They seem to be very busy taking away the bread and circuses these days. No good can come of it.

So, when you're going down a crowded highway you're fine with it if the GPS app in the truck next to you goes to a commercial break featuring boobies?

I would think a gateway device would be more secure. You contact it and it talks to fridge and pantry. That way you get the upside without the many horrors that await if you let the 'quality' firmware produced for typical consumer appliances talk to the world.

A battery's charge rate is measured in C. C is enough current to charge the battery in 1 hour. So a 10 A-hour battery will charge at 10A for a 1C charge rate. Same technology 20 A-hour battery can charge at 20A for a 1 C charge rate (so it still takes an hour but you gained twice the energy).

And, short of making all children wards of the state at birth so they can be distributed to homes with a good environment for learning, it will be a matter of chance what sort of home environment you're born into.

Of course, if the state handled that the way it handles orphans, we would be doomed in generation.

No, he's right. MIMO can make several effective communications channels out of the same slice of spectrum by using the multople antennae as a phase array.

That's a good thing when it's available. Some states do that, some don't.

How will your fridge know if you have 1/2 cup of AP flour? You'll need to let the pad look up the recipe and then query the fridge and pantry over the LAN. Neither fridge nor pantry need access to the net.

I don't object to things on the LAN, I just don't see any reason they should have any access outside of the LAN.

If you didn't accept it then you agree with me but don't know it for some reason.

What in the world does that have to do with this thread? I was responding to this post.

John Steinbeck.

So then, where would those other people that become the rich come from?

Can't say, I don't know any more than we know about the doctor many posts above.

I notice you accepted the other hearsay without question. It must have confirmed an unfounded bias. So much so that you chose to berate me for pointing out that it didn't really tell us much of anything without substantiation.

My Aunt's roommate's boyfriend's sister's myna bird Dr. Bob said it's bunk. There we have it, it has to be true!