But if someone is injecting packets into the network there are more obvious targets, like printing bogus medication instructions out or bringing machines down, maybe?
Don't stay working for a shitty place that doesn't acknowledge when you've done something amazing and beyond the call of duty.
I've been pleasantly astonished by how my (good) clients have looked after me when I've looked after them. Beyond the contract on both sides.
It's not all sunshine and roses, and I'm sure that I've left a trail of people behind me that KNOW that I'm a jerk, but hey-ho... I know that I've tried to DoTheRightThing(TM) and that they haven't and don't even begin to understand that in many cases...
And right now I have a really good client and choose my own hours and indeed daily rate AND I have the opportunity to do fun things (like meet a government minister on home turf this week for an area that is a strong interest of mine).
Stop working for the people that don't care. By and large, if you're good, someone *will* reward you for it, IMHO.
Except that we do fine without a car even though those big places exist here too. For bulky stuff we have the supermarket deliver to us (which is probably more carbon-efficient too). Only light/fresh stuff then needs to be carried by hand.
There are several chains competing, but we use Tesco, which does a good job and is not expensive at all.
It simply matters between you and the car, which is to be master.
Right, but there are plenty of people in US cities who could live like I do in a European one. Energy consumption per capita is comparable I suspect between EU and US cities, unlike the average US citizen using twice as much as the average EU citizen, of which a lot will be (self-inflicted) travel.
No one forces the building of exurbs or living there! And we have crap-to-get-to places in the EU too.
We've taken a conscious decision to live somewhere that has good public transport.
And no, my partner does not currently work, but that will change. My kids are not old enough for me to send them down the mines yet. B^>
Now this may be currently limited to one car rental scheme, but that's more-or-less a matter of software to fix, especially once a standard plug is widespread.
"So, you're suggesting, that every time someone changes a job, they pick up, sell their homes and move to be closer to the new job. Hmm...what about people with kids, you want them to uproot them from schools every time jobs change?"
Well, that's what we did when my dad changed jobs, maybe an average of once per year at times IIRC, and it didn't kill us.
And I don't own a car (and never have) and manage to commute less than half the week, and when I do it is by (electrified) public transport and to decent/fun clients that pay well and at non-peak hours.
The horrors! Maybe it *is* terrible being a creepy commie energy-efficient European banker IT consultant after all, and my kids hate me too, really.
News just in: Oracle is sueing what is left of Greece for misuse of Oracle's trademark in ancient tales of Delphic wisdom, and also sues the owner of the fiery orb at the centre of our planetary system as Oracle now owns all rights pertaining to "Sun".
...which simply wouldn't be legal under EU Data Protection rules. Bait-and-switch doesn't trump privacy.
Unless you're called Facebook I suppose, but didn't Facebook just have to sign a 20 year agreement with the US FTC promising NOT to do things like that again?
There can be a cycle of hosts required for an 'infection' in the real world, all of whom are different but vital to the process. And they may be a mixture of flesh and silicon:
There have been negative (or damn-near so even at retail) prices on US, German and Spanish grids at times recently, probably flagged up well in advance on the news. Good time time wash those towels at 90C, give your dishwasher its maintenance wash, charge every battery to hand, heat the house enough to kill bed-bugs, etc!
Those events will not happen at fixed times of day.
I've noticed the GB grid becoming less predictable by time of day with extra interconnectors and wind power coming on-line for example, or at least I think that's what I've been seeing.
Maybe it was: a prophylactic is a preventative measure. Like taking vitamins to avoid colds or locking your door to prevent theft. Prophylaxis need not involve genitalia, latex, and smirking. B^>
Indeed, and I have stuff like that, but I'm talking about things that Jo User could do without massive tech expenditure to see if their utility meter is obviously crazy. We can borrow a Kill-a-Watt equivalent from our local library for free, for example.
And regularly reading your meters is a good low-tech way of getting a good feel for consumption which is much of what the 'smart' bit is meant to help with anyway.
Well yes there is, to a reasonable degree, if the meter has a display that can be eyeballed in the old-fashioned way.
For example, turn *everything* off in the house and make sure that the meter stops, then turn on some devices/appliances via the equivalent of a Kill-a-Watt and compare what they claim is being used over an hour or so vs the utility meter (allowing a little for self-consumption of the Kill-a-Watt).
If there is a huge discrepancy it should be obvious.
I can account for the ~4kWh we use per day in this house pretty accurately.
Of course, any errors/bugs may be more subtle than that, but taking daily meter readings will spot if there is a sudden jump from time to time (or your teenager just came back home).
The smart meter infrastructure in the UK is likely to be over GPRS/3G/whatever, so for a start is encrypted over the air reasonably well whatever the end-to-end encoding is.
Cheapest in terms of utility costs and thus also to you would be a flat demand 'curve', and once that was achieved then great, your work is done, but loads continue to need to be run at these new times to maintain that flat line.
However, with intermittent renewables being added to the grid another GoodThing(TM) is to match consumption to available generation.
In fact I try to shift big loads (washing machine and dishwasher) to periods where the CO2 emitted per kWh (carbon intensity) is as low as possible, in the wee hours and/or when wind generation is particularly high, see my live chart: http://www.earth.org.uk/_gridCarbonIntensityGB.html
I have also arranged to work from home much of the time, so I *can* organise when I do things, and certainly don't have to do a 9--5 bracketed by commutes each working day.
What's interesting is how plausible this is, and how poor the perception of the US' behaviour towards 'aliens' is. If true, this would make me unwilling to travel to see relatives in Canada, and it seems entirely within the US/TSA mindset to take its distasteful tactics / theatre beyond its borders.
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Damon
How long have you got? B^>
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Damon
... you're not going anywhere without thinking for yourself...
I find your leadership fascinating and would like to subscribe to your newsletter so that I will know what to think.
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Damon
Oh yes, you from Edinburgh Uni too? In fact, we had to slow ours down to match the screen refresh rate.
And I suspect that the SPARC was 25MHz and the C compiler not especially good.
Rgds
Damon
NTP can be run securely, with decent keys.
But if someone is injecting packets into the network there are more obvious targets, like printing bogus medication instructions out or bringing machines down, maybe?
Rgds
Damon
As the GP says: take control.
Don't stay working for a shitty place that doesn't acknowledge when you've done something amazing and beyond the call of duty.
I've been pleasantly astonished by how my (good) clients have looked after me when I've looked after them. Beyond the contract on both sides.
It's not all sunshine and roses, and I'm sure that I've left a trail of people behind me that KNOW that I'm a jerk, but hey-ho ... I know that I've tried to DoTheRightThing(TM) and that they haven't and don't even begin to understand that in many cases...
And right now I have a really good client and choose my own hours and indeed daily rate AND I have the opportunity to do fun things (like meet a government minister on home turf this week for an area that is a strong interest of mine).
Stop working for the people that don't care. By and large, if you're good, someone *will* reward you for it, IMHO.
Rgds
Damon
I do understand the cultural aspect, but maybe that culture will change quickly if/when the price of gasoline doubles again...
People have to be clear about the difference between "need" and "want".
Rgds
Damon
Except that we do fine without a car even though those big places exist here too. For bulky stuff we have the supermarket deliver to us (which is probably more carbon-efficient too). Only light/fresh stuff then needs to be carried by hand.
There are several chains competing, but we use Tesco, which does a good job and is not expensive at all.
It simply matters between you and the car, which is to be master.
Rgds
Damon
Right, but there are plenty of people in US cities who could live like I do in a European one. Energy consumption per capita is comparable I suspect between EU and US cities, unlike the average US citizen using twice as much as the average EU citizen, of which a lot will be (self-inflicted) travel.
No one forces the building of exurbs or living there! And we have crap-to-get-to places in the EU too.
We've taken a conscious decision to live somewhere that has good public transport.
And no, my partner does not currently work, but that will change. My kids are not old enough for me to send them down the mines yet. B^>
Rgds
Damon
In Brussels I saw some parking spaces with charging while at FOSDEM, here:
http://gallery.hd.org/_c/travel/_more2012/_more02/car-electric-ZERO-ZENCAR-pair-charging-from-pillars-on-snowy-streets-of-Brussels-Belgium-1-DHD.jpg.html
Now this may be currently limited to one car rental scheme, but that's more-or-less a matter of software to fix, especially once a standard plug is widespread.
Rgds
Damon
"So, you're suggesting, that every time someone changes a job, they pick up, sell their homes and move to be closer to the new job. Hmm...what about people with kids, you want them to uproot them from schools every time jobs change?"
Well, that's what we did when my dad changed jobs, maybe an average of once per year at times IIRC, and it didn't kill us.
And I don't own a car (and never have) and manage to commute less than half the week, and when I do it is by (electrified) public transport and to decent/fun clients that pay well and at non-peak hours.
The horrors! Maybe it *is* terrible being a creepy commie energy-efficient European banker IT consultant after all, and my kids hate me too, really.
Rgds
Damon
News just in: Oracle is sueing what is left of Greece for misuse of Oracle's trademark in ancient tales of Delphic wisdom, and also sues the owner of the fiery orb at the centre of our planetary system as Oracle now owns all rights pertaining to "Sun".
Rgds
Damon
Teenage thinking admits not grey: with us or against us, just like me or flat-out wrong, left or right, ...
Rgds
Damon
...which simply wouldn't be legal under EU Data Protection rules. Bait-and-switch doesn't trump privacy.
Unless you're called Facebook I suppose, but didn't Facebook just have to sign a 20 year agreement with the US FTC promising NOT to do things like that again?
Rgds
Damon
Infection via legitimate ad channels on respectable sites is not unknown.
Rgds
Damon
There can be a cycle of hosts required for an 'infection' in the real world, all of whom are different but vital to the process. And they may be a mixture of flesh and silicon:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16922754.600-press-v-for-virus.html
Rgds
Damon
In general, possibly.
But with more intermittents on the grid, less so.
There have been negative (or damn-near so even at retail) prices on US, German and Spanish grids at times recently, probably flagged up well in advance on the news. Good time time wash those towels at 90C, give your dishwasher its maintenance wash, charge every battery to hand, heat the house enough to kill bed-bugs, etc!
Those events will not happen at fixed times of day.
I've noticed the GB grid becoming less predictable by time of day with extra interconnectors and wind power coming on-line for example, or at least I think that's what I've been seeing.
Rgds
Damon
Maybe it was: a prophylactic is a preventative measure. Like taking vitamins to avoid colds or locking your door to prevent theft. Prophylaxis need not involve genitalia, latex, and smirking. B^>
Rgds
Damon
So *that's* where the blind societies have been getting all their gold and jet planes from! B^>
Rgds
Damon
Indeed, and I have stuff like that, but I'm talking about things that Jo User could do without massive tech expenditure to see if their utility meter is obviously crazy. We can borrow a Kill-a-Watt equivalent from our local library for free, for example.
And regularly reading your meters is a good low-tech way of getting a good feel for consumption which is much of what the 'smart' bit is meant to help with anyway.
Rgds
Damon
Well yes there is, to a reasonable degree, if the meter has a display that can be eyeballed in the old-fashioned way.
For example, turn *everything* off in the house and make sure that the meter stops, then turn on some devices/appliances via the equivalent of a Kill-a-Watt and compare what they claim is being used over an hour or so vs the utility meter (allowing a little for self-consumption of the Kill-a-Watt).
If there is a huge discrepancy it should be obvious.
I can account for the ~4kWh we use per day in this house pretty accurately.
Of course, any errors/bugs may be more subtle than that, but taking daily meter readings will spot if there is a sudden jump from time to time (or your teenager just came back home).
Rgds
Damon
The smart meter infrastructure in the UK is likely to be over GPRS/3G/whatever, so for a start is encrypted over the air reasonably well whatever the end-to-end encoding is.
Rgds
Damon
Cheapest in terms of utility costs and thus also to you would be a flat demand 'curve', and once that was achieved then great, your work is done, but loads continue to need to be run at these new times to maintain that flat line.
However, with intermittent renewables being added to the grid another GoodThing(TM) is to match consumption to available generation.
In fact I try to shift big loads (washing machine and dishwasher) to periods where the CO2 emitted per kWh (carbon intensity) is as low as possible, in the wee hours and/or when wind generation is particularly high, see my live chart: http://www.earth.org.uk/_gridCarbonIntensityGB.html
I have also arranged to work from home much of the time, so I *can* organise when I do things, and certainly don't have to do a 9--5 bracketed by commutes each working day.
Rgds
Damon
What's interesting is how plausible this is, and how poor the perception of the US' behaviour towards 'aliens' is. If true, this would make me unwilling to travel to see relatives in Canada, and it seems entirely within the US/TSA mindset to take its distasteful tactics / theatre beyond its borders.
Rgds
Damon
Why did you throw the word "socialist" in there as a cheap insult? Do other sorts of government make less of a hash of IT projects?
Rgds
Damon