An IP Address For Every Light Bulb

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday NXP and Green Wave Reality announced to the world that they plan to give every lightbulb an IPV6 address. Hot on the heels of Google's 900 mhz announcement, Green Wave Reality already has iPhone / Android / and Web-based support. Looks like the lighting wars have started."

Re:Wrong place

[The MAZZTer]

Easy, make the fixtures DHCP servers.

That old joke

[Anonymous Coward]

Phone Support: I realize your computer won't turn on so I'd like you to look behind your desk to see if it is plugged in properly.
User: I can't see anything back there, it's way to dark!
Phone Support: Can you turn on a lamp?
User: No! Durn power has been out for over an hour due to the weather.

Now, lack of lighting will no longer be a useful sign of a power outage. Either the power is out, or you got hacked.

Re:Wrong place

[R0UTE]

And don't forget to NAT everything while you're at it.

How many sysadmins

[Ukab the Great]

does it take a change a lightbulb?

Re:Wrong place

[hoggoth]

Yeah, motion sensor lights are just great.

A few weeks ago I was sitting on the toilet in a stall in the church bathroom. I was taking longer than usual; After about 10 minutes the lights shut off. So there I am sitting in complete pitch black. I called out lightly, but no one heard. I was too embarrassed to yell. I reached my hand under the stall door and waved it around trying to activate the motion sensor, to no avail. I reached up and took my light jacket off the hook on the door and started whipping my jacket over the top of the stall door, again to no avail. Then I was getting pissed. I partially stood, wiped as well as possible in pitch darkness, and pushed the stall door open, but still nothing. Then I waddled a couple of steps forward and started waving my jacket around towards the entry door hoping it would break into the motion sensor's area of view.

That's when the door opened, the lights snapped on instantly, and a little boy stood staring in shock at the nut case waddling like a penguin with his pants around his ankles waving his jacket in a circle over his head.

Yep. Love motion sensors.