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Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by ianai on Saturday December 28, 2019 @12:02PM (#21900013)
I’m sure the antennae will be impossible to physically disconnect as well. I really hoped we’d never get to Fahrenheit 451 but the wall to wall TVs that watch you are pretty close at hand.
Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by zingermc on Saturday December 28, 2019 @12:09PM (#21900058)
One terrible but effective solution is to turn your home into a Faraday cage.
Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by boring_twenties on Sunday December 29, 2019 @01:59AM (#21904533)
Why terrible? Your own wifi would still work inside the cage, would it not? As would your Internet uplink over cable/fiber/DSL/whatever. The only downside would seem to be cell phone service, but you could just use VoIP and Wifi for that while inside the house.

The real downside of course would be the cost. Shit, maybe I'll need to get a real job again after all...

Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by Cougher on Sunday December 29, 2019 @07:41AM (#21905594)
I'd like for just one of these people offering the "solution" of turning our homes into faraday cages to show us that they've actually done this with their homes.
Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by sudosysgen on Sunday December 29, 2019 @12:25PM (#21907097)
I would do it. I get cell service over WiFi. It has absolutely no downsides for me.
Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by StavrosK on Saturday December 28, 2019 @12:10PM (#21900064)
They'll be traces in a PCB, you will probably be able to cut the trace (and fry the transmitter).
Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by 1over137 on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:24PM (#21900642)
Fahrenheit 451? That was book burning. I think you mean 1984, and its telescreens.
Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by salemh on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:44PM (#21900769)
No, those are present - part of the commentary of the book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

Montag awakens ill the next morning. Mildred tries to care for her husband but finds herself more involved in the "parlor wall" entertainment in the living room – large televisions filling the walls.

Beatty recounts the history of how books lost their value and how the firemen were adapted for their current role: over the course of several decades, people began to embrace new media (in this case, film and television), sports, and an ever-quickening pace of life.

Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by ianai on Saturday December 28, 2019 @05:53PM (#21902373)
It’s also a plot point in how they hunt the protagonist down, iirc. He wasn’t as engaged to the programming as he was supposed to be engaged.