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Re: GE Smart Light Bulb reset

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Den 2019-06-22 kl. 02:31, skrev Rick C:
> On Friday, June 21, 2019 at 7:36:19 PM UTC-4, Clifford Heath wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Sell?  There's a market for used light bulbs???  Amazing!  Is it a market like the stock exchange?  Can you buy futures?  Light bulb futures!  Very illuminating.
> 

In the Soviet Union, there used to be a market for BROKEN light bulbs.

They were sold as BROKEN at 10-20% of the price of a working light bulb.
Anyone can figure out, why people would buy them?

AP

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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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