Crypto mining in the background is a lesser evil in my eyes.
Really? As your phone or tablet or laptop heats up to its thermal limit, the fans go to maximum if it has any, while you watch the battery meter start dropping in real time? A device that gets 8hrs-12hrs normally is now uncomfortable to hold and projecting running out of juice in 20 minutes... that's less annoying?
crypto-mining slams the CPU or GPU or both to 100% and pins them there. The reason normal people don't run cryptominers of their own is that the electricity costs relative to currency mined is highly negative unless you have dedicated cutting edge hardwre. The only reason this scum can make any money at it is by offloading the electricity cost onto to you.
Modern computers are amazingly power efficient compared to a few years ago, and mobile devices even more so. But that is largely the result of managing idle time and low demand work more efficiently... you start cryptomining on them and they're electricity gulping space heaters again.
You think an autoplaying video wastes tons of cpu cycles? That doesn't even warm my laptop up... but cytocurrency mining, that is to cpu usage what torrenting is for bandwidth... what ever you have, it will use. All of it.
What's the difference between this stuff, and say someone using uncompressed images that suck your bandwidth excessively?
100% CPU utilization (GPU utlitization too if they can do it) will drain laptop and mobile batteries fast and heat the up. This is the antithesis of the direction things should go.
There is no way mining makes practical sense as a ubiquitous means to pay for web content. It would render the web practically unusable.
Second, as an ecnomic model it is incredibly inefficient. For every dollar you spend in electricity for their miner... how much money do they make from it. Not a tiny fraction. I'd rather just give them a dollar now and then rather than spend 500$ on electricity while suffering from a permanently hot phone or laptop that gets 1hr because its running full tilt anytime i try and use it.
I expect we'll see default browser settings to start to heavily throttle CPU usage by tab/site; in addition to other mining counter-measures.
1) We've been almost there for a while. I've been able to dial by voice to a contact forever.
I've been able to set a custom ring tone forever. e.g. if I'm riker and picard is calling, i could have my ringtone set to 'picard to riker'.
I've been able to answer a call by voice forever.
And all the neat stuff about communicating with the broader network, locating my intended recipient, and activating the communicator on their end... is called a cell phone.
The sum total of the innovation you propose is that instead of me presetting the ringtone recorded ringtone is passed over the network on the fly. It's pretty obvious that would be trivial to implement.
Moreover, its probably undesirable... since it will immediately lead to spam phone calls with ads and messages within the recorded query that you hear before you even answer.
Speaking of undesirable... a phone call that answers itself like this 'drop-in feature' from amazon. WTF. What an obnoxious non-feature...
In many respects that is the same advantage linux and osx have over windows. Or pick your favorite hobby os and kernel... virtually no malware affects it.
It may not tell you much about the quality of that software, but the advantage is still real.
In other words, doing your banking from a machine running Haiku (based on BeOS) might not be a bad idea...
That's interesting but I'm not sure what to make of it. Why hasn't legalization enabled them to sever ties with "those gangs"?
And Is it just that category whose lives haven't improved? What about legal citizens engaged in it? Higher class escort services etc? Surely the ability to work with police if things go badly has helped?
Hmm... as a self-identified left-winger; I'd say you nailed my position more or less perfectly as well. So I'm not sure the split her is left vs right at all.
I do generally favor legalization; for practical reasons. It is going to happen whether its legal or not, and they are already in a highly vulnerable occupation at the best of times... explicitly making them criminals too just makes them more vulnerable.
As a start, let's just look at what it means to take care of your battery. This means don't charge it to more than ~80% of capacity and don't discharge below 20%. - This takes the 73 mile range down to 73 X 80% X 80% or 46.7 miles Next, let's assume that after 7 years, the capacity is expected to be down to 80% of the new, maximum. - This takes the 46.7 miles down to 46.7 X 80% or 37.4 miles for 'battery-kindness"
"Nine bars equates to about 70 percent of remaining capacity--meaning that the effective range of a 2011 Nissan Leaf, originally rated at 73 miles, could be down to something like 50 miles."
In theory, the range of my Leaf is 83 miles when fully charged. In practice, however, that varies widely depending on where you're going and who is driving. My wife, for example, tends to drive more aggressively than I do and she has experienced somewhat shorter range. Similarly, range drops off significantly when you go on the highway or crank the AC.
Why are you comparing a used ICE car against a new electric car?
a) partly because a 6 year old electric car is risky. You are buying old "leading edge technology" and that's never a good value proposition. Every value buyer knows you don't want to buy 'version 1.0' of anything because it'll take a few iterations to work the early kinks out. A 2011 electric car is pretty much a version 1.0 electric car.
b) partly because there are so few of them. 10 years from now, 20 years from now, things WILL be different. But right now there aren't a lot to choose from.
c) partly because they don't age particularly well. The battery tech is still immature and a 5-6 year old battery pack is generally out of warranty and down a big chunk of capacity, and an even bigger chunk of effective range. I've found numerous sources that cite their 2011 LEAF in 2017 is now good for under 50 miles (1/2 the original 100), one reported theirs was down to 28.
However, compare the 6 year old ICE car against a used six year old electric car.
I just looked at a 6 year old LEAF in response to another reply. Locally its asking $13500 (CAD) (that was the lowest priced one within 100 km); it has twice the odometer of the car i purchased. It's got 'recycled cloth seats' and 'push button start' as "features"... so not exactly optioned out.
And doing the math on the battery aging, and given that its a 2011/2012 model so older chemistry, lower heat resistant battery etc. The battery is out of warranty. At this point it will have a 40-50 mile range or so if you are lucky. That's enough for some people, but that's not enough for me, and that's not enough for most people.
Its also pretty small for a family car, and subjectively my wife thinks its ugly, but those are beside the point... sort of.
IF EVs take off, then the poor will probably be still driving older clunky ICEs for quite some time just as they drive older, clunky, less expensive ICE cars now
The point is taking money from them to subsidize wealthier people to buy electrics is demented.
Eventually, if driving an ICE car starts to signify you are either a collector or poor, EVs will have won.
No. EVs will have won when the poor are driving them, because that will mean they are more affordable and the best value proposition.
Have you looked at the prices of 2011 model Leafs?
Sorry, pricing and location is CAD.
In Canada, where I live, the absolute cheapest on autotrader.ca within 100 miles is $13,600, with the average price being closer to 16,000. It also has twice the mileage on it, has such options as "recycled cloth seats", "unique shifting knob" and "push button start" and is relatively beat up compared to the car i bought.
As a 2011/2012 model it has the less heat resistant battery pack which loses capacity faster, and has older chemistry. Couple the loss of capacity due to age and efficiency due to wear and tear the car has about 60 km range. (40mi)
And the battery pack is out of warranty.
Thanks... but no thanks. This car likely can't go much more than half way from Vancouver to Whistler.
the current subsidies help to get relatively rich people to buy electric cars
And where is the subsidy money actually coming from?
In effect, the relatively rich people are now subsidizing the future second hand market for electrical cars.
Sure...they're just not doing it with their own money.
When I buy a GTX 1080 I'm subisizing the development of future graphics cards, and I'm dumping my GTX980 onto the secondary market to boot. But the government isn't giving me a handout to do it, so that system works.
With electric vehicles, the 'poorer' are helping paying for the 'richer' to buy new cars. The idea that its for their own good long term since it'll put more electric used vehicles into the queue is demented.
" Instead an increasing levy on vehicles that produce emmissions"
I just bought a "new" car. It was $11000, for a 2011 model year with 40k on it in nearly pristine condition, and a mid-level trim level (so it has a few options and upgrades, air, heated seats, etc...)
How much are you going to subsidize a new electric car to make it price competitive to that?
People will flock to electric when it's cheaper. But trying to force it with tax and subsidy... just amounts to, as the other poster said, taking money from the poor to help the wealthy buy new cars, with all kinds of fun unintended consequences.
The poor family living in a rented apartment parking on the street -- they have to buy a fuel car because they can't reliably plug in at night. Meanwhile the rich suburban folks with 2 car garage buy themselves new subsidized electric vehicle because they can plug it in their garage every night. Nice.
google would provided the documentation that both accounts A and account B were accessed from a particular ip address one after another from the same computer based on browser strings etc.
the vpn service is only confirming that suspect X was in fact connected to the vpn service at the time.
Windows XP really is the worst case scenario - it comes from a time when the internet was taking off and being naively integrated into everything without regard for security
That was really well said.
It's really too bad XP doesn't seem to be serving as an object lesson for the IoT... you know the fad taking off right now of naively integrating the internet into everything without regard for security.
Of course, once we have a taste for blood like that; its only a matter of days before we apply the same rules to other perceived injustices, and bad-think according to the people in power.
And anyone who objects? Make an example of them too.... "it would be bloody for a while, but you'd be surprised how fast the rest will in line."
All my patents have lost money! (hollywood accounting? Maybe. shutup! The important thing is the patent office now owes me 10% of whatever I claimed i lost right?!
At the very worst, it costs me zero, because I don't charge anything for my patents... but I do require everyone I do business with buy a pototoe. The price of that potatoe is on a sliding scale, and sure... maybe i see how many times you've used our patent when factoring in the price of the potatoe... but its still potatoe reveue not patent revenue so its separate.
"google should reflect and prioritize what the people in internet are looking at , linking to, and searching for. even if what they are looking at may be "wrong" , "foolish", "destructive", etc"
Why should they do that? Should I do that too? Or just google? Why "shouldn't" they do something else?
if it does the latter, google will be replaced, eventually, because it will be projecting a false image of what "news" and what people in internet are doing. in other words google will be "fake".
Wait what is this nonsense trying to say? If I'm doing a school newspaper and someone discovers that the principle is committing fraud and has the paperwork and writes a well sourced article proving it on their mostly ignored blog... if I find that and put that on the front page, its fake news now? Because the real news is that jessica showed up to class drunk, and you know its "real news" because that's what everyone is talking about?
And if the fraud thing starts to get traction, if the principle can pay off a bunch of trolls to write that its bullshit fake news... well than that's now the 'real' news too?
Seriously? That's demented.
also, in the long run, chance of few people at google being "wrong", is far higher than millions of people being wrong.
A few people actually trying to be objective and right and applying principles of journalism to their sources are going to have far higher chance of being accurate than adding up the random bullshit spewed by millions of people without a shred of critical thought or objectivity. Then layer on a the deliberate bullshit spewed by people who aren't interested in the truth and prefer their version of reality be accepted instead.
Yes, the few people trying are going to make mistakes sure. Lots of them. But I'll still put my faith and money on real journalism over simply reporting whatever bullshit has the highest volume.
Especially in a world where you can manipulate the volume, troll for it, and even outright buy it.
you stlil don't understand what goes into *costs*, you seem fixated on the bottled. product. Their costs are public information.
The question at hand is what the cost difference in producing and selling bottled water vs producing and selling pop, per unit.
Everything else is an irrelevant distraction.
. To sell 9.7 billion U.S. dollars of stuff, Coca Cola's costs were 3.7 billion, or 38% of what their products sell is their costs. That does NOT include the 3.1 billion sales, administration and general expenses which are then subtracted from gross profit.
And unless you separate out Coca-cola from Dasani; those numbers tell us absolutely nothing that informs the question at hand.
So... about 8,000 people on this planet can unlock my phone?
And since they generally have to look like you, the odds that one of those 8000 people is someone of the same race, same heritage, even someone you know, are related to, and perhaps even live...
" For instance, the windshield wipers are turned on and off by a stalk like just about every other car on the market, but changing the speed (slow/fast/intermittent) is handled by a menu on the touchscreen. "
So you can't see well because it's suddenly raining harder, so you need to adjust your wiper speed... and now you have to play with a touch screen app, instead of simply pushing the wiper stalk up higher?
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Crypto mining in the background is a lesser evil in my eyes.
Really? As your phone or tablet or laptop heats up to its thermal limit, the fans go to maximum if it has any, while you watch the battery meter start dropping in real time? A device that gets 8hrs-12hrs normally is now uncomfortable to hold and projecting running out of juice in 20 minutes... that's less annoying?
crypto-mining slams the CPU or GPU or both to 100% and pins them there. The reason normal people don't run cryptominers of their own is that the electricity costs relative to currency mined is highly negative unless you have dedicated cutting edge hardwre. The only reason this scum can make any money at it is by offloading the electricity cost onto to you.
Modern computers are amazingly power efficient compared to a few years ago, and mobile devices even more so. But that is largely the result of managing idle time and low demand work more efficiently... you start cryptomining on them and they're electricity gulping space heaters again.
You think an autoplaying video wastes tons of cpu cycles? That doesn't even warm my laptop up... but cytocurrency mining, that is to cpu usage what torrenting is for bandwidth... what ever you have, it will use. All of it.
What's the difference between this stuff, and say someone using uncompressed images that suck your bandwidth excessively?
100% CPU utilization (GPU utlitization too if they can do it) will drain laptop and mobile batteries fast and heat the up. This is the antithesis of the direction things should go.
There is no way mining makes practical sense as a ubiquitous means to pay for web content. It would render the web practically unusable.
Second, as an ecnomic model it is incredibly inefficient. For every dollar you spend in electricity for their miner... how much money do they make from it. Not a tiny fraction. I'd rather just give them a dollar now and then rather than spend 500$ on electricity while suffering from a permanently hot phone or laptop that gets 1hr because its running full tilt anytime i try and use it.
I expect we'll see default browser settings to start to heavily throttle CPU usage by tab/site; in addition to other mining counter-measures.
1) We've been almost there for a while.
I've been able to dial by voice to a contact forever.
I've been able to set a custom ring tone forever. e.g. if I'm riker and picard is calling, i could have my ringtone set to 'picard to riker'.
I've been able to answer a call by voice forever.
And all the neat stuff about communicating with the broader network, locating my intended recipient, and activating the communicator on their end ... is called a cell phone.
The sum total of the innovation you propose is that instead of me presetting the ringtone recorded ringtone is passed over the network on the fly. It's pretty obvious that would be trivial to implement.
Moreover, its probably undesirable... since it will immediately lead to spam phone calls with ads and messages within the recorded query that you hear before you even answer.
Speaking of undesirable... a phone call that answers itself like this 'drop-in feature' from amazon. WTF. What an obnoxious non-feature...
"The top-level section has four shortcuts (your current game, two personalized suggestions, and a deal from the Microsoft store)"
So... one game and 3 ads. Thanks but no thanks, this is why i don't own an xbox.
"The first "Fluid Design" interface comes with a redesigned Home page, which is all about simplicity and customization. "
Ooo... customization! So, can I remove the useless top section that is 75% ads, and is wasting around 30% of the dashboard real-estate?
Guessing not.
In many respects that is the same advantage linux and osx have over windows. Or pick your favorite hobby os and kernel... virtually no malware affects it.
It may not tell you much about the quality of that software, but the advantage is still real.
In other words, doing your banking from a machine running Haiku (based on BeOS) might not be a bad idea...
Uh, couldn't that be said for just about anything?
No. Because generally the biggest victims in prostitution are the prostitutes. So criminalizing prostitution just criminalizes the victim.
Theft is going to happen whether legal or not; professional thieves are already in a highly vulnerable occupation at the best of times.
The victims of theft are not the thieves. Etc.
That's interesting but I'm not sure what to make of it. Why hasn't legalization enabled them to sever ties with "those gangs"?
And Is it just that category whose lives haven't improved? What about legal citizens engaged in it? Higher class escort services etc? Surely the ability to work with police if things go badly has helped?
Hmm... as a self-identified left-winger; I'd say you nailed my position more or less perfectly as well. So I'm not sure the split her is left vs right at all.
I do generally favor legalization; for practical reasons. It is going to happen whether its legal or not, and they are already in a highly vulnerable occupation at the best of times... explicitly making them criminals too just makes them more vulnerable.
What do you want me to say?
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As a start, let's just look at what it means to take care of your battery. This means don't charge it to more than ~80% of capacity and don't discharge below 20%.
- This takes the 73 mile range down to 73 X 80% X 80% or 46.7 miles
Next, let's assume that after 7 years, the capacity is expected to be down to 80% of the new, maximum.
- This takes the 46.7 miles down to 46.7 X 80% or 37.4 miles for 'battery-kindness"
http://www.plugincars.com/real...
"Nine bars equates to about 70 percent of remaining capacity--meaning that the effective range of a 2011 Nissan Leaf, originally rated at 73 miles, could be down to something like 50 miles."
http://www.greencarreports.com...
In theory, the range of my Leaf is 83 miles when fully charged. In practice, however, that varies widely depending on where you're going and who is driving. My wife, for example, tends to drive more aggressively than I do and she has experienced somewhat shorter range. Similarly, range drops off significantly when you go on the highway or crank the AC.
https://www.treehugger.com/car...
Typical Leaf of that age with say 100k on the clock would be looking at around 90% capacity remaining,
Based on what?
http://www.carswithcords.net/2...
Reading around I am seeing *lots* of people reporting sub 50 mile ranges on their 2011 LEAFs in 2017.
Why are you comparing a used ICE car against a new electric car?
a) partly because a 6 year old electric car is risky. You are buying old "leading edge technology" and that's never a good value proposition. Every value buyer knows you don't want to buy 'version 1.0' of anything because it'll take a few iterations to work the early kinks out. A 2011 electric car is pretty much a version 1.0 electric car.
b) partly because there are so few of them. 10 years from now, 20 years from now, things WILL be different. But right now there aren't a lot to choose from.
c) partly because they don't age particularly well. The battery tech is still immature and a 5-6 year old battery pack is generally out of warranty and down a big chunk of capacity, and an even bigger chunk of effective range. I've found numerous sources that cite their 2011 LEAF in 2017 is now good for under 50 miles (1/2 the original 100), one reported theirs was down to 28.
However, compare the 6 year old ICE car against a used six year old electric car.
I just looked at a 6 year old LEAF in response to another reply. Locally its asking $13500 (CAD) (that was the lowest priced one within 100 km); it has twice the odometer of the car i purchased. It's got 'recycled cloth seats' and 'push button start' as "features"... so not exactly optioned out.
And doing the math on the battery aging, and given that its a 2011/2012 model so older chemistry, lower heat resistant battery etc. The battery is out of warranty. At this point it will have a 40-50 mile range or so if you are lucky. That's enough for some people, but that's not enough for me, and that's not enough for most people.
Its also pretty small for a family car, and subjectively my wife thinks its ugly, but those are beside the point... sort of.
IF EVs take off, then the poor will probably be still driving older clunky ICEs for quite some time just as they drive older, clunky, less expensive ICE cars now
The point is taking money from them to subsidize wealthier people to buy electrics is demented.
Eventually, if driving an ICE car starts to signify you are either a collector or poor, EVs will have won.
No. EVs will have won when the poor are driving them, because that will mean they are more affordable and the best value proposition.
Have you looked at the prices of 2011 model Leafs?
Sorry, pricing and location is CAD.
In Canada, where I live, the absolute cheapest on autotrader.ca within 100 miles is $13,600, with the average price being closer to 16,000. It also has twice the mileage on it, has such options as "recycled cloth seats", "unique shifting knob" and "push button start" and is relatively beat up compared to the car i bought.
As a 2011/2012 model it has the less heat resistant battery pack which loses capacity faster, and has older chemistry. Couple the loss of capacity due to age and efficiency due to wear and tear the car has about 60 km range. (40mi)
And the battery pack is out of warranty.
Thanks... but no thanks. This car likely can't go much more than half way from Vancouver to Whistler.
the current subsidies help to get relatively rich people to buy electric cars
And where is the subsidy money actually coming from?
In effect, the relatively rich people are now subsidizing the future second hand market for electrical cars.
Sure...they're just not doing it with their own money.
When I buy a GTX 1080 I'm subisizing the development of future graphics cards, and I'm dumping my GTX980 onto the secondary market to boot. But the government isn't giving me a handout to do it, so that system works.
With electric vehicles, the 'poorer' are helping paying for the 'richer' to buy new cars. The idea that its for their own good long term since it'll put more electric used vehicles into the queue is demented.
" Instead an increasing levy on vehicles that produce emmissions"
I just bought a "new" car. It was $11000, for a 2011 model year with 40k on it in nearly pristine condition, and a mid-level trim level (so it has a few options and upgrades, air, heated seats, etc...)
How much are you going to subsidize a new electric car to make it price competitive to that?
People will flock to electric when it's cheaper. But trying to force it with tax and subsidy... just amounts to, as the other poster said, taking money from the poor to help the wealthy buy new cars, with all kinds of fun unintended consequences.
The poor family living in a rented apartment parking on the street -- they have to buy a fuel car because they can't reliably plug in at night. Meanwhile the rich suburban folks with 2 car garage buy themselves new subsidized electric vehicle because they can plug it in their garage every night. Nice.
As I read it:
google would provided the documentation that both accounts A and account B were accessed from a particular ip address one after another from the same computer based on browser strings etc.
the vpn service is only confirming that suspect X was in fact connected to the vpn service at the time.
Windows XP really is the worst case scenario - it comes from a time when the internet was taking off and being naively integrated into everything without regard for security
That was really well said.
It's really too bad XP doesn't seem to be serving as an object lesson for the IoT... you know the fad taking off right now of naively integrating the internet into everything without regard for security.
Of course, once we have a taste for blood like that; its only a matter of days before we apply the same rules to other perceived injustices, and bad-think according to the people in power.
And anyone who objects? Make an example of them too.... "it would be bloody for a while, but you'd be surprised how fast the rest will in line."
All my patents have lost money! (hollywood accounting? Maybe. shutup! The important thing is the patent office now owes me 10% of whatever I claimed i lost right?!
At the very worst, it costs me zero, because I don't charge anything for my patents... but I do require everyone I do business with buy a pototoe. The price of that potatoe is on a sliding scale, and sure... maybe i see how many times you've used our patent when factoring in the price of the potatoe... but its still potatoe reveue not patent revenue so its separate.
"google should reflect and prioritize what the people in internet are looking at , linking to, and searching for. even if what they are looking at may be "wrong" , "foolish", "destructive", etc"
Why should they do that? Should I do that too? Or just google? Why "shouldn't" they do something else?
if it does the latter, google will be replaced, eventually, because it will be projecting a false image of what "news" and what people in internet are doing. in other words google will be "fake".
Wait what is this nonsense trying to say? If I'm doing a school newspaper and someone discovers that the principle is committing fraud and has the paperwork and writes a well sourced article proving it on their mostly ignored blog... if I find that and put that on the front page, its fake news now? Because the real news is that jessica showed up to class drunk, and you know its "real news" because that's what everyone is talking about?
And if the fraud thing starts to get traction, if the principle can pay off a bunch of trolls to write that its bullshit fake news... well than that's now the 'real' news too?
Seriously? That's demented.
also, in the long run, chance of few people at google being "wrong", is far higher than millions of people being wrong.
A few people actually trying to be objective and right and applying principles of journalism to their sources are going to have far higher chance of being accurate than adding up the random bullshit spewed by millions of people without a shred of critical thought or objectivity. Then layer on a the deliberate bullshit spewed by people who aren't interested in the truth and prefer their version of reality be accepted instead.
Yes, the few people trying are going to make mistakes sure. Lots of them. But I'll still put my faith and money on real journalism over simply reporting whatever bullshit has the highest volume.
Especially in a world where you can manipulate the volume, troll for it, and even outright buy it.
you stlil don't understand what goes into *costs*, you seem fixated on the bottled. product. Their costs are public information.
The question at hand is what the cost difference in producing and selling bottled water vs producing and selling pop, per unit.
Everything else is an irrelevant distraction.
. To sell 9.7 billion U.S. dollars of stuff, Coca Cola's costs were 3.7 billion, or 38% of what their products sell is their costs. That does NOT include the 3.1 billion sales, administration and general expenses which are then subtracted from gross profit.
And unless you separate out Coca-cola from Dasani; those numbers tell us absolutely nothing that informs the question at hand.
Oh that's easy. A small black hole mounted on the top of the burj kalifa will reduce the local experience of gravity at ground level.
So ... about 8,000 people on this planet can unlock my phone?
And since they generally have to look like you, the odds that one of those 8000 people is someone of the same race, same heritage, even someone you know, are related to, and perhaps even live...
-facepalm-
Right, but those rain sensors can't vary the speed of the wipers directly, they have to run everything through a touch screen UI.
This was the original problem.
From the summary:
"The stalk also does double duty turning on the headlights, and there are no rain sensors for the wipers"
So it sounds like the wipers have on and off. And no rain sensors. I'm not sure this leaves us in a good place.
" For instance, the windshield wipers are turned on and off by a stalk like just about every other car on the market, but changing the speed (slow/fast/intermittent) is handled by a menu on the touchscreen. "
So you can't see well because it's suddenly raining harder, so you need to adjust your wiper speed... and now you have to play with a touch screen app, instead of simply pushing the wiper stalk up higher?
That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.