By unions 'bleeding' you mean people get fair pay and humane working conditions for a hard job? How about we take away the cars, limousines and helicopters from wealthy 1% in Manhattan and see how quickly the MTA gets fixed. It's a really fucking busy system that got deluged by a hurricane not that long ago. The narrative that the MTA is a financial sinkhole is a conservative lie. Millions of people depend on it daily, and while sure, it isn't perfect, it's been underfunded for decades and STILL works.
You really have no clue...or are a union shill.
The MTA hemorrhages money yet every time something doesn't work because they failed to modernize it 30+ years ago they come with their hand out for more money. Also, they are a private agency so their books are closed and no one can examine them to see what they're actually paying/spending.
A living wage, sure. I support that. $100k+ for someone who can't even make clear announcements on the newer PA systems? Yeah, nope. Or how about the countless examples of work crews of a dozen or more (plus another half dozen down the track as a 'warning crew' for trains despite the track not being energized) with MAYBE two people doing actual work adjusting a signal or similar?
No. You won't sell a fairy tale about the MTA providing reasonable compensation for a reasonable job to anyone who actually lives in/around NYC and sees the ridiculous corruption, huge waste, enormous over-payment, endless overtime/disability abuse, and scam contracts etc. that go on and on and on with the MTA.
Well I leveled up to master last week but i'm waiting on my friend to get a few more crypto XP so we can start crafting crypto. Do you know how much gold they're selling for in the auction house these days?
Welcome to the world where you give a company access to your data. One day they decide they don't like that kind of data and, unlike free speech in public places, they have no obligation to allow you to have/use/save that kind of data.
BYOK (bring your own key) is the solution, but very few support it and it's almost exclusively aimed at enterprise. MS Office supports it if you want to run your own KMS...granted if that gets hosed you lose everything. And since MS does your backups (well, replication there's not much for conventional backups anymore) those are DOA too if you lose your keys.
Risk-reward means most people just go with what's free and easy. And insecure.
Being a logged-in, interactive user on a corporate network is already a huge advantage for exploiting a system/infrastructure. The admin escalation is pretty minor in comparison for any directed attack against a reasonable hardened target.
Maybe not in Alaska, but they're a bit odd up there anyhow.
Otherwise pretty much everywhere. The court systems is in clear and obvious collusion with the penal system and bail bonds is just another abusive cog in that wheel. People literally have to pay for their freedom while they haven't even been judged guilty.
So much for 'don't be evil'... google is now taking away choice from people. I see this as exactly the same as 'for the children' except the targeted people are actual adults who are responsible for their actions (as them being arrested clearly demonstrates).
Bail bonds (and payday loans, pawn shops, etc.) are certainly predatory. They're also operating in a much higher risk environment which, IMHO, allows some leeway on higher rates and fees. They also serve a purpose which we COULD address with better laws, and reform of our court system...but good luck getting anywhere with that.
Instead they're necessary to many - particularly those in lower income situations where a judge sets an unreasonable bail compared to an individuals income and crime which necessitates that person remaining in jail for months or even years while their case grinds forward. So, unless that person finds the means to get out on bail, their life is on hold and they're effectively convicted and face the same penalties despite no jury or judge saying so yet.
Limiting access to the one thing that helps alleviate this is ridiculous. Have google use it's might to require transparent bail bonds ads and terms if they want to advertise. That's a far, FAR better option if you ask me. It doesn't limit access to a necessary service AND it helps clean up what is undoubtedly a scummy business. Win-win for everyone except those taking advantage of people, and especially a win for the disadvantaged, minority, and poor.
I'm not sure it will fit the conventional subway - the hyperloop does better at high speed trips over longer distances. Going 0.5 - 1 miles as is typical for a NYC or London subway stop is not efficient for something like this.
Putting and airport 20-50 (or more) miles outside a major city is typical but then you have a 1-2 hour commute to where you want to be. A hyperloop could cut that down to 5-10.
Similarly, medium size cities in an area could now share a single, larger airport and have more flights for people. It would change the models...because you could have more people and cities within 20-30 minutes of an airport than an airport could handle.
Yes, but the leaks are fairly small - and a similarly small leak in a hyperloop can pretty easily be pumped out.
They don't need perfection or a hard vacuum. The point is to greatly reduce air friction, not try to eliminate it entirely. That last percent would cost more than the previous 99%.
You seem to midunderstand the $ scale of global companies these days. If FB could plop down $15B for a global internet today, I don't think they'd hesitate any longer than to pick out some soon-to-be-historic pen to sign with.
For what you're talking about, that's not a lot of money at all, though I expect it will probably have another zero attached by the time all is said and done...and will still be a good investment.
Using LEO satellites our friendly yak herder will likely have a ping comparable to consumer broadband.
That assumes the proposed sats can handle the traffic routing required for it all of course. Power budgets and CPU specs tend to be much smaller in space.
Just to be clear - your internet speed is the same today in 2018 as it was 9 years ago? I find that unlikely.
Mind you, I do agree that providing 100mbps today is technologically as costly as 10mbps a decade ago (give or take but it makes the point).
Yes, the cable companies have long feared what the internet and streaming would do to their revenue and, instead of taking a useful outlook, they hid their heads in the sand like the RIAA and tried to force everyone to perpetuate their doomed business model. Now it's coming back to haunt them. Instead of comcast and their ilk selling you streaming IP-TV to whatever device you wanted (which they absolutely could have done a decade ago) they're desperately trying to jack up broadband prices to compensate for their declining revenue.
Poetic justice to watch these companies suffer and turn into exactly what they didn't want to be - nothing more than a data pipe provider.
Actually 300kw is the power supplied by the generator according to tfa. Their pulse power may be orders of magnitude higher depending on the duty cycle but your generator is going to be your average power. That leads me to conclude this isn't a one-shot-disabled but instead active, continuous interference with the vehicle computer.
Even 10% of the (assumed) average power impacting a person is enough to raise body temp to lethal levels in a minute or so. 75kg @ 4J*g/C = 300kw*s/C so 10% of that for 60 seconds raises body temp by 6c which would be lethal.
'Focusing' is the key here...and also the danger. Is it 300kw/m^2 focused and tracked on the target... or 300kw/100m^2 flooding an area?
For easy numbers, assume a 75kg person and fudge to 4J*g/deg C then 300KJ or 300Kw will raise your body temp by 1C every second. You are unlikely to concentrate the full power directly on an individual but this is also meant to hold a car in place so your duration is potentially minutes or more.
Very curious to know the power density impacting the target vehicle. If it's 'human safe' then it has to be substantially lower than the full output which makes me wonder why they wouldn't do more research on waveguides and simple target tracking to lower the power requirements. Currently the 300kw generator for this device would be larger than the device plus vehicle it mounts on.
The magnetron in your microwave is 60-70% efficient...and industrial applications can go higher into the 80% range. Even if you assume 50% efficiency, that's only 150kwt to handle.
Unless the magnetron is particularly temp sensitive you can cool that with a decent sized automotive radiator. In the desert. Without trying especially hard. A bit of quick digging shows most magnetron are happy up to around 250c so no worries there.
The bigger issue is *generating* 300kwe...on the moving vehicle that's supposed to get ahead of the target That's a multi-ton generator which is going to dissipate it's own ~300+kwt anyhow.
and then they did all that 'uncarrier' stuff. Mostly they stopped overcharging for data and stopped with the roaming changes. But it was a major shift in the cell phone industry and cut data and roaming charges across the board. I'm guessing with this merger we'll see them bring back all the old practices. The only reason they stopped them is they were getting squeezed out by AT&T, Sprint & Verizon. With the merger that won't happen.
It was a major shift in the industry BECAUSE T-Mobile did it first and the others had no choice but to follow as they started losing customers in droves.
TMO can't go backwards on all that. They'd quickly give up all the customers they won over right back to VZW and ATT if they did. But I don't think Legere is nearly that stupid. Instead they're much more likely to use their new weight to push for even better details, service, and coverage which will grow their customer base even further.
Legere is one of the few CEOs who's realized that making your customers happy and not squeezing every $ from them brings more customers which results in much better overall revenue.
Or, instead, they take those poor customers and move them over to the happy shiny TMO world.
And TMO (well, now the combined) gets all the sprint spectrum. All the towers. And so on...TMO getting the spectrum from the previous, failed, acquisition of them is a huge portion of the reason they were able to fix their coverage and directly compete with the other carriers. Without that there's a good chance they would have become irrelevant by now.
And your comment also clearly puts in perspective the vast differences between what they're doing and what SpaceX is doing. The energy requirements to simply go up and fall back down are significantly smaller (and thus much simpler engineering) than to attain orbital velocity as well.
Most people mistake rockets are going 'up' when the majority of their energy is actually going 'over' (well, accelerating tangent to the surface of the earth). This is why things like the giant plane for Virgin Galactic are largely useless for actual (read: orbital) space launch capability.
They built a fancy roller coaster...and one that will perhaps be useful for ultra-high-speed commuting. What it won't be useful for is access to orbit.
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By unions 'bleeding' you mean people get fair pay and humane working conditions for a hard job? How about we take away the cars, limousines and helicopters from wealthy 1% in Manhattan and see how quickly the MTA gets fixed. It's a really fucking busy system that got deluged by a hurricane not that long ago. The narrative that the MTA is a financial sinkhole is a conservative lie. Millions of people depend on it daily, and while sure, it isn't perfect, it's been underfunded for decades and STILL works.
You really have no clue...or are a union shill.
The MTA hemorrhages money yet every time something doesn't work because they failed to modernize it 30+ years ago they come with their hand out for more money. Also, they are a private agency so their books are closed and no one can examine them to see what they're actually paying/spending.
A living wage, sure. I support that. $100k+ for someone who can't even make clear announcements on the newer PA systems? Yeah, nope. Or how about the countless examples of work crews of a dozen or more (plus another half dozen down the track as a 'warning crew' for trains despite the track not being energized) with MAYBE two people doing actual work adjusting a signal or similar?
No. You won't sell a fairy tale about the MTA providing reasonable compensation for a reasonable job to anyone who actually lives in/around NYC and sees the ridiculous corruption, huge waste, enormous over-payment, endless overtime/disability abuse, and scam contracts etc. that go on and on and on with the MTA.
You do realize what a controlling majority means though...right?
We found at they were tracking people all the time and trying to sell information about them.
Suggest you check your news on that...it was discussed and debunked.
Well I leveled up to master last week but i'm waiting on my friend to get a few more crypto XP so we can start crafting crypto. Do you know how much gold they're selling for in the auction house these days?
Welcome to the world where you give a company access to your data. One day they decide they don't like that kind of data and, unlike free speech in public places, they have no obligation to allow you to have/use/save that kind of data.
BYOK (bring your own key) is the solution, but very few support it and it's almost exclusively aimed at enterprise. MS Office supports it if you want to run your own KMS...granted if that gets hosed you lose everything. And since MS does your backups (well, replication there's not much for conventional backups anymore) those are DOA too if you lose your keys.
Risk-reward means most people just go with what's free and easy. And insecure.
You must be buying your wrenches at Harbor Freight if infant teeth can scratch them up :)
Yup, it will need to be medically pure N2 certified for whatever nonsense.
Never mind a tank of N2 from an industrial supplier would work exactly the same...
Because there are zero known escalation exploits?
Being a logged-in, interactive user on a corporate network is already a huge advantage for exploiting a system/infrastructure. The admin escalation is pretty minor in comparison for any directed attack against a reasonable hardened target.
Maybe not in Alaska, but they're a bit odd up there anyhow.
Otherwise pretty much everywhere. The court systems is in clear and obvious collusion with the penal system and bail bonds is just another abusive cog in that wheel. People literally have to pay for their freedom while they haven't even been judged guilty.
So much for 'don't be evil' ... google is now taking away choice from people. I see this as exactly the same as 'for the children' except the targeted people are actual adults who are responsible for their actions (as them being arrested clearly demonstrates).
Bail bonds (and payday loans, pawn shops, etc.) are certainly predatory. They're also operating in a much higher risk environment which, IMHO, allows some leeway on higher rates and fees. They also serve a purpose which we COULD address with better laws, and reform of our court system...but good luck getting anywhere with that.
Instead they're necessary to many - particularly those in lower income situations where a judge sets an unreasonable bail compared to an individuals income and crime which necessitates that person remaining in jail for months or even years while their case grinds forward. So, unless that person finds the means to get out on bail, their life is on hold and they're effectively convicted and face the same penalties despite no jury or judge saying so yet.
Limiting access to the one thing that helps alleviate this is ridiculous. Have google use it's might to require transparent bail bonds ads and terms if they want to advertise. That's a far, FAR better option if you ask me. It doesn't limit access to a necessary service AND it helps clean up what is undoubtedly a scummy business. Win-win for everyone except those taking advantage of people, and especially a win for the disadvantaged, minority, and poor.
C'mon google. Do some good here. Don't be evil.
I'm not sure it will fit the conventional subway - the hyperloop does better at high speed trips over longer distances. Going 0.5 - 1 miles as is typical for a NYC or London subway stop is not efficient for something like this.
Putting and airport 20-50 (or more) miles outside a major city is typical but then you have a 1-2 hour commute to where you want to be. A hyperloop could cut that down to 5-10.
Similarly, medium size cities in an area could now share a single, larger airport and have more flights for people. It would change the models...because you could have more people and cities within 20-30 minutes of an airport than an airport could handle.
Yes, but the leaks are fairly small - and a similarly small leak in a hyperloop can pretty easily be pumped out.
They don't need perfection or a hard vacuum. The point is to greatly reduce air friction, not try to eliminate it entirely. That last percent would cost more than the previous 99%.
If you had a 50/50 chance of death you'd still have a long line of highly skilled and motivated people ready to jump at the chance.
You seem to midunderstand the $ scale of global companies these days. If FB could plop down $15B for a global internet today, I don't think they'd hesitate any longer than to pick out some soon-to-be-historic pen to sign with.
For what you're talking about, that's not a lot of money at all, though I expect it will probably have another zero attached by the time all is said and done...and will still be a good investment.
Using LEO satellites our friendly yak herder will likely have a ping comparable to consumer broadband.
That assumes the proposed sats can handle the traffic routing required for it all of course. Power budgets and CPU specs tend to be much smaller in space.
Just to be clear - your internet speed is the same today in 2018 as it was 9 years ago? I find that unlikely.
Mind you, I do agree that providing 100mbps today is technologically as costly as 10mbps a decade ago (give or take but it makes the point).
Yes, the cable companies have long feared what the internet and streaming would do to their revenue and, instead of taking a useful outlook, they hid their heads in the sand like the RIAA and tried to force everyone to perpetuate their doomed business model. Now it's coming back to haunt them. Instead of comcast and their ilk selling you streaming IP-TV to whatever device you wanted (which they absolutely could have done a decade ago) they're desperately trying to jack up broadband prices to compensate for their declining revenue.
Poetic justice to watch these companies suffer and turn into exactly what they didn't want to be - nothing more than a data pipe provider.
Have you seen the stupidity cops in the US are capable of these days?
https://nypost.com/video/reckl...
Children can be ter'rists too ya know...
But i've no clue about 40kg of shit in a 20kg bag thing
Actually 300kw is the power supplied by the generator according to tfa. Their pulse power may be orders of magnitude higher depending on the duty cycle but your generator is going to be your average power. That leads me to conclude this isn't a one-shot-disabled but instead active, continuous interference with the vehicle computer.
Even 10% of the (assumed) average power impacting a person is enough to raise body temp to lethal levels in a minute or so. 75kg @ 4J*g/C = 300kw*s/C so 10% of that for 60 seconds raises body temp by 6c which would be lethal.
'Focusing' is the key here...and also the danger. Is it 300kw/m^2 focused and tracked on the target ... or 300kw/100m^2 flooding an area?
For easy numbers, assume a 75kg person and fudge to 4J*g/deg C then 300KJ or 300Kw will raise your body temp by 1C every second. You are unlikely to concentrate the full power directly on an individual but this is also meant to hold a car in place so your duration is potentially minutes or more.
Very curious to know the power density impacting the target vehicle. If it's 'human safe' then it has to be substantially lower than the full output which makes me wonder why they wouldn't do more research on waveguides and simple target tracking to lower the power requirements. Currently the 300kw generator for this device would be larger than the device plus vehicle it mounts on.
The magnetron in your microwave is 60-70% efficient...and industrial applications can go higher into the 80% range. Even if you assume 50% efficiency, that's only 150kwt to handle.
Unless the magnetron is particularly temp sensitive you can cool that with a decent sized automotive radiator. In the desert. Without trying especially hard. A bit of quick digging shows most magnetron are happy up to around 250c so no worries there.
The bigger issue is *generating* 300kwe...on the moving vehicle that's supposed to get ahead of the target That's a multi-ton generator which is going to dissipate it's own ~300+kwt anyhow.
and then they did all that 'uncarrier' stuff. Mostly they stopped overcharging for data and stopped with the roaming changes. But it was a major shift in the cell phone industry and cut data and roaming charges across the board. I'm guessing with this merger we'll see them bring back all the old practices. The only reason they stopped them is they were getting squeezed out by AT&T, Sprint & Verizon. With the merger that won't happen.
It was a major shift in the industry BECAUSE T-Mobile did it first and the others had no choice but to follow as they started losing customers in droves.
TMO can't go backwards on all that. They'd quickly give up all the customers they won over right back to VZW and ATT if they did. But I don't think Legere is nearly that stupid. Instead they're much more likely to use their new weight to push for even better details, service, and coverage which will grow their customer base even further.
Legere is one of the few CEOs who's realized that making your customers happy and not squeezing every $ from them brings more customers which results in much better overall revenue.
Or, instead, they take those poor customers and move them over to the happy shiny TMO world.
And TMO (well, now the combined) gets all the sprint spectrum. All the towers. And so on...TMO getting the spectrum from the previous, failed, acquisition of them is a huge portion of the reason they were able to fix their coverage and directly compete with the other carriers. Without that there's a good chance they would have become irrelevant by now.
And your comment also clearly puts in perspective the vast differences between what they're doing and what SpaceX is doing. The energy requirements to simply go up and fall back down are significantly smaller (and thus much simpler engineering) than to attain orbital velocity as well.
Most people mistake rockets are going 'up' when the majority of their energy is actually going 'over' (well, accelerating tangent to the surface of the earth). This is why things like the giant plane for Virgin Galactic are largely useless for actual (read: orbital) space launch capability.
They built a fancy roller coaster...and one that will perhaps be useful for ultra-high-speed commuting. What it won't be useful for is access to orbit.
And multi-million dollar missiles to blow up thousand dollar targets.