[LINK] itN: Fancy that: "blockchain bets often bomb"

2019-07-17 Thread Roger Clarke
[In May 2016, Steve Wilson wrote: http://lockstep.com.au/blog/2016/05/03/something-about-blockchain.html "Almost everything you read about the blockchain is wrong. No new technology since the Internet itself has excited so many pundits, but blockchain just doesn’t do what most people seem to

Re: [LINK] Has the world just gone light-headed, or completely bonkers?

2019-07-17 Thread Kim Holburn
>From your wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED_lamp#/media/File:EcoEnergy_EE-02-010.JPG In an ordinary LED light globe, the LED itself is silicon and the bulb has power circuitry in the base that includes silicon circuitry. Perhaps you mean something different by "active"?

Re: [LINK] Has the world just gone light-headed, or completely bonkers?

2019-07-17 Thread Roger Clarke
On 2019/Jul/17, at 11:56 am, Roger Clarke wrote: The thing my inadequate imagination isn't coming up with is why I would want active silicon inside my light-bulb assembly. On 17/7/19 9:51 pm, Kim Holburn wrote: Most of my light bulbs are LED lights which definitely have a bunch of active

Re: [LINK] Has the world just gone light-headed, or completely bonkers?

2019-07-17 Thread Jevan Pipitone
The reset switch could be in the base of the bulb, like you said, which people have to remove the bulb from the light socket, switch the reset switch ON, insert the bulb, turn on the bulb (which causes the reset to occur), turn off the bulb at the light switch, remove the bulb from the socket,

Re: [LINK] Has the world just gone light-headed, or completely bonkers?

2019-07-17 Thread Kim Holburn
> On 2019/Jul/17, at 11:56 am, Roger Clarke wrote: > > The thing my inadequate imagination isn't coming up with is why I would want > active silicon inside my light-bulb assembly. Most of my light bulbs are LED lights which definitely have a bunch of active silicon. > Remote operation of