You can get in-system UPSes for desktops; but they tend to be specialty items (Logic Supply is the one I know of, no relation to them, just the example I could find most easily. Fits in a 2.5in bay, takes standard size Li-ion cells, pretty cute); For anything remotely affordable, the answer seems to be "Buy a laptop". Despite the increasingly overlap between laptops and desktops in the low power and 'all-in-one' segments, I don't know of anything (not sold as a laptop) that offers a fully 'laptop-style' power system, with the option of a nicely integrated battery. Not quite sure why.
No idea if it's the GPU; but high-frequency magnetics are all potential culprits (as are low frequencies, though 50/60Hz is usually 'hum' rather than 'whine'), and a modern laptop is just stuffed with DC/DC converters keeping the various ICs fed, so if it isn't the GPU's support system, it's another fairly similar one.
I understand that high-frequency magnetics are at risk of physical oscillation(the detailed math is right over my head; but all it takes is one part of the part attracting or repelling another part of the part, at least under some input waveforms, and you'll potentially see movement, which easily enough turns to sound); but the seemingly obvious solution is just to pot the magnetics in an adequately thermally conductive epoxy or other encapsulant.
Does anybody know if that just adds too much cost, without performance benefit, and so gets cut during the BOM penny pinching? Do potting compounds have properties that degrade the performance or efficiency of common magnetics? Why is it that, if coil whine is an issue, they aren't just dipping the things in epoxy and calling it a day?
It presumably depends on how your UPS capacity is distributed, as well.
Lead acid is damned heavy, and offers mediocre density; but if you are just going to shove them in the basement, or are building on the cheapest flat land in the middle of nowhere that you can find, that may not be a problem. However, if cabling costs or resistive losses make 'distributed' UPSes, with fewer big battery banks and more, smaller, battery packs powering individual systems (presumably also cutting DC/AC inverter losses out of the equation and providing DC directly to the motherboard) the superior density and lighter weight of Li-ion is much more attractive.
Given the trend toward relatively 'open air' (obviously with filters and stuff, they aren't letting rain get on the racks) designs to minimize cooling costs, I can imagine that engineering around Li-Ion's overtly suicidal tendencies would be doable(if you factor in the markedly better energy density and lower weight, you end up needing a relatively small enclosure, sufficient to resist direct burn-through and with emergency vents that channel the noxious gasses away from anything delicate and into the airflow of the datacenter); but the tendency of Li-ions to be even pricier than APC Blessed Replacement Gellcells, and born to die, seems fairly intimidating.
I assume that Facebook can purchase enough to get all the volume discounts that vendors will offer on 18650s; but I'm genuinely surprised that that's enough, for non-vehicle applications(where weight and bulk are an obvious problem) to beat out the nasty, heavy; but cheap and mature lead acid stuff.
Has there ever been a censorship campaign without some allegedly noble objective? I certainly can't remember anyone standing up and saying "Yeah, it's forbidden because we are basically evil like that." There is always a threat to the children, social order, national security, etc.
Some already have(and, in case you haven't already guessed, 'well, just send us a.csv!' counts as better-than-average credentials handling and account creation, LDAP may be older thang god but it apparently isn't 'web' enough); but some publishers are...uncomfortably retro. It isn't every day that "Requires Quicktime" means "Go forth and find the last 16-bit Quicktime release and make it work on a modern OS" but they manage.
It cuts both ways: being particularly tepid gaming systems is a plus; but education is rotten with absolutely horrible pack-in software from textbooks and the like. Much of it is bullshit, and not even worth peeling off the shrinkwrap; but if 'Pearson Shovelware 2013' is the Solution For Aligning With Common Core Standards And Driving Success in the Differentiated Instruction Classroom, well, IT just has to make Pearson Shovelware 2013 work. That's where it is less helpful(and why replacing staff/admin systems with chromebooks is a near-total impossibility).
I tend to subscribe to the (arguably curmudgeonly) position that, outside of CS, CAD, and other specifically-involves-computers subjects, there's no use for computers in education except for making reading, writing, and record keeping easier, and the rest is mostly fluff, so I'm not as concerned about the limitations.
People who think that engaging rich-media-experiences-something-multiple-learning styles are the hottest new thing tend to be attracted to iDevices; because those get all the app attention; but for basic typing-and-internet-boxes, ChromeOS is crazy cheap and easier to administer than Windows(though AD is powerful).
Schools pay less than corporate customers; but (at least when I was doing IT for a school district) there was still a significant gap between 'less than corporate' and 'what our budget could absorb without pain'.
Yes, for certain consumer/BYOD scenarios, on rather crippled devices, MS has succumbed to the inevitable and cut prices to the bone. However, if you still want things like 'laptops with keyboards' or 'Active Directory for credentials handling and some semblance of management', it's a punch in the wallet. More so if you go for a full Office/Exchange setup, and if you need to go into System Center, or a third party equivalent (Altiris used to kick ass; but Symantec purchased it and has been ruining it lately) for imaging and more robust control than pure AD.
MS doesn't have the pricing power of Big Blue in the Days of Yore; but even with educational discounts it adds up uncomfortably fast.
Chromebooks are, admittedly, rather limited; but chromeOS + Apps for Education can do credentials, a fair amount of configuration, and get students typing away impressively quickly and cheaply compared to the alternatives. There are things you simply can't do, full stop; but within their scope those things are damned efficient.
iPads are slick, and have all the 'apps' and iBook-only textbooks and similar stuff; but management might as well have been designed to remind you that Apple hates enterprise and institutional customers. They aren't as bad as they used to be; but even with a full MDM setup, it's a massive pain in the ass(Though, while chromeOS is absurdly better, Android is even worse).
Actual OSX devices are much better behaved, as are Windows systems with enough licenses in place for a full AD setup; but the hardware is either more expensive or less portable and doesn't offer the exciting finger-painting action that users crave for some stupid reason.
Wasn't the guy in 'Atlas Shrugs' supposed to be some kind of genius, super-motivated captain of industry and metallurgical innovation before his work was destroyed by nihilistic collectivist parasites?
The analogy might be giving AT&T a bit too much credit, given that they've been slacker oligopolists with minimal interest in doing any actual work for some decades, if not longer.
I'd be curious to know (anyone have real-world examples we could look at?) whether you can do enough to foster a feeling of 'elite'-ness when the people involved all know that their job is slightly too important to eliminate; but almost certainly just going through the motions.
There are certainly lots of ways to grind down and demoralize people with actually important jobs; but with some care and skill, and a willingness to treat them like they are actually important, it's hardly an intractable problem. People whose jobs are mostly pointless, barring a fairly horrifying turn of events, though? Is there some combination of perks, discipline, and exercises that will work in spite of that?
I'm no expert on morale or institutional psychology, so I'm asking honestly, not rhetorically; but it seems like something that would make the problems of burnout, disaffection, and cynical keeping-up-appearances much harder to crack.
Something with substantial gold content isn't going to cut it; but, unless they've markedly improved of late, shape-memory alloys are pretty brutal on your power budget. They seem downright magical in that they work at all; but you are basically talking a resistive heater that you need to dump current into until it warms up enough to change shape(and, obviously enough, bigger structures need more energy to increase their temperature, and achieving faster temperature increases requires higher currents, which is unhelpful if you are hoping to use a battery chemistry that dislikes high discharge rates or suffers from voltage droop under high discharge).
It's not clear that this is it; but artificial muscles are in a pretty sad state compared to their natural counterparts. It would make maintenance and refueling a bit more of a nuisance than just plugging in a battery charger; but with today's tech you might actually be better off with chunks of harvested or cultured muscle and swapping out their nutrient fluid from time to time...
Or just ask bacteria about it. Between plasmid transfer and dividing as often as several times an hour, those sneaky little bastards evolve like nobody's business.
... evolution didn't go into high gear until the "Cambrian Explosion",...
I'm not sure I believe that - one could reasonably argue that the growth in complexity from a soup of ribozymes to the first cell, was comparable to the leap from single-celled organisms to multicelled; or possibly far more involved than that. Another major leap was from prokaryotes to eukaryotes, a necessary precondition for (most) multicelled life, it would appear. What happened at the Cambrian explosion was probably just that now the organisms got big and touch enough to leave fossils.
There seems to be an interplay between 'growth in complexity' and 'diversification' at work. It is undeniably the case that hammering out the basics of metabolic chemistry, and various other low-level-but-absolutely-life-critical stuff took a long time, and that it was one hell of a jump from 'glorified catalytic processes' to 'life as we know it'; but if you are looking at diversity as well as complexity, the massive increase in weirdo multicellular organisms made possible only by high powered aerobic metabolism (along with the large number of new niches for symbiotes and parasites that this created) was also very big news.
I think this is just CYA. The government will set a minimum standard of security which the retailers will set as their default level and that way when a breach happens they can say, well we followed the government mandates, we should not be sued.
I agree that this isn't some altruistic action motivated by concern over the poor consumers; but asking for regulation is something that also serves a secondary purpose: 'retail security' is a collective action problem: It costs money to do(best case, it costs money but at least you can do it unilaterally, as in the case of hardening your own network and backend; worst case it costs money and can't be done without industry-wide buy-in, as with replacing mag stripes with something less totally fucked); but the benefits are mostly invisible (customers only care how secure you are when you weren't secure enough and you get cracked; up until then, they don't know and don't care whether you are pitifully insecure and lucky or highly secure).
Under these circumstances, it's difficult to justify unilateral improvements ("Hey, the nerds over in the cost center want more money because something, something, identity theft, yadda yadda. Tell them to STFU, it's cheaper just to 'apologize' and offer a free year of credit monitoring") and even more difficult to drive a coordinated, multi-actor, upgrade.
If you lobby for a regulation, though, you can be assured that your competitors have to deal with the same hassle you are dealing with and are in a much better position to say "Hey! Other merchants, banks, and involved parties? Y'know those new regulations? Compliance will end up costing us all less if we just roll out something less broken, rather than individually slapping band-aids on our shitty systems."
It's not elegant; but that is an additional use of regulation, aside from CYA.
Perhaps the more tractable question is whether single-purpose nuclear delivery systems can be eliminated.
Unlike, say, submarines and bombers, which have other purposes to keep the crew busy; but can deliver nuclear payloads; or nuclear weapon research and maintenance, which is single-purpose but involves a lot of potentially interesting work in physics, materials engineering, etc. watching over the ICBMs is pure grind.
It's hard to imagine how you could keep morale up when the job is 'nothing but drills, in a hole, until doomsday'; but ICBMs are too expensive(and far too likely to cause itchy trigger fingers) to have a conventional role, and it's not exactly in anyone's interest to edge closer to a situation where missile crews have reason to feel that they are preparing for a job they'll be called upon to perform.
Colossus always struck me as having real leadership potential. Sure, a bit on the utilitarian-evil side; but not overtly sadistic and probably the most competent technocrat ever to take office...
Unfortunately, it's tricky to imagine how you could make the job more attractive (short of a "Yeah, it's hell; but we pay you so much you can retire in two years" type approach, which would markedly increase churn and cost without necessarily much improving the day-to-day quality of the workforce.
It's a fairly shit job (Hey! It's time for work! 99.99% chance says it'll be a long stretch of pure boredom in some unpleasant bunker with a few instances of my superiors fucking with me as part of a 'routine drill'. Failing that, I get to be responsible for a few million deaths!) and doesn't have a terribly large overlap with the most desireable jobs(depending on how similar the UIs are, it may or may not be good practice for other parts of the air force that involve hunching over screens and coordinating stuff; and the people doing maintenance and inspection of ICBMs are probably picking up skills applicable to maintenance and inspection of other weapons systems). It's also hard to hide the fact that, while it isn't quite useless enough to eliminate, it's not exactly a job where you'll feel like you are doing anything of value, which won't help your morale.
How would you make doing a job like that not burn people out?
You also need to make Ma and Pa Clueless more or less bulletproof somehow.
The state of security for assorted online services is so dreadful now that much of the defense that a lot of users have likely comes from being essentially worthless, rather than from being difficult to crack.
In the event that anonymity is forbidden, there will be quite a rush to pick up the previously worthless accounts of hapless users to do all your more nefarious communicating through.
There's also the obvious interest(above and beyond the privacy considerations anyone would have about information pertaining to them) raised by the fact that sex workers getting murdered by their more unhinged customers is a fair regular occurrence.
If I saw a public records request like that I'd tell the cops to check on the cadaver dog; because it is going to be real busy in the near future.
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You can get in-system UPSes for desktops; but they tend to be specialty items (Logic Supply is the one I know of, no relation to them, just the example I could find most easily. Fits in a 2.5in bay, takes standard size Li-ion cells, pretty cute); For anything remotely affordable, the answer seems to be "Buy a laptop". Despite the increasingly overlap between laptops and desktops in the low power and 'all-in-one' segments, I don't know of anything (not sold as a laptop) that offers a fully 'laptop-style' power system, with the option of a nicely integrated battery. Not quite sure why.
No idea if it's the GPU; but high-frequency magnetics are all potential culprits (as are low frequencies, though 50/60Hz is usually 'hum' rather than 'whine'), and a modern laptop is just stuffed with DC/DC converters keeping the various ICs fed, so if it isn't the GPU's support system, it's another fairly similar one.
I understand that high-frequency magnetics are at risk of physical oscillation(the detailed math is right over my head; but all it takes is one part of the part attracting or repelling another part of the part, at least under some input waveforms, and you'll potentially see movement, which easily enough turns to sound); but the seemingly obvious solution is just to pot the magnetics in an adequately thermally conductive epoxy or other encapsulant.
Does anybody know if that just adds too much cost, without performance benefit, and so gets cut during the BOM penny pinching? Do potting compounds have properties that degrade the performance or efficiency of common magnetics? Why is it that, if coil whine is an issue, they aren't just dipping the things in epoxy and calling it a day?
It presumably depends on how your UPS capacity is distributed, as well.
Lead acid is damned heavy, and offers mediocre density; but if you are just going to shove them in the basement, or are building on the cheapest flat land in the middle of nowhere that you can find, that may not be a problem. However, if cabling costs or resistive losses make 'distributed' UPSes, with fewer big battery banks and more, smaller, battery packs powering individual systems (presumably also cutting DC/AC inverter losses out of the equation and providing DC directly to the motherboard) the superior density and lighter weight of Li-ion is much more attractive.
Given the trend toward relatively 'open air' (obviously with filters and stuff, they aren't letting rain get on the racks) designs to minimize cooling costs, I can imagine that engineering around Li-Ion's overtly suicidal tendencies would be doable(if you factor in the markedly better energy density and lower weight, you end up needing a relatively small enclosure, sufficient to resist direct burn-through and with emergency vents that channel the noxious gasses away from anything delicate and into the airflow of the datacenter); but the tendency of Li-ions to be even pricier than APC Blessed Replacement Gellcells, and born to die, seems fairly intimidating.
I assume that Facebook can purchase enough to get all the volume discounts that vendors will offer on 18650s; but I'm genuinely surprised that that's enough, for non-vehicle applications(where weight and bulk are an obvious problem) to beat out the nasty, heavy; but cheap and mature lead acid stuff.
Has there ever been a censorship campaign without some allegedly noble objective? I certainly can't remember anyone standing up and saying "Yeah, it's forbidden because we are basically evil like that." There is always a threat to the children, social order, national security, etc.
Nice work, Airstrip One.
Some already have(and, in case you haven't already guessed, 'well, just send us a .csv!' counts as better-than-average credentials handling and account creation, LDAP may be older thang god but it apparently isn't 'web' enough); but some publishers are...uncomfortably retro. It isn't every day that "Requires Quicktime" means "Go forth and find the last 16-bit Quicktime release and make it work on a modern OS" but they manage.
You could always try pretending to be in Ireland for tax purposes.
You'll save money for a decade or two until eventually somebody gets angry enough to try to correct the mistake!
It cuts both ways: being particularly tepid gaming systems is a plus; but education is rotten with absolutely horrible pack-in software from textbooks and the like. Much of it is bullshit, and not even worth peeling off the shrinkwrap; but if 'Pearson Shovelware 2013' is the Solution For Aligning With Common Core Standards And Driving Success in the Differentiated Instruction Classroom, well, IT just has to make Pearson Shovelware 2013 work. That's where it is less helpful(and why replacing staff/admin systems with chromebooks is a near-total impossibility).
I tend to subscribe to the (arguably curmudgeonly) position that, outside of CS, CAD, and other specifically-involves-computers subjects, there's no use for computers in education except for making reading, writing, and record keeping easier, and the rest is mostly fluff, so I'm not as concerned about the limitations.
People who think that engaging rich-media-experiences-something-multiple-learning styles are the hottest new thing tend to be attracted to iDevices; because those get all the app attention; but for basic typing-and-internet-boxes, ChromeOS is crazy cheap and easier to administer than Windows(though AD is powerful).
iOLotusNotes is going to land right in Gartner's magic quadrant, that's for sure...
Schools pay less than corporate customers; but (at least when I was doing IT for a school district) there was still a significant gap between 'less than corporate' and 'what our budget could absorb without pain'.
Yes, for certain consumer/BYOD scenarios, on rather crippled devices, MS has succumbed to the inevitable and cut prices to the bone. However, if you still want things like 'laptops with keyboards' or 'Active Directory for credentials handling and some semblance of management', it's a punch in the wallet. More so if you go for a full Office/Exchange setup, and if you need to go into System Center, or a third party equivalent (Altiris used to kick ass; but Symantec purchased it and has been ruining it lately) for imaging and more robust control than pure AD.
MS doesn't have the pricing power of Big Blue in the Days of Yore; but even with educational discounts it adds up uncomfortably fast.
Chromebooks are, admittedly, rather limited; but chromeOS + Apps for Education can do credentials, a fair amount of configuration, and get students typing away impressively quickly and cheaply compared to the alternatives. There are things you simply can't do, full stop; but within their scope those things are damned efficient.
iPads are slick, and have all the 'apps' and iBook-only textbooks and similar stuff; but management might as well have been designed to remind you that Apple hates enterprise and institutional customers. They aren't as bad as they used to be; but even with a full MDM setup, it's a massive pain in the ass(Though, while chromeOS is absurdly better, Android is even worse).
Actual OSX devices are much better behaved, as are Windows systems with enough licenses in place for a full AD setup; but the hardware is either more expensive or less portable and doesn't offer the exciting finger-painting action that users crave for some stupid reason.
Wasn't the guy in 'Atlas Shrugs' supposed to be some kind of genius, super-motivated captain of industry and metallurgical innovation before his work was destroyed by nihilistic collectivist parasites?
The analogy might be giving AT&T a bit too much credit, given that they've been slacker oligopolists with minimal interest in doing any actual work for some decades, if not longer.
I'd be curious to know (anyone have real-world examples we could look at?) whether you can do enough to foster a feeling of 'elite'-ness when the people involved all know that their job is slightly too important to eliminate; but almost certainly just going through the motions.
There are certainly lots of ways to grind down and demoralize people with actually important jobs; but with some care and skill, and a willingness to treat them like they are actually important, it's hardly an intractable problem. People whose jobs are mostly pointless, barring a fairly horrifying turn of events, though? Is there some combination of perks, discipline, and exercises that will work in spite of that?
I'm no expert on morale or institutional psychology, so I'm asking honestly, not rhetorically; but it seems like something that would make the problems of burnout, disaffection, and cynical keeping-up-appearances much harder to crack.
Something with substantial gold content isn't going to cut it; but, unless they've markedly improved of late, shape-memory alloys are pretty brutal on your power budget. They seem downright magical in that they work at all; but you are basically talking a resistive heater that you need to dump current into until it warms up enough to change shape(and, obviously enough, bigger structures need more energy to increase their temperature, and achieving faster temperature increases requires higher currents, which is unhelpful if you are hoping to use a battery chemistry that dislikes high discharge rates or suffers from voltage droop under high discharge).
It's not clear that this is it; but artificial muscles are in a pretty sad state compared to their natural counterparts. It would make maintenance and refueling a bit more of a nuisance than just plugging in a battery charger; but with today's tech you might actually be better off with chunks of harvested or cultured muscle and swapping out their nutrient fluid from time to time...
Or just ask bacteria about it. Between plasmid transfer and dividing as often as several times an hour, those sneaky little bastards evolve like nobody's business.
... evolution didn't go into high gear until the "Cambrian Explosion", ...
I'm not sure I believe that - one could reasonably argue that the growth in complexity from a soup of ribozymes to the first cell, was comparable to the leap from single-celled organisms to multicelled; or possibly far more involved than that. Another major leap was from prokaryotes to eukaryotes, a necessary precondition for (most) multicelled life, it would appear. What happened at the Cambrian explosion was probably just that now the organisms got big and touch enough to leave fossils.
There seems to be an interplay between 'growth in complexity' and 'diversification' at work. It is undeniably the case that hammering out the basics of metabolic chemistry, and various other low-level-but-absolutely-life-critical stuff took a long time, and that it was one hell of a jump from 'glorified catalytic processes' to 'life as we know it'; but if you are looking at diversity as well as complexity, the massive increase in weirdo multicellular organisms made possible only by high powered aerobic metabolism (along with the large number of new niches for symbiotes and parasites that this created) was also very big news.
Now that Google has a military robotics subsidiary, surely they need a suitable location to house their growing army of robotic minions, no?
I think this is just CYA. The government will set a minimum standard of security which the retailers will set as their default level and that way when a breach happens they can say, well we followed the government mandates, we should not be sued.
I agree that this isn't some altruistic action motivated by concern over the poor consumers; but asking for regulation is something that also serves a secondary purpose: 'retail security' is a collective action problem: It costs money to do(best case, it costs money but at least you can do it unilaterally, as in the case of hardening your own network and backend; worst case it costs money and can't be done without industry-wide buy-in, as with replacing mag stripes with something less totally fucked); but the benefits are mostly invisible (customers only care how secure you are when you weren't secure enough and you get cracked; up until then, they don't know and don't care whether you are pitifully insecure and lucky or highly secure).
Under these circumstances, it's difficult to justify unilateral improvements ("Hey, the nerds over in the cost center want more money because something, something, identity theft, yadda yadda. Tell them to STFU, it's cheaper just to 'apologize' and offer a free year of credit monitoring") and even more difficult to drive a coordinated, multi-actor, upgrade.
If you lobby for a regulation, though, you can be assured that your competitors have to deal with the same hassle you are dealing with and are in a much better position to say "Hey! Other merchants, banks, and involved parties? Y'know those new regulations? Compliance will end up costing us all less if we just roll out something less broken, rather than individually slapping band-aids on our shitty systems."
It's not elegant; but that is an additional use of regulation, aside from CYA.
That's apparently another job that burns people out fairly quickly, despite the greater amount of non-drill activity.
Perhaps the more tractable question is whether single-purpose nuclear delivery systems can be eliminated.
Unlike, say, submarines and bombers, which have other purposes to keep the crew busy; but can deliver nuclear payloads; or nuclear weapon research and maintenance, which is single-purpose but involves a lot of potentially interesting work in physics, materials engineering, etc. watching over the ICBMs is pure grind.
It's hard to imagine how you could keep morale up when the job is 'nothing but drills, in a hole, until doomsday'; but ICBMs are too expensive(and far too likely to cause itchy trigger fingers) to have a conventional role, and it's not exactly in anyone's interest to edge closer to a situation where missile crews have reason to feel that they are preparing for a job they'll be called upon to perform.
Colossus always struck me as having real leadership potential. Sure, a bit on the utilitarian-evil side; but not overtly sadistic and probably the most competent technocrat ever to take office...
Unfortunately, it's tricky to imagine how you could make the job more attractive (short of a "Yeah, it's hell; but we pay you so much you can retire in two years" type approach, which would markedly increase churn and cost without necessarily much improving the day-to-day quality of the workforce.
It's a fairly shit job (Hey! It's time for work! 99.99% chance says it'll be a long stretch of pure boredom in some unpleasant bunker with a few instances of my superiors fucking with me as part of a 'routine drill'. Failing that, I get to be responsible for a few million deaths!) and doesn't have a terribly large overlap with the most desireable jobs(depending on how similar the UIs are, it may or may not be good practice for other parts of the air force that involve hunching over screens and coordinating stuff; and the people doing maintenance and inspection of ICBMs are probably picking up skills applicable to maintenance and inspection of other weapons systems). It's also hard to hide the fact that, while it isn't quite useless enough to eliminate, it's not exactly a job where you'll feel like you are doing anything of value, which won't help your morale.
How would you make doing a job like that not burn people out?
You also need to make Ma and Pa Clueless more or less bulletproof somehow.
The state of security for assorted online services is so dreadful now that much of the defense that a lot of users have likely comes from being essentially worthless, rather than from being difficult to crack.
In the event that anonymity is forbidden, there will be quite a rush to pick up the previously worthless accounts of hapless users to do all your more nefarious communicating through.
There's also the obvious interest(above and beyond the privacy considerations anyone would have about information pertaining to them) raised by the fact that sex workers getting murdered by their more unhinged customers is a fair regular occurrence.
If I saw a public records request like that I'd tell the cops to check on the cadaver dog; because it is going to be real busy in the near future.
I'd say that anyone more competent than the youtube comments section can probably afford to snipe at the WSJ editorials now and again.