The risks with a totally wired home are pretty high... Turn the AC on full blast on days like today. Crank the hear during the summer. Run the drier for several days straight or until it catches fire. Shut off the heat during the person's out of town winter holidays. Shut off the person's deep freeze, so that their food goes bad. Turn on the over to maximum temperature (generally the self-cleaning cycle) until it starts a fire. etc. etc. etc.
There is no compelling reason for these things to be networked, and there are some serious ones against doing it. Count me as a luddite in this regard. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "S�bastien Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:33 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Linux and Embedded News -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 30 Octobre 2002 17:13, vous avez �crit : > On Wednesday 30 October 2002 10:10, Johnny Stork wrote: > > IMHO, one of my beleifs is that Linux and OSS will play a significant and > > major role in the growing world of smart/embedded devices especially in > > the "smart" home > > the smart home and ubiquitous computing has been promised for some 20 years > now. it has yet to arrive. why? because there are no compelling reasons to > move to such technologies. eventually someone will find a real solid use > for the tech and then it will creep into most houses. The �smart� home thing has been happening and continues to do so. But generally this technology is hidden from the user, that way he doesn't know it's there, but he has that much less to worry about. That's the way, imo, that it should work...I would hate to have to supply someone a user's manual for their new house ;-) > chasing technology for technologies sake as a means to create market share > is a wild goose chase IMO. create techonology that does something you want > and will use every day. forget the rest, no matter how much the concept > makes you drool as a technophile. Heh, yeah, like the whole �internet appliance� thing, neat if you have 1000$ you were just going to use as firestarter, but for that price you could get a computer, or a dreamcast with a keyboard (which runs Linux and NetBSD). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9wHpFutH7JGd/0/MRAjtoAJ9yVp+OrOLqT05Zi6tkMkSS6Rq96gCghoSh AMKude6VL0GlG0WXhe4UgQQ= =YFRE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
