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Same reason why GPS feature in a car is useless. I'm using google maps on my phone anyway due to the better interface and constant updates.
I use the Navigation on my 2015 Mazda 3 everyday. It's the most functional car GPS I've ever used and has way better directions for me as a new driver than Google Maps. For example, a mile before a left turn it'll tell me to bear left instead of the way google suddenly springs it on me half a mile before a turn on a super busy road during a traffic jam. Instead of having to glance at my phone every little bit it disp…
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I'm not an old fart by far , but even I have never imagined rebooting a refrigerator. I'm floored. It sounds like some obscure IT insider joke except that this time it's for real. I don't know what to expect next.
"They put computers into everything, refrigerators, telephones Toothbrushes, damn it, why can't they leave 'em alone I'm tellin' you now, I don't care how when or why The day my television crashes someone's going to die!" -- Reign of Error by Sudden Death
Refurbished/used home appliances -- yet another way to leak credentials. I look forward to a day when the internal components of home appliances are salvaged on the off-chance that a user's credentials could be found in them. You can bet that off-brand devices will ask for a username/password and store it locally in plaintext.
With many copiers, all scans are kept in memory. So copies of things with SSN's or other confidential information are just sitting there in the copier's memory, waiting to be retrieved by the next owner.
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As IoT becomes more ubiquitous, the people who plaster their houses in tin foil will become less ridiculous.
Not just that, but I can't wait for the day I can only rent my appliances and have to have a monthly subscription to some GE "Smart Appliance Network" for them to even work.
As I posted on Facebook at the time: "I'm not sure if I'm more appalled that there are fridges with WiFi, or upset that mine doesn't have it."
The problem here is not the refrigerator, or the software on it. I repeat. The problem here is not the refrigerator! We're building a shitty internet, not an internet of shitty things. If integrating with an online calendar means having to have a software team at the ready at all times for the whim's of some service's API updates.. we have failed society in a deep way. The API that Google should be releasing for Goog…
Even when they try to support it, they changed the endpoint location (?! I guess even Google is bad at URLs), and their CalDAV implementation only supports the calls of a popular enough client they don't have control over. "We have not yet provided a full implementation of all of the relevant specifications, however for many clients such as Apple iCal™ the CalDAV protocol should interoperate correctly."[0] [0]: https…
Every time I see "google calendar" in our issue tracker, I die a little inside.
The problem here is not the refrigerator, or the software on it. I repeat. The problem here is not the refrigerator! We're building a shitty internet, not an internet of shitty things. If integrating with an online calendar means having to have a software team at the ready at all times for the whim's of some service's API updates.. we have failed society in a deep way. The API that Google should be releasing for Goog…
Even when they try to support it, they changed the endpoint location (?! I guess even Google is bad at URLs), and their CalDAV implementation only supports the calls of a popular enough client they don't have control over. "We have not yet provided a full implementation of all of the relevant specifications, however for many clients such as Apple iCal™ the CalDAV protocol should interoperate correctly."[0] [0]: https…