"Instead of measuring energy use at the end of each billing period, smart meters will provide this information at much shorter intervals," the report notes. "Even if electricity use is not recorded minute by minute, or at the appliance level, information may be gleaned from ongoing monitoring of electricity consumption such as the approximate number of occupants, when they are present, as well as when they are awake or asleep. For many, this will resonate as a 'sanctity of the home' issue, where such intimate details of daily life should not be accessible."
Anyone at Slashdot have any ideas for a possible solution?
I also get the term "modem box" frequently, in reference to the tower.
Heh, that reminds me of something a friend of mine told me once that happened about 10-12 years back. She worked in tech. support for a local ISP. One day a call came in and someone told her they were having trouble accessing the internet. Well, as my friend started asking questions to the caller like type of computer and operating system version, the callers' problem became very clear to my friend. Turns out the caller had no computer.
Apparently, the caller saw a (dialup)modem in a store, bought it, then subscribed to the ISP thinking that was all that was needed to use the internet. The caller didn't own any computer.
On a slightly unrelated note, she told me that the ISP had setup networked Doom so that all the tech. support people could play Doom between (and no doubt during) calls. After that call she was probably taking her frustrations out on every other support member playing, lol.
Heh, another situation: My father worked for a university in the computer support department. In the early 90's he used to get frequent calls from the university library people to come and remove CD's that students were forcing into 5" floppy disk drives because the students thought they were CD-ROM drives.
How about employing someone to proof-read your posts and check the links?
Are you serious? The lack of proof-read is what makes this place Slashdot!
is invent/patent a cologne/perfume that smells like a lie and poof profit?????????
No, you invent one that smells like the truth. Much bigger profit then. Especially from politicians.
if I were to overwrite all of my information with crap and manually delete each pic, would they still have backups of my information?
Unfortunately, they would.
I'd like to think I can at least partly delete my information!
Well... you see once something is on the internet (ie. through a web site, Usenet post, email list archive, web forums, etc.) it's pretty much there for good. Not too much you or I can do about it. That's why it's a good thing to always think about stuff before you post it or put it on a website.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
