Yes and no. There are ways to secure things, it is just hard. It also makes it an order of magnitude more difficult to have enterprise resource management/planning systems that work and improve efficiency.
Proving the economics will still take 5 years minimum after they start being mass-produced. 300-500MW requires 2-4 units to replace the capacity of a single coal plant.
Fingers crossed, but it will take more than subsidies on the plants to make it work.
SMRs aren't likely to be able to prove themselves before 2030 at the absolute earliest, and industrial ramp-up is likely to take another decade. That makes for a lot of time where things can change. Most specifically, what will the load profile of the grid look like compared to today?
I would guess it is more likely that he thought he had his own private DSL from the telco, but it was just provided from DoD infrastructure. They might have allowed him some leeway (there needs to be a way to deal with corner conditions in any organization), but they would be stupid to do it with a heavy hand.
As for the intelligence leaks... I assume there is more to the story on that one.
Like all things, there is a smashing point where improved energy efficiency pays the cost of an upgrade if performance needs are flat. When performance needs exceed the incremental upgrade options, you either settle for longer processing time, simplified process, or pay for a faster system.
Hard to tell if it was a design flaw or unforeseen condition like precision movement at low RPM or some such. Moreover, the solution to the problem is well beyond what anyone here knows. The architecture (hybrid electric) has challenges, but opens up huge opportunities as well.
You think that a) the difference between -20C and 0C is insignificant, and b) the difference is easily explained by surface reflectances? While albedo can explain increased solar absorption and melting of ice, I have trouble connecting that to an actual temperature increase, save the relatively minor buffering by surface temperatures.
Care to explain?
Most NAS drives have a time-machine mode-- WD, Synology, etc. for Mac backups.
In their day, I liked the AirPort routers; solid, well made hardware with good signal. They are grossly obsolete at this point though, and I can't see Apple being able to do anything to innovate in this space.
Most consumer firewalls are effectively just stateful firewalls: they trust the local network explicitly, and trust any connections they make to the outside are legitimate, and trust any outside connections back as necessary.
Novel idea here... 3!!! SSIDs: general purpose devices, untrusted devices, and DMZ devices. Easy enough with DD-WRT or UBNT gear.
The practical challenge is getting the broadcast traffic mirrored to the general purpose VLAN, but there are tools for that as well.
We put in an accounting system for print-outs where you need to put in your pin number into the printer before any documents actually print out. Huge reduction in wasted prints.
Paper-Free is a stupid goal. Less-Paper is where people are going, and it works. I work in engineering; we used to print about one ream of 11x17 drawings per person per month. Now we are down to about 10% of that. About half of what is left is something with a poor electronic worflow for very stupid reasons, and the remainder is likely necessary. On letter-size documents I think we are down to about 10% of where we were 10 years ago.
Bluebeam was what made it work for us. Marking up documents in Bluebeam Studio was so much easier than printing.
(The one thing that we still print... is a fscking spreadsheet that management needs to review together sitting around the table and make notes for staffing for the upcoming week. It is just too big to display effectively on the projector, and improving the situation would mean we need to go to a database driven system that can better handle the multi-dimensional aspects of the information.)
Labor, but also shipping, time delays and inventory in transit for a wider supply chain, regulatory compliance, etc. I can't see a way where the asssembly cost would not increase by a minimum of 5x, and more likely 10-20x when everything is added in.
Yeah... call history is synced between devices... in near real-time... and it goes back about four months!
It is one thing if there is a user-centered purpose for it...
It is an offline attack, and all traces are removed quickly.
There are a few things that it makes me want to switch to force https on my LAN, but even/. is https now...
Most people have trouble just putting the SSID and password in for their equipment. Talking about VLANs and firewalls is a lost cause.
Then you have mischievous devices that try to use open wifi systems to at least phone home to allow remote configuration as a fallback.
The only thing that works is making things secure by default, and even that is easy to screw up. Also, who are you trying to secure it from... because it is all relative.
The problem is you have no way of knowing if the devices are "secure" without very advanced knowledge. Consumer level DPI helps to a degree, but you need dedicated monitoring systems too.
Pretending it is secure because it is "in the cloud" is pure ignorance, and frankly the point of the issue. By being in the cloud, the prospects of a hack mean that they don't just get one device, they can get thousands.
While I might think I deserve an A-/B+ for networking knowledge, IPv6 is still pretty hard for me. That means it is entirely beyond the grasp of 99.9% of the people out there. There needs to be a way to improve this picture.
Sadly, the small minority has grown significantly. People that don't really care about politics are becoming heavily invested (emotionally) in the polarity.
Personally, I don't like Trump, and feverything I hear about Pence scares the shit out of me. Hillary is about the same, although I take some comfort in the fact that she was there to run the country; I can't see a way she actively destroys the country any faster than Trump.
I wish we could get some of the wedge issues out of politics in the interests of focusing on the things that actually matter.
Depends on location; median/. member from California more likely to be Clinton/Bernie supporter than Trump supporter, and also likely to be in the higher income percentiles.
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Yes and no. There are ways to secure things, it is just hard. It also makes it an order of magnitude more difficult to have enterprise resource management/planning systems that work and improve efficiency.
Not necessarily bad things.
But, things like online banking will destroy us.
Proving the economics will still take 5 years minimum after they start being mass-produced. 300-500MW requires 2-4 units to replace the capacity of a single coal plant.
Fingers crossed, but it will take more than subsidies on the plants to make it work.
It is expanding quickly because they can still build hydro plants, unlike pretty much the rest of the world.
SMRs aren't likely to be able to prove themselves before 2030 at the absolute earliest, and industrial ramp-up is likely to take another decade. That makes for a lot of time where things can change. Most specifically, what will the load profile of the grid look like compared to today?
Negative wholesale prices are the result of the Texas grid not wanting to import or export energy and remain independent from the national interties.
I would guess it is more likely that he thought he had his own private DSL from the telco, but it was just provided from DoD infrastructure. They might have allowed him some leeway (there needs to be a way to deal with corner conditions in any organization), but they would be stupid to do it with a heavy hand.
As for the intelligence leaks... I assume there is more to the story on that one.
Like all things, there is a smashing point where improved energy efficiency pays the cost of an upgrade if performance needs are flat. When performance needs exceed the incremental upgrade options, you either settle for longer processing time, simplified process, or pay for a faster system.
You are still missing the supply chain impact; all the parts are available nearby in China. That has an impact on cost as well...
Hard to tell if it was a design flaw or unforeseen condition like precision movement at low RPM or some such. Moreover, the solution to the problem is well beyond what anyone here knows. The architecture (hybrid electric) has challenges, but opens up huge opportunities as well.
Not since the upgrade though, right?
You think that a) the difference between -20C and 0C is insignificant, and b) the difference is easily explained by surface reflectances? While albedo can explain increased solar absorption and melting of ice, I have trouble connecting that to an actual temperature increase, save the relatively minor buffering by surface temperatures. Care to explain?
Most NAS drives have a time-machine mode-- WD, Synology, etc. for Mac backups. In their day, I liked the AirPort routers; solid, well made hardware with good signal. They are grossly obsolete at this point though, and I can't see Apple being able to do anything to innovate in this space.
Most consumer firewalls are effectively just stateful firewalls: they trust the local network explicitly, and trust any connections they make to the outside are legitimate, and trust any outside connections back as necessary.
With DPI, you can make a firewall rule to allow media services applications. You can do it on a $50 EdgeRouter-X painlessly.
Novel idea here... 3!!! SSIDs: general purpose devices, untrusted devices, and DMZ devices. Easy enough with DD-WRT or UBNT gear. The practical challenge is getting the broadcast traffic mirrored to the general purpose VLAN, but there are tools for that as well.
We put in an accounting system for print-outs where you need to put in your pin number into the printer before any documents actually print out. Huge reduction in wasted prints.
Paper-Free is a stupid goal. Less-Paper is where people are going, and it works. I work in engineering; we used to print about one ream of 11x17 drawings per person per month. Now we are down to about 10% of that. About half of what is left is something with a poor electronic worflow for very stupid reasons, and the remainder is likely necessary. On letter-size documents I think we are down to about 10% of where we were 10 years ago. Bluebeam was what made it work for us. Marking up documents in Bluebeam Studio was so much easier than printing. (The one thing that we still print... is a fscking spreadsheet that management needs to review together sitting around the table and make notes for staffing for the upcoming week. It is just too big to display effectively on the projector, and improving the situation would mean we need to go to a database driven system that can better handle the multi-dimensional aspects of the information.)
Labor, but also shipping, time delays and inventory in transit for a wider supply chain, regulatory compliance, etc. I can't see a way where the asssembly cost would not increase by a minimum of 5x, and more likely 10-20x when everything is added in.
Yeah... call history is synced between devices... in near real-time... and it goes back about four months! It is one thing if there is a user-centered purpose for it...
It is an offline attack, and all traces are removed quickly. There are a few things that it makes me want to switch to force https on my LAN, but even /. is https now...
Well, there was the Russian aircraft carrier in the Channel a few weeks back...
Most people have trouble just putting the SSID and password in for their equipment. Talking about VLANs and firewalls is a lost cause. Then you have mischievous devices that try to use open wifi systems to at least phone home to allow remote configuration as a fallback. The only thing that works is making things secure by default, and even that is easy to screw up. Also, who are you trying to secure it from... because it is all relative.
The problem is you have no way of knowing if the devices are "secure" without very advanced knowledge. Consumer level DPI helps to a degree, but you need dedicated monitoring systems too. Pretending it is secure because it is "in the cloud" is pure ignorance, and frankly the point of the issue. By being in the cloud, the prospects of a hack mean that they don't just get one device, they can get thousands. While I might think I deserve an A-/B+ for networking knowledge, IPv6 is still pretty hard for me. That means it is entirely beyond the grasp of 99.9% of the people out there. There needs to be a way to improve this picture.
Sadly, the small minority has grown significantly. People that don't really care about politics are becoming heavily invested (emotionally) in the polarity. Personally, I don't like Trump, and feverything I hear about Pence scares the shit out of me. Hillary is about the same, although I take some comfort in the fact that she was there to run the country; I can't see a way she actively destroys the country any faster than Trump. I wish we could get some of the wedge issues out of politics in the interests of focusing on the things that actually matter.
Depends on location; median /. member from California more likely to be Clinton/Bernie supporter than Trump supporter, and also likely to be in the higher income percentiles.