@Dashrender said in Build a Tornado Warning System Using Raspberry Pi:

@scottalanmiller said in Build a Tornado Warning System Using Raspberry Pi:

@Dashrender That's a good point.

lol wasn't my idea, it was in the article you linked.

Ha ha

@scottalanmiller said in More bad news for Rochester, NY:

@thwr said in More bad news for Rochester, NY:

@travisdh1 said in More bad news for Rochester, NY:

https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-to-Close-5-Call-Centers-Impacting-3200-Employees-138099

Verizon closing down a number of call centers... as if their customer service wasn't already terrible enough. One of the call centers is apparently in Rochester, NY. You're job market just got even worse 😞

They will probably open a new one. In Romania. Or even worse, in Egypt. Seen that before 😞

Romania is way more technical than Rochester 🙂

This is true. Had a Romanian guy try to install some remote control software on my family's computers back in the mid 90s. Software was in Romanian. That was the last time I let anybody near a computer that was mine and left hem alone, unsupervised.

@scottalanmiller said in Red Hat Open Sources Ansible Galaxy:

That's awesome. Now just waiting on Tower, too.

Thought exactly the same: Free/open Tower would be awesome.

@dafyre said in Nextcloud 10.0.1 out with improved updater & over 40 fixes:

@JaredBusch The 9.0.53 -> 10.0.1 was the last time I have to do it by hand, I hope!

That is the plan, yes. The new updater should take care of the next update. We're also working on improving the graphical upgrade process to be bullet-proof with regards to PHP timeouts but that one is though.

@Dashrender said in Indian Authorities Arrest Seventy and Question Over Six Hundred in IRS Scam Bust:

Damn.

"We had a mole go in to the call centres to verify. The best part is that they were actually recording all their calls. We have recovered 851 hard disks on which the calls were recorded, so we’re going through those now," Singh told The Guardian.

Awesome - I wonder who paid them to do that?

Better ask another question: Who wrote precise instructions to do so.

All the green energy won't do any good if it can't get to where it's needed. Yes, we could put 3 2000 acre sites in Mexico, Australia, and Africa that would produce enough power for the entire world. Problem is, we can't transport it nearly far enough. The revolution we need isn't a green revolution, but is a transportation revolution.

Also, modern nuclear plats are perfectly safe, but don't produce fissile material. Guess how many of them we have? (No prizes for the correct answer 😛 )

@Dashrender said in Intel NUC Skull Canyon Video:

@scottalanmiller said in Intel NUC Skull Canyon Video:

@MattSpeller said in Intel NUC Skull Canyon Video:

@scottalanmiller said in Intel NUC Skull Canyon Video:

@Dashrender said in Intel NUC Skull Canyon Video:

We're griping about $600-800 for this form factor, but people are paying $700+ for iPhone? huh.

I need a good phone, I don't need a little gaming rig.

You would be the #1 customer I thought of for this. Business traveller.

Oh I like the idea 🙂 If I didn't already have the laptop, I might bite.

Wheren't you looking for this type of solution last year? I understand that you've solved it with a laptop now, but you were looking I thought.

Yup, but moved on.

@aidan_walsh said in AWS Brings GPU POWERHOUSES to the Cloud:

Awesome, Amazon Password Cracking As A Service.

#truth

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@wrx7m said in Microsoft disbands the band:

I would imagine that it has to do with the fact that nobody wanted to use it and nobody knew it existed. I was like, Microsoft Band?

And that people associated with the dead phone platform. We all just assumed that they had died together or that the Band would be crippled on any current phone platform.

I'm not sure why you say people associated it with a dead phone platform, no one even know MS had phone platform.

They did, enough to think that the Band was part of it. And honestly, wasn't it?

All the literature I saw specifically mentioned about how the band worked with iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

Worked with isn't the same as "did everything the same" on all platforms.

Does anything?

They talked about this in Windows weekly. And Mary Jo Foley (tech writer) said the same thing I did. To her, MS wasnt considering the band linked to Windows Phone.

I don't care if anything else does, nothing else is from Microsoft. That all the features were on a dead useless platform was the concern. I don't care if my Apple Watch only works with iOS because I use iOS. If the Band is for Windows Phone, then it's useless.

But it's not.
I have the band tied to my Nexus 6P. I get everything I had with Windows phone with the possible exception ( which I just haven't tested) of send SMS from the Band via Android.

That's what I was asking.... does the Band with fully or almost fully with other devices? MS did nothing to assuage fears of that, which likely did a ton to cause the product to fail.

Yes it worked nearly feature complete on all three platforms.
MS never really advertised the Band. It's like it was more of an experiment than a real product launch.
They put no real effort into promoting it.

Like the Phone. Just a failed experiment. It never felt like they were serious about it. That's exactly how it felt when I tried one. It was half finished and half assed and they just seemed to give up.

It was probably that way in Windows Phone 7, but Windows 8 and 8.1 (only versions of the newer OS that I used) seemed pretty complete - though I'll admit I never tried to do VPN on it - I know that was a huge sticking point with version 7, not sure if it still was on version 8?

I used it post 7. It was 8 or 8.1 and just like the desktops that they made in that era, it felt like an internal joke. It was pathetic and the features that they raved about were stupid and things you would want turned off. It was really sad.

I don't expect that any company is honoring that. I figure if anything else, they monitor the machines that have it set even more than the rest of us.

Realistically though... These are only the companies that have been caught. (How do they get caught doing this anyhow?)

@scottalanmiller Something tells me that it isn't a lack of funding that is causing their issues.

It's not really "any communications channel". It's not phone, IM, XMPP, email, etc. It's just a file.

Who doesn't want Pixel Pi?

@Dashrender said in Firmware update for HP printers bans third-party ink:

Again, getting less than 20 people quickly to make a vote is one thing, getting 1000's is another. Perhaps the number of companies that have 1000's that matter (i.e. it takes thousands of shareholders to make up a majority, it can't be done with less) is so small that it's not relevant to the conversation?

That's likely only a handful of companies. If any, it's only a theory that any like that exist. Normally there are either super large individual investors or funds that hold the majority of shares in just four or five representatives. They normally talk directly.

But if there was even need for an exception to this, investors can do whatever they want. They can have email voting and require responses in five minutes if they want.