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Re: the smart home, c/o your phone

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On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:47:01 +0100
Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> wrote:

> On 2014-06-12 20:57, Jerry Peters wrote:
> > Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> The smart home is an awesome idea for extracting even more information 
> >> from people.  I bet the Stasi would have loved the smart home idea.
> >>
> >> I have a dumb home.  I must manually activate everything, excepting the 
> >> heat which is controlled by a dumb thermostat.  I don't know exactly 
> >> how this smart crap would help me, it just seems needlessly expensive 
> >> and prone to obsolescence.
> >>
> >> Maybe I'm missing out on something.
> > 
> > Spending lots of money to look cool perhaps?
> When I've been working irregular hours in the winter I've wished I could
> remotely switch on my central heating, but not often enough to build a
> system to do it. I certainly wouldn't use someone else's spyware to do it.


Yeah, I agree.  I like the ability to be able to automate temperature
and illumination remotely, or monitor surveillance cameras pointed at
the front and back doors, or whatever, but that technology largely
exists already and isn't that complicated.  OK, so a new "app" system
allows you to do it all from the comfort of your iphone or whatever.
Not a huge advance, if you ask me, unless again Apple finds a way to
make it so extraordinary that peoples' blood pressure soars just
thinking about it.  

I dislike the idea of spyware reporting for example when I'm in and out
of the building though, or things like that.  The ability of a spystate
to monitor statistics on an individual is skyrocketing - already you
can figure out so much by monitoring computer usage.

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the smart home, c/o your phone RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-08 21:03 +0000
  Re: the smart home, c/o your phone Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-11 15:51 -0700
    Re: the smart home, c/o your phone Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-06-12 19:57 +0000
      Re: the smart home, c/o your phone Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-06-13 11:47 +0100
        Re: the smart home, c/o your phone RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-13 11:33 +0000

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