There is a bit in the linked PDF which says...

"Abatis Hard Disk Firewall, was also tested using the same standardised environment and shown to block applications and background processes from executing; saving energy from a baseline configuration."

What they seem to have done in the test is taken a standard system and measured the power consumption. They've then tested that baseline with one of 3 3rd-party AV products and recorded the power consumption go up. They've then installed tested it with their kernel module that blocks I/O and unsurprisingly noticed that a system which isn't using the disks uses less power.

It also says...

"Between best case, HDF and worst case, AV Product 2 there is a potential annual cost saving in excess of £12 at server level, this scaling up to £125,000 in a data centre with 10,000 servers."

I would have thought that if you had 10,000 servers and wanted to avoid power I/O costs you wouldn't have specced them with physical storage in the first place and would be network booting them instead.

I'm unsure what this offers that you can't do with SELinux or similar.

I also don't see how it can work without white listing of some kind unless they're just blocking access to everything which seems impractical and is something you could do with drive mount options anyway.

Or they didn't realise they were hacked because no log files were being written...

I agree with the point but the UK isn't part of the Eurozone so doesn't suffer from this. Our issue is around tariffs and regulations.

I suspect that the effects are quite a bit different due to the lower being less "socialist" in areas such as health, education and out of work benefits. Reducing benefits for migrants is one of the things the UK is trying to agree as a condition for remaining but it goes against the idea of all "EU citizens" being equal.

Greece had problems before it joined but it does now have the additional problem that because it is part of the same currency union as Germany its currency is valued higher than it would otherwise have been, given the state of its economy which hampers both exports and investments. Germany on the other hand is in the opposite situation, relative to how its currency would be judged on its own.

Half of Britain's exports go to countries that happen to be geographically close to us. This is unlikely to change whether or not we leave.

This was partly also a British thing as we thought the more countries were included, the more it would slow down any attempts at integration. I don't think it's worked out quite as planned...

There is the argument though that by being in currency union with states which have a weaker economy such as Greece the currency is kept at a lower cost than it would otherwise have been which boosts exports.

Not much has changed in 30 years...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxwhBNo5yeg&feature=youtu.be&t=2m18s/

and of course...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzeDZtx3wUw&feature=youtu.be&t=1m15s

There have also been some stories in the mainstream media recently about how UK productivity is 30% lower than for the equivalent worker in Germany. One of the comments was that the current rate of immigration and depression of wages for manual workers meant that capital investment was currently less attractive. The hopeful scenario if we left the EU would be that capital investment increases hence per-capita productivity and hopefully living standards.

Except in cases where they invoke the Human Rights Act to prevent deportation.

Hmm... give us douze points or we Brexit?

I think you're correct but for other reasons than the one you suggest.

The UK is closer culturally to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and to a lesser extent the US than a lot of places in Europe. This is also particularly true legally where we're probably the only EU country (except Malta?) to use Common Law.

There were economic reasons for joining the EEC when we did but I wonder if things would have gone smoother had we pursued a union of equals with our former Dominions.

The polls vary but generally they seem to be quite close. You did also say rational people but I think in a similar way to the Scottish independence referendum this is an issue which is as much about how people feel as the economic arguments.