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Comment: Re:Psh, jQuery. (Score 1) 573

by watermark (#46169729) Attached to: HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack"
Ya, just write these 20 lines of code to do what one line does with jQuery. I think the point of the site is that you can easily write your own wrappers for IE9+. Then again, since jQuery 2.x doesn't support IE below version 9, presumably 2.x is such a wrapper (2.x has a notably smaller file size than 1.x). It just wraps everything you could possibly need. If you only need fade in/out, perhaps you should just write your own wrapper.

Comment: gmail plus sign postfix (Score 5, Informative) 388

by watermark (#45927803) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email?

Well, I have a solution to your "email has already been registered" issue. Gmail will treat yourname+blah@gmail.com as the same address as yourname@gmail.com, both will go into the yourname@gmail.com account. Give the site an email address with a plus sign postfix like that and it should detect it as a new unique address. Some sites don't allow the plus symbol in email addresses (even though it's a valid character), so mileage may vary.

Comment: WebApp runs through their servers (Score 2) 139

by watermark (#45716261) Attached to: Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat

I'm not buying a Nest, so please don't make that the quality target.

With the Nest, the thermostat sends data to their servers and your browser/phone app communicates to their server. What if they decide to close shop next year? Definitely no web access anymore. What else on the thermostat will stop working without a server to phone home to? Not to mention, if you want to find your foil hat, why do they need to know when I'm home or not?

Why can't we just have UPnP and connect directly to the thermostat? You might say that's too complicated for the average person, but that's the point of service people, to fix things you can't or don't want to fix yourself. Why do I have to give up so much because Uncle Joe still uses AOL?

Comment: raspberry pie and a usb drive (Score 1) 285

by watermark (#45320959) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor?

Probably a only suitable for a pure Linux solution, but I have this setup using a raspberry pie, a usb harddrive (that has it's own AC adaptor), and rsnapshot. I mount a scp share that uses a truecrypt file volume. This way I get point in time snap shots, using all free software, and the remote computer doesn't need to know the encryption keys.
