If you have actual paying customers that get free support, give them their own PIN to put in to bypass the funds. Added bonus, you can make that payment a subscription and shut off the pin after a year or whatever.
There's no reason to let any of China, Pacific Rim, Middle East, Former Soviet Bloc, Africa, etc. onto my servers.
So they don't get on, and nothing of value was lost.
Know what else? My log files don't fill up with useless shit anymore, and the numbers of automated attacks and form spams have dropped dramatically.
Last time I checked, you can download fixes for your servers. Just FTP them up or whatever and install them manually. Get a new web host over the long term, but this is just an annoyance, not some big rights-violating controversy as you make it out to be.
Regan's proposal had the potential to be the most expensive undertaking in human history. All for no clear enemy. Look at it this way it wouldn't stop 911 from happening or car bombs so we're talking an insanely expensive program with questionable benefit. Also the missile defense tests were really problematic. They tended to boast of the time they hit the target and ignored the ten times they missed.
Read a history book ya damn moron.
SDI was a propaganda ploy to make the Russkies think we were going to do it, it broke their economy when they tried to counter, and it took what was a military cold war and dropped it soundly in the lap of an economic war that we won without much effort. They thought we knew how many missiles they had, but they didn't realize they had less capability than they thought. Same way we got tricked into thinking Saddam had stuff he didn't. He thought he had it! His guys lied to him because failing was death!
None of that shit they talked about doing with SDI was feasible at the time. What mattered was baiting the Soviets into responding like it was and realizing we were going to counter their first nuclear strike and nuclear counter strike to the point that we'd come out hurt but able to fight after they were destroyed.
It is just recently that some of the stuff has been possible in a limited way. It's also not focused on missile threats from North Korea, and to a certain extent China.
Stop reading the liberal bullshit you read and you'll have a proper grasp of world events.
The Norks don't have nearly as much shit as people think (or say) they do. Take a look at Google Earth once and look at the DMZ, and what the Norks have near it. They would have to be digging very very big and long tunnels to be hiding much artillery. You can't haul a big piece up a narrow dirt road and hide it in some hole with a bunch of skinnies hauling on ropes. And, you need to regularly maintain artillery, you can't just throw it in a damp cave for 30 years and think it's going to work right afterwards.
Thousands have been launched towards Israel. Dozens have been hurt.
This kind of says it all, really... I wish I could find the reference at the moment, but I read somewhere a couple of years ago that most of the rockets that are being fired into Israel don't even have a payload, and are just empty shells. Compare and contrast to how many have been injured or killed by Israeli reaction (not to mention the blockade of medical supplies and construction equipment/supplies into the west bank). There was an episode of The West Wing, in Season 1 which summed it up quite nicely... episode 3 - Proportional Response. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJMVtP1CbOM
I really hope that the Iron Dome system works as advertised, and that it allows cooler heads to prevail. I also hope that the cease fire that was negotiated and announced today succeeds. If either of those fails to happen, it does not bode well.
Proportional response only works if you have rational actors to achieve the dampening effect. For example, the English/French and the Germans faced off in no-mans land during World War I and had several instances of spontaneous stalemate / truce.
The Palis don't seem to be capable of rational action and only "get it" when someone is kicking the shit out of them. Unfortunately this is a region-wide cultural trait. "Proportional response" would be useless against them.
The Palis wouldn't get attacked if they didn't do so first. It's a simple as that.
I pick my dinner up at 1 PM. $19 a person and I get to spend the rest of the day doing interesting stuff.
and, before you whine, I am already a turkey / thanksgiving dinner cooking expert. I am not interested this year because I only have one other person (and a cat) to feed. Been there, done that, conquered it. Doing something else with my time this year.
I particularly like this part from his bug report:
VERSION
Chrome Version:Ubuntu 11.4 version
Operating System: [Ubuntu 11.4]
Man I love that version of chrome. What do you call a security researcher who cant even identify his platform in his bug reports?
That's a line-follow error, not a "I don't know what Chrome Version means" error. The response, is in response to the line below.
That shows the guy didn't check his work and isn't detail oriented. That does imply things about what he can do to find a security hole in a.DLL but it's not you make it out to be.
The guy is from Georgia, that's all I need to know about fraud and idiocy in this case. There's nothing coming out of former Soviet Bloc countries but spam, fraud, and other illegal thuggery crap. All the smart or moral folks left long ago.
It's worth noting that companies waste storage like crazy in Salesforce. Give your sales staff free reign, and you'll easily use that space up on PDF's, gigantic image assets for email designs that change every other day, etc.
The role of IT is to take care of the monster, not tame it. When IT takes action to bring down storage "waste" (be it in SF or in mailboxes) on its own, it's like having the office administrator go around making sure people use both sides of the pages in notebooks and that people stop doodling on post-its while taking calls because it's waste.
Did you ever work in a company where facilities people decided that lights should be motion-sensor-activated after 6pm? Or a company where cafeteria people decided that there is no need to stock both milk and cream for coffee? Or a company where architects found out that by shrinking parking stalls just a few inches they could fit a few more cars in the underground parking? If you expect the sales staff to put links in emails instead of files attachments or if you want to impose a quota on mailboxes you have fallen for the same flawed logic as facilities people, cafeteria people and architects. You lost sight of the value chain and you miscalculate what is and what is not true waste.
IT should be there to offer training and provide guidance but in the end it's a support function, not a business driver. IT is there to support the sales staff, not school them or patronize them. If IT believes that a business process is suboptimal and should be addressed, there is a chain of command for that; you prepare a nice spreadsheet with itemized expenses and you run that up the chain. If the person in charge determines that the waste is in fact unacceptable, he/she will initiate a change.
$3000 per year = about $12 per working day. One can probably save more by shopping for a better long-distance calls provider than by making noise about those rascals in sales who make too many PDFs.
Too many words. You shoulda just said "sales staff is too stupid to learn."
Or... how do they account for someone using terms who "can't possibly be racist" because they are black, showing up in this thing. For example "No_Limit_Nigga" on Twitter was shot to death in a justified self-defense shooting used all kinds of "racist" terms to refer to himself, and friends. (NLN was Trayvon Martin in real life.)
This analysis' conclusions are over-reaching for what they purport to be able to measure. Sure, it notes what terms are used where, but not who said them and why... which is the core of what racism is. Words are not racist, how people use them might be.
The technology behind a forum is pretty much irrelevant if you don't have a proper method to manage it, and to keep users happy and interested.
There are several good books on the subject of managing forums that will give you a huge leg-up in learning how to run one.
Most forums FAIL because the people running them don't figure things out fast enough. It will require daily, persistent, and considerate attention every day. If you don't have someone to do that then don't bother with a forum.
They have backups for all that already. See, banks that don't, get audited and then fined, and then shut down... or their FDIC insurance removed, or licenses revoked. They are there because it's prestigious to be there. They can operate without the location of "about to become part of the Atlantic". There is NOTHING particularly useful about the area for banking other than being a flashy douche to the the other flashy douches on the way from the train to the office. That infrastructure should be in the hills in New Jersey, not on the coast. And, a bunch of it already is.
When the states involved, figure out how to not squabble over 100k here and there, and codify into LAW, who gets what tax I will cease avoiding state sales tax.
When I can guarantee, some freak-laced state that I don't live in won't come after me for tax, I'll pay it to my state.
The only "service" the goods consumed from Amazon are roads, and maybe garbage collection (in some cases, I have to pay to get rid of the thing when it's done so the state shouldn't get a tax on it in the front end). Explain how buying a book from Amazon should fund health inspection in some tourst trap greasy spoon all the way across the state. Doesn't that place pay taxes too?
Yes, the system is messed up, but it's not messed up by actions of anything the consumer is doing.
So point your hate towards the officials YOU elected instead.
Wisconsin, traditionally a blue state, is in danger of turning red. Under Republican governeror Scott Walker and with the VP candidate being from Janesville, this state could tumble into the Romney column.
If by "red" you mean "not voting for a candidate that is unappealing outside a small area of Dane county" then sure. Tammy Baldwin doesn't have a chance. She only thinks she does because she has not spent any time outside Madison in the last 30 years and doesn't have a clue what the rest of the state wants. Nobody likes her except the dumb hippies in Madison.
Obama fucked himself out of Wisconsin when he talked about guns. Wisconsin likes guns.And as some of the referendums from a couple years ago show, is quite bigoted and racist with a strong "tv evangalist" christian bent.
Traditional liberalism or conservatism would work in Wisconsin, new age liberalism will not. Wisconsin isn't that type of state. It's already red.
You mean the "Clever Hans" effect where the handler provides the cues instead of the smell? It's a know issue, both handlers and dogs are trained to try and avoid it.
Oh, they are trained for it alright. The problem is, the pigs actually follow that training.
You have the internet, go look up some of the anecdotal stories of people watching the pigs sniff around their cars at a traffic stop for mounds of first impressions "gee, it sorta looked like the handler ordered the dog to signal", for the pigs to then find nothing after turning out and partially destroying the contents of the car.
Put the contents of the freezer in a contractor garbage bag. Put it back in the freezer. Put a bowl of ice on top. If the ice melts, or the ice is flat and not cubes when you get back, the freezer was off and you take the entire bag out to the garbage. Also, throw as many water bottles in it as fit. The extra thermal mass will help keep it cooler longer.
I don't recall specifically, but isn't B&N the store that has the terminals right out on the floor where anybody can just walk up to them? That always seemed stupid to me, a kiosk out there on the floor is for customers to use... they apparently wanted the customer service reps to walk up to them and help customers find books... but they LOOK like they are there for everybody to use. Poor security at it's core.
What the matter, your portugese rejects all butt-hurt over the nerds explaining how brazilan papers are going to get fucked in the ass for picking a fight with Google news in the other thread? You gotta come pollute other threads too?
Population density of brazil is all packed up against the coast. Of course you have a good grid, in your geography it's easy.
Your assertion of "covering the population" is just stupid. If even half the US has electricity, the grid in the US is both bigger, and better than the grid in brazil. And, you fucking morons are spending a lot of money lighting up what is essentially jungle-wasteland in the central Amazon basin for four or five guys living in a hut somewhere? LOL. That's absolutely ridiculous. In the US, people who are off the grid are often surrounded by neighbors who are on the grid. It's a choice, and not influenced by some third-world shithole idiot's idea of a good penis measuring contest.
Some installations are shoot first ask questions later. Make sure you read the signs carefully before entering; "Deadly force authorized" is due notice you may be shot for being somewhere you shouldn't be. The rules of "castle doctrine" and who you can kill do not apply to government installations. True, you MIGHT not get shot if you immediately comply, but it's not a guarantee. YYMV.
He was making the lower, specifically, a "stripped lower".
What that means, for you non-gun people, is a hunk of metal with some holes in it the right shape and place.
The lower IS the firearm according to the ATF (it's dumb, but the basic frame is how they define it.) So legally, he was manufacturing a gun.
On the other hand, a stripped lower (good one with no engineering problems like his home-made lower) is about $90. Not really a cost savings to get all broke-assed about. The upper is where the real magic happens, and the stuff that goes in it is about $400 - $600 and up depending on the quality and features.
Your concerns are groundless, it cost this guy way more in time and money and materials to come up with the lower than just buying it did. Plus, it's not in any way illegal if you aren't a prohibited person already. This is a stupid stunt, not some gigantic side step towards having a million more guns appear without any serial numbers on them.
The same thing has been done with hardwoods. With simple plans it's easy to bang out a hunk of wood that will hold all the parts to make a complete AR-15 if you can work wood at all. Those other parts, well, they aren't controlled (unless you are a prohibited person) and not tracked.
And guess what, there's NO INSTANCE of such a home-made AR-15 being used in a crime. So that's a non issue.
5.56 NATO rounds (typical for an AR-15 or M-16) top out at around 2,900 feet per second for standard pressures and barrels. Most are somewhat under that for various reasons. At sea level, speed of sound is about 1,100 feet per second.
So, yeah, 3 times is a rounding point "ballpark" number for 2.7 times the speed of sound or so.
What they need is some kind of ship with a nuclear reactor that can generate enormous amounts of power.
Actually, what they most likely need is some sort of fast-startup generator for the short peak power periods required by such a weapon, e.g., something like an MHD generator.
If they haven't changed plans drastically, the peak power is handled by huge capacitors. So it's a reliable and large capacitor problem, plus a "we need more overall electrical output than we used to" problem. A nuclear power run ship makes a lot of sense if you are going to be using lots of power. For multi-shots, they may have to just add more capacitors and count on some lag time between bursts.
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Get a 900 number.
It's as simple as that.
If you have actual paying customers that get free support, give them their own PIN to put in to bypass the funds. Added bonus, you can make that payment a subscription and shut off the pin after a year or whatever.
And block everybody else at the firewall.
There's no reason to let any of China, Pacific Rim, Middle East, Former Soviet Bloc, Africa, etc. onto my servers.
So they don't get on, and nothing of value was lost.
Know what else? My log files don't fill up with useless shit anymore, and the numbers of automated attacks and form spams have dropped dramatically.
Last time I checked, you can download fixes for your servers. Just FTP them up or whatever and install them manually. Get a new web host over the long term, but this is just an annoyance, not some big rights-violating controversy as you make it out to be.
Regan's proposal had the potential to be the most expensive undertaking in human history. All for no clear enemy. Look at it this way it wouldn't stop 911 from happening or car bombs so we're talking an insanely expensive program with questionable benefit. Also the missile defense tests were really problematic. They tended to boast of the time they hit the target and ignored the ten times they missed.
Read a history book ya damn moron.
SDI was a propaganda ploy to make the Russkies think we were going to do it, it broke their economy when they tried to counter, and it took what was a military cold war and dropped it soundly in the lap of an economic war that we won without much effort. They thought we knew how many missiles they had, but they didn't realize they had less capability than they thought. Same way we got tricked into thinking Saddam had stuff he didn't. He thought he had it! His guys lied to him because failing was death!
None of that shit they talked about doing with SDI was feasible at the time. What mattered was baiting the Soviets into responding like it was and realizing we were going to counter their first nuclear strike and nuclear counter strike to the point that we'd come out hurt but able to fight after they were destroyed.
It is just recently that some of the stuff has been possible in a limited way. It's also not focused on missile threats from North Korea, and to a certain extent China.
Stop reading the liberal bullshit you read and you'll have a proper grasp of world events.
The Norks don't have nearly as much shit as people think (or say) they do. Take a look at Google Earth once and look at the DMZ, and what the Norks have near it. They would have to be digging very very big and long tunnels to be hiding much artillery. You can't haul a big piece up a narrow dirt road and hide it in some hole with a bunch of skinnies hauling on ropes. And, you need to regularly maintain artillery, you can't just throw it in a damp cave for 30 years and think it's going to work right afterwards.
Thousands have been launched towards Israel. Dozens have been hurt.
This kind of says it all, really... I wish I could find the reference at the moment, but I read somewhere a couple of years ago that most of the rockets that are being fired into Israel don't even have a payload, and are just empty shells. Compare and contrast to how many have been injured or killed by Israeli reaction (not to mention the blockade of medical supplies and construction equipment/supplies into the west bank). There was an episode of The West Wing, in Season 1 which summed it up quite nicely... episode 3 - Proportional Response. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJMVtP1CbOM
I really hope that the Iron Dome system works as advertised, and that it allows cooler heads to prevail. I also hope that the cease fire that was negotiated and announced today succeeds. If either of those fails to happen, it does not bode well.
Proportional response only works if you have rational actors to achieve the dampening effect. For example, the English/French and the Germans faced off in no-mans land during World War I and had several instances of spontaneous stalemate / truce.
The Palis don't seem to be capable of rational action and only "get it" when someone is kicking the shit out of them. Unfortunately this is a region-wide cultural trait. "Proportional response" would be useless against them.
The Palis wouldn't get attacked if they didn't do so first. It's a simple as that.
I pick my dinner up at 1 PM. $19 a person and I get to spend the rest of the day doing interesting stuff.
and, before you whine, I am already a turkey / thanksgiving dinner cooking expert. I am not interested this year because I only have one other person (and a cat) to feed. Been there, done that, conquered it. Doing something else with my time this year.
I particularly like this part from his bug report:
VERSION Chrome Version:Ubuntu 11.4 version Operating System: [Ubuntu 11.4]
Man I love that version of chrome. What do you call a security researcher who cant even identify his platform in his bug reports?
That's a line-follow error, not a "I don't know what Chrome Version means" error. The response, is in response to the line below.
That shows the guy didn't check his work and isn't detail oriented. That does imply things about what he can do to find a security hole in a .DLL but it's not you make it out to be.
The guy is from Georgia, that's all I need to know about fraud and idiocy in this case. There's nothing coming out of former Soviet Bloc countries but spam, fraud, and other illegal thuggery crap. All the smart or moral folks left long ago.
You should watch the TV show "First 48". LOTS of moments like that on that show.
Also pounds home "they only catch the stupid ones" and "never talk to police"
It's worth noting that companies waste storage like crazy in Salesforce. Give your sales staff free reign, and you'll easily use that space up on PDF's, gigantic image assets for email designs that change every other day, etc.
The role of IT is to take care of the monster, not tame it. When IT takes action to bring down storage "waste" (be it in SF or in mailboxes) on its own, it's like having the office administrator go around making sure people use both sides of the pages in notebooks and that people stop doodling on post-its while taking calls because it's waste.
Did you ever work in a company where facilities people decided that lights should be motion-sensor-activated after 6pm? Or a company where cafeteria people decided that there is no need to stock both milk and cream for coffee? Or a company where architects found out that by shrinking parking stalls just a few inches they could fit a few more cars in the underground parking? If you expect the sales staff to put links in emails instead of files attachments or if you want to impose a quota on mailboxes you have fallen for the same flawed logic as facilities people, cafeteria people and architects. You lost sight of the value chain and you miscalculate what is and what is not true waste.
IT should be there to offer training and provide guidance but in the end it's a support function, not a business driver. IT is there to support the sales staff, not school them or patronize them. If IT believes that a business process is suboptimal and should be addressed, there is a chain of command for that; you prepare a nice spreadsheet with itemized expenses and you run that up the chain. If the person in charge determines that the waste is in fact unacceptable, he/she will initiate a change.
$3000 per year = about $12 per working day. One can probably save more by shopping for a better long-distance calls provider than by making noise about those rascals in sales who make too many PDFs.
Too many words. You shoulda just said "sales staff is too stupid to learn."
Or... how do they account for someone using terms who "can't possibly be racist" because they are black, showing up in this thing. For example "No_Limit_Nigga" on Twitter was shot to death in a justified self-defense shooting used all kinds of "racist" terms to refer to himself, and friends. (NLN was Trayvon Martin in real life.)
This analysis' conclusions are over-reaching for what they purport to be able to measure. Sure, it notes what terms are used where, but not who said them and why... which is the core of what racism is. Words are not racist, how people use them might be.
The technology behind a forum is pretty much irrelevant if you don't have a proper method to manage it, and to keep users happy and interested.
There are several good books on the subject of managing forums that will give you a huge leg-up in learning how to run one.
Most forums FAIL because the people running them don't figure things out fast enough. It will require daily, persistent, and considerate attention every day. If you don't have someone to do that then don't bother with a forum.
You forgot: Bloomberg Secret Soda Police (BSSP)
They have backups for all that already. See, banks that don't, get audited and then fined, and then shut down... or their FDIC insurance removed, or licenses revoked. They are there because it's prestigious to be there. They can operate without the location of "about to become part of the Atlantic". There is NOTHING particularly useful about the area for banking other than being a flashy douche to the the other flashy douches on the way from the train to the office. That infrastructure should be in the hills in New Jersey, not on the coast. And, a bunch of it already is.
... and finding the culprits is easy. Just find out where the local union shops are and pick them up!
When the states involved, figure out how to not squabble over 100k here and there, and codify into LAW, who gets what tax I will cease avoiding state sales tax.
When I can guarantee, some freak-laced state that I don't live in won't come after me for tax, I'll pay it to my state.
The only "service" the goods consumed from Amazon are roads, and maybe garbage collection (in some cases, I have to pay to get rid of the thing when it's done so the state shouldn't get a tax on it in the front end). Explain how buying a book from Amazon should fund health inspection in some tourst trap greasy spoon all the way across the state. Doesn't that place pay taxes too?
Yes, the system is messed up, but it's not messed up by actions of anything the consumer is doing.
So point your hate towards the officials YOU elected instead.
Wisconsin, traditionally a blue state, is in danger of turning red. Under Republican governeror Scott Walker and with the VP candidate being from Janesville, this state could tumble into the Romney column.
If by "red" you mean "not voting for a candidate that is unappealing outside a small area of Dane county" then sure. Tammy Baldwin doesn't have a chance. She only thinks she does because she has not spent any time outside Madison in the last 30 years and doesn't have a clue what the rest of the state wants. Nobody likes her except the dumb hippies in Madison.
Obama fucked himself out of Wisconsin when he talked about guns. Wisconsin likes guns.And as some of the referendums from a couple years ago show, is quite bigoted and racist with a strong "tv evangalist" christian bent.
Traditional liberalism or conservatism would work in Wisconsin, new age liberalism will not. Wisconsin isn't that type of state. It's already red.
You mean the "Clever Hans" effect where the handler provides the cues instead of the smell? It's a know issue, both handlers and dogs are trained to try and avoid it.
Oh, they are trained for it alright. The problem is, the pigs actually follow that training.
You have the internet, go look up some of the anecdotal stories of people watching the pigs sniff around their cars at a traffic stop for mounds of first impressions "gee, it sorta looked like the handler ordered the dog to signal", for the pigs to then find nothing after turning out and partially destroying the contents of the car.
Put the contents of the freezer in a contractor garbage bag. Put it back in the freezer. Put a bowl of ice on top. If the ice melts, or the ice is flat and not cubes when you get back, the freezer was off and you take the entire bag out to the garbage. Also, throw as many water bottles in it as fit. The extra thermal mass will help keep it cooler longer.
Quick and dirty: ROTATE your gas, OIL lamps produce HEAT too, BOOKs come on paper too.
I don't recall specifically, but isn't B&N the store that has the terminals right out on the floor where anybody can just walk up to them? That always seemed stupid to me, a kiosk out there on the floor is for customers to use... they apparently wanted the customer service reps to walk up to them and help customers find books... but they LOOK like they are there for everybody to use. Poor security at it's core.
Ok, now you are just being a goddamn moron.
What the matter, your portugese rejects all butt-hurt over the nerds explaining how brazilan papers are going to get fucked in the ass for picking a fight with Google news in the other thread? You gotta come pollute other threads too?
Take a look at this map: http://www.geonames.org/img/800px-GeonamesDensity.png
Population density of brazil is all packed up against the coast. Of course you have a good grid, in your geography it's easy.
Your assertion of "covering the population" is just stupid. If even half the US has electricity, the grid in the US is both bigger, and better than the grid in brazil. And, you fucking morons are spending a lot of money lighting up what is essentially jungle-wasteland in the central Amazon basin for four or five guys living in a hut somewhere? LOL. That's absolutely ridiculous. In the US, people who are off the grid are often surrounded by neighbors who are on the grid. It's a choice, and not influenced by some third-world shithole idiot's idea of a good penis measuring contest.
Some installations are shoot first ask questions later. Make sure you read the signs carefully before entering; "Deadly force authorized" is due notice you may be shot for being somewhere you shouldn't be. The rules of "castle doctrine" and who you can kill do not apply to government installations. True, you MIGHT not get shot if you immediately comply, but it's not a guarantee. YYMV.
He was making the lower, specifically, a "stripped lower".
What that means, for you non-gun people, is a hunk of metal with some holes in it the right shape and place.
The lower IS the firearm according to the ATF (it's dumb, but the basic frame is how they define it.) So legally, he was manufacturing a gun.
On the other hand, a stripped lower (good one with no engineering problems like his home-made lower) is about $90. Not really a cost savings to get all broke-assed about. The upper is where the real magic happens, and the stuff that goes in it is about $400 - $600 and up depending on the quality and features.
Your concerns are groundless, it cost this guy way more in time and money and materials to come up with the lower than just buying it did. Plus, it's not in any way illegal if you aren't a prohibited person already. This is a stupid stunt, not some gigantic side step towards having a million more guns appear without any serial numbers on them.
The same thing has been done with hardwoods. With simple plans it's easy to bang out a hunk of wood that will hold all the parts to make a complete AR-15 if you can work wood at all. Those other parts, well, they aren't controlled (unless you are a prohibited person) and not tracked.
And guess what, there's NO INSTANCE of such a home-made AR-15 being used in a crime. So that's a non issue.
5.56 NATO rounds (typical for an AR-15 or M-16) top out at around 2,900 feet per second for standard pressures and barrels. Most are somewhat under that for various reasons. At sea level, speed of sound is about 1,100 feet per second.
So, yeah, 3 times is a rounding point "ballpark" number for 2.7 times the speed of sound or so.
So, "since forever"
What they need is some kind of ship with a nuclear reactor that can generate enormous amounts of power.
Actually, what they most likely need is some sort of fast-startup generator for the short peak power periods required by such a weapon, e.g., something like an MHD generator.
If they haven't changed plans drastically, the peak power is handled by huge capacitors. So it's a reliable and large capacitor problem, plus a "we need more overall electrical output than we used to" problem. A nuclear power run ship makes a lot of sense if you are going to be using lots of power. For multi-shots, they may have to just add more capacitors and count on some lag time between bursts.