CBS reported on the recent snowstorm. By your logic, "If CBS is only now figuring out that it snows in winter, they are fantastically bad at their jobs."
Just because it isn't new to you doesn't mean it isn't news.
Except there's really been no word on improving the vetting, and no actual behavior by the white house that would indicate any real desire to fulfill an urgent security need, just the normal behavior you'd expect from a white house trying to make headlines for political gain -- up to and including delaying action so as not to step on news coverage of Trump's congressional address.
And no intelligence agency asked for the ban, and when the white house tried to get them to say good things about it, they pretty much called it ineffective and counterproductive.
So the travel ban is pretty clearly a fraud, just political red meat for the easily deceived.
Also, the countries most likely to tap wireless services aren't subject to the ban, nor are they especially Muslim.
I got sick of crowbarring jackd into running as a system daemon like it used to until it copied PulseAudio, and didn't really need realtime in most places, so I just configured ALSA's dmix so I don't have to wade through byzantine mazes of lame INI style configs to stop Pulse from adjusting volume for inane reasons.
Browser shopping is not something I've been looking forward to, sigh.
The nukes have less to do with the idiocy of war with them than the fact that they have one of the largest armies in the world. Afghanistan and Iraq weren't/aren't even in its league.
Company A spends millions on research to discover fact X. Then spends another half million to file hundreds of patents covering all uses of fact X. Then 100 companies who could use fact X, don't, because of their egregious patent terms. So we only get to use fact X for Company X's improvement to geriatric cosmetic products, but not for tens of other uses.
Company B thinks about researching fact Y. They decide not to because by the time it would be applicable to patents covering marketable products, the patent would be too old, and besides, they need to make next quarter's earnings look good for their stock holders.
Or, Left's ideal system:
Publicly funded research discovers fact X, 100s of companies use fact X.
Or, (what we have now)
Publicl+private funded research discovers fact X. Part of the time, Company A is allowed to file patents on uses of fact X despite the free public funding contribution because some congresscritter's hand got greased.
Seems like the Right's ideal system is the worst of all alternatives.
Trump wants something visible from space, no doubt. Also they have to embed all those quirky little handhold items like seashells and old pots. You know. For EXTREME VETTING. We have to make sure anyone who gets in is a balls-out free-climber.
Likewise. I don't give my android any credentials to financial junk, or link it to a google account or login to just about anything with it, or side-load more than a couple really basic apps, or let it onto my home wifi network, and I don't use a lockscreen, because the delay of deactivating the lockscreen makes it a pretty useless UI for my purposes.
In other words, I don't trust the device to stay secure even when locked down, so why bother securing it? Just use it for meaningless junk and non-sensitive phone calls/camera. That's all it's good for.
At what point does global warming become so evident...the argument becomes what do we do about it?
Answer: At no point will some people who are $10K short of buying that in-ground pool for their summer home not seek to elude paying towards communal goals.
First, testing and then intentionally ignoring the results is not QA.
Second, it is more rational to ask "what went wrong" and then possibly find evidence of conspiracy than it is to start with assumption of conspiracy, given that conspiracy and incompetence both are encountered in the real world.
Unfortunately we're in a time where consumers not only don't make purchases with full information but often times full information simply isn't available.
Yup. Doubly so for healthcare -- someone needs to tell Ryan picking a Lasic clinic is quite different than choosing providers when you are in a pained or emotional condition and may or may not believe in voodoo.
But in this case, there could be consequences for the involved parties in the legal system, and also internal consequences in the involved agencies. It's not like they couldn't have easily caught it out by leaving a few of the old meters in series and following up with some sample readings.
That's a very good question to ask... your local utility operators and legislators, because the answer will vary locally. Some installations are pretty advanced, others really should not even be calling themselves "smart meters".
Exactly: this demands investigation to see who dropped the ball and why (incompetence? proft?). And while we are at it, let's take them to task for the privacy/security issues, and see whether they are buying units that are actually providing useful features for the future grid, or just short-sightedly checking off legislative requirements.
Anyway, since this is a tech site, this is the part of the article I would have pulled out:
After finishing their lab experiment, researchers dismantled the smart meters to understand the problem. Following their efforts, the three-man research team discovered that smart meters which gave abnormally high readings used a Rogowski Coil in their setup, while the smart meters that gave out low readings used Hall effect-based sensors.
Grids get the short end of the stick no matter what generation technology is politically popular. Getting the public to care about the grid (and cut them some NIMBY slack) is one of the big challenges of the coming decades. Some progress can be made by pointing out things like we shouldn't be losing power to tens of thousands of customers just because it is windy/rains/snows.
That said, I thin it's been pretty well established that a lot of the electricity "crisis" down under is being fabricated by financial departments.
Alternative facts. It figures. Over the years it's actually been a relatively bipartisan support for the programs but also limiting them to defend privacy. Here's an interesting article from a critical perspective: http://www.politico.com/agenda...
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The orb is a lie. Listen only to your rice crispies. Everything other than the holy trinity of snap, crackle, and pop is trying to lead you astray.
CBS reported on the recent snowstorm. By your logic, "If CBS is only now figuring out that it snows in winter, they are fantastically bad at their jobs."
Just because it isn't new to you doesn't mean it isn't news.
Stop wasting aluminum foil on hats, please. It takes a lot of energy to produce.
Except there's really been no word on improving the vetting, and no actual behavior by the white house that would indicate any real desire to fulfill an urgent security need, just the normal behavior you'd expect from a white house trying to make headlines for political gain -- up to and including delaying action so as not to step on news coverage of Trump's congressional address.
And no intelligence agency asked for the ban, and when the white house tried to get them to say good things about it, they pretty much called it ineffective and counterproductive.
So the travel ban is pretty clearly a fraud, just political red meat for the easily deceived.
Also, the countries most likely to tap wireless services aren't subject to the ban, nor are they especially Muslim.
I got sick of crowbarring jackd into running as a system daemon like it used to until it copied PulseAudio, and didn't really need realtime in most places, so I just configured ALSA's dmix so I don't have to wade through byzantine mazes of lame INI style configs to stop Pulse from adjusting volume for inane reasons.
Browser shopping is not something I've been looking forward to, sigh.
Ahem...
http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-pro...
"It's the tax cuts, stupid."
The nukes have less to do with the idiocy of war with them than the fact that they have one of the largest armies in the world. Afghanistan and Iraq weren't/aren't even in its league.
This budget is too dumb even for the Heritage Foundation.
Hey, by the way, you know what the Heritage Foundation thought of a while back? The individual health insurance mandate.
No we are way off even the fringe economics rationale here... this is a fever swamp budget.
Right's ideal system:
Company A spends millions on research to discover fact X. Then spends another half million to file hundreds of patents covering all uses of fact X. Then 100 companies who could use fact X, don't, because of their egregious patent terms. So we only get to use fact X for Company X's improvement to geriatric cosmetic products, but not for tens of other uses.
Company B thinks about researching fact Y. They decide not to because by the time it would be applicable to patents covering marketable products, the patent would be too old, and besides, they need to make next quarter's earnings look good for their stock holders.
Or, Left's ideal system:
Publicly funded research discovers fact X, 100s of companies use fact X.
Or, (what we have now)
Publicl+private funded research discovers fact X. Part of the time, Company A is allowed to file patents on uses of fact X despite the free public funding contribution because some congresscritter's hand got greased.
Seems like the Right's ideal system is the worst of all alternatives.
Trump wants something visible from space, no doubt. Also they have to embed all those quirky little handhold items like seashells and old pots. You know. For EXTREME VETTING. We have to make sure anyone who gets in is a balls-out free-climber.
They are more likely to plug it in if it can display a lockscreen. But I'd be prepared for some major legal problems if used in this manner.
Likewise. I don't give my android any credentials to financial junk, or link it to a google account or login to just about anything with it, or side-load more than a couple really basic apps, or let it onto my home wifi network, and I don't use a lockscreen, because the delay of deactivating the lockscreen makes it a pretty useless UI for my purposes.
In other words, I don't trust the device to stay secure even when locked down, so why bother securing it? Just use it for meaningless junk and non-sensitive phone calls/camera. That's all it's good for.
A) No, see two articles down on the front page
B) They could criminally charge our government employees, however.
Legal words have meaning. Use them carefully.
Wow this story has:
AGW? check
Trump? check.
EMAILS!? check.
Which means I need:
popcorn? popcorn? Not check?!? No popcorn! Sad.
At what point does global warming become so evident...the argument becomes what do we do about it?
Answer: At no point will some people who are $10K short of buying that in-ground pool for their summer home not seek to elude paying towards communal goals.
Don't for a moment assume no QA got done.
First, testing and then intentionally ignoring the results is not QA.
Second, it is more rational to ask "what went wrong" and then possibly find evidence of conspiracy than it is to start with assumption of conspiracy, given that conspiracy and incompetence both are encountered in the real world.
Unfortunately we're in a time where consumers not only don't make purchases with full information but often times full information simply isn't available.
Yup. Doubly so for healthcare -- someone needs to tell Ryan picking a Lasic clinic is quite different than choosing providers when you are in a pained or emotional condition and may or may not believe in voodoo.
But in this case, there could be consequences for the involved parties in the legal system, and also internal consequences in the involved agencies. It's not like they couldn't have easily caught it out by leaving a few of the old meters in series and following up with some sample readings.
What new data are smart meters giving us?
That's a very good question to ask... your local utility operators and legislators, because the answer will vary locally. Some installations are pretty advanced, others really should not even be calling themselves "smart meters".
Exactly: this demands investigation to see who dropped the ball and why (incompetence? proft?). And while we are at it, let's take them to task for the privacy/security issues, and see whether they are buying units that are actually providing useful features for the future grid, or just short-sightedly checking off legislative requirements.
Anyway, since this is a tech site, this is the part of the article I would have pulled out:
After finishing their lab experiment, researchers dismantled the smart meters to understand the problem. Following their efforts, the three-man research team discovered that smart meters which gave abnormally high readings used a Rogowski Coil in their setup, while the smart meters that gave out low readings used Hall effect-based sensors.
You're underestimating the value of predictive data in stabilizing the grid... and throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Getting smart meters up to snuff on privacy, accuracy, and useful features is a worthy endeavor. Saying "hulk hate smart meters, hulk smash!" is not.
Yeah, same with IoT. How no QA got done before approving and buying so much defective product demands some investigation.
Grids get the short end of the stick no matter what generation technology is politically popular. Getting the public to care about the grid (and cut them some NIMBY slack) is one of the big challenges of the coming decades. Some progress can be made by pointing out things like we shouldn't be losing power to tens of thousands of customers just because it is windy/rains/snows.
That said, I thin it's been pretty well established that a lot of the electricity "crisis" down under is being fabricated by financial departments.
I just prefer to drive home from work in daylght. So I'd rather have DST all the time than never.
Alternative facts. It figures. Over the years it's actually been a relatively bipartisan support for the programs but also limiting them to defend privacy.
Here's an interesting article from a critical perspective: http://www.politico.com/agenda...
Heheh. You, sir, have mastered the art of escaping the pull of Poe's Law.