Re: Networked refrigerators (was Re: [Nolug] Vint Cerf talk (my notes from his talk at LSU))

On Wednesday 01 October 2003 4:05 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 18:52, Joey Kelly wrote:

> "net fridges: emailing you that you need to buy milk, etc."
>
> Why do people keep bringing this up? How can the 'fridge know if
> the milk carton is almost empty? Any technology put in the box to
> try to make such estimations will just drive up the cost.
>
> Such things are *useless*.

I'm actually gonna agree with Ron on this one, this is beyond fatuous.
Good god, just look in the damn refrigerator.

This kind of useless crap is deeply imbecilic, and even contemptible,
considering the energy that could have gone into solving actual
problems.

-- 
Tim Kelley
tpk at 23rdward dot org
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