but for a purchase, the first thing you do is change all the locks.
Which is exactly what I told her, despite the fact that I didn't do it myself (we did eventually - at least on the front door, the other doors are all bolted from the inside). But it never occurred to me that the reason to do it might be that the gas man would just randomly wander into my house one day!
especially since electric meters are usually outside anyway...
Nope. Not round my way at least. My meter is in the basement (but uses broadband over power lines to communicate a reading).
My boss got a shock last week when she happened to be home at lunch time. There was a key in the door and in walks the gas man, plain as day. Needless to say, she was more than a little freaked out. She recently moved house and apparently the gas man has keys to most of the houses in her neighborhood. I'd take a smart meter over that any day.
Beats letting some random stranger (potential murderer) in your house to read the meter.
Also, "can reveal". Can being the operative word, really they are just inferring from spikes in electricity usage when certain things might be happening, they can't really tell the difference between taking a shower and suddenly turning on every appliance in your house just for shits and giggles. Nor can they tell the difference between leaving for work and deciding to sulk in complete darkness because you're feeling gothic. But yes, some annoymizing of the data would be nice (i.e. only summary data that shows when electricity usage typically peaks in certain types of household and not individual households exact usage).
Damn, beat me to it. The network formally known as "Sci Fi" is probably the single biggest disappointment on by cable line up. Nothing but crap, and that includes BSG, Stargate and all the rest of that shit (although they are marginally better than Sharkopus and similar). And to top it all, it has probably the most commercials of any cable network.
Because river deltas and estuaries are sensitive environments, the Stanford team designed their battery to have minimal ecological impact. The system would detour some of a river's flow to produce power, before returning the water to the ocean. The discharge water would be a mix of river water and sea water, and released into an area where the two waters already meet.
In fact, the fresh water doesn't have to come from a river. Cui says that storm runoff, gray water, or even treated sewage water could potentially be used. As an added benefit, the mixing entropy process can be reversed to produce drinking water by removing salt from ocean water.
Bullshit back at you. There is no value in revealing operational details, regardless of what you think of the politics of what might be happening. Revealing operational details puts lives at risk.
Rubbish, it was widely known and no secret that the US was providing military aide to Pakistan, what purpose did leaking the exact details have? It only puts those involved at risk while telling the average US voter nothing they didn't already know.
Let me get this straight: You think the idea that one of the nation's most secretive intelligence agencies would be doing something in secret that allows them to gain intelligence is "tin-foil hat territory"?
While I think the idea of the NSA putting a backdoor into an open source project is pure tin-foil hat territory, it's probably true that they would have some of the best people available analyzing it for any weaknesses and they wouldn't be likely to tell anybody if they found some fault in the algorithms.
Perhaps it is all encrypted and inaccessible? Maybe they didn't find anything at all? In that case maybe announcing that you've hit the "motherlode" is perhaps the best of a bad lot. Let the bad guys think they've been compromised and maybe they'll make a mistake as they flee to a new hiding place and we can pick them up. At the very least, maybe they'll scrap plans that where already in the works, forcing them to start over.
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but for a purchase, the first thing you do is change all the locks.
Which is exactly what I told her, despite the fact that I didn't do it myself (we did eventually - at least on the front door, the other doors are all bolted from the inside). But it never occurred to me that the reason to do it might be that the gas man would just randomly wander into my house one day!
Given the price of electricity in the Peoples Republic of California, no one turns on every appliance for shits & gigles.
Way to miss the point.
Most electric meters are actually installed outside the house.
Not mine. Nor any of my neighbors.
especially since electric meters are usually outside anyway...
Nope. Not round my way at least. My meter is in the basement (but uses broadband over power lines to communicate a reading).
My boss got a shock last week when she happened to be home at lunch time. There was a key in the door and in walks the gas man, plain as day. Needless to say, she was more than a little freaked out. She recently moved house and apparently the gas man has keys to most of the houses in her neighborhood. I'd take a smart meter over that any day.
Beats letting some random stranger (potential murderer) in your house to read the meter.
Also, "can reveal". Can being the operative word, really they are just inferring from spikes in electricity usage when certain things might be happening, they can't really tell the difference between taking a shower and suddenly turning on every appliance in your house just for shits and giggles. Nor can they tell the difference between leaving for work and deciding to sulk in complete darkness because you're feeling gothic. But yes, some annoymizing of the data would be nice (i.e. only summary data that shows when electricity usage typically peaks in certain types of household and not individual households exact usage).
Which cable system has this "Bacon" channel of which you speak? I want to subscribe!
Yeah, but if you have some crazy moon TLD like "co.uk" people are going to assume you're some kind of evil haxx0r. ;)
Here, here!
Damn, beat me to it. The network formally known as "Sci Fi" is probably the single biggest disappointment on by cable line up. Nothing but crap, and that includes BSG, Stargate and all the rest of that shit (although they are marginally better than Sharkopus and similar). And to top it all, it has probably the most commercials of any cable network.
You clearly are the product of a deranged imagination. Everyone knows that the intelligent population of the whole universe is zero.
FTFY
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Hey, she was asking for it with those sexy curving rivers.
...spanning the "afsluitdijk".
Cat just jump on your keyboard?
Perpetual motion FTW!
From TFA:
From TFA:
So potable water isn't necessarily needed.
Bullshit back at you. There is no value in revealing operational details, regardless of what you think of the politics of what might be happening. Revealing operational details puts lives at risk.
Rubbish, it was widely known and no secret that the US was providing military aide to Pakistan, what purpose did leaking the exact details have? It only puts those involved at risk while telling the average US voter nothing they didn't already know.
Let me get this straight: You think the idea that one of the nation's most secretive intelligence agencies would be doing something in secret that allows them to gain intelligence is "tin-foil hat territory"?
Yes
He boasted about all the material he leaked.
It could have. And exactly what was the benefit of that leak anyway?
While I think the idea of the NSA putting a backdoor into an open source project is pure tin-foil hat territory, it's probably true that they would have some of the best people available analyzing it for any weaknesses and they wouldn't be likely to tell anybody if they found some fault in the algorithms.
Perhaps it is all encrypted and inaccessible? Maybe they didn't find anything at all? In that case maybe announcing that you've hit the "motherlode" is perhaps the best of a bad lot. Let the bad guys think they've been compromised and maybe they'll make a mistake as they flee to a new hiding place and we can pick them up. At the very least, maybe they'll scrap plans that where already in the works, forcing them to start over.
All wild speculation of course.
Another good reason why Bradley Manning needs to be locked up for good.
Why would somebody buy a computer from a phone company?