And yet we still aren’t allowed to see Obola’s real birth certificate.
Democrats in Congress will pass legislation that mandates your energy consumption be monitored for each appliance. If you walk away from your TV and don’t turn it off, you will be “taxed.”
Leftists won’t be satisfied until they can remotely adjust our heaters and air conditioners, remotely decrease the water volume flush in our toilets, and monitor our telephone conversations, emails, and texts for “hate speech.”
load up on old appliances, and get handy at fixing them.
I’m going to seriously pass at using anything new for as long as possible, even if I’m reduced one day to a VCR and a CRT display.
It will be just like living in a world-wide version of “The Village” from “The Prisoner”.
If the ‘Internet of Things’ were so great, why isn’t the First Thing that everything connects to a computer for HUMANS to control it all?
I am so delighted with the thermostat in my apartment. It doesn’t have batteries, buttons or a display. If I want heat or cooling, I simply slide 1 or at the most 2 switches, the only mechanism is a mercury switch, it does exactly what I want, I am THE MASTER.
At my old place, I was ready to go get one of these. I thought I could find one at a used equipment place. If I hadn’t moved here, I was ready to revolt. My only resort in my former helpless condition with a programmable thermostat was to let the batteries run out and use a portable heater in the bedroom.
I think the management at my new place resorted to this subversive strategy of great, obsolete stuff, because it was easier than having to deal with tenants who can’t program the d!&%*mned things.
Not my original idea, but a guy told me that every single, last, blasted device—even new toasters that won’t let you push the lever up when the toast is done sooner than the dial setting, but you have to push a RE-SET BUTTON to get the stuff out before it burns—everything that beeps, buzzes or blinks at you SHOULD HAVE A PORT THAT WILL CONNECT TO A COMPUTER s.o. y.o.u. d.o.n.t. h.a.v.e. t.o. p.r.o.g.r.a.m. c.r.y.p.t.i.c. d.e.v.i.c.e.s.
This is bliss in the age of «the internet of things». If this grand technological scheme which is haywired from the outset had any merit, T.H.E.Y. W.O.U.L.D. H.A.V.E. I.T. A.L.L. C.O.M.P.U.T.E.R C.O.N.N.E.C.T.E.D.
This is living proof that technology is intrinsically fascist. The people who dream this stuff up are techno-Nazis. Edward Snowden may fantasize about being 007, but he’s really just monogonad Adolph Hitler in a super-hero costume. The people who live techno-junk day in & out are really in the service of MiniLuv, “the place where the lights never go out”.
Making every little Hitler-gadget accountable to a computer interface is something the designers never dreamed of, because they’re all really about controlling us, even as they beguile us with the latest whiz-bang neato things they’re going to do for us.
Tomorrow’s Junk Today.
Methinks the recent FCC declaration that the internet is a "public" utility, and the spawn of pending regulations is a tip-off that the government is making every effort and plan to abuse it. . . sheeple to the slaughter.
Mr. Megan bought a new pickup truck and then went through it from bumper to bumper removing the data recorders and transponders. Then he did the same thing for some of his friends.
Which has me suggesting to him that he could have a nice little side business removing electronic crap from people’s cars.
Find the best tech security company and buy stock.
These are issues of holes in the tech.
OK as long as there is an Airplane mode switch,
Dell laptops have a hard switch that disables the wireless.
My phone accesses my FIOS DVR converter boxes at him and my home thermostat has an internet feature that I haven’t setup yet,
This is horrifying to say the least and it scares the socks off of me. Still, I see it much like a “tower of Babel” in The Bible where it will come down if you hit it in a few key places, the power grid comes to mind but I’m sure there are other points too. There is a side of me where if the Web ever went down, I do think it would be a good thing if it would stop these things in its tracks.
There is an old Star Trek episode with this as its central theme. When things start to go wrong, they go very wrong and people disappear with everyones' connected minds rewritten so that there was no memory that they had ever existed.
That world is pretty much here already - and the social programmers have convinced [most] a whole generation of Americans that having everything they own "connected" at all times is somehow a personal convenience for them.
Welcome to the post privacy world. The last train left.
On the positive side, if there is something that you do need to monitor remotely, the Internet of Things will make this much easier and cheaper.
Big Brother!
How soon will the SCOTUS approve of the law where we’re taxed for NOT having everything in the house connected to the internet.
I mean, gov’t can tax for anything but, that’s GOT to be SOME kind of interstate commerce, right??
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Think of how cool that will be! No more lost socks!