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Electronic Gadget Ideas for a New House?

pmadden asks: "I'll be building a house this summer (standard straw bale construction, earth plaster, the whole low-tech gig). Naturally, I'll be putting gobs of ethernet in the walls, with drops to the rooms, on the roof, and so on. I'll add wireless too, once it's secure enough to keep all of you out. What gadgets should I plan for, so that I don't have to do a major retrofit? I'll have cables for TPZ cameras, for when they get super-cheap. We'll leave niches for putting in routers and stuff like that. What else? What cool thing will be cheap in a couple of years, leading my wife to ask, 'why didn't you plan for that'? Any recommendations for good Christmas light control systems, and so on?"

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  1. console connection to central tabulator in 2006 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Something neat like a button on the wall that whips out a hidden keypad and monitor and lets you edit the election results, de-footprint the logs, and then remove the backdoor all with no trace.

    (BOFH styled sarcasm)

    That was fun.
    Now let's get serious.
    The United States Of America is 03w3nd.

    If you voted electronically, your vote when it was converted to digitized data disappeared at the speed of light. NO human can see that, no human can audit it or follow it physically even if they could see it, which they cant.

    So your vote did not count.

    Because your vote did not count, your right to vote was denied.

    Now you need to fill out an election/fraud complaint form.

    Tell them your RIGHT TO VOTE WAS DENIED

    The media has a blackout, so YOU HAVE TO FILE A COMPLAINT.