Posts by cork.dom@gmail.com

Re: WTO rules which seem to work well enough

@ Warm Brew

"If they work so well, why have we not already developed better trade links with Australia, New Zealand, India, ... where WTO rules apply? Why will Brexit suddenly make an immense difference?"

Because when you are a member of the EU you are forbidden to make independent trade deals. The EU bloc makes the trade deals and you operate under those rules as part of the EU umbrella.,

So whilst the UK is part of the EU we have been forbidden to strike any trade deals with other countries. WTO rules only.

This is the BIGGEST reason i voted Leave. The EU is the worlds worst performing economy in terms of growth and it currently accounts for less than 20% of the worlds economy. I would prefer to have the option to make deals with the 80% and be locked out of the 20% than the other way round.

You say : "Problem Island"

UK Government says : "Massively strategically important military base as it controls access to the entire Mediterranean sea"

I say "Check out Google maps if you think it's an Island".

Re: It was about creeping federalism.

Or the IMF getting their predictions hopelessly wrong (whilst being run by a crook), or the 'expert' in the BOE (Mark Carney) that decided a rate cut right after Brexit would be a wheeze... that certainly didnt help the pound did it.

Yes, experts seem as good as my 1yr old toddler at predicting future economics.

Re: I think there are more substantial problems holding back home automaion

I have Nest and it is superb. I have definitely noticed a not-insignificant reduction in my heating bills (estimated 10-15% per annum). Not to mention the fact I have completely eliminated the irritation of messing about with my timers in Spring and Autumn - as you mentioned in your post. That would have been worth the cost alone without the money savings.

I have dabbled in IoT and without doubt the one product I thoroughly recommend to anyone would be Nest (closely followed by Hue bulbs).

P.S I dont work for Nest. Just a very happy customer.

Re: 2 years?

@ Milton : "Financial services will lose their passporting rights and so London will cease to be the principal European trading hub. Frankfurt and Dublin will benefit, much relocation will occur, Britain will be tens of billions worse off."

You do realise that this whole concept of the city moving to Frankfurt is completely absurd!

Population of the entire city of Frankfurt: 800,000 approx

Financial sector workers based in the city of London : 2,000,000 approx.

So, is Frankfurt going to triple in size overnight? They had better get building a few more skyscrapers, and houses, and infrastructure...

Also - being a city employee myself with my ear to the ground, i know of absolutely NOBODY who has expressed an interest in moving to Frankfurt.

Its just not going to happen.

Re: Am I Getting Old?

A lot of disinformation here regaridng Philips Hue bulbs.

The Hue lightbulbs work perfectly well without any IT whatsoever. Guess how?? Yep - that trusty old light switch turns them on and off. Just like a real bulb. So i can turn off my phone, my router and my PC and i can still turn them on and off - using a light switch. They perform just like normal light bulbs.

If i want to change them to a different colour, (or turn them on and off remotely), my router needs to be on, because the app to change the colour is on my phone and therefore my phone needs to be able to talk to the bulbs (they are not Bluetooth bulbs).

Following so far? ;)

If my router is connected to the internet, the bulbs can then download patches and interface with services such as IFTTT. But they certainly do NOT require internet connectivity for basic operation.

Re: Looks bad for Wikipedia

That article was about recouping the money spent by the NHS treating that lady

Its a fair point. If it had happened to my wife over the USA we would have had to pay. Just because the NHS is publicly funded shouldn't change the fact, . I don't think colour or nationality came into it.

I am not a fan of the Daily Mail but you comment is sligjly misleading.

Re: Quite Right

Wolfetone: This didn't happen did it? Firstly a Drone is useless as a spying tool. No zoom, and trying to record video of inside a room from outside of the property generally shows you a dark window in a wall. Nobody uses Drones for titilation / spying on girlfriends. Despite what some people claim, it just DOESN'T happen.

Secondly, how did you find the drone operator in order to re-align his jaw? I very much doubt you followed the drone all the way to the operator, running through brick walls, leaping over tall hedges at upto 35mph in your relentless pursuit for anti-perv justice.

You should add this to the beginning of your post:

*** Anti-drone bullshit story alert ***

Re: hmm

Nissan appear to disagree with you. You know the company; the largest Japanese owned UK employer.

Re: Idiots

And the remainers like to tell us Brexiters that we are ill-educated and illiterate!

Take off your tin foil hat. Breath.... and relax.

The sky still hasn't fallen in yet has it? Nor do i believe it will. Time will tell. Lazy childlike profanity laden rants wont help change anyone's opinion of Brexit. I would suggest you spend your energy working on your anger issues as opposed to wasting time writing such posts.

How about VPN Split tunneling?

Although not ideal in a security context, it would have prevented having to give the users 2 workstation.

Re: Deluded Commentators

So shall we also buy cars because a tiny majority of them use them irresponsibly?

You have drone hysteria... At least you have managed to avoid calling all drone operators perverts. Because as we all know, the number 1 use of drones in 'hysteria world' is to spy on the next door neighbours daughter. And then - crash it into thier f*cking faces afterwards just for good measure...

Seriously - drones are pretty innocent flying camera used responsibility the vast majority of times. But yes, there will always be a few idiots out there.

Stay safe on the roads...

Re: @Cynic_999 - being seen from the air while naked

I have not yet seen a consumer drone on the market that has an optical zoom or a telephoto lense.

If i wanted to see naked people, there are plenty of web sites on the internet to fulfill that need which would be far easier and safer than attempting to capture a grainy badly lit sneaky photo of a neighbour through a window with a very noisy drone.

Seriously people - drones DO NOT make good spying / voyeur tools and you really shouldn't believe everything your read in the papers.

I have always suspected its in Diego Garcia as well... seemed to be heading in that direction and the US had some rather good reasons to get hold of some of the people on board (Freescale employees on their way to China). I am very skeptical about the Immersat Pings.

And no, i don't usually do conspiracy theories!

Re: Would somebody...

Erm, Nest is not just a 'Remote Thermostat'.

It's saved me about £100 per year on heating costs. I find that useful.

It does this by not arbitrarily firing up my boiler at 6:30am in order to heat my house to my desired temperature for when i get up at 7:30am like traditional time based thermostats do.

It knows it's warm outside tonight as its pulled that info from the internet. It knows the temperature of the room its in, and it knows how long it takes to raise the temperature of that room by one degree.

So on a warm night it will delay firing the boiler until 7:15am as it knows it will still manage to reach my desired temperature by 7:30am. Saved me 30 mins of gas i would have normally have burnt when my dumb thermostat blindly kicked in at 06:30am as usual. Repeat this over a winter and you see proper cost savings.