Posts by Barrie Shepherd 460 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Feb 2008
The reason 2/3G is closing is to release the spectrum for other services - I don't think carriers will be happy with mobile BTS roaming the street creating interference with their services. And while a mobile BTS can liven up the meter - maybe - there still needs to be the switching network emulated to allow the transmission of data - I know that you can have a GSM in a Box solution but managing IMSIs etc is a problem.
I've been musing over the "Charge Evs" element of this.
How much digitised optical energy are Virgin going to be pumping along their fibre optic cables to adequately power a solar cell with enough energy to generate a practical EV charging amount of power?
Then if that optical cable breaks will the emerging high power light become a "weapon of mass destruction"?
"VMO2 also claims that smart city infrastructure, including electric vehicle chargers, could be connected to smart poles in future."
How much power do Virgin run to those cabs then? If they want to move into EV charging then I can see the streets being dug up again for more copper power cables to be installed - just after all the digging to get rid of copper.
Why bother with all that?
The old towns gas was 40-50% hydrogen with 30% ish methane. The pipes carried it OK. The problems came when they put dry natural gas through the system and all the tarred wet joints dried out. That led to the gas leaks / explosions following the great natural gas conversion programme.
Before Natural gas we used to heat our homes with towns gas from the gas works.
I wish people would understand that this was between 40-50% hydrogen with methane and a little carbon monoxide.
So why all the fear sbout going back to a similar composition? The nimby's and government departments who have closed down evaluations have done the country an inustice.
What could possibly go wrong?
All that that data about patients together with "the number of beds in a hospital, the size of waiting lists for elective care services, or the availability of medical supplies" being stored by a US company, with track record in supporting spying activity, and data being available to Big American Pharma.
"We see that the NHS is running low on stores of drug1234 - so they will be buying some soon - tell marketing to raise the price 20%"
"We see that the NHS waiting list for cataract operations is lengthening get our private hospitals in the Uk to start a marketing campaign for private cataract operations"
" "Facial recognition has nothing to do with the government intruding on people's personal privacy. It has to do with validating that the person presenting themselves to travel is indeed who they claim to be.""
The old you have "nothing to hide so you have nothing to fear" argument of government employed experts when the government want to do something questionable.
Photo validation can be completed locally by comparison of a live image with the Passport image at the machine - so what is the justification to send the images off to servers for storage? Simple data and biometrics collection on a grand scale.
The first thing Ofcom should insist on on is transparency - for the user - on what the Network Providers are doing - especially on what traffic is blocked/restricted/ports mucked around with etc.
I'd like to think the same should apply to the mobile networks - but maybe these are exempt from Net Neutrality?
"Commonly referred to as “town gas” or “illuminating gas,” it was a mixture of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and methane, with small amounts of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Depending on the gasification process, hydrogen concentrations ranged from 10 per cent to 50 per cent."
When the distribution network was converted to Natural gas there were many leaks - because the dry Natural gas dried out the 'wet' joints. So it is quite possible to distribute Hydrogen, CO and methane.
I'm no petrochemist but my limited understanding is that the refining of oil will still have to continue even if we don't use the petrol and diesel fractions.
We still need the other fractions for jet fuel, lubrication products, pharmaceutical products and a whole range of other chemicals so I don't get the "Stop Oil" or "EVs will save refining of oil" arguments.
Where are all the chemists when you need them?
".....charging your EV from a 13A socket will be no more legal than running a road vehicle on Red diesel."
How will they know? Teams of CAPITA men walking the streets at night sniffing out cables 13 amp plugs and TVs tuned to BBC?
The electrons in the battery cannot be stained with an ID dye.
The story is not that clear.
When you buy liquid fuel you are paying the government 53 pence for each litre in addition to the oil cartels and garage operators.
When you charge your EV what you pay goes to the charge point operator and the electrical distribution and supply cartel.
Why can a garage operate a building, storage and all the other stuff they do for the profit from fuel sales but EV charger operators are charging like wounded bulls?
Soon the government will want it's revenue stream back from the EV chargers as well - that's only fair.
I can see the Lord Mayor of London rubbing his hands with glee.
"I'll put a new charge out there - the NAVZ charge - Not Autonomous Vehicle Zone - anyone in a vehicle will be charged £12.50 a day if they don't have fully autonomous driving controls fitted" "It's to save the children from being hit by these terrible manual drivers."
"You do know that useage of Google Analytics is illegal under GDPR?"
From a UK perspective the ICO infers it's all OK so long as you get permission - The usual ICO fob off "Get the client to tick a box about cookies and all will be OK"
The ICO is, IMHO, another Quango, not fit for service, who spends more time allowing industry to do suspect tings than outright protecting it's paymasters (the UK Taxpayers) by banning all tracking.
The ICO apparently have teeth lets see them digging them into some flesh then.;
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) upholds information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.
The ICO has specific responsibilities set out in the Data Protection Act 2018, the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Environmental Information
Regulations 2004 and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003.
Since 25 May 2018, the ICO has the power to impose a civil monetary penalty (CMP) on a data controller of up to £17million (20m Euro) or 4% of global turnover.
The DPA2018 and UK GDPR gave the ICO new strengthened powers.
"The reason they are choosing low Earth orbit is for ping time which is mainly a concern of gamers."
I think ping time is mainly the concern of the financial institutions and their search for the 'instant' transaction.
They built a microwave system across from the UK to Europe and around the financial cities because it was faster than satellite/cable/fibre optic.
Financial institutions will be more than happy to pay well over the odds, and certainly more than gamers, for shortest ping - particularly from Europe to the USA and Asian markets.
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