Has any "smart" meter manufacturer come up with a smart meter with modular cellular modem?
Instead of upgrading the meter every time the cellular technology becomes obsolete, maybe the cellular modem can be upgraded instead?
Posts by sanmigueelbeer
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Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed
Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches
OpenAI launches Asian operations in Tokyo to avoid being lost in translation
Space Force boss warns 'the US will lose' without help from Musk and Bezos
Apple cuts hundreds of jobs after ditching the car project and more
World's second-largest eyeglass lens-maker blinded by infosec incident
Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first
Thursday 4th April 2024 21:19 GMT 
And it appears that the Biden administration is more than happy to let the very tech companies developing your AI replacement take the lead on this one.
Like the same idea to close all the factories in the US and move them all (including the kitchen sink) to the far east? Sure, why not? I mean, what could possibly go wrong with this idea?
Boeing top brass stand down amid safety turbulence
Beijing-backed cyberspies attacked 70+ orgs across 23 countries
Nissan to let 100,000 Aussies and Kiwis know their data was stolen in cyberattack
Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems
Cisco is a fashion retailer now, with a spring collection to prove it
Atos hires three board directors to stop ship from sinking
FAA gives Boeing 90 days to fix serious safety shortcomings found in report
United Airlines’ patience with Boeing is maxed out after repeated safety issues
Travel app Kayak offers Boeing 737 Max 9 filter after that door plug drama
Tuesday 23rd January 2024 05:21 GMT
Boeing's CEO is a Trained Accountant - but Airbus's CEO is an Aeronautical Engineer
The Journal reported that unlike Calhoun, who mainly works from home and only appears in the office twice a month, Faury regularly works from Airbus's European headquarters.
I think this says it all.
Robocaller spoofing Joe Biden is telling people not to vote in New Hampshire
ICO fines spam slinging financial services biz
Insurance website's buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove
Thursday 18th January 2024 03:10 GMT
TTIBI and Eicher did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
However, TTIBI and Eicher "take the privacy of personal information seriously" and "we are (un)committed to be open and transparent as we work through the investigation.
Lastly, TTIBI and Eicher are working as quickly as possible to notify our valued supporters who have been affected by the recent hack on TTIBI and Eicher as a matter of urgency do not give a f*ck.
Going green Hertz: Rental giant axes third of EV fleet over lack of demand
Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency
'The computer was sitting in a puddle of mud, with water up to the motherboard'
Thursday 21st December 2023 10:02 GMT
I once went to decommission a site that was used to train drug detection dogs.
I took all our gear back to our office so they can be wiped clean and one of them, a network switch, was making a strange noise. I popped the screws and lifted the lid and found every space packed in dog hair. The noise was coming from the fan struggling to breathe!
Millions of Xfinity customers' info, hashed passwords feared stolen in cyberattack
Britain's Ministry of Defence fined £350K over Afghan interpreter BCC email blunder
Raspberry Pi sizes up HAT+ spec for future hardware add-ons
Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor
Scores of US credit unions offline after ransomware infects backend cloud outfit
Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater
Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist
Cisco has a new problem: You take too long to implement its products and stop buying more kit
Cruise parks entire US fleet over safety fears
Inside Denmark’s hell week as critical infrastructure orgs faced cyberattacks
Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck
Saturday 11th November 2023 03:39 GMT
We had this site that kept annoying us yearly and before the end of financial year. The site would ask us to provide a quote to put WiFi in the building. We would come up with a plan and provide a BoM. The most senior person in that building would always reject it. Generating plans and BoM is time consuming and after 4 consecutive years of getting knocked back, we decided to go straight for the jugular.
We told the senior person that we are going to put a WiFi outside her office (and ONLY her office) because we want to do some "testing". Within a few days, WiFi users started appearing in our stats. Week after week, the number of WiFi users increased. After 8 months, we announced that we were disconnecting the WAP because testing was over.
One early morning, we turned off the radios (but the WAP remained) and within 20 minutes we got an angry call from her demanding the WAP to be returned and made functional again.
We refused and told the senior person the WAP is earmarked for a different building. "I paid for that," she said hotly. And when she said that, we sprung our trap.
Our director calmly reminded her that "'someone' in your building kept rejecting the BoM for the last 4 years. That WAP is not yours and definitely not yours to 'keep'. Hand it back." and sent her a well prepared email, with attachments of previous rejection emails with her signature block along with a new quote.
The BoM got approved before lunchtime.
Poloniex crypto-exchange offers 5% cut to thieves if they return that $120M they nicked
Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him
CEOs of crashed tech upstart Bitwise accused of swindling $100M from investors
Feds collar suspected sanctions-busting Russian smugglers of US tech
Thursday 2nd November 2023 23:17 GMT
Re: At least they were caught?
Much easier to embargo spares for their Airbus and Boeing commercial jets, oil industry or big stuff like that with highly regulated supply chains.
(Not trying to nit-pick.)
Not as easy as what everyone thinks. When the US announced an embargo for Airbus & Boeing spare parts, they (the West said in a news conference), the embargo will cause air travel within Russia to grind to a halt in 6 months time. 12 months later Airbus and Boeing jets are still flying inside Russia.
The Russians admitted themselves that the embargo was really a problem at the beginning. But they managed to find supply chains where businesses were "out of reach" from Western purview. The parts were being flown to Turkey, Dubai, China, Hong Kong, Tajikistan, etc., before being re-shipped to their final destination.
Small time spare parts suppliers, manufacturers and refurbishers always use, "I sold this part to Dowey, Cheatem & Howe Aviation, Ltd but we did not know it will wind up in Russia." excuse. Ignorance, I remembered from my Law 101 course, is not an excuse from the law.
The Russian commercial air transport is one of the best examples of how embargoes, sanctions, fines and penalties do not work if enforcement is left out from the plan.
Splunk sheds 7% of workers amid Cisco's $28B embrace
Thursday 2nd November 2023 06:08 GMT
If I google the sentence "Splunk’s $3.099 billion in debt exceeds its annual revenue." one of the links is this: Did Cisco Save Splunk?
UK to crack down on imported Chinese optical fiber cables
Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft
Chinese smart TV boxes infected with malware in PEACHPIT ad fraud campaign
Tuesday 10th October 2023 01:53 GMT
`tis all fun-n-games until somebody pokes an eye
Would it make any difference?
How many oil refineries, power plants, manufacturing/industrial plants, etc get hacked every year?
The most fundamental question is still left unanswered: If these critical network infrastructure (CNI) are deemed "critical", then why is the CNI network connected to the internet?
`tis all fun-n-games until somebody pokes an eye.
Lorenz ransomware crew bungles blackmail blueprint by leaking two years of contacts
Cisco warns of critical flaw in Emergency Responder code
Friday 6th October 2023 09:19 GMT
Re: On CISCO
After their enterprise stuff had at least 5 backdoors
And about a dozen plus more no one has discovered. Yet.
HOW did this get past their redoubled QA?
Cisco no longer has the ability to publish technical documents and release notes that make sense, QA codes would be an even bigger hurdle.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
