Well with old chrome parts you can shape a bit of sheet steel slowly and painful with hand tools in your garage, worst case and take it some place to have it chromed.
With plastic parts not so much. I work on a '85 Alfa Romero, you can improvise just about any metal part you need or find an after market manufacturer. Its the plastic bits that are terribly expensive and or difficult to find. Which is not say metal body parts are exactly cheap but you feel like you get something for the money.
No actually in most cases its likely you are using it to drive a host server for a bunch of VMs. I am pretty sure that is the largest market segment for 16-core x86-64 processors today.
That would destroy Apple. It would saddle them with a high fixed cost plant right at a time when their ability to push new iPad sales indefinitely is starting to look like there may be a question mark in there some place. They only thing worse for Apply than not getting the displays they need would be having or having production capacity for ones they don't.
It would be better to have to source them elsewhere. The Koreans can crank then out as well AUO stuff might not be as dense but apple could make do
Its never bad to gather all the information you possible can but most likely the caller was just lying. Chances are pretty good he just got off the phone with your competitor giving him the same business. Even if he did name names it would not mean much.
Sadly its most likely the caller did not even have the capability to execute the attack he claimed to have.
IDS will not help protect you from a DDOS. The closed it might come to offering any kind of DDOS protect is it may help your firewall thwart scanning and information gathering in preparation for a DDOS.
Some DDOS uses a smallish number of hosts and will attempt to exhaust a specific resource like like server session memory by speaking a the protocol for a little while, if there is something that makes you especially vulnerable to that. Big DDOS use large bot nets and will simply burn thru all your bandwidth with SYN (tcp session start) packets alone. You really can't do much. If you have some way to tell which traffic is bad, like you know traffic should only be sourced from a specific address you can drop these sessions at your firewall and maybe make things a little better for yourself but it won't do much because the traffic still comes to your firewall and its going to consume your entire outside downlink, choking out the legitimate traffic anyway.
Option a) Your best bet is go strait to law enforcement. The FBI is actually very interested in these sorts of things even if you are small fry. This might not be a such a hot idea though if the group extorting you actually has some capability. Usually they will set up a string, and track the money when you pay.
Option b) Just shut up and pay up. Never taken this approach myself. I assume it makes the problem go away for a while anyway. I imagine said problems come back for another fix later, and I'd wonder if the attacker ever really had the capability.
Option c) pay the back bone provider, ie ATT&T or whoever is your ISPs, ISP for their DDOS protection services. They actually DO have the resources to protect you from a DDOS. Everything else anyone else is selling is just snake oil because a large enough botnet can simply use all the bandwidth weather you attempt to ack tarpit, or not; They unanswered SYNs alone will consume your entire pipe. This option is terribly expensive, might be worthwhile if you are running a large and inadequately distributed eCommerce site or similar.
Option d) Distribute the hell out of your site. This leads to all sorts of complexity around replication and have the big CDN providers host all your static content and resources. This may help depending on the type of attack. You will want make sure your DNS resources are also well distributed you will basically use fast-flux DNS yourself to stay ahead of your attackers. Essentially you keep changing IPs every 300 seconds or so. You will have challenges preserving sessions and for lots of services its not viable, for WWW it can be made to work. Again this is serious money and time. It might be cheaper than Option c, if you want you are trying to be available for is a small amount if high dollar transactions, as opposed to a higher volume smaller dollar situation.
I guess I would say in answer; this is the tool I use 6 to 8 hours a day. It really should work the way I want it to do so. I don't need to cycle between windows in general, I need to be able to cycle between two very specific applications; that does not mean I don't want my mail client open, just that I go to the dock when I want it for example.
Now yes If you are spending a great deal of time customizing around your applications that exist purely for entertainment in the first place fine, that might be masturbatory but in general for folks who out of necessity, love or not, spend a large amount of time in front of their computer making the environment both pleasing and efficient for the work flow thru tweaking can add real value. This is especially true if your time in-front of the machine is disproportionately spend on a few specific tasks.
No he Just want. Obummer to win the election he just endorsed him actually. This just about using fear to put his thumb on the scale and tilt the election. This is always how statists win
I rather think you are missing the point. One of the an operating system should do is provide useable and effective access controls so that I can run other software with a correct level of isolation.
The system must enforce security. I can't know what every application is going to do. Even if it was all open source who has time read and understand the code to everything they use? If my platform can't enable me to prevent an application for seeing and doing things I don't want while still leaving it functional (within reason) its failing.
True but it could be easily made so that apps still work if you don't give them certain permissions without altering the API. Just warn the user there may be degraded functionality.
System -> prevent -> sleep - if the app lacks permission succeed but ignore the call Get contacts -> succeed but return an empty record set to the app as if the user has no contacts.
are examples. You could do this without breaking existing applications and users could decide for themselves if their flashlight app really needs to access the network.
No it won't got to reserves. It will go to insurance premiums and to one of the big audit firms annually to NOT find problems and generate a great deal of glossy print outs to make the insurance firm feel good.
<half kidding> The insurance firm will then sell stocks and bonds to a large brokerage, who will aggregate them into a fund or other financial product with more insurance companies suggesting that all risk has been eliminated. The original insurance companies will by these products (essentially their own companies) back from the brokers after paying a hefty commission and list them as assets.
Then brokers will revalue the assets higher based on the now expanded balance sheets, and suggest that more leverage is therefore okay. Eventually some hack of some tiny backwater CA nobody uses will cause a ripple effect bring the entire financial system to knees. </half kidding>
Man you just described the scene in our cafeteria most days. I happen to be one those guys at the table. What always amazes me is production just does not get it. I really am their best friend. They are always freak out that "our security stuff" might mess up their PLC and someone could get hurt.
Its like the possibility that a worm could get on their unpatched XP SP1 platforms from one of the endless parade of technician laptops that get plugged into that subnet and someone could get hurt is entirely lost on them. You'd think a bunch of plant engineers would get that its better to test out security controls under somewhat controlled conditions with people aware they might be a problem than to get owned during third shift.
Codered and welchia were not that long ago, and stuxnet and flame were just in the news but memories are short apparently.
Just ask the customer ahead of or behind you in line to swipe their car for your purchase or the cashier to use theirs. They are almost always happy to do this. They git the points, gasoline discount, or whatever, at not cost to them. You get the sale price without being tracked. I know you are on slashdot, but its okay to interact directly with others.
I use a 19" 1280 x 1024 on my PC (don't have a laptop), and will never buy a widescreen display
Why because you have some irrational issue with them? How could 1920x1080 not be better for example? Its more vertical lines than you have today, and more horizontal. You could display a 1280x1024 image on it just by not using the entire thing!
I can see why you might prefer 1920x1440 or something if you could get it, but clinging to 1280x1024 just makes no sense.
See all of you kept crying about how all our C?O and Political leaders are psychopaths were wrong. You should be happy about that. They are better at thinking than you are and no doubt producing more optimal solutions than you could.
Thank goodness we have these unfeeling psychopaths to lead us.
English does not have an office body governing its use. It does not have an official dictionary. English is anything another English speaker is able to understand comfortably.
The only thing even near what might be an official standard is "The queen's English" and if you use that than most of Great Britain does not use correct English.
So they question is does an alert from a dog constitute evidence strong enough to meet the probal cause standard? What if I come up with a method to detect drugs or anything else that is utter bullshit? I have this rock that when released will fall towards the earth if there is pot near by, well look drop like a stone. I had better search every house on the block and pay down all the attractive women just to be safe.
Personally I am not optimistic, this court has not adopted rigors eviduciary requirements in its recent rulings on similar issues last year
Wrong. It could have been worse. This thing is 230~ tons of timber! You don't think it being busted up in port would have destroyed not just the ship but whatever it was tied too, or other vessels near it? If its just the loss of life bothering you what about all the added flying debris (which often kills in hurricanes) such an even might result in?
I am not saying that any of these things would have happened but they could have just like going to sea could have resulting in everything being just fine. I am saying you don't fully understand the subject and the considerations around it. This ship was big and heavy and the storm, category 1 though it may be, is large and powerful. There is plenty of potential for calamity not matter what you do.
The original bounty would have pumps that would have been operated manually by gangs of sailors. Wood hauled ships of that type are pretty much in a constant state of sinking, you must pump the bilge.
The replica bounty was equipped only with electric pumps They had some kind of generator failure and could not run them.
What were they doing at sea. Its pretty much SOP of an ocean going vessel of any significant size to put to see ahead of storm. I hope its obvious to you why being anchor in heavy sees would be a problem. Since you can't be tied up you don't want to be anywhere near shallow water or anything like pier, rock, other ship, etc you might be pushed against.
So what you generally do is you try to sail out into deep open water, and avoid the storm as much as possible. This is the safest thing to do for the ship. Obviously you don't head strait into the storm, but this thing was so big they could not easily avoid even the worst of it; given their best possible speed.
So yes the original HMS Bounty and her crew probably would have survived this storm, although its likely some top men would have been killed trying to reef sails in heavy wind and sea. The replica with her mechanical dependencies and crew we value more than the vessel was not up to it.
I agree everyone has a right to vote but I also agree with the grand parent that general "hey lets push voter turn out no matter" initiatives and attitudes are counter productive.
Then there is the "its your civic duty" line. I don't see how going to the polls and making a mark next to names of people you don't know who are, is of any use to society. If people are not going to take the time be informed about the issues or the candidates positions you are not adding anything but noise.
Its like all the flap about early voting. I live in Ohio, so both campaigns were trying to make the rules to benefit them. Obummer prevailed for the most part. We had early voting start days BEFORE the first presidential debate and weeks before the first debates in down ballot races. How can you possibly cast an informed ballot before the first debate?
I know its hardship for some get the polls on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Seriously though who can't manage to cast vote by mail ballot and have it post marked within a 14 day window before the election? Nobody should be incapable of managing that.
I also think ballots ought to have some test questions; that insure the voter understands the use of the ballot and that it actually represents their views. Questions like: "In the lower 48 states, its lighter out during the: A) Day, B) Night"
"Select Choice B:, A) A B)B C)C".
Again questions not designed to test knowledge in general just knowledge of the operation of the ballot itself.
Not exactly. The market value of something is the price point at which a supplier is willing to supply it, and buyer is willing to pay for it.
It may be that there is not price great enough to make anyone willing to supply, but low enough there is any demand to buy. In that case there is not market for that good or service.
I would suggest to the owner of the tubes he would be wise to list them on an auction site like ebay or something. Unless he is finding some joy in having a collection of tubes or has a great deal of equipment himself that he needs them to service he has attached an in appropriate value to them.
They may have *cost* thousands adjusted for inflation or not but if nobody will pay it and they are of no use to they are not *worth* thousands. He needs to ask himself, will I be better off with $5, $10, $50, $500 than with these old tubes. Find the lowest value for which the answer is yes and make that minimum.
Start thinking of them as a tank of gas, dinner out, the pay tv subscription price this month or something and realize that would be better than a box you have to step over every time you go in the attic.
I suspect they typical gamer is not doing anything on their home PC that requires windows other than Gaming. They are also the tech comfortable if not actually savy types who can adapt to a different word processor or mail client. Probably even a different finance package for the small percentage that use them if their existing one won't work on wine. Remember your grown up gamer demographic is males 18-39 or so last I checked. The rest are kids still and its not the 1990's any more. The folks affluent enough to have children buying Valve's current releases are also affluent enough to have a separate PC or laptop for the kids. Who won't mind moving to Linux at all if their games work; it might even make them feel 1337 using something to high tech for Mom and Dad.
In short Valve might be in a position to drive their best customers toward Linux desktops; especially if they can get a few other industry players to go along with the move.
It really does not take all that much wind or snow load to cause lots power outages. What the utility companies usually do is loan each other extra crews before big weather events. Lots of that has been going on this time naturally.
The challenge of this storm will be predicting where most of the damage will happen because of its size and actually having the crews near that epicenter of the damage (not always where the epicenter of the storm happens to go) because of its size. If the damage is spread over a large enough area again possible because of its physical size. There may not be enough crews to fix the grid in a timely fashion. Really intensity is not the concern with this one, area is.
Don't forget all those highways and interstates through Appalachia either. If there is a major fast snow fall and cars and trucks actually get stranded on the roads it becomes a painful slow process to clear them. Many of these are through mountain cuts with little in the way of shoulders even on the inner states like parts of I64. You can't run a plow truck down the road until the autos are cleared out of the way. You can't clear the autos until much of the snow is out of the way. Its a catch-22.
While I agree the cries of Armageddon from the media are a bit over blown this does have the potential to be disruptive in big way. I will be surprised if we see lots of photos of roofs stripped from buildings and flood ravaged cityscapes, but I won't be surprised at all if there are lots of stranded motorists, cut off towns, and long duration power outages. Its could enough now this time of year to make it not probably not deadly but certainly miserable without electricity most of those places.
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Well with old chrome parts you can shape a bit of sheet steel slowly and painful with hand tools in your garage, worst case and take it some place to have it chromed.
With plastic parts not so much. I work on a '85 Alfa Romero, you can improvise just about any metal part you need or find an after market manufacturer. Its the plastic bits that are terribly expensive and or difficult to find. Which is not say metal body parts are exactly cheap but you feel like you get something for the money.
No actually in most cases its likely you are using it to drive a host server for a bunch of VMs. I am pretty sure that is the largest market segment for 16-core x86-64 processors today.
That would destroy Apple. It would saddle them with a high fixed cost plant right at a time when their ability to push new iPad sales indefinitely is starting to look like there may be a question mark in there some place. They only thing worse for Apply than not getting the displays they need would be having or having production capacity for ones they don't.
It would be better to have to source them elsewhere. The Koreans can crank then out as well AUO stuff might not be as dense but apple could make do
Its never bad to gather all the information you possible can but most likely the caller was just lying. Chances are pretty good he just got off the phone with your competitor giving him the same business. Even if he did name names it would not mean much.
Sadly its most likely the caller did not even have the capability to execute the attack he claimed to have.
IDS will not help protect you from a DDOS. The closed it might come to offering any kind of DDOS protect is it may help your firewall thwart scanning and information gathering in preparation for a DDOS.
Some DDOS uses a smallish number of hosts and will attempt to exhaust a specific resource like like server session memory by speaking a the protocol for a little while, if there is something that makes you especially vulnerable to that. Big DDOS use large bot nets and will simply burn thru all your bandwidth with SYN (tcp session start) packets alone. You really can't do much. If you have some way to tell which traffic is bad, like you know traffic should only be sourced from a specific address you can drop these sessions at your firewall and maybe make things a little better for yourself but it won't do much because the traffic still comes to your firewall and its going to consume your entire outside downlink, choking out the legitimate traffic anyway.
Option a) Your best bet is go strait to law enforcement. The FBI is actually very interested in these sorts of things even if you are small fry. This might not be a such a hot idea though if the group extorting you actually has some capability. Usually they will set up a string, and track the money when you pay.
Option b) Just shut up and pay up. Never taken this approach myself. I assume it makes the problem go away for a while anyway. I imagine said problems come back for another fix later, and I'd wonder if the attacker ever really had the capability.
Option c) pay the back bone provider, ie ATT&T or whoever is your ISPs, ISP for their DDOS protection services. They actually DO have the resources to protect you from a DDOS. Everything else anyone else is selling is just snake oil because a large enough botnet can simply use all the bandwidth weather you attempt to ack tarpit, or not; They unanswered SYNs alone will consume your entire pipe. This option is terribly expensive, might be worthwhile if you are running a large and inadequately distributed eCommerce site or similar.
Option d) Distribute the hell out of your site. This leads to all sorts of complexity around replication and have the big CDN providers host all your static content and resources. This may help depending on the type of attack. You will want make sure your DNS resources are also well distributed you will basically use fast-flux DNS yourself to stay ahead of your attackers. Essentially you keep changing IPs every 300 seconds or so. You will have challenges preserving sessions and for lots of services its not viable, for WWW it can be made to work. Again this is serious money and time. It might be cheaper than Option c, if you want you are trying to be available for is a small amount if high dollar transactions, as opposed to a higher volume smaller dollar situation.
I guess I would say in answer; this is the tool I use 6 to 8 hours a day. It really should work the way I want it to do so. I don't need to cycle between windows in general, I need to be able to cycle between two very specific applications; that does not mean I don't want my mail client open, just that I go to the dock when I want it for example.
Now yes If you are spending a great deal of time customizing around your applications that exist purely for entertainment in the first place fine, that might be masturbatory but in general for folks who out of necessity, love or not, spend a large amount of time in front of their computer making the environment both pleasing and efficient for the work flow thru tweaking can add real value. This is especially true if your time in-front of the machine is disproportionately spend on a few specific tasks.
No he Just want. Obummer to win the election he just endorsed him actually. This just about using fear to put his thumb on the scale and tilt the election. This is always how statists win
I rather think you are missing the point. One of the an operating system should do is provide useable and effective access controls so that I can run other software with a correct level of isolation.
The system must enforce security. I can't know what every application is going to do. Even if it was all open source who has time read and understand the code to everything they use? If my platform can't enable me to prevent an application for seeing and doing things I don't want while still leaving it functional (within reason) its failing.
True but it could be easily made so that apps still work if you don't give them certain permissions without altering the API. Just warn the user there may be degraded functionality.
System -> prevent -> sleep - if the app lacks permission succeed but ignore the call
Get contacts -> succeed but return an empty record set to the app as if the user has no contacts.
are examples. You could do this without breaking existing applications and users could decide for themselves if their flashlight app really needs to access the network.
No it won't got to reserves. It will go to insurance premiums and to one of the big audit firms annually to NOT find problems and generate a great deal of glossy print outs to make the insurance firm feel good.
<half kidding>
The insurance firm will then sell stocks and bonds to a large brokerage, who will aggregate them into a fund or other financial product with more insurance companies suggesting that all risk has been eliminated. The original insurance companies will by these products (essentially their own companies) back from the brokers after paying a hefty commission and list them as assets.
Then brokers will revalue the assets higher based on the now expanded balance sheets, and suggest that more leverage is therefore okay. Eventually some hack of some tiny backwater CA nobody uses will cause a ripple effect bring the entire financial system to knees.
</half kidding>
Man you just described the scene in our cafeteria most days. I happen to be one those guys at the table. What always amazes me is production just does not get it. I really am their best friend. They are always freak out that "our security stuff" might mess up their PLC and someone could get hurt.
Its like the possibility that a worm could get on their unpatched XP SP1 platforms from one of the endless parade of technician laptops that get plugged into that subnet and someone could get hurt is entirely lost on them. You'd think a bunch of plant engineers would get that its better to test out security controls under somewhat controlled conditions with people aware they might be a problem than to get owned during third shift.
Codered and welchia were not that long ago, and stuxnet and flame were just in the news but memories are short apparently.
Just ask the customer ahead of or behind you in line to swipe their car for your purchase or the cashier to use theirs. They are almost always happy to do this. They git the points, gasoline discount, or whatever, at not cost to them. You get the sale price without being tracked. I know you are on slashdot, but its okay to interact directly with others.
I use a 19" 1280 x 1024 on my PC (don't have a laptop), and will never buy a widescreen display
Why because you have some irrational issue with them? How could 1920x1080 not be better for example? Its more vertical lines than you have today, and more horizontal. You could display a 1280x1024 image on it just by not using the entire thing!
I can see why you might prefer 1920x1440 or something if you could get it, but clinging to 1280x1024 just makes no sense.
See all of you kept crying about how all our C?O and Political leaders are psychopaths were wrong. You should be happy about that. They are better at thinking than you are and no doubt producing more optimal solutions than you could.
Thank goodness we have these unfeeling psychopaths to lead us.
Wrong.
English does not have an office body governing its use. It does not have an official dictionary. English is anything another English speaker is able to understand comfortably.
The only thing even near what might be an official standard is "The queen's English" and if you use that than most of Great Britain does not use correct English.
So they question is does an alert from a dog constitute evidence strong enough to meet the probal cause standard? What if I come up with a method to detect drugs or anything else that is utter bullshit? I have this rock that when released will fall towards the earth if there is pot near by, well look drop like a stone. I had better search every house on the block and pay down all the attractive women just to be safe.
Personally I am not optimistic, this court has not adopted rigors eviduciary requirements in its recent rulings on similar issues last year
Wrong. It could have been worse. This thing is 230~ tons of timber! You don't think it being busted up in port would have destroyed not just the ship but whatever it was tied too, or other vessels near it? If its just the loss of life bothering you what about all the added flying debris (which often kills in hurricanes) such an even might result in?
I am not saying that any of these things would have happened but they could have just like going to sea could have resulting in everything being just fine. I am saying you don't fully understand the subject and the considerations around it. This ship was big and heavy and the storm, category 1 though it may be, is large and powerful. There is plenty of potential for calamity not matter what you do.
I got to see her when she was at Sample too, glad I got the oppertunity.
The original bounty would have pumps that would have been operated manually by gangs of sailors. Wood hauled ships of that type are pretty much in a constant state of sinking, you must pump the bilge.
The replica bounty was equipped only with electric pumps They had some kind of generator failure and could not run them.
What were they doing at sea. Its pretty much SOP of an ocean going vessel of any significant size to put to see ahead of storm. I hope its obvious to you why being anchor in heavy sees would be a problem. Since you can't be tied up you don't want to be anywhere near shallow water or anything like pier, rock, other ship, etc you might be pushed against.
So what you generally do is you try to sail out into deep open water, and avoid the storm as much as possible. This is the safest thing to do for the ship. Obviously you don't head strait into the storm, but this thing was so big they could not easily avoid even the worst of it; given their best possible speed.
So yes the original HMS Bounty and her crew probably would have survived this storm, although its likely some top men would have been killed trying to reef sails in heavy wind and sea. The replica with her mechanical dependencies and crew we value more than the vessel was not up to it.
I agree everyone has a right to vote but I also agree with the grand parent that general "hey lets push voter turn out no matter" initiatives and attitudes are counter productive.
Then there is the "its your civic duty" line. I don't see how going to the polls and making a mark next to names of people you don't know who are, is of any use to society. If people are not going to take the time be informed about the issues or the candidates positions you are not adding anything but noise.
Its like all the flap about early voting. I live in Ohio, so both campaigns were trying to make the rules to benefit them. Obummer prevailed for the most part. We had early voting start days BEFORE the first presidential debate and weeks before the first debates in down ballot races. How can you possibly cast an informed ballot before the first debate?
I know its hardship for some get the polls on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Seriously though who can't manage to cast vote by mail ballot and have it post marked within a 14 day window before the election? Nobody should be incapable of managing that.
I also think ballots ought to have some test questions; that insure the voter understands the use of the ballot and that it actually represents their views. Questions like:
"In the lower 48 states, its lighter out during the: A) Day, B) Night"
"Select Choice B:, A) A B)B C)C".
Again questions not designed to test knowledge in general just knowledge of the operation of the ballot itself.
Not exactly. The market value of something is the price point at which a supplier is willing to supply it, and buyer is willing to pay for it.
It may be that there is not price great enough to make anyone willing to supply, but low enough there is any demand to buy. In that case there is not market for that good or service.
I would suggest to the owner of the tubes he would be wise to list them on an auction site like ebay or something. Unless he is finding some joy in having a collection of tubes or has a great deal of equipment himself that he needs them to service he has attached an in appropriate value to them.
They may have *cost* thousands adjusted for inflation or not but if nobody will pay it and they are of no use to they are not *worth* thousands. He needs to ask himself, will I be better off with $5, $10, $50, $500 than with these old tubes. Find the lowest value for which the answer is yes and make that minimum.
Start thinking of them as a tank of gas, dinner out, the pay tv subscription price this month or something and realize that would be better than a box you have to step over every time you go in the attic.
I suspect they typical gamer is not doing anything on their home PC that requires windows other than Gaming. They are also the tech comfortable if not actually savy types who can adapt to a different word processor or mail client. Probably even a different finance package for the small percentage that use them if their existing one won't work on wine. Remember your grown up gamer demographic is males 18-39 or so last I checked. The rest are kids still and its not the 1990's any more. The folks affluent enough to have children buying Valve's current releases are also affluent enough to have a separate PC or laptop for the kids. Who won't mind moving to Linux at all if their games work; it might even make them feel 1337 using something to high tech for Mom and Dad.
In short Valve might be in a position to drive their best customers toward Linux desktops; especially if they can get a few other industry players to go along with the move.
It really does not take all that much wind or snow load to cause lots power outages. What the utility companies usually do is loan each other extra crews before big weather events. Lots of that has been going on this time naturally.
The challenge of this storm will be predicting where most of the damage will happen because of its size and actually having the crews near that epicenter of the damage (not always where the epicenter of the storm happens to go) because of its size. If the damage is spread over a large enough area again possible because of its physical size. There may not be enough crews to fix the grid in a timely fashion. Really intensity is not the concern with this one, area is.
Don't forget all those highways and interstates through Appalachia either. If there is a major fast snow fall and cars and trucks actually get stranded on the roads it becomes a painful slow process to clear them. Many of these are through mountain cuts with little in the way of shoulders even on the inner states like parts of I64. You can't run a plow truck down the road until the autos are cleared out of the way. You can't clear the autos until much of the snow is out of the way. Its a catch-22.
While I agree the cries of Armageddon from the media are a bit over blown this does have the potential to be disruptive in big way. I will be surprised if we see lots of photos of roofs stripped from buildings and flood ravaged cityscapes, but I won't be surprised at all if there are lots of stranded motorists, cut off towns, and long duration power outages. Its could enough now this time of year to make it not probably not deadly but certainly miserable without electricity most of those places.
Don't for get what the folks in Maine can do:
http://www.hodgdonyachts.com/scheherazade.shtml