Comment Re:absolutely, do it yourself, fool (Score 2, Funny) 258
You Sir are an idiot. Underestimating the power & insanity of Cowboy Neal as you so obviously do!
(:heh: sorry, couldn't resist)
You Sir are an idiot. Underestimating the power & insanity of Cowboy Neal as you so obviously do!
(:heh: sorry, couldn't resist)
I just picked something expensive that I thought was related to potatoes...
I drink scotch myself.
I have to imagine that it would be more efficient to have one loss prevention/old lady helper dude watching over 4 or 5 checkouts
fix:
Two people working together.
One is pretending to be a moron, which draws the employee from their perch watching the 4 checkouts.
The other person is on a checkout behind the distracted watcher, now stuffing bags with items of the correct weight, but vastly more expensive. I.e. bought 20 pounds of potatoes, loaded 20 pounds of grey goose vodka (hey, at least it's "still" potatoes).
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Also,
Many people have the following:
mindset cookies == evil
mindset tracking cookies == virus (thanks McAfee)
geek friend recommends adaware/spybot/etc.
Thus you need something that can bypass the basic automated tools that people may use.
There are three or four populations on-line:
* Joe Sixpack (zombie host, could care less as long as pr0n and ESPN.com work)
* Jack Newbie (possible zombie host, cares, asks geek friend for help, has AV and anti-spyware stuff installed)
* Private Private (likely most of us here on
* Paranoid Frank (uses lynx only. Ever. Views jpgs as binary data before rendering. etc.)
It's what I use on my other-other site's tools.
I have some pages devoted to small animal breeding and I use hidden CGI fields to maintain state data between pages. I also sign the data and check the signature before accepting it. Works fine for me.
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And the counter to that is that the website author grants an implied license to copy the work for display on your machine so you can read it, but not a blanket license to copy for anything you want to do with it. In this particular case, however, the author(s) of the website placed "share this" links to
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I saw someone mention clubbing an animal...
I doubt they've tried it. I clubbed a rabbit (was sick, not getting better) and it moved right as I was fully committed to the swing.
Effin hell I felt bad for the thing. What should have been a clean strike to the back of the skull turned into a painful head-blow.
Now when I have to dispatch an animal I use a 33 gallon drum and compressed N2.
Painless for the animal and no boom that would upset the newer neighbors (right on the boundary of greenbelt/open land and suburbia). There is a new Rd5 development literally half a block away on one side and several acres of horse property and farmland leading to a river on the other side.
The horse people and farming people know what a
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absolutely all valid points.
We have a locksmith on staff, so repinning a lock is trivial, as is cutting keys.
As to the badge readers I have no idea how they work. I know the badges do challenge response with the reader, but if the reader is merely a pass-through to a controller, of if it contains the smarts is opaque to me (I never asked, I think I will now...)
Frankly my opinion is that we don't need a lock on that door at all, simply a sign that the area is restricted, but that's my opinion.
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so, in the case of my lab:
There are three people who will be keyholders.
security knows who has keys, and security has the realistic and common sense approach that keys get lost. Reporting a lost key gets the tumblers changed and new keys issued within 4 hours, and no repercussions on the key loser.
In addition, the keylock door is inside the lab, which is already behind badge readers. Overall risk is exceptionally low.
Risk from an unsecured (and thus sniffable) badge reader line is much higher.
RS422 to a PC dedicated to that purpose.
It would be hard to infect the machine when it only sends data out on that interface and does not receive data, or only receives 2 byte commands to which it responds with a slew of numbers. Most machines like this have (at least as an option) an interface like this, precisely because they are supposed to be gap'd from the main network.
yes.
Our CNC uses an on-line DRM.
We have it on its own network behind a proxy server that only allows it to connect to the manufacturer's URL, and at that only to the authentication server address.
Fortunately the manufacturer uses SOAP on port 80, so that makes the filtering easier.
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This is manifested in the door security where I work.
We have RFID badge readers.
My boss recently wanted to add one to a lab he controls. When he found out the bill was $10K he balked. We told him it was for the security conduit (intrusion detection conduit, I assume gas charged & detect pressure drop in a leg?).
His response? We don't need the conduit, just run the wire.
Luckily security said F off and use a key lock, we're not installing it without the conduit. But that same attitude is why these machines still have the default passwords.
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Yeah this one's in San Jose, not San Diego...
I zip tied a fan to the passive heatsink on a GPU and that helped immensely. Fan came off an old xbox1 first gen. Also, all my case fans are high end (not "gamer" components, genuine high end fans). They are about $25 each, not loud, not fancy, but they simply work.
Yes.
My company produces everything with lead free. Recently we switched to a new component on one of our boards that is at
Lead free solder is sucky for electronics, but good for the environment. It cracks under thermal stress way easier than leaded solder, it forms dendrites if not completely clean and dry (residual flux for example).
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