Compartmentalization is great, but you still need redundancy in privileges to cover employee departures, PTO, etc., leading to a lot of power in a few hands. Smaller organizations it is worse.
Having secure, unique, and temporal passwords ends up requiring them to be written down, but when you need to enter them 20 times a day, people get lazy... even with best intentions.
Keeping core healthcare and 401k match benefits and cutting back vacation pay and some of the other soft benefits is pretty much a win-win for everybody, provided you can find enough additional employees and not just have existing staff elect to drop down to 30h.
Personally, I am a big fan of the 4-9-4 workweek, with the half-day Friday as a work-from-home (or somewhere) day. But, we don't have kids, so my needs are different.
While I hope you are being sarcastic, I am sure you understand that the risks caused by "unprofessional" drivers acting in a professional (for-hire) capacity extend beyond yourself. I have had close calls with Uber drivers on at least 4 occasions during the summer where they nearly ran into me on my bicycle, because they could not handle the multi-tasking and situational awareness that is needed to drive a car for hire.
Uber generally does more than just displace taxis; it also displaces people driving themselves places and parking. While I think the latter is generally good, it is increasing the number of for-hire cars on the road without adequate protections. I would hold the self-driving cars from anyone to the same standard as a for-hire car.
You can only group about 4-10 houses and maintain gigabit speeds, at a cost of having non-passive equipment distributed throuout the system. It makes a good starting point and helps get you moving quickly, but the endgame stays about the same.
Also, GP may not have installed it to the company standards, did not need legal approval, and did all the work solo. The phone company would need a 2-3 person crew to trench and install conduit.
I would have expected the utility cost to be around $100/m, so up to $8,000 wouldn't surprise me. At $0.75/m though, I am bug easing the GP just installed 25mm conduit, when the utility would usually do 50-70mm.
You end up needing much larger tunnels, or you need lift-out panels along almost the entire route; they problem isn't as much along the tunnel, but getting in and out of it.
We had a project needing 12 4" conduits, chilled water, and process water (less than 12" each), and was going to end up being 8' square section in order to allow proper access to everything.
I know there was a lot of interest in V2G a few years back, as you say primarily for grid stability, but everything I heard at the time indicated that it wasn't really effective, or at least not a game changer. From a utility side, you really need at least 1MW dispatchable on a 69kV circuit to have a meaningful impact. V2G offers distribution grid stability where you have a lot of residential solar, but not much for transmission stability.
Even the evasion tactics they discuss wouldn't really work. Optical networking that isn't easily detected is one of your only hopes.
There really isn't anything you can do and participate in society at the same time... if you are a person of interest. The question is really if you can avoid being a person of interest at all.
Still use Lynx at times, it is amazing how much more relaxing it can be at times for actually absorbing information. Slashdot actually works pretty well with it, but I mainly use it for untrusted websites
As for Gopher, I think I used it to "stalk" a girl I met when visiting another college on a roadtrip in 1991/2. That was basically finding her email address...that and Finger... call it anti-social networking I guess.
Depends on who you are rooting for; transmission works great for the entrenched utilities, but batteries work better for off-grid and micro-grid. Long term, batteries are likely to prove better for distributed generation as well.
From an engineering, policy, and economic perspective I prefer distributed generation and emphasis on micro-grids; it works very well for everything but city cores, but those cores should be focusing on district heating and cooling, which might make them take longer to leave carbon and nuclear fuels.
While the owners sound like scum, the story sounds a bit fishy. As a business owner who has had to deal with a problem office manager, I have first-hand experience with someone that "can't handle confidential information." Also, the fact that they had "personal" expenses folded into the company isn't really a surprise-- the things listed are only really suspicious if they actually spent $10MM on them; I wouldn't blink as long as the expenses were more than 10% of their operating expenses, excluding assets properly kept on the company books.
Now, if the company had only one other employee, the owners paid themselves $500k a year each, plus squandered over $2MM per year on unnecessary expenses, their creditors will very likely see to it that the Wellers spend a lot of time in court and have some fun with the IRS.
But, in most states for a former employer to actually say something material to a new employer would be asking for trouble. The worst I ever said of a former employee was "they needed more time mentoring that we were capable of spending." I didn't say that the dipshit didn't put any energy into learning and the three man-years we spwasted on him made him the second worst hire we ever made...
Also, for the folks that assume the problem is 170 years away, one of the concerns is meltwater bringing the waste to the ocean well before the camp is actually exposed.
At 2m clearance below, I guess they are trying to make sure it can get under existing bridges. Speeds up deployment time, but a pretty big compromise for now. Another 50cm would really make it less scary though...
Agree on most counts, but there are a large number of people retiring early for various reasons (unable to find employment being one). While Gen-X will likely have shorter lifespans, I'm not sure if that trend will continue with Millenials: from my bubble there seems to be a much better take on health and wellness, less alcohol consumption, and potentially lower suicide rates. The effects of all of the prescription drugs is yet to be seen though...
Same was said for EOL of those other versions was my point. There has been reasonably growing distrust of subsequent releases.
Without a paridigm change though, Microsoft will remain in the dominant position and people will be stuck doing as they dictate. It is stupid, but each time I have seen this happen over the years, MS perseveres.
Well, the same thing was said of Win2k and XP. More people should be using Linux, but it just doesn't happen. There is always that "one app" in industry that needs to be run locally and is business-critical.
For me, our accounting software is one gem, need to check on what the status is of a good Outlook alternative (although that is one hell of a fight), and if InDesign alternatives are viable for our needs today... but I know that the things we use AutoDesk products for are not viable on Linux or OS X.
Honest question... what does a responsible employer do for enforcing acceptable use policies, and ensuring they do not create "hostile workplace" issues with employees looking at porn... or whatever? What does the responsible employer do to ensure people aren't running rogue Team Viewer sessions for remove access?
For me, I just kind of ignore the threat vectors and issues... but that is just sticking my head in the sand.
What is your beef with the UCC1? How else would you expect to have the asset loaned to you? Would you prefer unsecured debt-- do you want to pay the payday-loan rates for your solar installation?!
Bottom line is that with entering into a purchase agreement like this, you should do a TVM calculation to separate the cost of purchase outright vs finance and establish if the interest rate is acceptable/beneficial.
The games the installers play is typically in rate escalation assumptions; a smart consumer should look at how sensitive the payback is to the escalation...
As a Tesla shareholder, I think they are paying too much for SolarCity-- but I can see the strategic opportunities from merging.
Buy some hue bulbs and play for yourself. Setting the lights blue does seem to help a little with overcast mornings, although I generally can't stand the 6000K bulbs.
Because the merchants pay for fraud, not the customers or credit card companies, in the US. In Europe the customer has a much higher level of responsibility with fraud since it is 2-factor authentication.
I don't think that is the issue we are seeing; it isn't small merchants that seem to be bad, it is the larger ones with 10+ registers. Would they still really be doing dial-up authentication?! I could see it if they were still using the old terminals (from the 90’s), but these are all brand new...
The US implementation doesn't use the PIN, so they are doing something different on the back end than the rest of the world. Apparently ROW queues transactions of relatively small value (offline transactions?) where in the US, there seem to be a few round-trips with the processing company for each transaction over something like $5.
With the mag stripe, there would just be one round-trip to authenticate, and it would take about 5-10 seconds. At one store (Trader Joe's), it takes about 30-35 seconds, but there is also an "accept" button that needs to be pressed within a fairly short time-out, or the transaction must be re-done. If you are bagging your own groceries it is a pain for sure. I just use my watch to pay now, which is considerably faster.
Ok, let's talk about the purpose and practical capability of a plane's autopilot:
Is it there so the pilot (in charge) can sleep?
Does it eliminate the need for a second pilot?
Does it allow the pilot to prop a DVD player on the yoke and watch Harry Potter?
Do pilots fear for their jobs because of autopilots?
Do airlines plan on eliminating the copilot role?
And ultimately, What does the autopilot do if faced with input data it cannot reconcile?
Autopilot is there to reduce pilot workload, it is not there to automate the whole process. It does not take a plane gate-to-gate. Safety organizations worry that autopilot makes pilots loose skill and reaction time. Autopilot in the Tesla behaved much like several other crashes attributed to pilots mis-using or over-relying on the autopilot.
The thing that is different with Tesla's system is that they do have ambitions of it taking you door to door eventually.
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Compartmentalization is great, but you still need redundancy in privileges to cover employee departures, PTO, etc., leading to a lot of power in a few hands. Smaller organizations it is worse.
Having secure, unique, and temporal passwords ends up requiring them to be written down, but when you need to enter them 20 times a day, people get lazy... even with best intentions.
Keeping core healthcare and 401k match benefits and cutting back vacation pay and some of the other soft benefits is pretty much a win-win for everybody, provided you can find enough additional employees and not just have existing staff elect to drop down to 30h.
Personally, I am a big fan of the 4-9-4 workweek, with the half-day Friday as a work-from-home (or somewhere) day. But, we don't have kids, so my needs are different.
Workflow to troubleshoot logs with bash: grep log file, pipe a few more greps together:result.
Workflow to troubleshoot logs with powershell: script log through spreadsheet and look at spreadsheet?
There is a learning curve with any tool, the real question is how steep the curve vs how broad the value.
While I hope you are being sarcastic, I am sure you understand that the risks caused by "unprofessional" drivers acting in a professional (for-hire) capacity extend beyond yourself. I have had close calls with Uber drivers on at least 4 occasions during the summer where they nearly ran into me on my bicycle, because they could not handle the multi-tasking and situational awareness that is needed to drive a car for hire.
Uber generally does more than just displace taxis; it also displaces people driving themselves places and parking. While I think the latter is generally good, it is increasing the number of for-hire cars on the road without adequate protections. I would hold the self-driving cars from anyone to the same standard as a for-hire car.
You can only group about 4-10 houses and maintain gigabit speeds, at a cost of having non-passive equipment distributed throuout the system. It makes a good starting point and helps get you moving quickly, but the endgame stays about the same.
Also, GP may not have installed it to the company standards, did not need legal approval, and did all the work solo. The phone company would need a 2-3 person crew to trench and install conduit.
I would have expected the utility cost to be around $100/m, so up to $8,000 wouldn't surprise me. At $0.75/m though, I am bug easing the GP just installed 25mm conduit, when the utility would usually do 50-70mm.
You end up needing much larger tunnels, or you need lift-out panels along almost the entire route; they problem isn't as much along the tunnel, but getting in and out of it.
We had a project needing 12 4" conduits, chilled water, and process water (less than 12" each), and was going to end up being 8' square section in order to allow proper access to everything.
I know there was a lot of interest in V2G a few years back, as you say primarily for grid stability, but everything I heard at the time indicated that it wasn't really effective, or at least not a game changer. From a utility side, you really need at least 1MW dispatchable on a 69kV circuit to have a meaningful impact. V2G offers distribution grid stability where you have a lot of residential solar, but not much for transmission stability.
Only if the EVs are all being charged rather than during the day.
Even the evasion tactics they discuss wouldn't really work. Optical networking that isn't easily detected is one of your only hopes.
There really isn't anything you can do and participate in society at the same time... if you are a person of interest. The question is really if you can avoid being a person of interest at all.
Still use Lynx at times, it is amazing how much more relaxing it can be at times for actually absorbing information. Slashdot actually works pretty well with it, but I mainly use it for untrusted websites
As for Gopher, I think I used it to "stalk" a girl I met when visiting another college on a roadtrip in 1991/2. That was basically finding her email address...that and Finger... call it anti-social networking I guess.
Depends on who you are rooting for; transmission works great for the entrenched utilities, but batteries work better for off-grid and micro-grid. Long term, batteries are likely to prove better for distributed generation as well.
From an engineering, policy, and economic perspective I prefer distributed generation and emphasis on micro-grids; it works very well for everything but city cores, but those cores should be focusing on district heating and cooling, which might make them take longer to leave carbon and nuclear fuels.
While the owners sound like scum, the story sounds a bit fishy. As a business owner who has had to deal with a problem office manager, I have first-hand experience with someone that "can't handle confidential information." Also, the fact that they had "personal" expenses folded into the company isn't really a surprise-- the things listed are only really suspicious if they actually spent $10MM on them; I wouldn't blink as long as the expenses were more than 10% of their operating expenses, excluding assets properly kept on the company books.
Now, if the company had only one other employee, the owners paid themselves $500k a year each, plus squandered over $2MM per year on unnecessary expenses, their creditors will very likely see to it that the Wellers spend a lot of time in court and have some fun with the IRS.
But, in most states for a former employer to actually say something material to a new employer would be asking for trouble. The worst I ever said of a former employee was "they needed more time mentoring that we were capable of spending." I didn't say that the dipshit didn't put any energy into learning and the three man-years we spwasted on him made him the second worst hire we ever made...
Thanks!! Great read and interesting video.
Also, for the folks that assume the problem is 170 years away, one of the concerns is meltwater bringing the waste to the ocean well before the camp is actually exposed.
At 2m clearance below, I guess they are trying to make sure it can get under existing bridges. Speeds up deployment time, but a pretty big compromise for now. Another 50cm would really make it less scary though...
Agree on most counts, but there are a large number of people retiring early for various reasons (unable to find employment being one). While Gen-X will likely have shorter lifespans, I'm not sure if that trend will continue with Millenials: from my bubble there seems to be a much better take on health and wellness, less alcohol consumption, and potentially lower suicide rates. The effects of all of the prescription drugs is yet to be seen though...
Same was said for EOL of those other versions was my point. There has been reasonably growing distrust of subsequent releases.
Without a paridigm change though, Microsoft will remain in the dominant position and people will be stuck doing as they dictate. It is stupid, but each time I have seen this happen over the years, MS perseveres.
Well, the same thing was said of Win2k and XP. More people should be using Linux, but it just doesn't happen. There is always that "one app" in industry that needs to be run locally and is business-critical.
For me, our accounting software is one gem, need to check on what the status is of a good Outlook alternative (although that is one hell of a fight), and if InDesign alternatives are viable for our needs today... but I know that the things we use AutoDesk products for are not viable on Linux or OS X.
Honest question... what does a responsible employer do for enforcing acceptable use policies, and ensuring they do not create "hostile workplace" issues with employees looking at porn... or whatever? What does the responsible employer do to ensure people aren't running rogue Team Viewer sessions for remove access?
For me, I just kind of ignore the threat vectors and issues... but that is just sticking my head in the sand.
What is your beef with the UCC1? How else would you expect to have the asset loaned to you? Would you prefer unsecured debt-- do you want to pay the payday-loan rates for your solar installation?!
Bottom line is that with entering into a purchase agreement like this, you should do a TVM calculation to separate the cost of purchase outright vs finance and establish if the interest rate is acceptable/beneficial.
The games the installers play is typically in rate escalation assumptions; a smart consumer should look at how sensitive the payback is to the escalation...
As a Tesla shareholder, I think they are paying too much for SolarCity-- but I can see the strategic opportunities from merging.
Buy some hue bulbs and play for yourself. Setting the lights blue does seem to help a little with overcast mornings, although I generally can't stand the 6000K bulbs.
Because the merchants pay for fraud, not the customers or credit card companies, in the US. In Europe the customer has a much higher level of responsibility with fraud since it is 2-factor authentication.
I don't think that is the issue we are seeing; it isn't small merchants that seem to be bad, it is the larger ones with 10+ registers. Would they still really be doing dial-up authentication?! I could see it if they were still using the old terminals (from the 90’s), but these are all brand new...
The US implementation doesn't use the PIN, so they are doing something different on the back end than the rest of the world. Apparently ROW queues transactions of relatively small value (offline transactions?) where in the US, there seem to be a few round-trips with the processing company for each transaction over something like $5.
With the mag stripe, there would just be one round-trip to authenticate, and it would take about 5-10 seconds. At one store (Trader Joe's), it takes about 30-35 seconds, but there is also an "accept" button that needs to be pressed within a fairly short time-out, or the transaction must be re-done. If you are bagging your own groceries it is a pain for sure. I just use my watch to pay now, which is considerably faster.
Ok, let's talk about the purpose and practical capability of a plane's autopilot:
Autopilot is there to reduce pilot workload, it is not there to automate the whole process. It does not take a plane gate-to-gate. Safety organizations worry that autopilot makes pilots loose skill and reaction time. Autopilot in the Tesla behaved much like several other crashes attributed to pilots mis-using or over-relying on the autopilot.
The thing that is different with Tesla's system is that they do have ambitions of it taking you door to door eventually.