Yes, sadly. Central Florida + No tree shade + block walls. My Honeywell wasn't internet connected but still did those functions. I take my measurements of when it ran from z-wave sensors I have at the electrical panel and temperature sensors throughout the house.

Also, it takes about 12-15 minutes before the AC even reaches optimal cooling

The thermostats don't start at 6am. They start *before* 6am so that the target temperature is reached by the requested time. They supposedly use the history of how long it took from previous cycle(s) to change the temperature xx degrees and use that as a lead time. The problem they're talking about already.... solved?

Are the authors of the paper really that unfamiliar with what they are researching? My smart thermostats have done this for years. If I set 75 cool at 5pm the system cranks up around 3:45ish to start cooling from 80->75. It usually hits the target temp around 4:45-4:50pm.

I didn't see anyone else post this. Am I the only one that RTFM for my thermostat?

Can't wait for someone to complain that their test site had old computers or the screen size was too small to read. The paper tests were at least consistent, if not dated.

Bets that even though the paper cost is removed the cost will increase significantly for some random reason?

I've been buying smartphones in the $200-$300 range for quite some time. Can someone please tell me what a $1000+ phone does that a $250 Motorola Power can't? I can make calls, emails, run apps just fine. I get about 2.5-3 years out of them each time, making the annualized cost $100. I do this for my spouse too, but we only get about a year and a half since she's clumsy and breaks screens.

I know people that go after the latest and greatest phones at work. The conversation always goes quiet when they boast about something and I comment that my phone can do that too. Is it really just larger screen size or higher resolution?

I think the problem is that people already got paid; it's the ongoing royalties that they continue to get decades later. I'm all for people being paid for their work, but after some time it needs to stop. No other industry has folks that appear once and get paid forever. The architect of your house doesn't get a fee every time you open the door. The doctor at the hospital doesn't get a commission for each year you continue living. Why is the entertainment industry so special they get to collect forever?

debit =/= debt

Unfortunately, you're been overpaying 1-2% on most consumer goods by not using them. The cost of using credit is already baked into the cost. There are a few exceptions where places will give a cash discount, but overall credit is simply cheaper.

I haven't carried a balance on a credit card in a decade, but the combined cashback from all of my cards I've earned in the last four years is around $5500. I agree they need to die; that $5500 I got back you and thousands of others probably overpaid; and there's no reason whatsoever for that to happen other than penalizing folks that don't want to play the credit game.

I honestly don't want to use my credit card, but there are no protections whatsoever when using a debit card against fraud. It can take 90 days before the bank does their invest and during that time your money will be in limbo. Why the U.S. can't be like other countries and require a PIN for ever card-based transactions is beyond me. We're still using pen and paper (checks) FFS. It's 2022, why can't we have a simple cheap universal way of sending/receiving money?

How do you write several books and get them published but you don't know to go into settings and turn off all the junk you don't want?

He's whining about a feature that can be disabled. The acceptable solution is to turn it off, not do a press release.

Maybe his royalties dried up and he wants some attention?

The decision to default DNS over HTTPS on when installed on a corporate computer killed it throughout our entire organization. This setting single handedly allowed folks to bypass our filtering. The network group wasn't amused with the reasoning given for this, nor did they appreciate having to make specific changes to disable it -- so they decided to ban Firefox completely until they respect corporate preferences first (by default).

I lost several days myself trying to figure out why specific users couldn't access anything on the internal network before. This setting also ignored split-brain dns and kept providing the public ip.

So where's the setting to disable this on our MDM profiles? Need our SMS gateway to intercept plain text messages for compliance.

Sometimes I wonder if these folks ever thought about what happens when then roll out features like this for regulated industries.

1. Who gives out their password over the phone?
2. Who gives any information out at all when they aren't the initiator of the call?

At both companies that I worked at that had these campaigns they had to modify our own anti-phishing settings in order to allow the messages to reach us (either by adding the URL to safe links to download images or adding the sender's email to some global address list). Examinations of the headers of these "emails" also shows that they were intentionally whitelisted.

I went ahead and clicked the links and then forwarded a screenshot of the headers back to my own I.T. department just to show that since they overrode our security settings that they pretty much gave us the OK to engage with this vendor. They weren't amused, but it shows that the test itself is completely unrealistic if you actually teach people how to verify legitimacy of emails.

Note that I didn't enter any information -- just clicked the links. This is one of the metrics they try to use to say that you failed the test.

That's nice, but iMessage doesn't even exist in our environment despite having more iPhones than Android devices. In order for use to capture SMS for corporate compliance it had to be disabled.

If Microsoft can figure this out with Teams and drop a cross-platform app that allows compliance checks and logging I don't understand why Apple doesn't want to step up... unless they intentionally want to half-ass their offerings for corporate use. If we had an iMessage backdoor that wasn't reliant on carrier SMS gateways we'd probably never buy another android device again.

They could, but unless the state has any folks realizing property values increase over time and have the amount adjust accordingly it'll be broken in years to come.

Take Florida for example. First $25,000 of your property value is tax free if you own and occupy the property (homestead). This equates to about a $500 tax savings in most areas. In 1992 they added Save Our Homes, which limits how much of an increase the taxable value can increase each year (3% or the Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower). It works out great until you move or sell your house. Note that this only caps market changes in value to your property. If you make a physical change (swimming pool) the full value of that is added onto your property in the year you build it.

A few years back they added a 2nd $25,000 exemption, but because of the impact it only applies to non-school related taxes and only exempts homes over $50,000. This adds maybe about $300 in savings.

So why do I say this is broken? Back in the late 90s and early 2000s most homes were only worth around 50-80k, meaning this exemption knocked off 1/2 - 1/3 of the property value.. Now these neighborhoods cost $200k and up and the exemption barely covers 1/4. Granted there is no state income tax, but the average homeowner is going to pay around $2000-$3000 in annual property taxes. My current home is taxed on about $160,000 of value even though it is worth $280,000. Whenever I sell the new owner will be in for sticker shock at their $6000 tax bill since the cap resets on a sale.

Really sucks if you can't claim Homestead. With no exemption my 1200 sq/ft rental home 50 miles outside of Tampa costs $3000 in taxes a year. That means that $250 of my tenants' rent each month is just for the property taxes. Since there is no cap, if values jump up 10% that means taxes do too. Because incomes are so low I can't even follow the 1% rule (1% of property value as a guide for monthly rent). I'm closer to 0.7% otherwise I wouldn't be able to find tenants.

I'm trying hard to understand why this is good. Right now you have a payment card. It's something you have. Everywhere (except the backwards US) you use a PIN code to authenticate a payment. Combine this and it acts like 2FA for your payment. (Yeah, I know you can read off the card number.. for this conversation lets assume we're just focusing on using a phone for RFID in-person payments).

So we're going to take the something you have part (card) and replace it with a hardware token (phone) that requires your face to use. Was cloning cards/phones something that susceptible to fraud in the first place?

Is the US is still not going to require a PIN or anything else to authenticate the payment? Am I the only one that thinks that we should be focusing efforts more on the something-you-know part of payment security? I'd love to have an 8 digit PIN on my card. I'd love the ability to change it without having to use touch tones on a phone or visit a bank branch. Lets go further and make it a combination OTP + PIN to authenticate a payment.

I hope they accounted for the need to sudden reverse when the semi in front of you realizes they can't make their turn and just starts backing up with no regard for what is behind them. There really isn't much reaction time other then hit the shifter and GTFO.