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W∴ Balboos wrote: Getting away with that will surely add to the fun.
Just tell her your working on an IoT application that will help you manage her To-Do list everywhere, with GPS AI to alert you when you approach a store for a "to-do purchase" and a grocery list when at the grocery store, auto-downloading of the kids soccer game schedule from the school website so that you never ever again forget to pick them up, and NSA portal for remembering important dates like anniversaries, birthdays, and mother-in-law birthday. 
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She'll never believe any of that.
It took her insistence to get me as far as carrying a flip-phone. If I want to be annoyed, I see no reason to leave home for the privilege. She also knows I'm a privacy freak - IoT is not something I'm likely to be into - at least whilst I have a choice.
If this were easy to do, everyone would have already figured it out.
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Agreed Derek Malloy is absolutely the goto for Beaglebone and now the Pi.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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A cheap, easily replaced computer that hardly uses any resources, and you can run .NET applications on it. If you have a pet consider taping it to it to create a cyborg-pet 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: If you have a pet consider taping it to it to create a cyborg-pet
We have a dog that is so stupid that replacing its brain with a raspberry Pi could only be an improvement.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Replacing the brain means you have to add routines to do things like breathing and walking. It may work better as a co-processor, where it adds features that the normal brain will not handle. Otherwise your dog may stop working as intended
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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To say nothing of voiding the warranty 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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For better or for worse, I'm about to learn something.
Like "How many mailing lists will I be on now"?
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Mailing lists have not been much of a problem to me. If I'm not taken off then I punish the source (SMTP in a loop w/randomized FROM's, for example). A few hundred emails works wonders. A thousand? Even more wonders.
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I meant actual physical mail.
Last week I got a piece of junk mail addressed to the parents of MarkTJohnson for a Catholic high school in my area.
1. I'm not Catholic
2. I'm 51.
3. I don't live with my parents.
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Mine is now dedicated to • Audiophile Music Player | DAP | Volumio[^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I think your experience did not take place in the UK! Here such action would be considered theft in the first place. There are extreme constrictive laws in place here in the UK about that sort of practices. In the UK such practice would be deemed totally unacceptable under a variety of laws. Never heard of such thing happening anywhere here. Get on to your Law Makers, and your local police to stop this practice in your country!
Bram van Kampen
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Are air brakes what a swimmer takes between strokes?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Trying to think of a response my head is swimming...
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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dont worry, just dive right in.
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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And do alcoholics take water breaks?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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Only if its whiskey flavored water. 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I'm nearly breathless with horror as my heart sunk! How many posts will it take to drown out that remark?
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You need to get some Phelps for your pun addiction.
modified 23-Oct-17 15:55pm.
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How's this for an idea. Buy a handfull of helium balloons. Buy a roll of fruitbasket shrinkwrap. Buy, if you don't already have one, a heat gun. Take each helium balloon and wrap it in shrink wrap off the roll then without tying off the crimped end at the pinched part of the balloons' end shrink the wrap to conform to the balloon. Now, again for each balloon that is shrinkwrapped-stage-one, rotate the balloon just a tad in the shrinkwrap shell. Take a pin and in an area of pinched skin of the balloon make an itsybitsy hole. Slowly release the balloon skin until the contents, under pressure (so be careful), begins to leak out into the space of the shrinkwrapped shell. Do this until the balloon is limp, extract the limp balloon, pinch the shrinkwrapped-filled-with-helium shell and tie with small length of ... whatnot. Repeat for all remaining shrinkwrap primordia. Reattach leash(es). Walk like dandy down the lane.
Much more resilient set of party balloons and, imho, user-added value ...
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I have to reinstall windows (7) on my machine at home today because over the last couple of months, I have managed to completely screw up my VS2013 install and nothing I've tried has had a positive effect on it (if anything, it's worse than when I started trying to fix it).
I spent most of the day yesterday making sure I had my file ducks in a row because I'm moving 1tb of data to a new 3TB drive, and repartitioning the drive that data used to be on (this took about 8 hours).
When noting apps that were installed, I was surprised at how little additional software I was actually using.
".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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well if you're doing that grab a SSD and install onto that,
(even if it's just a 256/512 for the OS)
seems to be a lot of specials going around,
you wont be sorry.
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Nope - I need at least a 300gb drive to install the OS and all the software, and we're talking anywhere from $150 and up for a SSD. in that size range. Given my need to "plan for the future", I would want to get at least a 500gb drive, and most of those start at/above $200.
In comparison, a 1tb analog drive only costs $50. I'll stick with the old stuff, thank you.
".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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A quick search found 500 gm ssd - Google Search[^] the price about 3/4 that - but even in that case, I would also opt for something like a WD Black 1TB as my primary drive.
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