What about just printing out the statements every month? It's surely more resource-conscious than having to ship two sheets of paper in an envelope every month, for every account? Heck, you can easily automate it, so that when the statements are available they'll just "magically" print out. That's how I do it.
Sweetheart, I don't know where you live, but if you're on eBay, you either accept paypal or you don't do business. That's all there's to it. Sure nobody is forcing me to use them, just as nobody is forcing me to go to work, or to do business on eBay. But then you'd be bitching I'm living off gov't handouts, right? So, you see, the reality is that if you want access to the unique marketplace that eBay is (there's nothing else that remotely compares to it), you have to use paypal. That's the end of this story.
Wait, people still get their bank statements in the mail?! What for, may I ask? Every bank out there offers paperless communications. It's silly not to use it.
Are you a shill or are you serious?! The transaction cost on PayPal is ridiculously high as it is. I'm sure it can cover compliance with banking rules, with plenty left to spare. Go read ebay's financial reports, they own PayPal. PayPal's profit margins make regular banks look silly, and it's not due to lack of regulation. Nobody would bank in a bank that has fee structure of PayPal. But then there are no alternatives to PayPal, so if they were regulated like a bank it wouldn't change a thing for the worse for anyone, except that people's lives wouldn't be ruined if some outsourced guy in their "customer support", who has no clue about U.S. culture and customs, gets suspicious about a transaction that got flagged.
The whole "don't keep money in PayPal" spiel is stupid, you obviously don't have a fucking clue what you talk about. If PayPal decides you owe them, or they want to hold on to some of your money, they'll do it no matter what your account balance is. You just end up with negative balance that's due and payable now, and if you happen to have a linked checking account (like you need to not to face silly transaction limits), they'll gladly take the money out from there whether you like it or not. If your checking happens to be dry (anyone sane has a separate account for use with paypal), you'll be slammed with NSF fees from both ends, and you'll still owe PayPal, and it will show up on your credit report very quickly. Basically PayPal can screw you, and unless you have plenty of money for lawyers, there is absolutely no recourse. Even if you have money for lawyers, you'll only recover your costs if you manage to extract punitive damages. Otherwise you'll pay $50k for lawyers to recover what, 10% or less of it? Banking on being awarded attorney costs just because you were the one who was wronged is naive as well.
Yup. And with a hand pump you can crank out 150W for about 90 seconds (see research papers from the Gamera II HPH project):)
150W from legs is something I can do reasonably indefinitely, and I'm hardly very fit (I hike a lot about once a year and that's it).
So for a 1MW or similarly sized generator, you'd need a team of 4 people going in 50 minute shifts with 10 minute breaks. Or 3 fit people which should be in ample supply in NY I'd hope:)
Sure, but that's what gearing is for. You'd want to set up such a system to require about 150W to pump. That's what a semi-fit human should be able to cope with.
So maybe the answer is that flood-prone urban areas are just not a good place for critical data infrastructure.
That's aggrandizing the problem, really. The solutions are quite simple.The fuel pumps and other fuel delivery and refill systems for the generators should be in waterproof enclosures and rated to operate while the basement is submerged. Alternatively, there should be provisions for feeding fuel from a tanker parked out on the street to a riser going to the upper floor generator(s). That's all there's to it. Why nobody thought of it, I wouldn't know.
For most Linux hosting, I don't think anyone cares a damn about x86 compatibility. As long as there's a Debian and CentOS/RHEL support for the architecture, and a decent Java implementation, nobody gives a damn, I don't think. All the open source stuff can be compiled pretty much for anything you want, and the world-facing web "stuff" typically uses php anyway, so as far as the user is concerned it can run on PDP-11 architecture with paging.
You can always get a legit boarding pass with no extra screening, change it to extra screening, and see what happens. They can't say you tried to bypass any security measures that way:)
Technicians? You don't know how it's done in government. Namely, they can don't do anything themselves -- savings and personnel cuts, you understand, of course. Technology is contracted out. Thus they'd need to award some contractor company a project worth a couple million USD to do this. Perhaps even a couple dozen million. TSA, just as any govt. agency, has occasional competent people on board, but they can't do squat, most of the time.
What's wrong with going, quite literally, ballistic? Collect solar energy any way you want (PV, wind, biomass burning, etc), then use it to launch a projectile with steering fins and a landing parachute on a ballistic trajectory to the destination. I'd have to run some numbers on that one to figure out how fast one would be wasting energy in lower atmosphere, though.
I think I can't but agree. It was a freakin' replica, not even an outlandishly detailed or expensive one at that. Decent, but not overdone, they didn't have gold plated hull nor valuable artwork on board, nor really anything like that -- neither did the original, of course. Yes, it rubs you wrong when you know that inaction will likely get the replica destroyed, but hey, we presumably value human life as well. It wasn't a boat worth saving at the expense of human life.
Thousands of hours to sell those tubes? That's crazy talk. Even eBay itself offers a bulk listing service, where you can easily list hundreds of items. It'd be trivial to sell the tubes, and they may be worth a good chunk of money as the audiophools value some of them dearly. Their stupidity, your gain.
Finally someone who sees that the king is naked. Thank you Teancum! As far as I'm concerned, they should have sent a couple to ISS long ago, and has them stay there until the baby is born (assuming uncomplicated pregnancy). Yeah, there would be risks, yada yada. There are always risks. That's why they're considered the elite:)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're repeating the tired old fantasies. NASA has never really been in the business of building anything. The contractors did the building, and much of the design as well. NASA was really about project management and engineering, mission control, and, um, science. Go and read about who designed and built various pieces of Gemini, Apollo, etc.
Again, if you have physical access, all it takes is a little button to temporarily allow unlimited, password-less connection. I'm sure there's plenty of simple PLCs that are programmable with ladder logic only and any electrician will understand them, the stuff I deal with is used for motion control and you need to know your shit to do anything much with them. Like, for example, knowing a bit about a couple of different industrial communications protocols, knowing a bit about TCP/IP networking, knowing a bit about computer science (algorithmic complexity), knowing a bit about digital signal processing, etc. The apocryphal "electrician" would probably manage to do a lot of damage and nothing much else. This is stuff where if you get a control loop unstable, things that cost $20k apiece will run into other things and get broken.
Yeah, because you can't have a fucking button on the PLC itself to enable direct passwordless access when you already have physical access and can screw things as you please... For everything else, you don't need passwords, just loading up the set of public keys of entities that are allowed to make changes in the PLC. That's all there's to it. No passwords.
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What about just printing out the statements every month? It's surely more resource-conscious than having to ship two sheets of paper in an envelope every month, for every account? Heck, you can easily automate it, so that when the statements are available they'll just "magically" print out. That's how I do it.
Sweetheart, I don't know where you live, but if you're on eBay, you either accept paypal or you don't do business. That's all there's to it. Sure nobody is forcing me to use them, just as nobody is forcing me to go to work, or to do business on eBay. But then you'd be bitching I'm living off gov't handouts, right? So, you see, the reality is that if you want access to the unique marketplace that eBay is (there's nothing else that remotely compares to it), you have to use paypal. That's the end of this story.
Wait, people still get their bank statements in the mail?! What for, may I ask? Every bank out there offers paperless communications. It's silly not to use it.
Are you a shill or are you serious?! The transaction cost on PayPal is ridiculously high as it is. I'm sure it can cover compliance with banking rules, with plenty left to spare. Go read ebay's financial reports, they own PayPal. PayPal's profit margins make regular banks look silly, and it's not due to lack of regulation. Nobody would bank in a bank that has fee structure of PayPal. But then there are no alternatives to PayPal, so if they were regulated like a bank it wouldn't change a thing for the worse for anyone, except that people's lives wouldn't be ruined if some outsourced guy in their "customer support", who has no clue about U.S. culture and customs, gets suspicious about a transaction that got flagged.
The whole "don't keep money in PayPal" spiel is stupid, you obviously don't have a fucking clue what you talk about. If PayPal decides you owe them, or they want to hold on to some of your money, they'll do it no matter what your account balance is. You just end up with negative balance that's due and payable now, and if you happen to have a linked checking account (like you need to not to face silly transaction limits), they'll gladly take the money out from there whether you like it or not. If your checking happens to be dry (anyone sane has a separate account for use with paypal), you'll be slammed with NSF fees from both ends, and you'll still owe PayPal, and it will show up on your credit report very quickly. Basically PayPal can screw you, and unless you have plenty of money for lawyers, there is absolutely no recourse. Even if you have money for lawyers, you'll only recover your costs if you manage to extract punitive damages. Otherwise you'll pay $50k for lawyers to recover what, 10% or less of it? Banking on being awarded attorney costs just because you were the one who was wronged is naive as well.
Yup. And with a hand pump you can crank out 150W for about 90 seconds (see research papers from the Gamera II HPH project) :)
150W from legs is something I can do reasonably indefinitely, and I'm hardly very fit (I hike a lot about once a year and that's it).
So for a 1MW or similarly sized generator, you'd need a team of 4 people going in 50 minute shifts with 10 minute breaks. Or 3 fit people which should be in ample supply in NY I'd hope :)
Sure, but that's what gearing is for. You'd want to set up such a system to require about 150W to pump. That's what a semi-fit human should be able to cope with.
So maybe the answer is that flood-prone urban areas are just not a good place for critical data infrastructure.
That's aggrandizing the problem, really. The solutions are quite simple.The fuel pumps and other fuel delivery and refill systems for the generators should be in waterproof enclosures and rated to operate while the basement is submerged. Alternatively, there should be provisions for feeding fuel from a tanker parked out on the street to a riser going to the upper floor generator(s). That's all there's to it. Why nobody thought of it, I wouldn't know.
Ta-ta-ta-tah! We have a winner :) Couldn't agree more.
Hand pump? What kind of an idiot thought that up? You need a pump with a foot crank drive. A.k.a. a pickup off an exercise bike or somesuch.
For most Linux hosting, I don't think anyone cares a damn about x86 compatibility. As long as there's a Debian and CentOS/RHEL support for the architecture, and a decent Java implementation, nobody gives a damn, I don't think. All the open source stuff can be compiled pretty much for anything you want, and the world-facing web "stuff" typically uses php anyway, so as far as the user is concerned it can run on PDP-11 architecture with paging.
Why oh why is this downvoted? It's +5 informative, with a touch of flamebait. I can't but agree.
You can always get a legit boarding pass with no extra screening, change it to extra screening, and see what happens. They can't say you tried to bypass any security measures that way :)
Technicians? You don't know how it's done in government. Namely, they can don't do anything themselves -- savings and personnel cuts, you understand, of course. Technology is contracted out. Thus they'd need to award some contractor company a project worth a couple million USD to do this. Perhaps even a couple dozen million. TSA, just as any govt. agency, has occasional competent people on board, but they can't do squat, most of the time.
What's wrong with going, quite literally, ballistic? Collect solar energy any way you want (PV, wind, biomass burning, etc), then use it to launch a projectile with steering fins and a landing parachute on a ballistic trajectory to the destination. I'd have to run some numbers on that one to figure out how fast one would be wasting energy in lower atmosphere, though.
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Then take it out to sea and scuttle it, for crying out loud, if it's such a burden as you claim. No need to put anyone in harm over it.
Suggested reading: "Nation" by Terry Pratchett. Steven Briggs's reading of the same is IMHO outstanding, if you're into spoken performances.
I think I can't but agree. It was a freakin' replica, not even an outlandishly detailed or expensive one at that. Decent, but not overdone, they didn't have gold plated hull nor valuable artwork on board, nor really anything like that -- neither did the original, of course. Yes, it rubs you wrong when you know that inaction will likely get the replica destroyed, but hey, we presumably value human life as well. It wasn't a boat worth saving at the expense of human life.
If they want to get rid of those, I'll gladly take them, sell them on eBay, and go for a nice vacation.
Thousands of hours to sell those tubes? That's crazy talk. Even eBay itself offers a bulk listing service, where you can easily list hundreds of items. It'd be trivial to sell the tubes, and they may be worth a good chunk of money as the audiophools value some of them dearly. Their stupidity, your gain.
Finally someone who sees that the king is naked. Thank you Teancum! As far as I'm concerned, they should have sent a couple to ISS long ago, and has them stay there until the baby is born (assuming uncomplicated pregnancy). Yeah, there would be risks, yada yada. There are always risks. That's why they're considered the elite :)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're repeating the tired old fantasies. NASA has never really been in the business of building anything. The contractors did the building, and much of the design as well. NASA was really about project management and engineering, mission control, and, um, science. Go and read about who designed and built various pieces of Gemini, Apollo, etc.
Yeah, say what you want, but they have got reliability engineering down pat. They know how to make their shit last, that's true.
Again, if you have physical access, all it takes is a little button to temporarily allow unlimited, password-less connection. I'm sure there's plenty of simple PLCs that are programmable with ladder logic only and any electrician will understand them, the stuff I deal with is used for motion control and you need to know your shit to do anything much with them. Like, for example, knowing a bit about a couple of different industrial communications protocols, knowing a bit about TCP/IP networking, knowing a bit about computer science (algorithmic complexity), knowing a bit about digital signal processing, etc. The apocryphal "electrician" would probably manage to do a lot of damage and nothing much else. This is stuff where if you get a control loop unstable, things that cost $20k apiece will run into other things and get broken.
Yeah, because you can't have a fucking button on the PLC itself to enable direct passwordless access when you already have physical access and can screw things as you please... For everything else, you don't need passwords, just loading up the set of public keys of entities that are allowed to make changes in the PLC. That's all there's to it. No passwords.