Comment inline -- J. Hellenthal The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.
On Jan 4, 2021, at 14:35, bzs@theworld.com wrote:
Why wouldn't we just build this into 10-year battery smoke alarms, a simple radio receiver?
Someone contact gentex.com to go over the IoT thoughts.
Why does anyone think this must be a feature of the internet when, as people here have described, that entails all sorts of complexities.
You just want something that goes BEEP-BEEP-BEEP KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE! BEEP BEEP BEEP really loudly on command, perhaps with some more detail.
Probably about 10c in circuitry involved.
We're really getting way into the cargo cult worship of the internet much like how TV in the 1950s was supposed to be the answer to every one of society's problems but mostly what we got were sitcoms and ads for bad beer.
Ok, proceed with the list of edge cases. But at least there are laws requiring smoke alarms most everywhere.
-- -Barry Shein
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