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This [^] is why hardware companies should not try and do the software themselves.
Everyone's so keen to wire up their microwave and close their garage door while in the next state.
No one's bothering with a decent padlock. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Text messages always look better on my fridge's 3x2" display.
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Right. Plus, those companies have defaulted to WiFi technologies which ends up connecting devices unnecessarily (in many cases) to the Internet. Why didn't they just use _local_ connections like bluetooth enabled type of devices instead?
Some might see my idea as limited, but I have no need to monitor my refrigerator from 50 miles away. I just don't. 
And, I like the responsibility of having to know my thermostat is set before I leave the house. Just sayin'. 
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Most of the companies are blaming the password. Soon we will have iPasses, and still have the same problems, just with a big added bill.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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A huge difference would be made by, for example, "You cannot use your fridge's IoT functions until you have changed the factory-set username and password" messages.
Yes, usernames and passwords are a PITA, but you can stick them to the fridge door with a fridge magnet -- let's see hackers get at that programmatically.
"We want to make installation easy for our customers" can only go so far.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OK, OK.
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Investigator claims 'UFO wreckage' shows aliens visited the Earth 250,000 years ago [^]
You're not English, so I'll just say that you should google "English Sun tabloid", and not read very much about it (because it's not worth wasting your time on).
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: The Quick 8: Eight Out-of-Place Artifacts | Mental Floss[^]
<sigh>
1. Wow. Someone found a piece of metal with markings on it in some mud. They then misidentified it twice, and then said that half of it had suddenly "turned to dust" from corrosion. Can we spell "bullsh1t", Children?
2. Funny how none of the dinosaur models look like actual dinosaurs, isn't it? Kinda puts paid to the idea that they're models of dinosaurs, though, doesn't it? It's Art, Man!
3. It's a hoax. Everyone knows it -- except the inhabitants of the village, who refuse to know it.
4. Um, yeah. The page itself admits that it's nothing.
5. It's a bird, for God's sake. Go whittle a few birds for yourself. I'll bet the first 10 will look like space shuttles, and the next 10 will look like what we'll be using instead of space shuttles in 50 years' time.
6. "When an analysis of the bore hole was conducted, it was determined that it had been made with modern day equipment".
When statements like that are made, you just call bullsh1t and walk away, because bullsh1t is what it is.
7. Another one that the page itself explains.
8. "The hairstyle and the beard match up closely with the style of Roman statue".
Seriously? So no-one in the entire country was allowed to carve anything different? They had to carve busts of their friends to look like every other carving? If anyone had a different haircut, they weren't allowed to carve it?
Sorry, but I see absolutely bugger-all to do with aliens. I'm not even going to bother visiting the other page.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: You're not English
I was raised and schooled in the UK so, pretty much, I am. I even have a British accent.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Sorry, but I see absolutely bugger-all to do with aliens. I'm not even going to bother visiting the other page.
You should if you want a chuckle.
Besides, it's much easier to shout Aliens and the Paranormal than to seek out a proper explanation and much more fun.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: I even have a British accent.
YOU'RE AN ALIEN!!!
BURN THE ALIEN!!!
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Alien does not exist. Alienware does.
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: Alienware does [exist].
So you say, but the only reports of its existence I've seen have stated that their exclusive habitat is the basements of mothers, which are places no-one in their right mind would ever go anywhere near.
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This one's been well and truly debunked.
IT's a metal tooth from the digger used in the excavation. It's not 250,000 years old. It's just a few years old and oxidised.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Bigger question is why you still allow links to The Sun 
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cheers
Chris Maunder
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With due respect isn't The Sun the centre of the solar system, and if we disallowed that its quite possible that the tangerine people would get uppity and take over the world.
Dang i think its started.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
The most LinkedIn CPian (that I know of anyhow)
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Hey Colin. How have you been, old friend?
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I like these attempts to prove that there are aliens; gives the Drake-equation some credibility.
The government is keeping them a secret of course, and no signals that amateurs could decipher. There must be men-in-black operating, otherwise it could not be kept a global secret 
Life may be abundant, but we are proving every day that intelligent life does not yet exist in the known universe.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I have religiously been a Internet Explorer devotee despite the onslaught of many a new browser. But alas, I have seen the light after repeated hiccups and crashes with IE over the past week. So having just removed all all vestiges of IE from my desktop, taskbar and menu, I am a lost soul as I feel my years of blind faith have been unrewarded by Microsoft. Oh well, easy come, easy go! Here is my parting message for Microsoft.... 
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So which browser are you now worshipping?
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Chuckle!
But since you asked...I've installed Firefox, Chrome and Safari to play with over the next few months.
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Ian Bell, #2 wrote: Firefox, Chrome and Safari
You can do much better than those "mass-appeal" junkers -- Opera and Maxthon, for starters.
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Given my years of 'mindless' dedication to IE, I expect any browser to be better. Any chance you can quickly summarize the advantages of Opera and Maxthon over those I referenced?
Cheers,
Ian
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I've got maxthon open, so:
- For starters, it's got everything that all the other browsers have, so you won't miss any bells and whistles.
- It's faster than the others (except Opera when using the Opera servers)
- It integrates standards faster than the others
- You get to choose which rendering engine to use, so if a page won't display, you can just change the rendering engine (the mobile version gives you even more choices, like IOS/Android/desktop modes).
- Their sync features are pretty much how they should be. I can start reading something on my tablet, continue reading it on my phone, if holding the tablet becomes inconvenient, and finish it off at home on a desktop/laptop.
- AdBlock+ is built in.
- Not sure whether to class this is a plus or a minus, but it stores cookies in a database, which means you need to use a database editor to get at them (free ones are available[^]). That looks kind of minus-ish, but that also means that you can run queries, rather than have to grind your way through them.
- They are genuine innovators. They are the guys who made the MyIE shell, all those years ago, which gave IE4 most of the functionality offered by "modern, innovative" browser makers.
The latest version (which I haven't installed yet; I always adopt "late" -- i.e. at the right time) is supposed to add yet more innovation, like proper password management/generation and Shadow email.
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I'd not heard of Maxthon until your response. I will definitely take a look at it.
Thanks,
Ian
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