> It would be like me getting mad at people who like GTA and saying they're promoting drug dealing. > >

There are people out there who would argue such a thing I.E. Jack Thompson and people who think like him.

True, but no bad press and all.

IoT is notorious for poor security, buggy software, and has potential for gross misuse by manufacturers. I’m a software developer and still insist on having a dumb home because it works.

M&M just gave Tucker a lot of power.

Your god is pretty weak if he cant do his dirty work without violating free will

Its not trying to make a parody, its not a creative work adding value on top of the original.

Its literally selling toys, an advertisement, wile appropriating a song to do so

I get less questions talking about the bodies in my freezer than when I mention the bottle of Wasabi lube.

It's like printers and constant driver/connectivity issues; if a device isn't made by a computer or software company, but insists on acting like a piece of technology, it's going to work about as well as a McDonalds ice cream machine. Because competent IT and skilled post-release support teams are the first groups gutted of knowledge when a company has a new product to sell a few months later

Honestly because we only saw on the show that having the money doesn’t solve everything and most of the time with similar things the camera stops recording when the prize is won

What are some of the most egregious examples of this?

It's an ADHD thing.

Mindhunter wasn't successful?

What a fucking demagogue.

god damn. That is wildly unethical

Can we muzzle this ass-hat already?

Settle down, Francis. You're going to flail over someone insulting your self-help book from an imaginary Sky God?

The smart features are a honeypot to get the user to connect the device to WiFi so it can transmit usage and other data. The problem is that the features you get for connecting to WiFi are often meaningless or gimmicks - because the real reason for the antenna being included was always data collection and transmission.

That's the opposite.

Can't prove a negative means you can't prove that Allah isn't one. So in your example, proving that you don't beat your wife is impossible.

"Allah is one" is a positive. You can prove those. The same way you can prove that you do beat your wife.

It worked with Smart TVs - people use the built-in apps to stream on their TVs, meaning they connect the TV itself to WiFi allowing the manufacturer to collect a ton of data that earns them more money than they make from selling the TV set. Basically the new Nielson families.

It just failed everywhere else because there's no killer feature to having your microwave connect to the internet.

If you're too dumb to remember what's in your fridge I'd be shocked if you made enough to buy a fridge capable of telling you when food goes bad.

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Well I hate those people to my core. Rumble has arms that turn into pile drivers and says things like "If on Decepticon turf you happen to tumble, watch out robot cuz here comes Rumble!" And "No one calls Soundwave uncrazimatic."

One of my friend's kids got tricked into the military by a recruiter. They were able to get him to sign undated enlistment papers when he was still seventeen and then held the papers until his 18th birthday.

No, Rumble is the icing on the cake. Lazerbeak and Ravage are the awesome marbled chocolate cake under it. Also I'm willing to bet when you bring up Rumble people are thinking of the spiking looking Decepticon from the movie who did transform into a boom box, and are unaware its actually Frenzy, who's in the original G1 series as a retool of Rumble.