Logically they would go for something around 4%O2/96%N2. SF6 is ozone depleting and controlled by epa even for medium voltage switches.
You can survive with low exertion levels down to around 2.5%; with a non sealed mask an oxygen or even compressed air bottle would be plenty to get you to a comfortable PPO2 at 8,000 feet.
The cash is in cassettes inside the vault, so the ink needs to be in the cassette. I don't think the cassettes are physically large enough to do that, but if they are due packs are already integrated.
But, other factors are going to limit how successful the attack is in a modern bank in the US. There are a number of defense in depth features that should get people caught. Surprised it works in Europe.
I think you have that wrong. They will connect via an encrypted tunnel over port 443 to an AWS cloud instance to log all your activity and provide an "interface" for you to use anywhere you want. Should you decide not to use that interface, your Thing is a Paperweight. But they might still be able to display advertising on it...
Part of it is where you use the device rather than how. This morning, I was quite happy to be able to use my phone to VPN to the office and SSH to a server to check out why someone else was having problems on the VPN... while still lying down in bed. Right now, I am happy to be able to type this on my tablet while taking a dump. Had the tablet been bedside this morning, it would have been much easier and faster to use it to check server logs. But, the laptop would be less useful lying in bed.
I have a few great apps that make fantastic use of the tablet, and I am always happy to have access to them. I much prefer going to meetings with a man-purse than a laptop bag, so I take a little performance hit on taking notes. The cellular access makes up for it though, as I can access the samba server and bring up documents remotely to display in the meeting.
At home, I only reach for my laptop if I need word, excel, or sketchup. My wife in contrast usually "works" from her desk, so she is more comfortable with the laptop, even when on the couch.
You can make a group of 10-15 40,000 square foot floor plates operate with a substantial amount of recirculated utilities-- bring up just natural gas and you have a source of electricity, heat, and water; just send down black water or even sludge from sewage. It starts to get cost effective today at about 1MM square feet, but when you factor in the cost of risers and pumping it might start to scale down. The linear motor elevator concept, with multiple independent cabs in directional hoistways (up/down) reduces that impact, and currently ultra tall buildings do not plan on evacuating everyone to the ground via stairs, so that isn't an impediment.
Structurally, much over 800 floors would be quite difficult as the concrete to support the gravity load of the building would start to take up half the floor area at the base, but stepped buildings can assist with that-- 10x floor area at base might give you a reasonable useable area. Wind or seismic loads would need to be dealt with by active systems... Not sure how well that would go over though.
Agree, but a hybrid approach is likely the most efficient. Get 50% of the power/braking from the rope and 50% from a cab-mounted motor. Batteries aren't needed; just regenerate into the rails.
The other interesting challenge is water. Every 200m you need a pressure break because the welds in the pipe reach pressure limits. An extremely tall building needs to deal with these issues cost effectively, and efficiently-- think water treatment every 40 stories to recover grey water, treat potable water, recover condensate, etc.
Hell, from an IT perspective you reach the limits of multimode fiber risers pretty quickly.
I actually did. Granted, it was once, and 10 years ago, and I price checked when I got home. It was actually something useful that was difficult to find elsewhere at the time-- a curved shower rod.
I will miss sky mall. It's goofy stuff helped inspire a bit of creativity or at least make me smile on a flight. Just can't see how it would be possible for them to have an attachment rate of even 0.02%, two orders of magnitude than conventional advertising.
Apple seems to be crippled by GPL3 on a few things, which pisses me off as a Mac user. Samba is the obvious issue, but there are plenty of others. Yosemite was a bad upgrade. I do love the concept of integrating the various devices seamlessly, but it isn't quite there yet.
I'm proud of my SnapBack-esque pull backups set on a NAS drive. The NAS has backup priveledges on the laptops, and pulls data via rsync. The laptops have no access to the NAS drive except for ssh. Provides linked snapshots hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly. Just need to get a second drive running in a few months.
Only challenge is that since the laptops are OSX I don't copy the resource forks, but that could be addressed if I really cared...
For item 4, you are still not addressing the vulnerability issues that adding Samba and a web server add to the equation.
Personally I am in a similar situation with this part, and will eventually get "extra" functions I have the router doing over to a NAS drive. (My NAS drive just needs to do pull-backups via rsync.) For Transmission, I personally would slap it on a Raspberry Pi or NAS drive in a DMZ off the router.
The Fry's near me isn't going to last that much longer, at least not in its current incarnation. Who knows how much longer the Fry Brothers will keep it going...
They failed to get on the Maker trend for sure, but the reason is simple-- there was better margin in phones. 20 Years ago they also failed to embrace the Internet; their catalog was originally a big part of their success and brand identity, and they lost that. Many of the products they carry are crap, and they dedicate 20% of the store to fairly obscure products.
I wish a SparkFun or Adafruit could take over Radio Shack in the retail world and be successful, but I can't imagine a scenario where that would work financially. Is there someone similar for Ham radio equipment and audio?
Closest product I have seen is a href="http://www.mini-box.com/picoUPS-100-12V-DC-micro-UPS-system-battery-backup-system">PicoUPS. Takes a 12v battery and maintains a constant DX output. With a standard 9Ah battery you could run most small devices for at least 8 hours.
Personally surprised that there aren't any 12V power supplies that can provide 3-4 regulted 2A outputs. Eliminate multiple wall warts and give yourself battery backup as well. I would love to have all the home networking gear and a NAS in one box with backup power. If you really want to get fancy, you could even have adjustable outputs.
Audit risk. You might still get audited, but anecdotally the risk is substantially lower. If I pay $3k more to an accountant over 10 years and reduce my chances of being audited from 80% to 30% it is worth it to me. I don't think I am doing anything wrong, but I did notice strange output from TurboTax that I could never resolve, and my income level is higher now. If you are audited, the IRS WILL find things you are doing wrong, or that you can't prove you are doing right.
My wife's single-person corporation gets much less value from the CPA, but we do play a game there by paying her minimum wage and putting everything left into her 401k. It is legal and justifiable, but abnormal and likely to be flagged.
The progression seems to go (by income): Pen, Turbo Tax/HR Block, CPA, CPA + Tax Advisor... The thresholds have just shifted down a lot over the last couple years.
The problem (looking at you, E*Trade!) is that the numbers between the Schedule D information (realized gains and losses) does not match the information needed to prepare form 8949. If you have any wash sales, it gets worse. So, the brokers report inconsistent numbers to the IRS. Sound like a good chance for an audit?
I pay $350 so my accountant can write "various." He is taken much more seriously than I am. Back when I used TurboTax, I had to make a spreadsheet to generate a TXF file to import in... various would be much better.
I get about 10GB of email a year, and do my best to purge what I can up front, but also try hard to save everything. Most of the girth is due to file attachments... And yes they really should have been saved to the file server, but sometimes it is missed. Little obscure pieces of information often come up as being useful years later-- one recent example was trying to figure out how certain financial information was derived 5 years ago.
But the bottom line is 99% of the information stored will never be used again after 6 months. Automatic expiry assignments would be cool, but wow that would be tough to track.
If you have capital gains it isn't really worth preparing yourself anymore. If you are in the top 5% of earners it isn't worth preparing yourself. If you have anything (legitimate) that makes you an audit risk you shouldn't prepare yourself.
For the first two years I used a CPA I needed to prepare everything myself, give him the information he requested, let him do his magic, check his magic, get changes made, repeat. Everyone should know enough to understand how the calculations work and go from there; if your tax is too high or too low, ask a lot of questions!
No, but you tend to have more complex tax status... and to the GP's point, you really should be using a CPA. As worthless as my CPA is, I am happy to pay the $350 for him to dump my information into his program.
As for why the change... it is what the market will bear. It is a pain to do Schedule D and the accompanying forms now.
I use Insteon at home as well. Budget $75 per control point, and $500 for the controller. I use the ISY controller, and it is a piece of junk, but it does the job. There isn't the variety of sensors, switches, devices, and accessories I wish there was, some older devices are a pain with low-power loads, and the plug-in devices are generally a pain in the ass. Programming is clunky, but not that hard.
I still haven't put it into our vacation home, holding out for something better. Two years later, still no progress...
My biggest complaint is that it is hard to "extend" Insteon. I wish I could integrate with Sonos, and I wish I had a simpler way to do a password-free web interface. (Hard, not impossible if you really want to work for it...)
Can you really be out-played algorithmically? The two computers would have different sets of data to work from as a base point. Any additional information you can glean from your opponents can improve the decision tree, so having two hands in the game and coordinating poses a substantial advantage.
Most of the NAS drives out there have a Linux shell available. We rsync from there whenever possible, and the workstation or server does not have rights to the NAS box.
Nothing is perfect, and the ransomeware might figure out ways to skirt these protections. It really comes down to defense in depth against different threats-- multiple types of backups. The concern I have now is out of space challenges once encryption starts.
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Logically they would go for something around 4%O2/96%N2. SF6 is ozone depleting and controlled by epa even for medium voltage switches.
You can survive with low exertion levels down to around 2.5%; with a non sealed mask an oxygen or even compressed air bottle would be plenty to get you to a comfortable PPO2 at 8,000 feet.
2002. They saw what we preached and acted on it. They did it with fiber because of the nature of their governments rather than the utilities.
10-100Mb wasn't uncommon in Sweden then in the cities, although rural may have taken longer.
Technically SCBA like the fire department uses, unless they use rebreathers.
The cash is in cassettes inside the vault, so the ink needs to be in the cassette. I don't think the cassettes are physically large enough to do that, but if they are due packs are already integrated.
But, other factors are going to limit how successful the attack is in a modern bank in the US. There are a number of defense in depth features that should get people caught. Surprised it works in Europe.
I think you have that wrong. They will connect via an encrypted tunnel over port 443 to an AWS cloud instance to log all your activity and provide an "interface" for you to use anywhere you want. Should you decide not to use that interface, your Thing is a Paperweight. But they might still be able to display advertising on it...
Part of it is where you use the device rather than how. This morning, I was quite happy to be able to use my phone to VPN to the office and SSH to a server to check out why someone else was having problems on the VPN... while still lying down in bed. Right now, I am happy to be able to type this on my tablet while taking a dump. Had the tablet been bedside this morning, it would have been much easier and faster to use it to check server logs. But, the laptop would be less useful lying in bed.
I have a few great apps that make fantastic use of the tablet, and I am always happy to have access to them. I much prefer going to meetings with a man-purse than a laptop bag, so I take a little performance hit on taking notes. The cellular access makes up for it though, as I can access the samba server and bring up documents remotely to display in the meeting.
At home, I only reach for my laptop if I need word, excel, or sketchup. My wife in contrast usually "works" from her desk, so she is more comfortable with the laptop, even when on the couch.
You can make a group of 10-15 40,000 square foot floor plates operate with a substantial amount of recirculated utilities-- bring up just natural gas and you have a source of electricity, heat, and water; just send down black water or even sludge from sewage. It starts to get cost effective today at about 1MM square feet, but when you factor in the cost of risers and pumping it might start to scale down. The linear motor elevator concept, with multiple independent cabs in directional hoistways (up/down) reduces that impact, and currently ultra tall buildings do not plan on evacuating everyone to the ground via stairs, so that isn't an impediment.
Structurally, much over 800 floors would be quite difficult as the concrete to support the gravity load of the building would start to take up half the floor area at the base, but stepped buildings can assist with that-- 10x floor area at base might give you a reasonable useable area. Wind or seismic loads would need to be dealt with by active systems... Not sure how well that would go over though.
Agree, but a hybrid approach is likely the most efficient. Get 50% of the power/braking from the rope and 50% from a cab-mounted motor. Batteries aren't needed; just regenerate into the rails.
The other interesting challenge is water. Every 200m you need a pressure break because the welds in the pipe reach pressure limits. An extremely tall building needs to deal with these issues cost effectively, and efficiently-- think water treatment every 40 stories to recover grey water, treat potable water, recover condensate, etc.
Hell, from an IT perspective you reach the limits of multimode fiber risers pretty quickly.
I actually did. Granted, it was once, and 10 years ago, and I price checked when I got home. It was actually something useful that was difficult to find elsewhere at the time-- a curved shower rod.
I will miss sky mall. It's goofy stuff helped inspire a bit of creativity or at least make me smile on a flight. Just can't see how it would be possible for them to have an attachment rate of even 0.02%, two orders of magnitude than conventional advertising.
Apple seems to be crippled by GPL3 on a few things, which pisses me off as a Mac user. Samba is the obvious issue, but there are plenty of others. Yosemite was a bad upgrade. I do love the concept of integrating the various devices seamlessly, but it isn't quite there yet.
I'm proud of my SnapBack-esque pull backups set on a NAS drive. The NAS has backup priveledges on the laptops, and pulls data via rsync. The laptops have no access to the NAS drive except for ssh. Provides linked snapshots hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly. Just need to get a second drive running in a few months.
Only challenge is that since the laptops are OSX I don't copy the resource forks, but that could be addressed if I really cared...
Backup>Snapshot>Redundancy for disaster recovery. It is the reverse for operating issues.
For item 4, you are still not addressing the vulnerability issues that adding Samba and a web server add to the equation.
Personally I am in a similar situation with this part, and will eventually get "extra" functions I have the router doing over to a NAS drive. (My NAS drive just needs to do pull-backups via rsync.) For Transmission, I personally would slap it on a Raspberry Pi or NAS drive in a DMZ off the router.
The Fry's near me isn't going to last that much longer, at least not in its current incarnation. Who knows how much longer the Fry Brothers will keep it going...
They failed to get on the Maker trend for sure, but the reason is simple-- there was better margin in phones. 20 Years ago they also failed to embrace the Internet; their catalog was originally a big part of their success and brand identity, and they lost that. Many of the products they carry are crap, and they dedicate 20% of the store to fairly obscure products.
I wish a SparkFun or Adafruit could take over Radio Shack in the retail world and be successful, but I can't imagine a scenario where that would work financially. Is there someone similar for Ham radio equipment and audio?
RIP RSH.
Closest product I have seen is a href="http://www.mini-box.com/picoUPS-100-12V-DC-micro-UPS-system-battery-backup-system">PicoUPS. Takes a 12v battery and maintains a constant DX output. With a standard 9Ah battery you could run most small devices for at least 8 hours.
Personally surprised that there aren't any 12V power supplies that can provide 3-4 regulted 2A outputs. Eliminate multiple wall warts and give yourself battery backup as well. I would love to have all the home networking gear and a NAS in one box with backup power. If you really want to get fancy, you could even have adjustable outputs.
Audit risk. You might still get audited, but anecdotally the risk is substantially lower. If I pay $3k more to an accountant over 10 years and reduce my chances of being audited from 80% to 30% it is worth it to me. I don't think I am doing anything wrong, but I did notice strange output from TurboTax that I could never resolve, and my income level is higher now. If you are audited, the IRS WILL find things you are doing wrong, or that you can't prove you are doing right.
My wife's single-person corporation gets much less value from the CPA, but we do play a game there by paying her minimum wage and putting everything left into her 401k. It is legal and justifiable, but abnormal and likely to be flagged.
The progression seems to go (by income): Pen, Turbo Tax/HR Block, CPA, CPA + Tax Advisor... The thresholds have just shifted down a lot over the last couple years.
The problem (looking at you, E*Trade!) is that the numbers between the Schedule D information (realized gains and losses) does not match the information needed to prepare form 8949. If you have any wash sales, it gets worse. So, the brokers report inconsistent numbers to the IRS. Sound like a good chance for an audit?
I pay $350 so my accountant can write "various." He is taken much more seriously than I am. Back when I used TurboTax, I had to make a spreadsheet to generate a TXF file to import in... various would be much better.
I get about 10GB of email a year, and do my best to purge what I can up front, but also try hard to save everything. Most of the girth is due to file attachments... And yes they really should have been saved to the file server, but sometimes it is missed. Little obscure pieces of information often come up as being useful years later-- one recent example was trying to figure out how certain financial information was derived 5 years ago.
But the bottom line is 99% of the information stored will never be used again after 6 months. Automatic expiry assignments would be cool, but wow that would be tough to track.
And, as an engineer, if you understand the mathematical term "combine," then you should not be touching your own taxes...
If you have capital gains it isn't really worth preparing yourself anymore. If you are in the top 5% of earners it isn't worth preparing yourself. If you have anything (legitimate) that makes you an audit risk you shouldn't prepare yourself.
For the first two years I used a CPA I needed to prepare everything myself, give him the information he requested, let him do his magic, check his magic, get changes made, repeat. Everyone should know enough to understand how the calculations work and go from there; if your tax is too high or too low, ask a lot of questions!
No, but you tend to have more complex tax status... and to the GP's point, you really should be using a CPA. As worthless as my CPA is, I am happy to pay the $350 for him to dump my information into his program.
As for why the change... it is what the market will bear. It is a pain to do Schedule D and the accompanying forms now.
I use Insteon at home as well. Budget $75 per control point, and $500 for the controller. I use the ISY controller, and it is a piece of junk, but it does the job. There isn't the variety of sensors, switches, devices, and accessories I wish there was, some older devices are a pain with low-power loads, and the plug-in devices are generally a pain in the ass. Programming is clunky, but not that hard.
I still haven't put it into our vacation home, holding out for something better. Two years later, still no progress...
My biggest complaint is that it is hard to "extend" Insteon. I wish I could integrate with Sonos, and I wish I had a simpler way to do a password-free web interface. (Hard, not impossible if you really want to work for it...)
Can you really be out-played algorithmically? The two computers would have different sets of data to work from as a base point. Any additional information you can glean from your opponents can improve the decision tree, so having two hands in the game and coordinating poses a substantial advantage.
Most of the NAS drives out there have a Linux shell available. We rsync from there whenever possible, and the workstation or server does not have rights to the NAS box.
Nothing is perfect, and the ransomeware might figure out ways to skirt these protections. It really comes down to defense in depth against different threats-- multiple types of backups. The concern I have now is out of space challenges once encryption starts.