From: Sean W. <li...@su...> - 2004-05-26 21:32:30
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Rick DeNatale wrote: >On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 12:14 -0600, Tom Young wrote: > > > >>In an ideal world, I could tell my house to "lock up" and the doors would >>lock, unocupied rooms' lights would turn off when people leave and on when >>they enter. >> >> > >Does this remind anyone of a story in one of the very early Byte >Magazines about a guy named Jack building an automated house which >locked him out? > >Does anyone who reads this newsgroup even remember Byte magazine? > > Yeah, I do. I remember several stories of home-automation-gone-bad. Like the guy who had voice activated dialing and had a HUGE phone bill. Come to find out the dog barking was interpreted by the VR system as a dial request to some number in another country. Gotta love it. -- Sean Walker http://sean.surfmy.net/ |