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Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There?
New submitter writes: I just replaced my dishwasher with a basic, inexpensive Sears model. It works fine, but only has 3 different wash cycles. I'm betting that the code to manage more cycles (as in more-expensive models) is already in the microcontroller and just needs inputs to select it. Is there any information available on this? Beyond dishwashers, have you done any useful hacks to household appliances more generally? I'd probably support a Kickstarter project that adds nice wireless notifications to my oven, clothes washer, and dishwasher.
Wow. First of all, frack you and the frackers who modded you up as "informative." You are a self-centered misguided narcissist.
Maybe I don't have a second point. Or heres one: imagine if corporations thought the same way about dumping crap into our waterways: inorganic solvents, mercury, hexavalent chromium, CFC? Maybe one factory can't mess things up too bad but imagine if every factory thought they were a snowflake. Thats when lakes catch on fire. You think its OK for you to dump phosphates because its just your little self? How much damage can one little person do? You possibly informed thousands of people how to sidestep an important environmental regulation.
I would be ashamed if I did crap like this and here you are bragging about it, Worse yet, you seem to understand why the regulations are in place. Perhaps you think that if only a few snowflakes did it, no one would know? You shared your secret and now probably more people are going to do it. When do you think they will start regulating the TSP in the paint section? Good job.
And thirdly, don't mod up assholes!