From Google Play, I can select apps and tell it to install them on my phone, which it does over wifi/cell connection. This happens without me touching the phone.

I was being a little presumptuous about Apple - I was given the impression by a few iPhone users that you could push apps to your phone the same way.

Sort of like they've been doing with cash.

Give it a few years, maybe a decade, and people who don't regularly use a smartphone/messaging system to interact and/or exchange paper notes will be viewed as highly suspicious.

Given that Apple, like Google, can push apps to the phone, what's to stop them from just pushing a custom app that just copies everything to a designated place?

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Part of any future spectrum auctions should require that the company getting the new spectrum develop technology that allows the use of their new service with minimal guard bands and minimal interference to adjacent users.

If this means Verizon, AT&T, et al have to develop newer better filter technology for the other users' equipment, so be it. Though I understand the necessity of guard bands right now, I hate seeing 1-7mhz chunks of supposedly valuable spectrum basically unused to mitigtate interference.

Fair enough, just apply it to them as they do to us.

Given the absurd and idiotic behavior reported by users of the NEST and NEST 2 thermostats, I took one look at this smoke detector's webpage, saw who made it, and basically said "nope" and closed the page.

Thermostats that generate enough of their own heat during operation that they sense the temperature being up to 10 degrees warmer than the room, multiple reports of them not coming on at all in 'vacation home' mode where owners will use them to keep pipes from freezing, oddball lockups that leave houses baking/freezing, etc.

This is in addition to the cloud-only BS way of changing settings.

PISS poor quality control is the only answer I have for the thermostats' behavior.

I can't wait for the smoke detector to just decide not to work, to detect everything as smoke and alarm constantly, or to detect the licking flames as a handwave and disable.

The Nest and EcoBee (the other one I was thinking of) use cloud connectivity to do everything. If you don't have internet access, you can't just have your android app and your Nest/EcoBee/Honeywell for residential on the same internal network and be able to make changes or pull data.

I've looked at the noncloud ones and will pay the extra money to have one that I can access and control entirely on my network. I have a Cisco ASA, and can make a VPN connection or expose the web interface on my terms if I want remote access.

I see zero reason why I should need to connect to someone else's website just to make changes to something that has the power to enable those changes directly.

I'm assuming the Nest and similar offerings from Honeywell don't have a web server onboard but instead expose an API. In that case, give me a locally run app that connects and manages it the same way as the cloud app does.

Because it wasn't about the truth, it was about winning the argument.

They knew that the feelings and controversy surrounding the bailout would fade and that the only thing that would hang around was the narrative that the government made money on the deal.

Now if someone brings it up, we'll hear about how "we" had to do something, that it was too long ago to bring up especially in light of more pressing current problems, etc.

I can't believe people are eschewing $80 advanced package cable bills, $50/mo premium channels, and the sleazy teaser rates that usually they come with.

I love that there's always a new bundle coming out that will save you money, only lasts for 3 or 6 months, and then goes up to a rate above the new bundle.

Either get stuck with a $170/mo bill for all the channels and internet, play the new bundle game every 3 months to save $30-50/mo, or just say "fuck it" and cut the cable way down and enjoy amazon prime, hulu, and netflix. I love that all together are cheaper than the cable services they replace.

Even better:

CI? What case are you working on, and which detective is assigned to it?

Are the people using the phones paying for the Wifi antennas?

Sure. But the OP mentioned the ANTENNA, not the AP.

I would have a serious problem paying $600/antenna in addition to the 500-700 per AP.

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