Let's just say that your experience is several standard deviations beyond the mean. I don't know anyone who uses an email client (even I don't, but I also treat email as completely insecure). I'm probably the only person I work with who even knows how to set up an email client with encryption. Most people are completely in the dark about security.
The mess in Atlanta was caused by incompetence and political cowardice.
I'm not inclined to disagree with you on Atlanta's governance, but 4 AM is pretty late to sound the call to shut down a city. I go to work at 6:15 and don't listen to the news before I'm in the car. Realistically, you can cancel things the night before - or not at all. The uncertainty regarding this storm was enormous. Hurricanes give you time to do things - much more than eight hours.
Prepped, packed ice at 3F is a drivable surface. Unprepped ice at 28F is not. At 28, the ice melts from the weight of the tires. How well can you drive on a block of wet ice?
In Denver, snow is light and dry. If you pack it, you can drive on it. In the South, snow quickly melts when it hits the ground, then slush accumulates, and only after it's been cold for hours does the ground get cold. Then the whole thing freezes into a block of ice, except that it's a block of ice at 28F rather than, say, 15F. And so it's warm enough that the weight of the tires is enough to melt the top of the ice, and so you're trying to drive on a wet sheet of ice.
Not when it's 28 degrees, because at that temperature the weight of tires is sufficient to melt the ice. And there is no traction to be had on a sheet of wet ice.
If it had been -15F in Atlanta, they would have been fine. It's the accumulation of snow and ice that is constantly thawing and refreezing at ambient temperatures just below the freezing point that caused this. It's nothing like snow in a cold climate; it's a sheet of ice.
Driving on two inches of snow is easy if it stays snow. But at the temperatures involved, it rapidly turns into slush that freezes into a sheet of ice that melts under the pressure of the tires, and it's basically impossible to drive on wet ice. Besides, exactly what sort of drivers' ed are they supposed to do? "Here, we'll simulate conditions that you will encounter perhaps once a decade, please try to remember them perfectly"?
It's not the snow. It's the ice. Canada gets cold and stays cold. These cities sat within a couple of degrees of freezing for hours on end. Pressure melts snow, snow plus water equals slush, slush freezes to solid ice, pressure of tires is enough to melt top layer of ice, and now you're driving on water-covered ice. Short of actual spikes, how are you supposed to get traction on that?
Shutting the city down isn't free. Parents have to leave work to get home to children. What do you do when that parent is an ER nurse? Businesses have to close, city workers will cause traffic jams on the way home... and if nothing happens, everyone starts talking about how much money and time was wasted for nothing. You can't win.
Eh. It's a bunch of little countries a long way away. How many Europeans could be given a blank map of the US and Canada and label most or even many states and provinces correctly?
Why would they? They're not close enough to drive to Canada, and they don't get anything like the cheap flights to Europe you can get out of NYC/Boston.
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A million fully refundable first-class round trips to Barcelona.
"Hey, hang out here and talk with us a bit, whether it works out or not we'll fly you to Barca in Zuck's private jet."
Really not a hard negotiation tactic.
I'll join the karma bonfire. Come on over to Soylent News and enjoy actual news for nerds.
4 was the one nobody used. DOS 5 actually had a lot of neat features that 3.3 and 4 didn't.
Also, fuck beta.
At least the prior fuckups didn't completely kill usability.
Fuck beta.
What was wrong with DOS 5? Fuck beta.
Let's just say that your experience is several standard deviations beyond the mean. I don't know anyone who uses an email client (even I don't, but I also treat email as completely insecure). I'm probably the only person I work with who even knows how to set up an email client with encryption. Most people are completely in the dark about security.
Plugging random flash drives in is entirely safe.
Assuming there are no zero-day exploits you haven't yet found.
Within the doctor's office the information's already secured.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. Doctors are not security experts, and neither are most of the people they hire.
S/MIME and/or PGP encryption built into every major e-mail client
How many average people do you think actually have an email client, as opposed to using webmail?
adding it to a file on the patient's USB flash drive
You don't want random flash drives being plugged into the networks that store health info.
e-mailing to the patient
And you really don't want it going out over the Internet in plain text.
it's not that complicated
If you think it's not that complicated, then you do not understand the magnitude of the problem.
Good luck getting a prosecutor to go after a cop for perjury.
The mess in Atlanta was caused by incompetence and political cowardice.
I'm not inclined to disagree with you on Atlanta's governance, but 4 AM is pretty late to sound the call to shut down a city. I go to work at 6:15 and don't listen to the news before I'm in the car. Realistically, you can cancel things the night before - or not at all. The uncertainty regarding this storm was enormous. Hurricanes give you time to do things - much more than eight hours.
You could fill the city with Minnesotans and they would not be able to drive in it. NoI'mNotNineVolt covers this well.
Weight alone will do it. Not frictional heating.
Cold ice is a drivable surface. Ice two degrees below freezing is not. The surface melts from tire contact.
Prepped, packed ice at 3F is a drivable surface. Unprepped ice at 28F is not. At 28, the ice melts from the weight of the tires. How well can you drive on a block of wet ice?
In Denver, snow is light and dry. If you pack it, you can drive on it. In the South, snow quickly melts when it hits the ground, then slush accumulates, and only after it's been cold for hours does the ground get cold. Then the whole thing freezes into a block of ice, except that it's a block of ice at 28F rather than, say, 15F. And so it's warm enough that the weight of the tires is enough to melt the top of the ice, and so you're trying to drive on a wet sheet of ice.
Not when it's 28 degrees, because at that temperature the weight of tires is sufficient to melt the ice. And there is no traction to be had on a sheet of wet ice.
If it had been -15F in Atlanta, they would have been fine. It's the accumulation of snow and ice that is constantly thawing and refreezing at ambient temperatures just below the freezing point that caused this. It's nothing like snow in a cold climate; it's a sheet of ice.
Driving on two inches of snow is easy if it stays snow. But at the temperatures involved, it rapidly turns into slush that freezes into a sheet of ice that melts under the pressure of the tires, and it's basically impossible to drive on wet ice. Besides, exactly what sort of drivers' ed are they supposed to do? "Here, we'll simulate conditions that you will encounter perhaps once a decade, please try to remember them perfectly"?
It's not the snow. It's the ice. Canada gets cold and stays cold. These cities sat within a couple of degrees of freezing for hours on end. Pressure melts snow, snow plus water equals slush, slush freezes to solid ice, pressure of tires is enough to melt top layer of ice, and now you're driving on water-covered ice. Short of actual spikes, how are you supposed to get traction on that?
This. It doesn't get cold enough for snow to remain snow, it just turns into sheets and sheets of ice.
Shutting the city down isn't free. Parents have to leave work to get home to children. What do you do when that parent is an ER nurse? Businesses have to close, city workers will cause traffic jams on the way home... and if nothing happens, everyone starts talking about how much money and time was wasted for nothing. You can't win.
Most = over 50%. Canada has many fewer provinces than we have states, it should be trivially easier.
Eh. It's a bunch of little countries a long way away. How many Europeans could be given a blank map of the US and Canada and label most or even many states and provinces correctly?
Why would they? They're not close enough to drive to Canada, and they don't get anything like the cheap flights to Europe you can get out of NYC/Boston.