Looks like you are going to have 'very big problems' then because thats precisely what they are doing.
Smartgrid is all about: 1. monitoring HOME users on a hourly basis in order to SETUP VARIABLE RATE BILLING. Now how much do you think that expensive periods will be at 1am? No. You are being scammed. Its the same as the Enron power brokering of early 2000 again.
2. Turning OFF your usage remotely. When the overloaded, inefficient system is about to crash they want to be able to run rolling blackouts. When do think this will be? During moderate temps? No, it will be during heatwaves. Now turning off people AC during a heat wave will have bad results.
No a better solution is to be a more efficient Citizen of energy. But thats not nearly as much fun as telling everyone else what to do huh?
Demand that the power companies develop efficient power transmission (its only like 30% now). (smartgrid does nothing in this area)
And this coming from a person willing to make lots and lots of money selling you a meter (and other smart power devices).
Oh, and it can be hacked pretty easily too. Then I can turn off your power remotely. Loads of fun.
The weapons do NOT come from the US. What kind f*&king idiot trots across the border to a US gunshop and pays US values for a weapon, when he can buy a AK smuggled from Africa for 1/100 of that price? No one. Straw man.
MOST of all the automatic weapons used by Cartels are FROM THE MEXICAN MILITARY itself. BTW how many fully automatic weapons can you buy in a US GunShop? Please go try to do it yourself.
Two problems with that: 1. that street criminals think clearly. they don't
2. that street criminals remember that there are cams on. see one thing these people never point out is this, after a while everyone forgets about the cams.
Cams won't stop you from being murdered, it just captures it on disk.
Wrong, Wind River bought all Walnut Creek assets, then kicked Slackware to the curb. Patrick had to fire his 2 employees, and go back to a one man show.
All they wanted was BSD, cause they could keep that closed.
Why? Just ignore them. Hear that? Its the Wind River guys LAUGHING all the way to the bank!
Embedded devices use Arm chips, the design is open. The toolkits are free. Only idiotic, big organizations like Boeing use Wind River stuff. I have talked to people who are going to linux just to ditch Wind River and VxWorks.
How does Intel plan to compete against $6 Arm chips? A smart meter has no need for a 64bit, fat, power hungry, hot 3Ghz pc type chip with no peripherals builtin.
PN2 has tons of features, add your own code clips, tools, etc. It seems to be actively developed. Supports all languages with code completes and syntax highlighting. Its very nice.
Its also included in winARM toolkit as well if you want to dev arm7/9 embedded systems.
Oh and don't forget the many Gas Stations that illegally cut the gas with another 10-20% ethanol.
Its so bad, that you probably should be testing your gas for Ethanol content.
And 15%+ ethanol has a nasty habit of holding water in solution, until saturation, when the whole of water and ethanol separates, and your engine gets a big gulp of water. Or in the case of a holding tank, you pump 20 gallons of $4/gal water.
And to add another distinction, I thought Brazil used the 'wastes' of processing sugar cane to distill Ethanol, after they get the good sugars for other uses.
As further empirical evidence, my '98 Plymouth Breeze (aka Cirrus, aka Stratus) with a 2L, I4, making 130hp in a standard mid-size frame is getting about 29mpg around town.
Its so good, I've yet to see a new car match it (except a prius). Plus its paid for and should easily last another 100,000 miles.
My Yamaha YZF600R on the other hand is already getting about 51mpg.
Ooohhh hard problem. Hell I can't even get AT&T to handle easy problems like "Simple Customer Service".
Like, oh I don't know, I don't like Yahoo. AT&T now has everyone over on yahoo portal. BUT they used our AT&T logins. Now I have 2, yup 2 yahoo logins. Guess what, yahoo does NOT allow 2 logins from the same computer.
Now I would like AT&T to put me back on the old BellSouth login page, but no. Thats not possible. They didn't even reply to my email request. I probably shouldn't have called the ignorant butt fuckers I guess. Or maybe it was the statement that a 12 year old could build a better Customer Service webpage.
1st. "Smart" grid is all about the power companies being able to TURN OFF YOUR POWER. Ok? Everyone should know and understand that simple fact mmkay?
Its being Smart, because we are maxed out on power gen capability and $4.5Billion is easier to spend on control, than on MORE POWER.
2nd. The half-dozen companies building the things are all using different proprietary technologies.
3rd. They are all closed systems.
4th. They are NOT secure. People here should know better than the accept at face value that these things are secure. They are all either WiFi,2.4Ghz(simple) or ZigBee based.
Well, he should have listed a link to said 'IRS Statistic", but hes likely right.
Just because you pay the payroll tax, doesn't mean that at the end of the year the Feds took taxes. Those 40% get big refund checks equivalent (OR GREATER THAN*) the taxes they paid out. There are far too many variables to include to come up with some fixed salary line. But look at any feature like ChildCare expenses, Child Credit, Head of Household, etc, ALL of those are weighted higher for lower incomes.
And I had a 'AHA' moment, all those poor people who got booked into houses they couldn't afford? They likely got a much higher deduction by itemising the interest payments. *making * a higher refund)
My wish would have been for someone to slip in a "CASH SALARY" option into that Porkulus Bill that no one read. As a Salaried employee I could CHOOSE to be paid in full, in CASH. That would SO F&^% the Feds up as to be unbeleivable.
Sure. Stop paying Social Security for 1(ONE) Month.
There. Fixed. (dirty hippie secret, the SS budget is 100 times bigger than the Military budget)
Oh, and a better solution, stop starting wars you cant fund!
Another possibility, use private Mercs, pay them for objectives. No objective, no payment. See how that works? Also they tend to be professionals, not gangbangers like the USArmy hires.
And stop bitching about atrocities during war. It WAR, you kill people, they do not care how precisely you did it, they are dead. Geez, superest, smartyiest people on the planet huh?
That HAS to be the f*&^king funniest thing I have EVER seen a stupid ass say.
Do you really think that even if they raise this paltry $210Billion over 10 years (which they won't) that its going to reduce ANYONES Income Tax???? NEVER GONNA HAPPEN! Read it again: NEVER GONNA HAPPEN.
What WILL happen is that you will see a significant number of US Corporations MOVE TO CHINA ENTIRELY. Those that have to stay here will continue to be browbeat until the Feds OWN THEM.
And the next thing the FEDS want is your 401k and IRA and Savings.
$210Billion is a pinhead compared to the BasketBall court sized area of Spending these Dems want.
Its a charade. Its all designed to have the Feds ASSUME more private industry and industies wealth. Its the End Of the USA as you knew it. Bye, bye, game over. The non-working no gooders with their hands out have siphoned it all away, and voted a huge vacuum cleaner to power.
"If the NSA needs to wiretap the whole of the US because they can't break into a Hotmail account, you know they've got problems. "
Maybe they don't care about that. Maybe they are after something else entirely. And you have been fooled by the excuse of Al-Quida. You don't know what Intel they are after. Probably gaging how much people are pissed off about taxes, or NY flyby coverups or such.
Its called Strategy.
Will things change if people recognize the threat?
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Quite enlightening. Read, digest, discuss. Somewhere in there is an example of just such technology creep. It starts out optional, but soon everyone will be on this stuff just to get a few more IQ points.
A lot of sci-fi discusses the dangers of depending on tech too much. Better living thru chemistry is just as bad.
The superest, smartyest people in the whole USA work on this stuff. You know like Geithner. Yet they have no clue that all the parts come from China. And most parts are not stocked, and qtys over 100-500 are 60-90 day lead times.
We wouldn't know how to fab a microchip here if our lives depended on it.
Yup, Hasbro is severely f(*&ed as a company. Crap all they need to do it 'print' Squad Leader, Tobruk, or Arab-Isreali Wars and make money. You know like Disney does with old movies, just print one title every 3-4 months. They are sitting on about 800 titles from Avalon Hill, SPI and others. But they have no clue what to with them. It not like they have to do any work, just print the things.
"3 January 1961 The world's first nuclear-related fatalities occurred following a reactor explosion at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho Falls, Idaho. One navy technician and two army technicians, were killed, with radioactivity "largely confined" (words of John A. McCone, Director of the Atomic Energy Commission) to the reactor building. The three men were killed as they moved fuel rods in a "routine" preparation for the reactor start-up. One technician was blown to the ceiling of the containment dome and impaled on a control rod. His body remained there until it was taken down six days later. The men were so heavily exposed to radiation that their hands had to be buried separately with other radioactive waste, and their bodies were interred in lead coffins. Another incident three weeks later (on 25 January) resulted in a release of radiation into the atmosphere."
The shuttle nozzles are expendables, they are ablatives.
The 'reusable' solids concept is about 4-5x heavier than it could be. This reduces lift efficiency, AND increases complexity. The Shuttle SRBs are the single MOST COMPLEX SRBs I have ever seen. I've seen the engineering drawings.
Not to mention the man-hours involved in refurbishing the things.
SRBs on the scale of the Shuttle and larger are far too inefficient. Cheap liquids are the way. Kerosene and alcohol are relatively easy to manage. And an empty liquid booster can be made very lightweight, i.e. for the tonnage of steel in 1 set of Shuttle SRBs you could build 4 Atlas boosters. Atlas skin is only 0.060 inch thick (about 2mm !), that makes ground handling and transport easier. How much fuel does it take to MOVE an SRB from Utah to Fla ??? (too much)
NASA is a boneheaded as any other agency. They should be extending stuff like Atlas, and making boosters easier to manufacture, and easier to use. Problem with that is, that is what the Russians do well, and NASA cannot copy Russia (or buy their already designed, tested and built engines).
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Looks like you are going to have 'very big problems' then because thats precisely what they are doing.
Smartgrid is all about:
1. monitoring HOME users on a hourly basis in order to SETUP VARIABLE RATE BILLING.
Now how much do you think that expensive periods will be at 1am? No. You are being scammed.
Its the same as the Enron power brokering of early 2000 again.
2. Turning OFF your usage remotely.
When the overloaded, inefficient system is about to crash they want to be able to run rolling blackouts. When do think this will be? During moderate temps? No, it will be during heatwaves. Now turning off people AC during a heat wave will have bad results.
No a better solution is to be a more efficient Citizen of energy. But thats not nearly as much fun as telling everyone else what to do huh?
Demand that the power companies develop efficient power transmission (its only like 30% now).
(smartgrid does nothing in this area)
And this coming from a person willing to make lots and lots of money selling you a meter (and other smart power devices).
Oh, and it can be hacked pretty easily too. Then I can turn off your power remotely. Loads of fun.
Correct Sir!
The question every purchaser of the Droid should ask is: Can I develop AND/OR load my own software on this phone and use it over your network?
$10 says Verizon will LOCK this phones apps.
Verizon HATES letting users, you know , use the phone features instead of the BILLABLE Verizon network.
Support GSM G3 and G4, and Open, Unlocked phones.
The weapons do NOT come from the US. What kind f*&king idiot trots across the border to a US gunshop and pays US values for a weapon, when he can buy a AK smuggled from Africa for 1/100 of that price? No one. Straw man.
MOST of all the automatic weapons used by Cartels are FROM THE MEXICAN MILITARY itself. BTW how many fully automatic weapons can you buy in a US GunShop? Please go try to do it yourself.
ARM the Civilians. Give them BOUNTIES for each cartel member. Mexico has very strict gun control.
http://www.davekopel.com/espanol/Mexican-Gun-Laws.htm
Two problems with that:
1. that street criminals think clearly.
they don't
2. that street criminals remember that there are cams on.
see one thing these people never point out is this, after a while everyone forgets about the cams.
Cams won't stop you from being murdered, it just captures it on disk.
Bullocks.
They did earn it.
This class envy crap is going to destroy us all.
People earn whatever they get. Even robbing a bank takes 'effort' stupid. Buying a lottery ticket takes 'effort' and 'risk'.
$5million has never just fallen out of the sky into my lap.
Get over the class envy crap, and get to work. Want to earn $5mil, do something with big risk. Working at Wal-Mart is not ever going to net you $5mil.
Invent a new product, or service, or convince 5 million people to send you $1.
Better yet, get into Politics, theres lots of money there. Or marry one of those Wal-Mart heirs. Did I say risk was involved?
"even sports are tame now"
Didn't you watch the Stanley Cup?
I wasn't even a hockey fan, but that was bucking good bludgeoning. And a heck of a series.
Uh, how about not posting vaporware about your company. This thing isn't shipping AND I am not about to join your 'club' to find out.
Gee you'd think a real company would post a target ship date if they REALLY were legit.
The BenQ is available today.
I thought IT got paid for the number of times they said 'No' to us during the day.
go figure.
No, you will only get action out of this when you call the CELL PHONE COMPANY and proclaim loudly that you will NOT pay for those calls.
Then the cell company will lobby your Congressman for you.
Wrong, Wind River bought all Walnut Creek assets, then kicked Slackware to the curb. Patrick had to fire his 2 employees, and go back to a one man show.
All they wanted was BSD, cause they could keep that closed.
No, Wind River was no friend to Linux.
Why? Just ignore them.
Hear that? Its the Wind River guys LAUGHING all the way to the bank!
Embedded devices use Arm chips, the design is open. The toolkits are free. Only idiotic, big organizations like Boeing use Wind River stuff. I have talked to people who are going to linux just to ditch Wind River and VxWorks.
How does Intel plan to compete against $6 Arm chips? A smart meter has no need for a 64bit, fat, power hungry, hot 3Ghz pc type chip with no peripherals builtin.
Methinks they just wasted a lot of cash.
for windows:
Programmers Notepad 2
http://www.pnotepad.org/
and MinGw
http://www.mingw.org/
PN2 has tons of features, add your own code clips, tools, etc. It seems to be actively developed. Supports all languages with code completes and syntax highlighting. Its very nice.
Its also included in winARM toolkit as well if you want to dev arm7/9 embedded systems.
Oh and don't forget the many Gas Stations that illegally cut the gas with another 10-20% ethanol.
Its so bad, that you probably should be testing your gas for Ethanol content.
And 15%+ ethanol has a nasty habit of holding water in solution, until saturation, when the whole of water and ethanol separates, and your engine gets a big gulp of water. Or in the case of a holding tank, you pump 20 gallons of $4/gal water.
And to add another distinction, I thought Brazil used the 'wastes' of processing sugar cane to distill Ethanol, after they get the good sugars for other uses.
That is true.
As further empirical evidence, my '98 Plymouth Breeze (aka Cirrus, aka Stratus) with a 2L, I4, making 130hp in a standard mid-size frame is getting about 29mpg around town.
Its so good, I've yet to see a new car match it (except a prius). Plus its paid for and should easily last another 100,000 miles.
My Yamaha YZF600R on the other hand is already getting about 51mpg.
Ooohhh hard problem. Hell I can't even get AT&T to handle easy problems like "Simple Customer Service".
Like, oh I don't know, I don't like Yahoo. AT&T now has everyone over on yahoo portal. BUT they used our AT&T logins. Now I have 2, yup 2 yahoo logins. Guess what, yahoo does NOT allow 2 logins from the same computer.
Now I would like AT&T to put me back on the old BellSouth login page, but no. Thats not possible.
They didn't even reply to my email request. I probably shouldn't have called the ignorant butt fuckers I guess. Or maybe it was the statement that a 12 year old could build a better Customer Service webpage.
1st. "Smart" grid is all about the power companies being able to TURN OFF YOUR POWER. Ok? Everyone should know and understand that simple fact mmkay?
Its being Smart, because we are maxed out on power gen capability and $4.5Billion is easier to spend on control, than on MORE POWER.
2nd. The half-dozen companies building the things are all using different proprietary technologies.
3rd. They are all closed systems.
4th. They are NOT secure. People here should know better than the accept at face value that these things are secure. They are all either WiFi ,2.4Ghz(simple) or ZigBee based.
Well, he should have listed a link to said 'IRS Statistic", but hes likely right.
Just because you pay the payroll tax, doesn't mean that at the end of the year the Feds took taxes.
Those 40% get big refund checks equivalent (OR GREATER THAN*) the taxes they paid out. There are far too many variables
to include to come up with some fixed salary line. But look at any feature like ChildCare expenses, Child Credit, Head of Household, etc,
ALL of those are weighted higher for lower incomes.
And I had a 'AHA' moment, all those poor people who got booked into houses they couldn't afford?
They likely got a much higher deduction by itemising the interest payments. *making * a higher refund)
My wish would have been for someone to slip in a "CASH SALARY" option into that Porkulus Bill that no one read.
As a Salaried employee I could CHOOSE to be paid in full, in CASH. That would SO F&^% the Feds up as to be unbeleivable.
*this is wealth redistribution at its finest.
Sure. Stop paying Social Security for 1(ONE) Month.
There. Fixed.
(dirty hippie secret, the SS budget is 100 times bigger than the Military budget)
Oh, and a better solution, stop starting wars you cant fund!
Another possibility, use private Mercs, pay them for objectives.
No objective, no payment. See how that works? Also they tend to be professionals, not gangbangers like the USArmy hires.
And stop bitching about atrocities during war. It WAR, you kill people, they do not care
how precisely you did it, they are dead.
Geez, superest, smartyiest people on the planet huh?
And get off my lawn....
That HAS to be the f*&^king funniest thing I have EVER seen a stupid ass say.
Do you really think that even if they raise this paltry $210Billion over 10 years (which they won't) that its going to reduce ANYONES Income Tax???? NEVER GONNA HAPPEN! Read it again: NEVER GONNA HAPPEN.
What WILL happen is that you will see a significant number of US Corporations MOVE TO CHINA ENTIRELY.
Those that have to stay here will continue to be browbeat until the Feds OWN THEM.
And the next thing the FEDS want is your 401k and IRA and Savings.
$210Billion is a pinhead compared to the BasketBall court sized area of Spending these Dems want.
Its a charade. Its all designed to have the Feds ASSUME more private industry and industies wealth.
Its the End Of the USA as you knew it. Bye, bye, game over. The non-working no gooders with their hands out have siphoned it all away, and voted a huge vacuum cleaner to power.
"If the NSA needs to wiretap the whole of the US because they can't break into a Hotmail account, you know they've got problems. "
Maybe they don't care about that. Maybe they are after something else entirely. And you have been fooled by the excuse of Al-Quida. You don't know what Intel they are after. Probably gaging how much people are pissed off about taxes, or NY flyby coverups or such.
Its called Strategy.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future
Quite enlightening. Read, digest, discuss.
Somewhere in there is an example of just such technology creep.
It starts out optional, but soon everyone will be on this stuff just to get a few
more IQ points.
A lot of sci-fi discusses the dangers of depending on tech too much.
Better living thru chemistry is just as bad.
Well now, there you go again using your brain.
The superest, smartyest people in the whole USA work on this stuff.
You know like Geithner.
Yet they have no clue that all the parts come from China.
And most parts are not stocked, and qtys over 100-500 are 60-90 day lead times.
We wouldn't know how to fab a microchip here if our lives depended on it.
Yup, Hasbro is severely f(*&ed as a company.
Crap all they need to do it 'print' Squad Leader, Tobruk, or Arab-Isreali Wars and make money.
You know like Disney does with old movies, just print one title every 3-4 months.
They are sitting on about 800 titles from Avalon Hill, SPI and others. But they have no clue what to with them.
It not like they have to do any work, just print the things.
"3 January 1961
The world's first nuclear-related fatalities occurred following a reactor explosion at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho Falls, Idaho. One navy technician and two army technicians, were killed, with radioactivity "largely confined" (words of John A. McCone, Director of the Atomic Energy Commission) to the reactor building. The three men were killed as they moved fuel rods in a "routine" preparation for the reactor start-up. One technician was blown to the ceiling of the containment dome and impaled on a control rod. His body remained there until it was taken down six days later. The men were so heavily exposed to radiation that their hands had to be buried separately with other radioactive waste, and their bodies were interred in lead coffins. Another incident three weeks later (on 25 January) resulted in a release of radiation into the atmosphere."
http://www.lutins.org/nukes.html
Isn't it funny what people choose to remember...
The shuttle nozzles are expendables, they are ablatives.
The 'reusable' solids concept is about 4-5x heavier than it could be. This reduces lift efficiency, AND increases complexity. The Shuttle SRBs are the single MOST COMPLEX SRBs I have ever seen. I've seen the engineering drawings.
Not to mention the man-hours involved in refurbishing the things.
SRBs on the scale of the Shuttle and larger are far too inefficient. Cheap liquids are the way. Kerosene and alcohol are relatively easy to manage. And an empty liquid booster can be made very lightweight, i.e. for the tonnage of steel in 1 set of Shuttle SRBs you could build 4 Atlas boosters. Atlas skin is only 0.060 inch thick (about 2mm !), that makes ground handling and transport easier. How much fuel does it take to MOVE an SRB from Utah to Fla ??? (too much)
NASA is a boneheaded as any other agency. They should be extending stuff like Atlas, and making boosters easier to manufacture, and easier to use. Problem with that is, that is what the Russians do well, and NASA cannot copy Russia (or buy their already designed, tested and built engines).
NASA suffers from NIHS.