Comments on: Information is not knowledge.

Information is not knowledge.

I Love Tacos — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:57:47 -0800

Privacy? No thanks.

By: borkencode

borkencode — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:10:59 -0800

While certain things (the phone log) are a bit creepy, I would love to have realtime monitoring of gas water and electricity usage.

By: wakko

wakko — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:15:12 -0800

the phone log doesnt give out numbers though. not a huge deal.

By: lalochezia

lalochezia — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:12:32 -0800

Failed treatments to date: Beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, adrenalin injections, high dose ibuprofen, steroids, Trager Mentastics, violent exercise, cafergot suppositories, caffeine, acupuncture, marijuana, Percodan, Midrine, Tenormin, Sansert, homeopathics. No results. No results...

By: Suparnova

Suparnova — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:51:35 -0800

Is it just me or is that link broken?

By: caddis

caddis — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:59:01 -0800

What the hell is he doing with all the electricity around midnight?

By: caddis

caddis — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:01:11 -0800

and if you are a thief, he will let you know when the house alarm is off.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:52:12 -0800

Wow. I wouldn't want that information public, but I would quite like my house rigged up so that I could control/monitor some of the stuff he is. I've only got as far as vaguely looking into motion sensors so that I can have radios in every room that turn on when I walk through the doors, and that's only because I'm so lazy that flicking the on/off button gets tedious when I nip from the office to the kitchen to make a cuppa. This, from the 'How' page, is a bit creepy: The interest for controlling everything with a computer grew stronger and stronger, and what would be a better object then controlling your home. (your wife?)

By: drezdn

drezdn — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:20:05 -0800

I totally know when he took a shower, and I feel I'm a better person for it.

By: zardoz

zardoz — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:42:05 -0800

It's not creepy as this seems to be a big pet project. It is, however extremely nerdy. It's only creepy if the govt. is doing it.

By: Slap Incognito

Slap Incognito — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:48:42 -0800

I find the fact that toilet usage jumped 50% on Sunday over any time before or since to be...revealing. Of what, I don't know. But still.

By: hasund

hasund — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:05:40 -0800

This seems to be a popular pastime for the Dutch. There was this other couple who wired most of their home to the web for many years. The site is gone now but it lives on in the Internet Archive (which can reveal that they were eager toilet flushers - 22308 times in five years).

By: jb

jb — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 01:47:05 -0800

What the hell is he doing with all the electricity around midnight? posted by caddis at 1:59 PM PST on February 2 [!] Heating? Our night storage heaters come on at night when the electricity rate is lower; our water tank heats up at the same time.