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BBC Worldwide takes off with Gulf Air
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, today announced Gulf Air as the launch Middle Eastern airline of BBC Knowledge, a BBC-branded channel featuring award-winning factual and non-fiction content.
Available through Gulf Air's 'Skyhub' in-flight entertainment system, the channel will showcase world class experts including Sir David Attenborough, James May, Bruce Parry, Brian Cox, Richard Hammond, Louis Theroux, Stephen Fry, Simon Reeve and Ray Mears.
The new channel will be rolling out across the airline's fleet of 26 aircraft in the coming weeks.
BBC Worldwide director of travel & special markets, Zina Neophytou, commented on the deal: "We're delighted to be launching BBC Knowledge on Gulf Air and to be part of its branded channel line-up onboard.
"With such a vast range of quality content available from BBC Worldwide, we welcome opportunities to build partnerships in the travel arena to create bespoke channel environments which reflect our international portfolio – BBC Knowledge, as well as CBeebies, BBC Entertainment, BBC Lifestyle and BBC World News."
Programming available on Gulf Air will include the astonishing Africa, the inspirational Space Dive and international favourite, Top Gear.
BBC Knowledge provides a breathtaking mix of factual and non-fiction programming from natural history to science, technology, adventure and history.
Other highlights include Our Queen, Polar Bear Family & Me, Great Barrier Reef, Snow Babies and James May's Things You Need to Know (series two).
Gulf Air chief operating officer, Captain Nasser Al Salmi, added: "Gulf Air is committed to improving all aspects of its products and services both on the ground and in the air.
"The addition of BBC Knowledge to 'Skyhub' will further enhance our on-board entertainment offering passengers access to even more hours of high-quality, award-winning content.
"In our experience quality is king for today's passengers which is why BBC knowledge was a natural channel for us to choose to boost our overall entertainment."


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Analytics for all, all in one place
Govern best-of-breed analytics with an open analytics platform
By Alison Bolen, SAS Insights Editor
Let me introduce you to some smart, analytically minded employees at a growing national bank who are each seeing positive results with analytics in their own divisions:
- James is a data scientist in the business development group who analyzes data to create customized offers for the bank's premium customers.
- Susan is a digital marketer who tracks and influences the customer journey for prospective mortgage customers.
- Christina is a risk analyst who builds risk models for the bank's loan portfolios.
- Marvin is a citizen data scientist in a top retail banking location who takes it upon himself to analyze data about local customers at his branch.
Between them, these enterprising employees are using a dozen different packages for analytics and data management. From Informatica and SAS® to Python and R, some of these applications are open source, some are cloud-based and some are hosted as enterprise applications.
How can the IT department at this bank make sure all of these projects are using trustworthy data, accurate models and a rigorous process of analysis that will guarantee useful results? And whose responsibility is it to stitch all of these disparate code bases and business scenarios together to trace the customer journey or find other opportunities for analytics?
How can an analytics governance platform foster innovation? Find out in this video.
A single ecosystem for analytics
What this bank needs is one place to combine data for analysis, consolidate all of its analytics endeavors for tracking and monitoring, and provide appropriate access to models across divisions. But how can one platform corral all that analytics activity, provide easy access for all levels of users, and govern open source projects?
"You want to be inclusive of analytics within the shadow IT that's going on in the organization," says Fiona McNeill, Analytics Product Marketing Manager at SAS. "A platform for analytics governance can move you away from doing cool stuff into delivering business value."
McNeill recommends a single platform that is centralized and inclusive, flexible and resilient. "You need something that can adapt to your IT requirements rather than forcing your IT requirements to change."
The system should be comprehensive, inclusive and accessible to different users, combining data management capabilities, analytics functionality and model governance for data scientists.
"Most importantly, it needs to govern all analytics, not just some," says McNeill, especially the open source packages that don't come with their own governance functionality.
How an analytics governance platform works
So what is an analytics governance platform? It's software that allows you to connect all the parts of your analytics ecosystem. It works behind the scenes to help data scientists manage models and help IT audit analytics compliance. It provides information about model versioning, audit trails, model lineage and source data.
And how does an analytics governance platform work? Data scientists register models to the inventory, and business analysts apply business rules to describe the conditions in which a model should trigger. Everything is documented and tested for deployment purposes. As a result, IT understands the business context associated with every model developed. The system ensures accurate results through monitoring of inventory, performance and deployment.
For analysts, the analytics governance platform provides a centralized inventory of analytics methods and a standardized code base that can be incorporated into any deployment activity or action. Code is portable, so it can be defined once, run anywhere and scaled to solve any size problem. And you can tell easily whether a model is a champion, a challenger or auto-generated.
"It's not unusual for data scientists to recode models in a different language and wonder why the results don't match," says Oliver Schabenberger, Vice President of SAS Analytics Server R&D. "With analytics governance in place, you can request analytics on the same data from different languages, and you don't have to worry about idiosyncrasies and differences of algorithm implementation, options and data models. Consistency and standardization on the back end remove worries about differences on the front end."
An analytics governance platform allows all data users to stand behind the best algorithm. It doesn't matter what language you write it in, or where you drive it from – you know it will be accurate.
"With the governance in place, it's no longer an argument between an algorithm in an R package or a Python library," says Schabenberger. "The languages execute the same analytic code on the same data model, no matter how you trigger it. And all languages reap the benefits of multithreading, distributed computing, common data access and security models."
Schabenberger compares analytics governance to web governance, explaining that you can pull up a webpage from multiple different laptops, tablets or smartphones and still see the same content. Web governance standards allow that to happen.
Analytics governance works the same way. You can pull in data and build models from different systems throughout the organization, and the analytics governance platform ensures consistency, accuracy and performance.
Open and enterprise analytics together in one platform
Let's get back to the bank from the beginning of this article. Analytics governance lets this organization be open enough that James, Susan, Christina and Marvin can all use their preferred tools, and the bank can guarantee consistent enterprise-class results across all the different packages. IT now governs analytics implementation and the data to make sure everyone is working against the same data model.
When so many different users are accessing data in different ways, analytics governance is the foundation for good decisions. "If you want to deliver actual value with analytics, from concept to innovation and implementation to ROI, you need an analytics governance platform," says McNeill.
Read Next
- Improve your analytics governance with SAS® Viya™
- Read how Navistar incorporates multiple analytics packages into its data science programs.

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The following are arrests and citations recently issued in Craven County:
The following are arrests and citations recently issued in Craven County:
New Bern Police Department:
Brittany Carolina Jones, 21, 6304 Old Hwy. 70 West, June 10, misdemeanor larceny. Officer: J.R. Wester.
Michael Alan Nelson, 16, 207 Norwood St., New Bern, misdemeanor larceny. Officer: J.G. Rohrman.
Dollie Careway Reed, 43, 158 Blue Heron Drive, June 9, possession of marijuana up to 1/2 ounce, possession of drug paraphernalia. Officer: T.M. Conway.
Megan D. Koonce, 19, 6090 U.S. 17 North, Vanceboro, June 9, uttering forged instrument, obtaining property by false pretense. Officer: M. Lee.
Garry Leon Washington Jr., 25, 1210 Walt Bellamy Drive, June 8, simple possession of a schedule VI controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia. Officer: R.J. Holton.
Kimberly Gillen, 24, 210 Connors Way, June 8, possession of toxic vapors substance, resisting public officer, injury to personal property. Officer: S. Taylor.
Terrill Roland Byrd, 41, 2803 Oakland Ave., June 8, simple possession of a schedule VI controlled substance. Officer: G. Salen.
Catherine Segal, 30, 438 Gatewood Drive, June 8, possession of drug paraphernalia, improper turn. Officer: G. Salen.
Jaevon Marquell Little, 23, 422 Rocky Run Road, June 6, common law robbery, conspiracy to commit common law robbery. Officer: H. Dombrowsky.
Donnie Ray Allen, 30, 2009 Hawthorn Ave., Kinston, May 25, possession of stolen motor vehicle. Officer: S. Taylor.
Mirriah Robinson, 27, 3370 Wintergreen Road, Cove City, June 6, contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Officer: D. Cumiskey.
Ioma Sutton Smith, 44, 2414 Florida Ave., June 6, common law robbery, conspiracy to commit common law robbery. Officer: H. Dombrowsky.
Wilbert Arthur Johnson Jr., 45, 1015 George St., June 6, driving while license revoked. Officer: B.J. McKee.
Havelock Police Department:
Paula Denice Hill, 37, 138 Shipman Road, Havelock, June 9, assault with a deadly weapon. Officer: J. Phillips.
Xavier Rodriguez, 23, 6 Donnell Ave., Havelock, June 8, second-degree trespassing. Officer: J.E. MacRoberts.
Kevin William Hammond, 32, 202 Webb Blvd., Havelock, June 8, driving while license revoked, driving without two headlamps, fictitious information to officer. Officer: K. Schutzman.
Jason Michael Gray, 37, 101 Cindy Lane, Havelock, June 8, driving while impaired. Officer: J. Phillips.
Patrick Eugene Willoughby, 20, VMAQ3 PSC Box 8060, Cherry Point, June 8, intoxicated and disruptive. Officer: J.M. Phillips.
Brittney Cierra Walker, 25, 216 Webb Blvd., Havelock, June 7, driving while license revoked. Officer: J.M. Phillips.
Bridgeton Police Department:
Foster McKenzie Harrington, 16, 2898 Dover Road, Cove City, June 10, possession of marijuana up to 1/2 ounce, possession of drug paraphernalia. Officer: K.M. Johnson.
Charles Leeroy Tyler Jr., 46, 1565 B Street, Apt. 318, June 8, driving while license revoked. Officer: K.M. Johnson.
N.C. State Highway Patrol:
Shirley Scott Wood, 54, 298 Foxwood Trail, June 10, driving while license revoked. Trooper: J.H. Midgette.
Jather Bruce Jones, 67, 4065 River Road, Vanceboro, June 9, driving while impaired. Trooper: B. Riggs.
Jose Martinez-Celis, 27, 90 Morning Star Drive, June 9, driving while license revoked, possession of open container or consumption of alcohol in passenger area. Trooper: T.L. Vandyke.
Jillianne Leigh Allison, 27, Walstonburg, June 9, driving while license revoked, no insurance, canceled, revoked or suspended tag. Trooper: M.C. Eure.
Deann Whitehead, 24, Raleigh, June 8, giving wine, liquor or malt beverage to person under age 21, unsealed wine or liquor in passenger area. Trooper: M.C. Eure.
Carla Francine Young, 19, 154 Moss Drive, Concord, June 8, consuming alcohol by person aged 19/20. Trooper: M.C. Eure.
Antonia Charmaine Green, 18, Charlotte, June 8, consuming alcohol by person under age 19.
Matthew Robert Smith, 27, 1602 Helms Shortcut Road, Monroe, June 8, driving while impaired, driving wrong way on dual lane. Trooper: M. Riggs.
David Michael Davis, 47, 116 Pitch Kettle Landing, Vanceboro, June 8, driving while license revoked, unsafe movement. Trooper: S.F. Brown.
Nieheem Rontee Clarke, 27, 02-238 Craven Terrace, June 8, driving while license revoked, expired registered card or tag. Trooper: M.C. Eure.
Tiffany Raquel Blount, 24, Y-205 Craven Terrace, June 8, driving while license revoked. Trooper: M.C. Eure.
Taylor Leigh Baker, 18, 151 Foxwood Trail, June 8, driving while impaired, consumption of alcohol by person under age 21, failure to reduce speed. Trooper: S. Casner.
Craven County Sheriff�s Office:
Joel Issac Anderson, 18, 2850 Dover Road, Cove City, June 10, resisting public officer, possession of drug paraphernalia. Deputy: K. Johnson.
Lindsey Brooke Evans, 25, 120 Leonard Drive, June 9, simple assault. Deputy: E. Bennett.
Marisa Gonzalez-Yula, 21, 5 Vernon Drive, June 9, intoxicated and disruptive, disorderly conduct. Deputy: C. Desmarais.
Lloyd Victor Sutton, 50, 406 Belltown Road, Dover, June 9, second-degree trespassing, resisting public officer. Deputy: J. Dowdy and G. Clark.
Gary Darnell Dixon, 51, 9460 N.C. 55 West, Dover, June 9, second-degree trespassing. Deputy: J. Dowdy.
Edward Earl Harrington, 50, 104 Emma St., Vanceboro, May 15, larceny of a motor vehicle. Officer: H. Clements.


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Jhonen Vasquez is a... guy. I think? I don't really know what else to say. I met him once, briefly, and he was super-nice in that way that you don't expect people who create really fucked-up, disturbing shit to be, but always are. Like, I bet H.R. Giger was a total sweetheart. Anyway, I made a Hot Topic joke at his expense and he sent me this self-portrait on the right. Pretty great, huh?
So here's what stood out for me in 2012 in no real particular order. I'm not easy with putting them in a best-to-worst way because they're just so different from one another. Mostly I just wanna say this is a list of shit that most distracted me from solving all of the world's troubles this year.
The Walking Dead
This did everything for me, made me laugh, curse at my TV, shout in horrified surprise. Someone should make a Walking Dead TV show, or at least a comic book.
Super Hexagon
The worst kind of addictive. I'd get texts from Penn Ward saying "I beat your score in Super Hexagon." and I'd play til I beat him back, not eating or using the restroom in the actual restroom.
Retro City Rampage
This game reminded me I had a Vita, and that's pretty impressive. Awesomely stupid game, great soundtrack.
Borderlands 2
More of the same, but the same was still me and my friends on headsets having a good time just shooting the shit while we shot shit. Much better writing this time around made the cold cold mechanics of grinding go down a lil' smoother.
The Room
Holy god I can play things like this forever. I swear I could hear the dopamine surging through my tubes with every latch I'd uncover and every gear I'd set moving with the right combination of OH GOD I WANT MORE.
Max Payne 3
Yeah, it's a different feel from the previous games I loved so much, but when Max's neighbor walks out and explodes himself after a few creepy words, I had no choice but to be cool with everything.
Surprised how much I got into this game. Can't even say I had "fun" playing it, but the stark, miserable stressful slog through garbage and undead horrors was addictive as hell for me. Reminded me of Condemned, only with less beating to death of homeless people.
I love winning, and even losing is fun when I play this--THAT's how much I love word games and this one in particular. Yeah, yeah, I cry when I lose, but in a fun way.
Sound Shapes
Pure charm this game, though it was barely a game in the usual sense. I'm a sucker for interactive music in games and this game was just growing smiles the whole way through.
FTL: Faster Than Light
Infuriating! I HATE you, FTL! What the hell is your merciless problem? My crew didn't deserve that shit! -plays FTL again-
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
More of the same same same yeah, but zombies has given me and my friends countless hours of awesome since World at War, and this is MORE zombies. Campaign was idiotic fun, and also vomit-inducing punch-glove.
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
Exactly the sort of thing me from the past would have imagined gaming on the Genesis of the future would be like.
Didn't trust the player to figure things out quite enough, but loved the art direction and the flashbacks to games like... well... Flashback.


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Things Holly and I have argued about this week.
Last Friday, while Holly and I were having drinks with another couple, Holly stated that she and I never argue.
"That's not true," I said, "We argue every day."
"Don't lie," Holly responded, "that's not arguing, that's just you being a dickhead."
As such, I decided to write down every argument that Holly and I have this week to prove, contrary to Holly's statement, I actually show an impressive degree of patience, self restraint and logic when presented with the exact opposite.
Nacho Soup
Holly cannot cook. She is capable of the process of cooking, but Holly cannot cook in the same way that an octopus cannot ride a bike; it has enough arms to reach the pedals and handlebars but the result will rarely be a successful journey from A to B.
I once looked over Holly's shoulder to discover her crumbling Alka-Seltzer tablets into a meal she was preparing because "they are salty and we ran out of salt."
Friday night, Holly stated that she was making nachos for dinner so I was surprised to be presented with a bowl and spoon an hour later. "What's this? I asked.
"The nachos were a bit runny so I added a few cups of water. It's nacho soup," she replied.
"Is there even such a thing?" I asked. "And what are these bits in it?"
"They're the chips," Holly replied defensively as she sipped a spoon of Nachos and made a long "mmmmmm" noise. "I put it all in the blender so there shouldn't be any big bits."
"I'm ringing for pizza," I said.
"Typical," replied Holly, "you never appreciate anything I do."
"That's not true" I responded, "I appreciate everything you do but if I ordered a hamburger at McDonald's and they handed it to me in a cup with a straw saying 'Sorry, it was a bit runny so we threw it in the blender and added two cups of water, it's Big Mac soup', I would assume the restaurant was entirely staffed through some kind of special needs employment initiative. If they asked me, "Do you want fries with that?" I sure as fuck wouldn't reply, 'Yes, mix them in.'"
"It would probably be quite good," responded Holly, "but you would never know because you are too much of an asshole to taste it. Even if the guy at McDonalds spent an hour in the kitchen making it for you and burnt his thumb on a saucepan."
"Fine," I relented, taking a scoop and raising it to my mouth, "I'll taste it." Sipping at the brown and yellow puree, I felt an intense burning sensation not unlike having a mouth full of red ants. I swallowed with effort as my eyes began to water and said, "It's a bit spicy."
"Yes," said Holly, "We were out of Cumin so I used Curry instead. It's like an Indian version of Nacho soup."
On Saturday, Holly and I argued about gardening despite neither of us being in our late seventies. Earlier that morning, she had announced that she was going to build a rock garden on the bare patch of lawn in our backyard.
When Holly is bored and has nothing to do, it usually affects me in horrific ways such as being forced to play Trivial Pursuit or taking the dog for a walk so, as I had a lot of work to do that day, I replied "That sounds like a good idea." Within twenty minutes I was consigned to carrying rocks and piling them a few metres from where Holly planned to build her rock garden.
"Wouldn't it make more sense for me to place them where you want in the rock garden?" I asked. "No," Holly replied, "then when someone visits and says, 'I like your rock garden' I wouldn't be able to say I built it myself."
"You're not building it yourself," I countered, "I'm the one digging up rocks and carrying them, you are just pointing at which rocks you want."
"If I had some kind of machine that could lift the rocks for me then I wouldn't need you," she argued, "you're not contributing to the design, you're just a tool. Like a shovel or a wheelbarrow."
Slightly annoyed at this, I left Holly to it. A few hours later, she declared her rock garden complete and that I should come marvel at it and shower her with praise.
In the middle of the lawn stood a small pile of rocks. I saw a documentary once about Vikings and it showed them burying their dead by piling rocks on top of the body. The rock garden looked like a Viking grave for a cat or possibly a small dog.
"Wow," I said and meant it. "So, no ferns then?"
"It doesn't need ferns," Holly replied looking annoyed. "It's a rock garden, not a rock and fern garden."
"I'm no gardening expert," I ventured, "but I'm fairly certain rock gardens are allowed to include plants. Perhaps just one or two to counter the whole 'Viking baby grave' thing..."
"The whole what?" asked Holly. "Don't take this the wrong way" I went on, "It looks great, but don't you think it maybe, just a little bit, looks like a Viking grave?"
"What do Vikings have to do with gardening?" Holly spat. "It's not a fucking boat."
A few days later, Holly's parents visited and as they walked into the backyard, her father asked, "Why is there a pile of rocks on your lawn? Are you going to make a rock garden?" And her mother added, "You should be careful when you move them, snakes like living in places like that."
Vanna White
When I wake up before Holly, usually to let the dog out so it doesn't take a dump on the kitchen floor, I make her a coffee and take it to her in bed whispering, "Time to wake up, you have to get ready for work," or "Time to wake up, the dog took a dump on the kitchen floor and it isn't going to clean itself up."
On one occasion, I whispered, "The police are here. If they ask, I was home last night and you don't know anything about Mr O'Brian's cows."
Sunday morning, Holly woke me up by punching me in the neck.
Thinking that someone was attacking me, perhaps a burglar or an evil doll that had come to life, I rolled away from the blow and out of bed yelling, "What? What's happening?" Holly, staring at me from in bed, said, "I had a dream you had sex with Vanna White."
Groggy and still puzzled as to what was happening, I asked, "Who the fuck is Vanna White?"
"She's the lady that turns the letters around on Wheel of Fortune," Holly replied, "I dreamt you were having an affair with her and I came home and she was wearing my clothes."
"What the fuck?" I asked, "She's in her eighties."
"So if it had been someone younger that would be ok would it?" Holly demanded. "No," I replied as I dressed, "but if I am going to get punched in the neck because you have a dream about me having an affair, I would rather it be with someone born after the Civil War."
"Like Kate Beckinsale? You love her don't you," Holly accused. "What?" I responded, "I've never even met her."
"Yes, well," continued Holly, "You've never met Vanna White either and that didn't stop you."
Making my way out of the bedroom as quickly as possible, I walked downstairs to make a much-needed cup of coffee and discovered the dog had taken a dump on the kitchen floor.
I recently bought a dirt bike. A YZ250F for those interested in such things. To justify buying the motorbike, I told Holly that it was for her. "If you learn to ride," I said, "I will buy a second bigger one for myself and we can go riding together on trails." On Sunday afternoon, we drove to a secluded area in the forest and unloaded the bike.
"What's this button do? asked
as she hopped on, "Is that to start it?"
"That's a bolt. You have to kick start it," I replied, showing her how to put it in neutral and start the engine.
"Where's the accelerator?" asked Holly.
"You twist the right-hand grip," I answered, "And it's not called an accelerator on a motorbike, it's called a throttle."
"Well that's just stupid, I'm going to call it an accelerator," responded Holly.
"If you are not going to take this seriously you probably shouldn't..."
"I am taking it seriously," Holly cut in, "You're not the boss of names. Just show me how to make it go. If you can ride a motorbike it can't be rocket science."
"Ok, fine," I said, "Squeeze the clutch and put it in gear. No, you press down for first..."
"So the clutch is called a clutch and the accelerator is called something stupid?" Holly interrupted, "Why didn't they just call the clutch a squeezer?"
"What?" I replied, "It doesn't matter what it's called, you have to squeeze the clutch and release it slowly as you increase the thro... the accelerator. It's exactly the same process as driving a manual car."
"I'm going to call it a squeezer from now on," stated Holly, "So I just twist the whatsit and let go of the squeezer?"
"Well, yes," I answered, "But you have to release the squeezer slowly and twist the accelerator at the same time otherwise the bike will stall. And if you give it too much accelerator and let go of the squeezer too quickly, it will take off and you will probably crash."
"Ok," said Holly as she twisted the throttle to maximum and let go of the clutch to give me a 'thumbs up'.
The bike tore forward and Holly, now horizontal and screaming, travelled about twenty metres with the throttle in a death grip before developing speed wobble and being thrown off. The bike flipped a few times before coming to a halt.
Running towards her, I saw Holly climb unsteadily to her feet, hold out her arms as if doing an impression of a plane caught in turbulence, then fall over again. Kneeling at her side and asking if she was ok, Holly turned to me, focused, and said, "You are a terrible fucking teacher."
Breaking Bad
Last year, while I was doing a live radio interview to promote my book, the presenter asked if Holly found me annoying or amusing. Answering that it was the latter, Holly yelled from the living room, clearly audible to the presenter and listeners, "Don't fucking lie." The presenter asked me "Was that Holly?" to which I replied, "No, it was the television" and Holly yelled out again "No it wasn't."
On occasion, I have to work late due to the time difference between the US and Australia. On Sunday evening, Holly was watching a program called Breaking Bad in bed while I was working in the next room. Not realising I was on the phone with a client, she yelled "We should build a Meth-lab in the garage."
Four years ago, Holly asked me to laminate a news clipping of a cat that had adopted a mouse. Inserting the clipping, which featured a photo of a cat and mouse sleeping in a basket with the caption 'Purrfect Parenting' as Holly watched on excitedly, it came out the other end with a dead fly between the layers. Apparently I had done this on purpose.
On Monday morning I walked into the kitchen to find Holly making toast. I generally feel safe eating toast that Holly has made because it requires minimal ingredients to forget, replace or experiment with, but this toast was a bit thin and soggy.
"It's a bit thin and soggy," I said, "what bread is this?"
"It's the same bread we always have," Holly replied, pointing to the bag.
"I didn't even know we had any brea...oh my god," I exclaimed, "it has a best-before date of January 2009."
"It was in the freezer," Holly said defensively, "The best before date doesn't count if the product is frozen."
"I'm fairly sure there is a limit," I responded holding up a slice of bread consisting almost entirely of permafrost.
"No there isn't," Holly replied, "I saw a show once where scientists found a Mammoth frozen in ice for millions of years. They thawed it out, cooked it and ate it. "
"That didn't happen," I replied, "You told me once that you saw a show about a man who ate his own head and it turned out to be an animated gif. Why would scientists eat a mammoth?"
"Because they are scientists," said Holly, "and they know a lot more about science and how long things can be frozen for and still be eaten than you do. You don't even know how to use a laminating machine."
Staring as Holly raised a thin soggy piece of toast to her mouth and took a bite, she chewed and added thoughtfully, "I like mammoths. I wish we had one. A small one, for the dog to play with."
More than three years ago, I wore a pair of Holly's underpants because I had run out of clean pairs of my own. I will admit to wearing them the next day as well because they were all spandexy, but that is twice only once a long time ago.
While having dinner with Holly's parents on Monday night, her mother stated, "I was watching a program about Hitler last night and apparently he liked dressing up in women's clothing."
"Really?" Holly replied, "David likes wearing women's underpants."
The Milk Carton
On Tuesday morning, Holly and I argued about where the milk carton should be kept in the fridge. I often work from home and while I don't need a desk or filing cabinet (as I work from a laptop), I do have one working requirement: Coffee. I drink around twenty cups of coffee per day and I have milk in my coffee.
My valid suggestion that the milk should live in the door, where it is readily accessible to the person who uses it most, was countered by Holly's anarchic opinion that "the milk doesn't have a special milk spot in the fridge. Its special spot is wherever I put it."
The fact that I drink a lot of coffee was also quickly hijacked. As we own a Keurig, which uses little plastic coffee buckets that work out to around a dollar-fifty per coffee, Holly calculated that my daily consumption of twenty cups amounted to forty-five dollars. She then used an actual calculator and admitted it was closer to thirty dollars but that it was still "a ridiculous waste of money."
Ignoring my justification of coffee being a 'tool of my trade', Holly began pounding keys on the calculator and spouting numbers such as "That's two-hundred and ten dollars per week... eight-hundred and forty dollars per month... ten-thousand and eighty dollars per year... We could buy a car with that money."
"Yes, to live in," I responded, "because without coffee I wouldn't get any work done and I wouldn't get paid; we should probably buy a station-wagon or perhaps a camper-van. Even then it might be cramped, what with the dog and..."
"I work as well," Holly interrupted, "It would only be you living in the car, the dog would stay here with me. You can take the Keurig."
"Fine," I replied, "I will live in a car by myself and within a day you will call and say, '''Im bored and want to play Trivial Pursuit. I was going to watch television but the garage door keeps opening when I try to change channels. Come home.' and I will reply, 'No, sorry, I like living in the Waffle House carpark.'"
"That won't happen," Holly responded, "I will be way too busy putting the milk wherever the fuck I want."
Also, while on the subject of Keurigs, when it is out of water, I take the reservoir out, fill it, and replace it. This way there is enough water for the next person and several more coffees. On the rare occasion Holly finds the Keurig empty, she fills a cup with water, takes the lid off the Keurig machine, pours the cup in, and makes a single coffee. When I was at school, I was taught that 'good manners are contagious' but this is clearly bullshit.
Liam Neeson
I arrived home Tuesday afternoon to discover a framed photo of our dog on our living room wall. I like our dog but when I am home, so is the dog. I don't need to see photos of it. Especially if the photo shows the dog sitting on the couch that is immediately below the framed photo and the dog is actually sitting on that couch at the time.
Sitting down next to the dog, I grabbed a magazine from the coffee table and flicked through until I came to an interview with actor Liam Neeson. The facing page featured a photo of Mr Neeson in a suit, sitting on a chair with one leg crossed over the other, holding a glass of red wine. Ripping out the page, I replaced the photo of the dog in the frame with it.
Arriving home a short time later, it took Holly less than fifteen seconds to storm into the kitchen brandishing the frame and demanding, "What the fuck is this?"
"It's Golden Globe award winning actor Liam Neeson," I replied.
"Yes, I know who Liam Neeson is," Holly responded, "Where's the dog?"
"It's sitting on the couch," I replied, "It's always sitting on the couch. And having a photo above the couch of it doing so is weird. We may as well put a photo on the wall of all three of us sitting on the couch and then sit on the couch and look at it. Or put up a mirror."
As she stormed back out in search of the missing photo, Holly said over her shoulder, "It's not as weird as having a photo of Liam Neeson on the wall."
"I like Liam Neeson," I replied.
"Well I like the fucking dog," Holly yelled back, "If you love Liam Neeson so much why don't you marry him instead. Then you can put up hundreds of photos of him."
Which is a ridiculous statement because if I was married to Liam Neeson and saw him everyday, I obviously wouldn't need photos of him on the wall to look at. Also, if I was married to Liam Neeson and we had a bare wall, we could probably afford a professional interior designer who knew what they were doing.
House Hunters
On Tuesday night, Holly and I watched a program on American television called House Hunters in which couples look at three houses and then buy one. You are probably thinking, "that sounds pretty entertaining," but you are wrong and much better off watching How It's Made or Storage Wars. Even American Pickers is a better show, you just have to keep your finger primed on the remote to change channels in case their bush-pig female assistant makes an appearance.
"Can we watch How It's Made or Storage Wars instead?" I asked.
"No," Holly replied, "You will like this one, it's the International version and the couple are buying a house in Australia."
"I've been there," I replied, "I've never been to a storage auction."
"Well I've never been to a factory that makes springs," Holly declared, "but that doesn't mean I want to watch a fucking show about it."
Shaving Cream
Our shower cubicle contains around three hundred items. Two of these items, a can of shaving cream and a razor, are mine. The other items are bottles and tubes of various shape, colour and size containing moisturisers, gels, scrubs, masks, body wash, face wash, and things with mysterious names such as Pro-X. Even though the shower cubicle is fairly large, there is actually only about one square foot of space in which to stand and spin.
While I was shaving in the shower Wednesday morning, Holly walked into the bathroom and stared at me with a shocked look on her face. "What?" I asked.
"Just how much shaving cream do you use?" She demanded, "I could hear the 'pshhhhhhhhhh' noise going on for about ten seconds. Even people with normal sized heads don't use that much."
Halloween is not celebrated In Australia. While dressing up is common, it has nothing to do with pumpkins and often involves changing quickly in panic as your partner pulls up unexpectedly in the driveway. Decorating your front yard is another thing that isn't done in Australia because if it isn't bolted down, it won't be there in the morning. Once, while living in Adelaide, I woke up to find someone had taken my lawn.
For my first Halloween party in America last year, I went to some lengths to make what I thought was a reasonable
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outfit but was asked several times, "Are you meant to be Borat?" This year I will probably just wear a hat or something.
On Wednesday afternoon, Holly reminded me that Halloween is only a week away and that we still hadn't decorated. It was quickly decided that my suggestion of "sticking the plastic skeleton we bought last year on the porch again" was a "piss poor" one and that I should drive to the supermarket and buy three pumpkins instead.
Returning and carrying the pumpkins inside, Holly stared at them in horror and asked "Is this a joke?"
"What's wrong with them?" I asked.
"Look at them," declared Holly, throwing out her hands towards the pumpkins like an angry Price is Right model, "That one is all bendy, that one is a squash, and that one looks like a bird has been pecking at it. What am I supposed to do with them? We can't put them out the front of our house, people will drive past and say, 'they obviously don't give a fuck.'"
"You could make soup out of them," I suggested.
A few hours later, I stepped outside to have a cigarette and discovered the plastic skeleton sitting in a chair on our front lawn. It was wearing my only suit, had one leg crossed over the other, and was holding a glass of red wine.
Plastic Skeletons
This morning, Holly woke me up yelling that someone had stolen our plastic skeleton. There was no coffee or whispering involved.
"We should call the police," Holly declared.
"Yes, probably," I replied climbing out of bed, "I've no doubt they have a special task force dedicated to tracking down missing Halloween decorations. Make sure you give them a detailed description of the plastic skeleton and tell them you want the front lawn dusted for fingerprints."
"We could drive around and look for it," suggested Holly.
"Ok," I agreed, "I'll check the bus station while you post missing plastic skeleton posters on poles."
"Did you know that whenever you say something sarcastic, you do this little thing with your mouth as if you are repeating what you said silently?" asked Holly, "It's as if you think what you said was so fucking hilarious, you want to run through it again."
"It's in the fucking shed." I replied.
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What a tool.
That was beyond terrible.
Wow, now this is bad,,
If Roger Goodell wanted to erase the stench of the replacement ref fiasco, create a distraction to overshadow his bungling of Bountygate and get back in the good graces of working journalists weary of faux Tebowmania, the commish would cite the 2004 Playmakers ruling and cancel the rest of the New York Jets season.
Seriously. Cancel the Jets starting with tonights Monday Night Football clash against the Houston Texans on ESPN. Cancel the Jets because theyre a disgrace, a blight on the good name of the NFL, the worst thing to happen to Americas pastime since the Worldwide Leader aired 11 dramatic episodes of Playmakers.
Former commissioner Paul Tagliabue set the precedent. He pressured Disney into killing the Cougars, the fictional professional football squad portrayed in Playmakers. Tagliabue thought the Cougars were a gross mischaracterization of life in the NFL and negatively portrayed the league.
Rex Ryan and the Jets are not gross? Theyre not gross caricatures who negatively portray life on this planet? The Jets arent a real-life re-enactment of Playmakers worthy of cancellation?
Goodell should cancel tonights episode of Playmakers of New York just to save Jon Gruden from the three hours of mental gymnastics hell perform trying to pretend Ryan and the Jets arent an X-rated circus act.
I cant be the only person to notice the Jets went from Super Bowl contenders to Super Bowl pretenders once their head coach transformed publicly from Rex Ryan, son of legendary defensive guru Buddy Ryan, to Sex Ryan, the bastard child of legendary smut kingpin Larry Flynt.
Yep, after playing in back-to-back AFC Championships, the Jets have been an inconsistent .500 club since Deadspin.com unearthed alleged evidence that Rex and his wife spent their free time exploring their foot fetish on the Internet. In fact, since December of 2010 when the foot fetish controversy began the Jets have played 28 NFL games, including the playoffs, that matter and theyve lost half of them.
The Jets have a clown for a coach. Its no coincidence they play like clowns on the field and act like clowns off it.
The starting quarterback, Mark Sanchez, completes a much higher percentage of passes off the field than on it. Hes gone from connecting with hot-to-trot teenagers to hooking up with a 37-year-old desperate housewife, Eva Longoria. Yep, off the field, Sanchez spreads the ball to a wide variety of receivers. He keeps his name relevant on Page 6 of the New York tabloids. Just in the past week Longoria publicly denied being pregnant by Sanchez even though no one asked.
Is it worth mentioning that Longorias ex, Spurs point guard Tony Parker, quarterbacks a far more efficient offense and is less turnover prone than her latest public-relations ploy/boyfriend?
The teams other quarterback, Tim Tebow, remains a cult figure because of his alleged Just Say No bedroom campaign. Now, Tebow was brought to New York to run the wildcat, but the teams new offensive coordinator, Tony Sparano, is utilizing a Just Say No wildcat campaign. The San Francisco 49ers mocked New Yorks wildcat package by unveiling a superior one in a 34-point mauling.
Goodell should Just Say No to the Jets. Put them out of their misery. Spare the league the embarrassment of such a high-profile dysfunctional team. The Jets are doing far more damage to the NFLs rep than Playmakers ever did.
What a tool.
That was beyond terrible.
Who is Jason Whitlock and why should I care what his opinion is?
Whitlock's a troll, as bad as any writer out there. I must admit though the line about Longoria denying Sanchez made her pregnant even though no one asked made me LOL a bit
The funny thing is that while other teams have players getting DUI's left and right, have their players hitting their mom, have players almost get charged for murder, we are the joke because Sanchez dates an actress and the foot thing?
LOL get a clue Whitlock.
I dislike Rex Ryan as much as anyone, but that way crossed over the line.
Completely inappropriate.
Ugh, I am all for fan pessimism - but this jerk**f can GFH . . .
Jason Whitlock when you're an embarrassment to yourself http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/ima...4dd5a1a1af.jpg i suppose you want to take everyone and everything on your ship. GFY b**ch phat fuk!!!!!
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wow talk about hyperbole
the only reason for this Tebow hype is because of media types like this douche
LOL. Was this on NFL.com?
I love the point about Rex being .500 since the foot fetish story broke. Like current coaches in this league arent under .500 since last year. Sports writers and sport media personalities are worthless leaches.
There are so many really bad teams out there not to mention players who get arrested for everything from DWI to battery that he certainly could have done a better job than this. Perhaps he should have mentioned that the Texans haven't really played any good teams yet or how about SF putting up 45 on a Bills defense that was supposed to be improved. He is going to be embarrassed when the Jets win tonight.
Whitlock is an embarrassment to :
1) Writers
2) black people
3) all people
4) football fans
5) Redskin fans
6) his mother
7) his children
8) did I mention writers?
9) racism
Whitlock's a Kansas City Chiefs fan, he's in no position to call out the Jets
The Jets coach gives honest answers to media questions? What a joke! I wish he were like Mangini and Belichick and lie about their injury report, and give generic answers to every question under the sun.
The Jets QB dates hot girls! What the hell is going on, this is a joke! I wish he were more a family man like Romo or 85% of the other QBs in the NFL.
The Jets have a CB with a dozen kids with multiple woman! That is rare and a disgrace to the league! This is alot worse than Stallworth killing a man while driving, guys like Turner and Abe getting arrested while drunk and playing the next week!
Really......just STFU.
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I bet if he did, he wouldn't be saying this sh*t.
i think the jets stink and have little to no chance of making the playoffs, but that was totally uncalled for. what these jerks don't understand is articles like that cut the fans as deeply as it cuts the team, if not more. after all, if the jets are all he describes them to be, what are the people who invest time and money into this team?
So, to follow this douche's logic, the *foot fetish* crap was the undoing of the franchise, even though we went to the AFC Championship Game a month after it came out (when it was presumably the most distracting)?
Give me a break: We have far bigger problems than our coach being into his wife's feet.
And the NFL has worse teams than the 2-2 Jets, like the two teams who lost to the 2-2 Jets. Douche.
article. Or it was recently updated. In any event, I added it above and made it bold.
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I'm sorry, is that journalism?I can't be the only person to notice the Jets went from Super Bowl contenders to Super Bowl pretenders once their head coach transformed publicly from Rex Ryan, son of legendary defensive guru Buddy Ryan, to Sex Ryan, the bastard child of legendary smut kingpin Larry Flynt.
This idiot wants to cancel the season of a 2-2 team that has suffered injuries to two of its best players, one on each side of the ball, just because they haven't been to an AFC Championship game in 1 1/2 years???
Does he know there are 8 teams with only 1 win? That Cleveland has ZERO wins?
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Thursday, 24 September 2009
Electric bike demographics
This short article appeared in the September issue of Tweewieler magazine. A magazine for the Dutch bike trade, which is distributed to bike shops.
The title of the article reads "Modern e-bike gets still younger buying public"
There was an online survey of 500 people organised by the Dutch "Halfords" chain of shops (I understand this is no longer connected with British "Halfords"). The survey produced such results as that 37% of correspondents said they wanted an electric bike to make cycling easier.
A representative of Halfords claims that the average buying age is creeping down to around 50, which is much lower than previously, when most were bought by 65+ers, but do bear in mind that he's a salesman.
The article also mentions that they often see couples buying his and hers bikes together. This is something I've noticed in the past. Dutch couples who buy identical bikes at retirement so they can cycle together.
The two bikes on the right in the photo are near identical models which were probably bought by a couple. The bike on the left with the number plate is an older style of assisted bike with a petrol engine. These are also limited to 25 km/h, so they were bought by very much the same people as now buy electric bikes. Part of the growth in electric bike sales is due to these types of low power motor bike having been replaced by electric bikes.
Much has been made in some quarters of the number of electric bikes sold in the Netherlands. This article gives a figure of 5000 electric bikes sold in the country last year, with an expectation that this may have doubled to 10000 this year. Impressive growth, but still small numbers compared with the 1.3 million bikes sold per year in the Netherlands.
The reason for the high monetary value of electric bicycles is that when people buy electric bikes in the Netherlands they tend to buy expensive ones. Also, because it's quite common for older couples to buy identical "his and hers" pairs of bikes as in the photo, this in effect doubles the amount spent.
2 comments:
- Frits B said...
Not just the elderly. My mail is delivered by a variety of people, all on bikes. The one I met today, in his fifties, rode a Gazelle e-bike. Knowing that the mail will issue new bikes to their employees this October, via Halfords but that's just a coincidence, I asked him what he was going to do. Stow it away, he said, and continue to use the - privately bought - Gazelle, as that is so much more practical, and so much easier on his legs.
- 24 September 2009 at 21:45
- Kevin Love said...
After I had surgery two years ago, I put a Nine Continents electric kit on my Pashley roadster. I liked it so much that even upon renewed health I kept it.
In Ontario, electric bicycles are allowed 32 km/hr. The great thing is that I decide how much human effort goes into getting around. I like a nice gentle push that does not work up a sweat. Now I put in that much effort and go up hills at 32 km/hr. Nice.
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This page describes how you can make the original Ralink RT73 (aka RT2571) drivers work. This page does not describe how to make the new from-scratch drivers written by the rt2x00 project. (For rt2x00, visit rt2x00 wiki page)
Several USB WiFi dongles use this chipset, including the Linksys WUSB54GC and the Belkin Wireless G USB key (F5D7050 v3000)
RT73 has support built into the kernel since 2.6.25, the steps below may no longer be necessary.
However, some RT73 devices (eg: Linksys WUSB54GC) need to load the firmware, or they won't really work (you can find the firmware requests by dmesg command, eg:
dmesg |grep rt73). So you have to install the linux-firmware package, using:
pacman -S linux-firmware
Installing the driver
While the README file for the RT73 driver is an excellent source of information, (and the basis for this howto), all that follows was successfully completed under Arch Linux and may vary a little from the README directions.
The Non-Roaming Setup section may be especially informative as it is more specific to the Arch way.
Download the Ralink RT73 source from here: http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/RT73_Linux_STA_Drv18.104.22.168.tar.gz
Unpack the driver and change directory:
tar xvf RT73_Linux_STA_Drv18.104.22.168.tar.gz cd RT73_Linux_STA_Drv126.96.36.199 cd Module
We need to use the "Makefile.6" file that shipped with the tarball since we have a 2.6 kernel (2.4 uses Makefile.4):
cp Makefile.6 Makefile
The Ralink RT73 driver ships with several Device IDs already configured. First of all, check your Device ID using lsusb.
Edit the driver file containing Device IDs:
nano rtmp_def.h
At the very bottom of the file is a section titled VID/PID
Make sure your Device ID is listed, if it is not, add it in the same format as those listed somewhere before the end marker.
For example, the Linksys WUSB54GC has Device ID 0x13b1,0x0020. The line in rtmp_def.h would look like this:
{USB_DEVICE(0x13b1,0x0020)}, /* Linksys WUSB54GC */ \
Note: Replace 0x13b1 and 0x0020 with the Device ID for your WiFi dongle.
Note: Make sure the line you add ends with a backslash \
Building The Driver
After the build is finished, copy new module to kernel tree
cp rt73.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
Install module:
insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt73.ko
Update modules.dep:
depmod -a
Install Firmware
Now copy the RT73 firmware that shipped in the driver tarball to the appropriate location:
cp rt73.bin /lib/firmware
Copy the rt73sta.dat file from the Module directory to this location:
cp rt73sta.dat /etc/Wireless/RT73STA
The rt73sta.dat file needs to be modified with your wireless network settings. This process will be described below.
Testing The Driver
We will now test the functionality of the driver we just installed before altering the rc.conf file. This method may also be used when the WiFi dongle is used infrequently or you prefer retaining control over the entire connection process.
There are two ways to manually configure the dongle, iwconfig and iwpriv. Note that iwpriv must be used to set the SSID when compiling against kernel 2.6.19 and above.
Note: These steps may also be thrown in a script if you prefer.
Plug your WiFi dongle into a USB port.
Make sure the device is recognized using:
You can check to make sure your system realizes it's a wireless device using:
There should be a device named rausb0 near the bottom.
Bring the WiFi dongle up using:
ifconfig rausb0 up
The rausb0 device should show up now in:
Although without an IP address since we aren't associated with an Access Point(AP) yet.
You can associate the WiFi dongle with an AP using:
iwconfig rausb0 essid <your_ESSID>
Or, if you have WEP:
iwconfig rausb0 essid <your_ESSID> key <your_WEP_key>
If you are using kernel 2.6.19 and above, the previous command will set the WEP key but not the ESSID. You must set the ESSID before the WiFi dongle will associate with an Access Point. You have to use iwpriv to set the ESSID now:
iwpriv rausb0 set SSID="<your_ESSID>"
Remember you can scan for APs using:
iwlist rausb0 scan
Finally, let the dhcpcd client get an IP address for your WiFi dongle.
dhcpcd rausb0
If everything worked you should now have network access using your WiFi dongle. If you don't, check the routes:
There should be a path to your gateway listed. If there is not, you can set one up using:
route add default gw <gateway-ip> rausb0
Non-Roaming Setup
This section is being provided as an alternative to the Setup and Boot section of the Wireless page specifically for this hardware (RT73). This method has not been tested with other devices. Additionally, it should work whether you have kernel 2.6.18 or 2.6.19 and above if the driver was built successfully.
Edit the rt73sta.dat file:
nano /etc/Wireless/RT73STA/rt73sta.dat
Replace placeholders in the file with your wireless network settings, using the README in the tarball as a guide, or using the Ralink RaConfig utility (TODO: describe RaConfig setup).
Edit /etc/rc.conf to initiate dhcp on rausb0 at bootup:
# /etc/rc.conf rausb0="dhcp" INTERFACES=(lo rausb0)
This is all you have to put in /etc/rc.conf. The rest of the settings will automatically be read from rt73sta.dat on bootup.
// As of recently the reading of rt73sta.dat appears to have been removed from the driver in favour of using iwconfig and iwpriv.


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One Direction Deal With Inept Photographer in That Moment Fragrance BTS Mockumentary [VIDEO]
Directioners, get ready to giggle your faces off for the next six-plus minutes! One Direction have shared a mockumentary of the behind-the-scenes footage from the photo and promo shoot for their new That Moment fragrance and it's beyond hilarious.
The boys are left to their own devices on set and must deal with a famed French photographer who has been booked for the shoot. He cannot get Niall's name or Zayn's names right and he is totally gruff, aggressive and in their pretty faces. Um, where is their publicist to save the day??
They fend for themselves against this photog, who fancies himself an artiste! He tries to get the boys to make faces that represent how they feel when they smell the fragrance. We know, totally ridiculous and incredibly funny.
The boys do their level best to try and play along, but they can barely keep straight faces while they are working with the cod piece and bandana-wearing snapper.
He thinks he is unconventional, but what that really translates to is inept. Let us present it to you this way. The snapper is so bad, so invasive and so irritating that he would make the 1D boys yearn for the glare of paparazzi flashbulbs. Yes, he is that bad!
But 1D? They are the cutest things on planet earth. #Truth.
Enjoy the hilarity. And props to the marketing team for getting creative with BTS footage. Granted, anything 1D are in is going to be amazing, but we love seeing their lighter sides.


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As Accenture's Global Insurance Industry Lead, John Cusano is excited at the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) to transform the business of insurance. But he cautions carriers: with innovation comes risk. We asked him about the threats and opportunities posed by this growing network of devices, and how insurers can protect themselves and their customers.
How big a deal is the IoT for the insurance industry?
Cusano: The Internet of Things could be the greatest impetus to growth for the industry since people started buying automobiles and driving them into things. It's not exaggerating to say it will probably change the overall focus from products to services, as well as the way risk is assessed and priced, the way carriers interact with their customers, and the way they go to market. It will also, in its own right, create the opportunity for new insurance products. But because it will become as ubiquitous and uncontrolled as the Internet we're more familiar with, and will transmit vast amounts of personal data, it will be irresistible to cyber attackers.
Before we get onto the risks, what new products could the IoT give rise to?
Cusano: There is huge potential for carriers to provide insurance against identity and data theft, business interruption and other consequences of cyber attacks. Also for when the IoT fails and autonomous cars or drones get out of control and cause damage. Many of these types of risk are already prevalent, and as the IoT plays an increasing role in all industries they will become more so. This presents a big revenue opportunity for early movers that have the data and the underwriting analytics to accurately assess and price their exposure. In addition to insurance, it also creates the opportunity for risk mitigation services, which these carriers – in collaboration with technology, home security and other partners – could offer to their customers.
If the vulnerability of the IoT is such a big issue, surely solving it will be a top priority by those who stand to benefit?
Cusano: Let's not kid ourselves that the IoT will become secure; if anything, it's going to become more porous to intrusion. This is partly because the proliferation of devices presents intruders with limitless entry points. Also, so many different industries are using the IoT for so many different things that their security and privacy needs vary greatly, and in fact often conflict. And that conflict can occur internally too. Insurers' IT organizations may be pretty good at keeping the bad guys out, but their operational technology domain has a contrasting priority: production availability. Finding a way around this dilemma will be key to the successful exploitation of the IoT.
What kinds of threats do insurers face from cyber attackers?
Cusano: There are several. The first is obviously the risk that customer data will be stolen. This presents a very serious reputational threat to carriers which, to be frank, don't currently enjoy the greatest trust and affection among consumers. Then there's the risk that hackers could hijack the services insurers provide – perhaps by interrupting the flow of data – and in the process derail their operational model. Insurers also need to be aware of the liability they incur by offering IoT-related services, and should ensure they account for it in their underwriting and pricing. And then finally there's the threat that cyber attackers could use the carrier's network to gain access to its customers devices and – like the developers of the famous Stuxnet worm – actually damage or destroy the customers' assets. So there's a great deal at stake.
You say the IoT is not going to become secure anytime soon. Is there anything insurers can do to protect themselves and their customers?
Cusano: The point is that it's not realistic to try to shut the intruders out. Instead, carriers need to create resilient and agile security solutions that are highly sensitive to any signs of intrusion and able to respond quickly and effectively, before damage is done. In our recent report entitled Security Call to Action—Preparing for the Internet of Things we list a number of steps insurers can take to enhance their security. One example is using analytics and pattern-detection software that identifies malware the moment it's deployed. Even the stealthiest malware changes system behavior, so when anomalies are detected the software can trigger security alerts and defensive actions that thwart the intrusion.
So there is hope that the potential of the IoT won't be compromised by the inherent vulnerability of the global network.
Cusano: Cyber-threats have become an inevitable feature of doing business in the 21st century. Insurers are desperate for growth, and the IoT – and insurance against this type of risk – are the best opportunities that have arisen in decades. They just need to be aware of the threats they face, be mindful of the limitations of conventional counter-measures, and focus on vigilance and agility. They should also recognize that they can't do it all themselves. They need to work closely with technology providers to share best security practices; with public policy makers to clarify and simplify their data protection and public liability policies; and with all relevant stakeholders to support long-term strategic R&D that addresses this critical challenge.
To learn more about this topic, read the Internet of Things blog series which includes John Cusano's blogs.