Re: Walled garden? Whic... what walled garden?
cat fish you mean?
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And it doesn’t go all shitty when it rains.
@bazza Its likely to be more reliable in terms of 999 calls if it can actually connect too - i was off for a few hours this weekend even though there was power and connection. And as for cost - well I've had some 200 hours of maintenance on my line over the last 8 years all because of water getting into the system. And I expect the same over the next few years until I finally get FTTH.
a Scot returning from war is told by the customs officer to pay import duty on a bottle of scotch. The Scot drinks some and passes it round and then finishes it off. The customs officer tries to get the MP's to arrest him - 'Why?' 'He's drunk' 'No he's not' <shrilly>'He will be'</shrilly>.
That's Margrethe Vestager that is - though I think Kafka is doing some editing too.
I've been an advocate of renewables for a long time but it is remarkable how people seem to miss things that are bleeding obvious when someone spots them.
5 years ago interest rates made renewable a serious investment and windmills are precision engineered and very expensive. Now interest rates are fuck all and it actually makes a lot of sense to put up much cheaper but not quite as efficient ones - imagine pressed steel blades rather than handcrafted profiled jobies - £10 for a meter long one rather than £150 ...
There are too many vested interests to allow a truly disruptive technology like renewables catch on.
Apart from the real possibility of a reduction in energy prices due to overproduction the possibility of almost every home to be a producer rather than a consumer does tend kick the stockmarket the other way.
Most renewables are not mass produced - a 1kw generator in a car costs about £50, the same for a windmill £400. The monolithic silicon for a grid connected inverter could easily reduce the cost to 1/4 of current prices. Mass produced but slightly less efficient windmills could be stuck anywhere the wind blows. Hydrogen generation and then reuse in fuel cells was demonstrated a 82% efficiency in the early 90's and that's before you use any O2 generated to increase the thermal efficiency of burning things you have to burn.
We have all the bits to go very largely renewable but the people who would normally invest in this stuff have too many shares in the incumbent technology to see electricity drop to 3 or 4p a unit.
A friend bought a Rolex Oyster that filled with water the first time he popped his hands overboard.
Rolex had it back 3 times before they actually tried fixing it. He had to demand a glass of water very loudly in the shop to demonstrate to the unbelieving arseholes that it did indeed fill with water before it was 200m down,
Road testing can be good when the seller is a little too self confident.
He may be missing out on those you mentioned but to hear those you have to miss out on other stuff: two ears one life and more music than you could listen to on double speed in a cryogenic life preserver.
You dont even need audio - you can get some insights into a lot of stuff using things like musescore where you even get to mix your own arrangements! Might not be the same as having an orchestra or live album but judging from the noises coming from people ear buds and stupid little balls on tables most dont seem to give a shit about sound verity anyway.
Or is it just not paying to scream about itself.
If I had my own diaspora server so that I could keep all my data safe and under my control and not have to answer requests for friending sunglass salestwats you wouldn't know about it unless I invited you to join me on it or vice versa.
That's the whole point of it for some people.
I'm not pretending otherwise. If people cant be arsed to put in decent security on your web site dont try and blame it something else. Its very easy to write procedures to do everything you want and prevent abuse and as a web manager its very easy to prevent coders from writing (or at least running) sql on a world facing server. You should do that anyway - not blame your fuckup on someone else finding a way to exploit it.
You might be able to connect but you cant scarf any data from it. Any sensible web admin will have configured it to not to allow random sql to be run over the connection between the web server and the DB.
Or at least that's how I've been doing it, and encouraging everyone else to do it, since I discovered you could do that well over a decade ago.
Got cavity wall insulation in the parts of the house that aren't cob and after that I found that the log burner had to be on 'no fun just put some logs on and damp it all down' and it kept the house peachy.
But even a few years ago before CW insulation it managed to keep the place warm (not hot) when it was -13C outside.
Still find sawing up and splitting a few baskets is the best warmer though. And walking the dog a few miles makes even a cold house seem warm when you get in!
But a wifi thermostat that could be hacked by the supplier in a drive buy .... I'm surprised the energy companies haven't made them compulsory.
I use in the shed. I hit the on button and, after a month or more, it will utter a few words of radio4 before I realise its been unplugged.
Better than the DAB which just gurgles like the queen after a no vote unless I get on the ladder and put it on a beam.
Should that be gargles?
"Economics can reasonably be judged a success if the progress between crashes is greater than the crash - and that's been the case for a very long time."
That's making the very big assumption that the economics generates the wealth rather than human ingenuity and endeavour. Correlation does not mean causation.
The big assumption you are making here is that 'they' want the economy fixed. Its a bit like asking an undertaker to look for the water of eternal life. You dont look for solutions to the 'problems' you make a living from. In fact its even worth your while to ensure that people who supposedly teach economics continue to sell the old lies that maintain inaccurate economic theories and prevent the 'truth' coming out.
I've got a £200 computer here that can do 32Billion floating point operations a second. I'd say that can model a whole years economic activity in the UK in less than a minute. In a month it could test and forecast and improve more economic models that you can shake a stick at.
Economics remains guesswork because you wouldn't want it any other way apparently.
It doesnt piss me off but if I wanted to re-transcribe it I'd run up a VM and take the audio and video as-is from that. Now they could stop that but that would really really really piss of the developers of... well shit like that and take eons to debug.