Or possibly electric cars with tax per mile fees that check your account to see you're paid up before allowing the car to start.
That’s funny. And if your garage door opens when sitting on the iPhone? Too much convenience out there. Turn on the heat switch when you get home.
A source told DailyMail.com that the cause of the outbreak was a power failure in Virginia and not a malicious hacking.
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This is about the third vague explanation Ive read about the cause of the outage. Just like Big Pharma, Big Tech is loath to be transparent.
But seriously, blaming the outage on a power failure is perhaps the lamest of the lame excuses. What, no UPS? No standby generators? Those sorts of devices have been standard where uninterrupted power is a necessity, such as hospitals, for decades.
The USD is already mostly digital.
The thought of thousands of young men stuck on their basement toilets yelling for Alexa to “get mommy” to no avail, makes me wake up with a simile this morning.
I doubt I'll ever make use of such invasive crap.
They’re requiring all new cars to have remote kill switches in a few years, hard to imagine they won’t use in-home cloud tech similarly when it suits them.
Apparently carrying keys in our pockets is too much of an inconvenience these days.
This news is schadenfreude-worthy ;-)
Live by the cloud, die by the cloud.
Those who rely on all this technology crap I wish them the best.
Only device I speak into is a phone... My hands still work for ON/OFF OPEN/CLOSE.
If you’re dependent on AWS to get into your own home, that’s your lookout.
I don’t have anything “smart” in my condo, so not affected by any cloud outage. My neighbors were with their Ring doors.
“Open the pod bay doors HAL... I’m sorry Dave... I’m afraid I can’t do that”
One day last week after picking my two granddaughters up from school,when we got home I realized Pop Pop forgot his house key! No worries. Just slid the kitchen window up,moved some dishes from the sink and fired the eight year old in there were she went around and unlocked the kitchen door. Who knew?
One of the clients for AWS is Canvas which is a platform that a lot of universities use for their online courses. Canvas was down during this outage, and that meant a helluva lot of students across the country couldn’t take their online tests.
A “power outage” for 8 hours will somehow delay all shipments for 3 days.
I have no sympathy for those who have become too technologically dependent.
