ElectricImp.com

[Mike O'Dell]

The skepticism around the plans for this particular bit of digital flotsam
is well-deserved.

however, if adequately hackable, it might be repurposed for other purposes.

in any event, the existence of such a widget is interesting. I wonder if 
it's the
same hardware being used for the "Eye-Fi" widget, which plugs into your 
camera
and spews bits to your laptoy over the wifi so you don't have to swap cards.
somebody is making those, and i have a good guess as to whose wifi part
is inside - some of the Atheros parts have a twin-core ARM that runs an
IP stack and has lots of room left over.

but it's also a heads-up of what people might be trying to slip into
your toaster and such.

I believe the UK just passed legislation making it a requirement that
customers can reject the installation of "Advanced Metering" precisely
because they don't want information about what they own and how
they use it being available without their approval.  Great idea -
approximately zero probability something like that could get enacted here.

     -mo


On 1/20/13 12:07 PM, Richard Spargur wrote:
> Not trusting everyone completely, I have a lot of problem with my house or
> parts of my house or stuff in my house or property constantly, and
> uncontrollably talking to someone (not necessarily the object it was
> intended to talk to) recovering information.
>
> Companies like Proctor & Gamble have patents for tracking projects from when
> you pick them up from the store shelf to when they enter a landfill
> including while they are in your house.  It is their stated desire to do
> just that as well as other companies.
>
> What will this company in California be collecting today.  What about
> tomorrow.
>
> Then I could just be paranoid, I will put my tin foil back around my head
> and sit in the corner :-)
>
> Richard
>   
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tacos-bounces+k3ui=comcast.net at amrad.org
> [mailto:tacos-bounces+k3ui=comcast.net at amrad.org] On Behalf Of Robert E.
> Seastrom
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:34 AM
> To: wb4jfi at knology.net
> Cc: Mike O'Dell; tacos at amrad.org
> Subject: Re: ElectricImp.com
>
>
> <wb4jfi at knology.net> writes:
>
>> Sounds kind of squirrelly to me (the language it purports to use is
>> yet another variant of C, called squirrel).  If the language is
>> "C-like", why not just use C?  These people are getting too cute for
>> their own good.
> To be fair, this is exactly how Wiring (the programming language for the
> Arduino) is described, though describing it as "C++ with so many convenient
> libraries tossed on top as to make it unrecognizable" is prehaps more
> honest.
>
>> I was going to play with one, but the full-time Internet access
>> requirement made it road-kill.  Insert your own "nuts" joke here, I'm
>> from California, so I get a free pass.
> 100% agreement.  Things must work properly and in a not-unexpected fashion
> when connected to the Internet and disconnected from the Internet...  but
> also make appropriate decisions when the Internet connectivity is dodgy
> (cursory test returns OK but attempting to use yields crummy performance for
> whatever reason).
>
> Somehow, the last case never gets addressed well.
>
> -r
>
>
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