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by bananas 13y ago
Not seen that in Europe for a long time. In fact all four UK bank accounts I have use two-factor auth.
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by bananas 13y ago
Did we expect more? there's one hell of a difference between a large financial organisation or an exchange and some half arsed startup who hacked up a web site in PHP that just happens to handle something that represents a currency. Th
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by bananas 13y ago
Actually I've had stuff imported from HK that was seized at EU border as in single items. It does happen. In this case a single rip off Rotring 600 clone from AliExpress.
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by bananas 13y ago
It's not all that terrible. I've not been poked by metro once for about two months.
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by bananas 13y ago
So how does this work when the CA's are less than reputable, Google has to comply with various homeland security acts, they didn't notice people tapping their fibre, have had numerous problems with their own staff and they have do
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by bananas 13y ago
Fluke 75 had a removable yellow case circa '86. My father had one.
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by bananas 13y ago
They're a last line of defence to prevent persistent electrocution, burns and lock on. They still take 130-500ms to trip which is more than enough to knock you into VF (that only takes 3ms). Prevention is always the best approach.
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by bananas 13y ago
That's marvellous - thanks for posting :)
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by bananas 13y ago
Sorry to correct myself that's not what I'm saying. To break it down: 1. Fluke have a right to protect their brand identity, which since 1988 approximately involved a yellow rubber case for their portable DMMs 2. A $15 multimeter
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by bananas 13y ago
Watch out for ReaderWriterLockSlim. It's dangerous under certain circumstances particularly if: 1. You have one core or two cores. 2. Your CPU load is high. 3. Your thread pool is pretty heavily utilised so there is a queue building up
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by bananas 13y ago
This is only because of the brand success of Fluke and they want to be associated with it. But it's a dangerous bridge to cross.
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by bananas 13y ago
Not at all. Watch someone get electrocuted through shitty test equipment or a poor earth and you'll get the idea. Doesn't matter if it's an Arduino connected to a PC with an earth fault or a $30000 scope. People just don&#x27
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by bananas 13y ago
Until you connect your Arduino's USB cable to your computer which is on a faulty earth and then realise that you have 100-240v going through your mains, to your computer case, up your USB cable, through your meter, up your arm, across
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by bananas 13y ago
I'm probably going to get kicked in the face for this one but sparkfun are stepping beyond the realms of sensibility here and are turning this into a war with random internet people who get offended easily to draw attention to Fluke an
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by bananas 13y ago
Multimeters can be made for $10 or $15, but Fluke continues to dominate the market with equivalent meters costing 10x more. And don't tell me that these basic multimeters incur significant R&D costs. You've obviously never d
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by bananas 13y ago
Well it goes like this.... There was a lot of publicity and propaganda and hype around Alan Turing and cyber-security over the last few years in the UK media. This drove a whole codebreaking fascination thing with mathematics. So not wish
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by bananas 13y ago
Landline and email are not secure by any means. If you want secure communications, the transport layer (3G, internet, land lines, postal, talking to people) should always be untrusted and cryptography should be used. However you can only tr
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by bananas 13y ago
I worked in the defense industry for a few years (1998-2002). I didn't see it at the time. Everyone works in isolation, no one talks about work and everyone is micromanaged to bits and separately motivated. It's heavily draped in
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by bananas 13y ago
Absolutely nothing. It's Totalitarianism, nothing more or less.
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by bananas 13y ago
Many enclosures for electronic equipment, front panel designs for avionics and military equipment, many software interfaces, my house (which I'm trying to get planning permission for). I even built software for design and simulation of
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by bananas 13y ago
This is the most sensible thing I've heard for years.
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by bananas 13y ago
You can open wordperfect 5.1 (1989) in Office 2013 no problems. Numbers can't even open ODS files at all, destroys iWork 09 documents and pretty much sticks a fork in most xslx documents.
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by bananas 13y ago
I was never blessed with anything past a VT220 so didn't get to play with one of them. Really did like the VAX series of machines though. First day on the job, I was introduced to a VAXcluster that has an uptime of 6 years. Good times.
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by bananas 13y ago
I tried the paper trick but it didn't work for me after a couple of months. Got it replaced at Apple store and sold it quick.
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by bananas 13y ago
Batteries. I bought a charger and Sanyo Eneloops (low self discharge). Life is terrible. Stick your fingers on the side and press the top down - ouch. Bottom does fall off mine even when closed "properly".
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by bananas 13y ago
Safe outside? Big white arrow pointing to something expensive in your pocket!
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by bananas 13y ago
Magic mouse (I own one): goes flat after only a month, nips your fingers at the sides when you press it, bottom keeps falling off, makes your hands hurt. Mighty mouse (I owned one): ball that stopped working instantly when you used it and t
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by bananas 13y ago
Let us not forget, he designed the "Puck Mouse" that came with the iMac and G3 towers...
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by bananas 13y ago
I think that hypothesis has been disproven a couple of times at least!
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by bananas 13y ago
I'm sure I've seen your college on stargate :)

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