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Comment This is all nothing new (Score 3, Informative) 109

I work in this industry this is a joke and everything listed is already required. The actual requirements are here and are somewhat readable. https://www.nerc.com/pa/stand/... You are required to annual training and quarterly awareness item. You are required to have IPS/IDS systems. You are required to identify High, Medium, and Low impact system. You are required to asses the security of your supply chain. From what I have seen so far this is nothing new here.

Comment Re:19% IPC boost (Score 3, Informative) 91

It is in quite specific cases. See the review linked https://www.anandtech.com/show...
In the SPECint2017 suite, we’re seeing the new i7-11700K able to surpass its desktop predecessors across the board in terms of performance. The biggest performance leap is found in 523.xalancbmk which consists of XML processing at a large +54.4% leap versus the 10700K. The rest of the improvements range in the +0% to +15% range, with an average total geomean advantage of +15.5% versus the 10700K. The IPC advantage should be in the +18.5% range More interesting are the multi-threaded SPEC results. Here, the new generation from Intel is showcasing a +5.8% and +16.2% performance improvement over its direct predecessor. Given the power draw increases we’ve seen this generation, those are rather unimpressive results, and actually represent a perf/W regression. AMD’s current 6-core 5600X actually is very near to the new 11700K, but consuming a fraction of the power.

Comment It is not the longest (Score 4, Informative) 53

It is not the longest flight ever, by any aircraft, by time. The record is over 64 days, 64:22:19:05 to be exact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... It looks like it has the unmanned record though. Still a cool achievement having a solar powered plane in the air for that long, and has potential as a satellite replacement.

Comment Re:Dirty (Score 1) 260

Not that much. Sulfur, mercury, and lead kills people. C02 kills civilizations, so the emphasis is pretty much spot-on.

OSHA's maximum safe level is 3% (30,000 ppm) and 10% (100,000 ppm) is considered lethal so 400 ppm is no big deal.

Comment 20 ms from the Twin Cities (Score 1) 558

64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=20.126 ms 64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=19.782 ms 64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=20.602 ms 64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=3 ttl=243 time=19.563 ms 64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=4 ttl=243 time=21.245 ms 64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=5 ttl=243 time=21.502 ms --- 216.34.181.45 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 19.563/20.470/21.502/0.718 ms

Comment Re:I must be misunderstanding (Score 0) 162

Doesn't this just turn your EV into a less-efficient gasoline-powered vehicle?

There's a common misconception that because an EV puts out no emissions, that it's 100% clean. And that because electric motors are 80%-90% efficient, EVs are 80%-90% efficient.

That number conveniently ignores the battery efficiency.

So lets re run those number including every thing.

Fuel to electricity 40% ( Generation plant)

Transmission ~90%

Battery Depends on chemistry

NI-MH ~66%

Li-ion ~80-90%

NiCd ~70-90%

SOFC ~60%

DC Motor 75-92%

Bottom Line From fuel to road

Best case 30%

Wost case with current EV batteries 18%

Modern ICE 20-25%

SOFC EV 45%

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Submission + - France Bans Facebook And Twitter From Radio And TV

An anonymous reader writes: In France, radio and television news anchors are no longer allowed to say the words “Facebook” and “Twitter” on air, unless the terms are specifically part of a news story. The ban stems from a decree issued by the French government on March 27, 1992, which forbids the promotion of commercial enterprises on news programs.

Submission + - Is SHA-512 the way to go?

crutchy writes: When I was setting up my secure website I got really paranoid about SSL encryption, so I created a certificate using OpenSLL for SHA-512 encryption. I don't know much about SHA (except bits that I can remember from Wikipedia), but I figure that if you're going to go to the trouble (or expense) of setting up SSL, you may as well go for the best you can get, right? Also, what would be the minimum level of encryption required for say online banking? I've read about how SHA-1 was "broken", but from what I can tell it still takes many hours. What is the practical risk to the real internet from this capability? Would a sort of rolling key be a possible next step, where each SSL-encrypted stream has its own private/public key pair generated on the fly, and things like passwords and bank account numbers were broken up and sent in multiple streams with different private/public key pairs? This would of course require more server grunt to generate these keys (or we could take a leaf from Google's book and just have separate server clusters designed solely for that job), but then if computing performance was a limiting factor, the threat to security of these hashes wouldn't be a problem in the first place. I guess with all security infrastructure, trust becomes a more important factor than technical abilities. Can I trust that my SSL provider hasn't been hacked (or at least snooped)? How do I know some disgruntled IT admin hasn't sold the private key of his company's root CA to the same organisation that developed the conficker virus? It would certainly make for a more profitable payload. I've read some of Bruce Schneier's work (I'm subscribed to Cryptogram) and he tends to highlight the FUD that surrounds internet security, and I agree that there is a lot of FUD, but complete ignorance and blase attitude toward security can also be taken advantage of. Where is the middle ground?

Submission + - Student suspended for posting on YouTube (theglobeandmail.com) 2

An anonymous reader writes: A Canadian student has been suspended from school and had the police called on him due to satirical animations that he posted to YouTube.

Jack Christie, a 12th-grade student at the Donald A. Wilson Secondary School in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, created the videos in his own time, off-campus.

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