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[Arx]

You're looking for a cryogenic temperature sensor. There are a few different types, but they're not cheap - some are probably cheaper than others, though.

[Frumple]

Yeah, apparently stuff like this, if it helps any.

[TheBiggerFish]

This StackExchange post seems to have the most informative answers. Basically, you can set logon hours using command prompt, but it won't log you out if you're already logged in when the restricted hours come around. The third-party stuff listed costs money, there might be a free solution out there somewhere but I wasn't able to find one.

What I'd do is write a Python script or something that runs as soon as you log on, checks the time on some interval, and if it's during restricted hours immediately log you off or shutdown the entire computer. Of course if you mess it up it'd be a pain in the ass to remove, but it's kind of a weird thing to be doing anyway. I honestly don't remember if I've ever seen you in the programming thread but here's a relevant StackOverflow post, or sometime tomorrow I'd be willing to try writing something if you don't mind trusting anything I write.

Eh, dunno. My mum mentioned a program my parents used to use when I was younger that warned you when it was going to log off in ten minutes. I'll ask her what the program was, see if it's still about and updated for the latest version.

I'm just curious to know which person at Microsoft didn't think people might want to set their own hours and thus restricted it to setting hours for family members only.

So make a different account that controls your hours.

[Neonivek]

Ok difficult question! Because it is esoteric knowledge.

A long time ago there was a writer (or possibly movie/TV show maker... but I think writer)

Who wrote either fantasy or sci-fi.

Due to the prejudice towards it at the time, or their own prejudice, he categorically denied that his stories were Fantasy or Sci-fi.

Who was this?

[TD1]

Ehhhhh....H.G. Wells called his Speculative Romance, but I don't think it was because he was ashamed of his genre.

[Helgoland]

I've heard 1984 called sci-fi, but I can't imagine ol' Eric would've been too pleased with that designation.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Margret Atwood aggressively denied The Handmaid's Tale was anything other than speculative fiction.

[TD1]

I haven't read the Handmaid's Tale, but there is a distinction between science and speculative fiction.

[Neonivek]

Yeah I don't think those were it.

It is something a bit more obvious... like if the creator of Star Trek or Alien said they weren't sci-fi.

Since yeah 1984 and Handmaid's tale are speculative fiction

And while MOST Sci-fi is speculative fiction... It doesn't mean they intersect.

Goodness maybe it was a creator who said his book wasn't fiction...

[itisnotlogical]

It's been forever since I read 1984 but I seem to remember it had some technology that was at least implausible at the time of writing, if not outright science fictional.

[Neonivek]

It's been forever since I read 1984 but I seem to remember it had some technology that was at least implausible at the time of writing, if not outright science fictional.

The closest was that they had Cameras in the televisions.

Which while implausible at the time of writing... wasn't impossible.

[TD1]

Yeah I don't think those were it.

It is something a bit more obvious... like if the creator of Star Trek or Alien said they weren't sci-fi.

Since yeah 1984 and Handmaid's tale are speculative fiction

And while MOST Sci-fi is speculative fiction... It doesn't mean they intersect.

Goodness maybe it was a creator who said his book wasn't fiction...

....

Is it Tolkien? He claimed Middle Earth was just the past, or something. I'm fairly certain he didn't actually try to make anyone believe that though.

[Baffler]

It's been forever since I read 1984 but I seem to remember it had some technology that was at least implausible at the time of writing, if not outright science fictional.

The closest was that they had Cameras in the televisions.

Which while implausible at the time of writing... wasn't impossible.

The only thing I remember that seemed like science fiction was the machine Winston mentions that writes books. Or maybe it just generated a plot and a committee of people wrote it out? I don't remember.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I recall the thought police being said to have helicopters, which were existent but very prototype at the time of writing. Look that up by the way, it's like a prop plane with helicopter blades on top, hilarious.

[Neonivek]

Yeah I don't think those were it.

It is something a bit more obvious... like if the creator of Star Trek or Alien said they weren't sci-fi.

Since yeah 1984 and Handmaid's tale are speculative fiction

And while MOST Sci-fi is speculative fiction... It doesn't mean they intersect.

Goodness maybe it was a creator who said his book wasn't fiction...

....

Is it Tolkien? He claimed Middle Earth was just the past, or something. I'm fairly certain he didn't actually try to make anyone believe that though.

That miiight be it...

I know some people argue that it is low fantasy because it "technically exists in the real world".

But I highly doubt Tolkien argued that his books aren't Fantasy.