Posts by swschrad

on the other hand....

I had an acquaintance whose wife needed two knee implants. doctors put them on the wrong sides.

so you can keep trying to make things foolproof, but there will always evolve a better fool.

oh, yes, it comes with keys to change the combination

you might also get a carpenter in to add a simple $30 keyed doorlock. they won't have that key. if needed, hey, firemen have axes. stockers with pallet handlers don't.

how's the bias load?

unless you are using transistors solely as digital switches, you have to bias them into a linear region of operation. that can take more power than an analog amplification. periodically I see bias applied across a digital switching transistor, probably for a speed profile. so, in a complex array of these new-based units, are they consistent in performance, and what's the bias or transient draw per X number?

more than familiar

any radio signal will induce wired signals when crossing a wire. and any wired signal will induce radio waves over its distance, diminishing as the LRC damps them. this is older than Tesla, it goes back to Edison actually.

and Marconi and Popov and deForest and Fessenden and on and on and on. there is so much prior art that ATT can be blown out of the financial waters on this over the patent alone.

and yes, as a ham facing enough freakin' interference from crud plasma TVs and puck lights under cabinets powered by junk switching wall warts, I will support efforts to slap this nonsense down hard.

cat videos. it's now cat videos, not porn.

everybody watches cat videos. especially grannies. (wink wink)

locate the port. block it for outside your network.

even the simplest DSL router/modem allows you to see what devices are on the net. many can show the ports in use. more sophisticated commercial equipment has more sophisticated tracking.

if the security system/fridge/DongleFromHell is always using port 666, don't let that go outside.

if you always want to check remotely from your smartphone what is going on, that doesn't work. if the device you are thinking about does not have good user-managed security, don't buy it.

if the vendors don't make that information availiable, don't buy it.

if there are hardcoded factory access items you can't disable, don't buy it.

(short version) don't buy iotThingies. they are wide freaking open.

round these parts, center console borked, you freeze to death

maybe the Conifornians don't read the papers, but there are places where if you don't get heat in the car, you freeze. perhaps they should keep all the damn things in Lotus land.

or, you know, knobs, switches, and sliders. just saying. go full mechanical and promote its safety.

my two bucks are hard currency, and fair market value.

OK, $2.50, but I get my choice of large screens first. final offer.

yeah, well, I have my Trinitite sample in a baggie in the ham shed.

and I suspect you have crappy wifi service.

the real issue is GCHQ is too busy to keep guessing your new ones

so keep using strings of cuss words, and shift-right one letter every 30 days.

uh, in America, we do those stories on April 1st

your beer may be too strong. certainly too warm. ditch Lucas and get better refrigeration.

VeryZoned even sold their west coast FiOS

imagine, star service in the data-centric west coast states, and Verizon sold it to Frontier (and Frontier can't run their new purchase until end of April.)

folks, that smells like "screw everybody, grab cash and run" to me.

no doubt to be finalized after Friday

because that's how it works.

another default password now in script kiddies cookie box

if this got used anywhere, else, all your net is pwned.

same for RCA, GE, Philips, etc

so many honored companies have just licensed their name, and while there may be winces as the occasional bomblet hits the market and blows a hole, they really don't freaking give a damn. as long as the quarterly checks don't bounce, hey, WonHungLo LLC PTY M-O-U-S-E whatever, let's go for an offsite.

are users so dumb they can't click right instead of left? really?

I have plinked around in a number of Office alternatives, Mac and WinSlows.

unless you are doing something like running a dangerous petrochemical synthesis plant from Excel 97 spreadsheets' macros, LibreOffice and the separate Mac suites (foregoing any discussion of Office for Mac, which is usually the Windows offering plus/minus a half major version) will do ya just fine. and there are minor changes, on the order of difference of Windows vs Xwindows.

a day of fumbling, and most users are adept at substitutions.

this will not crash any company.

batshit insane pricing models can.

for much better comedy wallpaper

search on BSOD screensaver

don't know, don't hack fortune 50 corporations

and you'd have to do that to really see if your liasons are saved and watched over and over

Alucatellent + Nokia = ??

Noalucatellentaik, or Onalucatellentaik, depending on your preferences.

it really doesn't matter as long as they support the 20-year-old networks.

he took over IBM's web site

you haven't heard about it yet because, well, security. and sneaky. once it gets hosted in Belize, the facts will be out.

((and other fairy tales, the likes of which McAfee is never out of))

go, hogs, go

first test... can a F-35 take some 50-cal fire on an overhead pass? like about 3 nests worth?

the Hog can just ease over, latch down the firing button, and go back on course.

heh, almost the only boy in the room

and one irritating day I whacked the carraige return of that Royal 400, and the unbreakable handle, guaranteed, skittered all the way over to the other end of the room. so jfjfjfjfjfjfjf yo'Momma.