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by philpem 7y ago
Good luck finding out where Penistone or Scunthorpe are...
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by philpem 7y ago
Geez, you should pawn that comment off ;)
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by philpem 7y ago
No, they just realise how utterly incompetent Corbyn is. If he keeps sitting on that fence, his bum's going to be full of splinters...
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by philpem 7y ago
What do you mean - we were always at war with Oceania...
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by philpem 7y ago
You don't get to be headmaster of a school without wanting to feel power over the kids. And if that's the only power you have in your life, you'll protect it viciously. Teachers are usually in it for the warm fuzzy feeling of
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by philpem 7y ago
Probably a politician.
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by philpem 7y ago
Depends on the kit you're running. A Hytera RD985 DMR/Analog mixed-mode duplexer is 2RU in height and the duplexer (a diplexer is a different thing) is internal if you buy the fitting kit. I have a Raycom analog repeater which is
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by philpem 7y ago
"If we get rid of the hams, we can rent this tower space to cell phone companies for MEEEEELIONS".
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by philpem 7y ago
This tends to be a thing with fan-run groups. I've been involved (at various points) with SFF, comics, furries (yes...) and hams. The drama is not unique to any of them, it's often the same drama with subtle twists. And anyone say
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by philpem 7y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head with the 'types of comms hams can provide' comment. UK perspective -- there isn't much hams can offer here either. An emergency response team wants a local repeater, you can't
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by philpem 7y ago
My last couple of WiFi routers were bought because they could run OpenWRT... I feel like stories like this support that position. At least if there was a security issue OpenWRT couldn't patch, I have the source code to do so myself. An
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by philpem 7y ago
Sometimes a public statement of intent is worth it.
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by philpem 7y ago
Here's to the crazy ones, the square pegs in the round hole...
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by philpem 7y ago
I'd counter with a paraphrased line from Rick and Morty (yes, I know...) -- When you're an asshole it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, because people don't want to give you the satisfaction of admitting you&
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by philpem 7y ago
Sounds to me like an inferiority complex of some description. But that's just my layman interpretation, I'm not a psychologist.
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by philpem 7y ago
I'm amazed that in what, nearly twenty years (maybe more), people are still learning about the Streisand Effect first-hand.
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by philpem 7y ago
This. If they were at least up-front and said what it collects, how, when, and how to turn it off (or better yet, followed privacy best practice and turned it into informed opt-in), I'd be more eager to upgrade. With that said -- there
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by philpem 7y ago
Especially if there's a time limit on execution. How many bitcoins can you mine in 30 seconds with a silly-low CPU cap?
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by philpem 7y ago
Of course the fun part of that is when the sales staff mistake a minnow for a whale. Case in point, a large FTSE, NYSE, NASDAQ listed company with largely siloed internal departments, all with their own budgets. Your yearly budget might be
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by philpem 7y ago
I think you'd more or less have to block *.microsoft.com at the gateway, then add explicit allows for WGA and Windows Update. Or a group policy update to tell Defender not to upload stuff to MS.
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by philpem 7y ago
For bonus points, the C&C server realises the incoming IP has Microsoft's name attached, and only sends back the adverts. For anyone else, it sends a malicious image file as part of the drop, which exploits an intentional security
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by philpem 7y ago
It'd also be expensive and damn close to impossible to enforce. You say "Assholes aren't allowed to use this code" and Major-General Asshole will use it anyway -- because he's an Asshole. Some battles simply aren&#x
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by philpem 7y ago
I'm gonna guess side-projects. The sort of thing you throw together on a lunch break to learn a new library or tool or otherwise scratch an itch.
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by philpem 7y ago
That sounds exactly like my ex-boss. Never stopped going on about how he once worked for Qinetiq and they had him implement an FFT on an FPGA... last I checked that was a fairly common student assignment in FPGA courses.
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by philpem 7y ago
I'm all over the place -- I've got an Aoyue hot-air station, a Metcal MFR soldering station and a Pace SX90 vacuum desoldering rig. :) Whatever I can get for cheap, basically. Home hobbyist :)
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by philpem 7y ago
I agree -- you really only need Galileo as an example of this. G: "I can prove the world is round!" Everyone at the time: "Liar! Heretic!" Later people: "Hmm. Galileo was right. The world IS round! In fact, it'
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by philpem 7y ago
I'm not certain that 'doing the wrong thing for the right reasons' is justifiable. Especially gaslighting another person. When you stare into the abyss, the abyss not only stares back, but also pulls you in...
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by philpem 7y ago
I've gone the same way with Twitter -- from massive amounts of tweeting to posting fairly regularly on here. Though not to the 17,000 points scale... I was around the 700 mark last time I looked (I don't look at the number very of
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by philpem 7y ago
Through-hole is easier than SMD with the correct tools. Specifically a vacuum desoldering tool (Metcal MFR, Pace SX or similar).
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by philpem 7y ago
How do you sell an iOS application on an Android-specific app store? If you're proposing they port the app to Android -- that's a lot of work. And the Android store is packed with even more junkware than the Apple one.

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