Wow, an article hyping a fork of the internet that is all...hype!

Let's say 2-10% of the total population use devices to actually control or monitor web-connected appliances. That's not where the market is.

It's all about the 100% of the population are subjected to an unending bombardment of ads on their refrigerator and microwave screens, based on personal data profiles garnered from same-said appliances associated with other known user info. Universal real-time context-based marketing. SCORE!

This isn't about technology. It's about marketing, pure and simple.

This. People with no industrial background love to blame the engineers for the security failings of SCADA and Distributed Controls, but we, like all good company drones, are at the mercy of the MBA shitheels and their bankster overlords. It's never been a technical problem. It's a money problem.

Precisely. As we used to say in the Navy, "Don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see."

Said intermediate period is well under way. We call it "government". /sarc

Well played, AC. Well played.

Yes siree Bob! That ol' invisible hand is really working for us.

We need government to get out of the way and let in all the low-cost immigrant labor we can get, without all those pesky regulations. Business needs to be free to innovate!

And yet the Nazis were decisively defeated by sheer numbers of lower-tech weapons.

A thousand Huns could easily defeat a century of Roman triarii. A thousand Sioux braves could defeat a regiment of dragoons. History abounds with examples of "more" defeating "better". Quality is by no means a guarantor od success over quantity.

"Forlorn" defined.

You think he doesn't?

When Bristlebane hears what the gnomes have been up to he's gonna be pissed. Clockwork magicians indeed!

2) If people continued to stay away, the banks would eventually fail. Why would the government continue to support them if nobody was using them?

Because corruption.

Nothing of substance is at issue in this election. Petty bickering about social issues for public consumption will continue unabated as both parties continue their usual pandering to Wall Street. The only bills that will make it to the president and be signed will be those that exclusively benefit the ruling class.

Indeed. We have one in Winchester, Virginia. Same policy, same pleasant experience.

Grace Hopper might have disagreed with you.

That's why smart enlistees go into the Navy or the Chair Force. Officers (mainly pilots) do the lion's share of the dying.