Recent content by donprohel

When safety calculations are made to determine whether something is "safe" or not, it is assumed that a human being makes a mistake every one thousand hours. For electronic stuff, the minimum acceptable rate is one mistake every million hours, but if human lives are involved, it must be no more...

Nobody ever stated that for electricity companies smart meters are a waste of money, I am afraid you have misread the comments. But I also see that you have no desire to have a fruitful conversation, so I will spare myself the effort to explain how data from smart meter can be used. This said...

Here you are, just the first that comes to my mind, but if you have never heard of the data business, I am afraid you are not very informed: have you ever heard of Cambridge Analytica? I assume not: do a little Google and expand your knowledge. For those who do not speak French, the title is...

So please, from your profound knowledge and wisdom tell them that they are just wasting billions: I am sure they will be very grateful. But why don't you try to get informed, instead? In the last ten years reliable information sources have produced plenty of explanation on the matter

I cannot tell you because I am not a specialist in this domain, but companies have invested billions to build the "technology" that allows to "profile" people using the apparently most innocent information: this is a brand new branch of psychology. And those company are making even more...

The point is not only "how much" energy you use, but also "when" you use it: this is a piece of personal information that, combined with other pieces collected somewhere else, would allow to "profile" you, which means understanding your psychology, what you think, what you believe, what you want...

Please don't bark at the wrong tree. The problem is not the devices, the Ethernet connection, the WiFi or the Bluetooth. The problem is what use is made of the data collected. Smart electricity meters are a good example: I have no objections if they are used to exactly bill my consumption and...

For the most part, as I wrote in another thread, I do not see the "convenience", but I see very clear the control and, above all, the manipulation. Where, this seems to need to be explained, "manipulation" means to know how to make people do or believe something without then even noticing they...

Nice to have you with us, Otter: welcome to Automaticwasher

...but also because this way the cable unwinds and rewinds while you move, and you don't have it laying around while you vacuum. Electrolux had the same feature but they called it "auto rewind" if I remeber correctly. And yes: I liked it and I miss it (for some reason, it is not available...

Mayonnaise is a very unstable emulsion (the only emulsifier is the lecithin in the egg yolk): if you don't add some starch, it will not hold together enough to be sold and would probably not survive the pasteurisation. I have never seen an industrial mayonnaise without some sort of starch, the...

My Miele washing machine does not connect to the app if they are not on the same network: may this be the issue? For clarity: the app is on my phone, which connects to the "main" network, while the washing machine is connected as a "guest" and hence on a different network

Message #49 about Best Foods / Hellmann's mayonnaise makes me curious: but is it really possible to make industrial mayonnaise without "starchy fillers" as they say? Or it is just that it contains starch to hold it together like any other industrial mayonnaise?

OK, I give up

Jon, the matter is not the usefulness, which is largely subjective, but it is the manipulation and profiling I haven't missed that you have disregarded my point, so I repeat it here: have you ever wondered why do you need an app to use additional programmes? And now, do you wonder why you...