Don't touch that oven control, Dave... Dave... heh, HAL house...
Shane Kevin Anderson wrote: > 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-----
