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With technology becoming more pervasive in our society, I was pleased to learn firsthand during recent visits to schools in our district that young people are taking steps to stay safe and secure on the internet.
During a visit to a civics class of sophomore and junior students in Wardsville, the students were engaged when they quizzed me about my concerns regarding foreign cyber-attacks on military and civilian networks. At my next stop, I recognized 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders from Hawthorn Elementary and Oak Ridge Intermediate in Camdenton R-III, who are first-in-the-nation in the Federal Bureau of Investigation Safe Online Surfing Internet challenge that helps students become responsible cyber citizens by giving them tools to avoid and report online dangers and use internet resources wisely.
I am happy to know that these tech-savvy young people understand that the cyber threats, breaches, and attacks that we face daily and at a staggering pace are as great a threat to us as many of the conventional military threats we face today. These attacks, some of which are clearly acts of cyber-terrorism or cyber-espionage, are so involved and complex that without ever knowing that you or someone you know was targeted – information can be stolen off a government computer or a home computer with uncomfortable ease.
As an individual, it is important to have a general understanding of security awareness, but small businesses also need to educate themselves because they have taken the brunt of many of the cyber security attacks. According to a recent study conducted by computer security company Symantec, small businesses are the victims of nearly 40 percent of cyber-attacks in the United States. Even more alarming, statistics show that nearly 60 percent of small businesses will close within six months after a cyber-attack.
The House Small Businesses Committee's Subcommittee on Health and Technology on which I serve investigates cyber security threats, and our panel recently held a hearing titled "New Technology and Cyber Security Threats." This hearing provided me with the unique opportunity to listen to experts in this field seeking to examine the intersection of emerging technologies utilized by small businesses and the increased volume and complexity of cyber security attacks.
Recently, the administration released an executive order strengthening existing laws in order to combat the threats of hacking and cyber-espionage. This order has some of the same goals as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection ACT (CISPA) by allowing the government to share classified cyber threat data with private sector entities so they can prepare networks for potential attacks.
I am a supporter of strengthening this nation's readiness to stave off and combat cyber threats because in addition to money-driven hackers, there are terrorists and foreign nations interested in accessing the U.S. government's and our small businesses' information on strategic military plans, research, data on mergers and information on our infrastructure, financial networks, hospitals, and military bases. Making sure our cyber security policy is current will help American small businesses stay open and keep Americans information safe and secure. Therefore, we must continue our research and development of the best technology; encourage our youth to pursue high-tech educations and careers; promote awareness amongst parents, schools, and businesses; and enable our workforce and government to develop comprehensive cyber threat plans and to share threat information without disclosing personal information that is impertinent to the potential attack.
These are perilous times for our nation in what has become an ongoing cyber-war against aggressors both known and unknown. As we continue to remain vigilant against those who would do us harm, I am comforted that the young people I had the good fortune to meet and honor are our future cyber-warriors and I tend to believe that our future will be secure with folks like that on watch.


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Stubbe, a self-described "rock hound," founded Charles Paul Gem Designs in 1974 in a modest space in downtown Allentown.
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Pollard injured Gronk, Welker and Ridley
Bernard Pollard is that guy who yes..'Plays like a Raven' a perfect fit for Rex's defense. He single handedly decimated the Patriots offense with injuries. He is a perfect replacement as a hard hitting safety. He has to be on Rex's radar.
What you guys think our chances of bringing him in are?
Pollard injured Gronk, Welker and Ridley
Maybe you didn't get the memo that Rex isn't in charge.
I wanted the jets to draft Pollard wen he was in the draft. Get him while there HOTTT!
Mutiny may have been a factor in Pollard release
Posted by Mike Florio on March 13, 2013, 2:18 PM EDT
A string of surprising moves in Baltimore extended on Wednesday to a player who supposedly was safe.
Safety Bernard Pollard is out, and everyone is wondering why.
As one league source said in response to the news, Three teams in how many years. Soon four. What does that tell you?
Another source says that Pollard has a reputation for being outspoken, for complaining, and for drawing too much attention to himself. He wears on a team, with his talent keeping him around for a second year or third year.
More specifically, were now getting the clear impression that last years incident that, as reported by Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports, was practically a mutiny, has contributed to the departure of Pollard and could result in more players being purged.
And hes where it gets really interesting. (Or at least less uninteresting.) Silver specifically mentioned Pollard and Ed Reed as instigators of the mutiny.
Coincidentally, were now getting indications that the Ravens dont want Reed back.
So while coach John Harbaugh handled a difficult situation very well at the time (as evidenced by the teams Super Bowl trophy), it looks like Harbaugh may have decided that, at the appropriate time, hell make sure it doesnt happen again.
Who do you think he gets next? Aaron Hernandez? Maybe he goes back for another piece of Brady...
Pollard is great, and in no way terrible in coverage or a locker room distraction.
We need a new hit man in the Jets defensive backfield, he could be it
Well then lets go all the way and get Pollard and Reed. Rex should be able to pull some strings and give us some hope for next season. Maybe if the Jets appear to have some hope by getting an offensive player or 2 then maybe we can attract these 2 safties and bring some enthusiasm back to this team?
If you can't cover them .... break them.
Pollard or bust.
pollard has more moves than half the flightgirlz. im out of words.


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by Derrick Story
In recent years, Apple Computer has moved away from its strange fixation on proprietary hardware/software into the world of standardized components. The once funky monitor jack on legacy Macs has been replaced by the common VGA plug, and even the finicky ADB outlet for mice and keyboards is now a hot-swappable USB port.
While I was researching Apple's Airport wireless protocol for my home network, I was delighted to read that the Lucent-developed system was IEEE 802.11 compliant. Yes, yet another standard. In the first article of this series, Affordable Wireless LAN Using Airport, I outlined how to set up an Airport network for Macs. In this article, I'll explore the possibility of adding a Windows PC to the clan.
Choosing the right PC card
I figured that if I wanted half a chance to make this thing work, I'd have to choose the right network card for my Windows 98 ThinkPad. The Apple cards are the "silver" variety of the Lucent offerings, so I settled on the "WaveLAN" Turbo 11 MB Silver card for my PC. It's a clever little gizmo that slides into your PC slot with the rectangular antenna protruding outside the computer. The antenna has a green activity indicator that flashes when the card is in communication with another source.
I simply inserted the card in the PC slot, put the bundled CD in the drive, and proceeded to install the drivers. After donating the required pound of flesh for having the audacity to actually try to add another hardware device to my PC, I successfully rebooted and was ready to move on to the next step.
Network configuration
Most likely you're better versed than I in configuring the network settings for a PC, so I'll touch only on the highlights and won't bore you with the common details. My first stop was the Network Control Panel where I scrolled down to the "WaveLAN/IEEE PC Card (5 volt)" option and selected it. I clicked the "Properties" button and was presented with a screen for the "Basic" tab.
Figure 1. Type "ANY" in the Network Name field to connect to any compatible wireless network.
Here I simply entered "ANY" (uppercase is important) in the "WaveLAN Network Name" field, and the name of my Airport base station in the "Station Name" field. This is an important step, because by entering "ANY," the WaveLAN card will look for any compatible transmissions and try to connect. It's a great feature.
I didn't have to worry about any of the other settings because the defaults were the best choices anyway. I closed the "Properties" dialog box, double-checked that all my personal information was correct in the "Identification" field (such as computer name, etc), then closed the Control Panel and restarted.
The Airport base station
I chose my Apple PowerBook to serve as the software base station for this test. Since I can only use one notebook at a time, I figured this would be a handy configuration for work or on the road too -- letting the PowerBook beam a wireless transmission while I roam the office with the ThinkPad.
If you haven't read my previous article, I'll mention again that you have an option under Airport 1.2 or later to configure any Mac with an Airport card to serve as a "Software Base Station." This saves you the $299 investment for the cute little Hardware Base Station and is a particularly handy option for setting up a wireless network on the fly. This is how I configured the PowerBook to serve as a software base station.
- Establish an Internet connection. In this case I dialed-up with the internal 56k modem.
- Open the Airport application and hit the "Turn Airport On" button.
- Hit the "Software Base Station" button in the lower left corner of the window. That opens a new dialog box.
- Give the base station a name. I chose "PowerBook Station." Then click the Start button.
Figure 2. Apple's Software Base Station dialogue box.
I'm now broadcasting my Internet connection to anyone within 150 feet of the PowerBook. I can also browse with the PowerBook while serving the connection to others, as well as check my e-mail and use Instant Messaging.
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HireVue Drives Growth of Digital Interviewing Category, Disrupting Antiquated Ways of Recruiting
Triple-digit sales and user growth, new customers and new board member, Doug Dennerline, showcase company's leadership and overall category growth
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Dec. 26, 2012 06:00 AM
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On-demand digital interviewing services are being widely adopted across hiring organizations, from the Fortune 500 to small and medium sized businesses. Contributing to the growth is the convergence of social, mobile, and video technology to more quickly, fairly and tellingly connect candidates with recruiters and hiring managers. Leading provider, HireVue, is driving this momentum with a record third quarter that included 150 percent sales growth and 47 new customers. Additionally, HireVue unveiled the world's first social interview application, was named 2012 HR Product of the Year, and welcomed an important new board member, Doug Dennerline.
"As we continue to develop and bring pioneering, industry changing products to market, we're closing more deals, hiring more talented employees and building our leadership in the space," explains David Bradford, HireVue's CEO. "In 2013 we'll continue to see widespread adoption of popular technologies like digital interviewing, which not only changes the recruiting model for businesses and job seekers alike, but also the financial implications of inefficient recruiting processes. In addition to company growth, bringing Doug onto our board is very strategic for HireVue's growing industry presence based on his experience in helping grow brands such as Cisco, Salesforce.com and SuccessFactors."
Third quarter and recent business highlights include:
On the heels of a record quarter, HireVue welcomes former SuccessFactors president, Doug Dennerline, to its board of directors. Dennerline brings valuable experience from some of the most admired software companies of the past decade. Prior to SuccessFactors, Dennerline was EVP of Enterprise Sales at Salesforce.com, The GM of the Collaboration Software Group, (Webex) post the acquisition by Cisco and SVP US Enterprise Field Sales at Cisco. He currently serves on the board of Bunchball.
"HireVue offers a unique business solution that is completely transforming the old model of hiring," explains new board member Doug Dennerline. "The admirable brands selecting HireVue at such a rapid pace is astonishing and a sign of the critical business need the company addresses. As we move into the New Year we're all seeing the exponential category growth potential and being a part of that is exciting."
About HireVue
HireVue is an amazing new way to interview – on demand! Users simply browse, watch, rate and share the interviews they want, on their own time – just like streaming their favorite movies – even from a smart phone. Recognized by HR Executive Magazine as a Top HR Product of 2012, HireVue's Digital Interview Platform™ also helps improve interviews of all types, including in person, phone and video interviews. Digital question, feedback and collaboration tools remove hassle and make interviewing up to ten times faster and nine times cheaper. Join HireVue customers like Starbucks, Nike and Walmart who are making interviewing awesome. http://www.hirevue.com
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We've had a spate of ferocious weather here in Morris lately; a huge thunderstorm ripped through the area last night, keeping me awake with the constant rumble like freight trains rushing through my attic and the strobing light show of continuous consecutive flashes of lightning. I walked through town today and it was a scene of total tree carnage, with branches littering the roads and whole trees on every block shattered and lying broken. Nature was declaring that this whole countryside is supposed to be prairie, dammit, with grass that would bend before the wind, not trees that would break. She wasn't very happy with those annoying houses, either.
But what she really hates are parking lots.
And cars. Yeah, screw those cars.
I don't think she did quite enough yet, either. We're under a tornado watch for tonight.


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and indefinitely through love you keep drifting from your conscious.
"But why? Why can't we be?" you ask.
And what does it mean for us to have each other?
We are the youngest of young, spinning the weakest of webs,
-our pathetic little strands of silk captured and tangled up into nothing.
See now, it is the love of our own hearts that harms us,
our innermost thoughts pleading to satisfy our self destructing desires.
And what does it mean for us to sit on ocean banks at sunset,
and profess our love for each other along these same heartless shores that have taken away countless others in their passions for a pointless nothing,
who have went down into the oceans treacherous deep,
with barely their wedding rings. Won't we too die with nothing?
And when simple mercies chase the tides away,
it is your own lust that will bring them back again,
only this time one of us has to escape with nothing.
Tell me dear, what is love to us now?
"Save me! Save me, my love! Please help!", you plead.
And what would it mean if ever I saved you, so that we should be together?
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"Things do not get easier," say show creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss. "We thought they would."
In 2006, when David Benioff and Dan Weiss, cocreators of the hit HBO series Game of Thrones, sat down with author George R.R. Martin to talk about adapting his epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin's Hollywood bullshit detector was on high alert. "He gave us a pop quiz," Weiss told one interviewer, but they passed the test because their passion for Martin's books "was real and natural and completely unforced."
Their geek-boy résumés probably didn't hurt: Benioff, a D&D dungeon master in his youth, did the screenplay for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Weiss had a video-game-themed novel under his belt. Nor did their willingness to shelve all other creative pursuits—no small sacrifice for Benioff, who had adapted his own first novel, The 25th Hour, into the Spike Lee film starring Edward Norton, and followed that up with the fabulous 2008 book City of Thieves...."


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It is being sent to Apple. Every 24 hours a list is submitted off the phone to Apple servers since iOS 3.2. Android does it every few minutes since I think 1.6. Google servers appear to me to be receiving the 50 most recently connected cellsites and the MACs of the last few hundred broadcasted wifi SSID. Dunno about Apple, but the list in cosolidated.db seems to be retaining a year's worth.
They are using your hardware and your movements as the largest dynamic, for-profit illicit sensor network in history and both are using a 2 line sentence buried in a EULA to say they have user assent. The extent to which either Google or Apple are anonymising the data collected upstream is not known to me.
This is not a new effort for Google, they tried it earlier with their Google Street View fleet of vehicles. As they went out snapping images they also were intruding into any available wifi network and recording signal strength as they passed by in order to attempt "wifi triangulation". As interesting as it is unethical. They are trying to create landmarking indexes in order to sell or give it away as a service on their respective platforms for "located" directed advertising. Google earlier blamed an errant unnamed engineer and the investigation didn't even levy a single penalty (lol). Now I'm guessing they believe they are covered by some EULA so won't have to come up with a fall guy this time around.
Why is this being so misunderstood? Is it because a few fanboi "tech sites" that have no engineers on staff say it isn't?
Why do you think Apple has not said one word in response about this? I'm guessing because the lawyers know they are in bad, bad place and especially in Europe where privacy laws are actually enforced. Al Franken will hopefully put Jobs or Cook in front of a committee panel with subpoena power and ask him directly but I doubt anything more than the letter already sent will happen. I think in Europe the real issue will be whether or not Apple has transferred or sold the data collected to another corporate entity in violation of consumer rights.
Borderline absurd. What's it going to take? Packet captures that fanboi journalists can't understand anyway? Even days after it has been shown to be the case the headline for this dedicated os news site still says, "not being sent to Apple". Tech journalism is absurdly bad anymore. Seems pretty much limited to rewording press releases and covering paper launches of products with lip gloss "reviews".
It is not without humor that what appears to have most (probably male) iOS users concerned is not the loss of privacy without compensation to corporate interests but the fact that a divorce lawyer with a subpoena could get the information rather easily, let alone a tech-savy spouse/partner since the file resides on a probably shared, easily accessible filesystem.


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The players, managers, general managers and even owners come and go, and the only ones who stay the same are the fans, so maybe it's all our fault.
When it comes to contracts for managers, I favor the Walter Alston model.
Bonds home run call: "That's another rally killed..."
Who would want a manager who would want to manage this team?
If it'll help, give Brandon Phillips a leather recliner.
No matter how miserable Bob Castellini feels right now, we'd probably trade places with him.
Greg Maddux makes every slow-balling pitcher think he can win the Cy Young, Sammy Sosa makes every clueless hitter think he can learn to hit, and Sparky Anderson makes every no-name minor-league skipper think he can win the World Series.
So the pitcher was taken out of the game after the bases were loaded on bloops and errors, not because it was his fault that he was in this mess, but because he wasn't capable of getting out of it. Let's hope the new guy is lights out, but knowing the Reds bullpen, that's a lot to hope for, analogically speaking.
Kudos to RedsZone for handling the big news without crashing.


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December 4, 2012 > Washington Hospital Neurosurgeon Saves Modesto Woman's Life
Ruptured Aneurysm Requires Delicate Brain Surgery
Maria Ramirez went to work one day last June just like any other day. But about two hours into her shift, she started to feel extreme pressure in her neck and head. Soon she began vomiting and an ambulance was called. Maria had suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm, a life-threatening condition that requires surgery to stop the bleeding and relieve the pressure on the brain. A brain aneurysm is an abnormal bulge on the side of the artery wall. The artery carries blood and pressure on the wall can cause the bulge to rupture, allowing blood to flow out of the vessel into the brain. "About 20 percent of the time a ruptured aneurysm is immediately fatal, and many patients are neurologically injured or die later because of severe brain injury," said Dr. Jeffrey Thomas, a cerebrovascular neurosurgeon and medical director of Interventional Neuroradiology at Washington Hospital. "A rupture puts people in great danger and they need to get to a specialized hospital for treatment immediately." Maria, who lives in Modesto, was taken to a nearby medical center, where a physician diagnosed the ruptured brain aneurysm. There she was referred to Thomas, one of only about 120 neurosurgeons in the United States with dual expertise in microscopic brain surgery and interventional neuroradiology. It was thought that she could benefit from a range of potential therapies at Washington Hospital, including a less invasive procedure that Thomas performs. Five hours after she arrived at the medical center, Maria was flown by helicopter to Washington Hospital, where she was met by Thomas and a team of specialists. "At Washington Hospital, we have personnel with high-level expertise in all aspects of neurosurgery, including a neurophysiology monitoring team and neurocritical care specialists," he explained. "You don't usually see this type of specialized care at a community hospital. We also have a new state-of-the-art surgical suite, where we performed Maria's surgery." The new surgical suite features a BodyTom(r) portable CT scanner, making it one of only three hospitals in the entire country to have one. The BodyTom(r) provides three-dimensional images of the body right in the operating room.Repairing the Damage Maria had suffered a very large hemorrhage and a lot of blood had surrounded her brain, Thomas said. He determined that the best course of action was to repair the rupture with conventional microscopic brain surgery rather than the newer less invasive technique. With the newer technique, a tiny microcatheter is introduced into the leg and guided through a series of blood vessels into the chest, through the aorta, and into the head and brain, Thomas explained. A soft platinum wire is pushed through the microcatheter and into the aneurysm. The wire coils up inside the aneurysm, stops the blood flow, and causes the blood to clot. Called coiling, this procedure requires no opening of the skull. With the conventional microsurgery that Maria received, Thomas removed part of her skull, located the blood vessel that was feeding the aneurysm, and closed it off using a tiny titanium clip. During the delicate brain surgery, the team of specialists monitored her brain waves to ensure that no damage was being done to her brain. "When you have a patient with this much hemorrhaging, pressure builds up in the brain," he said. "The pressure can cause the brain to swell. All of the other blood vessels start to clamp down, not just the one with the aneurysm. Often patients get very sick a few days after surgery and can die even though the surgery was successful. But by removing the skull, it helped to alleviate the pressure, and Maria never got terribly sick." Maria spent 18 days in the intensive care unit at Washington Hospital receiving neurocritical intensive care, and nearly a month in the hospital recovering. Throughout the entire ordeal, her husband and other family members kept vigil. "From the moment I got the call something happened to her at work, I was worried," her husband Raul Ramirez said. "But I am really happy with the care she received at Washington Hospital." Maria is still recovering, but feeling good about how far she has come. She is looking forward to the day she can drive again and get back to her normal routine. "Maria is doing very well, and that speaks to the specialized care that is available at Washington Hospital," Thomas said. "This kind of advanced care used to only be available at university-affiliated hospitals. But Washington Hospital is focused on providing leading-edge technology and personnel." To learn about the lifesaving programs and services available at Washington Hospital, visit www.whhs.com.


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Earlier this year Perth Newspapers reported crime statistics in Western Australia for 2014 and 2015. These statistics were alarming with a staggering 9% increase in home burglaries.Read more
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LONDON, January 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
As 2013 dawns, and the wheels of business and investment begin to turn at full speed, companies will be looking in earnest at high-value locations to plant foreign direct investment roots. One growing sector, which touches many different industries, as varied as IT or financial services and call-centre customer care to more hands-off SaaS, cloud-computing and server-farm solutions, is the business services industry.
Many very different business functions fall under this umbrella, making it difficult to give the sector a proper name that encompasses everything that the sector actually offers. That said, it is safe to include business process outsourcing, customer service, ICT services, tech services, managed services and subsectors within these broad fields.
Odds-On BPO and Managed Services Favourites: Five Winning Investment Locations 2013
Forward-looking business investment locations have all placed considerable effort into promoting themselves as ideal places to set up and relocate BPO and managed services companies. Most countries and cities have put strategies and tactics in motion to attract companies from across the spectrum of the managed services sector.
Some locations, though, stand out as offering a potential return-on-investment beyond the basics as well as greater value for money.
Iceland offers a tech-savvy, highly educated population in an advanced society - offering exceptional advantages to potential investors. Whether seeking human capital and knowledge in ICT and software development outsourcing or the power of machines in cloud computing and server farms, Iceland has everything. Technical skills, institutional and corporate support, an advanced infrastructure and affordable, abundant, renewable energy for power-intensive operations - it is all available here.
Thanks to a highly skilled, multilingual workforce coupled with low labour costs, favourable taxation schemes and regulatory environment, Malta enjoys a positive reputation as an ICT and offshoring hub. Although it has already been discovered as a notable nearshore offshoring powerhouse, Malta's benefits remain intact and compelling for potential investors. Malta is a part of the EU and is fully aligned with EU law but has weathered the economic storm that has hit the rest of the eurozone and maintained a high standard of living that is available at lower costs (both to businesses seeking to invest and to residents) than in other European Unioncountries.
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betiko wrote:regarding swifte's post: interesting theory. do you think that dead people or cultists could for example continue to lead their followers even dead like voices in their heads or something like that and that these can't answer back? (talking about the no night discution, i don't understand if that means that no one gets a night discution, not even mafia or just that no posting at all in here?)
Hmm - I was imagining people possibly coming completely back to life, but you're right it's just as possible that there's someone who communes with the dead through PMs [hence the need to put a restriction on the dead posting in thread]. Guess we'll see what if anything comes of that. As far as the "No night talk rule" - I just interpreted that as no thread posts... but I don't have any ideas in mind why those might specifically be restricted... maybe someone more experienced can speculate why that might be.
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Youtube and so many websites recommend related post to the current post. For example, Youtube.com recommend movies which are related the current movie you're watching.
How could I do it for my CMS ? Is it just about keywords,tags and categories or there is a more efficient method to do it?
I'm a php programmer if you need to know.


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Since Blizzard have been quick to refute the comments of some developers of the company on the PS Vita remote mode of 'Diablo 3' in PS4 will not come to PS Vita.
"Will Remote Play on the PS Vita be available for #D3 Ultimate Edition on #PS4?" The answer is yes, and it's awesome! pic.twitter.com/Rg059nXZMF— Diablo (@Diablo) November 12, 2013
although i am not a diablo fan i am really glad big hitters are taking advantage of the remote play feature. i really hope every developer supports this feature from now on.
Can't wait for the expansion... and what the trolls will say.
They changed their tune quick, from saying no remote play to its awesome
I thought Remote Play was a required feature? Or is it just, that every game has the potential for it?


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The UK economic growth hit a four-year high in the first quarter of 2014.
According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS), the economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter versus a 0.7% growth in the final quarter of 2013. The reading was slightly below initial estimates of 0.9% growth.
Output increased in three of the four main industrial groupings during the quarter, with services, production and construction rising by 0.9%, 0.8% and 0.3% respectively. Agriculture was the weak link, contracting by 0.7%.
"This is the fifth consecutive quarter of steady growth. Overall, the economy is now only 0.6% below the pre-recession peak at the beginning of 2008,' ONS chief economist Joe Grice said.
'In fact, services are now 2% above the pre-recession peak but the production and construction sectors are still around 12% lower.'
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Close Brothers Asset Management chief investment officer Nancy Curtin outlined the dilemma this poses for Bank of England governor Mark Carney.
'The UK's economy has accelerated from escape velocity into overdrive. Unemployment is at a five year low, consumer spending power is returning as wages rise against inflation, and the trade deficit is narrowing,' Curtain explained.
'On top of this, government borrowing continues to fall. We have not seen the end of austerity, but at this pace of recovery, we are going to feel it less keenly every quarter.
'This underlying economic strength gives Mark Carney the sort of headache he will welcome. The MPC cannot wait too long before announcing a normalisation of interest rates, or it risks being completely behind the curve and introducing sharper, more damaging hikes further down the line.'


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Roasted Cauliflower with Brown Butter (Adapted from CL)
6 cups cauliflower florets
1/4 teaspoon salt
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Preheat oven to 400
Coat a large baking sheet with cooking spray - scatter cauliflower in a single layer on the sheet and lightly coat with cooking spray. Season cauliflower with salt and pepper. Bake until beginning to brown and the cauliflower is tender, turning twice - about 25 minutes.
In a small skillet, melt butter over medium heat - let cook until you can smell a nutty aroma and the mixture begins to lightly brown, about 3 minutes.
When the cauliflower is done, gently toss it with the browned butter in a medium bowl to coat.
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Story about open source development: "The Human Hacking Field Guide"by shlomif (Beadle)
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You can find a story (= a novella) I wrote about open-source development (with some focus on Perl) titled The Human Hacking Field Guide. It is somewhat-non-realistic realism fiction, with many jokes sprinkled in. And its text in English, along with its DocBook 5/XML source is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence which gives a lot of permission for a lot of re-use, and was recently placed in a GitHub repository for easy check out, forking, issue reporting, and some pull requests.
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Records boil over in hot start to new yearBy Anthony Stewart
The Northern Territory has had a sweltering start to 2013, with many places setting new temperature records.
In the remote Aboriginal community of Kintore, more than 500 kilometres west of Alice Springs, the maximum peaked at 46.7 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, the highest Territory temperature in 23 years.
At Uluru, the maximum temperature has not fallen below 44C for the past eight days.
Central Australia has been suffering through its longest and hottest heatwave since records began, and it is expected to last at least another week.
Weather bureau forecaster Joel Lisonbee from the Bureau of Meteorology says temperature records are being broken across the Territory.
'It has been the hottest start of the year across the whole Northern Territory. including up into the Top End," he said.
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The Swedish air force is writing requirements to replace its aging fleet of Lockheed C-130H Hercules and Saab 105 jet trainers.
Though it has firmed up its plans for the development of a new generation of Saab JAS 39 Gripen multirole combat aircraft, the air arm's fleet of C-130s are among the oldest of their type operating in Europe, while the Saab 105s, known as Sk60s, need replacing by 2020 to be ready to support future generations of Gripen pilots.
Speaking at the Swedish air force Fan Club on June 16, on the eve of the Paris air show, Major General Micael Bydén, chief of staff for the Swedish air force, said that the service was writing up its recommendations to begin looking at the procurement of new types. Bydén says the air arm "bailed" on its original plans to put its Hercules tactical airlift fleet through the U.S. Air Force's Avionics Modernization Program (AMP), and that the aircraft have not received any upgrades for several years.
"The aircraft are now requiring a lot of support," Bydén says.
Several of Sweden's neighbors have replaced their elderly C-130E and "H" models with C-130Js, and Bydén says the C-130J option will be considered, as will the A400M. Airbus Military recently said it plans to target Scandinavian countries for possible A400M sales. Any initial buy will focus on the oldest aircraft in the fleet.
"We are not likely to buy more aircraft than we currently have," Bydén says. "It will be eight aircraft or fewer."
Sweden is a signatory to the NATO-owned Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) provided by the Heavy Airlift Wing based in Pápa, Hungary; it previously considered purchasing two C-17s of its own, but plans did not proceed further.
Bydén also says plans are being drawn up for a new training aircraft fleet to replace the late-1960s vintage Saab 105s. Those aircraft are in the process of receiving a limited upgrade to their avionics, but Bydén points out that a new, modern type is required to assist pilots moving over to Gripen from their synthetic training. Bydén says he is open to either turboprop or jet trainers, but that he isn't looking for aircraft such as the T-50 or Hawk, which are almost as expensive as fighter aircraft.
Some consideration would also be given for two types of aircraft, one an ab initio, or basic, trainer; the other a more advanced aircraft. Studies have taken place on joint training with the other Nordic nations. Finland's Patria, for example, has been pushing its Nordic Pilot Training Center (NPTC) for several years using former Swiss air force Hawk Mk. 66s.
Bydén says officers are drawing up recommendations now and he hopes the first phase of the procurement process can begin early in 2014.
The Swedish armed forces also are building up hours on their long-delayed fleet of NHIndustries NH90s. Four aircraft are currently in operation in the high-ceiling tactical troop transport configuration. The NH90s are due to fly 1,000 hr. in 2013; with the delivery of new aircraft later this year, they will fly some 2,000 hr. in 2014.


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The role of guanxi in chinese entrepreneurship (USA Info, Inc. http://www.asiaentrepreneurshipjournal.com/AJESIII3All.pdf, 2007-12)LEE, E. Y.-C. and ANDERSON, A. R., 2007. The role of guanxi in Chinese entrepreneurship. Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, 3 (3), pp. 38-51.Although networks are widely recognised as improving entrepreneurial performance, China which is seen as a traditional Confucian society, has a unique form of networking, guanxi - "special relationships". These guanxi ...


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Gore seems to have come up with a theory that the upper, logical mind sits on top of, and should master, the primitive and more emotional mind below. He thinks this can be done through a technical process that minimizes information flow to the lower brain and maximizes information flow to the higher brain.So, ironically, it is Gore himself who is being irrational -- according to Brooks.
The reality, of course, is that there is no neat distinction between the "higher" and "lower" parts of the brain. There are no neat distinctions between the "rational" mind and the "visceral" body. The mind is a much more complex network of feedback loops than accounted for in Gore's simplistic pseudoscience.
Without emotions like fear, the "logical" mind can't reach conclusions. On the other hand, many of the most vicious, genocidal acts are committed by people who are emotionally numb, not passionately out of control.
But wait. Does Gore actually believe in this unscientific view of the human mind? Is the point of this book to wake us up and make us see that we've been manipulated by the media?
The other way of looking at the problem Brooks points out is that Gore is being quite rational, he understands very well that emotion and reason are intertwined, and he is using talk about rationality to manipulate our emotions. I think the use of that scary word "assault" in the title gives it away.
Be very afraid. Evil people want to control you -- assault you! --with invisible forces that play upon parts of your body that are beyond your conscious thought. I will protect you with this magical substance I have called Reason. Come to me. I will save you.
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I'm guessing if you built a plugin AC device that just sort of created random draws on your electrical supply, say ten times a minute, for random durations, I imagine that would pretty much kill any leak of such information.
It will kill any leak, but explode your electricity bill
No all you need to screw up their signature is "about equal to a TV".
Now insert the stereotypical
You could also buy a cheap uninterruptable power supply (battery) or line filter (capacitors) for the same effect.
Unlikely the battery or filter would draw 1 for 1 from the wall and would probably smooth the signal out enough to be indistinguishable.
Actually, there`s always a non-neligible loss of power from the AC => DC => AC conversion
That's a good point. A UPS isn't a bad idea for your electronics, and can save you from nasty things like lightning strikes and overloads.
You could also buy a cheap uninterruptable power supply (battery) or line filter (capacitors) for the same effect.
A (cheap) UPS generally latches it's output directly to the A/C input rather than conditioning the power in any way beyond a surge protector. If there is a problem with the incoming power, it disconnects the A/C input and switches to battery in a fraction of a second, but until that happens, it wouldn't do much to mask exactly how much power is used from instant to instant (beyond the small amount of power it consumes itself, mostly to charge it's battery.)
Some fancier UPSs are always powered by the batter
The only problem with the inline UPSes is that they also use a fair bit of power, as there's significant losses in doing continuous AC->DC->AC conversion. Our electronics are inefficient enough as it is.
It's too bad no one makes ATX power supplies with built-in UPSes any more; PC P&C used to make one many, many years ago. By building the UPS into your computer's power supply, you eliminate two conversion steps (AC->DC(+battery)->AC---->DC changes to (AC->DC(+battery)). For servers
Use what amounts to a UPS (the inverter section), but keep the batteries charged up with a couple of solar panels. Feed the panels into a switching regulator, but change the regulators feedback voltage sampling point to the INPUT and set it to load the panels down to the optimum voltage where they deliver maximum power output. There needs to be a kill mode to prevent overcharging, or perhaps divert some D.C. into other loads like a PC that's always on (also with a kill mode for when the main supply is off)
The line filtering and surge suppression in a UPS is active all the time but the batteries are not. A ferroresonant transformer will smooth out transitions in both directions; it is an always on device.
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_2/chpt_9/6.html [allaboutcircuits.com]
The transformer does smooth fast transients from either load or line but there is still variation. I've only used the ones for computers that have a clean sinewave out.
There are ones so noisy they'd swamp any line monitoring but using them for electronics is
You could just do it with a cron script or similar. I doubt the variance they're picking up is any larger than the difference between idle and full power on a modern desktop computer. Hell, just leaving a bunch of tabs open on Firefox while watching TV may provide enough variance to prevent this analysis.
Probably not a cron script. If you introducing noise to obfuscate information that might leak through a side channel attack like this you want that noise to be as random as possible. If its predictable someone may be able to work out that pattern, interpolate what the side channel data would look like with out it, and then run their original analysis.
What would be better is a little C program that read a byte two from
That's not really going to do it. This attack seems to rely primarily on the dynamic back lighting in modern LCDs. That and the line about "second by second" implies that the detection bandwidth is 1Hz, and more likely minute long detections of average light and dark periods which they then correlate to known values in the streams they're searching. As this is very low frequency, you'd want your noise band to be more like
You don't need a million dollars to own two TV's. Second hand TV's especially come pretty cheap (compared to many other costs anyway, not that that matters if you are broke...)
I'm pretty sure he was making an Office Space [youtube.com] reference.
And they would find out what you are displaying on two TV's, and the one that never zaps, or zaps in the middle of the movie, that's the one you are not watching.
And, knowing a bit about side channel attacks and statistics, you would be wrong.
I'm guessing if you built a plugin AC device that just sort of created random draws on your electrical supply, say ten times a minute, for random durations, I imagine that would pretty much kill any leak of such information.
Like a refrigerator or lights, a/c, heat, water heater, etc... Sure not one appliance ten times a minute, but certainly many appliances running randomly. I usually have more than just a TV drawing power at anyone time, assuming the TV is even on.
Light and dark passages in these films, large volumes of data, and a minimum of interference from other devices are the key to performing this analysis.
turn on a motor that draws at least 0.5A and you should be safe from those boxes....
They say that "a minimum of interference from other devices". Right, except my electricity meter is for my house, and it has many other devices. So unless you think I'm going to turn off all my lights, my computers, unplug my fridge, shut off my A/C, and so on when I watch a movie, then I can't see this working.
Also there's the fact that light vs dark really doesn't have much difference in terms of power draw on an LCD. Yes there is a bit used to change the crystals, but not nearly as much as the backlight.
Lights, Fridge, A/C don't provide much noise, and neither will an idling computer*. The last is largely because many people these days use laptops (low power with a big filter to begin with) and often leave them sleeping or with no apps running. Of course, if they're actually using it while watching TV, then all bets are off.
The thing about TV's, is what you said would be true for CRTs and early LCDs, but I think this will depend a lot on the dynamic features that LCDs employ. Very dark scenes diminish t
I disagree with you, I was in a lab in a past life, that use to develop software to detect things that I can't talk about but I can tell you without breaking my NDA that the fridge compressor was our worst enemy.
Also I can tell you that the application was not for any three letters agencies neither was it for the police forces. I would not break anything by telling that it was a modified smart-meter from a European company. That as far as I can talk about it without getting sued...
The fridge in my lab uses peltier devices, specifically so we do not have a fridge compressor.
My computer at idle varies from 71 to 88 watts according to the UPS plugged to it, with the nominal being 73-76. That is because it doesn't really "idle". It has near a hundred processes loaded. So if one of those decides it needs to do something and takes more CPU time, the cores spool up a bit and more power is used. Same deal if it decides something needs to happen with the SSDs, and so on.
The A/C, well I have no way to monitor that but I know enough about the operation of such a device to tell you that
This is for a smart meter set up. So individual devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter [wikipedia.org]
Smart meters just talk to the utility company more often. It is still a single point of reading because that's all they care about. The power company doesn't give a shit what I spend my power on, they just need to know how much so they can charge me for it. Not only would they have trouble getting people to agree to monitors on every outlet, but there's no way they'd want to bear the cost, or the insurance issues. They want a single point of demarcation past which not
They say that "a minimum of interference from other devices". Right, except my electricity meter is for my house, and it has many other devices. So unless you think I'm going to turn off all my lights, my computers, unplug my fridge, shut off my A/C, and so on when I watch a movie, then I can't see this working.
Less of a problem than you might think. You have a set of known power profiles for the signals you're looking for. You correlate each with the meter readings. If one or two correlations is much be
Back when Google Power was thinking about happening, I once figured out how a burglar could use the output of a smart electrical meter to determine usage patterns that would indicate homeowner occupancy. There would be a very characteristic double spike that would bracket a very common garage door opener's usage pattern -- when it's time to leave in the morning, the door would open causing a 30 second draw from the motor as well as a draw from the lights, after 30 seconds the motor would shut off but the l
No way are you going to make me vacuum during my favorite shows!
Why do it like this when the cable box can report a lot more info about what you are viewing and does not need new hardware to pull it off.
Well, for starters, I'm assuming the cable company wouldn't want to be sharing its data with the electric company. Second, this is useful for anyone who doesn't have a cablebox. Cablecards installed into a TV, PC, or anything other than a cablebox are inherently one-way devices. The current spec has no mechanism for them to do 2-way communication (unless it's a SDV system that requires a tuning adapter). The same is true for the little DTA devices and QAM tuners.
Because that idea spoils the whole "smart meters are evil and are corrupting our vital bodily fluids" theory.
And what if the TV, STB and various players are connected via a battery backup?
In the cryptography world, this is known as a sidechannel attack - specifically DPA.
"It's time for some clever EEs to come up with a countermeasure."
There are plenty of countermeasures for DPA in the crypto world - However:
1) The negative impact of this is a hell of a lot lower than key extraction
2) The positive effects of having power consumption tied to scene brightness are significant. Localized backlight dimming means that a scene with low average brightness uses less power. OLED displays take this to another level - black pixels use no power.
Also - In this case it appears they were only able to identify which channel a TV was tuned into. DVR makes this MUCH more difficult because fast-forward/rewind vastly increases the number of datasets you need to compare against. Also, while in theory you could identify a DVD, the selection of possible DVDs is so great and the amount of noise in the measurements is such that you're never in practice going to be able to identify someone's watched content reliably.
DVR probably doesn't change the equation much at all. Yes, there are very few patterns to match if you say "let's watch for identical channel patterns to what is being broadcast right now." But real pattern matching could be used to match on subsets of the data: 30 seconds of programming at a time might yield enough information to narrow down a clip to a very finite subset, and preceding and following clips would eliminate collisions resulting in the identity of a particular show.
This technique would wor
Of course, the reason a DVR negates this is that they draw a huge amount of electricity even when you are not watching the show. They are the biggest single draw of electricity most people have. Incredibly wasteful, but so addictive.
That is because current versions always need to be "on" if you want to record something when you are not around to turn it on.
Supposedly, new versions will be able to go into 'sleep' mode until their internal clock says it is time to
" biggest single draw of electricity most people have. "
citation needed. I would doubt it pulls more power then my electric stove. or furnace.
It is on more often than your stove, and maybe more than your furnace. The article I read stated DVRs were a bigger drain than new energy efficient Fridges which used to be second only to AC as power draws.
I was feeling pretty bad about my 2 Tivo habit, so I googled it and apparently Tivo got some Energy Star rating not too long ago for power savings versus their previous models.
And to the detriment of the GP, a DVR with pretty much consistent power usage decrypting content and constant spinning hard drive
My pull pump draws a continuous 750 watts...DVR would have a hard time keeping up.I realize we have intelligent pumps now that would pay for themselves in short order, but this one is my friend.
Depending on where you live, heating can easily be the highest energy consumption. All my computers (multiple of them) on 24/24, NAS, 24 port switches, laser printer (idling most of the time), tvs, surround receivers, along with all the remaining electrical things running in the house beside the heating furnace uses 28% of the total energy consumed per year (yes, it`s all metered), and we are well insulated, triple pane glass etc.
" biggest single draw of electricity most people have. "
citation needed. I would doubt it pulls more power then my electric stove. or furnace.
I've seen those studies, and it is true if you live a nearly amish lifestyle w/ respect to other electronic devices. Perhaps in a small dorm room? If you exclude everything that can compete, what you want to win usually wins by virtue of being last standing. Also cherry pick the oldest, most wasteful DVR that has ever been deployed in at least quantity 1 to at least one home on the planet. I haven't been able to follow the money to figure out what they are trying to do, maybe they own patents on saving
Judging from the heat they produce, I think my cable boxes draw somewhere around 50 watt-hours each in "standby" mode. I need to plug my Kill-a-Watt in to doublecheck, though.
Those suckers emit the heat 24 x 7. I don't mind so much in the winter, but in the summer I'm paying extra to pump that heat out of the house.
Just found on line where someone measured theirs with a kill-a-watt and they draw 45 watt-hours in use, and 42 watt-hours in standby. Definitely not green.
Also, if you effectively skip commercials, the DVR probably pays for itself because your TV is on less.
Countermeasures already exist. They're called capacitors.
I think the key in the article is "standard TV set" by which they mean a CRT. A CRT varies its HT current draw by scene brightness, and its quite visibly obvious when troubleshooting. Heck even a cheapie consumer grade wattmeter could probably detect it. On
On the other hand, the florescent backlight in my piece of junk basement LCD TV is constant power draw, no matter if the LCD pixels let light thru or not. The LCD pixels themselves draw about the same no matter scene brightness. Anyone who's ever done anything with embedded systems knows this... the LCD display itself is usually rated around a milliamp, most of which is wasted in the control ckts, and the backlight usually draws a good fraction of an amp. Even allowing for much higher current draw for fast moving scenes and higher contrast, I'm betting the backlight still wins for power draw.
"I think the key in the article is "standard TV set" by which they mean a CRT. A CRT varies its HT current draw by scene brightness, and its quite visibly obvious when troubleshooting. Heck even a cheapie consumer grade wattmeter could probably detect it. On
Maybe in t
Like mentioned in other posts - this does not only work on CRTs (of which Plasma is a type), but also *most* modern LCDs as well as the LED/OLED screens that are already beginning to displace them. About the only screens whose power consumption does not depend on scene brightness is old fixed-backlight LCDs, which are mostly displaced these days by "dynamic contrast" backlighting.
TI don't know how much of a capacitance is in a standard CRT setup, if it is low enough, you should be able to exctract the brightness of each sub-pixel, recreating the picture entirely
The capacitance is pretty high... high enough to give a decent shock, but low enough that the voltage would vary with "overall scene brightness" I guess I'm saying the time constant, as a rough guess, is/was about a tenth of a second.
CRTs are/were always cathode modulated not anode modulated. That said, and
Have two TVs on at the same time viewing different programs.
The crypto equivalent of xoring the same passphrase on two known plaintexts. Not gonna work.
Its like saying a fourier transform can detect two individual sine waves, but not a combination of sine waves. not how it works. In fact it's great at that.
Sure but sine waves are easy, they are regular. If you combine two random wave forms together they aren't so easy to separate.
I'll do you one better. I was seeing someone who got endlessly annoyed at radio, at TV, at anything blatantly advertising becauese she understood what they were doing, and how. And it bothered her.
I never noticed. I knew that the new episode of House was coming soon, but I still can't tell you when. I can ask if she saw that commercial about the whatever, and she asks what's it for? I have no idea, it had the things in it. She didn't notice any of that, only that it was advertising.
I have an ad filter
It is indeed possible if you have a constant or recurring draw from other sinks (like resistive lights, capacitive motors etc.) but I guess if you have even one of those malfunctioning with a random draw (such as an off-center aquarium pump or an AC unit) or you add signals (like X10 or Ethernet-over-Powerline) that this kind of 'attack' is quickly trumped unless you can get right at the circuit where the TV is on. For that matter, I think an optical attack would be much more reliable (where you measure the
See when you open your refrigerator, when your heating kicks in even if it is gas driven due to the start pulse. Every electricity consumption can be monitored and it can be interpreted allowing to see when you get up, what your behavior is (at home). That's why we need data security. No company should be allowed to use these data other than to control electricity production.
This is not as simple as some people think to block. A simple random load added to the mains signal will not do it.
In order to find out if you're watching a given TV program - first you take the TV program, and measure every 5 second periods average brightness..
This gives you 720 samples for an hour.
Now, you load up 720 5 second samples from the targets electricity meter.
You subtract the average value from each of these, so they're symmetrical about 0.
Now, you go through the list, multiplying the first brightness by the first measured energy use, and add this to a total. Repeat this 720 times.
Now, you have the correlation of the power with the TV program.
This is _MUCH_LARGER_ than the correlation of any single time period, and any noise or random non-correlated signal such as fridges or freezers drops out to a large degree.
Random signals have to be of the order of sqrt(720) - 36 times larger than the signal to mask it.
(It's not quite this bad, as there will be some false correlation, epecially given there will be millions of candidate programs, and 5s offsets that can occur)
And yes, LCDs, especially LCDs with newer variable power 'energy saving' backlights that dim or brighten along with the program content to optimise contrast and power use will work for this just fine.
If we did not have DVRs and 500 channels, this would be a lot easier
This is not as simple as some people think to block. A simple random load added to the mains signal will not do it.
True, but a second TV on the same meter will.
A second TV is merely noise, from the perspective of the program you're checking.
You simply get two results out, not one.
FTFA: "Light and dark passages in these films, large volumes of data, and a minimum of interference from other devices are the key to performing this analysis."
My smartmeter reports hourly total usage, not "large volumes of data"...
Isn't Digg the better site for conspiracy theories?
There is no way they can tell what someone is watching on their TV by looking at electric consumption. There are too way many variables involved to make this even plausible.
I'd like to see some proof, in English.
I work for a large utility that is currently implementing an AMI system. I can tell you from first hand knowledge that no utility gets (or wants) usage data from its customers every 2 seconds. At my utility we collect usage in 1 hour bins for residential customers and 15 minute bins for commercial and industrial customers. The amount of database storage we would need to collect 2 second interval data from all of our customers would be staggering. As it is we've had to invest in a large server farm to handle the data we are getting.
If I had to guess I'd say that the 2 second intervals are for in-home monitoring using a ZigBee HAN, or something similar (the EasyMeter website is in German and does not appear to have much technical info).
Light and dark passages in these films,
An LCD set with fluorescent lamp backlights doesn't use more or less power for light or dark scenes. The lamps run at a constant intensity and the LCD shutters (requiring a minute amount of power compared to the backlight) regulates the light passing through.
Its possible that a plasma or old CRT TV set power consumption might vary with picture output. But I'd expect the sound to be as much a factor as the picture.
Analyzing the advertising times against the water consumption - and we've got it.
Of course we're assuming
a) everyone flushes
b) everyone uses the toilet for their "private time", rather than the nearest bush or garden ornament
I've been waiting for myself to get enough free time to show *exactly this*. The vast majority of TVs - basically everything except LCDs without any kind of "dynamic contrast" feature - have current consumption that is dependent on screen brightness. A Google or similar statistical hivemind could potentially tease out the shows being displayed on a screen in a 'normal' house (not only contrived lab setup) because most household power consumption either switches on much larger timescales than scene-brightnes
Unless each channel uses a different amount of energy, there is no way in hell they can determine who's watching what show from the power meter.
OK, I'll admit I didn't RTFA, but give me a fucking break. With 500+ channels, there is no way in hell they can figure out who's watching what especially during prime time. It's called prime time because it's the time of day 99.9% of the TV watching public is watching TV. Also, who's to say that power drain isn't a computer, fan, or even a few incandescent lights
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Authorities say a gunman holding four firefighters in suburban Atlanta has been shot dead by SWAT members and that all the hostages are slightly injured but should be OK.
Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Edwin Ritter said Wednesday evening that a SWAT officer has been shot in the hand.
Minutes before the police announcement, one big explosion followed by several smaller ones or gunshots were heard in the Suwanee neighborhood about 35 miles northeast of Atlanta.
Police and fire officials say five firefighters responded to what seemed like a routine medical call in Suwanee and were eventually taken hostage by an unidentified suspect inside the house. They say one was let go to move the fire truck.
One big explosion followed by several smaller ones or gunshots have been heard in the Georgia neighborhood where a gunman is holding four firefighters hostage in a home.
At about 7:30 one explosion shook the area and authorities moved onlookers and media farther back in Suwanee, about 35 miles northeast of Atlanta. More blasts followed.
Authorities say five firefighters responded to the call in Suwanee and were eventually taken hostage by an unidentified. The gunman released one of the firefighters to move a fire truck.
An ambulance was seen leaving the subdivision.
SWAT teams and hostage negotiators are on the scene.
Authorities in northeast Georgia say a gunman has barricaded himself in a home and is holding four firefighters hostage.
Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Edwin Ritter says five firefighters on Wednesday responded to a medical call in Suwanee. They were taken hostage by a suspect he didn't identify but says the gunman released one to move the fire truck.
Ritter says information on a possible motive was not immediately available and a SWAT team and negotiator are in contact with the man.
Fire department Capt. Tommy Rutledge says there is no indication any of the firefighter has been hurt. He says the medical call seemed routine and firefighters did not believe there was any danger.
Television helicopter footage shows police and fire trucks surrounding the neighborhood of mostly two-story homes and well-kept lawns about 35 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta.
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Round 1 Games on FOX Sports Midwestby Staff Writer / St. Louis Blues
Friday's Game 6 against Los Angeles will be televised on FOX Sports Midwest's main channel in the St. Louis market and on DirecTV, Dish and AT&T U-verse. Outside of the St. Louis market, the game will air on FOX Sports Midwest Plus or an alternate channel.
Coverage for Game 6 starts at 8:30 p.m. with a Blues Live pregame show.
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On FOX Sports Midwest (main channel) in the St. Louis market
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Mediacom-lllinois 8
New Wave-Anna, Ill.-2
New Wave-DuQuoin, Ill. 80, 102.5 (HD 208)
On FOX Sports Plus in eastern Missouri
Charter-Cape Girardeau 10, 94 (HD 824)
Fidelity-Rolla 68
Fidelity-Sullivan 72
New Wave-Dexter, Mo. 16
Poplar Bluff Cable 2
On alternate channel in mid-Missouri
Mediacom-Columbia, Jefferson City, Springfield 22 (alt. channel due to overlap with Royals)
On alternate channel in Iowa
Mediacom 22 (alt. channel due to overlap with Royals)
On FOX Sports Plus in central Indiana and Indianapolis
Auburn Essential Services-81 (HD 1081)
Cinergy Metronet 3
Citizens 74
Comcast-Indianapolis 82
Comcast-Shelbyville 81 or 82
Mediacom 126
On FOX Sports Plus in southwestern Indiana
New Wave-Vincennes, Olney, Newton, Clinton, Brazil 80, 102.5 (HD 208)
Time Warner-Evansville 2, 505 or 12.10 (formerly Insight)
Time Warner-Newburgh 23
Time Warner-Terre Haute 13
WOW-Evansville 103
On FOX Sports Plus in Kansas City
Comcast-Independence and Olathe 261 or 925
Fidelity-Harrisonville 36
Knology-Lawrence 172
South Holt-85
Suddenlink-St. Joseph 64
Time Warner 5, 310 or 313
Blues-Kings will also be available on CNBC in some markets.
FOX Sports Midwest Plus is a channel used by FOX Sports Midwest to simultaneously show multiple events on two channels. FOX Sports Midwest Plus is available to all video providers that carry FOX Sports Midwest. Some providers carry FOX Sports Midwest Plus as a 24-hour full-time channel. Others choose to offer selected FOX Sports Midwest Plus programming and designate a channel to show the events.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. posted the fastest lap while Danica Patrick opted not to participate in Saturday's final practice session for the Daytona 500.
Earnhardt, who won this prestigious race in 2004, turned a lap at 198.592 mph in his No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. He completed just 11 laps around the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. David Gilliland was second quickest during at 198.421 mph. Clint Bowyer was third, followed by Richard Petty Motorsports teammates Marcos Ambrose and Aric Almirola. Earnhardt will start 19th in Sunday's 500-mile race after finishing ninth in the first of the twin-qualifiers on Thursday.
There were no incidents during the one-and-a-half hour practice.
Patrick, who is a rookie contender in the Sprint Cup Series this year and the pole winner for this race, was one of 10 drivers in the 43-car field for the Daytona 500 that did not participate in the last practice. Her teammate and car owner, Tony Stewart, as well as three-time Daytona 500 champion Jeff Gordon and defending race winner Matt Kenseth did not run in the session as well.
"I finally said in the hauler after we were done (in practice), 'We are definitely, definitely, definitely starting on the front row for the 500 now because we are done'," Patrick said during a press conference after Friday's practice at Daytona had concluded.
Her crew chief, Tony Gibson, agreed.
"We have speed, and she can definitely get it done," he said.
Drivers have played it safe on the track during the past two practices, in hopes of not wrecking their primary cars and going to a backup vehicle for the Daytona 500.
Last Sunday, Patrick became the first woman to win a pole position for a race in NASCAR's premier series. She ran somewhat conservatively in the first Budweiser Duel (twin qualifiers) to finish 17th. After completing 32 laps and running in a draft of several cars during yesterday's practice, Patrick feels confident that she can win the Daytona 500. She would become the first driver to start on the pole and win this race since Dale Jarrett did it in 2000.
"I know I'm inexperienced, and I know that I'm a rookie out there," she said. "I will do the best job I can. I believe I do have a chance to win. I do believe experience would help, but it doesn't mean that I don't have a chance to win."
Tomorrow's race is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. ET. Weather might be a factor, as the National Weather Service has forecasted a 50 percent chance of precipitation for the Daytona Beach in the afternoon.


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Ervin J. Schlabach, 68
Ervin J. Schlabach, 68, of Rossiter, died Monday, May 27, 2013, at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh.
He was born June 7, 1944, in Middlefield, Ohio, a son of the late John E. and Emma M. (Miller) Schlabach.
He was the husband of the former Katie Byler. She survives.
Mr. Schlabach enjoyed spending his time with his horses, fishing and his dog, Shorty.
He was a very kind-hearted man with a sense of humor.
He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by four children, Mary Byler and husband Jonas of Troutville, John Schlabach and wife Sarah of Smicksburg, Albert Schlabach and wife Ella of Rossiter and Lester Schlabach and wife Elva of Clymer, N.Y.; a daughter-in-law, Laura Schlabach of Troutville; 18 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a son, Ervin Schlabach, Jr.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Viewing will be held from 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, 2013, at the Albert Schlabach residence at 1219 Smith Rd., Rossiter, PA 15772.
A funeral service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, May 30, 2013, at the same residence.
Arrangements are under the direction of Brenda D. Shumaker Funeral Home, Inc, Big Run.
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A pilot program that tested reusable takeout containers at two Penn State Behrend student cafeterias will expand to all Penn State campuses this fall.
The Green2Go program offers washable, eco-friendly takeout containers for students who are too busy to sit for an extended lunch or dinner. The containers were first offered at Penn State Behrend and at the Pollock Dining Commons at University Park in March.
"They're good for the environment," said Isaiah Boswell, a senior who helped test the containers during the spring 2014 semester. "It's one less thing going into the landfill."
Students pay a small deposit when they first take the container, which is dishwasher- and microwave-safe. They are issued a refund when they return it.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and the Erie County Health Department have approved use of the containers. Purchases can be made through campus meal plans, using LionCash+.
Penn State Behrend students purchased 300 containers during an eight-week test period this spring. Employees at Dobbins Dining Hall filled an average of 22 containers each week, said Mike Lindner, director of housing and food services for the campus.
"We're always looking at ways to be more sustainable," Lindner said. "This does that. It limits the polystyrene waste. It also gives our students another choice."
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By Katina Caraganis
TOWNSEND -- Residents will now have a safe place to drop off their unwanted or expired prescription drugs around the clock, thanks to a partnership between the Police Department and the Middlesex Country District Attorney's Office.
The DA's office purchased a MedReturn Drug Collection Unit using drug-forfeiture money. The money is being used by the DA's Office for drug rehabilitation, drug-use education and other anti-drug-abuse efforts, according to a press release issued by DA Marian Ryan's office.
The box will be in the lobby of the police station on Brookline Road, and can be accessed any time of day, according to Police Chief Erving Marshall.
Towns in the state, including Townsend, often host a drug take-back day once a year, but the box will provide greater access to residents.
Similar boxes have been purchased for other towns in Middlesex County, including Ashland, Bedford and Sudbury.
According to the press release, more than 40 people in Middlesex County this year have died of overdoses of drugs such as heroin and opiates, which include some prescription drugs.
Ryan said the state has been battling what she calls a "frightening epidemic" of drug abuse, especially when it comes to overdoses, including recent heroin overdoses that are believed to be laced with fentanyl, a drug that can cause respiratory failure.
It is her hope that by putting the drop boxes in communities, it will begin the process of cutting down on drug-related deaths, saying there is a direct correlation between illegal prescription-drug abuse and heroin use.
"The drug-collection unit is one prevention measure that can be very effective in ensuring that children and teens do not have access to powerful prescription narcotics that could lead them down a path toward addiction," she said.
Marshall said that like other communities in the county, Townsend has seen a recent increase in drug use, especially opiates.
A National Institute on Drug Abuse study released in January found that 52 million people over age 12 have used prescription drugs nonmedically in their lifetime, according to Ryan.
Also, she said, 54 percent of people who use prescription drugs say they obtain them free from friends or family, and another 16 percent of teens surveyed said prescription drugs are easy to get from their parents' medicine cabinet.
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