On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 5:32 PM J. Hellenthal via NANOG <
nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
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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:
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> 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.
Whatever could go wrong with putting MORE critical things on the internet *Sarcasm REALLY intended here*? The Video Game Cyberpunk 2077 seems kinda prophetic?
Let us not forget the Hawaii incident from Human error.
I think the internet ship sailed with RFC 1 ;)
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> Why does anyone think this must be a feature of the internet when, as
> people here have described, that entails all sorts of complexities.
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> 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.
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> Probably about 10c in circuitry involved.
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> 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.
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> Ok, proceed with the list of edge cases. But at least there are laws
> requiring smoke alarms most everywhere.
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