They're not as cheap as producers already required for "reality" tv shows doing the "writing" to establish the cockamamie scenarios tailored to the personality quirks and failings of the contestants.
I generally agree with your post, though I would add that with TV, it can be a simple time-filler. Waiting for an off-hours conference call? Even if it's something crappy like the eighth time you've seen that particular episode of CSI it's still a way to occupy your time. It can also be a way to veg-out to decompress after a rough day, and even if a particular show's storyline is lackluster that might be a feature, rather than a bug, as one can just turn it off when one finally wants to go to bed or to do something active. It requires basically no effort, so even if the level of entertainment is low, it's still very possible to have provided more entertainment relative to effort than even a good movie, which as you've pointed out, may not be that simple.
When I look at the dollar amount of the projects I manage and the equipment I work on, it's no surprise that I feel I am underpaid, especially due to the nature of responsibility and blame if something goes wrong. Hell, one particular kind of controller is $75,000 and there are twelve of them.
There are plenty of legitimate complaints. Personally I really dislike all of the electronic crap that they've built in to the Model 3. Electrically-opening doors because that was the solution to avoid damaging the weatherstripping by lowering the window a centimeter prior to actuating the door mechanism? Stupid. Removing basically the entire traditional behind-steeringwheel dash cluster and removing basically all non-touchscreen driver controls? Really stupid. Designing and building a seemingly successful car whose use of petroleum products is at-most limited to lubricants and possibly cabin refrigeration gases? Not so stupid.
I really wish that Tesla had considered the Model 3 as an S with most of the unnecessary electronics removed, rather than going exactly the opposite in removing the traditional controls. I won't buy a car that requires me to take my eyes off of the road to operate a touchscreen in order to use basic features.
I thought we weren't supposed to punish children for sins of the father, or the mother, or other family members. We were supposed to punish people for their own sins only.
stabbed to death minutes after giving a seminar on how to resolve personal disputes on the internet.
Not to be snarky here, but my first thought after reading this was "So I guess that's exactly NOT what you should do, huh?" (Sorry to be morbid.)
At least the guy turned himself in soon afterwards. But he bothered the guy online, even kept making new IDs to hassle the guy after the previous one was disabled.
What the hell is wrong with people? "Someone's wrong on the internet / in life and it's my duty / job / addiction to permanently correct them? Get over yourself and come up with a better argument. Make them come over to your side instead.
Hell, maybe you'll even learn something yourself.
Winston Churchill: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
I hope that the attendees of the lecture got their money back, as clearly the presenter's technique doesn't work.
You really don't. Too much facing the sun so you can't really get off to sleep, and they're monitoring you on video the whole time anyway.
The most boring days I've ever had were workdays without anything to do but sit there. Being the "driver" in a self-driving car without being allowed to do anything would be hell.
...and then running the cars on public roads leading to the fatal collision, they should consider themselves lucky if any jurisdiction is willing to let them run again.
If I were a mayor or town manager I'd ban them. If the state overruled me, I'd request that my police department ensure that their vehicles do not pose a danger to the public, which would probably mean being pulled over all of the time and inspected for any violations by the commercial enforcement team. I doubt that the person behind the wheel has the ability to prove that safety systems are enabled, so that might mean a lot of vehicles get stopped, fail to prove safety, and get towed back to the shop with a fix-it ticket.
I still remember Eternal September when Usenet as it had been basically died. It certainly wasn't perfect but it was a perfect beacon of light compared to the cesspool that it became.
Was gonna say, my first experience with the World Wide Web was when a social club that I was a junior member of met at a university student union for a change, and one of the members of the club that was a student in the honors college took us over to the honors college computer lab to show it to us.
I think it was on a Windows for Workgroups 3.11 platform, but they were working on getting it going on a Sun machine that they had in the lab. CDE biatches!
And the funny thing about it is that we already have lasers produced in the millions that could probably affect change on the 'drumhead' and could read the 'drumhead'.
I would be very amused if they managed to squeeze such transceivers down to SFP-size.
It took Corning and partners decades to develop fiber optic cabling, and it has taken decades to refine it down to 9 micron cores. For 40 Gigabit I believe the effective distance is 40Km, a little under 25 miles. That means every 25 miles there has to be some kind of active equipment to either boost the signal, or more likely for fiber, to receive and then retransmit the signal. That means building secure vaults or shacks every 40Km, running power to those points, purchasing expensive equipment, setting everything up, monitoring it, and going out to repair it when needed.
I'm going to hazard a guess that it'll take decades to make such a viable product, but there is significant incentive to try.
15 micrometer is only 0.015 mm. Massive would be 1,500 meters.
0.015 mm is massive compared to 10^-10 m.
Context matters.
15 micrometers is bigger than the cross-section of a single-mode fiber optic cable core.
If they can make this reliably work this could revolutionize communications. Manufacture two transceivers that are quantum-entangled, so four 'drumheads', one for each direction. Install these in the manner of SFPs in network switches or routers. Use them with no medium between them at whatever distance one needs. No more horizontal boring, no more trenching, no more fiber, no more intermediate points as repeaters, no more problems with disrupting all points in between.
I do both networking and infrastructure for a living. Even if these things as a practical product were very expensive I would still welcome putting my infrastructure work for long-haul and trunking/backbone out of business.
That might not be as difficult as you'd think. Commercial buildings have a lot of people coming and going doing maintenance, and most commercial buildings don't hide the basic electrical stuff inside of highly secured areas, they reserve such security for devices that are expensive, or devices that do something important, or for devices that have important information on them. For most buildings the vast majority of the power is for regular mundane things like lighting and HVAC, so the raw incoming power and any transformers are probably easily accessed with something as simple as a fake workorder presented to the receptionist in the lobby. Someone coming in that way might not be able to get access to the generator yard that keeps the datacenter up, but if the power supplying the generator yard and battery room is tappable to give this kind of info, or if they're attempting to get data off of a regular user's computer that isn't on the generator, then they may well be able to come in and install whatever they need to place in order to sample the power the way they need.
For all we know, equipment no more sensitive or expensive than a cheap clamp meter might do the trick, if they can find a way to transmit that data, but my guess is that this sort of thing would be limited to nation-states or to extremely high level corporate espionage, and probably would be above even groups like those that steal payment card info to get money.
Probably depends on how the laptop's power circuitry is designed.
Basically there are two forms of battery backups. One form charges the batteries and keeps them charged but doesn't run the load through them unless a switchover event happens. The other form does run the load through the batteries because they cannot afford for the system to go down temporarily for such a switchover.
The former is the way that large UPSes that use lithium-ion batteries works, because lithium-ion batteries cannot sustain being in the circuit that way. That's why most UPSes still use SLA batteries. There are new UPSes coming out with a combination of SLA and Li-Ion though, where there's just enough SLA in the loop to keep the equipment running for the few moments it takes to bring up the Li-ion batteries.
If the laptop, while plugged in, runs on the corded power then it's probably subject to the same issues as the desktop computer.
My home has three HVAC units, two water heaters, and a very large 240V air compressor. I'm sure that I could introduce enough random variation in the electrical load to prevent this means of communication from being reliable.
As I understand it, to prevent someone from managing to capture what's said in the Oval Office by shining a laser onto one of the windows to measure how the window reacts to sound inside of the room, they introduce noise in the form of numerous conversations into the glass, vibrating it enough that one can't pick-out the real conversation from the rest of the noise. One would think that this kind of technique could be applied to electricity if it were really that big a risk, a bank of several 100W lightbulbs with random timer controllers to turn them on and off may well be enough to screw with current draw to prevent exfiltration.
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Double-entendres about homosexuality, dick jokes, boob jokes, double-entendres about vaginas are risky?
I haven't caught any STD yet, despite my interests in the greater genre.
Yeah, the depth of Are You Being Served? is palpable.
They're not as cheap as producers already required for "reality" tv shows doing the "writing" to establish the cockamamie scenarios tailored to the personality quirks and failings of the contestants.
I generally agree with your post, though I would add that with TV, it can be a simple time-filler. Waiting for an off-hours conference call? Even if it's something crappy like the eighth time you've seen that particular episode of CSI it's still a way to occupy your time. It can also be a way to veg-out to decompress after a rough day, and even if a particular show's storyline is lackluster that might be a feature, rather than a bug, as one can just turn it off when one finally wants to go to bed or to do something active. It requires basically no effort, so even if the level of entertainment is low, it's still very possible to have provided more entertainment relative to effort than even a good movie, which as you've pointed out, may not be that simple.
When I look at the dollar amount of the projects I manage and the equipment I work on, it's no surprise that I feel I am underpaid, especially due to the nature of responsibility and blame if something goes wrong. Hell, one particular kind of controller is $75,000 and there are twelve of them.
There were cars with frameless windows going back fifty years, they didn't have to lower the window in order to open or close the door.
Mmmhmm.
There are plenty of legitimate complaints. Personally I really dislike all of the electronic crap that they've built in to the Model 3. Electrically-opening doors because that was the solution to avoid damaging the weatherstripping by lowering the window a centimeter prior to actuating the door mechanism? Stupid. Removing basically the entire traditional behind-steeringwheel dash cluster and removing basically all non-touchscreen driver controls? Really stupid. Designing and building a seemingly successful car whose use of petroleum products is at-most limited to lubricants and possibly cabin refrigeration gases? Not so stupid.
I really wish that Tesla had considered the Model 3 as an S with most of the unnecessary electronics removed, rather than going exactly the opposite in removing the traditional controls. I won't buy a car that requires me to take my eyes off of the road to operate a touchscreen in order to use basic features.
I thought we weren't supposed to punish children for sins of the father, or the mother, or other family members. We were supposed to punish people for their own sins only.
stabbed to death minutes after giving a seminar on how to resolve personal disputes on the internet.
Not to be snarky here, but my first thought after reading this was "So I guess that's exactly NOT what you should do, huh?" (Sorry to be morbid.)
At least the guy turned himself in soon afterwards. But he bothered the guy online, even kept making new IDs to hassle the guy after the previous one was disabled.
What the hell is wrong with people? "Someone's wrong on the internet / in life and it's my duty / job / addiction to permanently correct them? Get over yourself and come up with a better argument. Make them come over to your side instead.
Hell, maybe you'll even learn something yourself.
Winston Churchill: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
I hope that the attendees of the lecture got their money back, as clearly the presenter's technique doesn't work.
And I read somewhere that not only did they disable the OEM system, but they disabled their own system too.
Alex Jones writes for The Onion now?
You really don't. Too much facing the sun so you can't really get off to sleep, and they're monitoring you on video the whole time anyway.
The most boring days I've ever had were workdays without anything to do but sit there. Being the "driver" in a self-driving car without being allowed to do anything would be hell.
...and then running the cars on public roads leading to the fatal collision, they should consider themselves lucky if any jurisdiction is willing to let them run again.
If I were a mayor or town manager I'd ban them. If the state overruled me, I'd request that my police department ensure that their vehicles do not pose a danger to the public, which would probably mean being pulled over all of the time and inspected for any violations by the commercial enforcement team. I doubt that the person behind the wheel has the ability to prove that safety systems are enabled, so that might mean a lot of vehicles get stopped, fail to prove safety, and get towed back to the shop with a fix-it ticket.
...will he go on a twitter rant about this ruling about twitter rants about his twitter rants?
And will it acquire its own twitter rants?
or just glib?
I still remember Eternal September when Usenet as it had been basically died. It certainly wasn't perfect but it was a perfect beacon of light compared to the cesspool that it became.
Was gonna say, my first experience with the World Wide Web was when a social club that I was a junior member of met at a university student union for a change, and one of the members of the club that was a student in the honors college took us over to the honors college computer lab to show it to us.
I think it was on a Windows for Workgroups 3.11 platform, but they were working on getting it going on a Sun machine that they had in the lab. CDE biatches!
Where did I say it would be FTL?
How would not being FTL make it worse than current communications systems?
Even if it's not FTL, as long as it's basically as fast as light, it should be a pretty damn awesome replacement for all that fiber optic cabling.
And the funny thing about it is that we already have lasers produced in the millions that could probably affect change on the 'drumhead' and could read the 'drumhead'.
I would be very amused if they managed to squeeze such transceivers down to SFP-size.
It took Corning and partners decades to develop fiber optic cabling, and it has taken decades to refine it down to 9 micron cores. For 40 Gigabit I believe the effective distance is 40Km, a little under 25 miles. That means every 25 miles there has to be some kind of active equipment to either boost the signal, or more likely for fiber, to receive and then retransmit the signal. That means building secure vaults or shacks every 40Km, running power to those points, purchasing expensive equipment, setting everything up, monitoring it, and going out to repair it when needed.
I'm going to hazard a guess that it'll take decades to make such a viable product, but there is significant incentive to try.
Massive is relative.
15 micrometer is only 0.015 mm. Massive would be 1,500 meters.
0.015 mm is massive compared to 10^-10 m.
Context matters.
15 micrometers is bigger than the cross-section of a single-mode fiber optic cable core.
If they can make this reliably work this could revolutionize communications. Manufacture two transceivers that are quantum-entangled, so four 'drumheads', one for each direction. Install these in the manner of SFPs in network switches or routers. Use them with no medium between them at whatever distance one needs. No more horizontal boring, no more trenching, no more fiber, no more intermediate points as repeaters, no more problems with disrupting all points in between.
I do both networking and infrastructure for a living. Even if these things as a practical product were very expensive I would still welcome putting my infrastructure work for long-haul and trunking/backbone out of business.
Yes.
That might not be as difficult as you'd think. Commercial buildings have a lot of people coming and going doing maintenance, and most commercial buildings don't hide the basic electrical stuff inside of highly secured areas, they reserve such security for devices that are expensive, or devices that do something important, or for devices that have important information on them. For most buildings the vast majority of the power is for regular mundane things like lighting and HVAC, so the raw incoming power and any transformers are probably easily accessed with something as simple as a fake workorder presented to the receptionist in the lobby. Someone coming in that way might not be able to get access to the generator yard that keeps the datacenter up, but if the power supplying the generator yard and battery room is tappable to give this kind of info, or if they're attempting to get data off of a regular user's computer that isn't on the generator, then they may well be able to come in and install whatever they need to place in order to sample the power the way they need.
For all we know, equipment no more sensitive or expensive than a cheap clamp meter might do the trick, if they can find a way to transmit that data, but my guess is that this sort of thing would be limited to nation-states or to extremely high level corporate espionage, and probably would be above even groups like those that steal payment card info to get money.
Probably depends on how the laptop's power circuitry is designed.
Basically there are two forms of battery backups. One form charges the batteries and keeps them charged but doesn't run the load through them unless a switchover event happens. The other form does run the load through the batteries because they cannot afford for the system to go down temporarily for such a switchover.
The former is the way that large UPSes that use lithium-ion batteries works, because lithium-ion batteries cannot sustain being in the circuit that way. That's why most UPSes still use SLA batteries. There are new UPSes coming out with a combination of SLA and Li-Ion though, where there's just enough SLA in the loop to keep the equipment running for the few moments it takes to bring up the Li-ion batteries.
If the laptop, while plugged in, runs on the corded power then it's probably subject to the same issues as the desktop computer.
My home has three HVAC units, two water heaters, and a very large 240V air compressor. I'm sure that I could introduce enough random variation in the electrical load to prevent this means of communication from being reliable.
As I understand it, to prevent someone from managing to capture what's said in the Oval Office by shining a laser onto one of the windows to measure how the window reacts to sound inside of the room, they introduce noise in the form of numerous conversations into the glass, vibrating it enough that one can't pick-out the real conversation from the rest of the noise. One would think that this kind of technique could be applied to electricity if it were really that big a risk, a bank of several 100W lightbulbs with random timer controllers to turn them on and off may well be enough to screw with current draw to prevent exfiltration.