Having a locally-connected networked device that can't access the internet would make this impossible.
That's why you run a VPN server at home and place the devices on a network segment that can't reach the Internet. Many of the IOT devices can be controlled from the LAN using a smartphone app or by making webservice calls to the device.
You have a webcam to monitor the open/close status and a controller to operate the existing garage door opener (they typically have pins where these devices can be connected). You run a VPN server at home so you can connect to your local network and operate the devices remotely.
If you want to automatically close a door that's open for too long you can write some code to compare the current webcam image to an image of a closed door and an image of an open door. The one that most closely matches tells you the current state.
Yes, and the smart versions are much more functional.
I have an Insteon Hub for controlling things like light switches, outlets and lamps. Door sensors so I know when they open/close and motion sensors so lights turn on when I enter a room and automatically turn off after a period where movement isn't detected.
Being able to adjust the lights in your house or turn on an exhaust fan using your phone, computer, or a small remote control is really convenient. You won't want to go back to having to walk across the room, or to a different floor, just to flip a dumb switch.
I worked at an investment bank and can confirm people in certain groups were required to take a vacation of at least 5 continuous days once a year.
The story I had heard was that this was due to some trader falsifying his positions and only being detected because he got sick and was out of the office long enough for it to finally get noticed. From what I remember he supposedly had worked in enough different groups (front, middle, back-office) that he knew in which reporting systems he needed to make his changes.
U.S. contractors and soldiers massacring Iraqi civilians and being immune from prosecution was a big reason for Iraq not wanting to sign a new Status of Forces agreement in 2011.
This is not 20 years ago...we cannot simply change ISP's by giving a CC number to another company and putting in a new phone number. The ISP's know this; they know there's no real competition.
So why don't you fix that problem instead of giving the government more control?
It's the ISP's network, they should be able to run it however they like.
Customers are better served with market-based solutions than they are with government control and regulation.
All of these problems that Net Neutrality will supposedly fix are due to government granted monopolies. If there were competition among ISPs, then customers could just switch to another provider if theirs was treating them poorly.
Instead of simply solving the monopoly problem, some people want government to swoop in and rescue them by taking over the industry and regulating it to death. For some reason these people think this will result in lower prices and better service.
So switch to another ISP if yours is blocking or slowing your traffic. That's what a market-based solution would dictate.
The real problem is that we have allowed ISP monopolies. I live in the third largest city in the United States and my only choice for Internet access via cable modem is Comcast. There are other cable providers in certain areas of town and for large multi-dwelling buildings, but only one choice in my neighborhood of single-family residences.
If people had a choice of providers then they could just switch to the one that's most customer friendly. Instead, due to monopolies, we are at the mercy of the ISP and the politician resolve our complaints.
If you're interested in rolling your own VPN I can recommend libreswan.
I got both L2TP over IPSec and IPSec with XAUTH and PSK configurations working with the native VPN client (racoon?) in macOS Sierra (and presumably iOS). I'm still trying to get Android 6.0 working with XAUTH and PSK (establishes tunnel, but doesn't route properly), but L2TP works ok. My *NIX hosts just use libreswan as the client.
Amazon offers 1,000 free hours to new AWS users and the pricing on their EC2 instances is very good, so it shouldn't cost too much to route your connections through them.
How about private rooms? You get your own room, can pick from X number of movies, can pick your start time and you get your own server for refreshments?
Then again, my apartment already offers that which is probably why I don't go to theaters anymore. I have enough entertainment options available that I have no need to see movies as soon as they're released. If I could pay to watch a new movie from home I would do so, otherwise I can wait to watch on Netflix, or Amazon Video, or for the DVD/Blu-Ray to be released.
most of those classic games without save functionality can be beaten in under an hour or two if you know what you're doing.
Contra for the NES takes something like 15 minutes. MegaMan was quick once you memorized the levels and knew which order to collect the weapons. Ninja Gaiden didn't take long once you memorized the patterns for those damn eagles. Revenge of Shinobi was also pretty fast to beat, maybe 45 minutes.
Get yourself a good pair of noise cancelling headphones.
We have an open office with several large bench-type setups with people facing each other and a low, 18 inch wall down the middle. Constant chatter from the QA and Project teams. Whenever I need to focus I just put on my headphones; they block out everything and I can focus like I'm alone.
fact is opiates are the safest and most effective pain relieving and antipsychotic drugs we know. It is society's retarded desire to push this demand on to the black market that makes them so dangerous
The safety profile really should be emphasized. Too many people think it's the drug itself that is so dangerous when in fact the danger is due to having to purchase on the black market where you don't know the potency, don't know if it's the drug you want (lots of people substitute fentanyl these days) and don't know if it's been adulterated. If people could just buy some dope at the local pharmacy we wouldn't have as many dying from it, although people do still manage to overdose on pharmaceuticals like Oxycontin.
Addiction can happen even when the drugs are taken exactly as prescribed.
Yes, and it's quite common for physicians to prescribe drugs improperly. For example, giving people benzodiazepines for longer than two to four weeks, or for non-FDA approved off-label use.
I have also heard horror stories about patients who do develop addictions being cut-off cold turkey when they inform their physician and not being allowed to taper properly. To make matters worse sometimes physicians dismiss withdrawal symptoms from drugs as not being due to the drug, but because of the condition or disease the person supposedly has.
I don't believe anyone is suggesting that actual votes were changed (as in voting machine hacked or something), the accusation is that Russia influenced the election through the slow release of hacked emails and spreading anti-Clinton propaganda.
I'm going to have to disagree. There's an ongoing attempt to convince the ignorant masses that Russia directly interfered with the election, that's why news stories keep using the words "hacked" and "interfered", they don't use the word "influenced". Also notice how no mention is ever made about the many instances of the United States interfering with other countries' elections, e.g. most recently Israel.
Russia did not prevent anyone from going to the polls, nor did they cause votes from being tabulated properly. What they arguably did do was release unaltered copies of email messages from people involved with Hillary's campaign that exposed their contempt for certain groups of the American public. Their nastiness was exposed for all to read. Hillary's campaign is crying foul because information was (assumed to have been) leaked selectively and no information that was harmful to Donald's campaign was released. It's the kind of argument a child would make when caught out by their parents, "but Tommy did it too and he's not in trouble! Why am I in trouble?! It's not fair!"
The Benghazi hearings were proven to be a political charade anyways where even after months of investigations the Republicans couldn't find any wrong-doings.
Couldn't find any wrong doing?! It's a known fact that the State Department fed the Public a known false story about the attacks happening because of some lame video that some guy who doesn't like Muslims produced when in fact they knew it was a terrorist attack on their weapons smuggling operation. The State Department was smuggling weapons to Syria via Libya.
There was no wiretapping of Trump. Never happened.
This is clearly an unprovable assertion. What is known is that President Obama tapped Angela Merkel's communications. Now ask yourself, is it plausible that Trump was under surveillance. I think it clearly is.
What there was was spying on Russians, and the fact that the likes of Flynn and Sessions are such fucking idiots that they would basically use open communication systems to yack with the Russians indicates not only are they traitors, but pretty fucking stupid ones.
Traitors? We are not at war with Russia and they are not our enemies. The Democrats certainly do hate them though.
The other thing to that - by backing my entire configuration profile to 'the cloud', the moment I get a new phone b'cos the previous one was lost, or I wanted to upgrade, I just enter my email during setup, and it retrieves everything I had - apps, wallpaper and so on, and I'm good to continue where I left off.
I'm shocked the restore to new phone feature worked for you. I tried the process probably four times on my Moto X Pure before I gave up. It would only copy maybe 30 out of 120 apps and then silently fail.
The user privileges were set to where my standard use did not have root-level access to the device (which made getting my stuff off of the phone when it broke very difficult) but once I figured out how to get to some obscure menus at boot-time I was able to mostly find what I was looking to find through the filesystem and to copy over to a Linux box.
Why not use adb-sync? You don't need root on the phone to access the data over USB which is why it's recommended that you also encrypt the phone.
I have never heard of an Android phone shipping with encryption enabled.
Please note: Age discrimiation in hiring is illegal.
Not true. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) only protects workers older than 40. You can legally discriminate against younger workers in states that haven't passed additional protections.
One in every three people in the United States is now obese, compared with one in five 20 years ago, researchers report.
All racial/ethnic groups across both genders reported decreased interest in weight loss, but women in particular were more likely to say they'd given up on it, the findings showed.
But I wanna see the CIA remotely invading my unconnected Windows 7 PC used for maintenance purposes. Unless they get a warrant and physically get to my computer, they can't.
They don't need a warrant to physically access your computer. Yes, it's done illegally, so what? Hard drives can be infected with malware on their embedded logic controllers before you install it in your computer.
Encryption is used on these device to protect messages DURING transit and it's not only from the CIA or for criminal purposes. So yeah, it's still secure if you are not being actively targeted by the CIA, and if you keep your devices outside the reach of malicious actors.
How exactly does one know when they are being actively targeted?
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Having a locally-connected networked device that can't access the internet would make this impossible.
That's why you run a VPN server at home and place the devices on a network segment that can't reach the Internet. Many of the IOT devices can be controlled from the LAN using a smartphone app or by making webservice calls to the device.
You have a webcam to monitor the open/close status and a controller to operate the existing garage door opener (they typically have pins where these devices can be connected). You run a VPN server at home so you can connect to your local network and operate the devices remotely.
If you want to automatically close a door that's open for too long you can write some code to compare the current webcam image to an image of a closed door and an image of an open door. The one that most closely matches tells you the current state.
Yes, and the smart versions are much more functional.
I have an Insteon Hub for controlling things like light switches, outlets and lamps. Door sensors so I know when they open/close and motion sensors so lights turn on when I enter a room and automatically turn off after a period where movement isn't detected.
Being able to adjust the lights in your house or turn on an exhaust fan using your phone, computer, or a small remote control is really convenient. You won't want to go back to having to walk across the room, or to a different floor, just to flip a dumb switch.
It would suck to be gone for 4 weeks, and nobody noticed you were gone. Except you weren't there to complain all the time.
It's even worse when you die at work and no one notices.
I worked at an investment bank and can confirm people in certain groups were required to take a vacation of at least 5 continuous days once a year.
The story I had heard was that this was due to some trader falsifying his positions and only being detected because he got sick and was out of the office long enough for it to finally get noticed. From what I remember he supposedly had worked in enough different groups (front, middle, back-office) that he knew in which reporting systems he needed to make his changes.
U.S. contractors and soldiers massacring Iraqi civilians and being immune from prosecution was a big reason for Iraq not wanting to sign a new Status of Forces agreement in 2011.
From what I remember, the Kandahar massacre was the last straw.
This is not 20 years ago...we cannot simply change ISP's by giving a CC number to another company and putting in a new phone number. The ISP's know this; they know there's no real competition.
So why don't you fix that problem instead of giving the government more control?
It's the ISP's network, they should be able to run it however they like.
Customers are better served with market-based solutions than they are with government control and regulation.
All of these problems that Net Neutrality will supposedly fix are due to government granted monopolies. If there were competition among ISPs, then customers could just switch to another provider if theirs was treating them poorly.
Instead of simply solving the monopoly problem, some people want government to swoop in and rescue them by taking over the industry and regulating it to death. For some reason these people think this will result in lower prices and better service.
So switch to another ISP if yours is blocking or slowing your traffic. That's what a market-based solution would dictate.
The real problem is that we have allowed ISP monopolies. I live in the third largest city in the United States and my only choice for Internet access via cable modem is Comcast. There are other cable providers in certain areas of town and for large multi-dwelling buildings, but only one choice in my neighborhood of single-family residences.
If people had a choice of providers then they could just switch to the one that's most customer friendly. Instead, due to monopolies, we are at the mercy of the ISP and the politician resolve our complaints.
If you're interested in rolling your own VPN I can recommend libreswan.
I got both L2TP over IPSec and IPSec with XAUTH and PSK configurations working with the native VPN client (racoon?) in macOS Sierra (and presumably iOS). I'm still trying to get Android 6.0 working with XAUTH and PSK (establishes tunnel, but doesn't route properly), but L2TP works ok. My *NIX hosts just use libreswan as the client.
Amazon offers 1,000 free hours to new AWS users and the pricing on their EC2 instances is very good, so it shouldn't cost too much to route your connections through them.
How about private rooms? You get your own room, can pick from X number of movies, can pick your start time and you get your own server for refreshments?
Then again, my apartment already offers that which is probably why I don't go to theaters anymore. I have enough entertainment options available that I have no need to see movies as soon as they're released. If I could pay to watch a new movie from home I would do so, otherwise I can wait to watch on Netflix, or Amazon Video, or for the DVD/Blu-Ray to be released.
most of those classic games without save functionality can be beaten in under an hour or two if you know what you're doing.
Contra for the NES takes something like 15 minutes. MegaMan was quick once you memorized the levels and knew which order to collect the weapons. Ninja Gaiden didn't take long once you memorized the patterns for those damn eagles. Revenge of Shinobi was also pretty fast to beat, maybe 45 minutes.
Get yourself a good pair of noise cancelling headphones.
We have an open office with several large bench-type setups with people facing each other and a low, 18 inch wall down the middle. Constant chatter from the QA and Project teams. Whenever I need to focus I just put on my headphones; they block out everything and I can focus like I'm alone.
Good thing you don't have to provide a return address to have your mail delivered.
Based on this experience, I would say not taking criminal action against Hillary Clinton was in line with many other cases.
Kristian Saucier got 1 year in prison for taking 6 photos of the engine room on the sub he was assigned.
Sailor Denied 'Clinton Deal', Gets 1 Year in Prison for 6 Photos of Sub.
It's obvious that Hillary was protected because she's part of the ruling class.
fact is opiates are the safest and most effective pain relieving and antipsychotic drugs we know. It is society's retarded desire to push this demand on to the black market that makes them so dangerous
The safety profile really should be emphasized. Too many people think it's the drug itself that is so dangerous when in fact the danger is due to having to purchase on the black market where you don't know the potency, don't know if it's the drug you want (lots of people substitute fentanyl these days) and don't know if it's been adulterated. If people could just buy some dope at the local pharmacy we wouldn't have as many dying from it, although people do still manage to overdose on pharmaceuticals like Oxycontin.
Addiction can happen even when the drugs are taken exactly as prescribed.
Yes, and it's quite common for physicians to prescribe drugs improperly. For example, giving people benzodiazepines for longer than two to four weeks, or for non-FDA approved off-label use.
I have also heard horror stories about patients who do develop addictions being cut-off cold turkey when they inform their physician and not being allowed to taper properly. To make matters worse sometimes physicians dismiss withdrawal symptoms from drugs as not being due to the drug, but because of the condition or disease the person supposedly has.
I don't believe anyone is suggesting that actual votes were changed (as in voting machine hacked or something), the accusation is that Russia influenced the election through the slow release of hacked emails and spreading anti-Clinton propaganda.
I'm going to have to disagree. There's an ongoing attempt to convince the ignorant masses that Russia directly interfered with the election, that's why news stories keep using the words "hacked" and "interfered", they don't use the word "influenced". Also notice how no mention is ever made about the many instances of the United States interfering with other countries' elections, e.g. most recently Israel.
Russia did not prevent anyone from going to the polls, nor did they cause votes from being tabulated properly. What they arguably did do was release unaltered copies of email messages from people involved with Hillary's campaign that exposed their contempt for certain groups of the American public. Their nastiness was exposed for all to read. Hillary's campaign is crying foul because information was (assumed to have been) leaked selectively and no information that was harmful to Donald's campaign was released. It's the kind of argument a child would make when caught out by their parents, "but Tommy did it too and he's not in trouble! Why am I in trouble?! It's not fair!"
The Benghazi hearings were proven to be a political charade anyways where even after months of investigations the Republicans couldn't find any wrong-doings.
Couldn't find any wrong doing?! It's a known fact that the State Department fed the Public a known false story about the attacks happening because of some lame video that some guy who doesn't like Muslims produced when in fact they knew it was a terrorist attack on their weapons smuggling operation. The State Department was smuggling weapons to Syria via Libya.
There was no wiretapping of Trump. Never happened.
This is clearly an unprovable assertion. What is known is that President Obama tapped Angela Merkel's communications. Now ask yourself, is it plausible that Trump was under surveillance. I think it clearly is.
What there was was spying on Russians, and the fact that the likes of Flynn and Sessions are such fucking idiots that they would basically use open communication systems to yack with the Russians indicates not only are they traitors, but pretty fucking stupid ones.
Traitors? We are not at war with Russia and they are not our enemies. The Democrats certainly do hate them though.
This again? The marking is not what makes a document classified.
The other thing to that - by backing my entire configuration profile to 'the cloud', the moment I get a new phone b'cos the previous one was lost, or I wanted to upgrade, I just enter my email during setup, and it retrieves everything I had - apps, wallpaper and so on, and I'm good to continue where I left off.
I'm shocked the restore to new phone feature worked for you. I tried the process probably four times on my Moto X Pure before I gave up. It would only copy maybe 30 out of 120 apps and then silently fail.
The user privileges were set to where my standard use did not have root-level access to the device (which made getting my stuff off of the phone when it broke very difficult) but once I figured out how to get to some obscure menus at boot-time I was able to mostly find what I was looking to find through the filesystem and to copy over to a Linux box.
Why not use adb-sync? You don't need root on the phone to access the data over USB which is why it's recommended that you also encrypt the phone.
I have never heard of an Android phone shipping with encryption enabled.
Please note: Age discrimiation in hiring is illegal.
Not true. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) only protects workers older than 40. You can legally discriminate against younger workers in states that haven't passed additional protections.
Have Americans Given Up on Losing Weight?
One in every three people in the United States is now obese, compared with one in five 20 years ago, researchers report.
All racial/ethnic groups across both genders reported decreased interest in weight loss, but women in particular were more likely to say they'd given up on it, the findings showed.
But I wanna see the CIA remotely invading my unconnected Windows 7 PC used for maintenance purposes. Unless they get a warrant and physically get to my computer, they can't.
They don't need a warrant to physically access your computer. Yes, it's done illegally, so what? Hard drives can be infected with malware on their embedded logic controllers before you install it in your computer.
Encryption is used on these device to protect messages DURING transit and it's not only from the CIA or for criminal purposes. So yeah, it's still secure if you are not being actively targeted by the CIA, and if you keep your devices outside the reach of malicious actors.
How exactly does one know when they are being actively targeted?