Comment So now a bunch of people are going to get shot... (Score 1) 899
...when thieves break into their houses looking for guns.
...when thieves break into their houses looking for guns.
But this is the exact kind of evil political use that this stuff is going to be used for. It doesn't make it right because you're using it on Republicans. If anything it makes it MORE wrong because of your acceptability standard...because when they turn around and use it on you they'll have had your prior support.
See, someone has already drank the kool-aid.
"Hey Bob, I'm bored...ever since they legalized pot I've had nothing to arrest people for for no reason. What's this I hear about linguistics and personality traits?"
There are MILLIONS of people in prison in this country and this is just going to be another excuse for our soccer-mom-busybody overlords.
Damnit...I need upvotes on
Negative...we take"thing X" that has confirmed kills of 2 people and confirmed annoyance of 1 busybody and it's "BWAAAAAAAA THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" and then we arrest everyone for being a pedophile.
This is so bad I don't know where to begin. There is nothing, ever, that excuses this. For every zodiac crazy serial killer or copyright scofflaw they try to apply this to (and fail) there will be thousands and thousands of people that will be persecuted by organizations and governments for expressing their opinions. While this won't have a big effect in the West for half a generation, oppressive governments are going to be all over this.
And then, in ten or fifteen years, the youth will have grown with this technology and become accustomed to it...accepting it. Just like facebook has been accepted.
I'd move to Mars when it's possible but some bureaucrat will analyze everything I've ever written on the interwebz (and I've been mostly not stupid about shit I've written online since 1995 or so) and make some arbitrary decision about how I'm not acceptable because I'm not a huge fan of authority or some such crap.
Way to go humanity.
Sorry, didn't want to spam, but www.hiqautomation.com. We did build one for Android and it works pretty well. And like one of you said...most our beta testers ended up using it when they were not in their car...usually out working on the lawn or something. One guy we have testing told me about the time his wife got locked out of the house but she didn't have an android phone, alas!
We're doing a release in about 2 months...ordering the parts for the first fifty units just after xmas.
My partner and I came up with a device that allows you to open a garage door with a smartphone. Just a box with a relay and a Bluetooth radio. When I started looking into whether or not we could do this for iPhone I found apples "Made for iPod" program...their hardware licensing scheme.
The first thing they asked for was our attorney's contact information.
A quick search showed me that it was going to cost in the ballpark of $20,000 to deal with Apple's bullshit. So that didn't happen.
TL;DR The law is whatever they want it to be.
Agreed. I used to read the NY Times several times a day. When they put up their paywall, even with the easy workarounds, it dropped off my radar. I even wanted to pay...but at the time (and perhaps they still are) one had to pay extra for each device class you wanted to use...$X for web access, $Y for tablet access and $Z for phone access. This worked out at the time to be something like $50 a month...for a NEWSPAPER.
I've heard claims that this is akin to the PBS model...with a minority of people overpaying for content/service and the majority using the product for free. Seems okay for PBS but economically backward for an organization like the NY Times, imho.
I'd also like to add that Daisyworks is a great little company you can buy inexpensive bluetooth toys like breakout boards from. I bought some of their products to do our prototyping.
And the link to the Kickstarter project didn't quite turn out like I thought, so here it is...twice!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1045304366/hiq-automation-iopener
What it really is is an investment killer. And here I was thinking Illinois has an awful business climate.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
So that's how the constitution reads...I was asking one of the younger attorneys at the firm about the "limited time" if the application of the Sonny Bono copyright schmutz didn't make copyright, in effect, unlimited.
His response, verbatim...and I am not shitting you:
"Unlimited is a limit."
The law is whatever they want it to be folks.
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