Doing "the basics" should be among the first steps taken in any security plan. This will probably put their systems out of each of most casual hackers. Won't be sufficient for any directed attacks, hopefully they continue to do more than "basics". Proper security requires continuous action, not just one pass.
They offer flu shots for free at my office. I have kids in school and elderly relatives, darn right I got it. Also I don't believe in crazy conspiracy theories, so no reason not to get one. Not sure why you want to know, but here it is.
Did they get an accurate vector measurement or just a 'sort of up' instead of 'sort of down' measurement of the cosmic ray? One possibility to rule out is that the rays didn't travel through the bulk of the Earth, but just cut secants through a small portion of the Earth and then up into the detector. Didn't see this addressed in TFA. If these are coming in at a large angle from perpendicular, then this might not 'break' anything. If not, this would reinforce that this is something interesting.
If anybody who works for a high profile hacking target like a senator still uses their personal e-mail for work related business, they're a complete idiot.
The water in the Gulf is 25% saltier than normal seawater. At some point it might be economical to bring in tankers of normal seawater to the existing desalination plants. At some point they will have to build a large pipe to somewhere that makes sense to build more desalination plants.
Set it too low and it's a great environment for bacteria. Small amounts of bacteria are found in tap water. A better way to make it more efficient is to add extra insulation around it, if you're concerned. Most new water heaters are already fairly well insulated. Also add some insulation on the outlet pipe, if accessible.
Probably to respond to load shedding requests. Ideally that should only allow a signal to setback the water temperature setpoint. I suppose if they hacked a large number of electric water heaters to load shed, then waited a few hours for the water heaters to cool, and then took them all off of setback at the same time it could still cause a surge. Probably have better (or worse, depending on your viewpoint) results by hacking air conditioners or electric heat furnaces. But I doubt that there's enough hackable 'smart' devices installed yet to have much effect.
The agencies say that increasing fuel efficiency requirements contributes to an increase in the cost of new cars and trucks, which may discourage consumers from buying new vehicles. Because newer vehicles have advanced safety features, the administration argues, increasing fuel economy requirements therefore harms highway safety, as well as having economic effects.
Interesting claim, have any references to support that? Seems to me that most people would buy a car that met their budget either way, and that buyers with little cash might appreciate the better fuel economy and savings from a more efficient car.
Sounds like a great browser, for other people to use. I'm guessing that the people showing up and threatening employees were either early investors or creditors.
Maybe move Venus to the Mars orbit and create a bi-planetary system like Terra/Luna.
If we had that level of technology, it would make more sense to move them to Earth orbit (in opposition to Earth, of course) and make a second Earth/Moon pair. A quick calculation shows that if we leave a safety margin of 10x the Moons orbit around each pair, we could fit 18 Earth/Moon pairs in the current Earth orbit. Jupiter is 318 times the mass of Earth and could provide what's needed (again, assuming sufficient technology). Could probably adjust the size/orbit of the new moons, or do something crazy like Earth/Earth pairs to fit more in, but that would probably mess with tides and make them less habitable. With the previously mentioned technology we could also fix the effects of these changes on the remaining plants.
Another point to add to the discussion- base load power plants are slow to change their output levels. They are designed to operate at a fairly constant level. Peaking plants are used when necessary to meet higher demand. If the demand goes below the base generation level, there's going to be extra electricity on the grid because they can't reduce the amount generated quickly. This is the "excess electricity" that needs to be sold.
Well, there's already the Air Force, and (after a quick renaming) the Water Force and the Land Force. The Shallow Water Force will be disbanded unless they can think of a cooler name. The Fighting on the Beach Force will be disbanded due to previous disputes about saluting. After these changes, "Space Force" will sound ok (at least no one will be complaining about it).
Probably better to sell shovels in a gold rush. Unless you're using the axes to murder miners and take their gold. But then you'll also need a shovel anyway...
It could be because "ciber" is too close to "cider" and all the stories about "cider-security incidents" and "cider-security threats" would make people who read too quickly worry about wtf was going on in apple orchards, and do they need to surround their orchards with more trees like those "firwalls" they keep hearing about? Chaos, panic, and a poor apple harvest would have soon followed.
Insects that like to eat plants often like to eat the same plants we do. They do not prefer weeds. Asking them nicely to stay off our crops is ineffective. Beneficial insects and birds may reduce pests but won't affect weeds.
** Apple are missing out on a huge opportunity, the iPie. Buy a £0.50 frozen pie from ASDA, add a apple logo made from pastry to the top and sell them for £5 a piece. Apple fans would live off them.
This wouldn't work. An Apple fan wouldn't pay less than £10 for that pie.
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Hawking is so smart that I, for one, am not going to underestimate him.
A man of incredible achievement while living, impressively after he passed away he managed to register to vote in Chicago!
They told Trump they were giant coal powered fans that would blow illegal immigrants back across the lake.
Doing "the basics" should be among the first steps taken in any security plan. This will probably put their systems out of each of most casual hackers. Won't be sufficient for any directed attacks, hopefully they continue to do more than "basics". Proper security requires continuous action, not just one pass.
> Have you gotten your 2018 flu shot?
They offer flu shots for free at my office. I have kids in school and elderly relatives, darn right I got it. Also I don't believe in crazy conspiracy theories, so no reason not to get one. Not sure why you want to know, but here it is.
Did they get an accurate vector measurement or just a 'sort of up' instead of 'sort of down' measurement of the cosmic ray? One possibility to rule out is that the rays didn't travel through the bulk of the Earth, but just cut secants through a small portion of the Earth and then up into the detector. Didn't see this addressed in TFA. If these are coming in at a large angle from perpendicular, then this might not 'break' anything. If not, this would reinforce that this is something interesting.
If anybody who works for a high profile hacking target like a senator still uses their personal e-mail for work related business, they're a complete idiot.
Looking forward to the next round of leaks...
The water in the Gulf is 25% saltier than normal seawater. At some point it might be economical to bring in tankers of normal seawater to the existing desalination plants. At some point they will have to build a large pipe to somewhere that makes sense to build more desalination plants.
Set it too low and it's a great environment for bacteria. Small amounts of bacteria are found in tap water. A better way to make it more efficient is to add extra insulation around it, if you're concerned. Most new water heaters are already fairly well insulated. Also add some insulation on the outlet pipe, if accessible.
Also, why do water heaters need to be "smart?"
Probably to respond to load shedding requests. Ideally that should only allow a signal to setback the water temperature setpoint. I suppose if they hacked a large number of electric water heaters to load shed, then waited a few hours for the water heaters to cool, and then took them all off of setback at the same time it could still cause a surge. Probably have better (or worse, depending on your viewpoint) results by hacking air conditioners or electric heat furnaces. But I doubt that there's enough hackable 'smart' devices installed yet to have much effect.
The agencies say that increasing fuel efficiency requirements contributes to an increase in the cost of new cars and trucks, which may discourage consumers from buying new vehicles. Because newer vehicles have advanced safety features, the administration argues, increasing fuel economy requirements therefore harms highway safety, as well as having economic effects.
Interesting claim, have any references to support that? Seems to me that most people would buy a car that met their budget either way, and that buyers with little cash might appreciate the better fuel economy and savings from a more efficient car.
Sounds like a great browser, for other people to use. I'm guessing that the people showing up and threatening employees were either early investors or creditors.
I'm still going to be outraged that this app will post my location to Facebook without encrypting it.
If you use those plans to make a new flying space car, you will not go to space.
Maybe move Venus to the Mars orbit and create a bi-planetary system like Terra/Luna.
If we had that level of technology, it would make more sense to move them to Earth orbit (in opposition to Earth, of course) and make a second Earth/Moon pair. A quick calculation shows that if we leave a safety margin of 10x the Moons orbit around each pair, we could fit 18 Earth/Moon pairs in the current Earth orbit. Jupiter is 318 times the mass of Earth and could provide what's needed (again, assuming sufficient technology). Could probably adjust the size/orbit of the new moons, or do something crazy like Earth/Earth pairs to fit more in, but that would probably mess with tides and make them less habitable. With the previously mentioned technology we could also fix the effects of these changes on the remaining plants.
Dibs on designing the Fjords...
Another point to add to the discussion- base load power plants are slow to change their output levels. They are designed to operate at a fairly constant level. Peaking plants are used when necessary to meet higher demand. If the demand goes below the base generation level, there's going to be extra electricity on the grid because they can't reduce the amount generated quickly. This is the "excess electricity" that needs to be sold.
Because this story also arrived here yesterday. At least this post has more info.
Maybe they're waiting for the Russian shipwreck full of platinum?
I know people with ADHD who wouldn't even read to the end of your comment...
Well, there's already the Air Force, and (after a quick renaming) the Water Force and the Land Force. The Shallow Water Force will be disbanded unless they can think of a cooler name. The Fighting on the Beach Force will be disbanded due to previous disputes about saluting. After these changes, "Space Force" will sound ok (at least no one will be complaining about it).
Going to coat all of my thumb drives in liverwurst so the police dog eats the evidence...
Probably better to sell shovels in a gold rush. Unless you're using the axes to murder miners and take their gold. But then you'll also need a shovel anyway...
The phrase "A fool and their money are soon parted" is supposed to be a warning, not a lifestyle goal.
It could be because "ciber" is too close to "cider" and all the stories about "cider-security incidents" and "cider-security threats" would make people who read too quickly worry about wtf was going on in apple orchards, and do they need to surround their orchards with more trees like those "firwalls" they keep hearing about? Chaos, panic, and a poor apple harvest would have soon followed.
That's why they chose y.
Insects that like to eat plants often like to eat the same plants we do. They do not prefer weeds. Asking them nicely to stay off our crops is ineffective. Beneficial insects and birds may reduce pests but won't affect weeds.
** Apple are missing out on a huge opportunity, the iPie. Buy a £0.50 frozen pie from ASDA, add a apple logo made from pastry to the top and sell them for £5 a piece. Apple fans would live off them.
This wouldn't work. An Apple fan wouldn't pay less than £10 for that pie.