The car is already a pretty good Faraday Cage, being mostly metal.
The fact that this took so long to arrive in a viable product (it it is in fact viable) suggest how difficult the task of shutting down a car is. Presumably it is getting easier, because cars are no so much more dependent on computers.
The problem I see is that unless this device can be triggered precisely upon arrival of the target vehicle, you would end up clogging a freeway with 40 stalled vehicles just as your getaway car arrives. So you dump your desperate criminal in a bunch of helpless and confused hostages. If you could aim it, and and make it safe enough to carry on a helicopter you might have a useful product.
As described it sounds simply like another over-reaction tool for police.
The reason why so few girls are in IT and business is neither their inability nor their lack of interest.
So, in one sentence, you substitute your own pet biases for the scientific findings of TFA, and go right back to the fact far fewer women choose IT careers must by a fault of society.
On the basis of what scientific research do you make such a claim? We are long past the age where women are trained from childhood to take certain jobs, accept certain careers, or forego careers. Yet women choose not to engage in certain professions in anywhere near a ratio indicative of the composition of society.
Women, by and large, do not like IT jobs. They don't like being plumbers either. The women I have worked with in IT were very good at their jobs, but the women on the candidate list were far sparser than the men. I've worked FOR women in IT and I've had women work for me in IT. I've tried to recruit women and found most simply were not interested.
Nobody steers women away from IT. They choose it. And the article explains why. Women's and men's brains are as many have suspected, simply wired differently. And this is evident early in childhood, which causes children to make choices, and parents to allow those choices.
You don't have to invent a "social evil" to explain away the simple and obvious preponderance of preference.
I've really never seen any indication at all that the retailers are doing anything any different when I have my phone with me than when I don't. They don't offer me any better deals tailored to what I came in to buy, they don't target advertising at me, certainly not at my phone, nor to I get any spam from them.
They might be getting smarter about their prices, knowing what the competition's prices are, but they don't need any information from me to get that.
In short, you seem very afraid of the boogie men hiding under your bed.
All my email or other uses of their wifi is encrypted already, and the only thing left for them to sniff is unencrypted pages from third party sellers. Even my google searches are encrypted, so they get nothing from that either.
You can't proxy ssl. And I suspect all this service really does is route everything through Swarm Mobile's transparent proxy. Most stores simply don't have the expertise to deal with basic traffic analysis let alone deep packet inspection, so they hire Swarm.
But as more an more shopping sites use HTTPS, this becomes less and less useful except for mining price checks on non-ssl sites.
The "To hire specific people" may be spot on. Sometimes an employer will write a job posting as a way of promoting an internal employee, though they have to post it as an open req for staff, so it doesn't look like favoritism(sp?).
It may be to hire specific people, but it might also be to get someone that can immediately do the job without a whole lot of re-training and requesting new or different equipment or new software. Perhaps this comes right back to hiring specific people.
Not every employer is willing tu pit up with the 6month retooling and retraining period that bringing in someone new withe their own pet tool set and their own hardware demands. Many know the job can be don with the tools at hand, and the systems can be maintained without yet another gratuitous re-write because the new guy thinks the old guy was a total idiot for using language A when any fool can see the job absolutely needs to be re-written in language B, and that rewrite can be finished in about 9 months. But only if the new guy gets this particular equipment, and is given 3 months to re-document the entire system, starting with a needs assessment and interviewing every person in the company.
In short the IT profession (at just about any level you care to define it) is often a bunch of prima-donnas. And finding someone who can take over a job and successfully manage it just as the guy who died, without a bunch of demands is often the most cost effective way to achieve results.
Jobs aren't created to make perfect little playpens for budding upstarts with their own ideas. Jobs are created to get specific work done and tasks completed. You got your own little pet methods and tool set, open your own business. Don't use my business for your little drama in three parts.
When I asked why Cadillac stuck with a six-speed transmission when every single car they're competing with has more gears, Caddy's answer was, "Just wait." When I asked if we'd see another engine beside the direct-injected 3.6-liter V-6 with 304 hp and 264 lb-ft of torque, I was told, "Just wait." Will there be some sort of hybrid version? "Just wait.".
You don't get 400hp out of a 6, and you don't get anything but a 6 for less than 60 from Cadillac.
If gas stations have no power, then how is it EVs will be unaffected? The power company is going to magically route power to your home bypassing every one else?
Gas station can (and do) hook up a portable generator and be back in business.
Unless you live on a remote Island that gets all fuel by ship, this is strictly a corner case.
For the two weeks when these "bays" are put in. Then you will find these slots are all full as well.
Why should public parking spots be ceded to for profit charging stations? Maybe we should grant a couple parking spaces in every block so Exxon can put in little self serve gas pumps?
No-one in their right mind would buy a second car for that. They would either use their partner's, or rent one, or keep their old one around, or just not buy an EV if they make a lot of journeys like that.
Your kind of thinking is what prevents more people from buying EVs. They get these bizarre ideas in their head like this, probably from talking heads on TV.
Well now perhaps you see the exactly what keeps people from buying EVs.
By your own admission there is still a need for another vehicle. Using someone else's or keeping an old car around isn't really an answer is it.
My "kind of thinking" is exactly what keeps people from buying EVs. It's based on facts. If i bought a Nissan Leaf, I'd have to have it delivered by truck because the nearest dealership is beyond the range of the vehicle.
Yes the range is that pathetic. Yes, the price is still too high. You still have to keep another car. You can hand waive those facts away by attributing them to talking heads, and indirectly accusing me of being gullible.
The statement was made that you could buy two XTSs for the price of a model s. Which is not true. And if you are willing to accept the notoriously anemic 6cylinder that GM shovels into that car.
And, I have to take issue with your idea that the XTS is considered a luxury brand. Come on! Its basicly a dressed up Buick, from which much of the car sprang.
If you pocket the the $3500 and go for Altima over the Leaf, you can drive it across the state and across the nation, and the money you save will buy you 30,000 miles worth of gas.
What southern tier state do you live in where you can say cold weather is only a problem in Antarctica?
Range is certainly the issue but price is equally the issue, and mostly because of range. If people have to buy a second car for longer trips, they aren't going to want take that long trip in a piece of crap tin can with no amenities. So that means two fairly expensive cars.
Extend the range, make recharge station more frequent, shorten the charge time and the cost problem goes away. But mostly you have to double the range.
No, 280 miles is not far enough, even when you can charge while eating lunch. Ten hour drives are more common than lots of people think.
Right now, all you have is the commuter market. And forgetting to change one night means you go no where the next day, which makes even that market nervous.
Not particularly clever, its done that way in every steam plant in the world, but you have the steps mixed up. The cooling towers are the last step before re injection, AFTER all passes through the various turbines.
Radiation blockage is mostly a function of mass the rays have to go through. The vast majority of cosmic rays are blocked by the 14 pounds per square inch/100 kilopascals of air above us. That means that a square inch of ground at sea level has 14 pounds of air above it. A square inch section of a rack above you would probably be in the pounds as well, and would block a good portion.
So how many miles of air equivalent is the typical sheet steel of a cabinet?
Just asking, cuz I can't seem to find it on the net.
Or grab the average temperature of the servers on the bottom of the rack and apply an equivalent heat source to the one server and see what the error rate is.
If it were strictly temperature, it would indicate a less than effective rack cooling system. Are the top machines really that much hotter than the lower ones?
(Biggest rack I've played with had thermometers at top and bottom, and there were at worst, only about 5 degrees difference.)
I believe power pretty much always goes up on poles and over land here, not buried
I have no idea where "over here" is, but walking around where I live I can't see any power poles any where near my neighborhood. Its all under ground till you get several streets away, and encounter a substation.
You can marshal a bunch of crews to restring high tension lines from the plants, because those aren't that much line to string. Its all straight line
But when EVERY SINGLE neighborhood's distribution grid is blown down, high-lines really don't matter that much. This is the part that needs to be underground, and is being steadily put underground in every new development. (Its been that way for 40 years in the US, and most of Europe. )
You might get a mud slide flowing through the plant and have to wash that away, but is not like palm trees and broken houses are going to flow into the hole.
Really, what part of the story had anything to do with that? You didn't even bother to read the story did you?
The plants are expected to be back on line by Christmas, as soon as the employees can make some arrangements for their families. Whether or not the power grid will be ready is another issue.
But big oils wasn't even involved here, you just took any story as an excuse to rant.
When was the last time you saw a windstorm destroy a hole?
These all surface through concrete slabs. The company is now testing all of the components of that power plant in the hope of bringing it back into full service and repowering Leyte Island by Dec. 24.
The issue is more about the power grid than these plants.
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The car is already a pretty good Faraday Cage, being mostly metal.
The fact that this took so long to arrive in a viable product (it it is in fact viable) suggest how difficult the task of shutting down a car is. Presumably it is getting easier, because cars are no so much more dependent on computers.
The problem I see is that unless this device can be triggered precisely upon arrival of the target vehicle, you would end up clogging a freeway with 40 stalled vehicles just as your getaway car arrives. So you dump your desperate criminal in a bunch of helpless and confused hostages. If you could aim it, and and make it safe enough to carry on a helicopter you might have a useful product.
As described it sounds simply like another over-reaction tool for police.
The reason why so few girls are in IT and business is neither their inability nor their lack of interest.
So, in one sentence, you substitute your own pet biases for the scientific findings of TFA, and go right back to
the fact far fewer women choose IT careers must by a fault of society.
On the basis of what scientific research do you make such a claim? We are long past the age where women
are trained from childhood to take certain jobs, accept certain careers, or forego careers. Yet women choose
not to engage in certain professions in anywhere near a ratio indicative of the composition of society.
Women, by and large, do not like IT jobs. They don't like being plumbers either. The women I have worked
with in IT were very good at their jobs, but the women on the candidate list were far sparser than the men.
I've worked FOR women in IT and I've had women work for me in IT. I've tried to recruit women and found
most simply were not interested.
Nobody steers women away from IT. They choose it. And the article explains why. Women's and men's brains are
as many have suspected, simply wired differently. And this is evident early in childhood, which causes children
to make choices, and parents to allow those choices.
You don't have to invent a "social evil" to explain away the simple and obvious preponderance of preference.
So, fear of the unknown then?
I've really never seen any indication at all that the retailers are doing anything any different when I have my phone with me than when I don't.
They don't offer me any better deals tailored to what I came in to buy, they don't target advertising at me, certainly not at my phone, nor to I
get any spam from them.
They might be getting smarter about their prices, knowing what the competition's prices are, but they don't need any information from me to
get that.
In short, you seem very afraid of the boogie men hiding under your bed.
Exactly.
All my email or other uses of their wifi is encrypted already, and the only thing left for them to sniff is unencrypted pages from third party sellers. Even my google searches are encrypted, so they get nothing from that either.
You can't proxy ssl. And I suspect all this service really does is route everything through Swarm Mobile's transparent proxy. Most stores simply don't have the expertise to deal with basic traffic analysis let alone deep packet inspection, so they hire Swarm.
But as more an more shopping sites use HTTPS, this becomes less and less useful except for mining price checks on non-ssl sites.
Because I'm sure as hell not providing you with the information.
Nor yourself with much functionality.
The "To hire specific people" may be spot on. Sometimes an employer will write a job posting as a way of promoting an internal employee, though they have to post it as an open req for staff, so it doesn't look like favoritism(sp?).
It may be to hire specific people, but it might also be to get someone that can immediately do the job without a whole lot of re-training
and requesting new or different equipment or new software. Perhaps this comes right back to hiring specific people.
Not every employer is willing tu pit up with the 6month retooling and retraining period that bringing in someone new withe their own pet tool set and their own hardware demands. Many know the job can be don with the tools at hand, and the systems can be maintained without yet another gratuitous re-write because the new guy thinks the old guy was a total idiot for using language A when any fool can see the job absolutely needs to be re-written in language B, and that rewrite can be finished in about 9 months. But only if the new guy gets this particular equipment, and is given 3 months to re-document the entire system, starting with a needs assessment and interviewing every person in the company.
In short the IT profession (at just about any level you care to define it) is often a bunch of prima-donnas. And finding someone who can take over a job and successfully manage it just as the guy who died, without a bunch of demands is often the most cost effective way to achieve results.
Jobs aren't created to make perfect little playpens for budding upstarts with their own ideas. Jobs are created to get specific work done and tasks completed.
You got your own little pet methods and tool set, open your own business. Don't use my business for your little drama in three parts.
Yes, that's what it seemed like to me.
I suspect there is a tongue covering device in the mouth to send the electrical to the proper receptors.
As for TOIP, (taste over internet protocol), I think I'll pass. I still can't get Goatse out of my eyes, I'll be damned if I want it in my mouth.
When I asked why Cadillac stuck with a six-speed transmission when every single car they're competing with has more gears, Caddy's answer was, "Just wait." When I asked if we'd see another engine beside the direct-injected 3.6-liter V-6 with 304 hp and 264 lb-ft of torque, I was told, "Just wait." Will there be some sort of hybrid version? "Just wait.".
You don't get 400hp out of a 6, and you don't get anything but a 6 for less than 60 from Cadillac.
Contractors are strictly a niche market for pickup trucks.
By far the majority of them are owned by just regular people with enough need to occasionally haul stuff.
If gas stations have no power, then how is it EVs will be unaffected? The power company is going to magically route power to your home bypassing every one else?
Gas station can (and do) hook up a portable generator and be back in business.
Unless you live on a remote Island that gets all fuel by ship, this is strictly a corner case.
For the two weeks when these "bays" are put in. Then you will find these slots are all full as well.
Why should public parking spots be ceded to for profit charging stations? Maybe we should grant a couple parking spaces in every block so Exxon can put in little self serve gas pumps?
No-one in their right mind would buy a second car for that. They would either use their partner's, or rent one, or keep their old one around, or just not buy an EV if they make a lot of journeys like that.
Your kind of thinking is what prevents more people from buying EVs. They get these bizarre ideas in their head like this, probably from talking heads on TV.
Well now perhaps you see the exactly what keeps people from buying EVs.
By your own admission there is still a need for another vehicle. Using someone else's or keeping an old car around isn't really an answer is it.
My "kind of thinking" is exactly what keeps people from buying EVs. It's based on facts. If i bought a Nissan Leaf, I'd have to have it delivered by truck because the nearest dealership is beyond the range of the vehicle.
Yes the range is that pathetic. Yes, the price is still too high. You still have to keep another car. You can hand waive those facts away by attributing them to talking heads, and indirectly accusing me of being gullible.
The statement was made that you could buy two XTSs for the price of a model s. Which is not true.
And if you are willing to accept the notoriously anemic 6cylinder that GM shovels into that car.
And, I have to take issue with your idea that the XTS is considered a luxury brand. Come on! Its basicly a dressed up Buick, from which much of the car sprang.
Charging and range is the problem.
If you pocket the the $3500 and go for Altima over the Leaf, you can drive it across the state and across the nation, and the money you save will buy you 30,000 miles worth of gas.
Tesla is planning a truck.
Not sure how that is going to go over.
Stripped models maybe or pre-owned , but not something with the luxury or performance of the model s.
What southern tier state do you live in where you can say cold weather is only a problem in Antarctica?
Range is certainly the issue but price is equally the issue, and mostly because of range.
If people have to buy a second car for longer trips, they aren't going to want take that long trip in a piece of crap tin can with no amenities.
So that means two fairly expensive cars.
Extend the range, make recharge station more frequent, shorten the charge time and the cost problem goes away. But mostly you have to double the range.
No, 280 miles is not far enough, even when you can charge while eating lunch. Ten hour drives are more common than lots of people think.
Right now, all you have is the commuter market. And forgetting to change one night means you go no where the next day, which makes even that market nervous.
Not particularly clever, its done that way in every steam plant in the world, but you have the steps mixed up. The cooling towers are the last step before re injection, AFTER all passes through the various turbines.
Radiation blockage is mostly a function of mass the rays have to go through. The vast majority of cosmic rays are blocked by the 14 pounds per square inch/100 kilopascals of air above us. That means that a square inch of ground at sea level has 14 pounds of air above it. A square inch section of a rack above you would probably be in the pounds as well, and would block a good portion.
So how many miles of air equivalent is the typical sheet steel of a cabinet?
Just asking, cuz I can't seem to find it on the net.
Or grab the average temperature of the servers on the bottom of the rack and apply an equivalent heat source to the one server and see what the error rate is.
If it were strictly temperature, it would indicate a less than effective rack cooling system.
Are the top machines really that much hotter than the lower ones?
(Biggest rack I've played with had thermometers at top and bottom, and there were at worst, only about 5 degrees difference.)
The clowns in Congress can't even keep the streets paved.
I'm not too worried about the clowns; they're just a bit scary and funny. It's the politicians in Congress that are really the problem.
How do you tell them apart? They are all a bunch of bozos if you ask me.
I believe power pretty much always goes up on poles and over land here, not buried
I have no idea where "over here" is, but walking around where I live I can't see any power poles any where
near my neighborhood. Its all under ground till you get several streets away, and encounter a substation.
You can marshal a bunch of crews to restring high tension lines from the plants, because those aren't
that much line to string. Its all straight line
But when EVERY SINGLE neighborhood's distribution grid is blown down, high-lines really don't matter that much.
This is the part that needs to be underground, and is being steadily put underground in every new
development. (Its been that way for 40 years in the US, and most of Europe. )
Blow thing into holes?
These aren't some random Geyser that they shoved a hose down into, you do know that don't you?
These are man drilled bore-holes with steel casings that terminate in a concrete slab inside a big building.
See the picture: http://www.geothermal-energy.org/pliki/Image/gal/10_4.jpg
You might get a mud slide flowing through the plant and have to wash that away, but is not like
palm trees and broken houses are going to flow into the hole.
Really, what part of the story had anything to do with that?
You didn't even bother to read the story did you?
The plants are expected to be back on line by Christmas, as soon as the employees can make some
arrangements for their families. Whether or not the power grid will be ready is another issue.
But big oils wasn't even involved here, you just took any story as an excuse to rant.
If the hole survived
When was the last time you saw a windstorm destroy a hole?
These all surface through concrete slabs. The company is now testing all of the components of that power plant in the hope of bringing it back into full service and repowering Leyte Island by Dec. 24.
The issue is more about the power grid than these plants.