[36272] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: California PUC orders outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Russo)
Sun Apr 1 10:28:55 2001
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 04:26:45 -1000
From: Brian Russo <brusso@phys.hawaii.edu>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: "'Bora Akyol'" <akyol@akyol.org>, linneweh@concentric.net,
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <9DC8BBAD4FF100408FC7D18D1F092286039D9D@condor.mhsc.com>; from rmeyer@mhsc.com on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:00:32AM -0800
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:00:32AM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> > From: Bora Akyol [mailto:akyol@akyol.org]
> >
> > I don't understand why they don't go to planned blackouts instead of
> > unplanned blackouts. This may actually drive the demand down
> > and price
> > with it. Plus maybe the population would decline with people
> > migrating
> > to South Dakota and all (for those of you that are not living
> > in the SF
> > Bay Area, S.D. has been advertising extensively on the radio
> > as a good
> > place to do business with ample energy).
>
> The argument against such planned blackouts are, Crypts, Bloods, F-troop, et
> al. (gangs/looters, for those whom aren't familiar) IOW, physical security.
> Numerous blackouts have proven that social predators take advantage of
> situations where no one can see them, the power is out, and the police are
> otherwise occupied.
conversely, it gives everyone
(homeowners, police, private security, noc monkies, et al)
a chance to plan accordingly.
OTOH, if you go with unplanned blackouts..
its not that difficult for organized thieves to use diffused
lookouts communicating via radio/cell/pcs/sms with their buddies
who just drive in a few pickups/vans and scoop away the stuff
when the lights go out..
--
Brian Russo <brusso@phys.hawaii.edu>
Debian/GNU Linux <wolfie@debian.org> http://www.debian.org
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