Yup. But do it in secret and don't share the automation with the employer. Use your spare time to look for a new job.

IF you come to the point where know your job is going to evaporate, it's better not to make a lot of waves (and that includes positive ones) until you are ready to go anyway. Your employer is already NOT paying attention and may not have a full understanding of what you do already. You'll be facing "the Bob's" in no time.

There is a reason they call it "work." Boring and repetitive comes with that. Brush up on your Zen skills and deal with it. And FIND ANOTHER JOB.

Yup. Amazon Cloud and a couple others are completely null routed from my work network. Big sections of others overseas are blocked as well.

So far, complaints have been zero. And, we get less log and web site form harassment from misbehaving bots.

We have determined that the signal to noise ratio coming from cloud hosting services is ZERO.

This is not direct military support.

These are Russians that moved into Ukrainian territory either as soldiers in Russian forces, or as "civilians" over the last few years.

The attackers are RUSSIANS. The guys operating the BUK that shot down the airliner were RUSSIAN SOLDIERS. You don't hand a BUK over to "separatists" and a few months later have them wipe out 5 aircraft in a week. Take a look at the BUK system sometime. There is NO WAY the equipment was "handed over". It was OPERATED by RUSSIANS just like every other proxy war, Vietnam, Korea, and a whole bunch of smaller ones.

Russia is going to do what they are going to do, and for the most part, the West is going to stay out of it. Ukraine needs to start an absolutely brutal guerrilla war, or they are done for. That's all there is to it. (They are probably STILL done for no matter what they do.) The Soviets are re-building their empire.

You can control what time of day the ads are displayed.

Try avoiding the times when they are being used up, or try focusing on when your potential customers are on and using computers.

Heheh

One major difference between cards and onboard is cards get a lot more effort into the tools and drivers. That alone could make the difference in what people are perceiving without requiring any kind of hardware or circuit quality difference.

I just moved an SB X-FI card from my old gaming machine to my work and listen to music machine and it DID make a difference over onboard sound. I did it to take advantage of some tracks that use surround sound and noted a difference in even Youtube (which is strict stereo) music. The card was already paid for and there so I figured why not...

Had I not played the same track on Youtube only a short gap to install the card and basic drivers I probably would not have noticed the difference. Back in "the day" that sound card with "surround sound" headphones gave me tremendous advantage in some games as I could actually hear distinct sets of footfalls in relative spacial position in game. You can't do that with two low-quality channels coming out of the game.

Looking for the "lock symbol" is the one thing the masses have managed to learn about Internet security.

People (the inexperienced ones) cause customer service headaches when they can't / won't learn that this system doesn't need it. "Where is the lock?" "How come you don't have a lock?" "My grandson says the lock means you are secure." etc.

For $40 a year, a company can head off 40 tech support calls with the worst type of users (the ones that don't even understand enough to put the answers in context and need 15 minutes of explaining to understand the answer) by slapping an SSL cert on every server. Sometimes it's even people in the "IT department" that have this gap in knowledge.

The company I work for does exactly this. I even got kudos for suggesting a wildcard cert would be cheaper and easier than individual certs for all the hostnames. Now it's standard procedure to slap the the cert on everything public facing. And, there's only one renewal date to deal with as opposed to a trickle of them every other week all year.

You must be one of the "I dropped cable years ago and my live is now tremendous!" guys.

Those DVR and cable boxes take 30 minutes to 90 minutes to download the show feeds and menus again. They are nigh-useless until that download has been competed.

Sure, you can flip channels, but you can't start a recording, can't see what's on until after the commercials end, can't flip ahead an hour and plan your watching, etc.

Turning the thing off is the equivalent of setting up your operating system of choice with a new profile every time you reboot.

They should also black-list the payers of this type of activity. A week or two for each infraction. There's one important aspect about Wikipedia and that is it isn't about marketing and selling shit. They have the rest of the entire Internet for that, so it shouldn't be tolerated.

You forgot about the part where the IRS willingly cooperated with the democratic politicians to commit a crime, violate the constitution, and to use the tools of the state to wield what is essentially, personal political power.

Nothing is going to happen of course. It never does.

The proper way to do it is use a camera that is hidden, so the order to cease recording never occurs. They are getting very good and very inexpensive now. A person could carry three or four and not really be noticed.

Though, it would be hard to argue that someone as a passenger in a vehicle pulled over had a choice about where and when they were when they filmed. The police after all, bring a car mounted camera, and sometimes a body mounted camera. THOSE recordings do not interfere with the traffic stop, how could a passenger interfere with a traffic stop?

Anyway, score one for the good guys. Too bad the department won't wise up and the idiot cop won't lose his job. This is just the VISIBLE abuse that pig has subjected onto the people. He's done it once and gotten caught that we know of, but one can be nigh certain this is a persistent pattern of behavior.

There is not a more arrogant, self serving megalomaniac equal to that of a cop.

They do it, because they have the "authorahtah!" to do it.

It's the same thing that makes actors and sports stars think they have a more valid opinion on world events because... well they are who they are.

For a cop, it's "I can make you do X or I can destroy your life (or both!)" that gets to their heads

Individuals do have power. They can practice jury nullification (look it up if you don't know what it is) in the jury box. They can try to get into office themselves. They can formulate logical and consistent opinions and then share them with others. They can obtain and practice with firearms so they are much harder targets for a government out of control. They can use the same to protect themselves from the free shit army the government has created to prey on the productive people, that conveniently makes the stupids want politicians to be "tough on crime." They can force the government to overcome encryption to spy on them, they can show up at town meetings and vent their anger (this works) and they can show up in the desert as an unorganized mob and dare the feds to do something (this also works).

The reason we are in this situation is precisely because of individuals like you didn't exercise the power they do have. Maybe it's not the same degree or type of power as "dem ebbil corporations derp derp!" but you still have power.

AR-15 lowers have been made out of wood. Oak works fine as the lower doesn't take most of the force, the upper does.

Sure they look goofy and are big in a bunch of places where metal would be small. A drill press and a block of good wood is all that is needed.

The 3D guys are after something that takes zero artisan skill rather than what all the other "low-tech" methods require.

PS, for you eurotrash in the audience, making an AR out of a block of wood is perfectly legal in most states in the US as long as the intent is to use / have it rather than sell it at the time it was made.

Several years ago, robots.txt usage where the webmaster asked not to be archived, did not say anything about robots.txt on Archive.org. It just didn't have it.

Why not go look at what the robots.txt says and cross reference it with what Archive.org says you have to do?