throwawayp123

I could certainly see this being the flagship for the launch of a steam cloud streaming service a la Stadia, Luna, geforce now, etc. That does beg the question of how they would price it. I think they would have to price the hardware very aggressively or sell at a loss -- the cost of entry on these other streaming services is what, $50-60 for a controller? Although if gamers with big steam libraries could bring them with them to a streaming platform rather than re-buying then that would be a major differentiator.

On the local streaming front, I've struggled to do in-home streaming in a comfortable way with anything but a hardwired network between the PCs streaming. Maybe this will be different if they optimize it for wireless streaming, but on laptop wifi -> desktop ethernet I found it to be fairly high latency and lossy.

Here's one example that stood out to me:

  An off–shore hedge fund devised a remarkably effective incentive program to motivate the traders at certain broker dealers. Each trader was given a debit card to a bank account that only he could access. The trader's performance was tallied, and, based upon the number of shares moved and the other “success” parameters; the hedge fund would wire money into the bank account daily. At the end of each day, the traders went to an ATM and drew out their bribe. Instant gratification.

Intel does have government contracts today[1][2], however, so some aspects of that situation may have changed with time.

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-intel-manufacturing/intel...

2. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-and-chip-makers-including...

Well, a physical open/close switch that's in line with the microphone lead would do the same thing. But, obviously that would be assuming privacy needs are incorporated into the design. I would imagine this could be added on some older laptop models with more physical space(I'm thinking of older thinkpads), but it would be a non-trivial process of opening a case, adding a cut-out for a switch, etc.

The Phillip K Dick Novel, "The Unteleported Man" explores a similar theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unteleported_Man Been a very long time since I read it, but I believe the gist was that two people experiencing the same hallucinations somehow confirms the hallucinations.

Originally I had a local electric company take over our security system's sensors - it seems like the sensors are mostly standardized hardware where the sensors just read open or closed to some central hardware box, and the actual monitoring is handled by some third party. Might be worth investigating.It would have been a factor of ~1k more expensive to go with ADT for us.

Ring Alarm does offer a "wired alarm takeover kit" apparently: https://shop.ring.com/products/retrofit-alarm-kit