I took the answer to be more of the nature, "We'll hiring consultants at competitive prices, but only when we must. We're hoping to train recruits to do this stuff for us on the cheap."
Which is a solution that might work, but would take 5-10 years of training/seasoning, and be subject to predation both by non-cyber air force needs and the civilian economy. It takes a while for someone to get good at computer security. If they get good at it, the private sector looks very attractive, and enlistments do run out. What ya gonna do, "stop-loss" them? Great incentive that is - but for the wrong thing.
Example: You are counting the tens. 6 tens come out of the deck. You assume a count of -6, and lower your bet. I am hi/lo. I see those 6 tens come out, and then 12 low cards. I KNOW a count of +6, and raise my bet to take advantage of it. Guess who is coming out on top? Most likely, the house.
That turned out well. Next time, perhaps I'll remember the 'preview' button...
Tech Support: [bangs head against keyboard]
The story you have just heard is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. The tech support person was later found unconscious under his desk with major head trauma. The customer was still on the line.
They want to add "works like " functionality. For which you need copies of the copyrighted applications (at minimum) to reverse engineer. And guess what the EULA says about reverse engineering?
Oh, and they want solitary control over modifications to the spec...
I assume you're talking about zones where the speed limit is 55, then?
Though I can't really be sure, because where the speed limit is 55, a large amount of traffic is moving at 60 hoping "not to be worth getting pulled over". And some is moving at 65 or faster "because I can slow down when [I see a cop | my radar detector goes off]". And some simply because their speedometer is whacked.
So you might well be talking about the jerkoff doing the speed limit in the passing lane and preventing you from a little genteel speeding of your own. Have you checked your speedometer for accuracy?
I found www.canlaw.com, which tells some of the story, but only in how it is promoting its service.
One thing that did step out at me was their advice...
If you are on Legal Aid, you MUST get their permission before changing lawyers and they may use this as an excuse to cancel your Legal Aid Certificate. Some things that worry me about the concept are: what if you still can't afford a protracted court case? What if your lawyer turns out to be an obstreperous lemon? And what about appeals? Are they also covered?
Perhaps you can bring us some insight from folks (lawyers or clients) who have used Legal Aid?
Average Joe:Where's my 420,000 from the settlement? Laywer:Curious you should mention that... We did say 30% of what we get at trial, didn't we? Never went to trial. Oh, and here's our bill for 0.5 hours worked ($2,000) and out of pocket costs ($100 for phone service)
In a response to Bruce Perens in this topic, the author of the article stated, quite reasonably, that he represented himself because he didn't have the money to have an attorney represent him.
Considering that the case dragged on for 2 years, it's not unreasonable. Most of us normal folks don't have that kind of cash.
When the first/. article came out, I predicted the wrong ship, but the right missile. Wikipedia, for heaven's sake, already had the "exo-atmospheric" part in the description.
And as far as that goes, the maximum ceiling is still "unknown"... but estimates can be made.
A new study for the Department of Energy finds that "off-peak" electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel 84 percent of these 198 million vehicles if they were plug-in hybrid electrics.
Some key words there: "Off-peak". "plug-in hybrid". "electricity production".
And from the referenced study:... This has an estimated gasoline displacement potential of 6.5 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, or approximately 52% of the nation's oil imports.
Which is quite spiffy, halving oil imports.
And again from the referenced study: Overall, PHEVs could reduce greenhouse gas emissions with regional variations dependent on the local generation mix. Total NOX emissions may or may not increase, dependent on the use of coal generation in the region. Any additional SO2 emissions associated with the expected increase in generation from coal power plants would need to be cleaned up to meet the existing SO2 emissions constraints. Particulate emissions would increase in 8 of the 12 regions.
So... my original point about offsetting oil usage by using more coal stands. Add in the question of which is worse: particulates + SO2 or CO2, and things get more muddled yet.
Tried to access your full calcs, the link would not load. Got an alternate URL?
Back to the key words...
"off-peak" guess when folks will plug their hybrids in? when they get Home From Work, did you say? When everyone is running ovens, lights, heat... not off-peak. There's a reason there's "off-peak generating capacity" laying around, and a reason it's called "off-peak".
"plug-in hybrid", as opposed to plug-in fuel cell, or all-electric. That's a different discussion, so I'll just nod and pass on.
"electricity production" - Sorry, just covered that.
All in all, better to find ways around these problems (alternate generation, incentives and education about off-peak hours and EV charging draws, etc) than to simply say "that won't work" and fall silent. Thanks.
I'm sure folks have mentioned it in this thread before, but what you're throwing around is how efficient just the electricity-to-motion conversion is.
Becomes a different ball game if you do power-source-to-electricity-to-motion.
And yes, some power generation models generate less carbon than others. I'm sure you can name a few.
We don't have gobs of spare generating capacity just laying around. Where is that extra electricity going to come from? Wind, solar, tidal? Call me a skeptic, but the energy density isn't there. Nuclear? A solution, maybe, 7-12 years from now, if we start building them today. Coal, oil? I thought you were trying to get away from that...
It might be of interest to note that the article referred to shows a picture of the USS Shiloh, a ship known to carry SM-3 exo-atmospheric HTK missiles. One can guess that this might be the interception device of choice...
The virtues in this case are that unlike an explosive fragmentation warhead, the momentum of a kinetic weapon is (duh!) in the direction of motion. That is, the warhead itself isn't going to add to the problem. And no, a miss wouldn't send the interceptor itself into orbit. Not that a miss is likely... radar/LWIR on a relatively slow, non-dodging target, with pretty much NO clutter.
Spaceship view: Realtime per turn remains the same, but the galaxy moves faster and faster. Hope you bought micromanagement insurance.
Universe view: you get to move your spaceship less and less often, but you still have time to micromanage your empire.
But they also have the "replayability option": you start off as a single cell again... one of the intestinal flora in your previous creatures, eventually evolving to the point you burst out of the chest of said creature and take over the spaceship, eating everyone onboard.
I think, rather, "competitor". Face it, most of the time, we don't think of England, Australia, Japan as competitors, even. China and Russia could give us a run for our money.
And even with our "friends", we spy on them, they spy on us all the time. There are just fewer secrets that we keep from them, or that they are apparently interested in. And we have a greater interest vested in keeping such things quiet, than we do with countries that we feel are more inimical.
Some of them ARE 'painted black', either for useful heat reasons, or some amount of concealment.
The difference between a "still not as black as a night sky" and "reflecting the sun like nobody's business" is big enough that you have to move up a class in telescope.
Which means that it is harder for folks with a 6" telescope or binoculars to spot the things.
... Which in turn is important, because those big installation telescopes don't grow on trees. The fact that there is a distributed network of inefficient sensors (amateurs with small scopes) working on the problem means that that difference DOES make a difference in how long it is before your satellite is spotted (again).
The problem with that is that most companies oversubscribe their CSR time. What flooding CSR phone lines will do is drive a 20 minute wait time up to a 40 minute wait time.
That is, no net increase in Comcast's call center costs. Comcast might, in a few weeks, notice that the average wait time was up, but it take weeks after that for them to respond to it.
On the other hand, you would be raising the number of complaints on topic X, which might prompt action.
But on the gripping hand, they've got an effective monopoly. Where are you going to go? To dialup?
Now if you include in your complaint that if the situation is not corrected, you'll both cancel your cable subscription (as well, increasing the loss), and start a local campaign to spread the pain... AND follow through with it when they don't respond... then you might get somewhere.
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I took the answer to be more of the nature, "We'll hiring consultants at competitive prices, but only when we must. We're hoping to train recruits to do this stuff for us on the cheap."
Which is a solution that might work, but would take 5-10 years of training/seasoning, and be subject to predation both by non-cyber air force needs and the civilian economy. It takes a while for someone to get good at computer security. If they get good at it, the private sector looks very attractive, and enlistments do run out. What ya gonna do, "stop-loss" them? Great incentive that is - but for the wrong thing.
That turned out well. Next time, perhaps I'll remember the 'preview' button...
Tech Support: [bangs head against keyboard]
The story you have just heard is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. The tech support person was later found unconscious under his desk with major head trauma. The customer was still on the line.
#1 reason for retaining deleted emails:
Clueless User: Hello, tech support? I just deleted an email that I MUST have!
Tech support:
Some of us prefer to keep their mail locally.
But me, I use Thunderbird for that...
Not quite the same functionality as ODF.
They want to add "works like " functionality. For which you need copies of the copyrighted applications (at minimum) to reverse engineer. And guess what the EULA says about reverse engineering?
Oh, and they want solitary control over modifications to the spec...
I assume you're talking about zones where the speed limit is 55, then?
Though I can't really be sure, because where the speed limit is 55, a large amount of traffic is moving at 60 hoping "not to be worth getting pulled over". And some is moving at 65 or faster "because I can slow down when [I see a cop | my radar detector goes off]". And some simply because their speedometer is whacked.
So you might well be talking about the jerkoff doing the speed limit in the passing lane and preventing you from a little genteel speeding of your own. Have you checked your speedometer for accuracy?
Because this is not an imitation...
If the 'counterfeit' equipment had been shipped to Cisco (or whoever Cisco designated), it would have been 'genuine'.
I found www.canlaw.com, which tells some of the story, but only in how it is promoting its service.
One thing that did step out at me was their advice... If you are on Legal Aid, you MUST get their permission before changing lawyers and they may use this as an excuse to cancel your Legal Aid Certificate. Some things that worry me about the concept are: what if you still can't afford a protracted court case? What if your lawyer turns out to be an obstreperous lemon? And what about appeals? Are they also covered?
Perhaps you can bring us some insight from folks (lawyers or clients) who have used Legal Aid?
part of that pad policy:
Average Joe:Where's my 420,000 from the settlement?
Laywer:Curious you should mention that... We did say 30% of what we get at trial, didn't we? Never went to trial. Oh, and here's our bill for 0.5 hours worked ($2,000) and out of pocket costs ($100 for phone service)
Perhaps you're a victim of timing.
In a response to Bruce Perens in this topic, the author of the article stated, quite reasonably, that he represented himself because he didn't have the money to have an attorney represent him.
Considering that the case dragged on for 2 years, it's not unreasonable. Most of us normal folks don't have that kind of cash.
When the first /. article came out, I predicted the wrong ship, but the right missile. Wikipedia, for heaven's sake, already had the "exo-atmospheric" part in the description.
And as far as that goes, the maximum ceiling is still "unknown"... but estimates can be made.
> I'm waiting for the anti-(anti-missile missile) missile
Don't be silly. The two "anti"s cancel each other out. Don't need no Anti-anti-missile-missile-missles, just straight-old missiles.
And better yet, the accuracy of the Anti(2)-missile(3) is strictly that of the Anti(1)-missile(2). No additional guidance software needed.
And hey, even a miss still generates useful effects!
The greater the food supply, the more they will breed...
I'm just waiting for the time when Lawyers will be facing pressures from Offshoring and Outsourcing and Immigration...
From Mileage from megawatts: Study finds enough electric capacity to "fill up" plug-in vehicles across much of the nation
A new study for the Department of Energy finds that "off-peak" electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel 84 percent of these 198 million vehicles if they were plug-in hybrid electrics.
Some key words there: "Off-peak". "plug-in hybrid". "electricity production".
And from the referenced study:
Which is quite spiffy, halving oil imports.
And again from the referenced study: Overall, PHEVs could reduce greenhouse gas emissions with regional variations dependent on the local generation mix. Total NOX emissions may or may not increase, dependent on the use of coal generation in the region. Any additional SO2 emissions associated with the expected increase in generation from coal power plants would need to be cleaned up to meet the existing SO2 emissions constraints. Particulate emissions would increase in 8 of the 12 regions.
So... my original point about offsetting oil usage by using more coal stands. Add in the question of which is worse: particulates + SO2 or CO2, and things get more muddled yet.
Tried to access your full calcs, the link would not load. Got an alternate URL?
Back to the key words...
All in all, better to find ways around these problems (alternate generation, incentives and education about off-peak hours and EV charging draws, etc) than to simply say "that won't work" and fall silent. Thanks.
I'm sure folks have mentioned it in this thread before, but what you're throwing around is how efficient just the electricity-to-motion conversion is.
Becomes a different ball game if you do power-source-to-electricity-to-motion.
And yes, some power generation models generate less carbon than others. I'm sure you can name a few.
We don't have gobs of spare generating capacity just laying around. Where is that extra electricity going to come from? Wind, solar, tidal? Call me a skeptic, but the energy density isn't there. Nuclear? A solution, maybe, 7-12 years from now, if we start building them today. Coal, oil? I thought you were trying to get away from that...
Let's see...
/. punching bags...
The lawyers, always looking to have full time guaranteed employment, instead of working on contract or speculation...
Anyone who wants those lawyers busy on THOSE suits, and not THESE suits...
And, of course, the more usual suspects and
It might be of interest to note that the article referred to shows a picture of the USS Shiloh, a ship known to carry SM-3 exo-atmospheric HTK missiles. One can guess that this might be the interception device of choice...
The virtues in this case are that unlike an explosive fragmentation warhead, the momentum of a kinetic weapon is (duh!) in the direction of motion. That is, the warhead itself isn't going to add to the problem. And no, a miss wouldn't send the interceptor itself into orbit. Not that a miss is likely... radar/LWIR on a relatively slow, non-dodging target, with pretty much NO clutter.
They'll provide two options:
Spaceship view: Realtime per turn remains the same, but the galaxy moves faster and faster. Hope you bought micromanagement insurance.
Universe view: you get to move your spaceship less and less often, but you still have time to micromanage your empire.
But they also have the "replayability option": you start off as a single cell again... one of the intestinal flora in your previous creatures, eventually evolving to the point you burst out of the chest of said creature and take over the spaceship, eating everyone onboard.
Thank you for Godwinizing this topic. Your contribution has been invaluable.
> the only thing that can make a difference is a mountain of mail
He who would move a mountain must begin one stone at a time. - Chinese Proverb
The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. - Ambassador Kosh
Who ya going to believe?
So china is "The Enemy" now?
I think, rather, "competitor". Face it, most of the time, we don't think of England, Australia, Japan as competitors, even. China and Russia could give us a run for our money.
And even with our "friends", we spy on them, they spy on us all the time. There are just fewer secrets that we keep from them, or that they are apparently interested in. And we have a greater interest vested in keeping such things quiet, than we do with countries that we feel are more inimical.
Note your real enmity mileage will vary.
Some of them ARE 'painted black', either for useful heat reasons, or some amount of concealment.
... Which in turn is important, because those big installation telescopes don't grow on trees. The fact that there is a distributed network of inefficient sensors (amateurs with small scopes) working on the problem means that that difference DOES make a difference in how long it is before your satellite is spotted (again).
The difference between a "still not as black as a night sky" and "reflecting the sun like nobody's business" is big enough that you have to move up a class in telescope.
Which means that it is harder for folks with a 6" telescope or binoculars to spot the things.
Additional reading: Wired
Well now that I know you're on this list, I can trace you back from your slashdot name and contact information....
wait, that sounds like work.
Naw, I'm gonna have another donut and let my zombies send out another bout of spam...
The problem with that is that most companies oversubscribe their CSR time. What flooding CSR phone lines will do is drive a 20 minute wait time up to a 40 minute wait time.
That is, no net increase in Comcast's call center costs. Comcast might, in a few weeks, notice that the average wait time was up, but it take weeks after that for them to respond to it.
On the other hand, you would be raising the number of complaints on topic X, which might prompt action.
But on the gripping hand, they've got an effective monopoly. Where are you going to go? To dialup?
Now if you include in your complaint that if the situation is not corrected, you'll both cancel your cable subscription (as well, increasing the loss), and start a local campaign to spread the pain... AND follow through with it when they don't respond... then you might get somewhere.