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If you’ve been watching the technology world lately, chances are you have encountered numerous mentions of the term, the Internet of Things. Most media references and company advertisements label this or that as the Internet of Things but with little or no explanation about what it means. Even when you do find some depth of what it means, the text tends to focus on either the problems and challenges, or they focus on the promise of making our lives better in the future. Some suggest the Internet of Things will bring about the inevitable evolution of our society as we become more connected to the world around us every day.
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For example, everything seems to be cloud-this, cloud-that when nothing was changed.
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Éric Chassaing – via CC BY-SA 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ ).
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As of December 21, 2015, drones in the United States that weigh more than 0.55 lbs. must be registered before flying. See https://registermyuas.faa.gov/ .
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You also need to balance complexity of passwords with your ability to remember them. If you must write it down, you’ve just defeated your own security! You may be surprised to learn that the first rule of guessing someone’s password is to look under their keyboard. That’s where most people put their post-it note with the password. Don’t do that.
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Monty Python refers to a group of comedians and not a single individual. However, the comedy is undeniably brilliant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python
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Pythonistas are expert Python developers and advocates for all things Python.
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Bell, C. (2017). What Is the Internet of Things?. In: MicroPython for the Internet of Things. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3123-4_1
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