I've noticed that the Let's Play channels I watch pretty much stopped doing Nintendo games altogether. Whether Nintendo liked it or not, these channels can bring exposure to their games.

I've bought about a dozen games after watching short LPs of them on Two Best Friends Play's channel or their subchannel on Machinima.

When this first started, I heard podcasts or interviews with people from shows like Hey Ash Whatcha Playin', TBFP, etc. where they basically said they weren't planning any Nintendo game based shows until the situation was changed.

An easily copied token (in the case of most cars) is not really that secure and certainly quite different from the supposed security built in to so-called smart guns.

How's that?

People still have the "right" not to be shot by a "stupid" gun, but that right doesn't supercede my right to own one of these non-"smart" guns.

Hey man, those ghost guns with 30 round magazine clips are totally real.

The irony is especially sweet here considering you're posting anonymously on an internet forum, exploiting "old fashioned" speech laws (that were drafted with printing presses and quill pens in mind).

Yes.

From the google play website, I select an app, click install and it lets me choose which devices to install to.

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?

Press X to Json.

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.