of brands out there, but they're all made by the same handful of manufacturers. So good luck with that - anything that they can cut corners on the low end will also have those same corners cut on the high end.
Fresh veggies don't come with UPC codes. And fridges already have special drawers to store butter, veggies, etc. at a higher temperature. This is just a few more circuit boards that can fail when there's a power surge/failure. Like dishwashers and stoves and washers and dryers, when the circuit board fails, it's almost cheaper to just buy a new appliance.
As one of the previous commenters mentioned, it is good for keeping tabs on the contents of the elderlies' refrigerators. If you have ever had to care for aged parents or aunts or uncles or grandparents, you quickly realize many can get along just fine as long as the little details of life can be managed for them. You have a choice, you can buy in-home care to do this for you. However, if you don't have that sort of cash to throw around (and it ain't cheap), then little baubles like this are god-send. You won't be there enough time and it would exhaust you to do it.
And when you reach your dotage, you will want to (1) be independent, (2) thankful for little eyes to watch things for you just as long as they aren't attached to someone strange (or weird, or larcenous) in your house.
The devil is in the details. And as people get older, they generally turn paranoid. And that's the time you want to stick in a fridge with cameras? They won't understand that, unlike the camera on the tv, the fridge cam can't see them.
And if they're not in the area, what good is it for you to know that the green stuff has turned brown, the red and brown stuff has turned white, and the white stuff has turned sour? It's not like the fridge can throw the bad stuff in the garbage at the press of a button.
who are not consistently appropriate with kitchen duties. a remotely monitored oven/stove would be wonderful.
If it's gotten that bad, maybe it's time to realize that they are a hazard to themselves and others. What other things outside the kitchen aren't happening as they should, like taking meds at the right times, in the right quantities?
It doesn't fall out that fast. Also, if you don't let fresh air in once in a while, you're going to notice some funky smells accumulating from stuff that the camera can't see.
It's been tried before, didn't work then either. I would pay $10 more for a fridge that didn't have this.
You know that it's getting easier to track submarines... eventually they will not be immune to a preemptive first strike. Plus there are ABM systems, which are improving.
The failure to get an opposing viewpoint is part of why we're having so much trouble with murderous Muslims today.
The majority of Muslims are against murder, same as the majority of Christians. If we're going to hate on all muslims because of the acts of a small minority, then we should also hate on all christians because of the acts of a small minority. Do you really want to go down that road?
The military has openly speculated about hypersonic delivery systems that don't need to go into orbit. Anti-ballistic missiles would be pretty useless to a target that is not on a fixed ballistic path after the original launch.
See, freedom isn't free. A lot of Captain Freedom types forget this, but the ideal of free speech doesn't exist because speech is harmless. It's simply a compromise - the oppression of dangerous speech is considered more harmful than the speech itself.
Populations can be and have been seduced by this kind of material. In fact we are talking about a book that is quite famous for doing just that.
If you truely believe in the principle of free speech you need to engage with this fact honestly and say "I am comfortable with the danger". Others (especially minorities) might take a different view.
It was war reparations and the collapse of the German economy in 1931 and then the Great Depression that led to WW2, not a book, and especially not this book.
"People want to build hypersonic vehicles and you need ceramics for the whole shell of the vehicle."
Only the military wants hypersonic vehicles like this - unlike ICBMs, these would be harder to detect until they reach their targets. This will be a destabilizing factor between the east and west - and you can be damn sure China will build similar vehicles.
Brianna Wu's Patreon page is... well, I'll let some quotes explain how stupid it is. Starting right at the top of the page in really big text:
Brianna Wu is creating Videogames I'm the Godzilla of Feminists.
and
None of this has anything to do with videogames. But it's what I waste the majority of my time doing.
I have to be honest, I need some help or I'm not going to last. If I quit, that would signal a victory to those harrasing (sic) me. If you want me here, working to hold the people that break laws accountable, I need help. I have got to get back to making games
Really? "working to hold the people that break laws accountable'??? And then immediately after - "I need help. I have to get back to making games."??? The only thing in that sentence that makes any sense is "I need help."
I mean, really. Claiming to be the one holding off the barbarians at the gate, and asking money so you can both do that and make games?
And just what are the "barbarians" doing?
have a well-known stalker that posts disturbing levels of information about my house, my car, my pets, my neighborhood. So, I waste hours documenting this for law enforcement. Later, this person emails me to say he's gone through my husband's blog and has more private information from there.
In other words, someone has gone on the net and found readily searchable public information. You run a business, your name and business address are public information. So, run it out of your home, that's the address they'll find. Ditto for the neighborhood. Google Street view, etc. As for the car and pets, really? That's threatening? And if they've gone through your husbands' blog, it's not private information. Get over yourself.
And the final ask is just as lame as the rest:
Here's where you come in: If you appreciate what I do, please chip in so I can hire some help with the Women in Tech advocacy I do. I need someone to help me with the medial parts of dealing with my attackers so I can focus on my work, making and shipping games. I imagine we'll also have them work on women in tech advocacy.
Why not just come out and admit you like being a professional victim more than the game industry, and be done with it?
Oops, almost forgot this quote from the left sidebar:
"I'm Brianna Wu and I'm Risking my Life Standing up to Gamergate"
No, you're not. Cut the melodrama, it's not working any more. Gamergate is ancient news that pretty much everyone else has put behind them, in part because of crazy people like you, Wu.
And to those reading this, don't bother to click on the "creator posts" link - it's a lame attempt to get some google juice by posting the exact same crap 5x.
Are you sure that a habit you have today won't be illegal tomorrow?
I don't even drink tea or coffee any more. I figured if 4-5 cups of strong coffee can't get me going even to lunchtime, what's the point? What I found neat was that after decades of drinking the stuff, and always having a cup on my desk, I had no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
How many of those hours were just because someone didn't shut down when they were done? And why is this even being monitored?
It's like the web site - trash. Boring topics ripped from the past. She should spend more time working on the other website.
Sounds bland, kind of like tofu.
So does every supermarket I've ever been.
Besides, the front of the fridge is a natural place to have an entertainment device is many homes.
Besides, the front of the fridge is a natural place to stick stuff on in many homes. It's why stainless steel fridges have a steel plate in the door - magnets don't stick to stainless steel.
There may be a ton of brands out there, but they're all made by the same handful of manufacturers. So good luck with that - anything that they can cut corners on the low end will also have those same corners cut on the high end.
Fresh veggies don't come with UPC codes. And fridges already have special drawers to store butter, veggies, etc. at a higher temperature. This is just a few more circuit boards that can fail when there's a power surge/failure. Like dishwashers and stoves and washers and dryers, when the circuit board fails, it's almost cheaper to just buy a new appliance.
Tomorrow on Shodan: 1.5B images of peanut butter next to mayo.
You keep your peanut butter in the fridge? Peanut butter at room temperature doesn't turn until something like 5 years after the "best before" date.
As one of the previous commenters mentioned, it is good for keeping tabs on the contents of the elderlies' refrigerators. If you have ever had to care for aged parents or aunts or uncles or grandparents, you quickly realize many can get along just fine as long as the little details of life can be managed for them. You have a choice, you can buy in-home care to do this for you. However, if you don't have that sort of cash to throw around (and it ain't cheap), then little baubles like this are god-send. You won't be there enough time and it would exhaust you to do it.
And when you reach your dotage, you will want to (1) be independent, (2) thankful for little eyes to watch things for you just as long as they aren't attached to someone strange (or weird, or larcenous) in your house.
The devil is in the details. And as people get older, they generally turn paranoid. And that's the time you want to stick in a fridge with cameras? They won't understand that, unlike the camera on the tv, the fridge cam can't see them.
And if they're not in the area, what good is it for you to know that the green stuff has turned brown, the red and brown stuff has turned white, and the white stuff has turned sour? It's not like the fridge can throw the bad stuff in the garbage at the press of a button.
who are not consistently appropriate with kitchen duties. a remotely monitored oven/stove would be wonderful.
If it's gotten that bad, maybe it's time to realize that they are a hazard to themselves and others. What other things outside the kitchen aren't happening as they should, like taking meds at the right times, in the right quantities?
It doesn't fall out that fast. Also, if you don't let fresh air in once in a while, you're going to notice some funky smells accumulating from stuff that the camera can't see.
It's been tried before, didn't work then either. I would pay $10 more for a fridge that didn't have this.
You know what I find really weird? 364 comments and NO mention of Godwin's Law. Oh well, someone has t do it!
You know that it's getting easier to track submarines ... eventually they will not be immune to a preemptive first strike. Plus there are ABM systems, which are improving.
The failure to get an opposing viewpoint is part of why we're having so much trouble with murderous Muslims today.
The majority of Muslims are against murder, same as the majority of Christians. If we're going to hate on all muslims because of the acts of a small minority, then we should also hate on all christians because of the acts of a small minority. Do you really want to go down that road?
That also makes it more likely that somebody would take a preemptive first strike.
The Pentagon assessment disagrees with you.
It would probably be cheaper to just send them by sub-orbital ballistic craft. No fighting air resistance for most of the flight.
The military has openly speculated about hypersonic delivery systems that don't need to go into orbit. Anti-ballistic missiles would be pretty useless to a target that is not on a fixed ballistic path after the original launch.
See, freedom isn't free. A lot of Captain Freedom types forget this, but the ideal of free speech doesn't exist because speech is harmless. It's simply a compromise - the oppression of dangerous speech is considered more harmful than the speech itself.
Populations can be and have been seduced by this kind of material. In fact we are talking about a book that is quite famous for doing just that.
If you truely believe in the principle of free speech you need to engage with this fact honestly and say "I am comfortable with the danger". Others (especially minorities) might take a different view.
It was war reparations and the collapse of the German economy in 1931 and then the Great Depression that led to WW2, not a book, and especially not this book.
"People want to build hypersonic vehicles and you need ceramics for the whole shell of the vehicle."
Only the military wants hypersonic vehicles like this - unlike ICBMs, these would be harder to detect until they reach their targets. This will be a destabilizing factor between the east and west - and you can be damn sure China will build similar vehicles.
I checked it out of the public library here in Canada back in the '70s. Booooring.
I agree - just publish it. If you're afraid that the population will be seduced by it, you have bigger problems than the book.
Brianna Wu is creating Videogames
I'm the Godzilla of Feminists.
and
None of this has anything to do with videogames. But it's what I waste the majority of my time doing.
I have to be honest, I need some help or I'm not going to last. If I quit, that would signal a victory to those harrasing (sic) me. If you want me here, working to hold the people that break laws accountable, I need help. I have got to get back to making games
Really? "working to hold the people that break laws accountable'??? And then immediately after - "I need help. I have to get back to making games."??? The only thing in that sentence that makes any sense is "I need help."
I mean, really. Claiming to be the one holding off the barbarians at the gate, and asking money so you can both do that and make games?
And just what are the "barbarians" doing?
have a well-known stalker that posts disturbing levels of information about my house, my car, my pets, my neighborhood. So, I waste hours documenting this for law enforcement. Later, this person emails me to say he's gone through my husband's blog and has more private information from there.
In other words, someone has gone on the net and found readily searchable public information. You run a business, your name and business address are public information. So, run it out of your home, that's the address they'll find. Ditto for the neighborhood. Google Street view, etc. As for the car and pets, really? That's threatening? And if they've gone through your husbands' blog, it's not private information. Get over yourself.
And the final ask is just as lame as the rest:
Here's where you come in: If you appreciate what I do, please chip in so I can hire some help with the Women in Tech advocacy I do. I need someone to help me with the medial parts of dealing with my attackers so I can focus on my work, making and shipping games. I imagine we'll also have them work on women in tech advocacy.
Why not just come out and admit you like being a professional victim more than the game industry, and be done with it?
Oops, almost forgot this quote from the left sidebar:
"I'm Brianna Wu and I'm Risking my Life Standing up to Gamergate"
No, you're not. Cut the melodrama, it's not working any more. Gamergate is ancient news that pretty much everyone else has put behind them, in part because of crazy people like you, Wu.
And to those reading this, don't bother to click on the "creator posts" link - it's a lame attempt to get some google juice by posting the exact same crap 5x.
Are you sure that a habit you have today won't be illegal tomorrow?
I don't even drink tea or coffee any more. I figured if 4-5 cups of strong coffee can't get me going even to lunchtime, what's the point? What I found neat was that after decades of drinking the stuff, and always having a cup on my desk, I had no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. :-)
I'm not talking into my wrist. If you don't want to hold your phone, get a Bluetooth headset.