Does Tesla have a long-term interest in being placed alongside Maybach or Bentley? Do the dealers have a vested interest in selling Tesla over their other brands? As the GP indicated, most car dealers are really in it for the service department, and it is especially true for high-end cars.
Yes, some of the dealers could likely do a good job for Tesla... but why should Tesla be forced to work with them if that isn't their business model?
If the NSA remains vigilant and Google does nothing to avoid it, they will slowly stagnate as users switch to smaller "networks." Google is all about the network effects of their products, and that same network is highly valuable to the NSA and its ilks. The only real way to defeat it is to compartmentalize the networks into much smaller segments such that associations are much harder to make.
Much more difficult to do once the cat is already out of the bag, and it destroys much of the collectivism that makes the internet (and/.) a fun place to go, but hey... it's a nice day outside...
It really depends on what your needs are, but running a 150HP truck engine at idle uses about 7-10x as much gas as a 2HP engine at 100% load, so your fuel storage is really only equivalent to 2 gallons. It's a good solution for a rare event of limited duration. Just sucks when you drain the fuel tank and can't get to the filling station... With diesels you also need to make sure you run the engine hard after doing it to burn off the wet-stacking.
With a 500W load and 2-3 outages a year, most places are best off with a 1 to 4-hour battery on-site and the ability to hook up a small portable generator. You size the generator big enough to re-charge the battery and support the load at the same time, and maybe big enough to throw the refrigerator on as well. Key is just to use it enough to make sure it works when you need it.
The article has a few good points well targeted to their audience, and I agree with the concepts. The NIST document (like the original document for the nuclear industry) has a few good ideas, but no practical plan-- mainly a bureaucratic solution.
Reality is that you need to network equipment that poses facility risk. IT are typically the ones pushing for a collapsed network rather than a facility network ironically. For maybe less than 24 points, you can have firewall rules, switch rules, and other tools to manage intrusion risk, but once you get beyond that point you have a generally unmanageable system.
If you choose to not collapse the network, and firewall between sides as it should be done, IT disowns the network and you are stuck with not having someone to manage network security beyond the firewall. The article alludes to this as one of the major problems; often nobody owns security on the SCADA network.
There is much more to SCADA security than the network security though; it really is about defense in depth. You need the depth to prevent various vendors from being able to access the whole network and system.
Large cells have a number of disadvantages, cost being one, but cooling efficacy and reliability are significant as well.
But, when Tesla is at 40,000 cars per year I imagine the economics will shift somewhat, and I am sure Tesla is looking at prismatic battery options as well.
So happy I switched to VMware. It seemed like parallels was constantly breaking to force upgrades only for revenue stream; it felt like the late 90's all over again...
No, simply saying that in the balance they seem to be doing a pretty good job. I expect 20% to be exceptional and 20% to be idiots, but the median is much less "thug" than two or three years ago, and the low end is merely as incompetent as the low end was 15 years ago.
But, to your story, the TSA's role is not drug or customs enforcement. They shouldn't be looking for contraband in the first place, so taking a bribe for ignoring it isn't that far from reasonable.
Recently I was transiting through Frankfrut en-route to Los Angeles and I was pulled aside for supplemental screening. It took about 15 minutes and while quite thorough was really a joke. Pat-down, millimeter wave, luggage search, explosive sniffing (twice), etc. I can laugh it off easily enough, although I am quite against everything it stands for. I also know if I had stepped in the lawn which had been fertilized recently I likely would have set off the bomb detector, all of which would have made things much worse.
It really all comes down to statistics. While I might think that myself as a 40 year old white male with gold status and a business class ticket poses minimal risk, there is some reason why it is the third time it has happened to me, and it is quite likely not related to security. For the poster, he realizes all the flags he set off from the article, except possibly the first flag. Opting out of the millimeter wave was likely the clincher. While that shouldn't get your apartment searched, it is behavior uncommon to 99% of the passengers and it does raise extra flags.
The fact that the millimeter wave scans are an unreasonable search is another story altogether. And the fact that smuggling something around security isn't rocket science for a committed group... well, let's chalk that up to security theater.
That may be true in some places, but I have to stand up for agents at LAX in terminal 7 in the past year. There are a few who are a waste of space and who turn tiny things into major issues, but by far the majority of people I have dealt with are professional and courteous.
This is not true at all airports, and I seem to have less luck at Terminal 1 (but I fly from it much less often).
At this point, the people on the ground doing screening seem to be pretty well balanced. The goons are really the ones in Washington.
If you eliminate the 4-5 days of Songkram from Thailand though you are likely closer to US rates. (Not really, but possibly cut to 20.)
If you eliminate the Buddhist driving technique (turn into a busy road without looking, because if you were meant to die you will... it's all fate), limited mopeds to (2) children, (2) adults, (1) chicken, and (1) dog, and required Song Thaew drivers to be sober you would beat the US for sure.
The 12 counts do not really indicate separate crimes though. The stacking of counts is one of the abuses that is prevailing in the "justice" system now, in order to force excessive sentences.
Check out the difference between Nationalism and Patriotism. Which is flag-waving? Can Nationalists co-opt flag-waving... it seems to me like they have.
I'm torn. I agree with everything stated, but at the same time Manning endured unjust captivity prior to trial and the trend of life-destroying punishments in the "justice" system in order to seek pleas or set an example is clearly abusive.
Manning may have needed to be found guilty, but 35 years seems excessive, even if he gets pardoned Dec 1, 2016.
My guess from what we are hearing from our insurance representatives is not that they can't count to $12,700, but they can't establish what the premiums need to be. They are having enough problems with the current round of changes being implemented, and simply can't make a quote for a January 2014 policy start. I have heard the same thing regarding Blue Cross as well.
Only for about 15 minutes, at least based on my experience with my smart tv's browser....but then again, in Sweden they still use TeleText, so a lot of people don't need much.
UpTime Institute got the tiers more standardized though; even some of the telecom companies have gone from Bellcore tiers to uptime tiers (1 most critical to 4 most critical). Ken and UpTime did a lot for the industry. They also did a lot to the industry. They tried to complicate the simplification in order to monetize it. Plenty of others are guilty of the same thing, but I do wish Uptime would go away as the standard-bearer.
Outsourcing 30 users is likely the top end of a sweet-spot though. Once you hit 50, those initial economies/efficiencies go away, as you would want In-house redundancy, data discovery, proper archiving, etc., which add up to real money in a cloud solution. There are other break-points as you go up depending on organization needs.
In the construction industry, there has been a big problem with counterfeit circuit breakers making it onto job sites. Many are just switches, and some barely that. Purchasing through reputable suppliers only goes so far when you have a deep supply chain. It has been improved largely by Customs Enforcement as trademark abuse.
After taking apart a few power supplies myself I begin to wonder if I should always buy an extra to take apart and examine. Some of them are pretty scary.
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Does Tesla have a long-term interest in being placed alongside Maybach or Bentley? Do the dealers have a vested interest in selling Tesla over their other brands? As the GP indicated, most car dealers are really in it for the service department, and it is especially true for high-end cars.
Yes, some of the dealers could likely do a good job for Tesla... but why should Tesla be forced to work with them if that isn't their business model?
If the NSA remains vigilant and Google does nothing to avoid it, they will slowly stagnate as users switch to smaller "networks." Google is all about the network effects of their products, and that same network is highly valuable to the NSA and its ilks. The only real way to defeat it is to compartmentalize the networks into much smaller segments such that associations are much harder to make.
Much more difficult to do once the cat is already out of the bag, and it destroys much of the collectivism that makes the internet (and /.) a fun place to go, but hey... it's a nice day outside...
...which is why the "smart grid" is such a problem. Trusted devices in every home.
It really depends on what your needs are, but running a 150HP truck engine at idle uses about 7-10x as much gas as a 2HP engine at 100% load, so your fuel storage is really only equivalent to 2 gallons. It's a good solution for a rare event of limited duration. Just sucks when you drain the fuel tank and can't get to the filling station... With diesels you also need to make sure you run the engine hard after doing it to burn off the wet-stacking.
With a 500W load and 2-3 outages a year, most places are best off with a 1 to 4-hour battery on-site and the ability to hook up a small portable generator. You size the generator big enough to re-charge the battery and support the load at the same time, and maybe big enough to throw the refrigerator on as well. Key is just to use it enough to make sure it works when you need it.
Many only last 2-4 hours. Cell facilities with extremely high outage levels often use fuel cells as primary power with backup from the grid.
Woosh.
How exactly do you protect a network when its endpoints are in untrusted locations? It starts looking an awful lot like the internet.
The article has a few good points well targeted to their audience, and I agree with the concepts. The NIST document (like the original document for the nuclear industry) has a few good ideas, but no practical plan-- mainly a bureaucratic solution.
Reality is that you need to network equipment that poses facility risk. IT are typically the ones pushing for a collapsed network rather than a facility network ironically. For maybe less than 24 points, you can have firewall rules, switch rules, and other tools to manage intrusion risk, but once you get beyond that point you have a generally unmanageable system.
If you choose to not collapse the network, and firewall between sides as it should be done, IT disowns the network and you are stuck with not having someone to manage network security beyond the firewall. The article alludes to this as one of the major problems; often nobody owns security on the SCADA network.
There is much more to SCADA security than the network security though; it really is about defense in depth. You need the depth to prevent various vendors from being able to access the whole network and system.
Large cells have a number of disadvantages, cost being one, but cooling efficacy and reliability are significant as well.
But, when Tesla is at 40,000 cars per year I imagine the economics will shift somewhat, and I am sure Tesla is looking at prismatic battery options as well.
Doesn't happen that way in VMware. Not held hostage like parallels.
Will Windows go for ShitPipe?
So happy I switched to VMware. It seemed like parallels was constantly breaking to force upgrades only for revenue stream; it felt like the late 90's all over again...
Some whistleblowers are attention seekers. Disclosing information out of context can sound bad no matter how clean you are.
No, the "normal people" are agnostics, not atheists. Where is their funny hat?!
No, simply saying that in the balance they seem to be doing a pretty good job. I expect 20% to be exceptional and 20% to be idiots, but the median is much less "thug" than two or three years ago, and the low end is merely as incompetent as the low end was 15 years ago.
But, to your story, the TSA's role is not drug or customs enforcement. They shouldn't be looking for contraband in the first place, so taking a bribe for ignoring it isn't that far from reasonable.
Recently I was transiting through Frankfrut en-route to Los Angeles and I was pulled aside for supplemental screening. It took about 15 minutes and while quite thorough was really a joke. Pat-down, millimeter wave, luggage search, explosive sniffing (twice), etc. I can laugh it off easily enough, although I am quite against everything it stands for. I also know if I had stepped in the lawn which had been fertilized recently I likely would have set off the bomb detector, all of which would have made things much worse.
It really all comes down to statistics. While I might think that myself as a 40 year old white male with gold status and a business class ticket poses minimal risk, there is some reason why it is the third time it has happened to me, and it is quite likely not related to security. For the poster, he realizes all the flags he set off from the article, except possibly the first flag. Opting out of the millimeter wave was likely the clincher. While that shouldn't get your apartment searched, it is behavior uncommon to 99% of the passengers and it does raise extra flags.
The fact that the millimeter wave scans are an unreasonable search is another story altogether. And the fact that smuggling something around security isn't rocket science for a committed group... well, let's chalk that up to security theater.
That may be true in some places, but I have to stand up for agents at LAX in terminal 7 in the past year. There are a few who are a waste of space and who turn tiny things into major issues, but by far the majority of people I have dealt with are professional and courteous.
This is not true at all airports, and I seem to have less luck at Terminal 1 (but I fly from it much less often).
At this point, the people on the ground doing screening seem to be pretty well balanced. The goons are really the ones in Washington.
If you eliminate the 4-5 days of Songkram from Thailand though you are likely closer to US rates. (Not really, but possibly cut to 20.)
If you eliminate the Buddhist driving technique (turn into a busy road without looking, because if you were meant to die you will... it's all fate), limited mopeds to (2) children, (2) adults, (1) chicken, and (1) dog, and required Song Thaew drivers to be sober you would beat the US for sure.
The 12 counts do not really indicate separate crimes though. The stacking of counts is one of the abuses that is prevailing in the "justice" system now, in order to force excessive sentences.
Check out the difference between Nationalism and Patriotism. Which is flag-waving? Can Nationalists co-opt flag-waving... it seems to me like they have.
I'm torn. I agree with everything stated, but at the same time Manning endured unjust captivity prior to trial and the trend of life-destroying punishments in the "justice" system in order to seek pleas or set an example is clearly abusive.
Manning may have needed to be found guilty, but 35 years seems excessive, even if he gets pardoned Dec 1, 2016.
My guess from what we are hearing from our insurance representatives is not that they can't count to $12,700, but they can't establish what the premiums need to be. They are having enough problems with the current round of changes being implemented, and simply can't make a quote for a January 2014 policy start. I have heard the same thing regarding Blue Cross as well.
Only for about 15 minutes, at least based on my experience with my smart tv's browser. ...but then again, in Sweden they still use TeleText, so a lot of people don't need much.
UpTime Institute got the tiers more standardized though; even some of the telecom companies have gone from Bellcore tiers to uptime tiers (1 most critical to 4 most critical). Ken and UpTime did a lot for the industry. They also did a lot to the industry. They tried to complicate the simplification in order to monetize it. Plenty of others are guilty of the same thing, but I do wish Uptime would go away as the standard-bearer.
Outsourcing 30 users is likely the top end of a sweet-spot though. Once you hit 50, those initial economies/efficiencies go away, as you would want In-house redundancy, data discovery, proper archiving, etc., which add up to real money in a cloud solution. There are other break-points as you go up depending on organization needs.
In the construction industry, there has been a big problem with counterfeit circuit breakers making it onto job sites. Many are just switches, and some barely that. Purchasing through reputable suppliers only goes so far when you have a deep supply chain. It has been improved largely by Customs Enforcement as trademark abuse.
After taking apart a few power supplies myself I begin to wonder if I should always buy an extra to take apart and examine. Some of them are pretty scary.