Posted on 02/20/2019 8:33:20 AM PST by Carriage Hill
In early February, Google announced that its home security and alarm system Nest Secure would be getting an update. Users, the company said, could now enable its virtual-assistant technology, Google Assistant.
The problem: Nest users didn't know a microphone existed on their security device to begin with.
The existence of a microphone on the Nest Guard, which is the alarm, keypad, and motion-sensor component in the Nest Secure offering, was never disclosed in any of the product material for the device.
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Got his start in Pakistan, with his fag pal-— see photos. Don’t believe for one minute he was or is anything else but a tool of the grossest police state trying to rule the world. Simple answer, never participate in their tech without first knowing ALL everything about it. And then... alter the signals.
As with Erik Schmidt, he’s a party-gov’t apparatnichik for NSA-Google-MS-etc. They already know much more about you and me, than we do.
Google, facebook, twitter. Beware the trinity of eeevil.
I heard about Nest devices several years back. Don’t remember how I heard about the other “features”. It wasn’t but a few months after I started seeing the ads on TV, IIRC.
They all looked pretty cool ... and then ....
[Alexa wants me to talk. My phone wants me to talk. My laptop wants me to talk. My wife wants me to shut up.]
lol
Remember the guy had too much bacon (apparently) in “The Island” movie.
The bathroom appliance told him so. Too much sodium.
[“It was inadvertent. We didn’t know”]
Well, of course.....oopsie....
“When we went driving we didn’t have a phone on us in case of emergencies. You just trusted you’d get to your destination in one piece and without mishap.”
Yes, It really bothers me now that I forget my phone and get a tinge of panic. And only a couple miles from home. I used to be like you described, roaming all over creation without a phone and without undue concern. Bikes, cars, motorcycles, even an airplane.
Remember the guy had too much bacon (apparently) in “The Island” movie.
The bathroom appliance told him so. Too much sodium.
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The Internet of All Things. Even the loo!
That’s why ya gotta have Scarlett Johansson get yer bacon for you!
(But she was all crazy for Obama.....)
I really wanted one, too. But I don’t trust Google, MS, NSA or any of them, so I stayed away from ‘wiring’ my house to the grid.
I have an old 2009 Samsung flipper clamshell phone, that only makes/takes calls, so it would’t be of much service or sense to do it. I just can’t get a handle on the ‘smartphones’, and now I’m glad I can’t.
I think we are all losing our natural sense of direction by overusing the maps app.
That can happen, too, but I personally spend a whole bunch of time in the winter downloading and studying and printing hard copies of maps for off-road excursions in the spring and summer. Although due to health, I’ve rarely been able to actually use them, but hopefully that will change this year.
I hope your health improves and you can go on your trips. I bet a young person wouldn’t even know how to read a map. Here’s to doing things old style. :)
They cross that ‘Creepy Line’ with every new Algorithm they develop. They’re not fooling anyone, except 95% +/-, of the world.
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