Posts with keyword: control

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Controlling the CT-30 Thermostat

Thu Aug 23 11:19:00 2012

With all the work I've done to set up a thermostat under the control of a KRL program, controlling the thermostat from Google calendar is quite simple. This post discusses the rules that make the thermostat work.
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Computers That Control You

Fri Dec 16 16:51:00 2005

Commenting on my piece yesterday about TPM (trusted platform module) and computers that control you rather than the other way around, Jon Udell says: Presumably no controls take effect unless the TPM is not merely activated by the operating system, but also pressed into service to guard some piece of protected content. So in theory it needn't affect you if you're creating rich media that you intend others to use freely, or if you're using rich media that others have created with the same intent. From Jon Udell: Technologies of control, technologies of useReferenced Fri Dec 16 2005 16:54:14
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