Re: SMART = DUMB
Non-technical ministers use the same business planning method as non-technical managers: believing the salesman.
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I take it you think Microsoft insisting on this and that bits of H/W for the next version of Windows are doing for entirely altruistic reasons and the fact that it will sell new PCs made by their hardware partners and with them new Windows licences is just a coincidence?
Or is Poe's law in operation here.
My friends are a couple even more elderly then I am. She is wheelchair bound and he has given up driving so I'm in the habit of giving them a lift to see other friends once a week and giving her a lift to our monthly local history group and Civic Soc meetings. It takes me a little of my way but not much. Her in-house wheelchair is electric (but not the foldable one that goes in the car boot) if that answers your question.
Evidence saya that won't be taken into consideration. The problem of alarms depending on landline is supposed to be being looked at but in the meanwhile the POTS switch-off is going ahead leaving any substitute depending, ultimately, on the electricity supply which is a good deal more fickle than POTS.
"JUST why cant the meters hang off Wi-Fi as a option"
You want a device controlled by a third party to sit on your home LAN phoning home*? OK if your router supports a guest network but otherwise...
Then there's the problem of what happens when the meter has cut off the supply**? That takes out the customer's router and then there's no way to switch it back on.
* Other than a Windows PC, of course.
** Of course it can do that. Some unfortunate individuals have been "accidentally" remotely converted to pre-pay. Pre-pay doesn't work unless it can cut off the supply.
It's not just meters that are affected. Since 3G got switched off here ordinary mobile calls from home calls -provided I can make one - drop out and incoming calls go straight to voice mail.
Meanwhile my friend with the overshadowing 5G mast tells me her wifi has suddenly become unreliable. Could it just be coincidence?
"silent DC and sounds of panic as the helpdesk was swamped with calls"
Providing you can power up quickly enough the trick is to tell them not to answer the phones for a few minutes then tell them to check again, it's all runng here so it must have been a comms failure at their end. Providing the customers don't get together to compare notes.
"it's not the best choice for those who suffer from daltonism, or red/green color blindness"
Coloured command line is all too often a case of "works for me" and if you have the developer's choice of terminal background (and their colour vision!) it's readable but half of it disappears against some other background.
I think it's even got through to the board that they have a bit of s reputation problem about safety. They even said a little while ago that they were going to concentrate on safety. In those circumstances you'd expect then to be showing great enthusiasm to look into it, even while expressing doubt there would be any problems to find otherwise, all the fine statements look as if they are purely lip service.