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Can you imagine even trying to explain that concept to someone from one century ago? It would be completely alien to him, and he'd probably think that in the 21st century, people turned completely crazy. (Not that he'd be wrong about that...)
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
Can you imagine even trying to explain that concept to someone from one century ago? It would be completely alien to him, and he'd probably think that in the 21st century, people turned completely crazy. (Not that he'd be wrong about that...)
Plus ça change … Imagine living around the year 1900 and trying to explain electric light to someone from a hundred years earlier. Or someone from 1800 trying to explain a Jacquard loom to someone from 1700.
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I think it would be easier, actually. You could explain an arc lamp as "like lightning, but controlled". A Jacquard loom is an advanced automaton, and automatons have a long history, dating back to Greek antiquity.
But explaining that something that provides light can catch contagious diseases, even though it's not alive? You'd blow his mind.
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
But explaining that something that provides light can catch contagious diseases, even though it's not alive? You'd blow his mind.
Maybe it'd be easier to believe for someone from 300 years ago than for someone from 50 years ago.
Superstition / lack of knowledge would allow you to believe that this magical thing is actually alive.
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
I think it would be easier, actually. You could explain an arc lamp as "like lightning, but controlled". A Jacquard loom is an advanced automaton, and automatons have a long history, dating back to Greek antiquity.
The loom, I grant you — if you can show one in detail, anyway, and to someone with a sufficiently technical background/mindset. Else you’ll probably run into a variation on:—
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/charles_babbage_141832
But electricity? IMHO probably about as difficult to grasp as “A lightbulb can catch malicious software” for someone from a hundred years ago — or even from twenty or thirty years ago, I suppose.
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
But explaining that something that provides light can catch contagious diseases, even though it's not alive? You'd blow his mind.
Especially if you explain that people pay extra for this over ordinary lightning-powered light sources that don't have the problem.
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Helpfully a search string for NUUVO cameras is on the SHODAN front page.
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@Gribnit said in Internet of shit:
@dkf Looks to be full of propane tanks. Perhaps they intend to explode the bathroom.
I don't need no propane tank to blow up a public bathroom!
#rect
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@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
I don't need no propane tank to blow up a public bathroom!
You have some serious digestive problems
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@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
I don't need no propane tank to blow up a public bathroom!
#rectum
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@Zecc I hardly know 'um!
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@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
@LaoC said in Internet of shit:
The gas station by my house "upgraded" their pumps last year to ones with screens that play GSTV. The first ones of those I saw had a mute button that would mute the TV until your transaction was done. No such luck on these, you have to hear their programming.
The worst part is all 12 pumps are just slightly out of sync with each other. I would guess a tenth of a second or two. It is super annoying.
No fucking clue why anyone would watch GSTV. It is probably streamed with Flash.
Speedway?
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@sloosecannon said in Internet of shit:
Speedway?
No, but a local chain of gas stations that if you did not know they are not a Speedway you might think it was a mini Speedway. They seemed to have patterned themselves after them, just with a smaller store.
Same sort of coffee bar, same snack arrangement, same foodstuffs on the rotating grill that may have been there since the store opened.
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I think getting a creamy coffee from a Siemens machine feels awkward.
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@Zecc said in Internet of shit:
I think getting a creamy coffee from a Siemens machine feels awkward.
Not that kind of cream!
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
Yes, since Java makes good coffee
Call me oldfashioned, but I like my coffee served like this and not like this .
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@Zecc said in Internet of shit:
I think getting a creamy coffee from a Siemens machine feels awkward.
Considering they're big makers of scary medical machines, I'd be worried that that coffee has like radioactive tracer for PET scanner machines in it.
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@blakeyrat I brew my coffee in the morning with heavy water for the extra energy boost. Wouldn't mind something that decays into positrons instead of electrons -- that might give the start of the day a more positive spin.
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@cvi said in Internet of shit:
@blakeyrat I brew my coffee in the morning with heavy water for the extra energy boost. Wouldn't mind something that decays into positrons instead of electrons -- that might give the start of the day a more positive spin.
heavy water (D2O) isn't radioactive. Tritium is, but you're unlikely to be using that for water.
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@Benjamin-Hall Reality is a for posting bad jokes. But you are (of course) right.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Internet of shit:
heavy water (D2O) isn't radioactive
But you still don't want to drink too much of it, as deuterium has different chemistry to hydrogen. (Curious facts in chemistry: this is why it isn't always just about the electron configuration…)
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@dkf
https://youtu.be/MXHVqId0MQcWell, you did say "[not] too much". He does mention that it's toxic before drinking it (but according to the guy you need to replace a significant amount of the water in your body for that to be a problem).
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@Zecc said in Internet of shit:
Siemens
Also the unit for transconductance in electronics, cue double-takes if it gets into conversation with non-EEs.
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@cvi said in Internet of shit:
you need to replace a significant amount of the water in your body for that to be a problem
Exactly. You can tolerate the levels you get by drinking a small quantity just fine, but replacing a significant fraction of your liquid intake would be A Bad Idea.
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@cvi said in Internet of shit:
Wouldn't mind something that decays into positrons instead of electrons -- that might give the start of the day a more positive spin.
A positron's spin is the same as that of an electron. For that extra shot of positivity you want gamma rays.</>
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@LaoC said in Internet of shit:
For that extra shot of positivity you want gamma rays.
Which are electrically neutral (and what you get shortly after you start throwing positrons in with normal mater). You probably should go for alpha particles.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
He lasted less than three minutes? Damn...
He's got better porn than you
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@TimeBandit I call bullshit. This Apple Watch feature has several alarms asking you whether you're okay or not. Only when you don't snooze all of them then emergency services are notified.
Plus, if you're under 65 the service is opt-in.
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@Rhywden said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit I call bullshit. This Apple Watch feature has several alarms asking you whether you're okay or not. Only when you don't snooze all of them then emergency services are notified.
Plus, if you're under 65 the service is opt-in.
Oh Siri asked if he needed help. She heard "Oh yeah" and well
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@Rhywden said in Internet of shit:
This Apple Watch feature has several alarms asking you whether you're okay or not. Only when you don't snooze all of them then emergency services are notified.
I guess the guy was watching porn with a headset
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
He lasted less than three minutes? Damn...
He's got better porn than you
Doesn't negate my statement.
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@sloosecannon said in Internet of shit:
Oh Siri asked if he needed help. She heard "Oh yeah" and well
Siri? (Achtung: NSFW)
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@sloosecannon said in Internet of shit:
Oh Siri asked if he needed help. She heard "Oh yeah" and well
Siri? (Achtung: NSFW)
Huh, she's less than half a year older than me. One wonders what they could have been if born female.
Then one wonders what they could have been if born Apache helicopter.
The one wonders what they could have been if born.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
The one wonders what they could have been if born.
Being born is likely an advantage over not.
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@loopback0 said in Internet of shit:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
The one wonders what they could have been if born.
Being born is likely an advantage over not.
I've been told that. It's really difficult to justify though...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
Then one wonders what they could have been if born Apache helicopter.
Air- borne.
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California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a cybersecurity law covering “smart” devices, making California the first state with such a law. The bill, SB-327, was introduced last year and passed the state senate in late August.
Starting on January 1st, 2020, any manufacturer of a device that connects “directly or indirectly” to the internet must equip it with “reasonable” security features, designed to prevent unauthorized access, modification, or information disclosure. If it can be accessed outside a local area network with a password, it needs to either come with a unique password for each device, or force users to set their own password the first time they connect. That means no more generic default credentials for a hacker to guess.
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@DCoder so seeding the default password with the MAC address is still legal?
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@PleegWat said in Internet of shit:
so seeding the default password with the MAC address is still legal?
It depends on the exact wording of the law: ‘“reasonable” security features’ isn't a 100% defined concept beyond requiring the equipment provider to take some action. The actual action required depends on what is rapidly and remotely hackable.
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@DCoder: Interesting. I'd have expected them to require manufacturers to use a sticker like this:
"WARNING: This product may contain software known to the State of California to cause security breaches, denial-of-service, or other consumer-harmful behavior."
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
@DCoder: Interesting. I'd have expected them to require manufacturers to use a sticker like this:
"WARNING: This product may contain software known to the State of California to cause security breaches, denial-of-service, or other consumer-harmful behavior."In other words: cancer.
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@Cursorkeys
They must be holding it upside down.
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@Cursorkeys How many times are they going to have the same problem?
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@hungrier
I'm gonna guess twice a year (per time zone).