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Why the fuck is a water treatment plant controllable through the Internet?
richwicks saysWhy the fuck is a water treatment plant controllable through the Internet?
Lol, exactly.
What the fuck were they thinking?
Were they even thinking?
No reason any infrastructure like waterworks, electricity, draw bridges, etc. should be accessible by the Internet. People involved need to get off their lazy asses and travel to site when needed.
I agree, but I also don't depending on your position of what we pay government workers. One employee manning 10 drawbridges on the Chicago River versus having 10 employees at each bridge is a big deal. Given it's probably union, you're looking at $1M just for salary for those bridges versus $120-150k.
HeadSet saysNo reason any infrastructure like waterworks, electricity, draw bridges, etc. should be accessible by the Internet. People involved need to get off their lazy asses and travel to site when needed.
I agree, but I also don't depending on your position of what we pay government workers. One employee manning 10 drawbridges on the Chicago River versus having 10 employees at each bridge is a big deal. Given it's probably union, you're looking at $1M just for salary for those bridges versus $120-150k. I don't want to pay for that. Ultimately we have to pay for those 9 workers out of a job if it's automated and remote. It's a fucked up situation we're approaching. I don't know the solution.
You can have remote access that is not relying on the Internet.
Bartenders tend to be alcoholics.
We can entirely eliminate pharmacists now with expert systems. My niece is a pharmacist, and I expect her job to be entirely eliminated LONG before she retires.
HeadSet saysYou can have remote access that is not relying on the Internet.
Internet and phone are the same thing now. The only way to get off the internet for communication is radio transmission.
Maybe "cellular," which is actually radio transmission. Even though copper is being phased out to homes, we still have a good infrastructure of copper running on poles and underground virtually anywhere. Perhaps this can be repurposed to make point-to-point connections to for remote control of drawbridges, etc.
No IP or packets of any kind, just one unique box establishing a connection to another like an old fashioned phone, using protocols unique to themselves.
richwicks saysWe can entirely eliminate pharmacists now with expert systems. My niece is a pharmacist, and I expect her job to be entirely eliminated LONG before she retires.
I've actually gotten wrong prescriptions due to pharmacist error. I'd be willing to try an automated system.
Doctor literally types (no handwriting allowed!) what drug, dosage, etc and then it pops out somewhere. Why should a human be involved at all?
OK, programming errors could fuck it up, but lots of things are like that now.
No reason any infrastructure like waterworks, electricity, draw bridges, etc. should be accessible by the Internet.
Worried about safety? Make 3 independent solutions, and only when 2 out of the 3 agree, do the action.
Just the Chinese playing around with their new toy: America.