get a 12v SLA battery (as you'd find in a computer UPS box) and that sits on one set of leads. your 14-18v filtered dc goes into thee main non-battery input, and you get one 'logic OR' output.
now, its either the battery voltage (12) or the input module voltage (could be 18v). so, I then pass that ups module output into a dc/dc to bring it down to a clean and reliable 5v for the pi:
I recently had 2 interviews: one at HP and one at ebay.
both were 'rows and rows of desks in an OO grid'. made me sick to see how dehumanizing it was. no, I did not get any offers from either of those 2 places. maybe it was a good thing.
I saw next to no personal stuff on peoples' desks, there. I tend to bring things in from home (sometimes even computers or networking boxes that I need for a short term 'lab') but I would not feel ok doing that when no desk actually belongs to you, you come in, grab one of the 'open desks' and then use someone's grubby keyboard, probably still with cold and flu virus on the keys. not enough lockers (the concept of a locker at work also turns me off; as our desks USED to be lockers in their own right; stable ones we could always use and count on) and no security so I would not feel good about leaving my stuff there.
there really seems to be a unified effort to dehumanize employees. also to reduce their pay, make them compete with foreigners (who live 6 or 12 to a house that only has 3 bedrooms), keep their payscales at an all-time low and fire you when your project is done.
we truly are slipping back to the bad old days of millworkers in sweatshops. unions don't exist for hw/sw guys (generally) and there are no signs of anything coming back to help balance the power again.
one thing is for sure: each time I see an OO plan, I throw up a little and I weep for us all, in our collective losses. HR keeps telling us 'the kids love it!' but even when I talk to 20somethings they really don't love this OO idea either.
not sure its enough to make me learn french. also not sure its enough to make me want to move there and have to inhale next to frenchmen. I'll have to give it some more thought.
seriously, the US is the exact opposite. its almost like there is a celebration on how far you can depress US workers' wages, rights and personal time off. we have some of the least amount of time off in the world; probably worst in the developed world. corporations are 'people' (how absurd!) and they are always given the upper hand. we even have companies forcing you (since you have no choice) to 'agree' to binding arbitration, which is a bought and paid for NON-court that gets to judge your grievance against a company. you don't even get what's left of US justice; you get what a corporation thinks you deserve.
the US is fucked. we are burning thru our advantages - what we once had, that is. I wish we had a bit more of france's views toward workers and fairness. something in the middle would be great, you know! (dreaming on; know it won't happen).
100%. this is why I refuse to install 'apps' and I really use my smartphone to just check email, run gps and sometimes use voice to make calls. most of a smart phone is wasted on me since I'm not a typical teen or 20someething who 'buys into' the whole shebang, lack of privacy and all.
android is not really trustable, carriers are a joke for trust, app writers tend to abuse their position and write crap or malicious code and the whole thing is a steaming pile of shit.
the smart phone thing had a lot of potential but I see that we have ruined this medium and device just like the 'business guys' have totally ruined the web and the internet as a whole.
now, I had nothing against uber before hearing this; but now, I won't be caught dead inside one of their cars, now. this 'war on your customers' is nothing I care to help fund or support!
uber can go fuck off. they don't exist to me, given this stance of theirs.
(and now I'm starting to have 2nd thoughts about having ANY 'contacts' in my contact list. again, phones cannot be trusted and apps, even less. best way to not have your friends spammed is, I guess, just to NOT even populate the contact list! seriously - might just return to flip phones and call it a century..)
but its minimum in RELATIVE terms because there's no reason to have to pay local salary rates if you don't have to.
maybe its only 10k less or 5k less but if the workforce is over 50% indian (bay area: its more like 80% or more; wish I was kidding) and a huge percent of those are h1b's, then it adds up.
there are pay windows or ranges and every h1b salary is on the low end of the range. because, "they can" and they do get away with it.
the indentured servant is 100% true; once you are onboard, you are abused, overworked and treated like shit. they know that you are stuck there. they brought you in FOR that reason, mostly.
in a nutshell, the only diff between republicans and democrats, these days, is the ultra religion that the republicans insist that we all have to endure.
other than that, both fellate big (and even small) business, both hate the individual, both hate freedom and liberty, both love cheap labor and could care less about the locals being able to AFFORD things, both are owned by military and hollywood, both are parties of the rich and well-to-do.
the ONLY difference is in religion. I would expect the same loss of freedom from both sides; but with the D's its a little bit less in-your-face when it comes to the US going in the direction of a theocracy.
kang or kodos, is mostly does not matter anymore. we're screwed no matter what.
(oh, and australia, the UK and a lot of the west is similarly screwed. so its not just the US; its a new sickness that is overtaking the previously-free world).
the CURRENT system is designed (patched) to disallow major changes. so, no peaceful solution exists to reform us.
you want violence? I'm ok with that, if its othe only way to fix things, but I'm not excited about living thru it. no sane person is.
but I repeat, peaceful solutions won't work when the game is all stacked against reform and the power broker club circles the wagons and protects themselves against ANY real change.
show me one government that has gone this bad and self-corrected without a revolution. name one.
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
obama probably had his heart in the right place when he started, but clearly he's not the same person who conned us into voting him in office. everything he said was a lie (everything that mattered or pertained to our privacy, true security and loss of rights during the 'bushing down' of america.
regardless of what he was like beforehand, he's now useless and has been taken over by corruption and power;(
I submit that there is not a single human being, alive or dead, that can stay true to their promise of integrity AND be in the highest power office in the world. its not possible, its not do-able and we should stop expecting it. abs power corrupts absolutely, we all know this and we can see it, first-hand.
we have 2 problems and I don't see either one being fixable. first is what I just listed - that no one can be in that office and not be corrupted in short order; and the other problem is that people are being lied to, they are not being told the truth and they are brainwashed from early youth to 'fight on teams' and to pick a team and fight for them. this 'great distraction' keeps us chattering and Our Masters(tm) love that we are kept distracted this way. we generally don't believe that abs power corrupts absolutely, we refuse to believe 'our guy' could be taken over like that and so we continue to play tribal us-vs-them games.
the people are kept stupid, the leaders enrich themselves at our expensve and there is no fix in sight.
welcome to planet earth. this is a form of hell, here, not heaven. oh, and there is no heaven, that's another lie told to keep you in-line and behaved.
these days, the IoT term has been hijacked to mean 'we mine your personal info along with smart sensors we convince you to buy and install inside your private LAN.'
that's really a bad idea, of course. I'm very into IoT things right now, myself, but NOT cloud-based shit! not for me! MY iot stuff is about device to device and device to small server, ALL staying local and nothing going across to a WAN. nrf24l01, xbee, even esp8266 - all neat wireless protocols. but all meant to stay local, too.
if your iot solution leaks info, you picked some cloud-based thing. DONT DO THAT!
my 'fix' has been to stop upgrading, about 2 or even more years ago.
yes, it has bugs and probably security issues, but I deal with that instead of dealing with more bullshit from moz.
really - a web browser is a little bit like a flashlight; it has a job to do, its clearly defined and its not hard to solve the problem. I don't need a flashlight with 'accessories' on it or with 'helpful advertising'. I simply need it to work, stay stable and not change every damned time someone has an itch to change-just-for-changes-sake.
I won't give up what I have, but I have stopped upgrading a long time ago.
ODDLY enough, I have 2 nas boxes here by zyxel; and the truly odd thing is their model number: nsa-320. I kid you not!
had them running about 2 years, now, with no problems! not the fastest thing but they are tiny, they do support both nfs and smb (most small nas boxes don't do nfs) and it has not crashed or had o/s issues that I've seen. I dont use usb on it, only ethernet in and 1 or 2 drives internally, but its been pretty good for its size and price!
the same advice is used for other overloaded programming pins (such as tx/rx which is used for the inline 6pin 'arduino' programmer, or the 6pin 2x3 isp connector).
you want to have a high-z buffer (or play the resistor trick, which I don't personally love) that you can detach your i/o devices from 'a bus' while you program the controller chip. then, when the controller runs, it can either enable the line buffers (ie, tri-state) or you could just have hard jumpers onboard, but that gets tiring after a while.
point taken, though; think about the lifecycle of software update and if anything on the bus can be in the way of that, you'll have to have an approach that removes the devices at the right time.
other misc tips while I'm on the subject: its been mentioned to use silk screening and mark polarity (lytic caps, etc) but some pkgs like eagle tend to want to put the plus sign inside the cap's circle. once you populate that cap, the plus char is now hidden and you can't easily desk-check things. I always like to add another '+' char OUTSIDE the cap circle footprint so that even when the part is installed,I can still see the indexing mark. same with chips and diodes and everything else that has a footprint that might cover up an index mark.
add lots of test points, even if its just an unfilled pcb via.
add lots of diag leds and jumpers so you can change options or enable a debug mode via a simple jumper change.
on any higher freq test points, have an eyelet that is a local ground neaby within a few mm distance, so you can use a spring clip probe instead of the 1" of alligator clip/lead that adds too much inductance for high freq grounding use.
oh, this goes without saying but so many forget this: HOW ARE YOU GOING TO MOUNT THE BOARD? ie, add round screw holes on the 4 corners of the board. remember, it will be mounted somewhere. I see lots of boards (like the open-bench logic sniffer board; it has nearly no holes and mounting in a box is difficult) that forget about the holes. its one of those 'doh!' moments but lots of people seem to forget this simple thing.
if a chip is hard to solder (fine pitch) consider making it a module that has its own chip carrier and follows.1" standard spacing. socket it so that if it blows you don't have to do serious board rework and can just replace the blown chip on a new carrier board. daughter boards are a great concept to follow.
use tlv diodes to limit static on front panel buttons, or even use opto couplers. any outside world interface may also benefit from optos (I have a project where I'm allowing ttl serial i/o from a user to the board; and I'm using optos to allow 3.3v and 5v to mix but also no ground loops and no direct connection from control system to the controlled system). if you are using fast i/o, remember that most opto chips are slow and you want nanosecond speed, not microsecond, so pick a faster opto isolator chip (they are only a dollar or 2 more, at most).
also, avoid all parts from ebay, especially china. goes without saying, but they are all likely fakes or factory rejects or even used parts that were manually removed! buy from mouser, digikey, jameco, etc. even stuff that 'should not matter' like IC sockets will be surprisingly low quality and even things you think 'should be ok' will break on you if you buy ebay china parts. its tempting, but never use that kind of part if you are building something for someone else or if you need it to last. some of us have 2 bins of parts: the junkers that are 'just for us' and for informal testing; and the parts bin from trusted sources that you will use for real builds.
and if you do send a job to china to have your thing built, never give them all the plans. divide it up so that no one place has your whole design. make it so that you can have 'diag code' loaded for the manuf testing guys, but load your own code here (in your own country). its true about china theft, so know that going in. if you break up the project into a few different boards or modules and don't give the same work to all your sub-contract vendors, you will retain more ownership of the project over time, that way.
no, you miss the point. travel 'empty'. a plain fresh install with no URL history or anything on it. ie, you do a fresh build, you create a backup (that's your new image for any new travel) and you travel with a fresh install of linux (ideally not windows) and you remember, in your head, your passwords and key URLs.
its very sad that its gotton to this. but this is probably the best way to protect yourself and arrive in one piece, unmolested.
sadly, very few can even do this much. or are willing to do this before they travel.
I don't believe encrypting a full disk is going to help you and may cause you to be detained (unfairly, but you are not in control, here, realize that). encryption keeps so-called bad guys out, but the real ones to worry about are 'your own people' (so to speak). they won't take no for an answer.
better to travel with a blank install and keep all your login and history info in your head.
question to the bay area folks who work at HP: does HP do piss testing for pre-employment? I've heard they do but that info may be old.
I'm considering applying for a software job there but I dont' want to run into any surprises and I don't support this level of privacy invasion, especially not for engineering roles.
anyone who advocates a challenge-to-authority and shakes up the 'established' order is a threat to any modern government, these days. at least in the US, we want pawns who will do what they are told and not rock the boat.
religion is the main way the elite controls the masses. if you shake up belief in religion, the upper classes will worry about their stability in maintaining control. they don't like that.
I find it disgusting that 'law enforcement' wastes time on people who are absolutely no threat at all.
one more sign that our 'free society' is a lie. impression of freedom but not true freedom. the watchers are still totally out of control.
really? you are able to NEGOTIATE with a company, these days?
in the job market now, that's really stupid. its a corporate heaven right now; those guys who are the 'job creators' (puke) are having a great time. the rest of us, we're getting by, at best.
there has to be a fair balance if there is any leverage. the only leverage she would have is to just leave. but you cannot make a company do things on threat of your leaving. that went out 20 years ago, if it even existed back then.
we're serfs and you know it. admit it. this is the world we now live in. companies fucking own us; some a little, some a lot. but things have gotton worse, not better, in terms of freedom and rights of employees.
THIS is why bosses are assholes like that guy. they are bold because they realize the imbalance of power in the current labor market.
and we've done such a great job over the past 50 years of killing the union movement, its basically only there for those that held on tight and didn't let go (oddly enough, cops have a union that 'protect' them; but regular people are not 'allowed' to have unions, since that's, uhm, somehow bad.)
no power in a weak labor market. this is what you get. blatant employer abuse.
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what? "the romans, they go to the house??"
I use this, for the pi:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...
get a 12v SLA battery (as you'd find in a computer UPS box) and that sits on one set of leads. your 14-18v filtered dc goes into thee main non-battery input, and you get one 'logic OR' output.
now, its either the battery voltage (12) or the input module voltage (could be 18v). so, I then pass that ups module output into a dc/dc to bring it down to a clean and reliable 5v for the pi:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...
this ensures you always always get 5v into the pi, even if you lose mains power. it can all be built into a single box, too, even the 12v battery.
just fyi. (I built all this and its been working well for months, so far)
https://farm9.staticflickr.com...
HTH
I recently had 2 interviews: one at HP and one at ebay.
both were 'rows and rows of desks in an OO grid'. made me sick to see how dehumanizing it was. no, I did not get any offers from either of those 2 places. maybe it was a good thing.
I saw next to no personal stuff on peoples' desks, there. I tend to bring things in from home (sometimes even computers or networking boxes that I need for a short term 'lab') but I would not feel ok doing that when no desk actually belongs to you, you come in, grab one of the 'open desks' and then use someone's grubby keyboard, probably still with cold and flu virus on the keys. not enough lockers (the concept of a locker at work also turns me off; as our desks USED to be lockers in their own right; stable ones we could always use and count on) and no security so I would not feel good about leaving my stuff there.
there really seems to be a unified effort to dehumanize employees. also to reduce their pay, make them compete with foreigners (who live 6 or 12 to a house that only has 3 bedrooms), keep their payscales at an all-time low and fire you when your project is done.
we truly are slipping back to the bad old days of millworkers in sweatshops. unions don't exist for hw/sw guys (generally) and there are no signs of anything coming back to help balance the power again.
one thing is for sure: each time I see an OO plan, I throw up a little and I weep for us all, in our collective losses. HR keeps telling us 'the kids love it!' but even when I talk to 20somethings they really don't love this OO idea either.
this actually sounds pretty good to me!
not sure its enough to make me learn french. also not sure its enough to make me want to move there and have to inhale next to frenchmen. I'll have to give it some more thought.
seriously, the US is the exact opposite. its almost like there is a celebration on how far you can depress US workers' wages, rights and personal time off. we have some of the least amount of time off in the world; probably worst in the developed world. corporations are 'people' (how absurd!) and they are always given the upper hand. we even have companies forcing you (since you have no choice) to 'agree' to binding arbitration, which is a bought and paid for NON-court that gets to judge your grievance against a company. you don't even get what's left of US justice; you get what a corporation thinks you deserve.
the US is fucked. we are burning thru our advantages - what we once had, that is. I wish we had a bit more of france's views toward workers and fairness. something in the middle would be great, you know! (dreaming on; know it won't happen).
100%. this is why I refuse to install 'apps' and I really use my smartphone to just check email, run gps and sometimes use voice to make calls. most of a smart phone is wasted on me since I'm not a typical teen or 20someething who 'buys into' the whole shebang, lack of privacy and all.
android is not really trustable, carriers are a joke for trust, app writers tend to abuse their position and write crap or malicious code and the whole thing is a steaming pile of shit.
the smart phone thing had a lot of potential but I see that we have ruined this medium and device just like the 'business guys' have totally ruined the web and the internet as a whole.
now, I had nothing against uber before hearing this; but now, I won't be caught dead inside one of their cars, now. this 'war on your customers' is nothing I care to help fund or support!
uber can go fuck off. they don't exist to me, given this stance of theirs.
(and now I'm starting to have 2nd thoughts about having ANY 'contacts' in my contact list. again, phones cannot be trusted and apps, even less. best way to not have your friends spammed is, I guess, just to NOT even populate the contact list! seriously - might just return to flip phones and call it a century..)
you mean, like, "doing the spyful?"
I bet it happens more than we want to admit.
Nothing brings a species together like breaking the moon into lots of tiny bits and dropping them on the planet we live on.
"Blessed are the chee-
Oh shit!
Run for your lives!!"
no one ever said 'min wage' for h1b.
but its minimum in RELATIVE terms because there's no reason to have to pay local salary rates if you don't have to.
maybe its only 10k less or 5k less but if the workforce is over 50% indian (bay area: its more like 80% or more; wish I was kidding) and a huge percent of those are h1b's, then it adds up.
there are pay windows or ranges and every h1b salary is on the low end of the range. because, "they can" and they do get away with it.
the indentured servant is 100% true; once you are onboard, you are abused, overworked and treated like shit. they know that you are stuck there. they brought you in FOR that reason, mostly.
440hz sounds like a better idea to me, though.
in a nutshell, the only diff between republicans and democrats, these days, is the ultra religion that the republicans insist that we all have to endure.
other than that, both fellate big (and even small) business, both hate the individual, both hate freedom and liberty, both love cheap labor and could care less about the locals being able to AFFORD things, both are owned by military and hollywood, both are parties of the rich and well-to-do.
the ONLY difference is in religion. I would expect the same loss of freedom from both sides; but with the D's its a little bit less in-your-face when it comes to the US going in the direction of a theocracy.
kang or kodos, is mostly does not matter anymore. we're screwed no matter what.
(oh, and australia, the UK and a lot of the west is similarly screwed. so its not just the US; its a new sickness that is overtaking the previously-free world).
the CURRENT system is designed (patched) to disallow major changes. so, no peaceful solution exists to reform us.
you want violence? I'm ok with that, if its othe only way to fix things, but I'm not excited about living thru it. no sane person is.
but I repeat, peaceful solutions won't work when the game is all stacked against reform and the power broker club circles the wagons and protects themselves against ANY real change.
show me one government that has gone this bad and self-corrected without a revolution. name one.
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
obama probably had his heart in the right place when he started, but clearly he's not the same person who conned us into voting him in office. everything he said was a lie (everything that mattered or pertained to our privacy, true security and loss of rights during the 'bushing down' of america.
regardless of what he was like beforehand, he's now useless and has been taken over by corruption and power ;(
I submit that there is not a single human being, alive or dead, that can stay true to their promise of integrity AND be in the highest power office in the world. its not possible, its not do-able and we should stop expecting it. abs power corrupts absolutely, we all know this and we can see it, first-hand.
we have 2 problems and I don't see either one being fixable. first is what I just listed - that no one can be in that office and not be corrupted in short order; and the other problem is that people are being lied to, they are not being told the truth and they are brainwashed from early youth to 'fight on teams' and to pick a team and fight for them. this 'great distraction' keeps us chattering and Our Masters(tm) love that we are kept distracted this way. we generally don't believe that abs power corrupts absolutely, we refuse to believe 'our guy' could be taken over like that and so we continue to play tribal us-vs-them games.
the people are kept stupid, the leaders enrich themselves at our expensve and there is no fix in sight.
welcome to planet earth. this is a form of hell, here, not heaven. oh, and there is no heaven, that's another lie told to keep you in-line and behaved.
these days, the IoT term has been hijacked to mean 'we mine your personal info along with smart sensors we convince you to buy and install inside your private LAN.'
that's really a bad idea, of course. I'm very into IoT things right now, myself, but NOT cloud-based shit! not for me! MY iot stuff is about device to device and device to small server, ALL staying local and nothing going across to a WAN. nrf24l01, xbee, even esp8266 - all neat wireless protocols. but all meant to stay local, too.
if your iot solution leaks info, you picked some cloud-based thing. DONT DO THAT!
iot != cloud
likely its the magic 32k number, which happens to be the size of the atmega 328 (arduino classic) chip!
still, 32k is too large for many sensors. attiny chips are now in the 8k range and even that is asking a lot. 4k used to be more typical.
android? HAHAHAHAH! google, you are teh funny. the security nightmare and complexity of android for IoT sensors? wow, I needed a good laugh today.
my 'fix' has been to stop upgrading, about 2 or even more years ago.
yes, it has bugs and probably security issues, but I deal with that instead of dealing with more bullshit from moz.
really - a web browser is a little bit like a flashlight; it has a job to do, its clearly defined and its not hard to solve the problem. I don't need a flashlight with 'accessories' on it or with 'helpful advertising'. I simply need it to work, stay stable and not change every damned time someone has an itch to change-just-for-changes-sake.
I won't give up what I have, but I have stopped upgrading a long time ago.
ODDLY enough, I have 2 nas boxes here by zyxel; and the truly odd thing is their model number: nsa-320. I kid you not!
had them running about 2 years, now, with no problems! not the fastest thing but they are tiny, they do support both nfs and smb (most small nas boxes don't do nfs) and it has not crashed or had o/s issues that I've seen. I dont use usb on it, only ethernet in and 1 or 2 drives internally, but its been pretty good for its size and price!
wait- indians eat hamburgers?
holy cow, that's news, right there!
if you have 20 grams, you should probably give it to gangadude. I bet he'd appreciate it ;)
the same advice is used for other overloaded programming pins (such as tx/rx which is used for the inline 6pin 'arduino' programmer, or the 6pin 2x3 isp connector).
you want to have a high-z buffer (or play the resistor trick, which I don't personally love) that you can detach your i/o devices from 'a bus' while you program the controller chip. then, when the controller runs, it can either enable the line buffers (ie, tri-state) or you could just have hard jumpers onboard, but that gets tiring after a while.
point taken, though; think about the lifecycle of software update and if anything on the bus can be in the way of that, you'll have to have an approach that removes the devices at the right time.
other misc tips while I'm on the subject: its been mentioned to use silk screening and mark polarity (lytic caps, etc) but some pkgs like eagle tend to want to put the plus sign inside the cap's circle. once you populate that cap, the plus char is now hidden and you can't easily desk-check things. I always like to add another '+' char OUTSIDE the cap circle footprint so that even when the part is installed,I can still see the indexing mark. same with chips and diodes and everything else that has a footprint that might cover up an index mark.
add lots of test points, even if its just an unfilled pcb via.
add lots of diag leds and jumpers so you can change options or enable a debug mode via a simple jumper change.
on any higher freq test points, have an eyelet that is a local ground neaby within a few mm distance, so you can use a spring clip probe instead of the 1" of alligator clip/lead that adds too much inductance for high freq grounding use.
oh, this goes without saying but so many forget this: HOW ARE YOU GOING TO MOUNT THE BOARD? ie, add round screw holes on the 4 corners of the board. remember, it will be mounted somewhere. I see lots of boards (like the open-bench logic sniffer board; it has nearly no holes and mounting in a box is difficult) that forget about the holes. its one of those 'doh!' moments but lots of people seem to forget this simple thing.
if a chip is hard to solder (fine pitch) consider making it a module that has its own chip carrier and follows .1" standard spacing. socket it so that if it blows you don't have to do serious board rework and can just replace the blown chip on a new carrier board. daughter boards are a great concept to follow.
use tlv diodes to limit static on front panel buttons, or even use opto couplers. any outside world interface may also benefit from optos (I have a project where I'm allowing ttl serial i/o from a user to the board; and I'm using optos to allow 3.3v and 5v to mix but also no ground loops and no direct connection from control system to the controlled system). if you are using fast i/o, remember that most opto chips are slow and you want nanosecond speed, not microsecond, so pick a faster opto isolator chip (they are only a dollar or 2 more, at most).
also, avoid all parts from ebay, especially china. goes without saying, but they are all likely fakes or factory rejects or even used parts that were manually removed! buy from mouser, digikey, jameco, etc. even stuff that 'should not matter' like IC sockets will be surprisingly low quality and even things you think 'should be ok' will break on you if you buy ebay china parts. its tempting, but never use that kind of part if you are building something for someone else or if you need it to last. some of us have 2 bins of parts: the junkers that are 'just for us' and for informal testing; and the parts bin from trusted sources that you will use for real builds.
and if you do send a job to china to have your thing built, never give them all the plans. divide it up so that no one place has your whole design. make it so that you can have 'diag code' loaded for the manuf testing guys, but load your own code here (in your own country). its true about china theft, so know that going in. if you break up the project into a few different boards or modules and don't give the same work to all your sub-contract vendors, you will retain more ownership of the project over time, that way.
stopped reading there.
look, don't lie to me that you are helping ME, a consumer.
you look stupid when you lie. and you guys do such a really bad job of lying, too.
and protein from the sea.
I am 'box' !
no, you miss the point. travel 'empty'. a plain fresh install with no URL history or anything on it. ie, you do a fresh build, you create a backup (that's your new image for any new travel) and you travel with a fresh install of linux (ideally not windows) and you remember, in your head, your passwords and key URLs.
its very sad that its gotton to this. but this is probably the best way to protect yourself and arrive in one piece, unmolested.
sadly, very few can even do this much. or are willing to do this before they travel.
I don't believe encrypting a full disk is going to help you and may cause you to be detained (unfairly, but you are not in control, here, realize that). encryption keeps so-called bad guys out, but the real ones to worry about are 'your own people' (so to speak). they won't take no for an answer.
better to travel with a blank install and keep all your login and history info in your head.
question to the bay area folks who work at HP: does HP do piss testing for pre-employment? I've heard they do but that info may be old.
I'm considering applying for a software job there but I dont' want to run into any surprises and I don't support this level of privacy invasion, especially not for engineering roles.
anyone who advocates a challenge-to-authority and shakes up the 'established' order is a threat to any modern government, these days. at least in the US, we want pawns who will do what they are told and not rock the boat.
religion is the main way the elite controls the masses. if you shake up belief in religion, the upper classes will worry about their stability in maintaining control. they don't like that.
I find it disgusting that 'law enforcement' wastes time on people who are absolutely no threat at all.
one more sign that our 'free society' is a lie. impression of freedom but not true freedom. the watchers are still totally out of control.
really? you are able to NEGOTIATE with a company, these days?
in the job market now, that's really stupid. its a corporate heaven right now; those guys who are the 'job creators' (puke) are having a great time. the rest of us, we're getting by, at best.
there has to be a fair balance if there is any leverage. the only leverage she would have is to just leave. but you cannot make a company do things on threat of your leaving. that went out 20 years ago, if it even existed back then.
we're serfs and you know it. admit it. this is the world we now live in. companies fucking own us; some a little, some a lot. but things have gotton worse, not better, in terms of freedom and rights of employees.
THIS is why bosses are assholes like that guy. they are bold because they realize the imbalance of power in the current labor market.
and we've done such a great job over the past 50 years of killing the union movement, its basically only there for those that held on tight and didn't let go (oddly enough, cops have a union that 'protect' them; but regular people are not 'allowed' to have unions, since that's, uhm, somehow bad.)
no power in a weak labor market. this is what you get. blatant employer abuse.