Listen to me. You don't know shit. By federal law, all Control Areas for power grids are legally required to be accessible on the internet. Browse the FERC site.
In fact, both on the CISO and EISO, ALL power transactions are coordinated through the internet by way of the ETag 1.67 or ETag 1.7 messaging, along with the OASIS power reservation system. This includes mission critical power delivery systems. With the increasing load and complexity of loading systems, manual operation is very tedious and a little fragile because human errors are so prone.
You need to do a little research if you don't think we aren't vulnerable.
Did you all know that all power transactions on public power systems travel over the internet? Wanna hear something a little better? The backup plan in case of internet breakage is by E-Mail and then finally defaulting to the old fax machine. With the increasing complexity of transactions, increasing dependance on automation of power delivery, and an upcoming rollout of the ETag 1.7 transaction updgrade in April, who's to say the light switches will work in the future?
In light of this article and the probability that the public phone system is very susceptible to a terrorist or otherwise dangerous attack, shouldn't there be a dedicated messaging medium for the power grid? Say, Satellite or Microwave? I realize how daunting a project would be, as well as how cost prohibitive, but look at it this way: A foreign or national threat doesn't attack the power generation facilities, instead, they DDoS a server responsible for scheduling the power delivery. Thus preventing or decreasing the reliability of this power grid. Statewide or even interstate power blackouts are just one of a million effects of such an attack.
I'm not proclaiming a doomsday here, but with the current plight of Enron, shouldn't there be a little more scrutiny?
Hah, not likely. Those goatsex trollers will still be here. Their not going anywhere. On a side note, I don't think Jeff and the gang are going to end up making money off of this subscription deal. First of all, they're only editors; they don't own slashdot anymore. OSDN does. If there is $$$ to be made, it's for OSDN.
So, for the editors, this is just another pain in the ass. Something that will prevent some users from seeing their hard work. I sincerely hope that the users are willing to give up a mickey d's happymeal once or twice a year to view slashdot ad-free.
Yeah, get this. To top off my SMS spam, one *feature* of my VoiceStream account is an email address consisting of my phonenumber bound to SMS. All of the email on that account is automatically sent to my phone. I've been extremely careful to keep that email address off the internet. All it takes is one spam harvester and no amount of laws or lawsuits could keep my phone bill low!!!!!!
Persoonally, I don't mind bulk mail. It is often easily recognized and easily thrown out. It doesn't really cost me any money to recycle my bulk mail. But, in this case, I end up receiving the bill for them sending me spam. It's kind of like receiving bulk mail COD, without requesting it and not being able to return to sender or refuse package:(
The big deal is that some of us pay for SMS on a 'per-message' basis. I'm a VoiceStream Wireless(major US Wireless provider) and I only receive 100 free messages per month. After that, it could start costing me lots of money to receive shit that I don't need.
Even with a reasonably low spam rate of 3 per day, that pretty much takes care of all of my monthly messages. Seeing as I actually use SMS for my own needs, I could see spam costing me an extra 5-10$ month; at which point I'm gonna start sending out bills to spam senders.
Most people don't have the technical knowledge to understand the differences between Sun and IBM hardware. I think they also don't understand the different types of application needs.
The mainframes will always lead the pack in bandwidth and thus are very good working with multi-GB to multi-TB datasets. When you have a high computational need such as Computational Fluid Dynamics or molecular modeling, a cluster of workstations or a dedicated beowulf is going to perform far better than the mainframe. When you look at mainframes like the Cray T3E, they really do have it all; but you pay through the nose. To replicate the processor performance of a Cray with commodity products would require about 1/10th of the money.
Basically, people need to not worry so much about the raw numbers and take a minute to think about what they're intended to be doing.
I worked a graveyard shift job for about 3 months. The money was really good. Alas, I quit and took a better job from 4-10pm. So, I get off work every night and fall asleep around 6 AM. If the sun comes up before I fall asleep, then I have to stay awake another day. However, I get up at 1pm every day. This isn't a requirement; I've contracted long term(4+ years) insomnia from that stupid freaking graveyard job. It won't go away. I've tried everything including sedatives but that just makes it worse. Why can't I sleep when the sun is on the other side of the planet!!!????
If you'd like to read a little more about this, study the design of metal cutting lasers. Mazak is a good designer of such products. They're biggest laser is a 2.5KW CO2 metal cutting machine. It cuts relatively quick, but when compared to a weapon on the battlefield, it's slow as a turtle.
One thing you'll notice: Cutting stainless requires much more power than do many other materials. When initially piercing the surface, it reflects a high percentage of the laser. What little percentage is left must be enough to melt and cut through. Then again, this is a relatively small laser cutting from no clearance to maybe 6 inches.
So, you wanna slice something up from thousands of feet, eh? You're gonna need a few hundred kw minimum. And that's if you have a really coherent beam with a minium of divergence. At these distances, divergence will be a big problem.
Maybe you should go read the text of the treaty. It's intent was to prevent inhumane suffering. Before the treaty was written, at that point, the only laser weapons available were of size to maim and wound soldiers. Not kill them.
Torture even during times of war is to be avoided on the battlefield. If we gonna shoot them, we sure as fuck better kill them. AFAIK, the treaty originally referred to foot soldiers only.
A quick look-see through old patents shows that Xerox is the true inventor of the GUI. Is this correct? And DARPA created the internet to connect universities; accurate?
By design, it's not profitable to put the smart people on the phone. They're busy doing more important things. Tech support is an 'entry level' position, meaning that is where the dumbest, lowest payed personnel start until they have the ability to do something that pays better.
Pretty much, anyone smart enough to do the job really well is smart enough to work in a better position.
Like that? Check out my message here. It took me about 1.5 hours to write, due soley to the fucking lameness filter. It has it's place, but we can't just exclude ASCII art completely? At least it's appropriate for minors.
That was simply a misinterpretation by CNet. Here is the accurate quote:
"Each executive was given 10 million dollars to put these broken things on store shelves."
So, Phillips has the different standards for CD's. Red book, Orange book...
how about a new one:
*black book*, that's what we can call it. And, instead of the traditional CD symbol, it will say:
ddd Compact
d d iii ccccc
ddddd d i i $$$$ c ccc c
d dd d i i $$ c c cc
d d d d i i $$$ c c
d dd d i i $$ c c cc
ddddddd iiii $$$$ c ccc c
Cactus Broken Audio cccccc
It's really good that it was put in now instead of later. In fact, I really think the new VM should have waited for 2.5 as well. I just couldn't figure out why you'd change such a fundamental piece in the middle of a stable tree! But hey, I don't wear the Linus nametag; not my job.
This will be a good first step in reducing latency and increasing response time in X and other programs.
I live in an area where if you are outside of a very small boundary, you cannot get high speed bandwidth regarless of what you're willing to pay. Some get satellite, the rest(majority) are forced to suffer with dialup.
This would be a big boon for us. I hope a clever company picks up the ball and runs with this.
Basically, not free speech. The things I've been told could be privledged information. I'm not sure. I may not have the right to know the things that I know.
Although humorous, that example is an obvious one. Did you know in Washington State, you can sign away your right to an unpaid break, as well as to your paid breaks? Just because you have a given right doesn't mean you can't give it away. It is when you are under duress that signing away your rights is against the law. It can easily be proved that you agreed to the EULA because you had to. I don't know, these are things for the courts to decide.
Yes and no. In the US, OPEC would appear to have a stranglehold on gasoline. However, if you look at the *absolute* price of gas in relation to everyone else, we pay the lowest premium for gasoline of any developed country in the world.
It is a near monopoly, however, There are really only a few(counted on one hand) producers of gasoline that are nationally recognized brands.
So yes. Are we both correct?:) I think so.
Don't even get me started on California...
My father works as a real-time power scheduler for Bonneville Power Administration. He is responsible in part for charging the Californians so much. He talks to those who negotiate the prices for electiricity to be delivered to the California ISO. Them Cali's are getting reamed for the watts!
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Listen to me. You don't know shit. By federal law, all Control Areas for power grids are legally required to be accessible on the internet. Browse the FERC site.
In fact, both on the CISO and EISO, ALL power transactions are coordinated through the internet by way of the ETag 1.67 or ETag 1.7 messaging, along with the OASIS power reservation system. This includes mission critical power delivery systems. With the increasing load and complexity of loading systems, manual operation is very tedious and a little fragile because human errors are so prone.
You need to do a little research if you don't think we aren't vulnerable.
Did you all know that all power transactions on public power systems travel over the internet? Wanna hear something a little better? The backup plan in case of internet breakage is by E-Mail and then finally defaulting to the old fax machine. With the increasing complexity of transactions, increasing dependance on automation of power delivery, and an upcoming rollout of the ETag 1.7 transaction updgrade in April, who's to say the light switches will work in the future?
In light of this article and the probability that the public phone system is very susceptible to a terrorist or otherwise dangerous attack, shouldn't there be a dedicated messaging medium for the power grid? Say, Satellite or Microwave? I realize how daunting a project would be, as well as how cost prohibitive, but look at it this way: A foreign or national threat doesn't attack the power generation facilities, instead, they DDoS a server responsible for scheduling the power delivery. Thus preventing or decreasing the reliability of this power grid. Statewide or even interstate power blackouts are just one of a million effects of such an attack.
I'm not proclaiming a doomsday here, but with the current plight of Enron, shouldn't there be a little more scrutiny?
Related links:
FERC - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NERC - North American Electric Reliability Coucil
Hah, not likely. Those goatsex trollers will still be here. Their not going anywhere. On a side note, I don't think Jeff and the gang are going to end up making money off of this subscription deal. First of all, they're only editors; they don't own slashdot anymore. OSDN does. If there is $$$ to be made, it's for OSDN.
So, for the editors, this is just another pain in the ass. Something that will prevent some users from seeing their hard work. I sincerely hope that the users are willing to give up a mickey d's happymeal once or twice a year to view slashdot ad-free.
Yeah, get this. To top off my SMS spam, one *feature* of my VoiceStream account is an email address consisting of my phonenumber bound to SMS. All of the email on that account is automatically sent to my phone. I've been extremely careful to keep that email address off the internet. All it takes is one spam harvester and no amount of laws or lawsuits could keep my phone bill low!!!!!!
We may have lost the fight againast mail spam
:(
Persoonally, I don't mind bulk mail. It is often easily recognized and easily thrown out. It doesn't really cost me any money to recycle my bulk mail. But, in this case, I end up receiving the bill for them sending me spam. It's kind of like receiving bulk mail COD, without requesting it and not being able to return to sender or refuse package
The big deal is that some of us pay for SMS on a 'per-message' basis. I'm a VoiceStream Wireless(major US Wireless provider) and I only receive 100 free messages per month. After that, it could start costing me lots of money to receive shit that I don't need.
Even with a reasonably low spam rate of 3 per day, that pretty much takes care of all of my monthly messages. Seeing as I actually use SMS for my own needs, I could see spam costing me an extra 5-10$ month; at which point I'm gonna start sending out bills to spam senders.
Not necessarily. It only shows a little about his motivations for writing the piece. There are always alterior motives, right?
Most people don't have the technical knowledge to understand the differences between Sun and IBM hardware. I think they also don't understand the different types of application needs.
The mainframes will always lead the pack in bandwidth and thus are very good working with multi-GB to multi-TB datasets. When you have a high computational need such as Computational Fluid Dynamics or molecular modeling, a cluster of workstations or a dedicated beowulf is going to perform far better than the mainframe. When you look at mainframes like the Cray T3E, they really do have it all; but you pay through the nose. To replicate the processor performance of a Cray with commodity products would require about 1/10th of the money.
Basically, people need to not worry so much about the raw numbers and take a minute to think about what they're intended to be doing.
Sounds like me...
I worked a graveyard shift job for about 3 months. The money was really good. Alas, I quit and took a better job from 4-10pm. So, I get off work every night and fall asleep around 6 AM. If the sun comes up before I fall asleep, then I have to stay awake another day. However, I get up at 1pm every day. This isn't a requirement; I've contracted long term(4+ years) insomnia from that stupid freaking graveyard job. It won't go away. I've tried everything including sedatives but that just makes it worse. Why can't I sleep when the sun is on the other side of the planet!!!????
If you'd like to read a little more about this, study the design of metal cutting lasers. Mazak is a good designer of such products. They're biggest laser is a 2.5KW CO2 metal cutting machine. It cuts relatively quick, but when compared to a weapon on the battlefield, it's slow as a turtle.
One thing you'll notice: Cutting stainless requires much more power than do many other materials. When initially piercing the surface, it reflects a high percentage of the laser. What little percentage is left must be enough to melt and cut through. Then again, this is a relatively small laser cutting from no clearance to maybe 6 inches.
So, you wanna slice something up from thousands of feet, eh? You're gonna need a few hundred kw minimum. And that's if you have a really coherent beam with a minium of divergence. At these distances, divergence will be a big problem.
Maybe you should go read the text of the treaty. It's intent was to prevent inhumane suffering. Before the treaty was written, at that point, the only laser weapons available were of size to maim and wound soldiers. Not kill them.
Torture even during times of war is to be avoided on the battlefield. If we gonna shoot them, we sure as fuck better kill them. AFAIK, the treaty originally referred to foot soldiers only.
True, true.
A quick look-see through old patents shows that Xerox is the true inventor of the GUI. Is this correct? And DARPA created the internet to connect universities; accurate?
By design, it's not profitable to put the smart people on the phone. They're busy doing more important things. Tech support is an 'entry level' position, meaning that is where the dumbest, lowest payed personnel start until they have the ability to do something that pays better.
Pretty much, anyone smart enough to do the job really well is smart enough to work in a better position.
No, I'll be the cocktailer and waiter. That is my profession. However, we can have Michael bus tables do dishes.
Nuf said.
Like that? Check out my message here. It took me about 1.5 hours to write, due soley to the fucking lameness filter. It has it's place, but we can't just exclude ASCII art completely? At least it's appropriate for minors.
That was simply a misinterpretation by CNet. Here is the accurate quote:
"Each executive was given 10 million dollars to put these broken things on store shelves."
So, Phillips has the different standards for CD's. Red book, Orange book...
how about a new one:
*black book*, that's what we can call it. And, instead of the traditional CD symbol, it will say:
ddd Compact
d d iii ccccc
ddddd d i i $$$$ c ccc c
d dd d i i $$ c c cc
d d d d i i $$$ c c
d dd d i i $$ c c cc
ddddddd iiii $$$$ c ccc c
Cactus Broken Audio cccccc
What do you think?
It's really good that it was put in now instead of later. In fact, I really think the new VM should have waited for 2.5 as well. I just couldn't figure out why you'd change such a fundamental piece in the middle of a stable tree! But hey, I don't wear the Linus nametag; not my job.
This will be a good first step in reducing latency and increasing response time in X and other programs.
I guess I'll just have to get my MCSE now.
I live in an area where if you are outside of a very small boundary, you cannot get high speed bandwidth regarless of what you're willing to pay. Some get satellite, the rest(majority) are forced to suffer with dialup.
This would be a big boon for us. I hope a clever company picks up the ball and runs with this.
Basically, not free speech. The things I've been told could be privledged information. I'm not sure. I may not have the right to know the things that I know.
Although humorous, that example is an obvious one. Did you know in Washington State, you can sign away your right to an unpaid break, as well as to your paid breaks? Just because you have a given right doesn't mean you can't give it away. It is when you are under duress that signing away your rights is against the law. It can easily be proved that you agreed to the EULA because you had to. I don't know, these are things for the courts to decide.
Basically, I can't tell you.
Sorry.
:(
Yes and no. In the US, OPEC would appear to have a stranglehold on gasoline. However, if you look at the *absolute* price of gas in relation to everyone else, we pay the lowest premium for gasoline of any developed country in the world. :) I think so.
It is a near monopoly, however, There are really only a few(counted on one hand) producers of gasoline that are nationally recognized brands.
So yes. Are we both correct?
Don't even get me started on California...
My father works as a real-time power scheduler for Bonneville Power Administration. He is responsible in part for charging the Californians so much. He talks to those who negotiate the prices for electiricity to be delivered to the California ISO. Them Cali's are getting reamed for the watts!
Oh, forgot to mention, in this case it wouldn't be extortion, really. It'd be 'barratry'
BARRATRY - The practice of instituting groundless judicial proceedings - a crime in a number of jurisdictions.
The interpretation that even the =-Threatening-= of legal proceedings is correct.