Yes but you have to have a location for that. I have suggested old open cast mines as you already have a low reservoir and it turns a giant fucking hole in the ground into something useful.
Where I live it is those little grey terrorists that are the most dangerous threat to the grid. A few of them get BBQed by pole pigs every year in my city and someone looses power.
When it comes to grid scale batteries they won't be the Li-Ion one but will likely be sodium-sulfur ones or ones like that. Given the average home owner I wouldn't trust them to have such a battery in their home but a grid operator they would have the know how to manage these things. Put a few 40' shipping containers that are a giant battery at each substation and you have a distributed storage and backup system. These also becomes useful for load leveling with wide scale deployment of grid connected intermittent renewable like rooftop solar.
"Body Vibes" stickers were "made with the same conductive carbon material NASA uses to line space suits so they can monitor an astronaut's vitals during wear" and because of that were able to "target imbalances" of the human body's energy frequencies when they get thrown out of whack
When I saw you original comment I was curious given all the hub bub about getting electors to switch their vote and I didn't know how it panned out so I went to look it up to find out my self. To be fair there were 10 faithless electors in total 7 which were validated and 3 that were invalidated so you about a dozen comment seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Every airport in the US I go to I already get pulled aside already and have for years as well as having all of my checked luggage opened and searched manually every time. I am probably on some list somewhere as if this were truly random I would have a better chance of winning the powerball and megamillions in the same week at this point even if the odds of a search were 50% which they aren't. No I am not kidding there either with over 100 trips over the last 15 years with the bags being searched on the outbound and return flights that puts me well beyond the ~ 1 in 2^56 of winning the powerball and megamillions. The random odds of this happening to someone are ~1 in 2^200 assuming 50% chance of manual checked bag search but in reality it is only a 5% chance of the manual checked bag search so the numbers get even worse. How much worse, well it looks like this might be approaching the never going to happen before the heat death of the universe level given that at a 5% chance you have about a 1 in 1.6x10^260 chance or 1 in 2^780
Having gone through real airport security what is in the US is an absolute joke and does nothing but employ otherwise unemployable people to violate others' rights. When I fly with my old film SLR and lenses I also get to play 20 questions and everything gets swabbed for explosives because well they employ the otherwise unemployable.
He also hints that any social media account you have with a picture is linked.
That is why I poison that well every chance I get. When Facebook thinks it has found a face in a picture of mine I say it is me. Personally I like that for a long while it would find faces in mariposa lilies so I would always tag them as myself and get others to do the same. It also seems to do a good job of finding faces in pictures of random piles of leaves and bushes. Let us not forget this article from a couple of years back about a very confused computer vision system.
Are you really sure you want that? It may sound good on the surface but the people pushing such an idea would likely find that if firearms were treated like vehicles the outcome is not what they were thinking.
In such a case one would only need a license to operate a firearm out in public, which is what one basically already need either in the form of a valid hunting license or CCW in my state. Also for the period in which one would have it in public one would need some form of liability insurance which from what I understand would be a fairly minimal cost. However this would also mean that one would be able to purchase any firearm one wants and use it so long as it is only used on ones own property, this means machine guns and all sorts of other devices. It would also become legal for one to make any type of firearm or firearm accessory and the usage of those accessories would be perfectly legal so long as they are not used in public. Furthermore this means that there would be no waiting period for any firearm purchase, no background check for a firearm purchase, no minimum age for a firearm purchase. Also the belief that it would have to be registered would likely only be needed if used on public property and one would be able to being a firearm to all sorts of public locations.
Depends on the picture. Working with multiple raw high res scans of film would crush one of those little computers. It crushes my i7 (3770k) desktop with 32GB ram and I will have all 8 logical cores pegged at 100% for 10-15 minutes and be consuming 28-31GB of ram.
I see you met my uncle's brother's friend. Too bad he was killed by some Saudi Princes after driving cross country in his Cadillac Fleetwood using only half a tank of gas.
To be fair there are 3 things that have effectively prevented another 9-11 style attack. One is having hardened cockpit doors. Going along with that is closing and locking the hardened cockpit door. Finally the mentality of the flying population has changed. Now if a group of attackers tried that the passengers would turn them into a smear on the shitty carpet.
While they find a lot of weapons it seems that they miss even more. By even more I mean about 19 times more. A couple years ago it was reported that they only found 5% of prohibited items and last year the reporting was that they had found 20% more when tested, which sounds great until you realize that they still missed 94% of things.
Considering what I have brought through inadvertently over the years it doesn't surprise me. This includes an almost full box of 7.62x54r ammo, a couple of handfuls of 3" magnum goose load 12 gauge shotgun shells, my small pocket knife (2.5" is the largest blade) my 4" lock blade with a brass handle, lighters when they were banned, toothpaste in a tube larger than 3oz that isn't in a separate bag. None of it was deliberately hidden nor were special steps taken to make it harder to detect. The ammo was in a coat pocket that went through the x-ray machine and the pocket knives were in my pants pocket. However if I take my Pentax Spotmatic F and lenses and send them through the x-ray machine open it is time for 20 fucking questions and everything gets checked out and swabbed for explosives because they are a bunch of retards.
Come on now. If it weren't' for those executives healthcare would be even more expensive. They try and cut costs as much as possible to ensure that every department shows a profit. Even the guys in maintenance./sarcasm
I wish I weren't joking but my father (biomedical repair technician) has had the joy of dealing with several managers like this over the years. One questioned why they had so many different spools of hosing and suggested that they order just what they need. The problem is that they basically do keep on hand what they need as that stuff has predefined replacement intervals so since they know they have X machines that take Y feet of Z hose N times a year they have a pretty good idea of how much hose they need. Same thing with other parts and components. That manager wanted to turn the bio meds into a profit center instead of a cost center. There were other cases where managers got into a pissing match over what repair should be done and who was going to pay for it. Like the one where if the device was sent back to the manufacturer it would be charged to the surgery department at like $5000 but if the bio meds opened the device and replaced the broken component it would only cost $700 but would be charged to the bio med department. That argument took a couple of weeks to resolve and required the intervention of a VP.
Also for some people there are additional benefits. I am close to having that and always am at the high end of what they will accept when I donate. As the treatment for hemachromatosis is getting drained if I stay ahead of it then I get a big benefit by not having that awful disease and others benefit from getting my excess iron rich universal donor blood (O-). I don't make it exactly every 8 weeks but I go every other month and have been for 11 years. If you have hemachromatosis they can't use your blood so this way I am maximizing the benefits. My only issue is that since I am the universal donor for blood that means that there is always a shortage of supply so if I ever need some I might be screwed.
Easily. Regularly switching to the backup site should be done as part of the day to day business operations. For example at my job I work with a company that will switch daily between the main and backup system. It doesn't hurt that the main and backup are running in a hot standby configuration and the backup can take over at a moments notice. They also have 2 additional systems for further levels of redundancy. One is a system that they do a system restore to each day (the previous backup of the main system) that is sitting warm and the other is a cold system where they do a weekly restore from a previous backup of the main system. As the switch-over, as well as the recovery, is done daily as part of regular operations it isn't an issue and everyone there knows what to do. This is for a piece of critical infrastructure which is why there is that level of redundancy, as well as many others to ensure a 99.999% up time of the system but it shows that it is possible to have the requisite up time with a properly designed system and processes.
If you are worried about testing switching to a backup site on a 24/7 system you should also be worried about hardware failures and patches to that same system as those also require outages that you say can't happen as you obviously don't have a system with the required levels of redundancy and are lacking in recovery ability.
Everything I have read on UBI seems to indicate that you do need a few things in place for it to really work well. Such things like universal healthcare and universal k-12 education. When you implement UBI you need a few additional things for it to work. As there were a number of stand ins for UBI you need to remove those. This includes all existing welfare and unemployment programs as well as getting rid of the minimum wage. The final part is that as a society we need to decide that it is acceptable that some people can choose to live under a bridge and drink, smoke crack, binge watch Netflix, etc. until they die. For people who can't care for themselves, not those who choose not to, the UBI would instead go to their legal guardians.
Can a suspect be compelled to open up a locker/safe etc ? That sounds like the best real-world analog to the passcode on a phone or computer password.
My understanding is that a suspect cannot be forced to provide a combination to a safe. In such circumstances the police or prosecution is free to drill the lock or hire a professional lock smith to open it provided they can get a warrant, just like they would be allowed go and hire their own cryptologist and super computer to try and crack some crypto. The big beef is that unlike high end safes that are resistant to drilling and cracking, strong crypto is ubiquitous unlike really good safes.
Also I think a better analogy is can a suspect be forced to interpret data for the prosecution? I say this because the prosecution can already get at the actual data they just need help in understanding it. Looking at it this way it really does seem to be a violation of a suspect's 5th amendment rights.
Then again IANAL either and the courts seem to be a rather fickle thing.
Except one time pads which are mathematically proven to be secure. The best that one could hope to do with a one time pad is generate all plain texts but even then you would run out of mass energy of the universe with a message that is shorter than this post up to this point.
Modern cryptography has made some good strides in becoming resistant to attacks as the actual science and mathematics behind crypto were formalized. So while things like AES, Serpent, and Twofish have some some undiscovered weaknesses and will surly get weaker over time you would still likely be looking at energy required to crack it on the order of the total worldwide annual production even on an ideal computer, hint our best computers a several orders of magnitude worse efficiency wise than an ideal computer. On symmetric key encryption even quantum computers don't improve things much given that modern algorithms were created assuming that they would exist. Also if we move beyond using problems based off of prime factorization, discrete logarithms, or elliptical curves quantum computers will fail to provide any benefit there as well.
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Yes but you have to have a location for that. I have suggested old open cast mines as you already have a low reservoir and it turns a giant fucking hole in the ground into something useful.
Where I live it is those little grey terrorists that are the most dangerous threat to the grid. A few of them get BBQed by pole pigs every year in my city and someone looses power.
or your heating oil tank (obviously a different type of generator)
That would be a diesel generator instead of a gasoline, LP, or natural gas one.
When it comes to grid scale batteries they won't be the Li-Ion one but will likely be sodium-sulfur ones or ones like that. Given the average home owner I wouldn't trust them to have such a battery in their home but a grid operator they would have the know how to manage these things. Put a few 40' shipping containers that are a giant battery at each substation and you have a distributed storage and backup system. These also becomes useful for load leveling with wide scale deployment of grid connected intermittent renewable like rooftop solar.
"Body Vibes" stickers were "made with the same conductive carbon material NASA uses to line space suits so they can monitor an astronaut's vitals during wear" and because of that were able to "target imbalances" of the human body's energy frequencies when they get thrown out of whack
I feel dumber for having read that.
When I saw you original comment I was curious given all the hub bub about getting electors to switch their vote and I didn't know how it panned out so I went to look it up to find out my self. To be fair there were 10 faithless electors in total 7 which were validated and 3 that were invalidated so you about a dozen comment seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Every airport in the US I go to I already get pulled aside already and have for years as well as having all of my checked luggage opened and searched manually every time. I am probably on some list somewhere as if this were truly random I would have a better chance of winning the powerball and megamillions in the same week at this point even if the odds of a search were 50% which they aren't. No I am not kidding there either with over 100 trips over the last 15 years with the bags being searched on the outbound and return flights that puts me well beyond the ~ 1 in 2^56 of winning the powerball and megamillions. The random odds of this happening to someone are ~1 in 2^200 assuming 50% chance of manual checked bag search but in reality it is only a 5% chance of the manual checked bag search so the numbers get even worse. How much worse, well it looks like this might be approaching the never going to happen before the heat death of the universe level given that at a 5% chance you have about a 1 in 1.6x10^260 chance or 1 in 2^780
Having gone through real airport security what is in the US is an absolute joke and does nothing but employ otherwise unemployable people to violate others' rights. When I fly with my old film SLR and lenses I also get to play 20 questions and everything gets swabbed for explosives because well they employ the otherwise unemployable.
Actually in looking up the faithless electors it appears that more abandoned Hillary than Trump.
He also hints that any social media account you have with a picture is linked.
That is why I poison that well every chance I get. When Facebook thinks it has found a face in a picture of mine I say it is me. Personally I like that for a long while it would find faces in mariposa lilies so I would always tag them as myself and get others to do the same. It also seems to do a good job of finding faces in pictures of random piles of leaves and bushes. Let us not forget this article from a couple of years back about a very confused computer vision system.
Just treat guns like cars.
Are you really sure you want that? It may sound good on the surface but the people pushing such an idea would likely find that if firearms were treated like vehicles the outcome is not what they were thinking.
In such a case one would only need a license to operate a firearm out in public, which is what one basically already need either in the form of a valid hunting license or CCW in my state. Also for the period in which one would have it in public one would need some form of liability insurance which from what I understand would be a fairly minimal cost. However this would also mean that one would be able to purchase any firearm one wants and use it so long as it is only used on ones own property, this means machine guns and all sorts of other devices. It would also become legal for one to make any type of firearm or firearm accessory and the usage of those accessories would be perfectly legal so long as they are not used in public. Furthermore this means that there would be no waiting period for any firearm purchase, no background check for a firearm purchase, no minimum age for a firearm purchase. Also the belief that it would have to be registered would likely only be needed if used on public property and one would be able to being a firearm to all sorts of public locations.
it just needs to be fast enough to edit a picture
Depends on the picture. Working with multiple raw high res scans of film would crush one of those little computers. It crushes my i7 (3770k) desktop with 32GB ram and I will have all 8 logical cores pegged at 100% for 10-15 minutes and be consuming 28-31GB of ram.
I see you met my uncle's brother's friend. Too bad he was killed by some Saudi Princes after driving cross country in his Cadillac Fleetwood using only half a tank of gas.
So this about sums up your feelings then.
To be fair there are 3 things that have effectively prevented another 9-11 style attack. One is having hardened cockpit doors. Going along with that is closing and locking the hardened cockpit door. Finally the mentality of the flying population has changed. Now if a group of attackers tried that the passengers would turn them into a smear on the shitty carpet.
While they find a lot of weapons it seems that they miss even more. By even more I mean about 19 times more. A couple years ago it was reported that they only found 5% of prohibited items and last year the reporting was that they had found 20% more when tested, which sounds great until you realize that they still missed 94% of things.
Considering what I have brought through inadvertently over the years it doesn't surprise me. This includes an almost full box of 7.62x54r ammo, a couple of handfuls of 3" magnum goose load 12 gauge shotgun shells, my small pocket knife (2.5" is the largest blade) my 4" lock blade with a brass handle, lighters when they were banned, toothpaste in a tube larger than 3oz that isn't in a separate bag. None of it was deliberately hidden nor were special steps taken to make it harder to detect. The ammo was in a coat pocket that went through the x-ray machine and the pocket knives were in my pants pocket. However if I take my Pentax Spotmatic F and lenses and send them through the x-ray machine open it is time for 20 fucking questions and everything gets checked out and swabbed for explosives because they are a bunch of retards.
The TSA seems to have a budget of something like $7.5 billion. What are they providing for that money?
Jobs for the otherwise unemployable.
I didn't know Republicans were in charge of Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, DC, St. Louis, and Oakland.
Well if you like creamed corn I suppose they are a good device.
Come on now. If it weren't' for those executives healthcare would be even more expensive. They try and cut costs as much as possible to ensure that every department shows a profit. Even the guys in maintenance. /sarcasm
I wish I weren't joking but my father (biomedical repair technician) has had the joy of dealing with several managers like this over the years. One questioned why they had so many different spools of hosing and suggested that they order just what they need. The problem is that they basically do keep on hand what they need as that stuff has predefined replacement intervals so since they know they have X machines that take Y feet of Z hose N times a year they have a pretty good idea of how much hose they need. Same thing with other parts and components. That manager wanted to turn the bio meds into a profit center instead of a cost center. There were other cases where managers got into a pissing match over what repair should be done and who was going to pay for it. Like the one where if the device was sent back to the manufacturer it would be charged to the surgery department at like $5000 but if the bio meds opened the device and replaced the broken component it would only cost $700 but would be charged to the bio med department. That argument took a couple of weeks to resolve and required the intervention of a VP.
Also for some people there are additional benefits. I am close to having that and always am at the high end of what they will accept when I donate. As the treatment for hemachromatosis is getting drained if I stay ahead of it then I get a big benefit by not having that awful disease and others benefit from getting my excess iron rich universal donor blood (O-). I don't make it exactly every 8 weeks but I go every other month and have been for 11 years. If you have hemachromatosis they can't use your blood so this way I am maximizing the benefits. My only issue is that since I am the universal donor for blood that means that there is always a shortage of supply so if I ever need some I might be screwed.
Easily. Regularly switching to the backup site should be done as part of the day to day business operations. For example at my job I work with a company that will switch daily between the main and backup system. It doesn't hurt that the main and backup are running in a hot standby configuration and the backup can take over at a moments notice. They also have 2 additional systems for further levels of redundancy. One is a system that they do a system restore to each day (the previous backup of the main system) that is sitting warm and the other is a cold system where they do a weekly restore from a previous backup of the main system. As the switch-over, as well as the recovery, is done daily as part of regular operations it isn't an issue and everyone there knows what to do. This is for a piece of critical infrastructure which is why there is that level of redundancy, as well as many others to ensure a 99.999% up time of the system but it shows that it is possible to have the requisite up time with a properly designed system and processes.
If you are worried about testing switching to a backup site on a 24/7 system you should also be worried about hardware failures and patches to that same system as those also require outages that you say can't happen as you obviously don't have a system with the required levels of redundancy and are lacking in recovery ability.
Everything I have read on UBI seems to indicate that you do need a few things in place for it to really work well. Such things like universal healthcare and universal k-12 education. When you implement UBI you need a few additional things for it to work. As there were a number of stand ins for UBI you need to remove those. This includes all existing welfare and unemployment programs as well as getting rid of the minimum wage. The final part is that as a society we need to decide that it is acceptable that some people can choose to live under a bridge and drink, smoke crack, binge watch Netflix, etc. until they die. For people who can't care for themselves, not those who choose not to, the UBI would instead go to their legal guardians.
Can a suspect be compelled to open up a locker/safe etc ? That sounds like the best real-world analog to the passcode on a phone or computer password.
My understanding is that a suspect cannot be forced to provide a combination to a safe. In such circumstances the police or prosecution is free to drill the lock or hire a professional lock smith to open it provided they can get a warrant, just like they would be allowed go and hire their own cryptologist and super computer to try and crack some crypto. The big beef is that unlike high end safes that are resistant to drilling and cracking, strong crypto is ubiquitous unlike really good safes.
Also I think a better analogy is can a suspect be forced to interpret data for the prosecution? I say this because the prosecution can already get at the actual data they just need help in understanding it. Looking at it this way it really does seem to be a violation of a suspect's 5th amendment rights.
Then again IANAL either and the courts seem to be a rather fickle thing.
Except one time pads which are mathematically proven to be secure. The best that one could hope to do with a one time pad is generate all plain texts but even then you would run out of mass energy of the universe with a message that is shorter than this post up to this point.
Modern cryptography has made some good strides in becoming resistant to attacks as the actual science and mathematics behind crypto were formalized. So while things like AES, Serpent, and Twofish have some some undiscovered weaknesses and will surly get weaker over time you would still likely be looking at energy required to crack it on the order of the total worldwide annual production even on an ideal computer, hint our best computers a several orders of magnitude worse efficiency wise than an ideal computer. On symmetric key encryption even quantum computers don't improve things much given that modern algorithms were created assuming that they would exist. Also if we move beyond using problems based off of prime factorization, discrete logarithms, or elliptical curves quantum computers will fail to provide any benefit there as well.
What you didn't like any of the film versions of the 3 stories from Different Seasons that were made into films?