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I do have good news; you can't buy this one any more: Bluesmart One - Smart Luggage: GPS, Remote Locking, Battery Charger [^]
Who ever thought that designing a product that contained batteries, wires, electronics, and that could talk to the internet; then put that lot into a suitcase you carry onto an aircraft as hand luggage was a good idea?
Fortunately, the airlines said: "... and the horse you rode in on, you Elephanting nutter": oooo | Bluesmart[^] - as anyone who regularly sets off alarms just from having metalwork inside their bodies could have told the manufacturers ... 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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remote locking, assuming the bag isn't folded open and zip is done up.
... even then as if a little lock's gonna stop a thief getting in.
But yeah even off the plane if you left the thing unattended and the police will pick it up: hmmm batteries, wires, ... and a SIM card (signals detected), hmmm, let's call the bomb squad [and their collection of special very destructive tools] to take a look at this.
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Or just try to take it through departures at a modern airport (where they xray everything you have on you down to the contents of your pockets) and you will quickly be having serious conversations with men called "Mr SWAT" and "Mr B Technician"
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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A (4 kg!) luggage that you can't take the battery out.
That, my friends, is why we always build a prototype first, and test it, before going into production.
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What a stupid idea! Everybody knows that if you want that kind of thing, you make your luggage out of sentient pearwood. That's what I have done, and no airline has ever dared to throw my off. Well, not since the luggage eat the cabin crew, anyway.
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Ah! Dr. Rjinswand[^] I presume!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Gotta love the GPS tracking functionality though...
"Unfortunately when the carry-on is in sleep or airplane mode location tracking is not available; however, once the bluetooth button is pressed the suitcase wakes up and begins sending its location allowing you to find it."
So it only works when your phone is in range (probably like a few meters away from you) or someone somewhere activates bluetooth? 
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That almost makes sense: I assumed the bluetooth button was on the suitcase itself ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wow, so much for research.
The whole ignorance to market/targeted research becomes more a thing the more time passes --am still at a loss determining what passes for intelligence lately. Internet connected luggage screams of terrorist device to me, so kudos go to the airline authorities BIGTIME! That device almost warrants a criminal investigation or at least an audit concerning the manufacturer/developer of that device possibly psychological screening. Inarguably creepy.
I was unaware of that...
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I don't know how useless but sure is a crappy product... Kohler Numi[^]
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
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Internet of Turd?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Bidet or Binight ride in comfort!
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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I must apologize for my absence but I recently started a new job at a new company. No more boring government work for me anymore. Now I get to work with quantitative developers in investments.
I swear that they are trying to make my head explode with all the new jargon.
It's been a challenging first few weeks but I am getting the hang of it.
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We forgive you and wish you the best at your new job 
To quote Nana Mouskouri:
Quote: Time to say
Let's forgive and forget
Time melts away
All the hurt and regret
For we live and learn
To forgive and forget
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I spent mostly my career in government (Federal research), I'm not sure I would classify it as boring. Sure the deadlines are not as stringent, but some of the capability that I had to come up with are challenging compare to the private sector. Most of my development in private sector are implement known technologies. In research my development involve more theoretical and computational, much more challenging in my view. 
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With greater challenge comes greater rewards and often the greatest is satisfaction through accomplishment; commercial development has reduced to a level equivalent to cut & paste AGAIN so understand your points and pro-actively agree. R&D is still the venerable black hole it's always been; it draws the dollars and the talent into an inescapable orbit maintained exclusively upon creative thought fueled by the process with no beginning and no end --cyclic, self-serving, inspiration.
I was unaware of that...
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I was in pretty much the same industry for my first few decades and then when I started my current job in a completely different industry I ran into a mountain of new terminology that is unique to this one. I have been here two and a half years and I still run across terms that are new to me.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Do they invest in marijuana stocks? They say, buy high, sell high in that industry.
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LMAO.
I was unaware of that...
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Wait till they get you to build VAR engines, forecasting using things like the K formula and other arcane financial stuff.
Then they will want you to change tracks and become a data scientist because you have been working with their systems for a while.
Ah the heady world of financial acronyms, make a point of asking for an explanation of every acronym you do not know the meaning of and remember the same acronym can mean different things based on the context. You may never get invited to another meeting
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I had enough of acronyms in the military, thank you very much.
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Anybody still working with a green-bar tractor feed printer?
I tried explaining a tractor feed printer to my college aged son and got a weird twisted look of confusion in response, like I was speaking an alien language.
I remember turning in writing papers in college (non green-bar of course) where the professor/TA would deduct a point (for each edge) if they had to tear the feed edges off of the student's report.
Ah, the good ol' days. 
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I was a CS student between '86 and '88. I remember having 2 required documents for most assignments:
0: handwritten or typed pseudo-code
1: a green-bar printout containing code and results
The green-bar had an ascii-art cover with my name and terminal #. I remember having a special notebook with 80 columns...then I quit school and worked a trade job for 10 years. When I got back into it (programming) in the late '90s things had changed dramatically...I remember the feeling I had when I realized that the computer lab was a thing of the past.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Up until a few months ago, O'Reilly Auto Parts still used them to print customer receipts. They are currently transitioning to newer technology (e.g., thermal).
For those businesses that rely on impact printing (multi-part carbon forms), manufacturers are still making them.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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In a way. Back in the 80's I spent a lot of time working in the computer center at our local Air Force base. The 2nd floor of the building was one huge room, over an acre in size. It was filled with mainframes, super-mini's (VAXen, mostly), the washing-machine style hard drives, and of course line printers. This was back in the day when nobody thought about hearing protection. The noise was incredible.
As a result I have chronic tinnitus (ringing in the ears)  . I have a hard time maintaining a conversation if there's any background noise. I don't listen to classical music nearly as much as I used to, as the strings tend to sound weak and muffled (loss of frequency range).
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