Email needs to become 'opt in' (like your social media mail and instant messenger accounts). Then all you'll see is 'connection requests' from a Nigerian Prince, and not the actual spam. If you connect, then sure you'll get the spam otherwise you won't. The 'value' to Prince Mohammed of scatter-gunning connection requests around the world is going to be a lot less than sending actual content "just in case someone clicks on it". It'll still happen of course, but I suspect a lot less than you get spam emails today.
In order for this to be possible, we need to dump SMTP and use something else. Using some sort of REST solution would at least mean that servers can cert-validate clients (if they want to), and so then users can be sure where their email is actually coming from, and users or admins can block known low-quality domains or senders. Also, we'll be able to finally stop uuencoding binaries to make 30% larger ascii to transfer it around the world.
Well, that depends where you live - where I live there are pretty strict laws about (permanent) illuminated structures - I realise these will drop through that particular loophole for a while, but I doubt it would be for long.
Are co-ordinated drone displays the 'new fireworks'? Fireworks are cool, but they're not 100% predictable, and they're noisy/smokey etc. I wonder though as this technology develops, and as 'heavy' drones become cheaper and more plentiful, if we'll see more of these sorts of displays for big annual events around the world?
I'm also wondering about the real-world use of all this. Adding waveforms together is really just that - adding. It seems that asking some waves to do some algebra or trig seems like a bit too much to ask. So I wonder how much processing you could really offload with this...?
Except that now they're uniquely identifying each vehicle and person, and clearly a number plate can be used to identify the driver(s) of the vehicles.
Where before they knew a car drove past, and then returned half an hour later. Now they know that you left work, drove to Love Lane, parked up on the left, walked a few doors up, went into number 57 for 25 minutes, came out and then drove to the registered address for your vehicle.
I think I preferred the old way of doing it, but if you prefer your every move logged and analysed then you knock yourself out - just make sure to post it all on Facebook too. Oh!? You don't post your indiscretions on Facebook? Why not?
I do the same with my Qnap NAS - and I agree, it's stupidly simple.
Controversially, my wife's laptop (Windows 10) uses file and directory backups, which just go onto a regular SMB share (so no server side, as such). When I turned them on, I figured it's better than nothing but I should probably get something else to finish the job. A lot longer than I should have left it later, and it's still chugging away and working just fine - and her files are all 'time machined' in the archive. It's not a whole machine backup, but it seems to work in a similarly simple way. Amazingly, for Microsoft.
I didn't RTFA, but I wonder if this app is a way to shoehorn in RCS (which is a 'rich content' version of SMS)?
All part of the sudden urge by telcos to stay relevant - Whatsapp/Telegram/Instagram/Snapchat - all of them have hugely eaten their lunch for a long time. I'd imagine they'll continue to do so for a long time too, but time will tell.
MS stand a chance of getting convergence to work if:
- They make Outlook/Word/Excel/Powerpoint work seamlessly in a browser. Right now it's no where near. - They make OneDrive seamless too - on Windows it's "not bad", but it feels to me like it needs a bit more love. On a Mac it's utterly terrible. IMHO, making it work seamlessly on a Mac makes O365 a pretty compelling option for Mac users on a corporate network - They find some way to make all this work on a phone. So far the UI has been terrible, or the speed was way too slow, or the integration was bad. It remains to be seen if the likes of OneDrive can be integrated in Android (or IOS) at all - but maybe they can do it properly
That's a lot of "ifs" and a good number of developer hours to achieve. Time will tell...
The single quickest way to find a half-way decent Creative Commons photo to use in your next work presentation or social media post is Flickr. Flickr is still well stocked with good quality snaps and 'proper photography' that has a working 'search by license', and doesn't have some weird download requirement that tries to trick you into paying or getting subscription or whatever. Other sites exist, but you'd have to visit a dozen of them to get a similar choice of pictures to choose from.
Flickr's not "on the up" like it once was, but hopefully SmugMug will at least keep the good bits.
On that subject specifically, I've had a similar experience. We had a regular builder quote too, and he quoted what we ended up paying with one of the 'specialist companies'. At the time we thought his quote was way too cheap and were (erroneously) worried about the Fensa certificate and whatnot from him, so discarded him from our decisions.
In short - this seems to be a phenomenon of the 'big' double glazing vendors. The rest of the country has pretty much ignored it and carries on regardless. In hindsight, I'd never go with the 'big' vendors again - there's no point, and it's a world easier to get a builder to do it for you (he won't waste hours of your time 'selling' you stuff either).
If that's true, Netflix must have either terrible content, or is in need of a UI change to surface the good stuff. For whatever reason, it's hard to find something good to watch on Netflix. The exception is if there's a new series of HoC, ST, BB, or whatever the series-du-jour happens to be.
Contrast to Amazon - they seems to surface good-enough stuff all the time (and stuff you don't have to pay again to watch).
It's a shame you're currently marked 'troll' for having an opposing view.
I disagree with your assertion that if you're not in cinemas you're not in the film business though. I don't really see why the screen the production is shown on matters - it's the content that counts (to me, at least).
As for this, Cannes requires you're in French theatres, which means you then need to wait 3 years before you go to DVD/streaming or whatever. For Netflix this is obviously a big problem, and so I'd have to agree with their move here. Hopefully they'll team up with other streaming providers and start another film festival someplace else and side-step Cannes altogether. Whilst Cannes has the name right now, so does "Champagne", yet many wine critics are saying the best sparkling wine now comes from England. The same may start happening to Cannes in a few years...
Agreed - although they all seem to suffer on certain streets in London which have tall building. They also don't work in tunnels;-)
As for accuracy though, I suspect it's a matter of using the GPS fix + as much else as you can. If driving, then you must be on one of the car lanes, so plot to that and then watch the accelerometer and compass for any change in direction not attributable to the road itself. Clever stuff, but not that clever.
I can see this being pretty helpful in GPS navigation though. Right now, my car's crappy GPS says "keep right" when you come up to a left-hand exit on the motorway. Instead, it could say "you're in the leftmost lane which is fine, just stay in it" (or "...which is a filter lane, so move one lane to the right"). Can't see it being some sort of "Google maps killer" though - a nice addition, but not much more than that.
It could be handy to figure out where hard-to-find building entrances are though. It won't have accurate maps for these because postcodes and such like aren't that accurate. However, by watching how other people go in and out of the building, you'd be able to map out where the doors are. Current GPS probably isn't quite accurate enough for that.
So in short.. I suspect this is PR to get some extra downloads which gets some extra data points for them to work on. Give 'em your data at your own risk;-)
We also make sure the likes of doctors (who get to know an awful lot about you) are heavily regulated. Chefs aren't regulated as such, but they are bound by reputation somewhat, and in some places hygiene standards and whatnot.
However, that a chef knows you like fish and chips isn't much by itself. Likewise, your doc knowing that your cholesterol is a bit high isn't a thing in itself. Likewise, your gym knowing you haven't visited in 18 months isn't much of a thing in itself. However, join all those things together and your life insurance premiums just went up.
In the olden days this was done by gossip - people would pass snippets of knowledge between themselves and eventually a few people would piece together some facts about you. You'd then end up run out of town, or whatever.
Ultimately: centralised knowledge about you is usually a bad thing for you. It might bring some benefits here and there, but mostly it's not a good thing (if not now, then in the future).
all of it - and anything else they can get their hands on.
If they're not keeping copies of all the video yet, you can bet they will do in a future model or software update. They'll then be using that video to capture any last detail they can about you, down the type of paint you have on the walls.
I was wondering where this traffic was coming from - and why. Here's one place (who knew! yet another reason Windows has been 'bad for tech';-), and I'll bet there are others that do something similar.
I wonder if the 'script kiddies' scan 1.x.x.x looking for old wordpress, and default SSH accounts? I'll bet at least some of them do.
I'm left wondering what analysis of this 'spam traffic' is going to tell anyone though. Hopefully they'll publish some of their findings so we can take a peek.
When I lived in Brixton (an area of South London) they started the Brixton Pound: http://brixtonpound.org/ (which has paper notes, no coins and an SMS based mobile payment solution). The Americans I worked with at the time really couldn't understand how such a thing was possible, but the UK has a couple of them. I'm told there are are a couple of unofficial ones across Europe as a way to 'beat the Euro', but that's a slightly different proposition.
No mention of anything to do with DisplayLink (the only 'display' related stuff is the addition of GPU support). Most of the release looks like it's a Safari update (one of the reasons I haven't yet applied it - it doesn't look important as I don't use Safari directly).
I'd say you were in the minority. I think a lot of people understood that if they posted a picture of their dog that they'd get some dog related advertising. A few years down the road and a after a chat with a techie, they might have realised that if they click about on the Internet on cat websites that when you log onto facebook you might see some cat related adverts.
What I don't think very many people knew is that data was bought and sold to a myriad of companies that you have never heard of. They then used and abused that data in order to subtly influence you and other people in ways you weren't aware of (and in places not marked with "advertisment"). That those companies got so good at their 'secret influencing' that they claim to be able to manipulate the outcome of elections. This is a world away from showing you ads based on the crap you posted on the site, and so it's somewhat unreasonable to expect 'average joe' to have understood all that at sign-up time.
I'll just finish by saying that Cambridge Analytica is just one of thousands of organisations collecting facebook (and other) data. Not all of them are crooked, but I'll bet right now there are hundreds of them all looking on fileservers and in databases to delete any data they collected (and have used) but should not have had. Again, I'd imagine "average joe" would be trusting enough to assume FB was doing a considerably better job of controlling the 'leak' of data than it actually has done.
They look at what income you're getting (or declaring). A lot of 'traders' do a bit of public speaking, seminars and training courses "on the side" so that they can call that £30k/year profession their job and the trading is just 'gambling'.
Ultimately, the Tax Avoiders Guide to Gambling says that you need a "job" of some sort (ideally part time, to give you time to gamble) which pays a reasonably decent amount of money. If your "job" pays £15k/year and you make £100k/year gambling, then you'll end up getting taxed on the 100K. However, a "job" that pays £30K + 100K of gambling will look a bit less attractive to HMRC as you're already paying a reasonable amount of tax on your job. I'm making the numbers up here, so YMMV, and beware, there are no hard-and-fast rules, so if they want to get you they can, regardless of the ratio between "job" and "gambling". As always, keep them happy and they'll leave you alone.
Maybe, although gains by gambling (so long as gambling isn't your profession) are actually not taxable here.
Another thing to know: the Bank of England (who apparently have an acronym BoE, which I've never seen used) have been developing their own crypto currency (presumably as a replacement for Sterling, rather than for any decentralised benefits).
You may have gone off half-cocked there. The workflow is this:
- UserA uploads copyrighted work - Some hours/days/weeks/months later, said upload is identified by a copyright troll/owner, the site is notified - Site adds the hash of that file to their "do not upload" database, and remove the file (and all copies of it with the same hash)...later... - UserB uploads the same file UserA uploaded - Hashes match, so site refuses the upload immediately
The idea here is to avoid the 'KimDotCom' thing where he made copyright holders complain about every single copy of the same file on his servers. I'd imagine very few false-positives would really occur as a result of this.
That said, this isn't a good idea to accept. The obvious hole is that it's pretty easy to change the hash of a file without materially changing it. I'm guessing this is well understood, and hashing is just seen as an "easy" solution that no one will struggle to implement or complain about too loudly. Once we've all got used to this, it'll be "upgraded" to facial recognition or whatever. Then it'll be full AI-inspection, and so on and so on, along with the false-positives that such things will inevitably generate (to say nothing about the costs to implement).
Did we know those pesticides were going to do all that before we started using them? I guess we knew they were harmful to humans, but never thought it would do all the things you describe.
I wonder what history will tell us about these "natural" solutions in GMO food. I'm no expert, but gut bacteria (for example) is just getting some attention, and isn't well understood. Do we know (for example) that eating GMO food doesn't harm gut bacteria? What about the bajillion other things we need to keep us alive and healthy?
GMO is a bit like nuclear power. There's a need for some of it, but no where near as much as the initial hype indicates, and history will show us that humans can pretty much f-up even the most noble, well designed and well intentioned things, given enough time and enough money to corrupt a few people in charge.
Understood, but what's not on that page is: "Would it cost more to refuel Kepler than to build a new telescope?"
It's likely a new one would be an upgrade too, so then there's a cost/benefit to the upgrade to consider, but could (say) the ESA 'take ownership' of Kepler by refuelling it? It would mean the ESA would have a space telescope (and a pretty good one, at that), but "only" for the cost of the refuelling mission.
This is probably all a moot point because I doubt Kepler has a little door on the side marked with "Unleaded only", but I'm sure you get where I'm going with this.
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Email needs to become 'opt in' (like your social media mail and instant messenger accounts). Then all you'll see is 'connection requests' from a Nigerian Prince, and not the actual spam. If you connect, then sure you'll get the spam otherwise you won't. The 'value' to Prince Mohammed of scatter-gunning connection requests around the world is going to be a lot less than sending actual content "just in case someone clicks on it". It'll still happen of course, but I suspect a lot less than you get spam emails today.
In order for this to be possible, we need to dump SMTP and use something else. Using some sort of REST solution would at least mean that servers can cert-validate clients (if they want to), and so then users can be sure where their email is actually coming from, and users or admins can block known low-quality domains or senders. Also, we'll be able to finally stop uuencoding binaries to make 30% larger ascii to transfer it around the world.
Well, that depends where you live - where I live there are pretty strict laws about (permanent) illuminated structures - I realise these will drop through that particular loophole for a while, but I doubt it would be for long.
Are co-ordinated drone displays the 'new fireworks'? Fireworks are cool, but they're not 100% predictable, and they're noisy/smokey etc. I wonder though as this technology develops, and as 'heavy' drones become cheaper and more plentiful, if we'll see more of these sorts of displays for big annual events around the world?
I'm also wondering about the real-world use of all this. Adding waveforms together is really just that - adding. It seems that asking some waves to do some algebra or trig seems like a bit too much to ask. So I wonder how much processing you could really offload with this...?
Except that now they're uniquely identifying each vehicle and person, and clearly a number plate can be used to identify the driver(s) of the vehicles.
Where before they knew a car drove past, and then returned half an hour later. Now they know that you left work, drove to Love Lane, parked up on the left, walked a few doors up, went into number 57 for 25 minutes, came out and then drove to the registered address for your vehicle.
I think I preferred the old way of doing it, but if you prefer your every move logged and analysed then you knock yourself out - just make sure to post it all on Facebook too. Oh!? You don't post your indiscretions on Facebook? Why not?
I do the same with my Qnap NAS - and I agree, it's stupidly simple.
Controversially, my wife's laptop (Windows 10) uses file and directory backups, which just go onto a regular SMB share (so no server side, as such). When I turned them on, I figured it's better than nothing but I should probably get something else to finish the job. A lot longer than I should have left it later, and it's still chugging away and working just fine - and her files are all 'time machined' in the archive. It's not a whole machine backup, but it seems to work in a similarly simple way. Amazingly, for Microsoft.
I didn't RTFA, but I wonder if this app is a way to shoehorn in RCS (which is a 'rich content' version of SMS)?
All part of the sudden urge by telcos to stay relevant - Whatsapp/Telegram/Instagram/Snapchat - all of them have hugely eaten their lunch for a long time. I'd imagine they'll continue to do so for a long time too, but time will tell.
MS stand a chance of getting convergence to work if:
- They make Outlook/Word/Excel/Powerpoint work seamlessly in a browser. Right now it's no where near.
- They make OneDrive seamless too - on Windows it's "not bad", but it feels to me like it needs a bit more love. On a Mac it's utterly terrible. IMHO, making it work seamlessly on a Mac makes O365 a pretty compelling option for Mac users on a corporate network
- They find some way to make all this work on a phone. So far the UI has been terrible, or the speed was way too slow, or the integration was bad. It remains to be seen if the likes of OneDrive can be integrated in Android (or IOS) at all - but maybe they can do it properly
That's a lot of "ifs" and a good number of developer hours to achieve. Time will tell...
The single quickest way to find a half-way decent Creative Commons photo to use in your next work presentation or social media post is Flickr. Flickr is still well stocked with good quality snaps and 'proper photography' that has a working 'search by license', and doesn't have some weird download requirement that tries to trick you into paying or getting subscription or whatever. Other sites exist, but you'd have to visit a dozen of them to get a similar choice of pictures to choose from.
Flickr's not "on the up" like it once was, but hopefully SmugMug will at least keep the good bits.
On that subject specifically, I've had a similar experience. We had a regular builder quote too, and he quoted what we ended up paying with one of the 'specialist companies'. At the time we thought his quote was way too cheap and were (erroneously) worried about the Fensa certificate and whatnot from him, so discarded him from our decisions.
In short - this seems to be a phenomenon of the 'big' double glazing vendors. The rest of the country has pretty much ignored it and carries on regardless. In hindsight, I'd never go with the 'big' vendors again - there's no point, and it's a world easier to get a builder to do it for you (he won't waste hours of your time 'selling' you stuff either).
If that's true, Netflix must have either terrible content, or is in need of a UI change to surface the good stuff. For whatever reason, it's hard to find something good to watch on Netflix. The exception is if there's a new series of HoC, ST, BB, or whatever the series-du-jour happens to be.
Contrast to Amazon - they seems to surface good-enough stuff all the time (and stuff you don't have to pay again to watch).
It's a shame you're currently marked 'troll' for having an opposing view.
I disagree with your assertion that if you're not in cinemas you're not in the film business though. I don't really see why the screen the production is shown on matters - it's the content that counts (to me, at least).
As for this, Cannes requires you're in French theatres, which means you then need to wait 3 years before you go to DVD/streaming or whatever. For Netflix this is obviously a big problem, and so I'd have to agree with their move here. Hopefully they'll team up with other streaming providers and start another film festival someplace else and side-step Cannes altogether. Whilst Cannes has the name right now, so does "Champagne", yet many wine critics are saying the best sparkling wine now comes from England. The same may start happening to Cannes in a few years...
Agreed - although they all seem to suffer on certain streets in London which have tall building. They also don't work in tunnels ;-)
As for accuracy though, I suspect it's a matter of using the GPS fix + as much else as you can. If driving, then you must be on one of the car lanes, so plot to that and then watch the accelerometer and compass for any change in direction not attributable to the road itself. Clever stuff, but not that clever.
I can see this being pretty helpful in GPS navigation though. Right now, my car's crappy GPS says "keep right" when you come up to a left-hand exit on the motorway. Instead, it could say "you're in the leftmost lane which is fine, just stay in it" (or "...which is a filter lane, so move one lane to the right"). Can't see it being some sort of "Google maps killer" though - a nice addition, but not much more than that.
It could be handy to figure out where hard-to-find building entrances are though. It won't have accurate maps for these because postcodes and such like aren't that accurate. However, by watching how other people go in and out of the building, you'd be able to map out where the doors are. Current GPS probably isn't quite accurate enough for that.
So in short.. I suspect this is PR to get some extra downloads which gets some extra data points for them to work on. Give 'em your data at your own risk ;-)
We also make sure the likes of doctors (who get to know an awful lot about you) are heavily regulated. Chefs aren't regulated as such, but they are bound by reputation somewhat, and in some places hygiene standards and whatnot.
However, that a chef knows you like fish and chips isn't much by itself. Likewise, your doc knowing that your cholesterol is a bit high isn't a thing in itself. Likewise, your gym knowing you haven't visited in 18 months isn't much of a thing in itself. However, join all those things together and your life insurance premiums just went up.
In the olden days this was done by gossip - people would pass snippets of knowledge between themselves and eventually a few people would piece together some facts about you. You'd then end up run out of town, or whatever.
Ultimately: centralised knowledge about you is usually a bad thing for you. It might bring some benefits here and there, but mostly it's not a good thing (if not now, then in the future).
all of it - and anything else they can get their hands on.
If they're not keeping copies of all the video yet, you can bet they will do in a future model or software update. They'll then be using that video to capture any last detail they can about you, down the type of paint you have on the walls.
I was wondering where this traffic was coming from - and why. Here's one place (who knew! yet another reason Windows has been 'bad for tech' ;-), and I'll bet there are others that do something similar.
I wonder if the 'script kiddies' scan 1.x.x.x looking for old wordpress, and default SSH accounts? I'll bet at least some of them do.
I'm left wondering what analysis of this 'spam traffic' is going to tell anyone though. Hopefully they'll publish some of their findings so we can take a peek.
I wonder if Sweden has any regional currencies?
When I lived in Brixton (an area of South London) they started the Brixton Pound: http://brixtonpound.org/ (which has paper notes, no coins and an SMS based mobile payment solution). The Americans I worked with at the time really couldn't understand how such a thing was possible, but the UK has a couple of them. I'm told there are are a couple of unofficial ones across Europe as a way to 'beat the Euro', but that's a slightly different proposition.
The release notes in the 'App store' aren't cut-and-pasteable, but they're replicated here: https://support.apple.com/en-g...
No mention of anything to do with DisplayLink (the only 'display' related stuff is the addition of GPU support). Most of the release looks like it's a Safari update (one of the reasons I haven't yet applied it - it doesn't look important as I don't use Safari directly).
A pretty poor show from Apple on this one.
If your government gets out of the way, you'll probably burn your hand in the fire.
I'd say you were in the minority. I think a lot of people understood that if they posted a picture of their dog that they'd get some dog related advertising. A few years down the road and a after a chat with a techie, they might have realised that if they click about on the Internet on cat websites that when you log onto facebook you might see some cat related adverts.
What I don't think very many people knew is that data was bought and sold to a myriad of companies that you have never heard of. They then used and abused that data in order to subtly influence you and other people in ways you weren't aware of (and in places not marked with "advertisment"). That those companies got so good at their 'secret influencing' that they claim to be able to manipulate the outcome of elections. This is a world away from showing you ads based on the crap you posted on the site, and so it's somewhat unreasonable to expect 'average joe' to have understood all that at sign-up time.
I'll just finish by saying that Cambridge Analytica is just one of thousands of organisations collecting facebook (and other) data. Not all of them are crooked, but I'll bet right now there are hundreds of them all looking on fileservers and in databases to delete any data they collected (and have used) but should not have had. Again, I'd imagine "average joe" would be trusting enough to assume FB was doing a considerably better job of controlling the 'leak' of data than it actually has done.
They look at what income you're getting (or declaring). A lot of 'traders' do a bit of public speaking, seminars and training courses "on the side" so that they can call that £30k/year profession their job and the trading is just 'gambling'.
Ultimately, the Tax Avoiders Guide to Gambling says that you need a "job" of some sort (ideally part time, to give you time to gamble) which pays a reasonably decent amount of money. If your "job" pays £15k/year and you make £100k/year gambling, then you'll end up getting taxed on the 100K. However, a "job" that pays £30K + 100K of gambling will look a bit less attractive to HMRC as you're already paying a reasonable amount of tax on your job. I'm making the numbers up here, so YMMV, and beware, there are no hard-and-fast rules, so if they want to get you they can, regardless of the ratio between "job" and "gambling". As always, keep them happy and they'll leave you alone.
Maybe, although gains by gambling (so long as gambling isn't your profession) are actually not taxable here.
Another thing to know: the Bank of England (who apparently have an acronym BoE, which I've never seen used) have been developing their own crypto currency (presumably as a replacement for Sterling, rather than for any decentralised benefits).
You may have gone off half-cocked there. The workflow is this:
- UserA uploads copyrighted work ...later...
- Some hours/days/weeks/months later, said upload is identified by a copyright troll/owner, the site is notified
- Site adds the hash of that file to their "do not upload" database, and remove the file (and all copies of it with the same hash)
- UserB uploads the same file UserA uploaded
- Hashes match, so site refuses the upload immediately
The idea here is to avoid the 'KimDotCom' thing where he made copyright holders complain about every single copy of the same file on his servers. I'd imagine very few false-positives would really occur as a result of this.
That said, this isn't a good idea to accept. The obvious hole is that it's pretty easy to change the hash of a file without materially changing it. I'm guessing this is well understood, and hashing is just seen as an "easy" solution that no one will struggle to implement or complain about too loudly. Once we've all got used to this, it'll be "upgraded" to facial recognition or whatever. Then it'll be full AI-inspection, and so on and so on, along with the false-positives that such things will inevitably generate (to say nothing about the costs to implement).
Did we know those pesticides were going to do all that before we started using them? I guess we knew they were harmful to humans, but never thought it would do all the things you describe.
I wonder what history will tell us about these "natural" solutions in GMO food. I'm no expert, but gut bacteria (for example) is just getting some attention, and isn't well understood. Do we know (for example) that eating GMO food doesn't harm gut bacteria? What about the bajillion other things we need to keep us alive and healthy?
GMO is a bit like nuclear power. There's a need for some of it, but no where near as much as the initial hype indicates, and history will show us that humans can pretty much f-up even the most noble, well designed and well intentioned things, given enough time and enough money to corrupt a few people in charge.
Understood, but what's not on that page is: "Would it cost more to refuel Kepler than to build a new telescope?"
It's likely a new one would be an upgrade too, so then there's a cost/benefit to the upgrade to consider, but could (say) the ESA 'take ownership' of Kepler by refuelling it? It would mean the ESA would have a space telescope (and a pretty good one, at that), but "only" for the cost of the refuelling mission.
This is probably all a moot point because I doubt Kepler has a little door on the side marked with "Unleaded only", but I'm sure you get where I'm going with this.