Posts by Dan Paul

Re: Just leave now...@Trevor

Agreed, The whole point of all these OS and browser changes by MS is to make "One Ring, to Rule them All" including mobile. That is NOT a bad strategy, just one that freetards don't like because MS might have ANOTHER advantage. Who said that all website developers know what they are doing either?

Re: If Windows is a mousetrap, I am a ?

Windows today is a far cry from MS Dos or Windows for Workgroups.

Windows 7 is pretty much as good as anything you could ask for in an OS and Windows 8.1 will be the basis for a much better Windows 9. Unfortunately, they also have "activation" so they are much more difficult to pirate.

You just have to be able to accept change (which few commentards here do well). Kvetching is apparently much easier.

Re: Just leave now...@Trevor

No, I am not, your writing provides all the proof I need to make that statement. You are pro linux and anti Microsoft in literally every argument there is. You know (or should) I'm not wrong!

Re: Citation needed? @Jess

Bored...Let me know when you have a REAL arguement. Have you actually "tried" to use Windows 8.1? I thought not.....The sales figures will rise when people have to upgrade to a later version, same thing happened with Vista, ME, 95

All China is truly concerned about is the obsolecence of XP (The PM's Ex-brother inlaw can't still make billions off pirated copies) and the required use of online activation for any newer operating systems so the Chinese will finally have to pay for their OS. Oh, that and they didn't get the customary "gift" they were expecting.

Re: Just leave now...@Trevor

The mere fact that MS have a product that is in 95% of the computers in the world means (in your mind) it "must be a monopoly"; however if that many people do not want MS, don't you think there might be a real desktop competitor by now?

Do you really have a better mousetrap Trevor? So far, there is none that matches the penetration that would accompany such displeasure that you tout. When somebody develops one let me know.

IE 11 is more compliant with standards than any MS browser before, the OS is more secure than Linux, and it does more. Office is perhaps slightly more obtuse but works very well.

Keep downvoting, it still does not counter my claims that MS is a "better mousetrap".

Be honest with yourself, Trevor. You know have a freetard Linux agenda and you will never be satisfied until you get your way.

Exactly!

They perform another task. Making the greedy electricity company pay for their salary. As they should for any meter that they want for billing their electricity. All legislation for smart meters should specify the cost shall NEVER be passed on to the consumer because this meter is not YOURS but THEIRS!

Re: Here's an idea. (Human power)

I tend to agree that smart meters are a waste because the REAL reason is that power companies are looking for a way to get rid of those nice folks that come to your house and read the "dumb" meter.

One less "union man" equals more dosh in a greedy power supplier's pocket.

Re: "Has anyone put anything in your luggage without your knowledge?"

"Security" all depends on what's an issue in the country at the time and where you came from or have been.

If an American flew to Brittain in the same time period as the IRA issues, we got the third degree if you were of Irish ancestry or had an obviously Irish last name.

And for the record that's 9/11 NOT 7/11. 7/11 is the convenience store.

FWIW you can never stop the concerted efforts of a terrorist with "security", it's all theatre!

You have more camera's in your country than people, they don't HAVE to strip search you.

Re: "Has anyone put anything in your luggage without your knowledge?"

Those "twin towers" signified the deaths of over 3,000 innocent people from multiple countries. You should leave comments like that out of your posts you fucking troll.

You could have just mentioned the 'too much security" and been done with it but you had to bring in something truly unneccessary.

This is the same kind of security you see everywhere these days, it's NOT extraordinary.

"They who can give up essential liberty.......

to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety".

Seems Ben Franklin knew what he was he was talking about even back then.

Re: I would laugh at this if it weren't so sad

If it is the last thing I do I am going to shove your statements up your ass. You have done nothing but spout lies and bullshit because you have'nt a friggin clue.

You have been brainwashed by years of hearing communist and socialist crap from your "educators" (We don't need YOUR EDUCATION!) and the criminal scum you associate with. Funny but no dice, you wouldn't know the truth about this country and it's people if it jumped up and bit you on the nose (or ass).

Far be it from you to actually know whats going on here but there are no concentration camps for the natives. They can leave the reservations anytime they like but they don't get to live tax free off the reservations. Go back to the 1880's and there were issues but stop trying to make me feel guilty as an American when neither I nor ANY of my forebears had anything to do with it. We were abolitionists, dumbass!

The "Xenophobic" fence on the SOUTH border is there to keep the illegal immigrants from coming in without using the LEGAL immigration methods that are available, you just have to wait for the process because there are LIMITS and waiting periods JUST LIKE ALL OF EUROPE!

I know, we'll send all the Central American immigrants to Europe so they can be so happy and you can pay for their housing, healthcare and upkeep. They won't pay taxes, the gangs they bring will commit crime at an astounding rate and they will suck unemployment and your healthcare dry so you can't use them either.

Native Americans (if they are bonafide) can go any place they damn well please (including Mexico) with some restrictions (like having valid identity paperwork). I should know because I live right next to a reservation and many of my school friends were Tuscarora and travel including my sister in laws live in that makes crafts and sells them cross border. They even have rights beyond other Americans.

Let's not even discuss the absolutely ridiculous shit you said about Eisenhower and Westmoreland. Honestly, you are the most IGNORANT and STUPID, UNEDUCATED moron I ever saw post here.

Piss off!

Re: US slavery

Did you not ever hear of the Great Depression you lying uneducated idiot? Or are you just a troll?

This was not SLAVERY!!!!!

Almost everyone IN THE WHOLE WORLD worked because almost nobody had any money and what there was was almost worthless. My father worked as a child (9 years old) in the family diner, the diner being the only reason why anyone survived because they at least had food. No one made any money, they were bartering everything. To his dying day he hardly threw anything away because of how tough his chilhood was.

The entire midwest was practically a dustbowl, do you think anything could grow? How do you eat when even your own personal crops failed? Yeah babies died and so did far too many adults.

You Europeans didn't fare too well either.

You and your idiot friends really are disconnected dumbasses.

Re: I would laugh at this if it weren't so sad @ King of Foo

Your country owned the ships, insured the ships, funded the slavers, and continued to throughout the civil war while your government supported the Confederates. That is simple fact you can look up in old ship registries. What you did in your own country may be another thing but what you did in the colonies is undeniable.

As I said before, I did not treat ANYONE unequally (wasn't even alive) and YOU may have not. But spouting ignorant crap and trying to make me feel guilty for something I and my ancestors NEVER had anything to do with tells me you are just another ignorant f@ck.

Re: I would laugh at this if it weren't so sad @ Strum this!

My ancestors didn't come here "illegally". They came here to Massachussetts in the early 1600's from Scotland when there was only British rule (treating everyday citizens like slaves is why they came here and why their was a revolution) and no immigration restrictions. The Brits may have abolished slavery (in their own country) but they never stopped the slave trade in the colonies until the civil war was over you dolt, they supported the Confederate cause (slavery) throughout that war. That's when slavery was abolished or did you fail history too?

Anyone like yourself who can't even think or know history before they spit out ignorant crap like that is more than steaming hypocrite.

Re: I would laugh at this if it weren't so sad @ Anon COWARD

Everything that MSNBC and you say is biased and full of misinformation. You write like Potthead.

As to the actual number of illegals coming in, ask Gov Rick Perry of Texas, because the Border Patrol and ICE are LYING and they wouldn't even know because they have been told to ignore illegal immigrants by the Obama "administration". Let alone PEW or any other research group who isn't on the border.

Highly qualified people do not illegally cross the border, they get a visa. Universal healthcare does not mean you are vaccinated. How about the well reported scabies, lice, and other indications of an unsanitary lifestyle? You never heard about the whistleblowers from ICE, Border Patrol, Military because the only ones reporting their info isn't liberal.

And since ALL the news besides Fox is clearly liberal biased and ONLY reports news the way the Obamites want, I'll listen to Fox and give them more creedence than any other outlet.

Re: I would laugh at this if it weren't so sad @ King of Foo

Just as everywhere, the laws changed in this country as it grew bigger; and these illegals did not take the correct route of getting a visa and later applying for citizenship, they just broke the law and came here illegally. Xenophobic my ass, they are taking our tax money as they flood the country and there is no more room for people who won't pay taxes and drain social services at our expense.

In case you haven't noticed, I don't see anyone from Europe asking for more "immigrants", send over a few planes if you want them so bad.

By the way, I don't know where you are from but you ought to cut the "murdering the native population" crap. ALL your ancestors did similar things only even longer ago but you were all natives. Take care of your own BS before you accuse anyone else.

I am sick of two faced, lily livered gits throwing something that happened hundreds of years in the past in our faces to make us feel guilty. We are not responsible because none of us did it.

The British and the Dutch were fully responsible for the slave trade, where is your guilt?

Re: Now ? @Ratfox

Noriega? Are you kidding me? Polanski? If you break the law to the extent that these two did, it is my humble opinion that the perpetrators permanently lose all rights to sue over anything. Let alone sue anyone for "use of an image". If Noriega wants to show up in court to sue, expect to be sent on a "long plane ride" to nowhere.

They did not adequately pay for their crimes in the first place. Noriega is a murdering, drug smuggling kingpin who hooked millions of people worldwide and money laundered billions more and Polanski (may be talented) but is a known pederdast, convicted rapist, (thus sex offender) absconder and bail jumper.

Both of them lost any rights to their "images" when they became public figures due to their criminal activity. That makes them fair game because their mugshots are public property. Any images later derived can be used without recompense IMHO.

Daniel Palmer

Agreed, sounds like you are or have worked for someone in the Automation business, either home or commercial. Have an upvote!

Re: How is it going to talk to the heating system?

Tom 35,

The benefit of remote connection to a 'Stat is not having comm wiring, you still should have it wired back to the Boiler, AC or Furnace for control. But all THAT wiring is low voltage, 24 VAC (or Less) usually, not 240 VAC. This low voltage is used every day on thermostats.

The 'Stat internet connection only allows remote adjustability from your phone or device.

There are existing Zigbee wireless temperature sensors that require NO connections, they provide signals to controllers with wireless communications that do the actual work of controlling the equipment.

Let's not even try to complicate this further unless you know what you're talking about.

Re: New Protocol ? I don't think so..

The subject is about home or building automation (IE inexpensive) , not Industrial automation.

The companies you link to have protocols and routers and IP Stacks but not home thermostats. They may be good enough but are they cheap enough? HART anything has expensive licensing costs. It's NOT cheap. I sold that technology for 24 years. AND anything designed for industrial use is unnecessarily complicated and unnecessarily feature laden compared to home use. Too expensive!

Zigbee and Zigbee Pro are good enough, inexpensive enough, OPEN enough (Try tro join the HART Foundation) and there are a huge number of supported HOME automation products. Big companies have already chosen Zigbee (ever hear of Schneider Electric?)

FFS, Who needs IPv6 for a smoke alarm at home? Nobody! One point of connection to the Internet is enough, one main IP is enough. A simple inexpensive home router solves many connectivity issues at reasonable cost. Less than a hundred dollars versus thousands for your Wireless Hart devices.

Every device in a system does not need it's own internet connection.