Yes it is side stepping, because the second you unsnap that tether, the 'kite' becomes a 'drone' (Despite how much i despise that term being used for hobbyist RC craft). which, as of late, is subject to a slew of FAA regulations. Also, I suspect if you flew a kite high enough in the right place, (like in the approach path of an airport) the FAA would come down on you like a sack of bricks.
Illegal, because to film this, he probably flew above the 500 foot RC ceiling, as well as flying at night in a cloud of firework smoke makes following the "maintain visual contact with the aircraft" rule virtually impossible. Dangerous, because if the craft where to be hit, and not entirely disabled, it could easily veer into a vector that took it well out of pilot control, and end up crashing into the general public at large, all of which makes the FAA pretty unhappy.
You are right, the camera idea is stupid. The solution to your 'Chicken a la Salmonella' issue is to incorporate a probe thermometer INTO the actual oven, so you stick your chicken in the oven, unclip the probe from its holder on the inside of the oven, jam it in the chicken, and close the oven, then monitor the internal temperature of your chicken on the readout on the console of the stove, without ever needing to open the oven. (i guess that'd be what you call the part of the stove where the clock and whatnot is, never considered it before).
It works in Israel because there is a fraction of the linear border distance to fence and patrol and maintain. Israel has less than 760 kilometers of fence, The USA/Mexico border is around 3,169 km long. It also crosses some of the most inhospitable desert on the content. This adds more than a little difficulty in patrolling and maintaining any sort of 'fence'
The new pebble steel is probably the best looking of the smart watches, but thats not saying a lot. It almost looks like a normal watch, instead of a half an iPhone on a wrist band.
The key features to make a 'smartwach' worth my money, in my mind, starting from the hardware side:
1. E-ink display. Easy to read in daylight, can be illuminated from the side for low light use, extremely low power use.
2. Inductive charging. I need to be able to take my watch off and set it down on a stand, and pick it up in the morning knowing its charged, no fiddling with little connectors that get corroded by my personal humidity.
3. Decent water resistance. This is an extension of number 2, but vital. I need to be able to sweat, wash my hands, slosh a drink, and not be worried about ruining a multi hundred dollar piece of hardware strapped to my hand.
as for software features, I desire:
1. Show me the time without having to screw with it. - I don't want to be pressing buttons on my watch just to see the time during the day. At night, yes, a button for a light, but I need it to be a 'at a glance' function.
2. caller ID function, and ignore call function. This thing is linked to my phone, so most of its point is to be able, at a glance, to see who is calling me, and ignore the call if desired. Single dedicated button for this function would be best.
3. Volume control for headphones attached to phone. - say, I have my phone in a pocket/arm case, using headphones to listen to music or make calls. digging the phone out to change volume, or fiddling with tiny buttons on the side of my head at my headset sucks, It would be nice to be able to use a volume control on my wrist to adjust the volume of whatever i'm using. Remember, this 'watch' is supposed to be an extension of my phone. basic pause/play/skip function would be nice also.
Honestly, thats about it. The main thing that makes me dislike the current smart watch offerings is bulk, charging, and over-feature. There are very few things I will want to do on a screen small enough to fit on my wrist comfortably, and as such, I see the smart watch as more of a peripheral device, not a primary interaction vector for my devices.
Pretty much. When the math says that the universe does not exist, when, from all the other data we have, it clearly does exist, then you must assume you've done the math wrong somewhere.
You know, You made me wonder about the thousands of miles of roadway in the southern US that never see's snow, but gets hot enough to boil the tar in asphalt. What if you embedded tubing in the roadway, and circulated something through it to absorb the heat, and then used that to produce steam to spin turbines. (you know, thermal solar power style). Kind of the exact opposite of the glass solar roadway idea.
I found a business licence for WeTag Inc, https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/...
registered at an address in Houston TX , which, on Street View, is a little office block in the middle of a residential neighborhood.
I also found a PO box in Plano TX suposedly attached to WeTagInc.com, but thats of little use. I find it odd that there is a business licence in Houston, but they claim to be in Plano. WeTag Incorporated PO Box 261956, Plano, Texas, 75026.
Ah, audio makes all the difference. She is looking for her keys, and activates the "find me" on the phone, and the keys start beeping. The part where they are only a few inches apart is the 'pairing' to add a new device to the system. (which brings up the popular critics point, that the bluetooth on the phone screen is OFF, so its obviously faked, but that is a whole other ball of wax)
That one pinged my "what the hell?" radar also, because my brand new, powered bluetooth headphones start losing signal at about 20 feet and 1 cinder block wall. I was curious what sort of witchcraft could push that distance out to 200 feet without a battery, and promptly found a stack of BS so deep, you could bury a tractor trailer in it.
Exactly. The whole point the critics of this project have is not that it is patently impossible to do, but rather the claim that they are able to cram all this technology into something barely larger than a guitar pick. There are other examples of bluetooth item trackers out there. There are examples of energy harvesting tech out there. The problem is that both of those things are, individually, much much larger than the form factor of the item this company claims to have shoehorned BOTH devices into. Couple that with the complete lack of evidence they have actually done it, and things start to look pretty suspicious.
True, this is nothing novel, but IT does incorporate cool electron microscope pictures and sweet slow motion video set to music, so It must be high tech.
on the other hand, Its odd that this subject came up, because it instantly reminded me of this:
http://www.realclearscience.co... Because my first thought when I read the headline was "because they are fuzzy on a tiny scale"
I know that the wax needles are a shade smaller than the 13 nanometers of amplitude that the researchers in the article I linked discovered humans that can detect by touch, but I do wonder if its pure coincidence that most leaves feel 'fuzzy', even visually smooth leaves.
There is really not much alive in the atlantic garbage patch, which is where this tech would be best used at sea. (Which, if you've never heard of it, is a place in the Atlantic where a bunch of ocean currents sort of cancel each other out, and makes a place where all sorts of nastiness from all over the world collects, poisoning the area in the process)
If it gets good enough to be worth the effort, we can put it on giant barges and go mine out the Great Atlantic Garbage Patch for plastic, and get that embarrassment to humanity cleaned up.
Agreed, at this stage in my life, I would probably call the service number on the sticker on the machine and tell them there shits broken.
In my younger years, the thought was "Hey! free stuff!" because you would expect that they would realize the machine was making far less money than the inventory they fed it should result in, and investigate. That lends itself to the thought that, if they don't care enough to fix an obviously malfunctioning machine, then who cares if I get a free soda from it sometimes. Back then anyways. Now that i'm older and more jaded, stealing makes me mad. Mainly because i've finally lived long enough to be stolen from, and understand that it really sucks.
You know, having a swipe card for access by the employees is actually a good idea, and it amazes me that they don't already use something like that, combined with a keyboard passcode. 2 factor authentication is always smart, especially with machines that deal with other peoples money.
Hell, the company can use the same password on all the machines, as long as its not the default password sure, its not great security, but its better than leaving all the machines on the password in a publicly available book.
Which is interesting, because even the old "electromechanical" machines would suffer from hiccups. There was an old machine at my school that, quite reliably, after you paid for one, would give you two Dr. Peppers when you pushed the button for it. It also would give you as many diet cokes as you cared to own, assuming you kept pressing the button as quickly as possible after you fed it your change; if you stopped, it would reset and lock out. If you pushed the Dr Pepper button and the Diet Coke button at the same time, about 1 time in 5 you would get 2 Dr Pepper and a Diet Coke.
the point is, this was an old machine, while you mashed the buttons, it made this horrendously loud clicking and clattering, so you could only get so many from it before you attracted the attention of the people in the office nearby. I gave up at 6 Diet Cokes, partially because who wants to drink 7 Diet Cokes, and partially because the secretary was glaring at me.
Exactly.
This is another device, but the principles involved are the same. Where I work we have a coin sorting machine, sort of like a coin star. This particular model dispenses cash instead of a receipt that you take to the counter to cash in, the way a lot of the bigger chains are. With our machine, there is a keyed lock that opens a little flipper door that houses a separate physical keypad that controls all the admin functions. Public user access to the machine is restricted to a touch screen with a extremely limited interface (basically language choice, start, and finish, once the machine is done counting).
I'm surprised that ATM's don't use a similar setup. In my mind, it should be another step obfuscated by being a port behind a little locked door that allowed the operator to plug in a customized interface. (say, a non standard USB port that matched to a non standard keyboard/pointing device that the operator would plug in, preventing a successful lock pick from having quick general access to the machine, as a specialized hardware attachment would be needed.
Remember, this device reads bank cards and conducts financial transactions, protecting your customers saves a lot of money in the long run.
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Yes it is side stepping, because the second you unsnap that tether, the 'kite' becomes a 'drone' (Despite how much i despise that term being used for hobbyist RC craft). which, as of late, is subject to a slew of FAA regulations. Also, I suspect if you flew a kite high enough in the right place, (like in the approach path of an airport) the FAA would come down on you like a sack of bricks.
Illegal, because to film this, he probably flew above the 500 foot RC ceiling, as well as flying at night in a cloud of firework smoke makes following the "maintain visual contact with the aircraft" rule virtually impossible. Dangerous, because if the craft where to be hit, and not entirely disabled, it could easily veer into a vector that took it well out of pilot control, and end up crashing into the general public at large, all of which makes the FAA pretty unhappy.
You are right, the camera idea is stupid. The solution to your 'Chicken a la Salmonella' issue is to incorporate a probe thermometer INTO the actual oven, so you stick your chicken in the oven, unclip the probe from its holder on the inside of the oven, jam it in the chicken, and close the oven, then monitor the internal temperature of your chicken on the readout on the console of the stove, without ever needing to open the oven. (i guess that'd be what you call the part of the stove where the clock and whatnot is, never considered it before).
It works in Israel because there is a fraction of the linear border distance to fence and patrol and maintain. Israel has less than 760 kilometers of fence, The USA/Mexico border is around 3,169 km long. It also crosses some of the most inhospitable desert on the content. This adds more than a little difficulty in patrolling and maintaining any sort of 'fence'
The new pebble steel is probably the best looking of the smart watches, but thats not saying a lot. It almost looks like a normal watch, instead of a half an iPhone on a wrist band.
The key features to make a 'smartwach' worth my money, in my mind, starting from the hardware side:
1. E-ink display. Easy to read in daylight, can be illuminated from the side for low light use, extremely low power use.
2. Inductive charging. I need to be able to take my watch off and set it down on a stand, and pick it up in the morning knowing its charged, no fiddling with little connectors that get corroded by my personal humidity.
3. Decent water resistance. This is an extension of number 2, but vital. I need to be able to sweat, wash my hands, slosh a drink, and not be worried about ruining a multi hundred dollar piece of hardware strapped to my hand.
as for software features, I desire:
1. Show me the time without having to screw with it. - I don't want to be pressing buttons on my watch just to see the time during the day. At night, yes, a button for a light, but I need it to be a 'at a glance' function.
2. caller ID function, and ignore call function. This thing is linked to my phone, so most of its point is to be able, at a glance, to see who is calling me, and ignore the call if desired. Single dedicated button for this function would be best.
3. Volume control for headphones attached to phone. - say, I have my phone in a pocket/arm case, using headphones to listen to music or make calls. digging the phone out to change volume, or fiddling with tiny buttons on the side of my head at my headset sucks, It would be nice to be able to use a volume control on my wrist to adjust the volume of whatever i'm using. Remember, this 'watch' is supposed to be an extension of my phone. basic pause/play/skip function would be nice also.
Honestly, thats about it. The main thing that makes me dislike the current smart watch offerings is bulk, charging, and over-feature. There are very few things I will want to do on a screen small enough to fit on my wrist comfortably, and as such, I see the smart watch as more of a peripheral device, not a primary interaction vector for my devices.
Pretty much. When the math says that the universe does not exist, when, from all the other data we have, it clearly does exist, then you must assume you've done the math wrong somewhere.
was wondering If i was the only one who saw that. Only a maximum of 999 guesses required to get the security number from the back!
You know, You made me wonder about the thousands of miles of roadway in the southern US that never see's snow, but gets hot enough to boil the tar in asphalt. What if you embedded tubing in the roadway, and circulated something through it to absorb the heat, and then used that to produce steam to spin turbines. (you know, thermal solar power style). Kind of the exact opposite of the glass solar roadway idea.
I found a business licence for WeTag Inc, https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/... registered at an address in Houston TX , which, on Street View, is a little office block in the middle of a residential neighborhood. I also found a PO box in Plano TX suposedly attached to WeTagInc.com, but thats of little use. I find it odd that there is a business licence in Houston, but they claim to be in Plano. WeTag Incorporated PO Box 261956, Plano, Texas, 75026.
Ah, audio makes all the difference. She is looking for her keys, and activates the "find me" on the phone, and the keys start beeping. The part where they are only a few inches apart is the 'pairing' to add a new device to the system. (which brings up the popular critics point, that the bluetooth on the phone screen is OFF, so its obviously faked, but that is a whole other ball of wax)
That one pinged my "what the hell?" radar also, because my brand new, powered bluetooth headphones start losing signal at about 20 feet and 1 cinder block wall. I was curious what sort of witchcraft could push that distance out to 200 feet without a battery, and promptly found a stack of BS so deep, you could bury a tractor trailer in it.
Exactly. The whole point the critics of this project have is not that it is patently impossible to do, but rather the claim that they are able to cram all this technology into something barely larger than a guitar pick. There are other examples of bluetooth item trackers out there. There are examples of energy harvesting tech out there. The problem is that both of those things are, individually, much much larger than the form factor of the item this company claims to have shoehorned BOTH devices into. Couple that with the complete lack of evidence they have actually done it, and things start to look pretty suspicious.
True, this is nothing novel, but IT does incorporate cool electron microscope pictures and sweet slow motion video set to music, so It must be high tech.
on the other hand, Its odd that this subject came up, because it instantly reminded me of this: http://www.realclearscience.co... Because my first thought when I read the headline was "because they are fuzzy on a tiny scale" I know that the wax needles are a shade smaller than the 13 nanometers of amplitude that the researchers in the article I linked discovered humans that can detect by touch, but I do wonder if its pure coincidence that most leaves feel 'fuzzy', even visually smooth leaves.
There is really not much alive in the atlantic garbage patch, which is where this tech would be best used at sea. (Which, if you've never heard of it, is a place in the Atlantic where a bunch of ocean currents sort of cancel each other out, and makes a place where all sorts of nastiness from all over the world collects, poisoning the area in the process)
If it gets good enough to be worth the effort, we can put it on giant barges and go mine out the Great Atlantic Garbage Patch for plastic, and get that embarrassment to humanity cleaned up.
What are you trying to hide?
Everything. Nothing I do is anyone else's business, unless I deem it so.
Agreed, at this stage in my life, I would probably call the service number on the sticker on the machine and tell them there shits broken.
In my younger years, the thought was "Hey! free stuff!" because you would expect that they would realize the machine was making far less money than the inventory they fed it should result in, and investigate. That lends itself to the thought that, if they don't care enough to fix an obviously malfunctioning machine, then who cares if I get a free soda from it sometimes. Back then anyways. Now that i'm older and more jaded, stealing makes me mad. Mainly because i've finally lived long enough to be stolen from, and understand that it really sucks.
still better than "admin" and "password" by a small margin.
You know, having a swipe card for access by the employees is actually a good idea, and it amazes me that they don't already use something like that, combined with a keyboard passcode. 2 factor authentication is always smart, especially with machines that deal with other peoples money.
Hell, the company can use the same password on all the machines, as long as its not the default password sure, its not great security, but its better than leaving all the machines on the password in a publicly available book.
Which is interesting, because even the old "electromechanical" machines would suffer from hiccups. There was an old machine at my school that, quite reliably, after you paid for one, would give you two Dr. Peppers when you pushed the button for it. It also would give you as many diet cokes as you cared to own, assuming you kept pressing the button as quickly as possible after you fed it your change; if you stopped, it would reset and lock out. If you pushed the Dr Pepper button and the Diet Coke button at the same time, about 1 time in 5 you would get 2 Dr Pepper and a Diet Coke.
the point is, this was an old machine, while you mashed the buttons, it made this horrendously loud clicking and clattering, so you could only get so many from it before you attracted the attention of the people in the office nearby. I gave up at 6 Diet Cokes, partially because who wants to drink 7 Diet Cokes, and partially because the secretary was glaring at me.
Exactly.
This is another device, but the principles involved are the same. Where I work we have a coin sorting machine, sort of like a coin star. This particular model dispenses cash instead of a receipt that you take to the counter to cash in, the way a lot of the bigger chains are. With our machine, there is a keyed lock that opens a little flipper door that houses a separate physical keypad that controls all the admin functions. Public user access to the machine is restricted to a touch screen with a extremely limited interface (basically language choice, start, and finish, once the machine is done counting).
I'm surprised that ATM's don't use a similar setup. In my mind, it should be another step obfuscated by being a port behind a little locked door that allowed the operator to plug in a customized interface. (say, a non standard USB port that matched to a non standard keyboard/pointing device that the operator would plug in, preventing a successful lock pick from having quick general access to the machine, as a specialized hardware attachment would be needed.
Remember, this device reads bank cards and conducts financial transactions, protecting your customers saves a lot of money in the long run.
As the old saying goes: "Is a Turing test valid if the human is an idiot?"
Based on the fact that even as a kid, I knew that the stickers where bootleg, I suspect your probably right.