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Comment Re:What are they going to replace with? (Score 1) 484

OK, now I read your followup. You really are a knucklehead. Not only have we had setback thermostats for ages, the Nest can adjust heating and cooling based on occupancy. It will learn when you are in the house, and in specific rooms. A simple Google search would tell you this. But apparently, you've only lived in old houses with radiators and single zones, and think nothing has changed because obviously, the HVAC fairy would have come along to rip out all that crap and upgrade it for free.

Comment Re:What are they going to replace with? (Score 1) 484

Central heating is a f*cking retarded idea - heating the whole house when the simple fact is an individual can only use one room at a time.

Some people ACTUALLY LIVE WITH OTHER PEOPLE. Also, you really don't know what central heating is or how it works. I have zones. Valves only allow the hot water to enter the zones where the thermostat is calling for heat.

Radiators in the halls - WTF is that for?

That's for not having it 59 degrees in the halls while it is 69 in the rooms, resulting in possible frozen pipes (in older buildings that can't be as well insulated) or condensation on the walls. Only old buildings have radiators. Newer ones with hydronic heating use baseboards (or underfloor radiators), and you usually only see them in hallways if there's an outside wall or it's a very, very long hall with a high ceiling.

You probably should realize there are a few things like HVAC which you think are simple, but perfectly intelligent people had to study in great detail to master.

Comment Re:He didn't prove any flaw (yet) (Score 1) 160

They have to be within 8 meters of the key and 30 cm of the car. So that means either standing in someone's garage or the driveway, or if they're parked on the street having an accomplice stand inside the apartment building/house or at least very near it.

Too easy for my comfort, but not trivial.

Comment Re:Not Dangerous (Score 1) 31

I'm pretty sure they don't eat every species of shark, and even if they did, there aren't enough people eating shark fin soup to eat them all. It's become unfashionable. It's also illegal in places like the US to "fin" sharks; they have to take the entire shark, which makes it a lot more sustainable and less wasteful.

Comment Yeah, check back in a few days (Score 5, Interesting) 405

I have it on a Compaq C306US with 1 GB of RAM and a 1.73 GHz Celeron. It seemed impressive at first, but the daily Defender signature update brings the machine to its knees. Seriously, the mouse pointer will not even move, and when I was actually able to bring up Perfmon, CPU and disk were both at 100%. That's unusable. I guess the answer is to install another security package, but that's a serious WTF. In 2015, it would be nice if Microsoft had heard of I/O throttling.

The audio also doesn't work unless you disable it, then re-enable it in device manager. I reported this bug with every previous build to no avail.

I wouldn't complain, but Microsoft claimed that every Vista-capable PC could run Windows 10, and that appears to be false.

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