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1. Comment - Every UK home to get a smart meter

   (May 14, 2009 - 1:03 PM)

   Well, yeah, i do. Two different types on perscription to help with it, but I can't use the nasal spray or eye drops while im a sleep.
   the result is excess mucus in the throat from the nose and that causes throat infections after a while. I am rarely able to see after I wake up in the mornings (need to have eye drops and 1st tablet) as it looks like i have conjunctivitis and can sometimes develop blisters on the surface of the eye, this is after I get fresh bedding, a shower, taken all my hayfever meds.
   
   I realise I have it quite bad and most people can just get along with taking a '1 a day' tablet from the chemist.

2. Comment - Every UK home to get a smart meter

   (May 13, 2009 - 1:47 PM)

   Who is to say how much is wasteful, certainly if you see what and why a household is using so much you can judge, but the smart meters only how how much is being used and not what for.
   
   I suffer from bad hay fever, and it will kick in next at the start of next month. From then on, I'll be taking 2 types of tablets, a spray and eye drops multiple times each day.
   
   On bad days, when I return to the house, I have to wash my cloths, and dry them in a tumble dryer, then take a shower. I need to have air con to filter out the pollen at night. It annoys me no end that I 'waste' this much power, but there is little else I can do, and that brings my power consumsion back up to around the same levels as Dec/Jan again.
   I'll be punished for waste.
   
   I'm sure there will be lots of other reasons why useage is higher then normal, and leaving things like TV on standby does add up, but not as much as people who need to have slighty higher useage anyway.

3. Comment - Every UK home to get a smart meter

   (May 13, 2009 - 1:37 PM)

   They've not said how they're planning on tapping in to the new meters to allow remote readings, but I can already see high tech criminals gaining access to the usage of households and breaking in while people are known not to be in.
   
   As someone else as already said, the flat rates we're used to will soon become tier based, with anyone using over a certain Kw being punished for not being energy efficient enough. Much like the broadband ISPs are punishing us for using "too much" bandwidth and either capping the speed or adding a fee for excess usage.
   
   Spend more then £10 a week on either gas or electric, you get bumped up to the next level and are charged premium because you're using too much. Like the idea of making a coffee, and watching daytime TV. So does everyone else, and they'll charge you extra for congestion 'extra power output' charge. I can see it coming a mile off. Same thing happens already with people who've been forced to use water meters.
   
   I bet once again, pre-pay customers will get shafted more then direct debt.

4. Comment - Final Silverlight 2.0 ships Tuesday

   (Oct 14, 2008 - 10:38 AM)

   This won't work, it can be sliverlight final version 5 if they wanted, but the biggest users of flash aren't video sites but rather adverts. And that's where the money will roll in and until they can make money with silverlight they won't use it.
   
   Now, until silverlight works on as many platforms as flash, its a fail.
   
   Silverlight is certainly fast, small and seems to work great under windows xp/vista but mac and linux users are left out in the cold, again. nice try microsoft, but its gonna die like shockwave if you don't provide *nix versions.

5. Comment - YouTube bans terrorist training videos, Lieberman bows

   (Sep 13, 2008 - 9:22 AM)

   Yes, because people who share files on P2P networks are so just like terrorist training videos that can potentially put them into contact with terrorist groups and actual training camps and that results in the death of people.
   
   Didn't know P2P actually killed people. Personally, I don't use P2P networks, but you're talking out of your arse.