Yes. Google "ebonics" for the pidgin English that was going to be forced on a few due to cost cutting, but then effectively became mainstream due to cost cutting.
There is a vast amount of padding for profitability and it's a "who watches the watchman" situation since the government setting the rules is one of the direct beneficiaries of increased profits.
Energex reaps record profits: http://www.couriermail.com.au/...
Queensland electricity bills could be reduced without selling state's assets: report http://www.brisbanetimes.com.a...
It links to this report:
http://images.brisbanetimes.co...
Points 9 and 10 are interesting - 88 million in the last year the government received out of the pockets of electricity consumers as a dividend. The previous government did the same which is one reason it has not been raised by the opposition. It's one of the many downsides of pretend privitisation and a pretend market (others include a loss of economies of scale from artificial barriers constructed between groups that all have the same owner).
I fear the people who will get desperate when they reap the fruit of their own ignorance.
When shit gets real there's more "the spirit of the blitz" than Mad Max. Compare the hysterics of meteor movies with Russian dashcam footage where the real thing is not even enough to turn down the stereo, let alone stop driving.
I'm curious, did that one come from Pauline Hanson, Clive Palmer or a drunken Big Brother contestant? If not where the fuck did you hear of such weird shit?
I can only presume you are addressing that to yourself with your all powerful environomentalist strawman that does not exist. Thatcher and Reagan were real people, not strawmen, that really did cut back on nuclear power, and neither of them had a reputation as environmentalists.
Why the old troll of "but root can rewrite" then if you are being partisan? Why insult me and then mark me as foe just because I related a malware incident I was called in to clean up because the MS platform guys were snowed under?
With respect, you are the one that came in with the childish "my platform is better than yours because your root can do anything" bullshit, so if you can't take a rebuttal then don't try to start such an argument.
the TPM Secure Boot implementation doesn't use web-of-trust, it uses a typical PKI hierarchy
An enormous attack surface probably including most of the current and former MS windows driver developers at thousands of companies versus letting the user have control over their own stuff.
I assume the anon is you, by the way, turning on the anonymous box in order to be a dick. Good job.
What a nasty and uncalled for insult. Just because you reject a simple solution in favour of complex one that depends on trusting every single driver supplier on the planet with a key that can 0wn a computer and lock the real owner out is no reason to get nasty.
Funny how everyone has heard of Hawking and knows he's famous but there's still a popular perception that little black holes are going to last longer than an eyeblink and become big ones.
The experiments break stuff and it takes years to rebuild it. In a lot of cases that's what science is - a lot of hard work over a long time for a few hours of experiments.
Our electricity price has gone up by 200-350% depending which state you're in.
I suggest you also look up how much the dividend payout to the owners (almost all State Governments that get to write their own rules) has gone up by. The dividend to the Queensland Government for instance is enormous and all the pockets of electricity consumers. You may hear more about that with elections coming up, however the previous Government did something similar but with a lesser amount. Cost increases are not a great deal more than profit increases, and with decreasing demand in some areas some of the infrastructure the actually is driving a slight rise is very hard to justify. I used to work for QEC before the artificial market with only one real supplier started. We seemed to be expanding the network more then for less money and certainly had a lot more staff doing it. What you see now is a lot more padding for profitability.
Sadly it's meaningless numerology without an indication of what the numbers actually stand for. When I was in the power industry I had access to a wonderful series of books by ESRI with plenty of illustrated examples of what happened when you drove various power station components far beyond the realms of sanity - all US examples (compiled by a US based org of course, so that's why all US). Whatever the average is there are at least some utilities in the USA that drive their power plants to destruction through lack of maintainence or poor operational procedures. So many millions that could have been saved by employing one chemist or engineer instead of just an untrained Homer Simpson at the controls.
Why? Protected monopoly. The price for having such a money spinner granted by a government is supposed to be to supply good service, but for various political reasons, up to and including outright graft, that's not always written into the contract or there are loopholes. Hence ridiculous shit like fires when Hurricane Sandy hit 1920s infrastructure with too many live wires in contact with wood! The third world has bad shit but not that bad.
As distinct from the complex web of trust described above where all it takes is yet another leaked key to break into it and render all that TPM stuff irrelevant - IN ADDITION to privilege escalation on the MS platform and a wide variety of problems that do not even need privilege escalation. Somebody clicking on a link in an Outlook message is all it takes to open up Internet Explorer to run whatever it finds in an "asp" script on a hacked MS webserver and next thing you've got files on network shares encrypted and some criminal demanding money - all before the MS or any other antivirus gets a chance to block it. While that's a good test of backups such a situation clearly demonstrates that there is a very long way to go before clueless fanboys can brag about complex solutions to simple problems without being laughed at. The MS ecosystem is sinking into the malware swamp faster than some good but late attempts at decent security can bail it out.
You write of reading comprehension, yet somehow managed to miss the following in a three sentence post: "Some people even had their stuff boot from read-only optical media" I deliberately addressed the issue to avoid it coming up and deliberately used very simple and informal language so that it would be easy to comprehend - yet it's been missed an now there's some bleating about reading comprehension from the person that missed it. I can only assume that things have degenerated to mindless cheering for the team with your "why doesn't everyone else solve problems the same way as MS even though they did it a decade+ earlier" non-issue.
From a different Russian. I'm not Russian so for all I know they are pulling my leg, so I'm going to have to take your work for it until I can talk to him again.
What is the *nix equivalent to secure boot? Signed kernel modules?
Not loading modules at all. It's just one kernel compile away. That's been done for security reasons by some people since about when this site started or before. Some people even had their stuff boot from read-only optical media to avoid such threats back when the possibility of tainted kernel modules was first discussed.
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Yes. Google "ebonics" for the pidgin English that was going to be forced on a few due to cost cutting, but then effectively became mainstream due to cost cutting.
Powerful surge in profits as Energex delivers huge dividend for State Government
http://www.couriermail.com.au/...
There is a vast amount of padding for profitability and it's a "who watches the watchman" situation since the government setting the rules is one of the direct beneficiaries of increased profits.
Energex reaps record profits:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/...
Queensland electricity bills could be reduced without selling state's assets: report
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.a...
It links to this report:
http://images.brisbanetimes.co...
Points 9 and 10 are interesting - 88 million in the last year the government received out of the pockets of electricity consumers as a dividend. The previous government did the same which is one reason it has not been raised by the opposition. It's one of the many downsides of pretend privitisation and a pretend market (others include a loss of economies of scale from artificial barriers constructed between groups that all have the same owner).
Not as such. The main contractors are a private company that can make more money looking for oil, however they are stuck with this gig for a while.
When shit gets real there's more "the spirit of the blitz" than Mad Max. Compare the hysterics of meteor movies with Russian dashcam footage where the real thing is not even enough to turn down the stereo, let alone stop driving.
Rapidly converging with the US average. Increased communication is paying off.
I'm curious, did that one come from Pauline Hanson, Clive Palmer or a drunken Big Brother contestant? If not where the fuck did you hear of such weird shit?
I can only presume you are addressing that to yourself with your all powerful environomentalist strawman that does not exist. Thatcher and Reagan were real people, not strawmen, that really did cut back on nuclear power, and neither of them had a reputation as environmentalists.
A black hole with that much mass is going to take a lot more than the LHC to get it going.
Why is it OK for you to point out that root can do anything on a *nix system yet it's somehow not OK for me to mention malware?
Why the old troll of "but root can rewrite" then if you are being partisan? Why insult me and then mark me as foe just because I related a malware incident I was called in to clean up because the MS platform guys were snowed under?
An enormous attack surface probably including most of the current and former MS windows driver developers at thousands of companies versus letting the user have control over their own stuff.
So you marked me foe as well as that insult - how childish.
Much less than that unless you can collapse the mass of a small moon into a black hole.
What a nasty and uncalled for insult. Just because you reject a simple solution in favour of complex one that depends on trusting every single driver supplier on the planet with a key that can 0wn a computer and lock the real owner out is no reason to get nasty.
Funny how everyone has heard of Hawking and knows he's famous but there's still a popular perception that little black holes are going to last longer than an eyeblink and become big ones.
The experiments break stuff and it takes years to rebuild it.
In a lot of cases that's what science is - a lot of hard work over a long time for a few hours of experiments.
I suggest you also look up how much the dividend payout to the owners (almost all State Governments that get to write their own rules) has gone up by. The dividend to the Queensland Government for instance is enormous and all the pockets of electricity consumers. You may hear more about that with elections coming up, however the previous Government did something similar but with a lesser amount.
Cost increases are not a great deal more than profit increases, and with decreasing demand in some areas some of the infrastructure the actually is driving a slight rise is very hard to justify.
I used to work for QEC before the artificial market with only one real supplier started. We seemed to be expanding the network more then for less money and certainly had a lot more staff doing it. What you see now is a lot more padding for profitability.
Sadly it's meaningless numerology without an indication of what the numbers actually stand for.
When I was in the power industry I had access to a wonderful series of books by ESRI with plenty of illustrated examples of what happened when you drove various power station components far beyond the realms of sanity - all US examples (compiled by a US based org of course, so that's why all US). Whatever the average is there are at least some utilities in the USA that drive their power plants to destruction through lack of maintainence or poor operational procedures. So many millions that could have been saved by employing one chemist or engineer instead of just an untrained Homer Simpson at the controls.
Why? Protected monopoly. The price for having such a money spinner granted by a government is supposed to be to supply good service, but for various political reasons, up to and including outright graft, that's not always written into the contract or there are loopholes. Hence ridiculous shit like fires when Hurricane Sandy hit 1920s infrastructure with too many live wires in contact with wood! The third world has bad shit but not that bad.
As distinct from the complex web of trust described above where all it takes is yet another leaked key to break into it and render all that TPM stuff irrelevant - IN ADDITION to privilege escalation on the MS platform and a wide variety of problems that do not even need privilege escalation.
Somebody clicking on a link in an Outlook message is all it takes to open up Internet Explorer to run whatever it finds in an "asp" script on a hacked MS webserver and next thing you've got files on network shares encrypted and some criminal demanding money - all before the MS or any other antivirus gets a chance to block it. While that's a good test of backups such a situation clearly demonstrates that there is a very long way to go before clueless fanboys can brag about complex solutions to simple problems without being laughed at. The MS ecosystem is sinking into the malware swamp faster than some good but late attempts at decent security can bail it out.
You write of reading comprehension, yet somehow managed to miss the following in a three sentence post:
"Some people even had their stuff boot from read-only optical media"
I deliberately addressed the issue to avoid it coming up and deliberately used very simple and informal language so that it would be easy to comprehend - yet it's been missed an now there's some bleating about reading comprehension from the person that missed it. I can only assume that things have degenerated to mindless cheering for the team with your "why doesn't everyone else solve problems the same way as MS even though they did it a decade+ earlier" non-issue.
Come on now. If you really think hippies convinced Thatcher and Reagan then I've got a bridge to sell you. Stop pretending to be so ignorant.
From a different Russian. I'm not Russian so for all I know they are pulling my leg, so I'm going to have to take your work for it until I can talk to him again.
Not loading modules at all. It's just one kernel compile away. That's been done for security reasons by some people since about when this site started or before. Some people even had their stuff boot from read-only optical media to avoid such threats back when the possibility of tainted kernel modules was first discussed.