I think having access to my power consumption at any point in time would provide a new level of visibility... and an aggregate view would do more to enlighten people about their individual resource utilization.
If you can monitor it you can control it... data on a monthly basis isn't enough in my opinion.
Why would I want to monitor usage on a single plug?
If I could have the same thing monitor my entire house and update twitter, email, widget, mobile phone app, etc. it would be very compelling.
Having a view in the aggregate would encourage people to disconnect devices using power in stand-by mode, etc. And power usage tracking would become a competition between peers.
Google to the rescue? http://www.cringely.com/2009/02/power-to-the-people/
True... but does the perpetrator sound like someone with that sort of competency? No. If he did he'd probably have the sense to see if the machine was phoning home. I doubt he hacked into this guys account so he could download porn all day.
I don't get it... if my laptop were stolen the thief wouldn't be able to login without my credentials.
They'd have to reinstall the OS which would erase any remote connectivity function.
The changes Carriers are going to try to make boil down to QoS. Check out the TISPAN standards or 3GPP IMS on which TISPAN relies heavily. There are other standards as well.
Remember the Whitacre comment about "mah pipes"? He was talking about an SBC GPON network. They'll
offer "triple play" services to consumers... sure... but the "video" and "telephone" networks won't run on the web... they'll be running on a private network. That means the "data" network is essentially just
one of three QoS networks coming into the house. Which means they can control the bandwidth, priority, etc. of that traffic. Do you think SBC or Comcast is going to allow a fat data pipe into their customers
home so Google can "steal" their IPTV/VoIP customers?
What can we do about this? Throw up our hands up in disgust and switch to another ISP? Who? Comcast? Verizon? They'll be doing the same thing. What's left? A Wifi provider? Please. WiMax? Yeah right. No wireless standard is going to compete with Fiber for at least several years. The only way Comcast/Verizon/SBC will give the "data" slice of the GPON network a fat bandwidth/priority is if I pay out the wazoo for it. Either that or make web companies foot the bill:
Look for this same QoS battle to unfold in the mobile world as Carriers roll out IMS. Carriers are nuts for ARPU and they're running around trying to deploy "instant messaging" and "video services" in
their own walled gardens. Do you think they want to allow some web company to use "mah pipes" and "steal" the customers from their ARPU generating services? Just as there is a QoS bottleneck in the home so too is there one on your phone (when IMS is deployed, your phone talks SIP, etc.) via the PDP Context.
I wish I could have seen the reaction when Google announced their GLM service. You can be sure the phone companies would much prefer to charge for this type of service... and believe me they'll try everything they can to do so. The similarities between what's happening in your home and will happen on your cellphone are abundant. Wireless carriers own the spectrum to provide you services... just as Carriers own the GPON (other similar) network they're deploying. If they had their way there may be no internet... they'd provide all the major internet services themselves via "walled gardens".
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I think having access to my power consumption at any point in time would provide a new level of visibility... and an aggregate view would do more to enlighten people about their individual resource utilization. If you can monitor it you can control it... data on a monthly basis isn't enough in my opinion.
Why would I want to monitor usage on a single plug? If I could have the same thing monitor my entire house and update twitter, email, widget, mobile phone app, etc. it would be very compelling. Having a view in the aggregate would encourage people to disconnect devices using power in stand-by mode, etc. And power usage tracking would become a competition between peers. Google to the rescue? http://www.cringely.com/2009/02/power-to-the-people/
True... but does the perpetrator sound like someone with that sort of competency? No. If he did he'd probably have the sense to see if the machine was phoning home. I doubt he hacked into this guys account so he could download porn all day.
I don't get it... if my laptop were stolen the thief wouldn't be able to login without my credentials. They'd have to reinstall the OS which would erase any remote connectivity function.
The changes Carriers are going to try to make boil down to QoS. Check out the TISPAN standards or 3GPP IMS on which TISPAN relies heavily. There are other standards as well.
Remember the Whitacre comment about "mah pipes"? He was talking about an SBC GPON network. They'll offer "triple play" services to consumers... sure... but the "video" and "telephone" networks won't run on the web... they'll be running on a private network. That means the "data" network is essentially just one of three QoS networks coming into the house. Which means they can control the bandwidth, priority, etc. of that traffic. Do you think SBC or Comcast is going to allow a fat data pipe into their customers home so Google can "steal" their IPTV/VoIP customers?
What can we do about this? Throw up our hands up in disgust and switch to another ISP? Who? Comcast? Verizon? They'll be doing the same thing. What's left? A Wifi provider? Please. WiMax? Yeah right. No wireless standard is going to compete with Fiber for at least several years. The only way Comcast/Verizon/SBC will give the "data" slice of the GPON network a fat bandwidth/priority is if I pay out the wazoo for it. Either that or make web companies foot the bill:
Look for this same QoS battle to unfold in the mobile world as Carriers roll out IMS. Carriers are nuts for ARPU and they're running around trying to deploy "instant messaging" and "video services" in their own walled gardens. Do you think they want to allow some web company to use "mah pipes" and "steal" the customers from their ARPU generating services? Just as there is a QoS bottleneck in the home so too is there one on your phone (when IMS is deployed, your phone talks SIP, etc.) via the PDP Context.
I wish I could have seen the reaction when Google announced their GLM service. You can be sure the phone companies would much prefer to charge for this type of service... and believe me they'll try everything they can to do so. The similarities between what's happening in your home and will happen on your cellphone are abundant. Wireless carriers own the spectrum to provide you services... just as Carriers own the GPON (other similar) network they're deploying. If they had their way there may be no internet... they'd provide all the major internet services themselves via "walled gardens".