Talk Talk fail to reassure customers

Yes the customer service of TT is appalling but this breach is not as bad as people think. Its up to Banks etc to ensure that their security does not let fraudsters get away with scamming them with the pitiful information gleaned from TT. Also customers must ensure their passwords are complex enough and not repeated across sites/organisations to allow simple cracking.

We all need renewable energy so why is the Government still lining Conglomerates pockets?

The Government is wrong to cut the FIT payments (subsidies) to domestic and community Green energy.

Amber Rudd, the energy minister, announced a series of cuts earlier this summer, including a reduction in the guaranteed price paid for electricity generated by new rooftop solar installations by up to 87 per cent. The government has said the existing levels of support are no longer needed as the industry has reached critical mass – and that it must act to protect customers, who ultimately pay for subsidies through green levies paid by suppliers and passed on in energy bills.

If it was a purely subsidies to “green” energy then I could understand it – let them compete on a level playing field with all the other commercial generators, (coal, gas, nuclear etc.) but it’s not.

The new Hinckley point Nuclear PowerStation is getting a vast amount of OUR money in subsidies – remember it’s the Chines that are building it).

The Government is planning to slash generation tariffs for new domestic installations by 83 per cent from the start of next year to 1.63p per kilowatt hour (kWh) — though they will still get an additional 4.85p for every kWh exported to the National Grid.

By cutting this subsidy it will give us all back the vast amount of £6 a YEAR off our energy bills.

The total solar capacity of the UK is now eight gigawatts. However, Government estimates show the proposed cut in the generation tariff could cost the UK six gigawatts of renewable energy in the future. 

EDF's £25 billion Hinckley Point C nuclear station will generate 3.2 gigawatts — i.e. half the energy potentially being lost changing the renewable scheme. 

But look at what vast subsidies the Government is giving EDF to build this Nuclear Plant. Yes, we need it but surely it would be preferable and fairer to give a smaller subsidy to you and me to be more energy efficient and Greener? Not give enormous sums to these vast multinational conglomerates?

The Government has guaranteed energy giant EDF and its partners will receive at least £92.50 for every mega-watt hour of electricity generated by Hinckley Point C — twice the current market price — and that figure will rise with inflation.

Some estimates suggest total subsidies to the project could cost tax-payers £76 billion — that's £2,870 for every household in the UK. 

By comparison commercial solar energy generators get an average £68 per megawatt hour — almost a third less than nuclear. Scaling that down to household proportions the nuclear option receives 9.25p per kWh compared to commercial solar's 6.8p.

If the cuts go ahead, homes with solar would get 4.055p per kW (if they continue to be paid the export tariff for half of the energy they produce).

The Energy Saving Trust has published a review into the cuts for renewable energy. It argues that the residential generation tariff could be set at 5.5p or 6p per kWh — around half the current levels — which, with falling installation costs, would still leave solar looking attractive.

This wouldn't save as much, but it would still knock £3 a year off a household energy bill.

Yes, we need Nuclear or the lights will be dimming,  but surely it would be preferable and fairer to give a smaller subsidy to you and me to be more energy efficient and Greener? Not give enormous sums to these vast multinational conglomerates?

Getting Killed at work?

If I died in an accident at work I would expect my employer to investigated by the HSE for any breaches in "safe Working practices" and if they were negligent I would expect them to be prosecuted. Any one at work expects their employer to use heir duty of care and protect you as far as is reasonably possible.

How come then Ann Maguire a teacher killed in her classroom does NOT appear to have the same protection, Is the school or LEA to be investigated by the HSE? No.

This is scandalous.

What will be done about it - what does her union have to say?

"User Profile Service failed the sign-in. User Profile cannot be loaded." Error Windows 8

This has buggedme on a couple of PCs this last week, and I struggled t fix it, but now I have. Share it with you.

"User Profile Service failed the sign-in. User Profile cannot be loaded." Error Windows 8
Usual fix is to look for “BAK” profiles and delete them or “orphan” profiles that have no User accounts.
In my case none of these worked and no one could logon to said computer, the Error occurred for everyone. Luckily I could log on as the Local administrator. Eventually I found this solution which WORKED!! Hoorah, last resort was going to be wipe the Pc and re-install Windows from scratch, (plus everything else – tedious).
The symptom was the same message and it occurred for all additional users I tried to add after the first one. I had to do a bit more searching and found additional solution. The gist of it is like this - user profile is created when the user first tries to log on. During this process profile data is copied from the default profile. If file permissions are messed up then this process will fail. The solution is to propagate permissions from default user folder to all its subfolders and files. See here for details - "User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded."

Broadband rip off

I've said it before ALL the broadband companies charge £17 a month for landline rental. Where is the competition? Now DM is reporting it but missing the point.

Work forever?

Lets get rid of the Public Sector Pensions who contribute nothing toward their Pensions, the Government pays it (I.e. you and me!). Only the LGPS is a properly funded pension scheme and costs the rest of us NOTHING. Then we'll have a level playing field. Pensions are sound. The payers-in fund the pensions takers and the Pension Fund Money is used to invest in/ bolster industry thereby creating wealth (and Tax). Yes Government kill the golden goose for its eggs. Doh!