$250k/yr if you have no time to enjoy it is worthless unless you plan to work for a few years, live like a miser, and invest enough of it in rental property so you never have to work again.
Or at least raise the wage floor where overtime == time and a half. Obama tried this, Trump unfortunately rolled it back. Also, sometimes you need to work overtime two weeks in a row, crunch time to finish a project. I'd change that requirement to get the time back to something like a 2-3 month period.
"Wires" are still there, either as fiber or as a cable connection. They also are much smaller and less resource-intensive than the big 200-amp cables carrying power to the home. What's wrong with people to put them up? Everyone's got to work and eat, after all.
Moralistic moronic nonsense. The law is just a set of words written by a bunch of old farts who managed to con dumb people into voting for them.
By your argument, we should shoot speeders and pot smokers -- they've already broken the law, so they're more likely to commit murder. Might as well prevent crime before it happens.
I think the inverse is actually true with illegal immigrants. They're less likely to commit violent crimes because the consequences can often be dire. Not only jail, but deportation back to a war-torn country or one where gangs are looking to kill them.
Funny thing is that dumb phones and hardwired phones are still better at being phones than many smartphones today. Also, the actually wired phones don't blast your noggin with microwave radiation.
As far as the "Last person leaving the house" problem, this can be solved using a three-way switch at the door. If the switch is on, the regular thermostat is switched into the heat circuit and turns the heating on at 20C or whatever. If the switch is off, there's still a backup fixed-temp thermostat in parallel that cuts in if the temp drops below 15C or something like that. The last person out of the house turns it off, first person in turns it back on. It won't kill anyone to be in a cold house for a few minutes.
Scale isn't always from hard water -- I'm aware that condensation is basically pure H2O. It can be from the metal of the fins itself corroding. Fluffy white aluminium oxide deposits conduct heat poorly.
In certain parts of the US, they're too busy chasing illegal immigrants and small-time drug users to focus on crimes that actually cause physical or psychological harm...
IoT devices should be required to be able to work peer-to-peer if possible, ideally via a hub that acts as a VPN/firewall.
IoT devices that use a clown server should be required to be supported for 10 years. Having to throw away a thermostat after two years because the manufacturer shut down the cloud servers is wasteful as hell.
Re: dehumidifiers -- mode of failure is probably accumulation of scale and dust on the evaporator/condenser fins. Washing with a mild acid (vinegar) then hosing the thing off would probably restore the lose efficiency. Also, the filters need to be cleaned or replaced from time to time.
And before you say "Dynamic IP", Dynamic IP doesn't require use of a cloud intermediate. Only some type of dynamic DNS service (doesn't literally need to be DNS) to point devices to the right place.
Imagine if a home had a single hub for the smart devices that acts as a VPN server. All traffic between the devices and the Internet would be mediated by that hub. Changing the password or key on the hub would automatically lock out all external devices.
Compare this to the current paradigm, where there's a cloud provider for each brand of device, with different authentication information for each. It's easily possible to forget to change some of the passwords when someone moves out/is kicked out of your home. Fragmentation is the problem here.
The traffic would of course be peer-to-peer (i.e. phone-to-hub via Internet) in my paradigm, not going through a bunch of 3rd-party servers to be mined, sliced, diced, and spied upon.
Last P-III was 2001 or 2002. People/companies generally nurse such old hardware along because they have to (it controls factory hardware, etc), not because they want to.
Or just buy the newest hardware that can run Windows 7, patch it as much as possible, and keep good anti-malware software installed after the drop-dead date of 2020. Assuming this date isn't extended for critical patches.
I'm not arguing that what MS is doing here is right. It's just LESS shitty than cramming Windows 10 down users' gullets, with its built-in spyware cr@p and ever-changing interface.
Doesn't change the fact that most malware is actually installed by its users, voluntarily. And that most Pentium III systems are likely running in specific, non-Internet-connected applications.
We're talking about maybe 0.5% of computers out there, probably mostly running specialty hardware that's not connected to the Internet. Also, if you're not an idiot and don't go to random sites/click "run" on downloaded files, you're reasonably safe.
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Yep. The newer rockets use RP-1 (refined kerosene) and liquid oxygen. The latter is a pain to handle, but not particularly toxic or corrosive.
$250k/yr if you have no time to enjoy it is worthless unless you plan to work for a few years, live like a miser, and invest enough of it in rental property so you never have to work again.
Or at least raise the wage floor where overtime == time and a half. Obama tried this, Trump unfortunately rolled it back. Also, sometimes you need to work overtime two weeks in a row, crunch time to finish a project. I'd change that requirement to get the time back to something like a 2-3 month period.
Always take it. Every year -- don't set a precedent that you're overly hard-working...
I didn't fire the guy. His fellow inmates ... I mean cow-orkers ... made that decision.
"Wires" are still there, either as fiber or as a cable connection. They also are much smaller and less resource-intensive than the big 200-amp cables carrying power to the home. What's wrong with people to put them up? Everyone's got to work and eat, after all.
Moralistic moronic nonsense. The law is just a set of words written by a bunch of old farts who managed to con dumb people into voting for them.
By your argument, we should shoot speeders and pot smokers -- they've already broken the law, so they're more likely to commit murder. Might as well prevent crime before it happens.
I think the inverse is actually true with illegal immigrants. They're less likely to commit violent crimes because the consequences can often be dire. Not only jail, but deportation back to a war-torn country or one where gangs are looking to kill them.
Funny thing is that dumb phones and hardwired phones are still better at being phones than many smartphones today. Also, the actually wired phones don't blast your noggin with microwave radiation.
As far as the "Last person leaving the house" problem, this can be solved using a three-way switch at the door. If the switch is on, the regular thermostat is switched into the heat circuit and turns the heating on at 20C or whatever. If the switch is off, there's still a backup fixed-temp thermostat in parallel that cuts in if the temp drops below 15C or something like that. The last person out of the house turns it off, first person in turns it back on. It won't kill anyone to be in a cold house for a few minutes.
Scale isn't always from hard water -- I'm aware that condensation is basically pure H2O. It can be from the metal of the fins itself corroding. Fluffy white aluminium oxide deposits conduct heat poorly.
In certain parts of the US, they're too busy chasing illegal immigrants and small-time drug users to focus on crimes that actually cause physical or psychological harm...
Do any TVs actually require an always-on connection to display ATSC or HDMI video signals? (!)
Also:
IoT devices should be required to be able to work peer-to-peer if possible, ideally via a hub that acts as a VPN/firewall.
IoT devices that use a clown server should be required to be supported for 10 years. Having to throw away a thermostat after two years because the manufacturer shut down the cloud servers is wasteful as hell.
Re: dehumidifiers -- mode of failure is probably accumulation of scale and dust on the evaporator/condenser fins. Washing with a mild acid (vinegar) then hosing the thing off would probably restore the lose efficiency. Also, the filters need to be cleaned or replaced from time to time.
And before you say "Dynamic IP", Dynamic IP doesn't require use of a cloud intermediate. Only some type of dynamic DNS service (doesn't literally need to be DNS) to point devices to the right place.
Imagine if a home had a single hub for the smart devices that acts as a VPN server. All traffic between the devices and the Internet would be mediated by that hub. Changing the password or key on the hub would automatically lock out all external devices.
Compare this to the current paradigm, where there's a cloud provider for each brand of device, with different authentication information for each. It's easily possible to forget to change some of the passwords when someone moves out/is kicked out of your home. Fragmentation is the problem here.
The traffic would of course be peer-to-peer (i.e. phone-to-hub via Internet) in my paradigm, not going through a bunch of 3rd-party servers to be mined, sliced, diced, and spied upon.
Win 7, even updated, doesn't attempt to shove "Microsoft accounts" (vs local or domain) and OneDrive down users' gullets.
Last P-III was 2001 or 2002. People/companies generally nurse such old hardware along because they have to (it controls factory hardware, etc), not because they want to.
Or just buy the newest hardware that can run Windows 7, patch it as much as possible, and keep good anti-malware software installed after the drop-dead date of 2020. Assuming this date isn't extended for critical patches.
I'm not arguing that what MS is doing here is right. It's just LESS shitty than cramming Windows 10 down users' gullets, with its built-in spyware cr@p and ever-changing interface.
Doesn't change the fact that most malware is actually installed by its users, voluntarily. And that most Pentium III systems are likely running in specific, non-Internet-connected applications.
We're talking about maybe 0.5% of computers out there, probably mostly running specialty hardware that's not connected to the Internet. Also, if you're not an idiot and don't go to random sites/click "run" on downloaded files, you're reasonably safe.
What if the metadata tells the app not to install on (say) devices outside of certain countries? Would region-restricting be DRM in your book?
Good options, hardware:
* Thinkpad X-series.
Software:
* Windows 7 -- easy enough to get a license.
* Ubuntu -- runs (mostly) without needing sysadmin skills.
The problem is when all of the large device makers end up cramming this filth down their users' gullets.