Friendly reminder that 1.1.1.1 is a real, valid, public IP.
Seen plenty of networks that don’t recognize this, use it for some internal purpose, and break https://1.1.1.1/
> Seen plenty of networks that don’t recognize this, use it for some internal purpose, and break https://1.1.1.1/
AFAIK Cisco used 1.1.1.1 as an example "dummy" IP in their wireless LAN controller documentation, which of course led to infinite idiots copy/pasting exactly that and setting up broken networks.
My college uses 1.1.1.1 as their iis administration endpoint, I was told the reason was "nobody would guess it so it reduces the number of dumb kids guessing the edu\Administrator domain password". Around the time cloudflare started using it their logs must have skyrocketed.
I've been pretty happy with the devices, when they work. But they don't seem built to last. Of the 6 Fitbits I've had in the last 5 years (the original, 2 Fitbit Ultras, 3 Fitbit Zips), only one of them didn't fall apart or otherwise stop working .. and that one I lost. The Zip in particular seems to have an issue with the battery cover, where it wears out and becomes too loose and the device won't stay powered on.
I understand that it is common for facebook users to think that facebook is the internet.
Many do not understand that email has anything to do with the internet.
I was in a psyciatric hospital when I pointed out to the staff that I needed to renew my domain names. They told me I could not do that so I asserted my right to manage my own fincial affairs, as is the law. the staff of that particular hospital know about that law so they will arrange for you to pay rent and the like.
But they regarded my talk of domain names, registrars and renewals as delusionals. Then I started screaming and crying "But I am a webmaster!" You are going to throw me out on the streets."
"We'll see."
This went on for a few days then "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!"
The next day one of the staff told me that a fellow patient suggested he put my name into Google.
He apologized, then said "Sometimes I forget why I work here."
Then he set me up on a staff computer so I could renew.
Lots of mental hospitals have wifi or desktops.
Others have no eay to contact the outside world at all.
Just before seeing this on HN, I randomly came across this article on "dark lightning" -- a burst of gamma rays that accompanies the RF burst that precedes visible lightning.
In Austin I pay about 1.3 cents/gallon, or 10.4 cents/cubic foot of water, $10.40/CCF. This is including waste water service, which is nearly twice as much as water service (but based on the same amount of water).
However, this is based on my own bill (total billed amount divided by total water used) -- a bit tricky since there are tiers and surcharges.
Also, we're under water restrictions due to the drought - water the lawn once a week, no washing your car in the driveway, etc.
Love the idea -- I recently started capturing more and more data on my own life. But I have an Android phone .. haven't seen any other mentions of Android options on this thread so I thought I'd throw this one out there...
EvenTrend ( http://code.google.com/p/eventrend/ ) is a pretty neat freeform personal data tracker.
It lets you enter data, will generate pretty graphs, and even calculates some correlations (strong <-> weak, positive/negative). The data can be anything you can put a number on. It also allows aggregation -- you can tell it to only store a sum or average for a particular field for some period: e.g., I want to know how much time I spend exercising per day.
I would think the accelerometer trigger would be in case of any unintentional dismount or an unscheduled end-of-trip, rather than a cyclist powered change in speed.
But yes, have both. Options are good.
I was using the term acceleration in it's physics sense "a change in the velocity vector" which means both speed and direction. Crazy meant multiple rapid changes in direction and speed, like say, falling off a bike would result in this "crazy acceleration" as would being hit by something.
Also, sometimes the reaction/result of aggressive drivers isn't catastrophic. For instance, today on my way home from work I had 2 different drivers decide to come within a foot of my bike while passing. This is a calculated move, intended to scare me and teach me a lesson. I know because in one case, I asked when we both got to the same red light, and in the other, the rude gestures of the driver. An accelerometer would have shown nothing, as any reaction on my part would probably have been worse than just hoping the driver didn't judge wrong.
It's not just "tight driving" either, other times drivers are rude, make threatening actions with their vehicles or just plain block my motion preventing me from changing lanes, making turns, and so on, which should be captured, but don't cause anything particularly noticeable in accelerometer data.
Alternately, the false positive rate is probably pretty high here too. I have at least 2 places on my daily commute where I short-cut thru alleys and make some pretty jarring curb passages. There is one particularly tricky transition from street to bike path involving 3 turns in a very short distance (30ish feet). On fast days I bet it looks more like reacting to an aggressive driver than most aggressive driver reactions (from an accelerometer point of view).
Funny story:
We went on a road trip recently. Checked into a hotel, were given a magnetic stripe key card and a room number, hauled our bags upstairs, attempted to open the door to the room ... and discovered that it was already occupied. Another guest was already in the room, with the inside bar lock in place (so the door would only open two inches).
In a crazy coincidence, we spent the next night in a different hotel in a different city and the same thing happened again.
I was surprised by this. I had assumed that the system that tracks reservations, available rooms, etc, would somehow be connected to the system that reprograms the magnetic stripe keys. I thought it would be harder for the front desk to hand out a second set of keys without some kind of warning message ("Hey, you already checked someone into that room ... are you sure you want to give out 3 more keys to the SAME ROOM?"). Apparently I've overestimated the room key/reservation systems in place at most hotels (another commenter here mentioned using DOS for reservations?!).
I went into this with the same assumption and was disappointed to find out how wrong I was. There are two separate systems in play: PMS (property management system) and lock management. A PMS may provide everything from online booking to PBX management. In larger properties, these systems will be connected ("interfaced" in hotel lingo), but it's rare to see this in a small property; it's insanely expensive as it stands.
So where we stand right now is that if you're already interfaced with PMS, our system drops in and works with it no problem, but it's still expensive to get such a setup. We're working on our own PMS API which will allow much simpler, direct communication with our system; we hope we can drastically reduce the cost by doing so, as the current state of affairs is poor.
