Greed. Plain and simple. Because most power providers in the U.S. are corporate beings - they care not about service but about profit. So they'll keep string aerial lines and using 19th century technique to keep it going. When burying it would be so much better. And the thing is, they COULD bury it and it wouldn't be all that much more expensive than re-stringing aerial cable.
Even the Bell System was smart enough to know this. Most of it's critical infrastructure went UNDERGROUND and that on the poles was basically engineered to take a F5 hurricane and not come off the pole. But you have to remember, for the majority of Bell's life they were a REGULATED monopoly. No such thing ever happened with electric power. In fact the demise of Bell was brought about by advances in telephony switching. It got to the point in the early 1980's where long distance cost per minute was plummeting due to the #4ESS toll switch. So the cat got out of the bag and the end of the Bell System. It's pretty much back together now as at&t and Verizon anyhow.
You do know there's an upgrade for Sync right? It's just the Ford makes it nearly impossible to get said upgrade. And yeah, the fact the Microsoft has it's mitts all over Sync leaves me with the same feeling.
And what scares me more - the CAN buses have almost zero security. The reason behind the fear is that certain geniuses in the NHTSA think it'd be good to have the cars communicate with each other. And you just know the comms will be tied into the CAN bus. Think of what a nefarious actor could do in that situation.
I mean every cell phone, I don't care it it's 1G, 2G, 3G or 4G connects to a tower that then forwards to what is called an MTSO. And an MTSO is nothing but a Lucent #5ESS/2000 or Nortel DMS series switch, same as in the PSTN. So are you telling me the NSA gave all the MTSOs a pass? That's really odd.
Ha ha ha ha! Yeah - but here's the thing - this isn't just a ding against women, but I've known quite a few men that couldn't code their way out of a paper bag that fancied themselves as computer or systems engineers.
So the story just needs to be modified. That's all.
There are the first three Mars rovers - Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity. Those were all solar powered. However when they realized that dust would cover the cells they then sent up Curiosity and that baby is nuclear. She has an RTG on board.
In fact they're well known for going belly up when it really counts. Makes me wonder why people are still willing to fork over hundreds and thousands of dollars for their inferior products.
You have that absolutely correct! One of the prime motivators for me to move away from Windows and into say Ubuntu was the fact that Ubuntu which is based on Debian had extreme flexibility that the Windows systems lack.
Case in point, Dell's NetExtender software - on Windows it won't let me connect to a VPN because the cert is self signed. On Ubuntu the NetExtender client presents a dialog to the effect that, and I'm paraphrasing "The cert is self signed, do you want to continue?" the first few times and from then on it just works. Windows deliberately plays brain dead in lieu of security.
Be awfully hard to call them an eye sore or disruptive if they're nearly invisible. They've now done paint on solar, clear solar aka home windows, etc. Once the efficiency of those goes up the incumbent utilities are toast.
Even the big investment houses are recommending AGAINST utility investment. They see the writing on the wall.
Get Verizon to just give them the pay phone booths? If we had such a thing in Providence I could get out public WiFi net up and running - because many phone booths had power too. Now you're lucky if you can find a pay phone at all in this city.
In both the Millgram study and the Zambarano Prison Experiment.
But the other thing that comes out of both studies is that the vast majority of us will follow those we believe are in authority. Then there are people like me who think authority is stupid.
Because with a BRI circuit - you can pump any CLID down the line that you want. Hell, that isn't even necessary. I know a few years ago a simple PERL script made the rounds and a MagicJack could be used for the nefarious spoofing.
They're pretty much feed you the answers. So it wasn't hard. That said we had setup a share site for code - and we could allow others to see the code etc.
I think the school in question just has it's head up its ass.
Correct - just move the broadband providers and hell include the cell providers too as they're nothing but data pipe conduits now too. Make them both regulated under Title II Common Carrier rules.,
If you just store the majority of energy you generate and use that when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing. Go either deep cycle lead acid, lithium ion, or even super capacitors if you're on the daring edge.
Very true. I've read a lot about the development of the transistor and the initial prototype was in fact fairly crude. But they'd established a lot of the physics behind solid state before they even built the device.
When you think about it BJT versus the scads of types of transistors out there now.
The end of the energy chain firms like electric and natural gas providers are covered under NERC and FERC regulation. But the essence of NERC and FERC is they're CYA laws not so much they'd ever be protected from real bad stuff.
With a gubernatorial campaign. First we used one of the big campaigner sites. They are based in Canada. They didn't like that people bitched so we got a pipe from the local provider, setup and outbound smtp server and started from there. Immediately started getting bounces from AOL. Decided it wasn't worth implementing their paradigm.
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That's an awful lot of worlds with complex life on them. Now we just need to get working on FTL drive again.
ENIAC was the first digital ELECTRONIC computer. There had been relay monsters built before it.
Greed. Plain and simple. Because most power providers in the U.S. are corporate beings - they care not about service but about profit. So they'll keep string aerial lines and using 19th century technique to keep it going. When burying it would be so much better. And the thing is, they COULD bury it and it wouldn't be all that much more expensive than re-stringing aerial cable.
Even the Bell System was smart enough to know this. Most of it's critical infrastructure went UNDERGROUND and that on the poles was basically engineered to take a F5 hurricane and not come off the pole. But you have to remember, for the majority of Bell's life they were a REGULATED monopoly. No such thing ever happened with electric power. In fact the demise of Bell was brought about by advances in telephony switching. It got to the point in the early 1980's where long distance cost per minute was plummeting due to the #4ESS toll switch. So the cat got out of the bag and the end of the Bell System. It's pretty much back together now as at&t and Verizon anyhow.
You do know there's an upgrade for Sync right? It's just the Ford makes it nearly impossible to get said upgrade. And yeah, the fact the Microsoft has it's mitts all over Sync leaves me with the same feeling.
And what scares me more - the CAN buses have almost zero security. The reason behind the fear is that certain geniuses in the NHTSA think it'd be good to have the cars communicate with each other. And you just know the comms will be tied into the CAN bus. Think of what a nefarious actor could do in that situation.
I mean every cell phone, I don't care it it's 1G, 2G, 3G or 4G connects to a tower that then forwards to what is called an MTSO. And an MTSO is nothing but a Lucent #5ESS/2000 or Nortel DMS series switch, same as in the PSTN. So are you telling me the NSA gave all the MTSOs a pass? That's really odd.
Ha ha ha ha! Yeah - but here's the thing - this isn't just a ding against women, but I've known quite a few men that couldn't code their way out of a paper bag that fancied themselves as computer or systems engineers.
So the story just needs to be modified. That's all.
When I see anything Ham I have, for at least the last 20 years of having my amateur radio license think "radio gear"
There are the first three Mars rovers - Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity. Those were all solar powered. However when they realized that dust would cover the cells they then sent up Curiosity and that baby is nuclear. She has an RTG on board.
In fact they're well known for going belly up when it really counts. Makes me wonder why people are still willing to fork over hundreds and thousands of dollars for their inferior products.
You have that absolutely correct! One of the prime motivators for me to move away from Windows and into say Ubuntu was the fact that Ubuntu which is based on Debian had extreme flexibility that the Windows systems lack.
Case in point, Dell's NetExtender software - on Windows it won't let me connect to a VPN because the cert is self signed. On Ubuntu the NetExtender client presents a dialog to the effect that, and I'm paraphrasing "The cert is self signed, do you want to continue?" the first few times and from then on it just works. Windows deliberately plays brain dead in lieu of security.
Be awfully hard to call them an eye sore or disruptive if they're nearly invisible. They've now done paint on solar, clear solar aka home windows, etc. Once the efficiency of those goes up the incumbent utilities are toast.
Even the big investment houses are recommending AGAINST utility investment. They see the writing on the wall.
Get Verizon to just give them the pay phone booths? If we had such a thing in Providence I could get out public WiFi net up and running - because many phone booths had power too. Now you're lucky if you can find a pay phone at all in this city.
In both the Millgram study and the Zambarano Prison Experiment.
But the other thing that comes out of both studies is that the vast majority of us will follow those we believe are in authority. Then there are people like me who think authority is stupid.
You have to approach it from the right angle. Tell them it interferes with emergency communications and they'll be all over it like white on rice.
Because with a BRI circuit - you can pump any CLID down the line that you want. Hell, that isn't even necessary. I know a few years ago a simple PERL script made the rounds and a MagicJack could be used for the nefarious spoofing.
They're pretty much feed you the answers. So it wasn't hard. That said we had setup a share site for code - and we could allow others to see the code etc.
I think the school in question just has it's head up its ass.
Correct - just move the broadband providers and hell include the cell providers too as they're nothing but data pipe conduits now too. Make them both regulated under Title II Common Carrier rules.,
If you just store the majority of energy you generate and use that when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing. Go either deep cycle lead acid, lithium ion, or even super capacitors if you're on the daring edge.
Where the Apple Lisa's are buried. I've actually had the privilege of seeing one in the flesh in recent history.
Very true. I've read a lot about the development of the transistor and the initial prototype was in fact fairly crude. But they'd established a lot of the physics behind solid state before they even built the device.
When you think about it BJT versus the scads of types of transistors out there now.
Think Brainstorm. Remember that movie - and the guy who looped the orgasm scene until he was a gibbering idiot?
The same applies for police work. The shifts go 07:30-15:30, then to 23:00 to 07:00. All the interesting antics happen on the last two shifts.
And then watching your district commander who is a Lieutenant try to twist and swerve to explain crime in the area is priceless.
The end of the energy chain firms like electric and natural gas providers are covered under NERC and FERC regulation. But the essence of NERC and FERC is they're CYA laws not so much they'd ever be protected from real bad stuff.
With a gubernatorial campaign. First we used one of the big campaigner sites. They are based in Canada. They didn't like that people bitched so we got a pipe from the local provider, setup and outbound smtp server and started from there. Immediately started getting bounces from AOL. Decided it wasn't worth implementing their paradigm.
Bought stuff on Alibaba. Mostly radio gear. But the prices cannot be beat. I've even bought electronic components on there.