The BBC provided the nomx devices for testing to a UK-based blogger who physically disassembled and rooted one of the nomx devices. Rooting was done, in his words, by disassembling the nomx case, physically removing memory card from the Raspberry and inserting it into his PC, and then resetting the root password. That is not an action a typical user would do, nor is it routine for a nomx device.
With regards to Solar City's proposals, I was buying electricity from the power company in every configuration except the largest config.
In that instance, I would generate all the power I would need and even sell some back to the power company. The problem is that I am, essentially, buying 20 years worth of power up-front instead of paying the power company over time for the same electricity.
Who knows if I will still live in this house in 20 years? The last thing I want to do is buy someone else solar panels.
Is it possible that someone would pay me more for my house since it has solar panels? Possibly, but I'm not willing to make that bet.
I started college in EE and switched to CS when I decided that I liked systems and networks. I could write software, but never had a love for it.
So now I manage networks and systems.
CS is helpful for understanding WHY and HOW all these things work under the hood - yet I've met system admins with CS degrees who don't know the difference between different Internet Protocols and do not understand the OSI model.
A college degree is a good start, but it doesn't tell you anything about the degree/certificate holder's drive or skill. I'm glad LinkedIn is trying to find qualified and passionate people without relying on a college degree or an industry certification.
Nutrition information and guidelines are bad due to the LACK of scientific rigor in the supporting studies.
The lack of rigor isn't due to some vast conspiracy - it's just really hard to perform controlled experiments on large groups of people with regard to diet and lifestyle.
Does anyone here want to volunteer to be locked in a room for a few years while a group of researchers strictly controls what you eat, when you exercise, and how often you sleep?
Worse still, does anyone want to volunteer to be the control group that gets little to none of those things?
I'm afraid correlation studies are the best we can do here.
Solar city proposed three different systems for my house. None made financial sense.
The payback was always somewhere in the ballpark of 20 years! That's if the system was paid for up-front. And I didn't even consider the opportunity cost of the $30,000 system cost.
Financing the system only made the numbers worse.
Renewables still have some mathematically inescapable problems. These systems are to costly for the amount of electricity they generate and their square footage requirements are far too high.
Power companies are really good at making lots of electricity fairly cheaply. Coal and Nuclear - despite their obvious problems are still cheap ways to generate power.
Does Google really think that Salon, Infowars and Breitbart readers are getting to those sites via Google? I'm sure some do, but I'll bet most go right to their site of choice.
In our world of ideological teamism - the players have picked their sides and I'm willing to bet that Google had very little to do with their choice.
We are a school that used to run exchange - we've run every version from 5.5 to 2010. It worked well for us and academic licensing is pretty cheap.
However....backup, anti-virus, spam filtering, and a DR solution drives up the cost very quickly.
Google apps was a very easy decision since schools get unlimited storage for free. Google also gives academic accounts the same SLA that businesses get - pretty nice.
Running Microsoft Exchange is cheap - running it properly isn't.
Our school moved away from Mac OS and Windows to Chromebooks and Google Apps for staff and students 3 years ago. Two years later Microsoft had a half-assed approach to cloud computing. Their windows-lite laptops required a windows Live account to login to the laptop and then a completely separate Office 365 login to use Office.
There was no way to bring my domain to them, there was no way to deploy policies to secure the devices, and the windows-lite endpoints still needed Anti Virus and imaging tools to create some sort of managed, standardized and secure experience for end users. Finally, Microsoft only gave schools the cloud version of Office 365 - no local copies allowed.
In short - all the drawbacks of running windows with none of the benefits. It was an absolute shit show.
Three years into Chrome OS and Google Apps, the students and staff are pretty pleased with the ease of use of the entire system. I like that it is ridiculously easy to manage and CHEAP.
Finally, families like the Chrome OS/Apps system since many decide to buy a cheap Chromebook for home and have the exact same capabilities for the students at home.
Switching back to Microsoft would have very few if any benefits for us, and I suspect lots of schools are in the same situation.
Government builds and maintains common use roads with private sector contractors and funds them with public money.
Fiber pulled to neighborhood central offices could be handled the exact same way. Private companies can build and maintain the infrastructure and private companies can install their head-end fiber termination equipment in the central offices.
This would allow maximum competition for delivered services while eliminating the natural monopoly that is the last mile.
No one owns the roads, yet everyone benefits from their existence. Optical fiber should be the same.
Doctors in the US have incentive to go through a very expensive and time consuming education process, because they are some of the highest paid people in our country.
I've got a stack of Cisco gear in my basement while studying for Cisco certs and I've managed Cisco gear in production. The stuff is solid, but managing it feels like it's 1999.
Meanwhile, there are tons of SDN vendors that feel like 2017 - single pane of glass management and monitoring without nickel and diming you on each feature and smartnet contracts. (Cisco knows this and that's why they bought Meraki).
Cisco still makes great carrier grade high-end gear, but the middle and low-end stuff is displacing Cisco fast. Meraki is nice, but the recurring cost makes it a tough sell compared to others.
Guys like Ubiquiti are pretty standard in emerging markets. Cisco is so highly priced that they may never see a presence in those markets. I like Cisco and ran it for many years, but It's hard to see a future for them.
The "the people" did vote for Trump. Our country is a Union of independent states. To win the presidency, you must not simply win the popular vote - you must win a preponderance of states. Disenfranchising low population states is how you start a civil war.
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It appears the "hack" requires local hardware access to accomplish:
https://nomx.com/
The BBC provided the nomx devices for testing to a UK-based blogger who physically disassembled and rooted one of the nomx devices. Rooting was done, in his words, by disassembling the nomx case, physically removing memory card from the Raspberry and inserting it into his PC, and then resetting the root password. That is not an action a typical user would do, nor is it routine for a nomx device.
With regards to Solar City's proposals, I was buying electricity from the power company in every configuration except the largest config.
In that instance, I would generate all the power I would need and even sell some back to the power company. The problem is that I am, essentially, buying 20 years worth of power up-front instead of paying the power company over time for the same electricity.
Who knows if I will still live in this house in 20 years? The last thing I want to do is buy someone else solar panels.
Is it possible that someone would pay me more for my house since it has solar panels? Possibly, but I'm not willing to make that bet.
I started college in EE and switched to CS when I decided that I liked systems and networks. I could write software, but never had a love for it.
So now I manage networks and systems.
CS is helpful for understanding WHY and HOW all these things work under the hood - yet I've met system admins with CS degrees who don't know the difference between different Internet Protocols and do not understand the OSI model.
A college degree is a good start, but it doesn't tell you anything about the degree/certificate holder's drive or skill. I'm glad LinkedIn is trying to find qualified and passionate people without relying on a college degree or an industry certification.
Nutrition information and guidelines are bad due to the LACK of scientific rigor in the supporting studies.
The lack of rigor isn't due to some vast conspiracy - it's just really hard to perform controlled experiments on large groups of people with regard to diet and lifestyle.
Does anyone here want to volunteer to be locked in a room for a few years while a group of researchers strictly controls what you eat, when you exercise, and how often you sleep?
Worse still, does anyone want to volunteer to be the control group that gets little to none of those things?
I'm afraid correlation studies are the best we can do here.
Solar city proposed three different systems for my house. None made financial sense.
The payback was always somewhere in the ballpark of 20 years! That's if the system was paid for up-front. And I didn't even consider the opportunity cost of the $30,000 system cost.
Financing the system only made the numbers worse.
Renewables still have some mathematically inescapable problems. These systems are to costly for the amount of electricity they generate and their square footage requirements are far too high.
Power companies are really good at making lots of electricity fairly cheaply. Coal and Nuclear - despite their obvious problems are still cheap ways to generate power.
Does Google really think that Salon, Infowars and Breitbart readers are getting to those sites via Google? I'm sure some do, but I'll bet most go right to their site of choice.
In our world of ideological teamism - the players have picked their sides and I'm willing to bet that Google had very little to do with their choice.
We are a school that used to run exchange - we've run every version from 5.5 to 2010. It worked well for us and academic licensing is pretty cheap.
However....backup, anti-virus, spam filtering, and a DR solution drives up the cost very quickly.
Google apps was a very easy decision since schools get unlimited storage for free. Google also gives academic accounts the same SLA that businesses get - pretty nice.
Running Microsoft Exchange is cheap - running it properly isn't.
Both should only be done when absolutely necessary.
Both come with significant risk and a significant cost to the end-user/patient. Unless there is a dire need for each - do not do them.
If your idea is so much better than the status quo - it should be a separate and optional release, or a new product entirely.
The mantra in software seems to be "fix it until it's broken".
I wonder if the H-1B body shops will shift from computer services to aeronautical engineering soon.
Did you believe Bernie when he said that he would make healthcare and college education free?
Econ 101 - there is no such thing as a free lunch.
I partially wanted to see Bernie win - just so I could see him squirm when it came time to deliver on all the free stuff he promised.
I suspect we will see an increase in "students" looking for work via J-visa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The administration better be ready for body shops to work around the new restrictions - there is too much money here to simply walk away.
Our school moved away from Mac OS and Windows to Chromebooks and Google Apps for staff and students 3 years ago. Two years later Microsoft had a half-assed approach to cloud computing. Their windows-lite laptops required a windows Live account to login to the laptop and then a completely separate Office 365 login to use Office.
There was no way to bring my domain to them, there was no way to deploy policies to secure the devices, and the windows-lite endpoints still needed Anti Virus and imaging tools to create some sort of managed, standardized and secure experience for end users. Finally, Microsoft only gave schools the cloud version of Office 365 - no local copies allowed.
In short - all the drawbacks of running windows with none of the benefits. It was an absolute shit show.
Three years into Chrome OS and Google Apps, the students and staff are pretty pleased with the ease of use of the entire system. I like that it is ridiculously easy to manage and CHEAP.
Finally, families like the Chrome OS/Apps system since many decide to buy a cheap Chromebook for home and have the exact same capabilities for the students at home.
Switching back to Microsoft would have very few if any benefits for us, and I suspect lots of schools are in the same situation.
Maybe we could get some AI to filter out articles by people who self-promote their companies or products.
How does an illegal immigrant pay SS and Medicare/Medicaid taxes without a SS ID number?
The answer is they don't. All the employed illegals I know are not on the books and are paid in cash.
I said my 10% of my salary not 10% of my household income.
Calling someone "house poor" based on one metric is silly.
Some people have more than one source of income - spouses and investments are some.
I pay 10% of my salary in property taxes, and an assortment of sales taxes - neither of these are part of the article's analysis.
Government builds and maintains common use roads with private sector contractors and funds them with public money.
Fiber pulled to neighborhood central offices could be handled the exact same way. Private companies can build and maintain the infrastructure and private companies can install their head-end fiber termination equipment in the central offices.
This would allow maximum competition for delivered services while eliminating the natural monopoly that is the last mile.
No one owns the roads, yet everyone benefits from their existence. Optical fiber should be the same.
If businesses want to improve productivity give me one of two things:
Either
an office with a door
OR
A VPN router, IP phone, and a laptop so I can work from home.
A 20,000 Sq. Ft. Starbucks sounds like my idea of hell.
Employers want to pay as little as possible for labor. H-1B allows companies to hire indentured servants at a 30% discount to market rates.
Raise the H-1B minimum wage to $150k/year and I'll bet most H-1B visas go unused.
Google has had a history of leaning left - years ago they were accused of filtering gun related searches.
I'm enjoying a bit of schadenfreude here watching lefties attack their own.
If the government isn't willing to recognize the protections of the 4th amendment, why would the government recognize the protections of this new law?
All research that is publicly funded should be public.
Why is it more complicated than that? The taxpayers paid for it - the taxpayers should own it.
I don't claim to know what's going on in jolly old England, but I occasionally hear about NHS doctor shortages:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Doctors in the US have incentive to go through a very expensive and time consuming education process, because they are some of the highest paid people in our country.
Are doctors in the NHS system similarly incented?
I've got a stack of Cisco gear in my basement while studying for Cisco certs and I've managed Cisco gear in production. The stuff is solid, but managing it feels like it's 1999.
Meanwhile, there are tons of SDN vendors that feel like 2017 - single pane of glass management and monitoring without nickel and diming you on each feature and smartnet contracts. (Cisco knows this and that's why they bought Meraki).
Cisco still makes great carrier grade high-end gear, but the middle and low-end stuff is displacing Cisco fast. Meraki is nice, but the recurring cost makes it a tough sell compared to others.
Guys like Ubiquiti are pretty standard in emerging markets. Cisco is so highly priced that they may never see a presence in those markets. I like Cisco and ran it for many years, but It's hard to see a future for them.
Unless your definition of the "the people" really means "Californian people" - the election results disagree with you:
http://www.investors.com/polit...
Number of states won:
Trump: 30
Clinton: 20
Trump: +10
Number of electoral votes won:
Trump: 306
Clinton: 232
Trump: + 68
Ave. margin of victory in winning states:
Trump: 56%
Clinton: 53.5%
Trump: + 2.5 points
Popular vote total:
Trump: 62,958,211
Clinton: 65,818,318
Clinton: + 2.8 million
Popular vote total outside California:
Trump: 58,474,401
Clinton: 57,064,530
Trump: + 1.4 million
Trump won more counties than any candidate since Ronald Reagan:
http://alexanderhiggins.com/tr...
The "the people" did vote for Trump. Our country is a Union of independent states. To win the presidency, you must not simply win the popular vote - you must win a preponderance of states. Disenfranchising low population states is how you start a civil war.