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Boss, I'm late for work because someone hacked my alarm clock
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yuck!
a $150 alarm clock to do the job of a $2 alarm clock, but show web pages (which you can use any other piece of equipment in the house for, almost).
you heard of the web enabled fridge, or web enabled cooker yet? they showed them on a couple of TV progs over here ...
as long as they don't make them too clever it'll be ok. cut out the funny scripts, make sure there are no daemons running, stop any kind of file retention ... then they'll be safe.
as i said, yuck!
a $150 alarm clock to do the job of a $2 alarm clock, but show web pages (which you can use any other piece of equipment in the house for, almost).
you heard of the web enabled fridge, or web enabled cooker yet? they showed them on a couple of TV progs over here ...
as long as they don't make them too clever it'll be ok. cut out the funny scripts, make sure there are no daemons running, stop any kind of file retention ... then they'll be safe.
as i said, yuck!
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sleipnir214
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jad,
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sleipnir214
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They didn't write that. They bought it from someone else. ______________________________________________________________________
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CajunCenturion
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To paraphrase a good friend of mind -
Never underestimate the power of human laziness
Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein
Never underestimate the power of human laziness
Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein
welshtroll
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It's got the magic words though 'Web Enabled'.
Why do the people who develop such things automatically think adding those words makes everyone want one?
The web enabled fridge? Why, when i goto the fridge i'm normally in the middle of other activity like cooking or making tea. Plus why would i want to stand up infront of the fridge, when i can sit down on a comfortable chair drinking my tea.
I'm hoping this 'make my home enabled' thing will soon disappear.
P.S.) I will not be getting a web enabled fridge,kettle,microwave,wardrobe or toaster.(Tho a handy toilet roll holder browser would be good :-D)
'... and then it wouldn't compile?'
Why do the people who develop such things automatically think adding those words makes everyone want one?
The web enabled fridge? Why, when i goto the fridge i'm normally in the middle of other activity like cooking or making tea. Plus why would i want to stand up infront of the fridge, when i can sit down on a comfortable chair drinking my tea.
I'm hoping this 'make my home enabled' thing will soon disappear.
P.S.) I will not be getting a web enabled fridge,kettle,microwave,wardrobe or toaster.(Tho a handy toilet roll holder browser would be good :-D)
'... and then it wouldn't compile?'
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sleipnir214
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welshtroll:
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There is a lot of history that indicates adding those words will make people want one.
Remember the dot-com boom?
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There is a lot of history that indicates adding those words will make people want one.
Remember the dot-com boom?
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the web enabled fridge was for looking at recipies on the way to and from the cooker ... as you said you're always doing that ... 
as it happens i only have 4 weeks approx till the latest 'alarm clock' comes to our house ... the other one sleeps a lot nowadays, so doesn't usually wake before i'm almost out of the house. i guess he'll be web-enabled soon though.
as it happens i only have 4 weeks approx till the latest 'alarm clock' comes to our house ... the other one sleeps a lot nowadays, so doesn't usually wake before i'm almost out of the house. i guess he'll be web-enabled soon though.
benlinkknilneb
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I think I'd rather them concentrate on making stuff like speech recognition work better. Rather than have a tablet PC in the front of my fridge, why not a speaker system in the kitchen that's wired to my computer, so I can just ask, and it will *tell* me the recipe? Same for the alarm clock... why have the extra device? Again, just have a speaker in the room that's hooked to the computer; if Windows can tell that speaker 'A' is in my bedroom and 'B' is in my kitchen, then my computer can handle both requests with no trouble.
you'd want wireless speakers/mikes ... you could even go as far as a portable unit (similar to a walkman) so that individuals hear different things, and can independantly turn them off.
could proabbly do something with digitally encoded radio signals ... hmm ...
speach recognition would have to be good though, and you'll have to hope it never tells you 'unhandled exception 283875##&^678%$£ in module kernel32' ... meaning i've decided to lock the door to your bedroom and the window tight shut until you reboot me manually, which you can't because i'm in your bedroom, and you're in the kitchen getting cornflakes ... in your underwear.
as it happens you'd have to have a very good multichanneled sound card to know who was speaking from which module, to know where to send the response ...
i wonder, if you had a bluetooth/similar technology mobile phone system and a bluetooth/similar enabled server would that allow voice transmissions from various sources to various others?
could proabbly do something with digitally encoded radio signals ... hmm ...
speach recognition would have to be good though, and you'll have to hope it never tells you 'unhandled exception 283875##&^678%$£ in module kernel32' ... meaning i've decided to lock the door to your bedroom and the window tight shut until you reboot me manually, which you can't because i'm in your bedroom, and you're in the kitchen getting cornflakes ... in your underwear.
as it happens you'd have to have a very good multichanneled sound card to know who was speaking from which module, to know where to send the response ...
i wonder, if you had a bluetooth/similar technology mobile phone system and a bluetooth/similar enabled server would that allow voice transmissions from various sources to various others?
CajunCenturion
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And then a thunderstorm comes along and knocks out the power.
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benlinkknilneb
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lol, Cajun...
There certainly are still a lot of problems with relying 100% on technology... imagine people starving to death in a power outage because the fridge won't open. But my guess is that 75 years ago, people thought the same things about desktop PCs... As this kind of technology develops, we'll either find ways to solve the problems, or just learn to deal with the inconvenience during the thunderstorm, I'm sure.
There certainly are still a lot of problems with relying 100% on technology... imagine people starving to death in a power outage because the fridge won't open. But my guess is that 75 years ago, people thought the same things about desktop PCs... As this kind of technology develops, we'll either find ways to solve the problems, or just learn to deal with the inconvenience during the thunderstorm, I'm sure.
you never heard of a UPS?
having said that wasn't there someone in the news recently ...
yeah, it was the police department here ... someone cut through the power cable, the emergency generator immediately kicked in, perfectly ... then 30 seconds later it keeled over and stopped ... leaving the police computers down for about 3 hours ...
not nice.
having said that wasn't there someone in the news recently ...
yeah, it was the police department here ... someone cut through the power cable, the emergency generator immediately kicked in, perfectly ... then 30 seconds later it keeled over and stopped ... leaving the police computers down for about 3 hours ...
not nice.
This certainly is an interesting topic. I'm in the last semester of my collegiate schooling and finishing up a "Social Issues in Technology" class. Very funnily (is that a word?), a majority of the class (CIS majors mostly mind you) are turning out to be ludites from fear of nanotechnology, the smart card, biometrics, and ai.
A computer screen on a fridge or a talking alarm clock pales in comparison.
and benlinkknilneb is right, most of our forefathers responded similarly to such modern advances like locomotives and cars. LOL ("Why would I need me a newfangled car when I gots me a perfectly good horse? pituey"
A computer screen on a fridge or a talking alarm clock pales in comparison.
and benlinkknilneb is right, most of our forefathers responded similarly to such modern advances like locomotives and cars. LOL ("Why would I need me a newfangled car when I gots me a perfectly good horse? pituey"
benlinkknilneb
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I've encountered those fears as well, Onyx... it's completely strange to me how so many people are afraid of computers and technology. Personally, I look forward to having an AI at home, to take care of the stupid little things I forget to do/don't like to do. Do you think that there's a solid correlation between age and techno-phobia, or is it more based on point-of-view?
welshtroll
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[benlinkknilneb]
I think that social upbringing can be a main factor in peoples techno-phobia.
I know some people that are scared of computers and the only possible reason I can see for this phobia is the attitude of their parents and peers.
Therefore there are less young techno-phobes due to their exposure to technology at an early age.
Where-as there are more older techo-phobes, as the technology used was only still emerging during their childhood and peer who were completely phobic against these technologies.
'... and then it wouldn't compile?'
I think that social upbringing can be a main factor in peoples techno-phobia.
I know some people that are scared of computers and the only possible reason I can see for this phobia is the attitude of their parents and peers.
Therefore there are less young techno-phobes due to their exposure to technology at an early age.
Where-as there are more older techo-phobes, as the technology used was only still emerging during their childhood and peer who were completely phobic against these technologies.
'... and then it wouldn't compile?'
Very funnily (is that a word?), a majority of the class (CIS majors mostly mind you) are turning out to be ludites from fear of nanotechnology, the smart card, biometrics, and ai.
I work with computers, but I don't *trust* them.
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I work with computers, but I don't *trust* them.
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