Because your hammer doesn't have an EULA that prevents you from learning how the hammer was built or prevents you from taking it apart. Are you that ignorant of that which you comment?
Your whole argument falls flat on it's face when you realize Trump had NOTHING to do with the ZTE sanctions. The initial sanctions were enacted by the Obama admin and when ZTE violated the consent agreement it was the Bureaucracy that reacted and put in place the ban for violating the consent degree, not Trump.
I actually think the opposite happened here, after the bureaucracy reacted Xi called and threatened Trump and he buckled under just like he did the last time Xi talked to him. Hell maybe the Chinese have the same stuff on him that the Russians do.
There's nothing for Iran to wait out. They wanted the US out of the deal from beginning.
The only reason they even came to the table was European sanctions, not US sanctions, that Obama got Europe to implement with the idea to draw Iran to the table. With the deal now directly between Europe and Iran all US leverage is gone. Iran got exactly what they wanted with this action. The US has no leverage in the deal anymore, Iran gets the European sanctions removed that actually hurt their economy and the US no longer has an leverage over the deal or enforcement of it's conditions.
Netanyahu wants the US to go to war against Iran, he believes this will solve Israel's problems. He's a fool, just like Trump.
The scariest thing is Trump might be stupid enough to try to launch military action against Iran and just like Bush before him he'll spend another trillion dollars on a war that should have never been started to begin with over weapons of mass destruction.
The US has never had any material pressure economically against the Iranian regime. We've had sanctions on them for 30 years. The only thing that drew Iran to the table was European sanctions that through the hard work of the Obama administration was able to draw Europe to the table and get them to implement sanctions to drive Iran to a deal. By withdrawing the US from the deal all US pressure is now gone and the deal is directly between Europe and Iran (what Iran wanted from the beginning). The US will implement sanctions, Europe won't and Iran gets what they wanted, the US out of the deal and monitoring regime and Europe on board to maintain the deal and keep sanctions off.
And with the stroke of a pen Trump snatched defeat from the Jaws of victory.
No modern concrete is going to last 1000 years. Roman concrete has lasted that long but Modern concrete is different.
Modern concrete and Roman concrete are drastically different, we couldn't even figure out how the Romans made their concrete until about a decade ago when we figured out they were mixing volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius into the mix (the ash wasn't included in the recipe they had found centuries earlier). In addition, we didn't figure out why Roman concrete was so much stronger and more durable than modern concrete until recently when an electron microscope revealed that the volcanic ash was imparting a specific type of crystal into the concrete that made it self-repair small cracks.
It's possible that because we now know how the Roman concrete works chemically that in the future we may be able to duplicate Roman concrete the point of this post is to point out that current Modern concrete cannot survive as long as Roman concrete. Modern Concrete placed in the highly weathering situations will degrade significantly in a few decades.
What a bunch of baloney. There is no sand shortage. Not only that but it's pretty damned easy to make sand, we do it all the time to create special types of sand. All you need is a pile of stone and a stone crusher and you can make sand. After all, weathered stone is what sand is. A rock grinder simply speeds up the process and produces sand in hours instead of millennia.
First the biggest reason the two trucks are somewhat similar is that neither has to support installation of a 12 cylinder diesel engine. As a result the truck's don't need the extended engine compartment and have a flatter profile like the older trucks where the drive was on top of the engine rather than behind it. This is purely a functional aspect that's the result of using an electric motor for drive.
The second is the design patent you cited about the wrap around windshield. There is a ton of prior art for those, but the most important fact is that anyone actually building trucks would never use one because it ups the cost of the windshield production substantially to shape the glass in the wraparound shape and makes replacements much more expensive. Producing that wraparound windshield would probably double the cost of the windshield and anyone actually making trucks would drop it immediately because of the needless cost it would add to the truck.
Finally Tesla, because they are actually producing trucks, has two different models, they have a standard day use truck and a long haul truck. The long haul truck has a sleeper but also includes the standard wind scoop on the roof to channel air up over the trailer because this can save a significant amount of energy (I've been told it can add as much as 6mpg to a diesel truck). The day use truck includes neither because these trucks are frequently used in cities at lower speed whereas the long haul trucks spend 95% of their time on the freeway at maximum speeds.
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That is not the Federal Communication Commission, the FCC is a regulatory commission that is neither executive nor legislative but acts with legislative authority to regulate:
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But feel free to keep making shit up and just flinging shit at the wall hoping it will stick like you've been doing. After all the president does something similar when he lies his ass off constantly so you are in good company.
Look at pictures of the two trucks. The Tesla clearly has pillars between the side windows and windshield, they are just black and glossy to make them look more like glass.
The Nicola design wraps the glass around onto the side then has the pillar a foot back from the windshield.
In this case and all the other claims the Tesla and the Nicola look nothing alike. They are both an evolution of the standard truck designs from the last 10 years. Both trucks look more like some concept designs from 20 years ago than they look like each other.
Look at the pictures in the two links and tell me they look the same. Besides the windshield differences the Tesla has no grill and what looks like frunk like hood, the Nicola has a huge grill. The Tesla has vertically oriented lights, the Nicola has horizontally oriented lights.
The Tesla has wind shields over the front wheels that extend back to the back of the cab creating an air channel from front to back. The Nicola wind shields over the wheels have a conventional profile tying out without the channelization but these shields also have a second big grill under the headlights.
The Nicola has thick arms with a slot supporting the side mirrors, Tesla has a thinner single blade arm supporting the side mirrors. The Nicola side mirrors are rectangular with rounded corners, the Tesla mirrors are tapered at the top with almost a rounded triangular shape on the top.
The Driver in the Tesla is centered in the cab, the Nicola uses a standard Left/Right side driver seat. Etc, Etc, Etc.
These two trucks look NOTHING alike once you discount the similarities to actually be a semi truck. Semi trucks have to be certain sizes width and length, have a defined profile and shape that fits the wind profile. They have to match the standard trailers in the industry and have the standard type, size and spacing of tires. The Diesel Semi-trucks you can buy right now from vendors like Volvo, International and others look very similar.
The lawsuit is a joke, you have to wonder if it's an attempt to get purchased by Tesla because Tesla is doing so much better and Nicola bet on Hydrogen being a viable fuel by now and it's not, the trucks aren't in production and costs of production and hydrogen will likely preclude any serious sales once Nicola actually starts producing trucks if they ever do.
FCC employees don't meet this employee definition you keep quoting. The one you are quoting applies to cabinet level employees.
FCC commissioners do not qualify for this exemption even if they go through a similar process because they are not a cabinet level position AND they are in charge of an independent agency. As others have pointed out this is all explained in the definitions section you didn't bother to read.
FCC commissioners much like heads of the FBI and CIA are not allowed to engage in this behavior because they are treated as independent organizations under which the president has no direct control other than appointing the leader.
FCC commissioners in particular are not necessarily appointed by the president in charge, it operates much like the federal reserve where a president appoints them and senate approves them but to a fixed term that is often 6 years or longer making the appointment typically extend beyond the presidential term. In addition after appointment they are immune from executive authority (they can't be fired) until their term is up. FCC commissioners once appointed cannot be removed.
Of the 3 FCC commissioners the head of the group is appointed by the president and serves at their will but the others are term appointments and typically serve terms longer than 6 years without the ability to be removed by the executive.
Do people really know this little about how government works?
These are design patents, basically how the truck looks.
There are only so many ways you can shape a semi-truck that accommodates the wind pressures in the most effective way. Look around at any modern (built in the last decade) truck, they all look the same for a reason.
Personally having looked at the Tesla and Nicola pictures I think the trucks don't look anything alike when you account for the things that have to be the same (which also match all the diesel trucks being built right now).
If Nicola's design patents cover these items they are covering design elements that have been in use for decades on all the other trucks out there and will clearly be invalid. If they cover the unique design elements that make their design different than every other truck on the road out there I see little similarity between Nicola and Tesla.
Ultimately the company is upset for two reasons, poaching employees (whaaaaa, baby want a bottle), and the fact that Tesla is stealing all the big clients with a big rig that's better designed, isn't tied to Hydrogen and will be cheaper to run and operate using known and proven technology. Nicola on the other hand has a truck that can only be refueled in 3 places, has fuel costs that are higher than diesel, is using fuel cells with unknown life spans and who knows what maintenance costs.
They're upset they picked the wrong horse with hydrogen and want to stop Tesla so they can try to get more sales. It's just marketing by lawyer and I hope Tesla stomps them in court.
It's not censorship if it's their house, you are completely welcome to find another venue to promote whatever it is that Google doesn't want going on in their house.
It's censorship when the government tells you that you can't talk about a subject anywhere. It's not censorship when Google tells you that you can't talk about that using their resources, because what Google did didn't stop you from talking about it, it only stopped you from using their resources.
If you are bored at work you should be trying to find a new job. There is nothing worse that hating your job because it makes you bored or is work you dislike.
If you continue in a job you dislike you will inevitably have an awful midlife crisis when you finally realize life is far to short to spend 80% of it doing a job you hate.
Telecommunications are a natural monopoly and always will be. When it costs $2 Billion to wire a small city the very nature of the business would prevent another provider from spending the same capital expenditure. This has nothing to do with regulation, nothing at all.
The only reason we even have 2 providers in some areas is because the FCC deliberately prevented cable companies and telephone companies from entering the others business. A decade later when the FCC allowed this rule to collapse and the cable and teleco's entered each others business you saw a decline in the price of internet but not in cable TV because most of the teleco's didn't enter the cable TV market. This created a doupoly where the two providers in the market would segregate the market segment and control prices to prevent pricing wars to keep profits maximized.
But even getting 2 competitors in a market wasn't successful in all but the most urban areas, almost all rural areas still only have a single provider with what most people consider ridiculous prices and services. This is because these companies will not invest in capital upgrades.
The best way to describe spectre is that's it's fundamental to how all out of order instruction processors work. All out of order processors will suffer from spectre.
Getting rid of spectre would require the return to in order execution at a MASSIVE performance penalty, more than 50% and probably closer to 75% drop in compute power. It's mitigateable but it's going to have hundreds of edge cases that will be found for years so it's going to take a long time (years) and a lot of rewriting in the fundamental parts of OS's to negate Spectre based attacks.
Spectre is fundamental to the design assumptions of all modern processors, as I like to say it's the bug that's going to give and give and give. They probably won't have found most of the edge cases until after 2020 so we should expect yearly/quarterly patches to spectre like attacks for a long time.
One thing that's not mentioned in a lot of the articles but the timing based attacks that comprise the spectre attacks were discovered years ago. It took several years for someone to find and demonstrate the first version of these attacks but most experts think this is just the beginning and that we're looking toward years of these type of attacks on all aspects of operating systems and CPU's.
In other words, spectre was just the first timing attack, there will be more, probably a lot more now that there is an actual example of how to do them.
I'll never forget a TV show I saw where they talked to AI experts about how smart AI was, they placed it somewhere around the equivalent to the problem solving ability of a cockroach.
Human level smarts of an AI aren't even on the radar right now. We've barely gotten to the point where the AI can identify different objects and figure out the edges without touching the object. Performing simple tasks that humans can do without even thinking is at the forefront of the field right now. Things like seeing, identifying and picking a strawberry, something a 4 year old can be taught to do in a minute has taken AI years to develop and it's still not as good as a human.
This is likely to change significantly over the next few years now that Brexit has happened. I wouldn't be surprised if English disappeared entirely from the continent.
Nice hyperbole. A member of Trumps campaign make active overtures to someone in Britain the US security complex believed was a Russian Spy.
It wouldn't have mattered if they were a vacuum cleaner salesman, I'm willing to bet anyone making such inquiries would immediately get all your conversations spied on with an immediate FISA application. This is how things work, you start taking to people the US government things is an agent of a hostile government those conversations are probably going to be recorded, transcribed and passed on for review.
Bringing it in like it was simply because Trump was connected is absurd. Want to test it? Start making overtures to Russian spies and see how long it takes them to start recording your conversations.
Given the FISA court will give a warrant on a french bagel you have to wonder what exactly Trumps new "torture first" group of CIA/NSA spies are asking for warrants on.
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Because your hammer doesn't have an EULA that prevents you from learning how the hammer was built or prevents you from taking it apart. Are you that ignorant of that which you comment?
Your whole argument falls flat on it's face when you realize Trump had NOTHING to do with the ZTE sanctions. The initial sanctions were enacted by the Obama admin and when ZTE violated the consent agreement it was the Bureaucracy that reacted and put in place the ban for violating the consent degree, not Trump.
I actually think the opposite happened here, after the bureaucracy reacted Xi called and threatened Trump and he buckled under just like he did the last time Xi talked to him. Hell maybe the Chinese have the same stuff on him that the Russians do.
Rat's might be suspicious but Warfarin and it's analogs are colorless, tasteless and odorless. Anything poisoned with it is undetectable to animals.
There's nothing for Iran to wait out. They wanted the US out of the deal from beginning.
The only reason they even came to the table was European sanctions, not US sanctions, that Obama got Europe to implement with the idea to draw Iran to the table. With the deal now directly between Europe and Iran all US leverage is gone. Iran got exactly what they wanted with this action. The US has no leverage in the deal anymore, Iran gets the European sanctions removed that actually hurt their economy and the US no longer has an leverage over the deal or enforcement of it's conditions.
Iran wins, USA loses.
Netanyahu wants the US to go to war against Iran, he believes this will solve Israel's problems. He's a fool, just like Trump.
The scariest thing is Trump might be stupid enough to try to launch military action against Iran and just like Bush before him he'll spend another trillion dollars on a war that should have never been started to begin with over weapons of mass destruction.
And in one fell stroke Trump handed Iran the win.
The US has never had any material pressure economically against the Iranian regime. We've had sanctions on them for 30 years. The only thing that drew Iran to the table was European sanctions that through the hard work of the Obama administration was able to draw Europe to the table and get them to implement sanctions to drive Iran to a deal. By withdrawing the US from the deal all US pressure is now gone and the deal is directly between Europe and Iran (what Iran wanted from the beginning). The US will implement sanctions, Europe won't and Iran gets what they wanted, the US out of the deal and monitoring regime and Europe on board to maintain the deal and keep sanctions off.
And with the stroke of a pen Trump snatched defeat from the Jaws of victory.
It would be humorous if it wasn't so bloody SAD.
No modern concrete is going to last 1000 years. Roman concrete has lasted that long but Modern concrete is different.
Modern concrete and Roman concrete are drastically different, we couldn't even figure out how the Romans made their concrete until about a decade ago when we figured out they were mixing volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius into the mix (the ash wasn't included in the recipe they had found centuries earlier). In addition, we didn't figure out why Roman concrete was so much stronger and more durable than modern concrete until recently when an electron microscope revealed that the volcanic ash was imparting a specific type of crystal into the concrete that made it self-repair small cracks.
It's possible that because we now know how the Roman concrete works chemically that in the future we may be able to duplicate Roman concrete the point of this post is to point out that current Modern concrete cannot survive as long as Roman concrete. Modern Concrete placed in the highly weathering situations will degrade significantly in a few decades.
AAC concrete is even more energy intensive and produces way more C02 than regular concrete.
What a bunch of baloney. There is no sand shortage. Not only that but it's pretty damned easy to make sand, we do it all the time to create special types of sand. All you need is a pile of stone and a stone crusher and you can make sand. After all, weathered stone is what sand is. A rock grinder simply speeds up the process and produces sand in hours instead of millennia.
Two things it occurs to me I forgot to mention.
First the biggest reason the two trucks are somewhat similar is that neither has to support installation of a 12 cylinder diesel engine. As a result the truck's don't need the extended engine compartment and have a flatter profile like the older trucks where the drive was on top of the engine rather than behind it. This is purely a functional aspect that's the result of using an electric motor for drive.
The second is the design patent you cited about the wrap around windshield. There is a ton of prior art for those, but the most important fact is that anyone actually building trucks would never use one because it ups the cost of the windshield production substantially to shape the glass in the wraparound shape and makes replacements much more expensive. Producing that wraparound windshield would probably double the cost of the windshield and anyone actually making trucks would drop it immediately because of the needless cost it would add to the truck.
Finally Tesla, because they are actually producing trucks, has two different models, they have a standard day use truck and a long haul truck. The long haul truck has a sleeper but also includes the standard wind scoop on the roof to channel air up over the trailer because this can save a significant amount of energy (I've been told it can add as much as 6mpg to a diesel truck). The day use truck includes neither because these trucks are frequently used in cities at lower speed whereas the long haul trucks spend 95% of their time on the freeway at maximum speeds.
Keep trying.
That is not the Federal Communication Commission, the FCC is a regulatory commission that is neither executive nor legislative but acts with legislative authority to regulate:
But feel free to keep making shit up and just flinging shit at the wall hoping it will stick like you've been doing. After all the president does something similar when he lies his ass off constantly so you are in good company.
Look at pictures of the two trucks. The Tesla clearly has pillars between the side windows and windshield, they are just black and glossy to make them look more like glass.
The Nicola design wraps the glass around onto the side then has the pillar a foot back from the windshield.
In this case and all the other claims the Tesla and the Nicola look nothing alike. They are both an evolution of the standard truck designs from the last 10 years. Both trucks look more like some concept designs from 20 years ago than they look like each other.
https://electrek.co/2018/03/16...
https://www.trucks.com/2016/12...
Look at the pictures in the two links and tell me they look the same. Besides the windshield differences the Tesla has no grill and what looks like frunk like hood, the Nicola has a huge grill. The Tesla has vertically oriented lights, the Nicola has horizontally oriented lights.
The Tesla has wind shields over the front wheels that extend back to the back of the cab creating an air channel from front to back. The Nicola wind shields over the wheels have a conventional profile tying out without the channelization but these shields also have a second big grill under the headlights.
The Nicola has thick arms with a slot supporting the side mirrors, Tesla has a thinner single blade arm supporting the side mirrors. The Nicola side mirrors are rectangular with rounded corners, the Tesla mirrors are tapered at the top with almost a rounded triangular shape on the top.
The Driver in the Tesla is centered in the cab, the Nicola uses a standard Left/Right side driver seat. Etc, Etc, Etc.
These two trucks look NOTHING alike once you discount the similarities to actually be a semi truck. Semi trucks have to be certain sizes width and length, have a defined profile and shape that fits the wind profile. They have to match the standard trailers in the industry and have the standard type, size and spacing of tires. The Diesel Semi-trucks you can buy right now from vendors like Volvo, International and others look very similar.
The lawsuit is a joke, you have to wonder if it's an attempt to get purchased by Tesla because Tesla is doing so much better and Nicola bet on Hydrogen being a viable fuel by now and it's not, the trucks aren't in production and costs of production and hydrogen will likely preclude any serious sales once Nicola actually starts producing trucks if they ever do.
FCC employees don't meet this employee definition you keep quoting. The one you are quoting applies to cabinet level employees.
FCC commissioners do not qualify for this exemption even if they go through a similar process because they are not a cabinet level position AND they are in charge of an independent agency. As others have pointed out this is all explained in the definitions section you didn't bother to read.
FCC commissioners much like heads of the FBI and CIA are not allowed to engage in this behavior because they are treated as independent organizations under which the president has no direct control other than appointing the leader.
FCC commissioners in particular are not necessarily appointed by the president in charge, it operates much like the federal reserve where a president appoints them and senate approves them but to a fixed term that is often 6 years or longer making the appointment typically extend beyond the presidential term. In addition after appointment they are immune from executive authority (they can't be fired) until their term is up. FCC commissioners once appointed cannot be removed.
Of the 3 FCC commissioners the head of the group is appointed by the president and serves at their will but the others are term appointments and typically serve terms longer than 6 years without the ability to be removed by the executive.
Do people really know this little about how government works?
These are design patents, basically how the truck looks.
There are only so many ways you can shape a semi-truck that accommodates the wind pressures in the most effective way. Look around at any modern (built in the last decade) truck, they all look the same for a reason.
Personally having looked at the Tesla and Nicola pictures I think the trucks don't look anything alike when you account for the things that have to be the same (which also match all the diesel trucks being built right now).
If Nicola's design patents cover these items they are covering design elements that have been in use for decades on all the other trucks out there and will clearly be invalid. If they cover the unique design elements that make their design different than every other truck on the road out there I see little similarity between Nicola and Tesla.
Ultimately the company is upset for two reasons, poaching employees (whaaaaa, baby want a bottle), and the fact that Tesla is stealing all the big clients with a big rig that's better designed, isn't tied to Hydrogen and will be cheaper to run and operate using known and proven technology. Nicola on the other hand has a truck that can only be refueled in 3 places, has fuel costs that are higher than diesel, is using fuel cells with unknown life spans and who knows what maintenance costs.
They're upset they picked the wrong horse with hydrogen and want to stop Tesla so they can try to get more sales. It's just marketing by lawyer and I hope Tesla stomps them in court.
It's not censorship if it's their house, you are completely welcome to find another venue to promote whatever it is that Google doesn't want going on in their house.
It's censorship when the government tells you that you can't talk about a subject anywhere. It's not censorship when Google tells you that you can't talk about that using their resources, because what Google did didn't stop you from talking about it, it only stopped you from using their resources.
This is not a free speech issue.
If you are bored at work you should be trying to find a new job. There is nothing worse that hating your job because it makes you bored or is work you dislike.
If you continue in a job you dislike you will inevitably have an awful midlife crisis when you finally realize life is far to short to spend 80% of it doing a job you hate.
Phreaking is the original hacking and it often involved a as much social engineering as it did technical knowledge.
Checkout Lost in Space on Netflix. Very good remake.
Telecommunications are a natural monopoly and always will be. When it costs $2 Billion to wire a small city the very nature of the business would prevent another provider from spending the same capital expenditure. This has nothing to do with regulation, nothing at all.
The only reason we even have 2 providers in some areas is because the FCC deliberately prevented cable companies and telephone companies from entering the others business. A decade later when the FCC allowed this rule to collapse and the cable and teleco's entered each others business you saw a decline in the price of internet but not in cable TV because most of the teleco's didn't enter the cable TV market. This created a doupoly where the two providers in the market would segregate the market segment and control prices to prevent pricing wars to keep profits maximized.
But even getting 2 competitors in a market wasn't successful in all but the most urban areas, almost all rural areas still only have a single provider with what most people consider ridiculous prices and services. This is because these companies will not invest in capital upgrades.
The best way to describe spectre is that's it's fundamental to how all out of order instruction processors work. All out of order processors will suffer from spectre.
Getting rid of spectre would require the return to in order execution at a MASSIVE performance penalty, more than 50% and probably closer to 75% drop in compute power. It's mitigateable but it's going to have hundreds of edge cases that will be found for years so it's going to take a long time (years) and a lot of rewriting in the fundamental parts of OS's to negate Spectre based attacks.
Spectre is fundamental to the design assumptions of all modern processors, as I like to say it's the bug that's going to give and give and give. They probably won't have found most of the edge cases until after 2020 so we should expect yearly/quarterly patches to spectre like attacks for a long time.
One thing that's not mentioned in a lot of the articles but the timing based attacks that comprise the spectre attacks were discovered years ago. It took several years for someone to find and demonstrate the first version of these attacks but most experts think this is just the beginning and that we're looking toward years of these type of attacks on all aspects of operating systems and CPU's.
In other words, spectre was just the first timing attack, there will be more, probably a lot more now that there is an actual example of how to do them.
I'll never forget a TV show I saw where they talked to AI experts about how smart AI was, they placed it somewhere around the equivalent to the problem solving ability of a cockroach.
Human level smarts of an AI aren't even on the radar right now. We've barely gotten to the point where the AI can identify different objects and figure out the edges without touching the object. Performing simple tasks that humans can do without even thinking is at the forefront of the field right now. Things like seeing, identifying and picking a strawberry, something a 4 year old can be taught to do in a minute has taken AI years to develop and it's still not as good as a human.
This is likely to change significantly over the next few years now that Brexit has happened. I wouldn't be surprised if English disappeared entirely from the continent.
Nice hyperbole. A member of Trumps campaign make active overtures to someone in Britain the US security complex believed was a Russian Spy.
It wouldn't have mattered if they were a vacuum cleaner salesman, I'm willing to bet anyone making such inquiries would immediately get all your conversations spied on with an immediate FISA application. This is how things work, you start taking to people the US government things is an agent of a hostile government those conversations are probably going to be recorded, transcribed and passed on for review.
Bringing it in like it was simply because Trump was connected is absurd. Want to test it? Start making overtures to Russian spies and see how long it takes them to start recording your conversations.
Given the FISA court will give a warrant on a french bagel you have to wonder what exactly Trumps new "torture first" group of CIA/NSA spies are asking for warrants on.
It also covers the security "consultants" brought in to review things which is probably half the bill.