I have a keyboard with 2 usb ports on it. I thought it was brilliant and wished every USB device had it. Now you tell me it was the plan all along. Pretty sad!
My idiotic TV spends 5 minutes "autodetecting" channels every time it loses power. My VCR spends about 10 minutes, but you can cancel that and manually enter channels. My only idea is to install batteries/caps but that is way too much work.
With a measuring device you can learn things such as:
How much does my fridge use/day at setting X? setting X-5? How much does my oven use to cook dinner? Microwave? How much power does my rig use playing MULE for an hour? Idling?
You can learn a lot. Listed power is only predictable for trivial devices that are always on, not devices with variable load or duty cycles.
One surprise, USA is not #1 in TV watching. I was floored to discover we need 3.5 more hours a week to catch up with Thailand. Come on people, step up! USA #1! We're behind Egypt, damnit!
heh, that's pretty good. You can take it ridiculously far since these are all entered by OCR or offshore non-native speakers. "Goddamnit Fuckyou" worked for my grocery club card. Some cashiers try not to say my name even though it is store policy. I won't leave until they finish "Thank you for shopping Mr. Fu...uh...."
They used to let me use a generic card at the register when I'd claim I left mine at home, but they stopped that a while back. I was angry about having to register in their system until I thought of this scam. Regrettably, they haven't sold my "name", store mailers are addressed to "Occupant," and the card doesn't have a name printed on it.
I knew I shouldn't have installed that firewall! My computer won't burn! I tried matches, a propane torch, even lighter fluid in the cupholder. It doesn't work anymore, though. Will I be safe if I put it in a plastic bag and bury it?
I signed up for the payment protector once when I knew layoffs were going around. 6 months later, I was laid off.
I couldn't believe what a racket it was. First, they won't do anything until you give them 2 unemployment stubs. It takes 3 months for that to happen. Then, they "processed" my application for 6 weeks and agreed to make the minimum payment on my next bill. So, I spent 5 months with nothing and they paid one minimum payment. I got a job then and never got payment protection again.
I've been doing this for years. I got so brazen I'd use names like "Sham Fraud" "Vagina Troutstinker" or "Honk Trousers"
My mailman must get a chuckle from all the names.
It's interesting to see what companies sell names. The only drawback is explaining things if they need my real name for some reason. "Sham Fraud isn't my real name."
We have term limits where I live, and they have had an unfortunate side-effect. Now we don't have corrupt fat-cat incumbents holding the same seat for 50 years. We have reps that serve their 2 terms, then become lobbyists. Reps don't have as much power as they used to and the lobbyists have much more power. We can't vote the corrupt fat-cat lobbyists out of office either.
If party A or B are smart, they will intentionally alienate voters until they reach the coveted and powerful 3rd place position and party C will be saddled with the figurehead "most popular" party label.
Well, assuming I lost my wallet, I have lost unencrypted credit cards and cash and have real problems.
Along with getting new credit cards and so forth I could change passwords. At least there aren't plaintext passwords written down. My personal algorithm shifts special characters and handles numbers differently so anyone finding the paper list in my wallet gets exactly one character from the actual password.
If you are requiring complex passwords that expire every 30 days, maybe a more relaxed approach will enhance security. It's more secure to have a sane policy than to have stickies with passwords on every monitor.
As far as a "vault" I suggest an encrypted piece of paper kept in your wallet. I abbreviate made-up words to the first character. If someone can figure out that 23T~ is 23Trimble~ they deserve to get in to my shit.
If you're unable to resolve a certain name, you can always use something like this to get the IP address. I was at my mom's house on crippled dialup and this allowed me to reach a couple of unresolveable names.
Hm, I sometimes tell visitors that the mountains are west. Then, I wonder how they got lost. Maybe it's hard for people to convert mountains=west into anything else sometimes. If I'm really tired I have to think about it a lot before I'm sure.
I sure hope nobody tells my public library that "lending of sound recordings is specificially prohibited." I can find things there that even emule doesn't have!
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I have a keyboard with 2 usb ports on it. I thought it was brilliant and wished every USB device had it. Now you tell me it was the plan all along. Pretty sad!
They tried this type of DRM with DAT, and DAT is nearly dead.
I was quite interested in the format at the time, but without buying "professional" equipment for an extra $1k you couldn't create master tapes.
If I made or bought a song, I don't want to have to figure out which machine the "original" is on in order to put it on my mp3 player.
My idiotic TV spends 5 minutes "autodetecting" channels every time it loses power. My VCR spends about 10 minutes, but you can cancel that and manually enter channels. My only idea is to install batteries/caps but that is way too much work.
With a measuring device you can learn things such as:
How much does my fridge use/day at setting X? setting X-5?
How much does my oven use to cook dinner? Microwave?
How much power does my rig use playing MULE for an hour? Idling?
You can learn a lot. Listed power is only predictable for trivial devices that are always on, not devices with variable load or duty cycles.
There's a possibility that after an explosion on board the plane would land prematurely to check for damage.
I'd sure sweat if I'd used the wc just before the terrorists did!
Wow, interesting site, thanks!
One surprise, USA is not #1 in TV watching. I was floored to discover we need 3.5 more hours a week to catch up with Thailand. Come on people, step up! USA #1! We're behind Egypt, damnit!
An excuse to not upgrade to Blu-Ray or HD-DVD!
Now I won't have to lose geek credibility when I say SD is "good enough."
heh, that's pretty good. You can take it ridiculously far since these are all entered by OCR or offshore non-native speakers. "Goddamnit Fuckyou" worked for my grocery club card. Some cashiers try not to say my name even though it is store policy. I won't leave until they finish "Thank you for shopping Mr. Fu...uh...."
They used to let me use a generic card at the register when I'd claim I left mine at home, but they stopped that a while back. I was angry about having to register in their system until I thought of this scam. Regrettably, they haven't sold my "name", store mailers are addressed to "Occupant," and the card doesn't have a name printed on it.
[posting from the library]
I knew I shouldn't have installed that firewall! My computer won't burn! I tried matches, a propane torch, even lighter fluid in the cupholder. It doesn't work anymore, though. Will I be safe if I put it in a plastic bag and bury it?
It's very sad.
My brain converted it to "loser" and tripped on the sentence.
I signed up for the payment protector once when I knew layoffs were going around. 6 months later, I was laid off.
I couldn't believe what a racket it was. First, they won't do anything until you give them 2 unemployment stubs. It takes 3 months for that to happen. Then, they "processed" my application for 6 weeks and agreed to make the minimum payment on my next bill. So, I spent 5 months with nothing and they paid one minimum payment. I got a job then and never got payment protection again.
It can't be that big, after all there are only 200 million or so registered voters.
Working with hundreds of dataloggers generating 100 records/sec 24/7 for years gives a truly large database.
It's interesting though. I never thought about political parties keeping track of all this.
Simply tell them you committed a felony "Attempted murder of a telemarketer via phone line" and are ineligible to vote.
I've been doing this for years. I got so brazen I'd use names like "Sham Fraud" "Vagina Troutstinker" or "Honk Trousers"
My mailman must get a chuckle from all the names.
It's interesting to see what companies sell names. The only drawback is explaining things if they need my real name for some reason. "Sham Fraud isn't my real name."
We have term limits where I live, and they have had an unfortunate side-effect. Now we don't have corrupt fat-cat incumbents holding the same seat for 50 years. We have reps that serve their 2 terms, then become lobbyists. Reps don't have as much power as they used to and the lobbyists have much more power. We can't vote the corrupt fat-cat lobbyists out of office either.
I honestly don't know which is worse.
If party A or B are smart, they will intentionally alienate voters until they reach the coveted and powerful 3rd place position and party C will be saddled with the figurehead "most popular" party label.
Oh boy, now I'm in trouble.
I'm getting
bash: deltree: command not found
I think the hackers did my poor computer in. Bash?! that can't be good!
Well, assuming I lost my wallet, I have lost unencrypted credit cards and cash and have real problems.
Along with getting new credit cards and so forth I could change passwords. At least there aren't plaintext passwords written down. My personal algorithm shifts special characters and handles numbers differently so anyone finding the paper list in my wallet gets exactly one character from the actual password.
If you are requiring complex passwords that expire every 30 days, maybe a more relaxed approach will enhance security. It's more secure to have a sane policy than to have stickies with passwords on every monitor.
As far as a "vault" I suggest an encrypted piece of paper kept in your wallet. I abbreviate made-up words to the first character. If someone can figure out that 23T~ is 23Trimble~ they deserve to get in to my shit.
If you're unable to resolve a certain name, you can always use something like this to get the IP address. I was at my mom's house on crippled dialup and this allowed me to reach a couple of unresolveable names.
It's not working!! Please help me from the hackers!
/
Here's what happens:
C:\>sudo rm -rf
'sudo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\>ponies
'ponies' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\>
Hm, I sometimes tell visitors that the mountains are west. Then, I wonder how they got lost. Maybe it's hard for people to convert mountains=west into anything else sometimes. If I'm really tired I have to think about it a lot before I'm sure.
Before digital, all copyright infringement was lossy analog copyright infringement. That doesn't help you.
The second point is interesting, although the fact that genes have been patented seems depressingly related somehow.
I sure hope nobody tells my public library that "lending of sound recordings is specificially prohibited." I can find things there that even emule doesn't have!
Either you're looking at the Appalachians (which I can't see from DIA) or you're facing South after your exercise.