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RJOberg wrote: Case in point, my currently place of residence utilizes a robotic parking system. It is nice because there is no way for the idiot next to me to ding my car with their doors. It sucks because it goes on the fritz every two or three days, sometimes 5 or 10 minutes and other times for hours! It needs an analog backup for when the "smart" system fails.
This also precludes movie companies from making those exciting car-chase-through-the-parking-garage scenes. Automated life is f*ckin boring.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: This also precludes movie companies from making those exciting car-chase-through-the-parking-garage scenes.
Funny you should mention that, couple of weeks back someone wasn't paying attention and was still in his car when the system began to park. It takes 8-10 minutes with nothing triggering the bay's sensors for this to occur, so he was distracted in his car for a while.
Guy panicked and ended up driving partway off the 'sled' before the elevator started to move back up and lifted the rear of his car. He got out when it was tilted up at almost 45 degrees. Very narrowly avoided being crushed when it slammed down on top of him once it finally slipped off the end of the elevator platform. Car was totaled and it destroyed one of the robots. Took the garage out of commission for almost an entire day.
If the elevator were a bit faster, I could see doing a pretty nifty car-chase scene through it with the multiple levels.
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The "Flippy" robot was taken offline because it was too slow as well.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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RJOberg wrote: Would be nice if you could just turn off the smart portion of any IoT/Smart device and have it function as a normal X. Or better yet, just be able to buy a non-smart whatever!
Heck I'd line up to buy a TV without even a tuner and speakers - just give me a large number of inputs and outputs. As far as I'm concerned, that should be the extent of a TV's job - it needs to do that, and do it well, and nothing else. That'd be a winner in my book.
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dandy72 wrote: I'd line up to buy a TV without even a tuner and speakers
These days that's called a monitor. Modern TV's are simply a monitor plus enough computer/IO to handle the various input sources and formats, along with an audio subsystem.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Exactly. I want a monitor and nothing more. It's the "everything else" they throw in that turns perfectly good "monitors" into "smart TVs" that are obsolete after a few years. The less of that extra hardware, the better.
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I remember hearing a debate a good while ago where the claim was that even Apple's top-of-the-line gold watch, which retailed for something like $15K, was going to be completely worthless in a few short years because the OS/electronics would quickly become completely obsolete, unlike a traditional watch that can be handed down for generations. After a few years, it'd only be good for melting down for the actual gold.
Can anyone honestly find an argument against that? Who wants a 10-year old smartwatch? (or a brand new one for that matter, IMO, but that's another debate)
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BryanFazekas wrote: Let's say I buy a "smart" refrigerator. 3 years (or 5 or 7) from now the vendor says, "sorry, we're no longer supporting that model".
Does this mean I need to replace a working refrigerator because I can't update the software?
It's worse than that. You can continue to use that senile refrigerator as long as you don't mind it's senility. However, since the smarts of that refrigerator are also the smarts controlling its cooling functions, when the manufacturer abandons the platform, they will start releasing updates that stop supporting it's hardware, eventually they'll get to a point where it stops supporting refrigeratory things, like running the compressor.
You scoff now, but this is the Apple and Windows 10 plan, and they've already started putting it into action -- people with older hardware are finding they get updates forced on them that make their hardware stop functioning. Are you sure vendors of other platforms won't follow Microsoft's lead? After all, it is a good way to boost sales.
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patbob wrote: You scoff now,
I don't see anyone scoffing. If anything, the vast majority of replies agree.
I've had major appliances last 12-18 years. Current manufacture of any major appliance is lower in quality -- I'm expecting half the life span from my current appliances. There's no doubt in my mind that the vendors will happily produce the situation for a 3 year replacement cycle.
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Reduced life because the manufacturing quality is lower, yes, people are annoyed, but accepting that. But things like major appliances haven't yet had a reduced life because the manufacturer intentionally unintentionally made them stop working. I think that people are accepting that that's just the way things are going to be, rather than fight it.
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I want any type of credit or debit cards real time offers data in my .net application, Any API for that
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Yes, just Google "Nigerian prince", and all will be revealed.
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This brought a smile to my face for 12.3 seconds. 
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Slacker007 wrote: 12.3 seconds
Is that a record?
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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There it is again...record extended?
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Excellent answer, but really smart people will also include the term "urgent" in their search.
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Tsk, tsk. You must try to keep up, and get down with the kidz.
Everybody knows it's "URGNTZZZZZ!!!!!" because it's quicker to type...
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OriginalGriff wrote: because it's quicker cewlerz to type...
FTFY 
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if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature))
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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I know I could never be as cool as the kids these days. 
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I think that you will have to rethink this: if you are talking about your own card then that's one thing - and you can contact card supplies to ask them, though I'd have to say it's unlikely.
If you are talking about getting information on general card use, then that's going to be a no-no. Partly because the card companies know how valuable that data is and will want to sell it not give it away, and partly because it's supposed to be confidential...
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Probably the darknet has answers for you, just try on www.darknetforbeginners.dark
I hope this doesn't exist for real 
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if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature))
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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I believe PayPal has one. But I'd just google credit card apis, or something like that.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I'm currently working on one but need some test data. If you acn send me your card details, number, PIN and CVV, I should be able to help.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Sounds like it's a matter of talking to the right people - the type who will be happy to subscribe you to all the spam you can handle.
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