Lasted for 3-4 years. She was a co-worker's best friend, I went to Phoenix for a gaming convention (flying buffalo's Starweb) that was held in July and co-worker introduced us.
That's all irrelevant. What got me was crossing the street would melt the soles of my shoes. And I could feel them melting, made me hustle across the street.
We all used to walk to Red Robin's when the convention ended, back then gourmet burgers weren't heard of.
It will be the hardware companies who buy the cheapest IoT hardware they can find and slap the manufacturer's sample code on top of it, display their logo wherever they can, then ship.
You built a $19.99 wireless camera with no security that sells in 2 AM infomercials? Sue your ass out of existence. Sue your Cxx's into the food stamp range. Fuck you assholes.
Oh shit, now wireless cameras cost $49.99. But they're secure? Works for me.
The gas crisis hit. Cars suddenly had to hit smog standards. At the same time mandatory seat belt laws came into effect. The result was poorly performing cars with pain in the ass seatbelt restraints. I had an '87 Ford Escort, with a shoulder harness that slid along a track. It sucked. As did the car. In every possible way. As in, replacing all light bulbs within 2 years. Rear seat floor rusting out after 4 years (Just past warranty) (In San Diego, no salted roads). Sold it at 80k miles cuz of fan belt squeal. Caused by a crankshaft pulley way off center that would take an engine rebuild to fix.
Back then they shaved corners off everything they could, hence shitty cars. Now, they're using shitty firmware that is going to make the cars seriously avoidable for a good 10 years, until they wrap they're hide bound necks around software and security.
/ That '87 Ford Escort? // biggest pile of shit I've ever driven /// I'll probably never buy another American car again (I'm 59 in 3 weeks, YMMV).
I've got 2 gmail accounts (no, snotnose@gmal.com is not one of them). I connect to them via Thunderbird, which downloads the messages to my local hard drive. It's worked like a champ for some 8 years or so.
Wireless charging is what, 20% efficient. So ra ra on the windmills and solar energy, but we're gonna charge our phones at a worse efficiency than Edison's light bulbs cuz it's too hard to plug in a cable.
Sounds about right for all the right thinking SJWs that seem to be running things now.
Not into the whole INOF thing, you make a dumb device that connects to the internet I will either disable your internet access or, hell, disable your internet access.
Right now they are focused on the next quarter. How about we say "Hey, if hackers screw you then we'll screw your life with prison terms and heavy fines".
Somehow I think the focus will shift pretty quickly.
I learned some 30 years ago that anything valuable goes into carry on luggage. Checked luggage is for stuff like clothing, relatively worthless. Cameras, laptops, anything worth more than $50 goes into carry on. Having the TSA forbid locks on luggage was the death knell for checking in anything worth more than a steak dinner.
You work in a failing company. Your company gets bought by a successful company. You have a good 6 months warning. If you're half way competent at your job why would you possibly stay in your current job?
Those that get canned are too lazy to get a job, too incompetent to get a job, or really stupid.
Pretty much every show, every movie, might take 6 months to get it but you've got it for a week and it doesn't cost a cent.
Cut the cable, pay the bandwidth cost for the stuff you have to watch *Right Farking Now*, hit the library (or, cough, pirate's bay cough), and fuck paying $5/month to ESPN for a channel you've never watched in your life.
You get your job done. Then you look at the bug database and choose a bug to fix. The sooner you get your job done, and the more bugs you fix, the better you look to the boss.
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I turned 42 in y2k. Had I called someone and got this bullshit I've have probably driven to their house and slapped them around asking "WTF asshole?".
Lasted for 3-4 years. She was a co-worker's best friend, I went to Phoenix for a gaming convention (flying buffalo's Starweb) that was held in July and co-worker introduced us.
That's all irrelevant. What got me was crossing the street would melt the soles of my shoes. And I could feel them melting, made me hustle across the street.
We all used to walk to Red Robin's when the convention ended, back then gourmet burgers weren't heard of.
Hmmm, that's odd. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, what's happening here?
It will be the hardware companies who buy the cheapest IoT hardware they can find and slap the manufacturer's sample code on top of it, display their logo wherever they can, then ship.
To which I say, good fucking riddance.
You built a $19.99 wireless camera with no security that sells in 2 AM infomercials? Sue your ass out of existence. Sue your Cxx's into the food stamp range. Fuck you assholes.
Oh shit, now wireless cameras cost $49.99. But they're secure? Works for me.
The gas crisis hit. Cars suddenly had to hit smog standards. At the same time mandatory seat belt laws came into effect. The result was poorly performing cars with pain in the ass seatbelt restraints. I had an '87 Ford Escort, with a shoulder harness that slid along a track. It sucked. As did the car. In every possible way. As in, replacing all light bulbs within 2 years. Rear seat floor rusting out after 4 years (Just past warranty) (In San Diego, no salted roads). Sold it at 80k miles cuz of fan belt squeal. Caused by a crankshaft pulley way off center that would take an engine rebuild to fix.
// biggest pile of shit I've ever driven
/// I'll probably never buy another American car again (I'm 59 in 3 weeks, YMMV).
Back then they shaved corners off everything they could, hence shitty cars. Now, they're using shitty firmware that is going to make the cars seriously avoidable for a good 10 years, until they wrap they're hide bound necks around software and security.
/ That '87 Ford Escort?
Knowing that newbies to the security scene are pretty much clueless and marketing is driving things.
I've got 2 gmail accounts (no, snotnose@gmal.com is not one of them). I connect to them via Thunderbird, which downloads the messages to my local hard drive. It's worked like a champ for some 8 years or so.
If I'm thinking of taking a job for Konami this story will make me think "7/11 cashier. Midnight to 8. Hey, no lines at the grocery store!"
They've created a virtual politician. Color me surprised, I'm guessing two faced assholes are gonna be one of the easiest personality traits to mimic.
Wireless charging is what, 20% efficient. So ra ra on the windmills and solar energy, but we're gonna charge our phones at a worse efficiency than Edison's light bulbs cuz it's too hard to plug in a cable.
Sounds about right for all the right thinking SJWs that seem to be running things now.
Can we get the FTC to investigate the NSA?
Who have 20+ years experience in favor of outsourced "engineers" for 1/3 the salary and 1/10 the experience.
/ not bitter
Not into the whole INOF thing, you make a dumb device that connects to the internet I will either disable your internet access or, hell, disable your internet access.
Right now they are focused on the next quarter. How about we say "Hey, if hackers screw you then we'll screw your life with prison terms and heavy fines".
Somehow I think the focus will shift pretty quickly.
Unless I want to spend 10 hours at Kohls. So I'll stick with my gas guzzler.
I learned some 30 years ago that anything valuable goes into carry on luggage. Checked luggage is for stuff like clothing, relatively worthless. Cameras, laptops, anything worth more than $50 goes into carry on. Having the TSA forbid locks on luggage was the death knell for checking in anything worth more than a steak dinner.
You work in a failing company. Your company gets bought by a successful company. You have a good 6 months warning. If you're half way competent at your job why would you possibly stay in your current job?
Those that get canned are too lazy to get a job, too incompetent to get a job, or really stupid.
A different take on zombies, fun to watch.
The cynic in me has to wonder if this is because those in charge don't want their new sheeple to know how to think for themselves.
Pretty much every show, every movie, might take 6 months to get it but you've got it for a week and it doesn't cost a cent.
Cut the cable, pay the bandwidth cost for the stuff you have to watch *Right Farking Now*, hit the library (or, cough, pirate's bay cough), and fuck paying $5/month to ESPN for a channel you've never watched in your life.
You get your job done. Then you look at the bug database and choose a bug to fix. The sooner you get your job done, and the more bugs you fix, the better you look to the boss.
this question really needs to be asked?
It's not a battery, it's a big ass capacitor that can take a huge charge instantly and let it our slowly.
How do I find out if I'm infuckted? File to look for? Program I can download and run to say yay/nea?
Gonna take a while to get used to calling myself drynose.
Jeez, I've used this nick since the 90s. It was supposed to be a throwaway but somehow stuck.