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I was going to kill "Useless IoT item of the weekend" after it's hugely successful tour of two items - but then I found this: The World's First Connected Iron.[^]
Ignoring the website design where the text colour fades into the background, and just hope it's the World's Last as well.
Then you get to the price: "more than $1000". Oh, good grief.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ya see? This kinda crap is why we're running out of IPV4 addresses...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - 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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Not really. We ran out of IPv4 addresses many years before IoT.
And... Nowadays, not very many people have read, while paying attention, RFC 791. IP was designed to be an inter-NET protocol, not an inter-device protocol. Its primary function was to make connections between different kinds of networks, similar to the interconnection of cellular phones and POTS. Each local network would have an "Interface Message Processor" (IMP) - a gateway to other networks. The IMP would have an IP address. We do not have 4.3 billion IMPs, 4.3 billion networks!
The "problem" with the original approach is that the source and destination networks might be quite different, both in protocols, addressing and other aspects. You might have to do some conversion: Continuing the cellular/POTS analogy, you might have to do analog/digigal and digital/analog conversion. For an IP phone, making connections using SIP, the addressing format is an alphanumeric one, distict from the numeric, worldwide POTS/cellular addressing scheme. The Internet is not intended to provide conversion neither between formats nor addresses; it just carries the connect request from one network to another, such as an IMP in a SIP network sending a message to an IMP in a POTS network: I want a connection to POTS phone 012-345-6789. It is up to the POTS IMP to do the addressing within its own network, and to do the A/D-D/A conversions. (Which one of the two IMPs is doing which part of conversion of digital formats could be a negotiation question, but it certainly is not the responsibility of the internet.)
The great advantage of such an internet is exactly the same: It interconnects arbitrarily different networks. The architecture is prepared for all sorts of conversions and mappings, fully respecting the individual nature of different data formats, addressing schemes etc. It doesn't force all communication to be exactly like all other communication.
But in the 1980s, (too) "Simple xxx" was the Word: (too) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, (too) Trivial File Transfer Protocol, (too) Simple Network Management Protocol. Solutions that couldn't be implemented as a college level homework assignment were rejected. So rather than mapping between addressing domains and converting data formats, everyone said: We'll do everything within the IMP, and forget about that silly local network with its own protocold and formats! We'll let every single computer pretend to be an IMP, a gateway to the local network, but since there is no network there, we don't have to do any address mapping. And we will abandon all fancy, local formats and reduce email to 7-bit ASCII only and use a too SMPT. We'll abandon file system structures and exchange file data by a (too) TFTP,... No conversion work, hooray! No mapping and forwarding work, hooray! Every little computer behaving as a complete network, interfacing with other network, hooray!
THAT is why we have run out of IPv4 addresses.
The funny thing is that we have devised a whole buch of firefighting techniques, in the area of NAT/DHCP/..., for overcoming the 4.3G limits, that really is like you ISP and IP interface acting like an IMP. The only thing is that this is not result of a planned design, just emergency solutions, so you run into a lot of crazy problems. It cannot handle any other address formats, it just maps between IPv4 domains (similar to X.75 mapping between X.25 domains), and it does no address conversion. But it sort of proves that a true inter-NET protocol is needed. If it only had been a properly designed one, not just a buch of firefighting solutions..
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 You are the fun guy at parties, ain't you ?
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Don't bother me with facts. They only punch holes in my nature to be a smart-ass.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - 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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Thank you, my wife already has enough weapons to throw at me. Don't need a smart one. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Why would she want to throw a $1,000 iron at you, when a $10 iron would do just as good a job?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It is not the same to blame on you $1000 and $10!!!
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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For $1,000 it better lock on to target 
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For $1000 it ought to be self driving.
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Self throwing
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Got to choose between this and the iPhone XS.
Really tough choice! 
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I'm shocked, shocked! The iPhone doesn't have a steam attachment?!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If I had $1000 to spare on an iron, I'd be paying someone else to do my ironing.
Apart from that teeny, tiny flaw in the business plan, though ... nah, it's still an awful idea.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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"No More Temperature Settings
The ideal temperature for the thermostat has been cautiously studied and selected for a perfect result on all fabrics"
I'm glad their website has been cautiously proof-read.
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I didn't feel so lucky when Nika pooped on my stairs yesterday and left a trail of poop on my stairs and down the hallway 
Or when I heard her throwing up somewhere in the house this morning while I was laying in bed (still haven't found it) 
But when I'm sitting on the couch or laying in bed and Nika comes to cuddle up, all is forgiven
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If she continues to poop outside her box, get her to a vet. From first-hand experience, it might be a parasite which can be fatal to younger kittens.
Good luck with it!
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With 10 years old Nika isn't exactly a kitten
She probably just came off the litterbox and either had it hanging from her fur or didn't finish properly.
Maybe she got scared when she heard me opening the door? She scares VERY easily, even from me. Her first seven years probably weren't all that good (I got her from the shelter).
She keeps getting better though, she now loves to cuddle and last week she even licked my face (I'm not going to think about where that tongue has been, dammit now I'm thinking about it )
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(I have a two year old cat that my dog - who was owner surrendered for 'killing cats' - found at the side of the road when the cat was about 5 weeks old. Kit Cat won't cuddle, but will sleep between my legs! And if the dog goes into the front room in the middle of the night, Kit Cat will follow her  ! So much for loving the one who keeps the roof on her head.  Sounds like your cat and you got lucky! All the cats I've known were naturally scared to an extent - hope yours continues becoming less scared.)
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Sander Rossel wrote: What's up with the dog though? Was "cat killer" an excuse to dump her? 
I'm guessing it was, because they didn't have time for her. But that is just a guess based on the fact she was house broken, and I've never had any problems with her as far as aggression, getting into food, getting into the garbage, or anything else, except for the first time I left her in the apartment for 8 hours straight, when I came home to an 18" diameter pile of shredded papers and junk from the garbage, which was no big deal. And that never happened again because she now knows I'm coming back.
She LOVES to hunt, and I can easily see her taking out a cat if I didn't leash her on walks. But because I put limits on her, she doesn't. And if I don't take her walking/jogging, I'm pretty certain she would get to antsy to control, and the apartment would suffer the consequences.
The beginning was a sad story, because she was an hour away from being euthanized before my apartment manager rescued her. Had a bad case of kennel cough and worms. I fostered her, and stayed up with her while she coughed blood onto the carpet. But she got better in a few days, and became super attached, so I couldn't let her go.
She is the one who found Kit Cat at the side of the road, on a dark and rainy night. 2" + deep water puddles, fifteen + feet wide, and she had to take off with the kitten in her mouth. After 20 yards I caught up to her, and almost had things in control when she escaped with the kitten 20 yards at a right angle to the first leg. Finally got the kitten out of her mouth, and her leash back on her (it slipped off her neck in the initial excitement). Found out I lost my keys in the commotion. So went back to start position. Twenty minutes later I heard Kit Cat meowing - she had came back to us even after having been in Sophie's mouth! I took that to mean she wanted to live. Three days of acclimation, which took a lot of time, and they were friends. Sophie had to have soft-mouthed her in the run, which surprised me. I thought her back had been broke when she first crawled back, because her front legs were twisted with respect to her back legs. But she hadn't been harmed. I've posted a couple vids on Facebook of them playing - they will make you smile.
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What race is your dog?
My grandparents had some dog breed they used for hunting (can't remember the name of the breed).
Those dogs are a lot harder to control than, say, a Golden Retriever and it did kill a bird from time to time.
I think all the dogs I've met have been really sweet and kind though.
Unlike cats, who are hunters and just want to watch the world burn
David O'Neil wrote: I've posted a couple vids on Facebook of them playing - they will make you smile.
Not if you don't post the link.
Unless you're the Dark Tattoo artist from Belfast
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She is a Black Mouth Cur. I did not have a lot of experience exercising her at that time, and her collar slipped off too easily. Also, she got too much of a running start, and at 80 lbs, that's a little momentum.
Sander Rossel wrote: Unless you're the Dark Tattoo artist from Belfast
Nope. You would not want any tattoos from me. Although I might be able to make you dark! And in the hospital! Never worked one of those machines, and have no interest!Sander Rossel wrote: Not if you don't post the link.
Here's an overload:
Sophie and Kit Cat #1
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