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"Ads" are the least of the problems: it's "Nads" you want to worry about! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I agree it is a useless IoT, but part of me saw it and thought that would be a cool DIY project to play around with in my spare time.
Like what else could you make it do? Have it display a list of unsecured networks as you walk around town? Or have it look for discoverable devices on the same network and pop up a 'Hi [device name]! I can see all of your dirty pictures!' message... just don't have it display any of those images. 
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64 by 64 pixel display, so yes: 10 lines of 10 characters in a (very old fashioned) 5x5 character matrix.
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It would be kinda fun to play with but in the hands of a teenager I could see it being hacked and a kid walking around sporting porn!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Oh wow! The nerds will have their day when the "cool" kids wear these things and a computer nerd will hack it to say "Kick me!"
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Thanks to you, I now have no contribution to add - niiiiice!
My instant first thought was "Kick me"
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Bought it!
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I've never read 1984 but I've seen it mentioned and referred to many times here. I think I get the idea of what the book is about. So, I decided to buy it. US Postal tracking number says they tried to deliver it last Tuesday but at my request they are holding it. I did not request that. I contacted support via their web form Tuesday night and have not heard back from them.
Coincidence? Or do they not want me to read it?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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The government doesn't want you to read it. The USPS is the goverment's propaganda delivery proxy.
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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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ZurdoDev wrote: Or do they not want me to read it?
Nope, that's reserved to "Fahrenheit 451" buyers.
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CPallini wrote: Nope, that's reserved to "Fahrenheit 451" buyers.
Dang you. Another one I have not read, but probably should. Or should I?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Definitely. It's a good one! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Possibly. Don't keep your eyes wide shut on that. 
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You read Brave New World by Huxley? That one's another one that deserves a read in these times. My personal "best of" order for dystopian novels is:
1984 (George Orwell)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)***
Anthem (Ayn Rand)
*** Atlas Shrugged is an outlier on this list; it's not a straight-up dystopian future story, and a lot of people don't like the politics behind Atlas Shrugged, but it's worth a read, for sure. It's also kind of a bear at over 1,000 pages.
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James McCullough wrote: Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Somehow I keep getting that one confused with Animal House (the John Belushi movie). Not quite as heavy a topic.
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LOL
Should I add it to the list?
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Lets see...you mentioned "dystopian novels"...
Maybe somewhere very, very far down the bottom of your list. Assuming you expand it to include everything ever written.
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You need to collect it from Room 101.
This space for rent
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That's a doubleplusgood point. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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In 1984 you would had to go to a book store to buy it.
The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and propaganda.
And Orwell wrote published it in 1949. 
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He wrote it in 48 which is where the 84 comes come; 48 switched. It was published in 49 though.
*waits for Mark_Wallace to come along telling me I'm wrong without providing any evidence then accusing me of not even having read the book*
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: He wrote it in 48 which is where the 84 comes come; 48 switched. It was published in 49 though.
Oops, yes, I read "published in 49" but didn't convey that in the post. Fixed. And I was wondering if 84 was related to 48. Thanks!
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I read it back in and around 1988.
Be prepared for a dark read, there is absolutely nothing cheerful or positive in the story - that said it is a rather fascinating read and Orwell does write well.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Orwell does write well
He did, but "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" was rather tedious.
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He only wrote that for the money, he regrets that it was published. He feels that way about a few of his books I believe.
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