I certainly don't mean to say that outages never occur with underground wiring. But the idea that they are "difficult to find and extremely expensive to fix" is hardly supported from what I've seen. Even with your 4 day outage, it's like you were one of many on the list of outages and just happened to be near the bottom. I know, anecdotal evidence, blah blah blah. Neither solution is perfect, but there are advantages to underground lines.
Permissions Denied has always worked well for me in limiting unwanted permissions. Admittedly, a third-party app shouldn't be needed for this, but solutions are out there.
Have you ever actually encountered a failure in an underground line? The industrial park where my employer is located has mostly underground main feeds (13k volts overhead tends to make people nervous with all the large, easily snagged trucks moving through). We've lost power twice since I started here and finding the outage was trivial. Hook-up at the distribution box, take a reading off the line and it gives you the distance to the fault. Walk it down and dig. Both outages were fixed in a couple hours time each. No way you could sink a new pole that quickly.
Just wait until every American by government mandate/tax is forced to spill 30% or more of their income into the pockets of health insurance company share holders..
Oh really?
Beginning January 1, 2014, all U.S. residents are required to maintain minimum essential
coverage unless the individual falls into one of the following exceptions: [...] individuals who cannot afford coverage (i.e. required contribution exceeds 8% of
household income)
The issue is actually pretty similar to that with declining returns in oil production. Groundwater replenishment is certainly still happening. Similarly, the processes which produce oil are still occurring. The issue is that we are consuming much faster than we are replenishing. Groundwater, depending on the depth of the aquifer and the material in which it exists, can take years to thousands of years to be replenished. Oil takes millions.
The reason that ocean levels might rise from groundwater is that we are bringing it up faster than it can go back down. All that water has to go somewhere.
It's worse than that. Imagine the enhanced DRM this would enable. "Sorry, We have detected more than the allotted number of audience members. Your account has been charged $9.99 per extra viewer."
Idea! The goal of airport security isn't to actually prevent terrorist attacks on planes, but, rather, to make flying so inconvenient that only terrorists are willing to fly. Then, bam, stinger missile.
Certainly, there are legitimate non-fallacious reasons to stay, but "but to make the lives count" isn't one of them.
That aside, when has nation building ever been successful? Even in Korea, the US didn't so much build a nation as put a million landmine buffer between the "good guys" and the "bad guys". In order for staying to produce a better outcome than pulling out, you need a reason to believe that you can be successful and history is pretty pessimistic on that front.
I'm hardly hand-waving. Read the rest of my post (the part you didn't care to quote).
It can be done well and with those people I have no complaint, but, in my experience,
As a college educated individual in a STEM discipline, I'd feel perfectly confident with homeschooling in science or math courses. Have me try to teach a history class and the results would be comical at best. The idea that John Q. Public, with nothing more than a textbook for the class, can be as effective at education as someone with Masters (required in my state, YMMV) is indicative of the dismissive attitude we tend to take towards education.
Some notable stats: among homeschooling fathers, ~32% have "Some College/No Degree" or less. Mothers do slightly worse with ~33% having the same education level. If we include through BA/BS (which is unlikely to be in something relevant to teaching) the numbers are even more stark. At a time when we are demanding more of our teachers, are we also going to say that a few classes at the community college is sufficient to teach high school calculus?
Having met "homeschool parents" (I was homeschooled for a bit, growing up) I can honestly say that no matter how shitty the schools are, they are far and away better than most homeschoolers. It can be done well and with those people I have no complaint, but, in my experience, those parents are less concerned with quality education that with isolating children from "corrupting influences" or more thoroughly impressing religious doctrine in the guise of education.
"A weird box just popped up! IT says something about certificates and signing, whatever that means. If I click 'accept' I'll get to see the website, so I'll do that."
My point exactly. SSL (and a handful of other techniques) will alert the user to something untoward going on, but the lion's share of those users will ignore/not understand the threat.
Does anyone know if SSL solves the problem? Can a malicious endpoint act as a proxy so the SSL connection is between the endpoint and the real site and then serve you a different SSL certificate with the adverts included. (Although I doubt they can make a certificate look like the legitimate website.) Alternatively they could just drop everything down to HTTP...
I've seen some novel approaches to working around SSL but most will tip off the end-user. I run a throttled honeypot on my home network with some ad-injection. I get a couple dollars a month from it, the neighbors get free internet, and it seriously cut-down on the number of auth-attempts against the secured side of my router. Most of the injectors just catch and sniff packets for webpages (trying to inject into, say, SSH would bork everything) and inserts an ad frame. I'll have to test how my setup handles a secured session but I've seen instances of SSL sessions being wrapped in a framed unsecured page (mostly at hotels and airports). Newer browsers (Firefox and Chrome anyway, no Windows box to test on) will pitch a fit about this but if you're connecting to an unsecured network, I doubt security is much of a priority.
Hack into New York's water and sewage systems. Or a nuke reactor. Or even a power grid.
If any of those things are internet facing, we can forget about the terrorists. The idiots already won.
Not to fall into the trap of IT elitism but I'm not sure that a little fear wouldn't be good for the industry. I'm certainly not advocating that we start hacking reactors or power grids but given some of the horrors I've seen, a boogeyman might do us some good.
The act of abortion may not be but having to have a wand shoved up your hoo-hah surely is. Regardless of how you feel about abortion, I think we can agree that penetrating rape victims and victims of sexual abuse is a Bad Thing.
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I certainly don't mean to say that outages never occur with underground wiring. But the idea that they are "difficult to find and extremely expensive to fix" is hardly supported from what I've seen. Even with your 4 day outage, it's like you were one of many on the list of outages and just happened to be near the bottom. I know, anecdotal evidence, blah blah blah. Neither solution is perfect, but there are advantages to underground lines.
Permissions Denied has always worked well for me in limiting unwanted permissions. Admittedly, a third-party app shouldn't be needed for this, but solutions are out there.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stericson.permissions&hl=en
If you get caught going 90mph down the highway, the fact that you had a tailwind is probably not going to convince anyone of your innocence.
Have you ever actually encountered a failure in an underground line? The industrial park where my employer is located has mostly underground main feeds (13k volts overhead tends to make people nervous with all the large, easily snagged trucks moving through). We've lost power twice since I started here and finding the outage was trivial. Hook-up at the distribution box, take a reading off the line and it gives you the distance to the fault. Walk it down and dig. Both outages were fixed in a couple hours time each. No way you could sink a new pole that quickly.
Just wait until every American by government mandate/tax is forced to spill 30% or more of their income into the pockets of health insurance company share holders..
Oh really?
Beginning January 1, 2014, all U.S. residents are required to maintain minimum essential coverage unless the individual falls into one of the following exceptions: [...] individuals who cannot afford coverage (i.e. required contribution exceeds 8% of household income)
Source: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island https://www.bcbsri.com/BCBSRIWeb/pdf/Individual_Mandate_Fact_Sheet.pdf
Eh. I heard it was a gimmick by a sociologist who is practicing conjunction without a license.
My kingdom for a mod-point.
But now I'm sad, cause I miss him so much.
The issue is actually pretty similar to that with declining returns in oil production. Groundwater replenishment is certainly still happening. Similarly, the processes which produce oil are still occurring. The issue is that we are consuming much faster than we are replenishing. Groundwater, depending on the depth of the aquifer and the material in which it exists, can take years to thousands of years to be replenished. Oil takes millions.
The reason that ocean levels might rise from groundwater is that we are bringing it up faster than it can go back down. All that water has to go somewhere.
It's worse than that. Imagine the enhanced DRM this would enable. "Sorry, We have detected more than the allotted number of audience members. Your account has been charged $9.99 per extra viewer."
Idea! The goal of airport security isn't to actually prevent terrorist attacks on planes, but, rather, to make flying so inconvenient that only terrorists are willing to fly. Then, bam, stinger missile.
Terrorism: solved
Certainly, there are legitimate non-fallacious reasons to stay, but "but to make the lives count" isn't one of them.
That aside, when has nation building ever been successful? Even in Korea, the US didn't so much build a nation as put a million landmine buffer between the "good guys" and the "bad guys". In order for staying to produce a better outcome than pulling out, you need a reason to believe that you can be successful and history is pretty pessimistic on that front.
And that, my friend, is called the sunk cost fallacy.
It can be done well and with those people I have no complaint, but, in my experience,
As a college educated individual in a STEM discipline, I'd feel perfectly confident with homeschooling in science or math courses. Have me try to teach a history class and the results would be comical at best. The idea that John Q. Public, with nothing more than a textbook for the class, can be as effective at education as someone with Masters (required in my state, YMMV) is indicative of the dismissive attitude we tend to take towards education.
Some notable stats: among homeschooling fathers, ~32% have "Some College/No Degree" or less. Mothers do slightly worse with ~33% having the same education level. If we include through BA/BS (which is unlikely to be in something relevant to teaching) the numbers are even more stark. At a time when we are demanding more of our teachers, are we also going to say that a few classes at the community college is sufficient to teach high school calculus?
Source
Having met "homeschool parents" (I was homeschooled for a bit, growing up) I can honestly say that no matter how shitty the schools are, they are far and away better than most homeschoolers. It can be done well and with those people I have no complaint, but, in my experience, those parents are less concerned with quality education that with isolating children from "corrupting influences" or more thoroughly impressing religious doctrine in the guise of education.
Not necessarily. I'd be willing to bet they share a parent somewhere along the line.
"A weird box just popped up! IT says something about certificates and signing, whatever that means. If I click 'accept' I'll get to see the website, so I'll do that."
My point exactly. SSL (and a handful of other techniques) will alert the user to something untoward going on, but the lion's share of those users will ignore/not understand the threat.
Does anyone know if SSL solves the problem? Can a malicious endpoint act as a proxy so the SSL connection is between the endpoint and the real site and then serve you a different SSL certificate with the adverts included. (Although I doubt they can make a certificate look like the legitimate website.) Alternatively they could just drop everything down to HTTP...
I've seen some novel approaches to working around SSL but most will tip off the end-user. I run a throttled honeypot on my home network with some ad-injection. I get a couple dollars a month from it, the neighbors get free internet, and it seriously cut-down on the number of auth-attempts against the secured side of my router. Most of the injectors just catch and sniff packets for webpages (trying to inject into, say, SSH would bork everything) and inserts an ad frame. I'll have to test how my setup handles a secured session but I've seen instances of SSL sessions being wrapped in a framed unsecured page (mostly at hotels and airports). Newer browsers (Firefox and Chrome anyway, no Windows box to test on) will pitch a fit about this but if you're connecting to an unsecured network, I doubt security is much of a priority.
consumer device giant already
pretty easily becomes
customer device huge already
if English is not your first language.
Don't worry. Next year is the "Year of Linux on the Starship."
Now if this damned driver would just compile.
Hack into New York's water and sewage systems. Or a nuke reactor. Or even a power grid.
If any of those things are internet facing, we can forget about the terrorists. The idiots already won.
Not to fall into the trap of IT elitism but I'm not sure that a little fear wouldn't be good for the industry. I'm certainly not advocating that we start hacking reactors or power grids but given some of the horrors I've seen, a boogeyman might do us some good.
...Stop whining about helping real people...
I think you've all been whooshed. Or at least, I hope that's what just happened.
They'd have paid out so much in "bug bounty" that he'd be broke by now. That's what GP is going for, anyway.
I thought we agreed on a 7'2" Persian.
The act of abortion may not be but having to have a wand shoved up your hoo-hah surely is. Regardless of how you feel about abortion, I think we can agree that penetrating rape victims and victims of sexual abuse is a Bad Thing.
Always a pleasure to find another Cracked.com reader.
Carry on.