Have you shared this particular treewalker? I wouldn't mind having an already developed bit of code for this in case I start using the idea when I build a webapp this summer for myself (where bending the rules for demonstration is much easier to pull off than at the office ;) )

direct urls:

http://preview.rrauction.com/content/images/scans/3223/3223557_1.jpg

http://preview.rrauction.com/content/images/scans/3223/3223557_2.jpg <-- note it just shows the rear of the card

Of course I know that every meter is absolutely positioned, I didn't mean that they needed to look all around when they got there, I meant that you only needed a few men on staff to do site visits as a normal course of action. Which costs more, 30 meter readers on staff or 3 "inspectors"?

And you have to admit most smart meters don't know their actual location on their own, it's the coordinating central office computers that store that information. Yes sure, some models may have that as a feature/benefit, but it's not a requirement.

As for which uses more energy, I would have to do the math and I've not yet had my coffee, but at a few partial-amps per device it would take quite a few homes to equal the cost of one truck. Plus, power plants have more efficient means of energy extraction than a truck does so I don't know what those conversion factors look like.

As someone who writes analysis code for the readings collected by smart meters, do you know how easy it is to isolate unusual activity by studying the averages versus actuals on a system like this and then send a few men out to do an inspection in a specific area versus the fleet of vehicles needed (carbon footprint) to read all those meters?

And I'm not going to go into the privacy concerns cos smart meters only relay usage, they know nothing about their installed locations.

I think this is about pot myself.

No but I would still forward it to an office of the military (who the hell handles this sort of thing? JAG?)

Better to say you were doing 3 months for possession, or that you took the time off to get a sex change.

I can't help myself ;) I thought it was hilarious ;)

lmfao, that's funny.

idk, if this is coming from some place like Dell or HP, I might trust it, depends on the specs. HP does that for you if the server is rigged enough, their diagnostics put a full load on the CPU/RAM (and by inheritance, the rest of the basic subsystems that deal with CPU/RAM) but not the hard drives for up to 24 hours before shipping. On average it's 6-8 hours of dedicated testing.

So if it came completely prebuilt from a big shop, I would trust it...

I'm gonna guess fileoverflow or serverdiskoverflow ...

Sadly I haz no modpoints, this was teh funniez