[bcab] Re: Wish list

can you imagin how scary it would be if a hacker could suddenly start up 
your washer in the middle of the night? or affect the program in such a way 
that it would fill up and carry on filling up without sopping or spin until 
the motor burned out?

not being entirely serious here but although I understand the value of 
automatic washers,  my parents had an early model and put non automatic 
washer powder in it.  this is similar to the stuff you buy now for 
handwashing.

The result was loads of extra soap suds.  when it came to spinning the 
washer would start to rev up, slow down, pause for a few seconds and start 
again.  it had to be turned off for a while  and opened so it could be 
manually drained.

since then i have never been keen on just putting on the washer while out of 
the house just in case.

  sometimes the berserk washing machine is a definite feature of bad dreams.

Cheers

Graham
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 4:22 AM
Subject: [bcab] Re: Wish list


Hi Chris,

This is probably one of the most interesting wishes I have heard, since
Steve asked the question, except perhaps for the Wi-Fi enabled rabbit, I
like that, and am going to have one <Smile>.

Seriously though, if more things were Internet aware, as you say, it would
be cool.  Not only could we control them over the web, but the devices could
tell the engineers when they are faulting <Smile>.

All the best
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-----Original Message-----
From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Hill
Sent: 28 September 2006 22:55
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bcab] Re: Wish list

Hi,

I would like to see every electrical item you bought for your home come as
standard with something like a USB port into which you could plug something
like a wireless adaptor.  Then, your washing machine, TV, central heating
clock, microwave and DAB radio could all be linked on a wireless network,
could all be controlled from a central point, your PC or a remote control
thingy, using whatever access technology suited you best.

  We wouldn't have to wait for the occasional talking product to appear on
the market, we could choose whatever product we wanted and the accessibility
of everything in our home would be handled at a central point.

It often strikes me as crazy that I find it much easier to configure a
wireless router than it is to change a setting on my washing machine.  The
router comes with a web interface, so why can't the washing machine?  ...
and why can't the menus on my cable TV box simply appear on my PC instead?

Chris


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