Posts by johnfbw 209 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Aug 2015
You weren't 'stateless' you were passport-less. One is a lack of citizenship, one is piece of paper.
Also if you working in Asia and needed to visit other countries for business you can apply for a second British passport.
Current turnaround time for new UK passports sent to Germany is 10 calendar days (3 weeks ago got first child passport and a first adult passport - my renewal was done in the passport office a few months earlier with a weeks notice)
I do have a 'smart' washing machine and it does have two advantages - 1. I can set it to finish when I get home (if I don't know when I'm getting home) 2. It tells me when a load has finished if I'm not the person who loaded it (it's not like I patrol the room to monitor). both stop getting mouldy sheets.
Smart heating is useful in all but the smallest houses. There are some rooms I don't use at certain times. Why heat a bedroom during the day? Why heat the lounge in the morning if going to work. These schedules change far too much for timers (which are often daily/weekly v weekend and the overrides usually need to be manually controlled). Then of course I always forget to switch to holiday mode. A lot of it comes to the ability to centrally control the finer points without wandering around the house.
Properly managed you can significantly reduce your heating bill
...........As a complete co-incidence I actually got a message on my phone when I wrote point 2. Now I get to find out what the girlfriend set washing and then went to sleep.
A Smart House is fine, its trusting a company to run it is the problem. If you have your own server (or NAS) there are plenty of devices that work with ZigBee or zwave that don't require any call home to manufacturer. Often these devices are the same price and much more customisable
I'm sure there is a genuine market for a non-cloudy smart home (or one that runs on your own purchased cloud and is just managed by an external party)
To be fair, Durham is a city with many close hills, protected areas where they can't set up masts and the buildings in the centre are often built close together. Added together with the fact it is surrounded by university students (massive data hogs) - it is always likely to be a bit of a brown spot from a mobile perspective. Having said that, I had absolutely no problems getting a fast 4G signal there two weeks ago with my o2.de SIM card, so it isn't all that bad
They are committed to the gameplay, just not committed to supporting an 18 year old system!
As much as I hate to say it, they don't need to keep the store open considering half their customers for the Xbox Series X might not have been alive when the Xbox 360 was released!
Imagine people complaining that Apple was planning to stop support the Iphone (the original) in two years time!! (they actually stopped supporting it 13 years ago)
So basically they were blackmailed into a bribe over and above the bill to keep them out of prison, then their personal details were collected and circulated to many unrelated companies. This would be highly illegal in a lot of the civilized world (not to say they wouldn't do it)
Who the hell is downloading 15GB regularly enough to notice a cap? I can't remember the last time I downloaded that amount of data - including downloading ISOs. Only stupidly large COD updates get that big - but frankly once every 6 months I have to leave a download running for 10mins capped by MS - so what?
I think the problem is a little more involved than simple unlocking (which probably uses basic handshake like you mention). It is every single operation must be done via communication with the fob. Turn on the engine, unlock the steering wheel, go left, accelerate, stop etc. The fob would run out of batteries before you are round the first corner.
I can't help wondering how much setup time is required to customize each robot for Frigate type A sub class B deck 5. Probably makes sense on the bigger ships and the more consistent items (I'm thinking outer hull) but when you have 500 different ships it is probably quicker and easier to get a cheap guy checking the deck than an expensive programmer programming to analyse this type x landing craft
I challenged one company for their data collection policy and they said it was on their website. It was the one for using the website that categorically started they wouldn't collect the data they were asking for!
I'm not sure if the seller has any liability for agents illegally prescreening if they pass that information onwards (I know in reality they will never be charged)
I think you are confusing murdering lots of people and murdering the same person lots and lots of times. One is multiple crimes, one is double jeopardy.
The article different really say what they did with the data (if anything) and I would envisage only the first scan was the collection and the rest were simply deleted..
100W is a fair chunk of power, allowing them to be charged by USB might not be the most useful if you have the charger handy, but if you a DeWalt and everyone on site has a Makita you would be really happy to be able to use your mobile phone's charger!
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I wrote that - then turned to google. DeWalt and Ryobi agree with me!
https://www.xda-developers.com/usb-type-c-power-tools/
Almost every device I buy comes with a cable, I have hundreds of them lying around. As soon as this regulation comes in no-one will be providing a cable that is used in everything else.
Why would metal manufacturers put money in brown envelopes to make 20% extra off every cable, but sell 5 times less?
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