first world problems....
Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show
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#122lazy-ass first world problems
Good lord, what hackers have become...
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#123Who says Silicon Valley isn't solving the really important problems any more.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why I don't use Android. On iOS, you install the app and at some point you see a prompt "This app would like access to your camera. Allow?" and you can click "Don't Allow" and keep using everything else. Versus Android, which at install time asks "This app wants access to these 37 different things. Allow everything and install, or would you prefer to kindly fuck off?"
Android is implementing this in 6.0. No reason to make this a fanboy war. In any case, the app would probably say "Oh, I can't have camera? Well you can't have app." And it's not like you weren't warned on the page with "37 permissions".
It isn't a fanboy war. The Android permission system is terrible, and users cannot get a sense of what apps are able to do. I've used Android since Galaxy I. I've never used an iPhone.
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Actually Microsoft has a patent on something similar [1]. It uses Kinect to sense your mood before delivering an appropriate ad. [1] http://www.geekwire.com/2012/happy-sad-microsoft-system-targ...
A dystopian version: http://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
I wonder if it would make us pronounce the trademark symbols...
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Android is implementing this in 6.0. No reason to make this a fanboy war. In any case, the app would probably say "Oh, I can't have camera? Well you can't have app." And it's not like you weren't warned on the page with "37 permissions".
On the AppStore, apps are required to gracefully degrade where permissions are not granted, and you can be rejected for not doing that. That seems unlikely to be enforced on the Play Store.
Can anyone confirm if that is the case with uber? On Android, if location isn't enabled, you can't use uber.
And before anyone claims location services are necessary to find the user and stop ddos attacks - I've ordered uber before for people in other parts of town, and I'm a signed in user with a track record of making payments.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why I don't use Android. On iOS, you install the app and at some point you see a prompt "This app would like access to your camera. Allow?" and you can click "Don't Allow" and keep using everything else. Versus Android, which at install time asks "This app wants access to these 37 different things. Allow everything and install, or would you prefer to kindly fuck off?"
The solution here is to clearly tell those apps to fuck off. Though, the latest version of android odes allow you to "allow" or "don't allow" features like that. Its the only reason that I finally installed the facebook app.
You might like this alternative: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco...
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#129I RTFA, I know this an arduino-based DIY hobby project. But if something like this ever comes out for real, the ability to doze off and pause your TV show will be a trojan horse... You've seen those charts where people use their smart watch to record their heart rate during the game of thrones finale? (No? Here you go: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/08/13/what-game-of-thrones-... ) Sure, downloading the Netflix pau…
I really could care less if Netflix finds out when I fall asleep during shows. Sounds like it would result in fewer shows that put me to sleep.
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#130My cheap/effective solution is doing a $ sleep x && pkill Chrome if I think I might fall asleep after x seconds.
See, this has been a solved problem for literally decades and this is the only comment in the whole thread that has gotten anywhere near it. The idea that I need socks that can talk to my TV for _any_ reason is just nuts.