Re: They may not have had many customers...
You could even say the IoT birds are coming home to Nest...
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A friend's brother got a summer job whilst a student doing some kind of boring data manipulation. He realised that it was easily automatable and spent a day or so writing a programme to do it. The end was result was that he and all the other temps got rapidly given the boot...
We once had someone decide that they wanted to connect their phone to a network and plugged in a D-Link router. This muppet didn't realise they plugged in the wrong port and the router's DHCP tried spraying out IP addresses; QIP then crapped itself and gave up meaning the whole subnet went down...
Icon 'cos scientists are supposed to know better...
>For people who can afford the haberdashery known as "a brand new BMW", 18 bucks per month is probably so low as to be off the radar
But in ten years time when the car is on its third owner, that $216 will be a lot more money.
That's assuming BMW haven't turned off the infrastructure to support the subscriptions on that model....
Why on all earth do we[0] allow these cross-cloud single points of failure to happen? It's not hard to imagine a disaster (see icon) or even "just" a hurricane or flood that would take out a lot of civilisation's compute and everything that relies on it.
[0] Trying to work out who's responsible here is quite an effort. Maybe the UN should compel governments to ensure large spaces between the companies' bitbarns.
The UK Ministry of Defence has also confirmed plans to replace a British F-35B that fell into the Mediterranean following a failed take-off from the deck of aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth last year, according to the UK Defence Journal.
The fast that it's newsworthy for the UK to replace a single aeroplane says a lot about how under-resourced the UK forces have become....