It sounds like you should have kept the old 1960's era dial turn thermostat for grammy, so she actually knew how to use the damn thing without relying on a tablet.

So if you're up to any suspicious activity, you just back up all your data to an encrypted backup on a cloud server located outside of the US and wipe your phone before you travel...
All this does is invades the privacy of ordinary people who desire privacy but don't have anything important enough to go to these lengths to hide it.

Wait, what? It's a pretty well-known fact that the rate of thermal transfer is based on the difference in temperatures between the hot and cold objects. If you permit your house to cool down while you're gone, and then warm it up in time for you to get there, you will definitely save energy as compared to keeping it hot the whole time.

Oh, so you're afraid of whites being a minority...?

No, they are not doing that. You just failed your English comprehension final.

False. Out of order execution alone isn't enough. Spectre was NAMED after "speculation" -- branch prediction. The ARM core in the Raspberry Pi DOES NOT USE THIS.

Read the section for Spectre here:
http://www.pcgamer.com/what-yo...

Meltdown affects ONLY Intel because they allowed a special type of branch prediction for illegal operations, Spectre affects many CPUs that use branch prediction, but is much more difficult to exploit as each exploit would have to target a specific cpu or cpu family -- not a generic exploit that would work on nearly every Intel CPU since the mid 90s.

Many CPUs use branch prediction in order to gain some performance when they guess correctly, but that's at the cost of using more power and the risk of wasting that power on bad guesses -- which is why some ARM chips (like the one Pi uses) avoid it completely.

Yea, I could see it if they were playing a beat with white noise, but plain white noise, no. Even a straight recording of monkeys shouldn't be copyright-able. Things are insane, even this message will be protected for 50-70 years after I drop dead and it isn't exactly a creative work and I'd write it even with no copyright.
Copyright is supposed to advance learning, not be a means of collecting rent on culture for ever.

This is not true at all when the legal system places responsibility for knowledge of the law on the people ("ignorance of the law is no excuse") but the number of laws are so immense that no single human could possibly know and be aware of every law or even the majority.

The US government itself has spent literally millions attempting to ascertain the number of just Federal laws alone, and failed. This doesn't even consider all the State, county, city, township, etc etc laws, ordinances, and regulations To expect the average man to know and be held responsible for obeying literally many tens of thousands of laws he has no practical way of being aware of empowers a tyranny of selective enforcement.

Cardinal Richelieu would have a field-day and be right at home in today's US legal system.

Strat

Please re-read that clusterfuck of a summary to help avoid misinterpretation. They are NOT controlling or messing with your thermostat. They are merely stating that bandwidth throttling may interfere with an owners ability to remotely control their own thermostat.

And quite honesty, if a homeowner has spent the money to buy and install a smart thermostat and yet fail to have it programmed to automatically avoid the ridiculous speculations of freezing pipes or freezing humans, then they are stupid enough to deserve said catastrophes.

It's telling that you still stop short of telling me which of the things I listed is "propaganda".

Every penny you pay in taxes comes back to taxpayers. No company does that.

Which was my very thesis to begin with: the right can manage manufactured outrage politics just fine. The left sucks at it. When the left tries, it just energizes the right because it lets them double down on charges of hypocrisy. But that's ok though; the American left has other weapons at its disposal that the right lacks.

That's what I just said, or rather, that's the exact and obvious implication of what I just said. How many hours, no, how many MONTHS of your life have you wasted away as a faceless AC, pounding out replies reflexively without even noticing when people agree with you? I hope you're being paid for it because clearly, you aren't getting anything of substance back out of it.

Yes, that is exactly right. Obama tried the passive, nice guy approach as part of his "hey let's give enough the rope to the Republicans to let them hang themselves so they look stubborn and insane and I look reasonable and awesome" approach (most famously he did this with his Supreme Court nominee, but he also did it with the 2011 budget crisis and at other point.) And he was repeatedly steamrolled and ignored for his trouble. That is MY point; thank you for helping to flesh it out. And you just implicitly advocated for a continuation of this abysmally passive policy: "You're wrong / don't worry / we don't need to change! The Democrats will finally win now that the Republicans have all the power and will show themselves to be incompetent asshats". yeah, sure. Except they've managed to dodge responsibility for a very long time already and now they have Trump, whom they will not hesitate to throw all their sins on the instant he's out of office.

Because leftist partisans, like right wing partisans, are not average people. The things that outrage them do not equally outrage average leftists. Average right-wingers ARE much more easily outraged, and they tend to be older and have more free time on their hands to ruminate in their echo chambers and work up a good frothing rabid rage over non-issues like, say, Benghazi.

I'm not worried about proving myself to anyone. The voting numbers speak for themselves (hey look, Trump got more Latino votes than Romney! I guess you just needed to scream that he was a racist nazi 200 more times and THEN the Latinos would've voted against him, right?); the attitudes speak for themselves, opinion survey results speak for themselves.

You have nothing whatsoever to support the continuation of this laughable, fratricidal masochism of the left. All you have is 1) misunderstanding me continually and 2) an laundry list of irrelevant talking points you keep trying to jam into everything.

This isn't an argument any more than it's an argument that the world is round. I don't engage in protracted, point by point debates with flat-Earthers. This is just me reminding people like you that reality does exist, and that everyone with a microgram of objectivity has already seen that this is not a cause that has helped liberalism grow or win.

The ISP is not enforcing any law. They are deciding not to sell someone a service that they have reason to believe (due to complaints from other people) is being used outside the terms of service. Laws are irrelevant. This is also after multiple attempts at contact with the customer have failed to get a response.

If your automobile warranty had a clause that it became invalid if the vehicle is used for illegal purposes, then the dealership is within their rights for refusing to honor the warranty when the illegal use is detected. Just like insurance companies are within their rights not to pay out when the terms of the insurance are not met.

Just saying bullshit is what. You'd need a really good lawyer to win such a lawsuit, and a really greedy one to take your money for trying. And a really stupid judge not to throw the suit out in the first 30 seconds of it being on his desk. Where's the threat to kill anyone?

It's got to be tough - PHP and Ruby came along after he spent all those years honing his Perl skills.

ISPs want to be a monopoly with the protections of a common carrier public utility, but also want to be able to control content. You can't have it both ways.

If they want to control and police your content, then they should be the ones liable when they let illegal content through.

It wasn't nearby. At the time, gay marriage was not legal in Colorado; in fact, if memory serves, the wedding was to take place out of state and the cake for that wedding already arranged for.

The Colorado Anti-Discrimination Law is actually likely to get struck down for being enforced in a discriminatory way, looking at the way argument went and SCOTUS has ruled in the past--Justice Kennedy, in fact, was the author of the majority opinion in the case where they said you cannot do an end-run by having the text be fine but still being a bunch of bigots. And yes, this is actually rather explicitly stated by Justice Kennedy in the opinion in question. It's not something to protest, because it also means you cannot have a law be a de facto DWB.

I didn't feel like doing the work to figure it out. But decided, why not. Apparently the Nest learning thermostat only requires 50MB/week. Assuming the labeling is correct, and that my math is accurate, that puts it at about 700bps. However, that assume it's constant communication. I would imagine it's polling and the actual requirements would be a bit higher during communication. If it's polling every 15min, that would be about 600kbps? This is all assumption, but the requirements are still damn small. The issue would come down to what else is on the network and just how slow they're being throttled.

Your point #1, of course it is better to upgrade to 10 Mbps for those that have crap now, but as infrastructure gets upgraded, it should have a higher speed. That's how it is working here. 5 weeks back, I had a 26.4 Kbps connection, now I have a 10 Mbps cell connection, due to the Province partially paying for a new cell tower. I also have access to 911 even when the copper thieves strike. Meanwhile a bit closer to town, there is now fiber and it is due to be here in a couple of years. Lots of rural spread out communities are the same, first a cell tower with special deals (250 GB cap vs the 10 GB cap I'd have in town if I went with cellular) for people like me who have no other choice.
The thing is even in rural areas where wireless currently is the best option is to get the fiber closer and closer with the goal of having it most places.

Your point #2, it's insane for the State to stop municipalities from creating their own network, especially in cases where no one else is serving them. Forcing having clear plans for financing and the voters agreement I can see.
Perhaps due to having such low population densities, meaning only one or two over the air TV channels, most every town here has cable and if you have cable now, you probably have decent internet, so we haven't had the problems that happen down there where the cable company doesn't bother to build out but does lobby against towns building their own. Or perhaps it is just a different culture, without the extreme lobbying that happens down there and more of the attitude that the government is to serve the people.

As it is, you guys have it cheap down there compared to here, at least in general. Your internet is cheap, your cell service is cheap, at least compared to here. I pay $85+$12.50 equipment+tax for aprox. 10/1 Mbps internet. Singapore is small, the USA is big, Canada is even bigger. It is just in the nature of infrastructure that it costs more to cover large areas and much of the time there is no business case for more then one provider splitting up the costumer base. Even without the government hampering things, it's expensive and here the government has been trying to get more competition but the return isn't worth it. Plus the telcos are bastards who will rip of their costumers if given a chance.

>> This is like buying a car and the dealership says they are not going to fix your engine under warranty because you are using the car to...

Then don;t ever buy a Tesla.
http://mashable.com/2016/02/03...
https://www.reddit.com/r/tesla...

ok, what if you travel with a chromebook?

those don't use local storage, or at least they are all about 'the cloud'.

and the new rules say they can't mess with your cloud data.

I don't love chromebooks (don't love google) but this may be the way around all this BS.

"my data is in the cloud. my pc is just programs. sorry. that's how google designed this system"

and its true, too.

chromebooks are $150 or so. almost throw-away money. and if they decide to keep your chromebook, well, its not your main laptop, so its much less of a worry.

keep crying fagbot!

This meant that during the bad days of IE-only websites, I was simply unable to access some websites, which meant frustrating calls to company's or government departments:

1. Are you using Internet
2. Yes, of course I'm using the internet
3. I mean did you click on the blue 'e'
4. There are many blue links with the letter 'e' - which one did you mean?
5. The one on the toolbar
6. What toolbar?
7. Look I'm using Netscape Navigator if that helps.
8. Oh, I heard about that one. Why don't you try Internet Explorer?
9. Yeah, I heard about that, but there isn't a version available for my operating system.
10. But its available for both PC and Mac.
11. I don't have access to either - I'm running Slackware...
12. Eh, what's that.
13. Linux
14. What's leenooks??
15. Never mind - please send me a paper form I can fill in, sign and fax back to you.
16. What's a fax?

At least with Chrome, I could always use it on Linux for just those rare occasions needed.

If you talking about the nightclub in Florida, I'm not aware of an automatic weapon being used.

Oh, you're just making stuff up for fun. Never mind.

no, it really DOES matter. The majority of spying, compromise, etc is about money.

Soooo,
Then you are a shareholder and not a customer?
Because otherwise, you are an idiot.

Shareoholders may be happy (in the short run), customers should be pissed.
Unfortunately, in the long run, pissed customers leads to pissed shareholders, however I realise The American Dream (tm) disallows long term though.

OK that is a fair comment. I was thinling of the variants that affected AMD and ARM when I said it didn't feel like a defect.

You want a page that you can't access to look precisely like a hole. But you also want it to time precisely like a hole too.

Seriously, let Net Neutrality die. Instead, CONgress needs to require that ALL states allow for muni networks as well as NO monopolies. Right now, all monopolies for coax, fiber, STP, etc are forced by state, local govs. If they were prevented from having gov. enforced monopolies, then as each ISP fucks with a locality, then either another ISP will compete, or the local gov can build out their own local much cheaper, much faster network.

A real man knows how to replace the thermostat with one that no one can mess with, then enables the child lock feature.

I'm sticking with my 5s until they stop putting out a small screen phone that doesn't have all of the features of the larger ones. It's probably going to be a long wait.

It takes longer for all that glue to dry instead of letting us replace the components.

Pretty bad. If grandma forwards a stupid email to more than 10 people she could be cut off. If you ask them to install an Ethernet card, they can't guarantee they won't lose all your data on your computer. They may change your provided email address without notice. They poison DNS lookup failures. Tiny 200GB data cap on their lowest tier. Hijacking HTTP requests when near your bandwidth limit.

Apple never should have left PowerPC!

They're throttling the internet speed in response to copyright infringement notices.

And we know that copyright infringement notices have never been wrong. Let's see...I seem to recall a news story about copyright infringement from earlier today:

https://gizmodo.com/man-s-yout...

Yea well, if you buy a dumb 'smart' thermostat that allows a temperature extreme like this then that is your fault.

At this point, with the current state of 'the internet of things', just having anything critical on the internet like this is your fault.

- Choose wisely