I can understand wanting to be able to automate certain features of a home, but some things are a little out of hand and can be just RIDICULOUS!!!
I am still concerned with having a computer gaming box that runs an OS that can access the net, where people MAY recognize there could be a problem. But what happens when someone hacks into your house and reprograms your appliances and destroys your groceries while you're away, turns the heat up for a month while you're on vacation and causes your bills to sky rocket.
I don't even want to think about the medical/biological problems that could come up.
Let's just take it a step at a time. Get rid of non open source and let's be REAL about research and development.
When I was reading through this, I was very impressed by the Timothy's response to the article, but I wanted to note a few things that may be important.
I've seen others mention the importance of this box in the grander scheme of things, both pushing against M$ and the existing game console companies (Sony, etc.) and I think that these are all valid points, but...
Who is going to 'root' this system? Are there going to be instant upgrades available like the Flash upgradable I-Opener Internet Appliance? Since the system is run on software on top of the hardware and not from eeprom and chip saved commands like the game consoles, but with a REAL OS... When does it get upgraded? Who does the upgrading? Who gets access to root?
Another problem, then, is also security. We have a REAL OS here, connecting to the Internet. How long before these boxes start getting hacked? What do consumers do then? Buy an upgrade? Buy a patch?
Where then, does the line get drawn between this box taunting the world with Linux and the ever?-powerful M$ get drawn?
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I second that thought.
I can understand wanting to be able to automate certain features of a home, but some things are a little out of hand and can be just RIDICULOUS!!!
I am still concerned with having a computer gaming box that runs an OS that can access the net, where people MAY recognize there could be a problem. But what happens when someone hacks into your house and reprograms your appliances and destroys your groceries while you're away, turns the heat up for a month while you're on vacation and causes your bills to sky rocket.
I don't even want to think about the medical/biological problems that could come up.
Let's just take it a step at a time. Get rid of non open source and let's be REAL about research and development.
When I was reading through this, I was very impressed by the Timothy's response to the article, but I wanted to note a few things that may be important.
I've seen others mention the importance of this box in the grander scheme of things, both pushing against M$ and the existing game console companies (Sony, etc.) and I think that these are all valid points, but...
Who is going to 'root' this system? Are there going to be instant upgrades available like the Flash upgradable I-Opener Internet Appliance? Since the system is run on software on top of the hardware and not from eeprom and chip saved commands like the game consoles, but with a REAL OS ... When does it get upgraded? Who does the upgrading? Who gets access to root?
Another problem, then, is also security. We have a REAL OS here, connecting to the Internet. How long before these boxes start getting hacked? What do consumers do then? Buy an upgrade? Buy a patch?
Where then, does the line get drawn between this box taunting the world with Linux and the ever?-powerful M$ get drawn?