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To: Mr. Douglas

Smart appliances might do that, but more likely, they are just making inferences based upon power draw, duration, and perhaps signature if their detail is fine enough.


5 posted on 03/27/2017 10:05:25 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

but more likely, they are just making inferences based upon power draw, duration, and perhaps signature if their detail is fine enough.


Yeah. I used to work for a data mining company. The amount of stuff they can accurately infer is simply amazing.


9 posted on 03/27/2017 10:10:51 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: lepton

They’d be confused about this house. A washing machine is just as likely to be running at 3 am as it is at 3 pm.


18 posted on 03/27/2017 11:20:59 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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