Unthreaded
5 years ago : I could speak into my phone and say "OK, Google ..?" etc
It's a standard feature of Android phones.
stewgreen
Daughter bought me a Google Home Hub for birthday (months ago). I find it fun and handy to use - good for cheating at crosswords and doing sums, and as it links to my Premium Spotify, it is great for ordering up specific music.
Now the paranoia part. It's always on, always listening. Sometimes it breaks into voice when the separate radio says something; it (she) says sometimes that she can't help with a particular query, 'but I am learnng'. (She doesn't know who the Prime Minister is nor who served when - isn't that one of the tests they use for dementia? :-) )
However, my daughter insisted I should use it to switch on lights, control my heating, etc. I told her I would need to change all my light bulbs for that to happen (and the leave all the light switches On) and pay to change to a Hive controller/thermostat. What she doesn't see is that this means that we are getting closer to BB being able to take control of our power use. Just imagine if someone could hack into my hub and just say, lights off, etc. In fact, the voice recognition is so wide, anyone walking past my house could shout: 'OK Google Turn the lights off'!
Food for thought, no?
Harry Passfield
Starfish dissolved if you fire bursts of ACUTE LEVELS of CO2 at them.
Herriot Watt say "CO2 bursts from industry and land run off COULD damage eco systems"
stewgreen
Eco bullies kick out
James Baggott tweets
"Despite their anti diesel stance,
our investigation reveals more than half of government ministers’ cars
are still diesel powered" 58%
"of the government’s pool of 84 ministerial vehicles, 49 are still diesel-powered"
But "Six electric Nissan Leafs, 21 Ford Mondeo petrol hybrids and a hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai – leased last year – also form part of the fleet used ,"
Could find hardly any pictures of ministers being driven in these alternatively fuelled cars.
stewgreen
Feb 19, 2018 at 2:31 PM | tomo
I think I have worked it out. World Temperature (as adjusted by Climate Scientists) depends on the amount of money spent by Climate Scientists.
This would be far cheaper to fix than any solution proposed by Cimate Scientists.
golf charlie
stewgreen
right-oh - a power cut 2 years ago? ?
A flat rate leccy tax "like the BBC license fee"?
Individuals with solar panels ?
I think opening a pitchfork factory might do rather well....
“There’s a spectrum,” says electrical engineer Professor Roger Kemp, who witnessed those Lancaster power cuts. “At one end of the spectrum you have efficiency, and at the other end you have resilience. And I don’t think we know where we want to be on this spectrum.”
Yes we do you prat - I want the light to come on when I click the switch - a professor of electrical engineering who seems unfamiliar with the term "utility" - frankly amazed that there hasn't been some gender hustling attached to this. "Is fossil generated electricity gender neutral?"
I don't think back in the 1970s that Douglas Adams imagined that his "B Ark" folk would be so thoroughly embraced as a role model in the early 21st Century.
tomo
8:30pm Radio4 have a special prog about the Electricity network running out of capacity etc.
"Chris Bowlby discovers what life is like when power suddenly fails,
and how a revolution in the way we generate electricity is posing huge political questions.
This could give everyone secure, cheap power
- or leave society divided between those with a bright future, and those left increasingly in the dark."
They tweeted an info page as well.
stewgreen
RSS Satellite temperature dataset revised - go on - guess
tomo
BBC World Service launches two new services in Igbo and Yoruba for Nigeria today. BBC Lagos bureau will soon have 100 staff. Digital news to begin with, TV to follow...
A cynic might wonder how much time is devoted to singing the praises of the NHS?
I've sampled the health service in Nigeria several times and I can completely understand that folk might want to go elsewhere.
tomo
Just an aside:
I was stunned by the comment from Oprah Winfrey, when asked if she would run for POTUS in 2020, she said: 'I don't think I shall run. If God had wanted me to run He would have told me to'.
Arrogant? What?