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Hells no!

I won't even upgrade my roomba to one of those new fangled models with cameras. Aaaand I've bought plenty of spare parts to keep it alive for some time.

People seriously have vacuum cleaners that require an Internet connection? Why?

I don't even like having a cell phone.

Karloff says

I don't even like having a cell phone

I have one I add $25 to every year, coming up next week. I think I used 15 minutes last year, only use it when I go out of town. I had voicemail turned off.

Before someone hooks up their appliances to be automatically worked from the web, maybe they should review that scene in "2001, A Space Odyssey" where HAL comes after Dave with that remote vehicle.

You would have to be pretty naive, or a total moron, to have HVAC, a refrigerator, or an oven connected to the internet.

I think most people are pretty naive about technology. They just plug things in, connect them to the internet, etc.

"I'm not worried about my privacy."

Just wait. China is coming here.

This reminds me of an ABC News segment about a family that had one of those internet security company's system in their house, and some guy hacked in and talked at the 10 year old girl through the unit in her bedroom, saying her could see her as well. ABC was trying to make a story on how bad the company was. But 2 things come to mind here: (1)Why did they not change the default admin/password in this and in the router, and (2) What kind of parents have a camera (especially an internet camera) in the daughter's bedroom?

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says

Eat the fallen and save on groceries!

www.youtube.com/embed/3RtGq58LZnE

Great movie

mell says

Great movie

Yes, it is. I'd also recommend The City of Lost Children, and Nikita and if you want to get really weird, La Planete Sauvage or in the US - Fantastic Planet.

You can complain plenty about the french, but they have done some incredibly good films. Delicatessen is one of my favorite films.

This is Fantastic Planet:

www.youtube.com/embed/SgCxCZNkQ9E

I think it's too weird for 99% of the population, but I found it fascinating. It's a world where an alien species took humans as pets after Earth had destroyed itself, presumably through nuclear war and humanity reasserting itself as an intelligent species.

A lot of that film is allegory, and it transcends outright perception. I think that may be one of the most remarkable films ever made just because it's so inaccessible to most people.

richwicks says

mell says

Great movie

Yes, it is. I'd also recommend The City of Lost Children, and Nikita and if you want to get really weird, La Planete Sauvage or in the US - Fantastic Planet.

You can complain plenty about the french, but they have done some incredibly good films. Delicatessen is one of my favorite films.

This is Fantastic Planet:

www.youtube.com/embed/SgCxCZNkQ9E

I think it's too weird for 99% of the population, but I found it fascinating. It's a world where an alien species took humans as pets after Earth had destroyed itself, presumably through nuclear war and humanity reasserting itself as an intelligent species.

A lot of that film is allegory, and it transcends outright perception. I think that may be one of the most remarkable films ever made just because it's so inaccessible to most people.

Agreed. Man bites dog is great as well.

mell says

Agreed. Man bites dog is great as well.

I had to look that up- C'est arrivé près de chez vous. Difficult to search for it, since "man bites dog" is such a common expression. I'll get it and watch it this weekend.

And now people find that they can't even turn on the lights in their "smart" houses without Google:

By now, Monday's massive Google outage is history for most people. While it was a minor inconvenience for some, with most Google services being down for hours on end, it was a much larger pain in the electronic ass for the tragically hip who have surrendered their "smart" homes to Google.

In fact, of the services that went down, it was Google Home users who were literally left in the dark during the outage on Monday, RT notes. As a result, "smart home" users were complaining about not being able to perform once-simple tasks at their homes - like turning on the lights.

“I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Drive Home. Rethinking... a lot right now,” one Twitter user tweeted in the midst of the "blackout". Another user from the U.K. said that connecting his lights to Google Home now “feels like a fatal error.”

https://zerohedge.com/technology/when-smart-homes-turn-stupid-google-users-literally-left-dark-during-monday-outage

richwicks says

mell says

Agreed. Man bites dog is great as well.

I had to look that up- C'est arrivé près de chez vous. Difficult to search for it, since "man bites dog" is such a common expression. I'll get it and watch it this weekend.

@richwicks Did you watch it? It's a pretty funny movie.

Patrick says

And now people find that they can't even turn on the lights in their "smart" houses without Google:

By now, Monday's massive Google outage is history for most people. While it was a minor inconvenience for some, with most Google services being down for hours on end, it was a much larger pain in the electronic ass for the tragically hip who have surrendered their "smart" homes to Google.

In fact, of the services that went down, it was Google Home users who were literally left in the dark during the outage on Monday, RT notes. As a result, "smart home" users were complaining about not being able to perform once-simple tasks at their homes - like turning on the lights.

“I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Drive Home. Rethinking... a lot right now,” one Twitter user tweeted in the midst of the "blackout". Another user from the U.K. said that connecting his lights to Google Home now “feels like a fata...

If one has too much time on their hands it's much better to design and secure your own home control system, and of course always with manual override for when the connection is down ;)

Maybe someday Google will control pacemakers as well.

If you think this is great, wait until a majority of the population has "smart" devices implanted throughout their body. The transhumanist utopia for people like Klaus Schwab.

If you want to see what bugs are in store for you in that dystopian nightmare, check out the excellent game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Hmm, one could even ponder the potential similarities between the biochip upgrade in that game with the covid vaccine..

"I have spoken with Montreal. The broadcast satellites are ours when we need them. A few weeks of discomfort, and the public will be primed for our recall."

Karloff says

Klaus Schwab