The spacebook would push the limits of your carry-on weight allowance as well. Some airlines limit to 8kg, although 18kg is more normal. You can't get much more than the suitcase and the laptop and be under the limit.
1k flier's retort: Lines move faster because more screening lines are open. At my usual queue at LAX, they have gone from having 2 lines open 90% of the time to four for the same periods. This particular station only has one RapeScanner plus 4 metal detectors.
The stupid terrorists have little idea how most of this stuff works. The smart ones can figure out ways around the tech. At PHX, employees don't need to go through RapeScanners. I'm all for keeping medium range weapons off planes, like guns, which could allow a disturbed person of no political affiliation to wreck havoc.
Should a TSA employee know you have a gum wrapper in your pocket? A large wad of cash? While the US definitely has a puritanical view of genitalia, there is more to it than that... it is just an easy one to get people energized over.
The airlines only care about landing fees and the straw that breaks the camel's back to reduce passenger counts. they don't have a vested interest in efficiency of airport operations.
In all, the TSA hasn't justified a need for their procedures or equipment, as best I can tell, to ANYONE. They spend a whole lot of money for extremely limited gain.
While I agree with most of your comments, it begs the question: are we more comfortable with the CIA, FBI, and NSA abridging our rights? If they have had success in stopping the bad guys does that mean they should have more latitude in violating the constitution?!
Look at the reduction in available seats though. Air travel is up from a couple years ago... it must mean people feel safer with the RapeScanners! (j/k)
Interesting where it shows cables making landfall. In the Los Angeles area, it shows Diablo Canyon nuclear plant and Hermosa Beach. I was pretty sure the cable coming in south of LAX made landfall through ShitPipe, 4 miles north.
I have to deal with engineering licenses in 10 states, all with different CEU requirements, ethics exams, codes of conduct, and codes of practice. Business licenses in about 20 cities and four states, property taxes, gross receipts taxes, payroll taxes, and various other filing requirements.
This for a company with about $5MM revenue, 25 employees, and a single office in a city that has no special taxes or filing burdens. All this translates into a single person full time, plus external accountants.
To say that Amazon can't figure out how to report to less than 1,000 entities is just stupid. Conversely, an entity with less than $100k in a city, state, or other tax body could reasonably argue hardship.
But, if you want open, SquareUp mentioned elsewhere looks to be the easiest approach- just plug it into the audio jack of any phone/tablet/whatever. Using a camera for barcode recognition is ok for very low volume transactions only though.
Put a 6' loop of 22awg copper wire under your insole in your cycling shoes (from a spare patch cable laying around). It seems to get me through 95% of the lights; still an annoying few I need to push the crosswalk button for though.
I must be getting old, but the idea of going through a roundabout with traffic in LA on a bike is pretty scary...
Turn the argument around... how much is a 1.5M ADSL line really worth today. What is a 100M link worth to a household? What are the differences in fixed cost per subscriber to maintain the infrastructure?
The capital investment may be significant, but that is how the industry has evolved; you just need to amortize it over an appropriate time period and the economics make sense. DSL doesn't have a 5-year lifespan remaining, which is why ATT and Verizon are putting in FTTH.
The point is that running a line at full capacity might be an efficient use of that particular infrastructure, but it doesn't share well. A single gigabit link upstream can serve a lot of customers with a gigabit handoff, until you actually have applications that can saturate that provision.
The two aren't mutually exclusive, but you have to get an order of magnitude improvement somewhere to generate an incentive to roll it out elsewhere. A gigabit MAN link three years ago was $100,000/month in my area. Today it can be had at the same location for about $5-7,000. While my little company didn't go for that much bandwidth, a 100M link is within reason and makes all kinds of interesting things possible. If there is a market for 100M links (at ~$2k/month, roughly what you would have paid for a T1 line 12-15 years ago) then we will see the killer app develop that will push the market forward.
The problem today is that the ILCs can get away without doing an upgrade beyond DSL claiming the market doesn't want it. That leaves room for a local ISP to develop and prosper before the ILC catches on.
But, forcing the ILCs to provide the same service everywhere, despite the economics, will just have them limit their investment to what will work for a 3-5 year horizon.
Are there any resources out there listing security ratings of SCADA systems? NERC-CIP Doesn't really get into device level security provisions, and instead seems to focus on segregation of systems...
Did find digitalbond.com, which has a lot of good info but doesn't list anything on Schweitzer
We are in power systems engineering, and located in California. $300 might be more top 10% and 15-17 years experience. If it was in St. Louis it would likely be closer to $200k for a similarly qualified person. But, if you are an entrepreneur, the thresholds are easier to attain.
In 2000, I was trekking through that area. Our "bus" broke down, so 40 people had to climb in the back of a dump truck to the next town. As nobody spoke English or could understand our Thai or weak French, we didn't realize that the next town didn't get us very far. We found a place to stay, and were told that we should wait on the road for a ride on to the next town where there is a regular bus. What they didn't tell us until the second day waiting on the road for a car going the right direction was that our chances were twice as good if we hiked up the mountain to the junction in the road...
Average mechanized speed traveling around the country was about 15 miles per hour... even averaging in a flight from Vientiene to Xiang Kong!
Electricity was via uninsulated baling wire strung from house through the next house, and on, with one bulb per home. Just a little 2kW generator for the town...
Anecdotal, but relevant: Posted a position for a senior electrical engineer Monday lunch time. Six hits in 24 hours: One compelling, two unqualified, two new grads, and an electrician berating engineers... This is for a position in the $135-165k range.
In contrast, when we post a junior engineer position, we get 30-50 hits, but 75% of them are Indians that did their masters in the US. We are stuck hiring some of these people, because of the dearth at the other end of the range.
Starting engineers might be underpaid by up to 20-25%, but at a company worth it's squat, you have tremendous career opportunity. It might take a lot of initiative and hard work, but $300k+ within 10-12 years and reasonable job security is available for the top 15-25%, and $150k is possible for the second quartile.
H1b's are a desperation play for engineering firms-- software is a different realm, but it comes down to if you need talent or a glorified word processor.
Even for our 20-30 person organization, it is cheaper to do everything internal rather than outsource to SalesForce. The payback period was 10-16 months. Large organizations just like it because it is all OpEx rather than a capital expenditure that gets depreciated over time. Something could be said of deployment success in terms of completing on schedule, but that is the only argument that seems to work.
This sounds like the Pentadyne design, which has about 92% efficiency. Practical discharge time is less than 3 minutes for that system.
Really seems odd to do it this way. I would think it would be cheaper to run the spinning reserve given the losses. If that won't work, do a DC intertie between locations and maintain frequency with PWM inverters.
MS would do better to split themselves up into smaller, more innovative businesses that compete against each other and the other players in the market. Their entertainment division has a future, but Office and OS are going to struggle. They could go far with enterprise/cloud services, but it needs to break from the MS brand to really make it work. 4 or 5 40-60B companies, with the Office/OS group paying a 5% dividend, but having no growth, and the other arms being more speculative, but with some cash reserves after the breakup.
Trying to make the over all business work well is a lost cause. The brand is tainted. Let some slowly die, and others rise from the ashes!
If you are on the normal track, most of the core classes aren't really develop a mastery in 16 weeks, it is reinforcement of concepts between classes, semesters, and even high school. Not doing calculus in high school would put anybody at a serious disadvantage. I would recommend someone take a year and do the first two semesters of calc and physics, and maybe get non-core classes out of the way at a junior college. Then go to university and re-take the second level classes. You then have two full years to get the fundamentals under control...
I'm an electrical engineer, and one of my worst classes was EE-101. Many of the subjects I only now understand with confidence, 15 years later. They weren't really important to me until recently.
Typically, SCADA systems just use windows for the HMI. You might have both remote and local HMI's, but you would generally have PLCs or RTUs doing the actual data processing.
The problems come up in integration. No big deal if I just want to network a bunch of SEL protective relays, but what happens when you add in webcams, or need to share data with an HVAC energy management system? You can protect the main network connection, but what happens when someone tethers to a mobile phone? You can do user level access control, but then you need two-factor authentication to protect against key loggers.
Every time I try to get a network person to take the risks seriously, they just say firewall. But really having a proper solution is much harder.
If you want to head to Bumrungrad for medical treatment, then you should not be stupid about the implications of what you say. There should be some level of statute of limitations, but I would vote for a backstory here.
On a side note, RIP Charlie, of Scuba Junction, son of Sang Tip, the king of Koh Tao. 1997ish to today.
For me, as a non-programmer, the rally against.net is a call for simple cross-platform functionality. We are spending a lot of money on ERP/accounting software for my company, and due to the.net backend and client, we are forced to add windows servers and to forego mobile access. It does have a web client... that just works in IE.
The situation is typical in dealing with software that went down the.net path. It reduces flexibility and limits beneficial use.
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The spacebook would push the limits of your carry-on weight allowance as well. Some airlines limit to 8kg, although 18kg is more normal. You can't get much more than the suitcase and the laptop and be under the limit.
1k flier's retort:
Lines move faster because more screening lines are open. At my usual queue at LAX, they have gone from having 2 lines open 90% of the time to four for the same periods. This particular station only has one RapeScanner plus 4 metal detectors.
The stupid terrorists have little idea how most of this stuff works. The smart ones can figure out ways around the tech. At PHX, employees don't need to go through RapeScanners. I'm all for keeping medium range weapons off planes, like guns, which could allow a disturbed person of no political affiliation to wreck havoc.
Should a TSA employee know you have a gum wrapper in your pocket? A large wad of cash? While the US definitely has a puritanical view of genitalia, there is more to it than that... it is just an easy one to get people energized over.
The airlines only care about landing fees and the straw that breaks the camel's back to reduce passenger counts. they don't have a vested interest in efficiency of airport operations.
In all, the TSA hasn't justified a need for their procedures or equipment, as best I can tell, to ANYONE. They spend a whole lot of money for extremely limited gain.
While I agree with most of your comments, it begs the question: are we more comfortable with the CIA, FBI, and NSA abridging our rights? If they have had success in stopping the bad guys does that mean they should have more latitude in violating the constitution?!
Look at the reduction in available seats though. Air travel is up from a couple years ago... it must mean people feel safer with the RapeScanners! (j/k)
They were called Programs? All that time I thought they were Excees!
The benefit: they are the best training ground for battery and UPS technicians.
Interesting where it shows cables making landfall. In the Los Angeles area, it shows Diablo Canyon nuclear plant and Hermosa Beach. I was pretty sure the cable coming in south of LAX made landfall through ShitPipe, 4 miles north.
Cry me a fucking river.
I have to deal with engineering licenses in 10 states, all with different CEU requirements, ethics exams, codes of conduct, and codes of practice. Business licenses in about 20 cities and four states, property taxes, gross receipts taxes, payroll taxes, and various other filing requirements.
This for a company with about $5MM revenue, 25 employees, and a single office in a city that has no special taxes or filing burdens. All this translates into a single person full time, plus external accountants.
To say that Amazon can't figure out how to report to less than 1,000 entities is just stupid. Conversely, an entity with less than $100k in a city, state, or other tax body could reasonably argue hardship.
Symbol is now part of Motorola: http://www.motorola.com/Business/US-EN/Business%20Product%20and%20Services/Bar%20Code%20Scanning/Scan-equipped%20Mobile%20Computers. Fate worse than d
But, if you want open, SquareUp mentioned elsewhere looks to be the easiest approach- just plug it into the audio jack of any phone/tablet/whatever. Using a camera for barcode recognition is ok for very low volume transactions only though.
Put a 6' loop of 22awg copper wire under your insole in your cycling shoes (from a spare patch cable laying around). It seems to get me through 95% of the lights; still an annoying few I need to push the crosswalk button for though.
I must be getting old, but the idea of going through a roundabout with traffic in LA on a bike is pretty scary...
Actually not so. The problem is in using the ILEC or cable company. Competitors will work harder to get your business.
For home... things are harder. But, once you fix the business access there are plenty of opportunities...
Turn the argument around... how much is a 1.5M ADSL line really worth today. What is a 100M link worth to a household? What are the differences in fixed cost per subscriber to maintain the infrastructure?
The capital investment may be significant, but that is how the industry has evolved; you just need to amortize it over an appropriate time period and the economics make sense. DSL doesn't have a 5-year lifespan remaining, which is why ATT and Verizon are putting in FTTH.
The point is that running a line at full capacity might be an efficient use of that particular infrastructure, but it doesn't share well. A single gigabit link upstream can serve a lot of customers with a gigabit handoff, until you actually have applications that can saturate that provision.
The two aren't mutually exclusive, but you have to get an order of magnitude improvement somewhere to generate an incentive to roll it out elsewhere. A gigabit MAN link three years ago was $100,000/month in my area. Today it can be had at the same location for about $5-7,000. While my little company didn't go for that much bandwidth, a 100M link is within reason and makes all kinds of interesting things possible. If there is a market for 100M links (at ~$2k/month, roughly what you would have paid for a T1 line 12-15 years ago) then we will see the killer app develop that will push the market forward.
The problem today is that the ILCs can get away without doing an upgrade beyond DSL claiming the market doesn't want it. That leaves room for a local ISP to develop and prosper before the ILC catches on.
But, forcing the ILCs to provide the same service everywhere, despite the economics, will just have them limit their investment to what will work for a 3-5 year horizon.
Are there any resources out there listing security ratings of SCADA systems? NERC-CIP Doesn't really get into device level security provisions, and instead seems to focus on segregation of systems...
Did find digitalbond.com, which has a lot of good info but doesn't list anything on Schweitzer
We are in power systems engineering, and located in California. $300 might be more top 10% and 15-17 years experience. If it was in St. Louis it would likely be closer to $200k for a similarly qualified person. But, if you are an entrepreneur, the thresholds are easier to attain.
In 2000, I was trekking through that area. Our "bus" broke down, so 40 people had to climb in the back of a dump truck to the next town. As nobody spoke English or could understand our Thai or weak French, we didn't realize that the next town didn't get us very far. We found a place to stay, and were told that we should wait on the road for a ride on to the next town where there is a regular bus. What they didn't tell us until the second day waiting on the road for a car going the right direction was that our chances were twice as good if we hiked up the mountain to the junction in the road...
Average mechanized speed traveling around the country was about 15 miles per hour... even averaging in a flight from Vientiene to Xiang Kong!
Electricity was via uninsulated baling wire strung from house through the next house, and on, with one bulb per home. Just a little 2kW generator for the town...
Now they get a bullet train...?
Anecdotal, but relevant:
Posted a position for a senior electrical engineer Monday lunch time. Six hits in 24 hours: One compelling, two unqualified, two new grads, and an electrician berating engineers... This is for a position in the $135-165k range.
In contrast, when we post a junior engineer position, we get 30-50 hits, but 75% of them are Indians that did their masters in the US. We are stuck hiring some of these people, because of the dearth at the other end of the range.
Starting engineers might be underpaid by up to 20-25%, but at a company worth it's squat, you have tremendous career opportunity. It might take a lot of initiative and hard work, but $300k+ within 10-12 years and reasonable job security is available for the top 15-25%, and $150k is possible for the second quartile.
H1b's are a desperation play for engineering firms-- software is a different realm, but it comes down to if you need talent or a glorified word processor.
Even for our 20-30 person organization, it is cheaper to do everything internal rather than outsource to SalesForce. The payback period was 10-16 months. Large organizations just like it because it is all OpEx rather than a capital expenditure that gets depreciated over time. Something could be said of deployment success in terms of completing on schedule, but that is the only argument that seems to work.
This sounds like the Pentadyne design, which has about 92% efficiency. Practical discharge time is less than 3 minutes for that system.
Really seems odd to do it this way. I would think it would be cheaper to run the spinning reserve given the losses. If that won't work, do a DC intertie between locations and maintain frequency with PWM inverters.
MS would do better to split themselves up into smaller, more innovative businesses that compete against each other and the other players in the market. Their entertainment division has a future, but Office and OS are going to struggle. They could go far with enterprise/cloud services, but it needs to break from the MS brand to really make it work. 4 or 5 40-60B companies, with the Office/OS group paying a 5% dividend, but having no growth, and the other arms being more speculative, but with some cash reserves after the breakup.
Trying to make the over all business work well is a lost cause. The brand is tainted. Let some slowly die, and others rise from the ashes!
If you are on the normal track, most of the core classes aren't really develop a mastery in 16 weeks, it is reinforcement of concepts between classes, semesters, and even high school. Not doing calculus in high school would put anybody at a serious disadvantage. I would recommend someone take a year and do the first two semesters of calc and physics, and maybe get non-core classes out of the way at a junior college. Then go to university and re-take the second level classes. You then have two full years to get the fundamentals under control...
I'm an electrical engineer, and one of my worst classes was EE-101. Many of the subjects I only now understand with confidence, 15 years later. They weren't really important to me until recently.
Typically, SCADA systems just use windows for the HMI. You might have both remote and local HMI's, but you would generally have PLCs or RTUs doing the actual data processing.
The problems come up in integration. No big deal if I just want to network a bunch of SEL protective relays, but what happens when you add in webcams, or need to share data with an HVAC energy management system? You can protect the main network connection, but what happens when someone tethers to a mobile phone? You can do user level access control, but then you need two-factor authentication to protect against key loggers.
Every time I try to get a network person to take the risks seriously, they just say firewall. But really having a proper solution is much harder.
If you want to head to Bumrungrad for medical treatment, then you should not be stupid about the implications of what you say. There should be some level of statute of limitations, but I would vote for a backstory here.
On a side note, RIP Charlie, of Scuba Junction, son of Sang Tip, the king of Koh Tao. 1997ish to today.
For me, as a non-programmer, the rally against .net is a call for simple cross-platform functionality. We are spending a lot of money on ERP/accounting software for my company, and due to the .net backend and client, we are forced to add windows servers and to forego mobile access. It does have a web client... that just works in IE.
The situation is typical in dealing with software that went down the .net path. It reduces flexibility and limits beneficial use.