Re: USA USA USA
...so by 2040 we can look forward to the first commercial flights, although not in the UK, as Millipede will have banned planes and Heathrow runway 3 will be a solar farm ;)
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This is seriously worrying, and explains why Toyota embed a SIM with cellular connection into all their new cars. Not just to provide the mandatory eCall system, but to monitor your driving style and movements via a spy that you cannot turn off!
Where is GDPR when you need it?
Yup, i heard that as well.
How NCAP could think that continuous beeps, klaxons, chimes, bells and flashing lights won't distract you from the more important task of drivng safely, i just don't know!
And as for the speed limit alarms, much of the time they are completely wrong - i just hope that they never connect the system to the PNC ;)
"current models they switch back on at next startup"
Yup, the speeding alarm, lane sway beeper (and nudger) and sat-nav voice guidance all revert to "irritating mode" every time you start the engine.
It should be a trivial software update to make your preferences "sticky", but they probably won't :(
p.s. Another frustration is that they don't give you all the hardcopy manuals, expecting you to read how to "navigate the customer experience" via an app on your phone (which plod won't muchly approve of!).
I'd rather they implemented a realistic solution that will actually fix the problem and won't cost many BILLION pounds (and only being one twenty-sixth part of the currently planned solution) of our money.
That solution could take many forms - not necessarily wiring windmills to a wood-burning subsidy-sucking factory!
This new cable will only provide 1kW to each of those "2 million homes", so let us hope that they don't want to use their heat pumps, or charge their EVs, or even have an electric shower (even individually, never mind at the same time!).
Oh, and that is assuming that the wind is blowing in the first place!
In the UK (and i presume the EU, 'cos laws are similar) you can fly a sub-250g drone pretty much anywhere (apart from the obvious, like airports, prisons etc.) including near buildings and over people, with just an operator ID from the CAA (which costs just over a tenner a year).
No flight plans required, and (in the case of DJI) the inbuilt geofencing will stop you from accidentally going somewhere that might start a nuclear war!
Oh, and i don't think that GDPR applies to individuals.
Undelete your Amazon purchase - you might enjoy it ;)
"I don't want to own a printer. So I really don't care. So long as I can print when required, I'd like to do so at the lowest combination of cost and time wasted."
...and if you don't own the printer, and you don't own the ink, and you don't own the paper - they can jack up the price at any time and there is nothing that you can do. Think "smart" meters, pay-per-mile driving etc.!
"That's weird... LG make an air source heat pump that has a flow temp of 75°C (at an outside air temp of -15°C whilst still maintaing a COP of 5; ok so it falls to 2 at -30°C but you can't have everything)"
Can you provide a link to this particular LG ASHP, as it does seem rather "impossible" with current commercially available technologies?
"I flew on one of the Bay of Biscay jolly flights and will never forget it."
Me too ("Flights of Fantasy"?). I believe that those "charter" flights were actually commercially viable - IF ONLY SOMEONE WOULD MAKE THE SPARE PARTS!
Memories that spring to mind include...
- Leaving Heathrow and following the M4 to the Bristol Channel, then once clear of land, accelerating like you were taking off all over again.
- Looking down out of the window at the tops of clouds that seemed as far away the the land normally does.
- Looking up out of the window and the sky was BLACK (because it was proper space!).
Oh, and yes, the (triple glazed) windows were warm ;)
...and i bet that this separate (EV) meter (made compulsary for new installations over a year ago) will allow you to be charged (taxed) even on electricity that you have generated from solar panels that you installed at your own expense!
Bastards!
Indeed - you have gotta watch out for the weakest link!
You mentioned copper piping - is this not "hydrogen safe"? If not then it will be a MASSIVE job to replace it all (as well as being quite expensive)!
My house also has some lead piping for gas - dunno how good that will be for hydrogen?
Oh, i did do a search, but there is not much recent activity - the referenced article is over two years old. Also, although it mentions that they "are able to power themselves with a wind turbine", there is no mention of such a facility for the Johnson Matthey station (at least via https://www.itm-power.com/h2-stations/swindon-hydrogen-station).
What is interesting however, is the fact that it can only generate enough fuel for around 15 cars a day - is this commercially viable (especially with a windmill that needs to generate at least 3.3MWh per day)?
I remember PAFEC - lovely old building(s) out in the sticks.
IIRC, their "computer room" was in the attic (with oak beams) where they had one of the first VAXstations.
The stables had been converted into an office, but keeping the original stalls for desk units.
Beside every door was an umbrella stand full of umbrellas, so you could keep dry when walking between buildings.
Ah, the eighties - the good old days of computing!
From the sound of things at https://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Other-broadband-queries/Anyone-else-affected-by-Vodafone-disabling-demon-co-uk-emails/m-p/2655220 it looks like Vodafone thought that there were only a couple of Demon e-mail users left!!!
Well, it looks like they might now be losing quite a few thousand "customers" (and their friends and colleagues and much future business) as a result of their lack of basic common sense (and arrogance)!
Vodafone (after taking over Demon)!
First they took away my web-space (without telling me).
Then they took away my web-site (without reducing the price).
Then they forced me to pay for an e-mail service that was supposed to be part of my HomeOffice 8000 package.
Now, in the middle of a Coronavirus pandemic they give me just over a month to re-allocate around 200 e-mail addresses (many over 20 years old).
Twats!
"I still have my demon mail domain hosted on O36x now "
Me too, so i hope that Vodafone give the demon domain to NamesCo (rather than just closing it down, which seems to have been their MO so far!).
The icing on the cake would be for NamesCo to drop O35n, as it seems to add several K of "diagnostics" bloat to even the smallest e-mail :(