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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Specmaster:
Truth is, no security system is secure for long before a work around is found. >:D
bd139:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 30, 2018, 05:56:03 pm ---Truth is, no security system is secure for long before a work around is found. >:D
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Which is why some people get paid to play cat and mouse eternally. How can you lose?
mnementh:
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--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 30, 2018, 05:07:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2018, 04:46:57 pm ---It’s the day job leaking into the escape I think :)
Physical cards are a nightmare. One reason I like Apple Pay. It generates a new card number for every transaction basically. Zero chance of reusing any snatched data right up until the bank. Plus you can’t just grab someone’s handset and use it. The biggest security risks these days are with the merchant and vendor. Look at ticketmaster recently.
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Well I can't even pretend to understand what all security protocol chat is about but your Apple pay has me intrigued, why couldn't I for instance just grab your iphone and use that to pay for something? Its a contactless payment method isn't it?
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I will never drink the apple juice....out of principle. In 1984 Apple trashed my employer with this commercial:
*MacIntosh Ad*
They have become 100x worse than IBM ever was. All those drones sitting there are the same drones lined up outside an Apple store for the privilege to buy a $900 I phone. You gotta be freaking crazy.
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You're thinking too small; thinking like an ordinary person with bills and a limited amount of money.
What Apple is selling is convenience and TIME; time YOU don't spend figuring it out, time you don't spend fixing it if it breaks, time you don't spend arguing with customer support. All you have to do is fit your needs within the confines of their ecology, and give them boatloads of money. In return, they constantly revise their ecology to fit more and more of the people with money, so eventually you will get more and more functionality from them.
Honestly, it's not that bad a deal, unless you are one of those people who just HAS to do it for yourself; then you're well and truly boned.
mnem
Time is your most valuable commodity; the one thing you can't make or buy more of. Trading mere money for more time is a deal that's ALWAYS in YOUR favor.
bd139:
That’s exactly it. I run my business and my life off it. It is necessary that it just works.
Incidentally I did do it myself for a long time with cheap android handsets but a couple of critical failures left me in dire shit and lost me a wedge of cash. Can’t afford that downtime.
Incidentally I’ve got a duff pixel in my 6s. They are swapping for a new handset via post. They deliver the new handset to me then I return the old one in pre paid box. Can’t beat that.
Keeping it TEA if I was running a business I wouldn’t poke rigol with a stick. Keysight it is because at 3x the cost it’s still a good deal for the service.
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 30, 2018, 05:48:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on June 30, 2018, 05:44:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 30, 2018, 03:08:55 pm ---A quick heads up: Anybody in the UK who has been getting Metcal envy the last day or two, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/oki-metcal-ps-900-soldering-iron-stand/173387210284 - used PS900 outfit, £100 buy it now.
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And a MX500P complete with stand and several tips; bidding at £142 right now: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283028459738
mnem
*Back out into the suck*
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That says that the tips need re-activating, activater will be included, WTF is that all about, security going to far now??
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99% positive it's this stuff; the outer shell of the MX tips is iron, just like any other. This stuff will "re-activate" a dog turd so it's nice & shiny silver, if you can get it hot enough. :-DD
mnem
p00t!
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