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Re:Electronic Noise Is Drowning Out the Internet of Things by Animats on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:28PM (#10195697)
Don't worry about it. The "internet of things" is mostly stuff you don't need anyway. If your toaster has connectivity problems and can't reach the "cloud", and refuses to toast, you probably didn't need it anyway.
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Re:Electronic Noise Is Drowning Out the Internet of Things by pravda on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @10:37PM (#10195897)
How am I supposed to know if my toast is ready? Go over and look? What year is it ... 1934?

I will overlook the conspicuous absence of flying cars, but the year is 2015 and I want an email when my toast is done!

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Re:Electronic Noise Is Drowning Out the Internet of Things by PakG1 on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @11:06PM (#10195966)
Email? What is this, 1995? Send a notification to my smartphone's app!
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Re:Electronic Noise Is Drowning Out the Internet of Things by ddddddddq on Thursday September 10, 2015 @01:02AM (#10196209)
It only needs access to: Calendar, Internet, SMS, Profile, Start on Boot, Location, Microphone, Call Log, etc...
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Re:Electronic Noise Is Drowning Out the Internet of Things by thfuran on Thursday September 10, 2015 @10:55AM (#10198408)
One of the things I miss most about college was that the dorm washers emailed me when the laundry was done. Haven't gotten around to setting that up myself.
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