It's all bullshit. A lithium-metal battery is a SERIOUS. FIRE. HAZARD. And it cannot be fought with traditional firefighting equipment (i.e. WATER.) Go look at what goes in a Class D fire extinguisher, and then look at the cost. I'd like to see the zero weight, micro thin unubtainium shell he proposes to make the thing 100%, ABSOLUTELY puncture proof. We put Li-Ion batteries in tiny plastic bags.
The electrolyte is not flammable. Open up a pouch and stick a match to it. It. Does. Not. Burn. "Vent with flame" occurs because of the current flow resulting from an internal short -- in the Samsung case because of metal contaminates (and normal heat expansion crushing it within the confined case), in the case of a puncture because the anode and cathode are now touching. That's also why it's impossible to put out a Li-Ion battery fire: Current flow cannot be disrupted. All you can do is quench it until the charge is depleted. (which can take thousands of gallons of water)
That's exactly how they SHOULD work. Nothing about it is on a network. Each lock is its own little island. The keycard holds a series of access codes that match what the lock internally generates. The front desk knows the serial number of the lock and thus can generate the correct codes for the card. When you want to stay longer, they have to write more codes to your card. If the clock or batteries in the lock fail, someone has to physically fix it. These types of systems CANNOT be remotely attacked. (rather easily defeated locally, but that's a different problem.)
There are so many problems with networked door locks. Hackers getting into the system is but one of the smaller ones.
The $.54/mi is for tax purposes. It has ZERO to do with vehicle maintenance. Tires, brakes, and oil will amount to ~1800 PER YEAR. The 100k miles per year put on the car is going to mean you need a new car in a few years. (I've seen what a Prius security guard car looked like after 360k miles.)
Also, where the hell do you live that you'll use $70 worth a gas in a 300mi day? At current prices, that's 3 full tanks for me -- @550-600mi per tank.
(a) There never has been a very high rate of gun crime in the UK, ever. (b) Banning them doesn't magically make them no longer exist. (hint: there are plenty of handguns across the UK. Some of them are in the hands of criminals.) (c) It's a well established fact, criminals don't give a shit about your laws.
It's a "side gig" and you f'ing know it from the get-go. If you choose to make it your full time job and sole source of income, then that's your choice. Don't come bitching to me or anyone else about your dumb ass poor decisions. It's these sort of idiots thats transformed "RIDE SHARING" ("I'm going across town, who needs a ride?") to an unlicensed taxi service (idiots circling the block waiting for someone to need a ride.)
This is exactly the "sky is falling" bullshit around hashes. ALL HASHES HAVE COLLISIONS. (eg. one cannot uniquely represent more than 128bits with a 128bit value.) I have yet to see anyone offer proof of CREATING a collision, much less a method to modify a message without altering the hash -- at all, a meaningful modification is so remote as to be "impossible".
(I've only seen one "lab" example for MD5, where a file contains two documents and a block of padding such that altering a pointer controls which document is live and the padding allows correcting the hash. Such bullshit does not exist in the real world. And it too the researchers months to build that example.)
Lots of companies do that. Especially when it's IT workers, as the bean counters and pencil pushers have literally zero understand of what IT does. Everything "just works", and they have no clue how or why. And they don't care; when shit breaks because there's no long anyone there to keep it running, obviously the person they fired is to blame.
On my personal equipment? Outside the company? AFTER I no longer work there?ABSOLUTELY NOT
Once I'm no longer employed there, I should not have any of my former employers "important data." My passwords are my passwords; I will happily change them to whatever you want before I leave, or your admins can use their admin powers to reset them. (I'm not stupid enough to use my employee account for system/role processes. My personal account does NOT run the backups, builds, etc.) If you no longer have any other admins, well, that's a problem of your own making. (probably. unless you have a Terry Childs around)
And if she'd gone back to (or stayed in) India, she'd've been cured in a day. There's a lot of shit the FDA doesn't approve, and even more things drug companies won't both with because they can't patent it, and/or they can't make billions off of it.
Only if that SD card were used EXCLUSIVELY for recording your voice, and it's ACTUALLY 256GB of usable space (capacity is always a lie, filesystems take up space too, etc.), and it doesn't fail over the decades, AND you don't live more than ~98 years, sure.
But it's a lot harder to do if you aren't running the tracker (thus can get a data feed from it.) Basically, you can only track torrents that are known to you, on trackers where you have access (i.e. public trackers.)
Customer self-reporting?!? No. Just no. The only amazing part is the stupidity of the entire idea. The only way to have a trustable number is to read it yourself. (even then, you're relying on humans to get it right, and they won't)
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HAH. No. That's not how it works. Any savings in operational costs will go in some executive's pocket.
Both claims are totally bullshit. All you can tell is the total household power usage. So you can tell when loads change, but not what caused them. As for what's on my TV??? that's less than a watt difference full white vs. full black. That's undetectable noise on the scale of the entire house. A 300W load just came on. Is that a lamp, the microwave, the TV, or did I just fire up Fallout 4?
NOTHING IN YOUR FUCKING HOUSE TALKS TO THE POWER GRID. Any "load control" modules, if you have any, aren't "your devices". And they don't tell you anything about what they disconnect, beyond possibly generic "water heater" and "HVAC".
And none of that is built into the power company's meter. It's all stuff the customer adds downstream -- on the customer side -- of the meter. It's potential hackability is independent of any smart meter.
At those power levels, you aren't talking about "relays", but "contactors". Look in any electric vehicle to find several. (I have a box of them out of chevy volt battery packs. ~400v/350A about the size of an apple. it takes a few watts to keep the contacts closed.)
In an electrical meter, however, there will simply be "knife switch" that requires no power to stay in either closed or open position. A motorized actuator moves it between states in almost the same manner as you pulling the handle on a fuse box. (not that residential installations have those) MOSFETs (IGBTs) are about the same cost, but they need continuous power and generate lots of heat at the 200A rating of most residential installations, plus they fail rather easily. (esp. when connected to the grid 24/7)
Actually, it's single digit dollars... a motor, gear, and relay (times 100,000) -- the mechanical equivalent of pulling the breaker handle. Even commercially available (single count) marine grade DC disconnects are less than $40. (DC is harder to disconnect than AC)
Have you actually timed yourself? The whole process -- open the port, uncoil the cable, plug in, and the reverse when leaving -- takes 1-2min. Every. Time. You. Park. If you're doing that everywhere you go, that adds up quickly. Sure, it doesn't seem like much when you're doing it, but that ~90s 8-10-12 times a day, every day, is a great deal of time. Of course, your "fuel" is free, so there is that.
Indeed. If one station is full, I can go to the one across the street. I literally can't count how many are around my house. I stop counting at a dozen. And I know I'm forgetting more than I remember.
Because it's actually *one* PUMP -- at the storage tank -- with 15 dispensers attached to it. The "old timey" stations had maybe 4 dispensers, and only one or two in use at a time. Ever notice how much your "pump" speeds up when someone else leaves? Above ground storage tanks also helps. (gravity) I've not seen any above ground tanks (outside of race tracks and farms) in decades. (takes up valuable space, and idiots *WILL* shoot them)
If the pumps are working properly, it doesn't take "~10-15min" to fill a car. And in NC, it's illegal to walk away from your car ("leave unattended") while it's being fueled. People do it all the time, 'tho; it occasionally leads to fires, and absent minded idiots driving away with the nozzle still in the car.
This is simply a move to teach people that those are not "parking spaces". As is today, people will occupy those spaces for 30+ min at a time.
(I've filled the RV in less time, and that's a f'ing 80gal tank.)
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Actually, it's not. It would, however, be "legally actionable". (firing striking union employees is a big no-no.)
It's all bullshit. A lithium-metal battery is a SERIOUS. FIRE. HAZARD. And it cannot be fought with traditional firefighting equipment (i.e. WATER.) Go look at what goes in a Class D fire extinguisher, and then look at the cost. I'd like to see the zero weight, micro thin unubtainium shell he proposes to make the thing 100%, ABSOLUTELY puncture proof. We put Li-Ion batteries in tiny plastic bags.
The electrolyte is not flammable. Open up a pouch and stick a match to it. It. Does. Not. Burn. "Vent with flame" occurs because of the current flow resulting from an internal short -- in the Samsung case because of metal contaminates (and normal heat expansion crushing it within the confined case), in the case of a puncture because the anode and cathode are now touching. That's also why it's impossible to put out a Li-Ion battery fire: Current flow cannot be disrupted. All you can do is quench it until the charge is depleted. (which can take thousands of gallons of water)
That's exactly how they SHOULD work. Nothing about it is on a network. Each lock is its own little island. The keycard holds a series of access codes that match what the lock internally generates. The front desk knows the serial number of the lock and thus can generate the correct codes for the card. When you want to stay longer, they have to write more codes to your card. If the clock or batteries in the lock fail, someone has to physically fix it. These types of systems CANNOT be remotely attacked. (rather easily defeated locally, but that's a different problem.)
There are so many problems with networked door locks. Hackers getting into the system is but one of the smaller ones.
The $.54/mi is for tax purposes. It has ZERO to do with vehicle maintenance. Tires, brakes, and oil will amount to ~1800 PER YEAR. The 100k miles per year put on the car is going to mean you need a new car in a few years. (I've seen what a Prius security guard car looked like after 360k miles.)
Also, where the hell do you live that you'll use $70 worth a gas in a 300mi day? At current prices, that's 3 full tanks for me -- @550-600mi per tank.
(a) There never has been a very high rate of gun crime in the UK, ever. (b) Banning them doesn't magically make them no longer exist. (hint: there are plenty of handguns across the UK. Some of them are in the hands of criminals.) (c) It's a well established fact, criminals don't give a shit about your laws.
It's a "side gig" and you f'ing know it from the get-go. If you choose to make it your full time job and sole source of income, then that's your choice. Don't come bitching to me or anyone else about your dumb ass poor decisions. It's these sort of idiots thats transformed "RIDE SHARING" ("I'm going across town, who needs a ride?") to an unlicensed taxi service (idiots circling the block waiting for someone to need a ride.)
This is exactly the "sky is falling" bullshit around hashes. ALL HASHES HAVE COLLISIONS. (eg. one cannot uniquely represent more than 128bits with a 128bit value.) I have yet to see anyone offer proof of CREATING a collision, much less a method to modify a message without altering the hash -- at all, a meaningful modification is so remote as to be "impossible".
(I've only seen one "lab" example for MD5, where a file contains two documents and a block of padding such that altering a pointer controls which document is live and the padding allows correcting the hash. Such bullshit does not exist in the real world. And it too the researchers months to build that example.)
Lots of companies do that. Especially when it's IT workers, as the bean counters and pencil pushers have literally zero understand of what IT does. Everything "just works", and they have no clue how or why. And they don't care; when shit breaks because there's no long anyone there to keep it running, obviously the person they fired is to blame.
On my personal equipment? Outside the company? AFTER I no longer work there? ABSOLUTELY NOT
Once I'm no longer employed there, I should not have any of my former employers "important data." My passwords are my passwords; I will happily change them to whatever you want before I leave, or your admins can use their admin powers to reset them. (I'm not stupid enough to use my employee account for system/role processes. My personal account does NOT run the backups, builds, etc.) If you no longer have any other admins, well, that's a problem of your own making. (probably. unless you have a Terry Childs around)
And if she'd gone back to (or stayed in) India, she'd've been cured in a day. There's a lot of shit the FDA doesn't approve, and even more things drug companies won't both with because they can't patent it, and/or they can't make billions off of it.
People talk in their sleep, you know.
Only if that SD card were used EXCLUSIVELY for recording your voice, and it's ACTUALLY 256GB of usable space (capacity is always a lie, filesystems take up space too, etc.), and it doesn't fail over the decades, AND you don't live more than ~98 years, sure.
But it's a lot harder to do if you aren't running the tracker (thus can get a data feed from it.) Basically, you can only track torrents that are known to you, on trackers where you have access (i.e. public trackers.)
And which torrent. Unless they're in league with a tracker, they have to ask for a list per torrent (info_hash) to know anything.
Customer self-reporting?!? No. Just no. The only amazing part is the stupidity of the entire idea. The only way to have a trustable number is to read it yourself. (even then, you're relying on humans to get it right, and they won't)
HAH. No. That's not how it works. Any savings in operational costs will go in some executive's pocket.
Many are. And yet, there have been no riots. In fact, you don't even know your meter is capable of disconnection.
(The one's around here - CP&L / NC - aren't, btw.)
Both claims are totally bullshit. All you can tell is the total household power usage. So you can tell when loads change, but not what caused them. As for what's on my TV??? that's less than a watt difference full white vs. full black. That's undetectable noise on the scale of the entire house. A 300W load just came on. Is that a lamp, the microwave, the TV, or did I just fire up Fallout 4?
NOTHING IN YOUR FUCKING HOUSE TALKS TO THE POWER GRID. Any "load control" modules, if you have any, aren't "your devices". And they don't tell you anything about what they disconnect, beyond possibly generic "water heater" and "HVAC".
And none of that is built into the power company's meter. It's all stuff the customer adds downstream -- on the customer side -- of the meter. It's potential hackability is independent of any smart meter.
At those power levels, you aren't talking about "relays", but "contactors". Look in any electric vehicle to find several. (I have a box of them out of chevy volt battery packs. ~400v/350A about the size of an apple. it takes a few watts to keep the contacts closed.)
In an electrical meter, however, there will simply be "knife switch" that requires no power to stay in either closed or open position. A motorized actuator moves it between states in almost the same manner as you pulling the handle on a fuse box. (not that residential installations have those) MOSFETs (IGBTs) are about the same cost, but they need continuous power and generate lots of heat at the 200A rating of most residential installations, plus they fail rather easily. (esp. when connected to the grid 24/7)
Actually, it's single digit dollars... a motor, gear, and relay (times 100,000) -- the mechanical equivalent of pulling the breaker handle. Even commercially available (single count) marine grade DC disconnects are less than $40. (DC is harder to disconnect than AC)
Have you actually timed yourself? The whole process -- open the port, uncoil the cable, plug in, and the reverse when leaving -- takes 1-2min. Every. Time. You. Park. If you're doing that everywhere you go, that adds up quickly. Sure, it doesn't seem like much when you're doing it, but that ~90s 8-10-12 times a day, every day, is a great deal of time. Of course, your "fuel" is free, so there is that.
Indeed. If one station is full, I can go to the one across the street. I literally can't count how many are around my house. I stop counting at a dozen. And I know I'm forgetting more than I remember.
You totally missed the "strap tanks" part... Mad Max technology (i.e. two 55gal drums in the bed)
Because it's actually *one* PUMP -- at the storage tank -- with 15 dispensers attached to it. The "old timey" stations had maybe 4 dispensers, and only one or two in use at a time. Ever notice how much your "pump" speeds up when someone else leaves? Above ground storage tanks also helps. (gravity) I've not seen any above ground tanks (outside of race tracks and farms) in decades. (takes up valuable space, and idiots *WILL* shoot them)
If the pumps are working properly, it doesn't take "~10-15min" to fill a car. And in NC, it's illegal to walk away from your car ("leave unattended") while it's being fueled. People do it all the time, 'tho; it occasionally leads to fires, and absent minded idiots driving away with the nozzle still in the car.
This is simply a move to teach people that those are not "parking spaces". As is today, people will occupy those spaces for 30+ min at a time.
(I've filled the RV in less time, and that's a f'ing 80gal tank.)