> That would work in the office.
> If you needed a bulb for the home, it was a little more complex.
The New York Subway and some other public places in the US used bulbs
with left handed threads, so they wouldn't fit in normal fixtures.
People who stole the bulbs discovered this, and didn't bother stealing
any more of them.
Reply by A.P. Richelieu●June 24, 20192019-06-24
Den 2019-06-24 kl. 02:20, skrev Tom Gardner:
> On 23/06/19 23:04, A.P. Richelieu wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Reportedly, in order to obtain a working light bulb,
> you had to present the one that was to be replaced.
>
> Having been through the Iron Curtain 6 times as a
> kid (only E. Germany/Berlin), there is some
> credibility to that notion.
>
Almost.
That would work in the office.
If you needed a bulb for the home, it was a little more complex.
You bought a broken lamp at the market, then went to the office and
replaced a working bulb with the newly bought broken bulb.
You could then bring the working bulb home.
After that, you told the janitor that the bulb in the office was broken.
He replaced the broken bulb with a working bulb, and then
went on to sell the broken bulb at the market, LOL.
Everybody wins!
AP
Reply by Tom Gardner●June 23, 20192019-06-23
On 23/06/19 23:04, A.P. Richelieu wrote:
> 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?
Reportedly, in order to obtain a working light bulb,
you had to present the one that was to be replaced.
Having been through the Iron Curtain 6 times as a
kid (only E. Germany/Berlin), there is some
credibility to that notion.
Reply by A.P. Richelieu●June 23, 20192019-06-23
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
Reply by Tom Gardner●June 22, 20192019-06-22
On 22/06/19 01:31, Rick C wrote:
> 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.
Sell? Probably when someone realises there are simpler
and cheaper ways of achieving the same (small) benefit,
and that care and maintenance of the damn thing is too
difficult and/or time consuming.
Or when a company's servers have been turned off, it
has become an expensive paperweight, and they are
trying to offload it onto someone with even less clue.
Me biassed? Shure shome mishtake.
Reply by Rick C●June 21, 20192019-06-21
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.
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Reply by Clifford Heath●June 21, 20192019-06-21
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.
Reply by Rick C●June 21, 20192019-06-21
On Friday, June 21, 2019 at 8:47:59 AM UTC-4, Dimiter 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? Any good
> for a prankster working at the local electric company?...
>
> Dimiter
Lol! That's actually very funny, the idea that someone would deliberately cut power in that pattern. Of course that is the exact reason why they made the reset procedure so complex, to prevent false triggering. The only thing worse than having to do this procedure is to have your lights periodically return to their "dumb" state and be constantly on when a power glitch reset them.
I had an outdoor floodlight that was also a motion detector. It had a simple timeout where a flick of the switch on-off 1 sec-on would trigger the light to be on continuously. I can't tell you how many times I found the light on. These are two extremes it would seem.
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Reply by Dimiter_Popoff●June 21, 20192019-06-21
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? Any good
for a prankster working at the local electric company?...
Dimiter
Reply by Clifford Heath●June 20, 20192019-06-20
On 20/6/19 3:52 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> writes:
>> It took a very long time to realise that this wasn't a bad parody.
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo>
>
> Lol, cue the light bulb jokes. How many engineers does it take to reset
> a light bulb? None, they tell you to upgrade to the latest version.
Someone should have told them that "How many X does it take to change a
light bulb" is meant to be a joke, not an ambition.
Clifford Heath.