From my limited watching of (I think it was) Crunchyroll, they only seemed to have 2-3 ads to play so each adbreak was a repeat of the last one. This got old very quickly bad ads are annoying but endless repeats make it unwatchable.
There are already internet enabled light bulbs and they have Security
issues. Now in this case it appears that its just breaking into the bulbs mesh network and the manufacturer has released a fix, but most users won't apply it and what happens if they drop the product or just go out of business? The threat could easily more like the WiFi Kettle hack
I think the more general problem with the IoT is that it's putting a vast population of ageing, unpatched and unmaintained computers onto the Internet running applications who's sole aim is to get them to market ASAP.
I would expect a fridge to last anything up to 15 years I don't see Microsoft supporting Windows 98, LED lightbulbs should last 25 years and at end of life would be running the equivalent of Windows 3.1.
Probably the only good thing is that at least its not a monocluture:-(
Sure make the Maker movement more inclusive... but democratic? Are we going to vote on who Made the Most Marvellous Make? Vote in some Glorious Leaders to tell us what to do?
If someone said I've been in 14 crashes since 2009 but none were my fault. I'd be inclined to think that there is something really wrong with the way they drive that other drivers keep hitting them.
Not completly avoidable, you could touch something that someone with ebola has touched, your only seven(ish) handshakes away from a victim, lets hope it stays that way.
I've been doing a bit of digging on the page, apparently the takedown was because of one of the comments
so I did google searches for the page and each commentors name and they all came up... though the searches
were very slow and occasionally died with a 500 error.
The best place to hide a leaf is in a forest. It would be hard to tell the difference between some dudes organizing a raid and a planning session for a Mumbi style killing spree. All they'd need to do is use some simple codewords and there sorted.