Re: 19 years ago today (Oct 16th, 1998) we lost our guide - Jon Postel - RFC2468

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I think of them often. Peace. - - ferg On 10/15/2017 4:00 PM, Rodney Joffe wrote: > To us greaybeards, it feels like just yesterday. And as Randy > points out, this coming Friday we also remember Abha who passed > away 16 years ago, in 2001.

Re: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts

On 10/14/17 22:01, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:50:51 -0700, Joe Hamelin said: >> I would think that Amazon knows where my Echo is since it's the same IP >> that I order (way too much crap) from. > > It knows the usual delivery address. That's not necessarily the same

Re: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts

On Sun, 15 Oct 2017, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:50:51 -0700, Joe Hamelin said: I would think that Amazon knows where my Echo is since it's the same IP that I order (way too much crap) from. It knows the usual delivery address. That's not necessarily the same thing.

Re: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts

Someone do a kickstarter already. I'll contribute. ;) -A On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > On Sun, 15 Oct 2017, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> >> On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:50:51 -0700, Joe Hamelin said: >>> >>> I would think that Amazon knows where my

19 years ago today (Oct 16th, 1998) we lost our guide - Jon Postel - RFC2468

To us greaybeards, it feels like just yesterday. And as Randy points out, this coming Friday we also remember Abha who passed away 16 years ago, in 2001. http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/abha/ Sigh.

Re: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts

It is theoretically simple to: 1. Turn the address of your Smart Speaker into coordinates 2. Receive ALL alerts and only act upon those that apply to your location This way it isn't creepy, because the emergency alert wasn't targeted to you, but your device was aware enough