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Just watch tv? http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/tv/detail.php?id=8678159&fta=1&fox=0

I especially enjoyed this tidbit:

Worse, after a power outage, it reboots into demo mode-with the cooling compressor off. Spoiled milk, ahoy.

The linked review nails dead-on why this is a Useless Invention.

[eyes two working fridges from 2001 and 2004, decides not to toss out the repairable 1949 antique after all]

The TPP has been signedFarewell $AU budget. You are screwed.

lies. all lies. and they still won't release information http://www.zdnet.com/article/nbn-refuses-to-break-down-fttn-fttb-and-fttdp-numbers/

we're just using the pipe now instead of /stories/
it's like a progression thing
soon we'll be posting to https://bugs.pipedot.org
then, who knows? i am thinking on printing out stories - and mailing them to brian = with postit notes over it as comments

Be a |. editor!
Make us proud!

First we had stories.
Then users came.
Comments flowed.
Our first real troll appeared. The |. was alive!

Now, we have a good case of story dupe. Proud. So proud.

i put a lot of effort into this story :*(

The "cool" reply address masking feature is an option that can be toggled on and off. I recommend leaving out off, because spam filtering will trigger all the time on the apparent bounced e-mail that is not a reply to anything you've sent.

OK, I'll wait. But I won't hold my breath.

Just like telemetry boxes for cheaper car insurance: you'll only get suckered once. It's not worth the saving when they void your insurance because they don't like what you eat (or how you drive).

I too use SG. Just to clarify, using the advanced features, the fake email addresses are created on the fly. Once you've established your base email address, in your example "sguser@spameater.org", additional emails addresses are created as the emails are received as long the "To" address includes the base address.

For example, you web over to the $BIGBOXSTORE's website and there you have a need to provide an email address. Simply give them BIGBOXSTORE.sguser@spameater.org. That email address will be created automatically (and forwarded to your protected email address) when an email is received. The number of emails that will be forwarded defaults to 20 so, as you pointed out, this must be refreshed from time to time. However, if you wish to continue receiving emails via any of your fake email address you can set them to be "trusted" (I think that's the term), this removes the limit of forwarded emails.

Another cool feature: If you "Reply" to the forwarded email (using your protected email service) the reply email will go back through spamgourmet's emails servers and appear to come from the 'fake' address, e.g. BIGBIX.sguser@spameater.org".

I never toast to the internet! :-)

Just wait until your health insurer offers you a discount if you only eat healthy food and prove it with such a fridge (but be careful not to put your neighbour's steak in your fridge; the insurer doesn't care that it wasn't yours and the neighbour's fridge was broken). And then, in a next step, makes it a requirement instead.

If nothing sticks to teflon, how does teflon stick to the pan?

They should have added Uhu is an option, I use it far more frequently than cyanoacrylate. Mind you, neither will bond PE or PP, which is about as gluable as teflon.

The privacy aspects aren't scary because it sucks, no one wants it.

And those that think they do will quickly learn otherwise. As with those thermostats that failed.

Seriously, kil o bots? Is this the beginning of the end?

Opinion Man!

He comes from the east to fight Rando!

I think The Peripheral is the best work he has done since the Neuromancer series. It really felt very much like that kind of story telling he did for the Neuromancer series. When I finished it I wanted there to be a sequel.

My friend's kids got a PS4 and an Xbox for Christmas. They were so happy. Well. They were happy at the start of it. Neither of the machines worked when they pulled them out of the box and plugged them in. The xbox would not work. It required to be plugged into the internet just to start. At this point the excitement had died down a little. Half an hour later there were still issues trying to get the xbox connected to the internet. Then it connected but didn't do anything. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Eventually it was given up as a no go and they moved onto the PS4. From what I could tell, they eventually realised that the PS4 needed to connect to the internet. Right. Connected. Hooked up. Downloading started. Stopped. The machine died. The xbox never worked. Both were taken back to the shop for new ones. I am just really glad I wasn't there to experience seven kids finding out that their new games machines did not work. The new machines were taken out of the box at the shop by the techy who patched fixed or whatever was needed to get them working. Heck of a way to spend christmas day. Now the parents are leery of buying new games which require updates as they just do not want to deal with it again.

That's just, like you're opinion, man.

In reality, its a Fridge dedicated to suck at being a fridge. There is no way anyone is going to scan every freaking thing they put in there. That's a chore. The screen takes up valuable wedding invites and Christmas card storage space. That's what a fridge front is for. I can't buy stuff from the 5 different stores I buy groceries from, with its interface. The list just goes on. Its a piece of crap. The privacy aspects aren't scary because it sucks, no one wants it.

"it's important to get it into a lot of homes". Not scary, but the way companies operate. They want to sell their products. This is also the same company that screwed over everyone who bought their smart fridge.

https://ifixit.org/blog/7657/this-dumb-smart-fridge-shows-why-the-internet-of-things-will-break/

Every time I have purchased a new phone I have created a new gmail account. I then load the software I need from the google marketplace. Numbers get added as they are needed.

We should not have to jailbreak or crack anything. I purchased this device. I own this hardware. I can do what I want with it. If I do not have root access to my own device then something is seriously wrong.

they have smart phones in syria?

The 'this' in the context given was probably aimed at the Internet of Things where soon manufacturers will want to put wifi chips into everything. Chips which can seek out and connect to unprotected public networks to upload data. Kind of scary really. Think about it. You buy a toaster and it uploads how much toast you make, the bread weigh, size of the bread and at what times you toasted to the internet.

I wonder if they'll do that for vibrators..

I was thinking of how the Roomba works with its cleaning schedule and auto-docking for recharge just with flying drones with cameras.... thanks for the tip, adding The Peripheral to my reading list :)

The Peripheral is an emphatic return to the science fiction he ceased to write after the turn of this century, set in not one but two futures... The Peripheral is basically a noirish murder mystery wearing a cyberpunk leather jacket

Of course super glue is in the top; it's amazing. I use it to attach corals underwater because it a) will bond underwater, and b) the chemical reaction that sets the glue doesn't release any chemicals in to the water.

It's not going to catch on because it's not acually useful. It's a fad that will be too much effort to keep doing after the cool wears off; just like sticking to a diet or budgeting your money.

Straight out of William Gibson's latest novel - The Peripheral.

Next up, open source flight path control for multiple devices to form a flying security sentry for home and business? Auto dock when low on power. Send video back using wireless networking. Can patrol at night. Beware of humans bearing butterfly nets, and cats.

If this catches on, how long until all devices come with an internet wifi connectivity option.... the chips are getting cheaper

A beowulf cluster of these things

Related: http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/102477658774/a-notice-regarding-the-humble-app
and: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Appstore-integration-forces-Amazon-to-pull-its-app-from-Google-Play_id63723

People are wondering why the app was pulled from the Google store, and exactly what it does.

---> https://www.humblebundle.com/app <---

Anyone game enough to install it to see exactly what it does?

Who says that the art of the pune is dead

Great question. My plan for my invention is that the heaviest containers would go in the middle of the airplane, and then lighter ones further out (9 containers on each side of c.g.) The moment arm is more important than weight, so software tells the forklift driver which containers to put in positions 1 through 18 on the tarmac.

This is just the start. Last year they removed half a million homes from getting FTTP which means a lot more people will not be getting fibre in the future. https://delimiter.com.au/2015/08/24/nbn-co-dumps-fttp-plan-for-another-half-a-million-premises/

Put the first foot down and whoops, there you go, sliding down at full speed.
Here's another organisation who absolutely 'must' have metadata - http://www.itnews.com.au/news/rspca-claims-metadata-critical-to-tackling-animal-cruelty-413817

This is why having this kind of data is bad in the first place and should not even be collected. Two years. Still no confirmation that the data is deleted after that time. So now the RSPCA wants to track your moments. Makes you wonder just how many organisations think that being able to find anyone anywhere at any point in time in the last two years is required for them to continue to their work.

It could be close to actual costs, but when the utility has different price structures for renters and homeowners (tiered rates), schools (max * $42), and I'm going to guess businesses have their own structure... well that starts to look more like profit maximizing than actual cost.

Plus, if actual costs were the policy, there would be no need for exorbitant fees on "break-even" solar customers.

So yes, while it's not necessarily true, the evidence suggests otherwise.

Not necessarily true. $42/kW could be close to their actual cost to deliver peak power. So they earn $30,000 less, but they don't have to pay out as much to the expensive peaking power plants, and/or they can sell that generation and transmission capacity to another business in the area to recoup the loss.

That said, I wouldn't put rate increases past SDG&E... Every electric utility out there is trying to kill off net metering and impose exorbitant fees on residential solar customers, even though the numbers say they generally break-even on the arrangement. Fortunately only Nevada has caved, while PUCs, legislators and similar have refused to allow those rate increases almost universally across the country.

1. Electric Co. multiplies peak usage by $42/kilowatt.

2. Consumer 1 installs batteries to reduce peak usage.

3. Consumer 1 figures out they can add solar for not much more.

4. Electric Co. adds surcharge of $41.87/kilowatt to remaining customers for "lost" income.

5. Consumer 2 installs batteries and solar.

I hate forced updates but, up until now, have only had to deal with that on my Playstations. This happened to me just the other day. I had long resisted giving out my personal information in order to use the Google Play app, for as long as I've had the Android phone, but I wanted a particular app, and could find no other way to get it on my phone. The minute I plugged my email address into Google Play, I got hit with a number of updates, and could do nothing about it. To top it off, I couldn't get the stupid app to work. By now, Google has undoubtedly scooped up all my contacts, and god knows what else. I swear, it's becoming very difficult to keep Google's tentacles out of all your shit. Do we really have to jailbreak Android now, too?