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Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset

Subject Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset
Newsgroups comp.arch.embedded
References <lREOE.61366$cZ6.29855@fx47.iad> <qeijls$pts$1@dont-email.me>
From Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net>
Message-ID <QRdPE.4$814.0@fx22.iad> (permalink)
Date 2019-06-22 09:36 +1000

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On 21/6/19 10:47 pm, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
> On 6/20/2019 8:29, Clifford Heath wrote:
>> It took a very long time to realise that this wasn't a bad parody.
>>
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo>
>>
>> If you were the engineer who implemented this, kill yourself.
>> It's not a sin; you have no soul anyway.
> 
> I still have difficulties believing it is serious.... (watched
> about the first 2/3 in disbelief). That having read and having
> no reason to doubt your post....
> 
> What on Earth is a "reset" supposed to do to a bulb?

It makes it forget all paired devices, returning it to factory-new 
state. I guess you use it if you don't want a hacker extracting your 
WiFi credentials or something after you sell or dispose of it.

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GE Smart Light Bulb reset Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-06-20 15:29 +1000
  Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2019-06-19 22:52 -0700
    Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-06-20 22:05 +1000
  Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2019-06-21 15:47 +0300
    Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2019-06-21 06:20 -0700
    Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-06-22 09:36 +1000
      Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2019-06-21 17:31 -0700
        Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-06-22 19:17 +0100
        Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset "A.P. Richelieu" <aprichelieu@gmail.com> - 2019-06-24 00:04 +0200
          Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-06-24 01:20 +0100
            Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset "A.P. Richelieu" <aprichelieu@gmail.com> - 2019-06-24 05:06 +0200
              Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2019-06-23 20:13 -0700

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