Posts by pryonic 10 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jan 2013
It's a software as a service database - but not just running SQL Server or MySQL in the cloud it's actually a whole new product.
It's actually vety impressive speed and scability wise - especially the concept on decoupling the storage from the compute.
It won't solve every problem but they've done a genuinely good job of imagining what you'd do if you were writing a columnar database from scratch for cloud computing.
I run a home automation system on an rPi and OpenHab (https://www.openhab.org/) - no vendor lock in!
Most of the devices are Z-Wave with a few I've built myself (E.g. presence detection using Bluetooth and my phone, PIR sensor connected to a rPi with GPIO.
No cloud, nothing exposed from the router - happy days!
(Oh, and even with this I wouldn't dream of replacing my door locks with a smart lock, cloud or no cloud)
For the thermostat yes - there's a physical device in the house you can use to turn your heating on and off and change the temperature. This will work without an internet connection and uses it's own wireless connection to the boiler. Obviously with no internet you can't control it remotely.
As for the locks I have no idea - not sure why anyone would fit an internet connected lock - that just sounds like madness.
Attempted murder? Come off it...
A murder has to be intentional I believe, so unless you're accusing some Asda employee or supplier of attaching spider egg sacks to bananas on purpose at best it's going to be manslaughter through ignorance.
When they attack the Pope (http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2015-01/7/10/enhanced/webdr03/enhanced-15679-1420643314-17.png), the English, (http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2015-01/7/10/enhanced/webdr04/enhanced-32502-1420644540-1.jpg) or Jews (http://www.haaretz.co.il/st/inter/Heng/news/images/covers/3.jpg) are they also being racist?
Coming originally from a town with many racial problems (Burney) I do understand what you are getting at and using religion as a form of racism does exist - but I can see no evidence that is what has happened in the Charlie Hebdo case.
Well your first mistake there is accusing Charlie Hebdo of racism: Islam is a relgion not a race and there are Muslims of every race and nationality.
And because it is a religion, not a race, it is open to questioning, satire and maybe ever some "hatred" like all concious choices. You don't choose your skin colour, sexual orientation or to have have any disabilities and so these topics should not be satirsed - but concious choices like your political affiliation, the football team you support, whether you use Vi or Emac and your religion are open to scrutinity and satire.
Also - have you seen any of the cartoons they published? The vast majority are not insulting to Mohammad and are mostly poking fun at those who think it's ok to warp his teachings to the levels that it's ok to murder 16 innocent people who drew something on a piece of paper. (How weak must their faith be if a cartoon can hurt them so?)
The solution here is the same one as was used back in the day when you could hop of 90% of home WiFi routers because the WEP / WPA was not enabled by default and even set up port forwards because 99% of the unsecured routers had a default admin password:
Ensure the default password is random, possibly based on the mac address, rather than using a default one! Then stick a sticker on the product (just like routers have these days) giving the password. If Russian hackers have physical access to your house you have bigger problems!
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