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Imagine a dishwasher that requires a username and password. Smart homes will require unprecedented effort to ensure not just security but also usability.

The battle between Google and Apple is moving from smart phones to smart things, with both companies vying to provide the underlying architecture that networks your appliances, utilities, and entertainment equipment. Earlier in June, at its annual developer conference, Apple announced HomeKit, a new software framework for communications between home devices and Apples devices. Meanwhile, Nest, a maker of smart thermostats and smoke alarms that was bought by Google earlier this year for $3.2 billion, recently launched a similar endeavor with software that lets developers build apps for its products and those from several other companies.

Indeed, a quick look at the Works with Nest website reveals just how interconnected our future is about to become, with smart cars telling our smart thermostats when well be home, smart dryers keeping our clothes fresh and wrinkle-free until we arrive, and household lights that flash red when the Nest detector senses smoke or carbon monoxide.

In fact, though, many of us are already living amongst an Internet of (some) things. We have desktops, laptops, cell phones, streaming devices like Apple TV and Roku boxes, and even smart televisions. Its just that these systems have barely begun to work together properly, and therein lies the problem.

The visions of Google and Apple will require a lot more than new frameworks and developer conferences to be truly transformative. They will require heretofore-unseen levels of reliability, security, and usability. Otherwise were in for a frustrating and possibly dangerous networked future.

Wi-Fi is a key enabler of the networked home. But while Wi-Fi is now present in more than 61 percent of U.S. households, many homes have incomplete coverage, and when Wi-Fi doesnt work, debugging is difficult. It will need to be dramatically more reliable than today to support the networked future.

Broadband Internet will need to be more reliable as wellas reliable as electric service is today. For many this may mean cable modems that can fall back to some kind of wireless 4G service, perhaps from a different provider.These modems will need to be dramatically easier to install and maintain than todays.

We will also need improved debugging systems for when the Internet doesnt work as it should. Today the primary recourse when your Internet is down is to reboot the cable modem, the laptop, or the smart TVor even all three! And perhaps the problem wasnt even in the house. To legitimately be considered smart, smart devices must assess whats wrong with the connection, and then help fix it.

Connecting anything to a secure home Wi-Fi network is a challenge for many. And some devices need additional authentication information, such as an Apple or Google username and password. When passwords change, the smart objects need to get the new passwords, or they cease to work.

This approach of binding our smart devices to our personal accounts may be an easy engineering decision today, but it will make less sense as more devices show up in households with multiple family members. Families shouldnt be forced to decide if the dishwasher is bound to Moms Gmail account or Dads. Instead, the household should have its own identity, with different family members having different levels of access depending on their needs.

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After growing up in a reality show himself, new dad Jack Osbourne might feel completely comfortable in his new traditional home in Studio City.As TMZ pointed out, the homes high-tech security system has 16 high-resolution cameras inside and outside.

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One of the seven bathrooms in Jack Osbourne's new Studio City home.

Property records confirm that Osbourne and his wife, Lisa, paid $3.2 million for the brand new home, moving their family of three to a gated community afterselling in Los Feliz earlier this year.

The Cape Cod-style five-bedroom, seven-bath is definitely a family home, with a big, private backyard that has a pool and outdoor kitchen. The home has lots of high-end features: a wine room, chandeliers, high-end appliances, marble counters, fireplaces and a master bathroom with a giant shower, seating area, stand-alone tub and a steam unit.

The beige-and-white house lacks the personality of the couples previous Spanish-style home, but the 5,614-square-foot space is a step up in size and luxury.

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The home has a large, private backyard with a pool and outdoor kitchen.

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[What follows is a slight updating of part of my pre-Hobby-Lobby Cato ebook on the case; I thought I'd repost it, since this is an issue that I've seen a lot of people discussing both before and after the decision.]

Some people have argued that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act shouldnt have applied in Hobby Lobby because the employer mandate doesnt require employers to actually do anything they see as sinful. The employers arent required to use the implantation-preventing contraceptives that they see as immoral. They arent required to administer or even handle them. They are just required to provide insurance policies that their employees may then choose to use to buy those contraceptives. Is that a real burden on belief?

That question would be answered no if a RFRA claim is brought by an employer who thinks the only relevant sin is actually using the implantation-preventing contraceptives. If the employer is called to the stand and asked, Do you think that it is religiously wrong for you to provide this insurance? and the employer says, no, thats fine, only using the contraceptives is sinful, then the employer has admitted that the employer mandate does not impose a substantial burden on his beliefs.

But, unsurprisingly, many people believe that, when some behavior is wrong, many sorts of complicity with that behavior are wrong, too. Many secular people believe this. The law takes this view, in all sorts of contexts. Religious people believe it, too.

True, people disagree about when complicity stops. Some people think that race discrimination itself is wrong and thus didnt want to do business in South Africa if they had to discriminate in hiring to do so. Others thought they shouldnt do business in South Africa even if they could do so without discriminating. Others thought they shouldnt do business with South African companies. Others may have thought they shouldnt buy any products made in South Africa. Some people might have thought their complicity would be cut off by the use of the corporate form (Im not the one whos doing business with South African companies; its just the corporation that I own thats doing that), though I suspect many people would not have taken that view. Where the connection becomes too attenuated and morally or religiously culpable complicity stops is a question on which reasonable people will differ.

But for purposes of RFRA, the question isnt whether a judge or jury agrees with a persons claim that a law requires him to engage in behavior that is sinful it is whether the person sincerely believes that the behavior is sinful. Likewise, when the person believes that complicity itself is sinful, the question is not whether our secular legal system thinks that he has drawn the right line regarding complicity; it is whether he sincerely believes that the complicity is sinful.

Thomas v. Review Board (1981) on which the Hobby Lobby majority relied is the classic illustration of this principle. Thomas had been working at a machinery company and was transferred to a department that produced tank turrets. Thomas refused to work on such military production and was fired. Under the Courts Free Exercise Clause jurisprudence, whether Thomas could claim unemployment compensation turns on whether his refusal to work on war production was an exercise of his religion. The lower court had said that it wasnt, but the Court reversed (emphasis added):

[The Indiana Supreme Court noted] that Thomas admitted before the referee that he would not object to working for United States Steel or Inland Steel produc[ing] the raw product necessary for the production of any kind of tank [because I] would not be a direct party to whoever they shipped it to [and] would not be chargeable in conscience . The court found this position inconsistent with Thomas stated opposition to participation in the production of armaments. But Thomas statements reveal no more than that he found work in the roll foundry sufficiently insulated from producing weapons of war. We see, therefore, that Thomas drew a line, and it is not for us to say that the line he drew was an unreasonable one.

Thomas wasnt, of course, being required to kill anyone using a tank, fire a tank gun, ride in a tank helping the gunner, or assemble a completed tank. But he thought that the religious prohibition went further than that. Even making tank turrets though not making steel that would go into a tank was, he thought, itself sinful complicity with sin.

And the Court held that it was for him, not for the secular courts, to figure out where he thought God wanted him to draw a line. The substantial burden requirement didnt require that the connection be substantial enough in the secular legal systems understanding of complicity. (A burden might be insubstantial because it imposes too small a secular cost to count, not because outsiders to a religion think that a causal connection is too weak to count as sinful complicity.)

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Volokh Conspiracy: The Religious Freedom Restoration Act and complicity in sin

Houston, TX (PRWEB) June 30, 2014

On July 7th, 2014 the Fresh Patch Company will start offering a completely biodegradable product. The Company will use a new technology to manufacture the leak-proof containers it uses to house and ship hydroponic dog-potty grass nation-wide. As a result, the Fresh Patch containers will be totally biodegradable and recyclable because no wax coating will be needed to create a moisture barrier. The new technology will give us the impermeability of a wax coating, without the environmental drawbacks, says Company President, Andrew Feld.

We were seeking a high-tech, biodegradable container to match our technologically superior hydroponic grass, says the Company. Unlike conventional sod, hydropically grown grass is lighter-weight, longer-lasting, dirt-free and highly absorbent. Now, we will be offering a container that is also technologically superiorjust like our grass.

According to the Fresh Patch Company, fruit and vegetable suppliers are also likely to start adopting the new technology to manufacture containers for shipping perishable items. Were at the forefront of a new eco-friendly trend in packaging and shipping, says the Company. By offering 100 percent biodegradable, disposable dog potties, we expect to attract many new customers who have environmental concerns. Our disposable dog potties are already 99 percent natural grass. Now, our biodegradable containers will be as green as our grass.

The Fresh Patch biodegradable, disposable dog potty units are intended for dogs up to 25 pounds. The Company also offers 2x4 feet hydroponic grass pads for larger dogs. More information can be found on the Fresh Patch website http://www.freshpatch.com.

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Knights #39; Wilkins clears the fences
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HANCOCK COUNTY, MS (WLOX) -

Authorities from Harrison County to Slidell, Louisiana remain on the lookout for a man who escaped from the Hancock County Jail Sunday evening.

Sheriff Ricky Adam said the man on the run, 28-year-old Perry Thomas, is a known member of the Vice Lord Gang and is considered dangerous. Thomas was being held without bond for sexual battery of a child, theft and several other charges. He was arrested just one day before he escaped.

The question many people are asking is how were Thomas and another man able to escape?

Blood splatters, orange jump suits and sandals could be seen Monday hanging on and around the barbed wire fences where two inmates climbed out of the Hancock County jail courtyard.

Adam said the inmates were let outside at 5pm. Six minutes later camera show Montrell McPherson and Perry Thomas scaled three barbed wire fences and escaped.

"When they brought the inmates in, they noticed they were gone," Adam said. "They were two short, so they sent out a message to dispatch, dispatch notified everybody."

That notification went out just after 6pm. Then, 45 minutes later, Adam said McPherson was found in the woods across from the sheriff's department.

"He was caught because he missed his ride," Adam said. "The other inmate, as we have found out since, contacted a female to pick him up on the highway. Well, when he got in the car, he made her leave and left her behind."

Rhakee Lyons was the woman allegedly waiting for Thomas when he escaped. Lyons, along with Shondreka Lee, who authorities said drove Thomas to Slidell sometime after midnight, are in jail charged with aiding in the escape.

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FRIENDSHIP, Wis. -

The Adams County Sheriffs Office said a group of men has been hitting the county with an asphalt scam.

Three men in their 20s or 30s have been reported in the southern part of the county, officials said.

The men told a homeowner they had just finished paving part of Highway 82 and had asphalt left over, according to a release. The men offered to put asphalt at the end of the driveway to let the resident see what it would look like. The men completed approximately 6 feet of the driveway.

The next day, the men came back and said the homeowner owed them $600, and they could complete the rest of the driveway for $2,500, police said.

The men had a business card that said Y&B Construction, 1-800-514-9532.

Officials remind homeowners to check for references, insurance and licenses before working with contractors.

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