I'm sure many of us have multimeters. I have several. I built a simple rig with a partially "unzipped" extension cord that I can use with my clamp-on ammeter and some simple math to get power.
Before I got my nice clamp-on one I had a similar rig with an alligator-clipped gap in one lead. With this method you can also get power for DC circuits. It's kinda cool to know how much power my mp3 player draws with backlight on vs off.
I know it's cool to have special tools, but why not use the ones you already have?
If some new internet feature comes along it might spike growth.
I don't know what it is, but apparently it isn't blogs or podcasts. I'd say when you can easily and legally watch any episode of any TV show/movie for cheap (say $.25 or maybe ads) there might be a suddenly larger market.
Back when I paid for dialup with my televideo 955 there was a nationwide market of several thousand customers for USENET, email, etc. Now it's much larger, thank you www. Surely there can be something next.
The blogs that bother you typically want to be indexed. They like it when you get sidetracked into their horrid cul-de-sac. Hopefully you click on an ad. Failing that, you bumped their pagecount and they can dream you are hanging on their every word.
They'll go out of their way to force search engines to index them. And this isn't even counting the spamhorde robo-blogs, which are an even lower lifeform.
I wish there was an easy way to segregate them, but I don't know if this would be possible.
heh, I avoid quicktime if at all possible. I like formats my dvd player can decode.
Don't give up on downloading through a firewall though. I've used eMule from behind a firewall, no problem. You can't connect with other firewalled clients, but can connect to all properly configured ones. Since you have outbound connections to servers you find out about download requests, so the upload requirement is met.
The only way you're SOL is if there are draconian "allow only" rules, but you rarely see that.
The main actor, Terry Lester, had a depressing career. He moved on from Ark II to do single appearances in Eight is Enough, Dallas, Santa Barbara, Voyager, JAG, Walker Texas Ranger, and Diagnosis Murder.
Oh, and he was in KISS meets the Phantom of the Park.
Well, I don't log her web access and threaten her for personal web use. I didn't make her sign something stating the computer belongs to me.
As long as she is an effective Mother, fulfilling her duties it isn't my business. This isn't a really good example since she lives 1000 miles away and her duties include not calling me too often for tech support. I just wanted to illustrate a case where I implemented security policies from a non-hostile point of view.
I'd rather her be happy than have her account for every minute of her time, unless her interest in goat-porn* interferes with her performance.
There are lots of things that cross the line in my opinion, and every company needs to define the line. Tone is part of it, but the underlying attitude affects policy itself. I don't think treating employees as enemies, or as idiots is the most effective attitude. (I think many users are idiots, but try very hard to hide that perception.)
Seems you aren't familiar with rot13. It is an encryption algorithm where characters are moved 13 places down the line, wrapping around. One thing about it, you can use the same method to decrypt it, since there are 26 letters in our alphabet.
I've had the misfortune to watch this happen at various workplaces since the late 80s, when things were already deteriorated. Smaller companies are sometimes better, but it is becoming a pervasive attitude.
In some ways governments are going the way of suspicion as well.
I realize there are risks, and agree that appropriate security needs to be in place.
You're right that I was responding to the tone of the article and headline.
I've worked for companies that think of employees as liabilities they reluctantly put up with because there isn't another option. It comes through loud and clear in their policies. Security measures that add no security but are humiliating, stark double standards for management and staff, headlines about corporate malfeasance and record-breaking bonuses, etc.
I think treating employees like family is a better approach. Give them some trust, but have policies in place. My mother, for example, has a computer with very strict security policies that she can't change. That is appropriate, and she has thanked me for it. Same approach will work for employees.
But at work, I've changed my mind. I got tired of having to repair several/dozens of machines every time somebody across the vpn plugged in an infected laptop.
Now I've got everything updating off WSUS, network usage for updates is 1/100th what it used to be, and after I approve an update (I get emailed when one needs approval) it automatically gets installed on all the machines, whether or not they're on or there.
I highly suggest it for anyone with more than say 3 similar winboxes.
Autoupdate doesn't have to mean "no human interaction."
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Before I got my nice clamp-on one I had a similar rig with an alligator-clipped gap in one lead. With this method you can also get power for DC circuits. It's kinda cool to know how much power my mp3 player draws with backlight on vs off.
I know it's cool to have special tools, but why not use the ones you already have?
I'll bet they do something in Soviet Russia.
I don't know what it is, but apparently it isn't blogs or podcasts. I'd say when you can easily and legally watch any episode of any TV show/movie for cheap (say $.25 or maybe ads) there might be a suddenly larger market.
Back when I paid for dialup with my televideo 955 there was a nationwide market of several thousand customers for USENET, email, etc. Now it's much larger, thank you www. Surely there can be something next.
They'll go out of their way to force search engines to index them. And this isn't even counting the spamhorde robo-blogs, which are an even lower lifeform.
I wish there was an easy way to segregate them, but I don't know if this would be possible.
I read something in more detail in popular science I think, too early to find a link.
They're currently controlling armed planes remotely in Afghanistan IIRC. Seems like a gamer would be qualified and enjoy work like this.
My newsreader would encode/decode the post if you pressed ^D. I sure hope nobody did it using pattern analysis when it was always rot-13.
It's cool that you can do pattern analysis you hblsfd whtu gsi bnjskw.
All I can say is Never check your parents browser history.
[insert joke]
I've got a friend whose wife has IBS. That's how I know.
Don't give up on downloading through a firewall though. I've used eMule from behind a firewall, no problem. You can't connect with other firewalled clients, but can connect to all properly configured ones. Since you have outbound connections to servers you find out about download requests, so the upload requirement is met.
The only way you're SOL is if there are draconian "allow only" rules, but you rarely see that.
The main actor, Terry Lester, had a depressing career. He moved on from Ark II to do single appearances in Eight is Enough, Dallas, Santa Barbara, Voyager, JAG, Walker Texas Ranger, and Diagnosis Murder.
Oh, and he was in KISS meets the Phantom of the Park.
He died a couple years ago, and now I'm sad.
Maybe a torrent or p2p app would be easiest.
Sorry, your sig caught my eye. Hopefully you aren't above pirating something you paid for already.
Surely nobody else downloads old star trek, porn, and warez...oh, I see your point.
There are millions to hundreds of millions of atoms in a typical virus. Here is interesting virus simulation info
Oh yeah, I know (hope?) you're joking, but modelling millions of atomic interactions is, as they say, nontrivial.
in your post.
Oh, and get off my lawn!
You can do that by putting <br> or <p>at the end of lines or paragraphs.
I see from the html you tried pressing enter, that doesn't work here.
I'm going to copyright my emule usage. Then the RIAA can expect a nice lawsuit when they try to use these stats.
Playing a game doesn't.
As long as she is an effective Mother, fulfilling her duties it isn't my business. This isn't a really good example since she lives 1000 miles away and her duties include not calling me too often for tech support. I just wanted to illustrate a case where I implemented security policies from a non-hostile point of view.
I'd rather her be happy than have her account for every minute of her time, unless her interest in goat-porn* interferes with her performance.
There are lots of things that cross the line in my opinion, and every company needs to define the line. Tone is part of it, but the underlying attitude affects policy itself. I don't think treating employees as enemies, or as idiots is the most effective attitude. (I think many users are idiots, but try very hard to hide that perception.)
* Sorry, Mom.
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So were these "customers" then "guests" in jail? Who are "customers" in jail? Or are there only "guests" and "eagerly sought escaped guests?"
Curse, you Walt Disney!
I've had the misfortune to watch this happen at various workplaces since the late 80s, when things were already deteriorated. Smaller companies are sometimes better, but it is becoming a pervasive attitude.
In some ways governments are going the way of suspicion as well.
You're right that I was responding to the tone of the article and headline.
I've worked for companies that think of employees as liabilities they reluctantly put up with because there isn't another option. It comes through loud and clear in their policies. Security measures that add no security but are humiliating, stark double standards for management and staff, headlines about corporate malfeasance and record-breaking bonuses, etc.
I think treating employees like family is a better approach. Give them some trust, but have policies in place. My mother, for example, has a computer with very strict security policies that she can't change. That is appropriate, and she has thanked me for it. Same approach will work for employees.
Robots programmed and designed by robots, to remove the chance of humans tinkering with the logic.
If companies treat their employees like criminals, they are likely to get what they expect.
But at work, I've changed my mind. I got tired of having to repair several/dozens of machines every time somebody across the vpn plugged in an infected laptop.
Now I've got everything updating off WSUS, network usage for updates is 1/100th what it used to be, and after I approve an update (I get emailed when one needs approval) it automatically gets installed on all the machines, whether or not they're on or there.
I highly suggest it for anyone with more than say 3 similar winboxes.
Autoupdate doesn't have to mean "no human interaction."