TIKL is a walkie talkie app; it has to read your contacts to do the thing you downloaded it to do. Ditto call log. Location might be unnecessary, but thats "approximate", not even GPS.
This isnt "blaming the victim", because I dont buy that there is a victim. These are free apps which announce what they want to do, and theres a bazillion alternatives that do the exact same thing with better permissions.
If you want to use Privacy Ops, thats great; I just havent found an app where I would need it yet.
and at 13 years old started his company ScorpionComputerServices.com.
Thats from his "about" page, linked at the "IQ 197" summary link. He is directly claiming to have created a webpage at that address in 1988, unless he is claiming to have been 13 in 2003.
He gave one talk at an IEEE event at a doubletree hotel in 2010. You would be very hard-pressed to find it unless you narrowed your search quite a bit; literally noone was talking about him at that point.
His website proves itself false. He claims it was founded in 1988; however Whois records for the domain only go back to 2000, and the web address doesnt appear in the Wayback Machine until 2003.
Looks like the guy has tried to mix his own marketing material into google results, but you can see where his highly touted ScenGen actually comes from here: http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/wi...
This version of MAGICC/SCENGEN was developed primarily with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but it rests on developments carried out over the past 20 years that were funded by a number of organizations.
So the "ScenGen" you keep seeing in all the results is not the same as the one this O'brien dude keeps blathering about. In fact, hes apparently the only one who cares about it; he did do one talk at IEEE in 2010 (though strangely theres no mention of it anywhere except the bog-standard event page), but there doesnt appear to have been any chatter on the internet about it whatsoever.
So, to the AC who posted this: hopefully this is a useful lesson. Anyone can say anything on the internet, and even make it look passingly believable. But if it sounds "too perfect", its probably rubbish.
Try using apps that dont suck. For instance:
* Facebook-- try "Fast for Facebook" which is simultaneously faster AND less permissions-grabby.
* Yahoo Mail-- try the inbuilt support for IMAP / POP, or any of a million other clients (TouchDown, for instance)
* Push To Talk-- 5 minutes of googling found This app which appears to only request the bare minimum that a PTT app would need (contacts, etc)
Not sure what you are using your phone for that you aren't running across apps ask for things that they probably shouldn't,
TeamViewer, Google Authenticator, Fing, Opera, Car DashDroid, Fast for Facebook, PushBullet, OpenVPN, Reddit is Fun... none are generally problematic permissions wise. At some point you're going to have to face the fact that theres a lot of grabby apps out there, and you apparently like some of them. Either use alternatives (they DO exist), or stop complaining.
Let me get this straight. You're using a social media app-- which generally combines functionality across basically all of your phone-- but you dont like the permissions it demands. Android gives you the ability to reject updates when they request more permissions, but thats no good; you could also choose any of a million alternative apps for any given social media site ("FAST for Facebook" for example), or use the Android Open Source Project derivitives on your existing hardware-- but you find that unacceptable, preferring instead to buy a new device rather than fixing your existing one?
Like the more I read the last sentence of your post, the harder my mind boggles. You object to making a very minor change to your phone (99% of the time you cant tell youre on CyanogenMod), preferring to spend more money AND switch entire ecosystems? What?!
I cant dispute the whole "large work spurt prior to end of period", but I do know a number of PTO people and they tend to be very sharp and well educated.
I would dispute that the supermarket clerk COULD do a better job-- theres a lot of research that has to go into patent reviews.
Cyanogenmod allows you to "accept" apps that ask for all sorts of non-core access, and then revoke it afterwards. The app can attempt to access your addressbook, but it will get blocked.
Of course I havent had to use it, because I generally dont run into issues with apps asking for insane levels of access. Maybe its the apps you're using?
Except that the first link clearly indicates that they have not phased out paper-based tax returns....
I should clarify. Do you have any examples of what you posted, that is a country where windows is required to file taxes because paper returns have been phased out?
Im not seeing where you're getting your info; everything Ive ever heard indicates that the only issues reported with the M4 are reliability, due to its tighter tolerances, but that its also more accurate. Thats backed up by this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Which indicates the M16/5.56 is accurate to 500m, whereas the AK47 with 7.76 ammo is only effective to 380m. If those are accurate, the M4 is lighter, uses 50% lighter ammo, and is accurate 25% further
Most of those jumps are relatively small. Switching between HoN, LoL, and DOTA isnt really similar to switching from basketball to baseball. Many of the skills (kiting, lasthitting, etc) are very similar in the games; a lot of the barrier is just knowledge (what champions do what, particular mechanics differences.
Ditto BroodWar to SC2. Its been pretty widely known that BW players moving to SC2 tend to be very good at SC2 because of the similarity of the games, and the reputed higher difficulty of BW.
Wifi and Bluetooth arent using "exactly 2.400000 ghz". They use frequency bands. It is entirely possible that you have 2 access points and 2 bluetooth devices and none of them interfere with each other in the slightest.
Updating Java has long been known to break stuff. Old Cisco Pixes used Java for the web interface, and it didnt work with anything but JRE 1.4.2. EFI printing controllers rely on 1.6.0 and break with anything newer. Im sure other admins can vouch for a million widgets that break when you upgrade java.
Oh look, more FUD. Do you know what a chain of custody is? How the courts work? What the difference between hard evidence, and hearsay is?
Arrest everybody and let the courts straighten it out is what they do.
Yes, that results in whats called "dismissed, with prejudice". I mean, if the cops wanted to waste a ton of time and potentially get slapped down for it, they could do that.
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He specifically claimed to have founded the dot com at the age of 13. Whois records can prove that false.
TIKL is a walkie talkie app; it has to read your contacts to do the thing you downloaded it to do. Ditto call log. Location might be unnecessary, but thats "approximate", not even GPS.
This isnt "blaming the victim", because I dont buy that there is a victim. These are free apps which announce what they want to do, and theres a bazillion alternatives that do the exact same thing with better permissions.
If you want to use Privacy Ops, thats great; I just havent found an app where I would need it yet.
and at 13 years old started his company ScorpionComputerServices.com.
Thats from his "about" page, linked at the "IQ 197" summary link. He is directly claiming to have created a webpage at that address in 1988, unless he is claiming to have been 13 in 2003.
He gave one talk at an IEEE event at a doubletree hotel in 2010. You would be very hard-pressed to find it unless you narrowed your search quite a bit; literally noone was talking about him at that point.
His website proves itself false. He claims it was founded in 1988; however Whois records for the domain only go back to 2000, and the web address doesnt appear in the Wayback Machine until 2003.
Looks like the guy has tried to mix his own marketing material into google results, but you can see where his highly touted ScenGen actually comes from here:
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/wi...
This version of MAGICC/SCENGEN was developed primarily with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but it rests on developments carried out over the past 20 years that were funded by a number of organizations.
So the "ScenGen" you keep seeing in all the results is not the same as the one this O'brien dude keeps blathering about. In fact, hes apparently the only one who cares about it; he did do one talk at IEEE in 2010 (though strangely theres no mention of it anywhere except the bog-standard event page), but there doesnt appear to have been any chatter on the internet about it whatsoever.
So, to the AC who posted this: hopefully this is a useful lesson. Anyone can say anything on the internet, and even make it look passingly believable. But if it sounds "too perfect", its probably rubbish.
Try using apps that dont suck. For instance:
* Facebook-- try "Fast for Facebook" which is simultaneously faster AND less permissions-grabby.
* Yahoo Mail-- try the inbuilt support for IMAP / POP, or any of a million other clients (TouchDown, for instance)
* Push To Talk-- 5 minutes of googling found This app which appears to only request the bare minimum that a PTT app would need (contacts, etc)
Not sure what you are using your phone for that you aren't running across apps ask for things that they probably shouldn't,
TeamViewer, Google Authenticator, Fing, Opera, Car DashDroid, Fast for Facebook, PushBullet, OpenVPN, Reddit is Fun... none are generally problematic permissions wise. At some point you're going to have to face the fact that theres a lot of grabby apps out there, and you apparently like some of them. Either use alternatives (they DO exist), or stop complaining.
Sometimes I feel like the world has gone mad.
Let me get this straight. You're using a social media app-- which generally combines functionality across basically all of your phone-- but you dont like the permissions it demands. Android gives you the ability to reject updates when they request more permissions, but thats no good; you could also choose any of a million alternative apps for any given social media site ("FAST for Facebook" for example), or use the Android Open Source Project derivitives on your existing hardware-- but you find that unacceptable, preferring instead to buy a new device rather than fixing your existing one?
Like the more I read the last sentence of your post, the harder my mind boggles. You object to making a very minor change to your phone (99% of the time you cant tell youre on CyanogenMod), preferring to spend more money AND switch entire ecosystems? What?!
Wolverine would have been much less impressive if his claws were made of gallium.
Im just waiting to see how many people hop onto the "Goofing off at work? HOW HORRIBLE" bandwagon during work hours.
Wait, crap.
I cant dispute the whole "large work spurt prior to end of period", but I do know a number of PTO people and they tend to be very sharp and well educated.
I would dispute that the supermarket clerk COULD do a better job-- theres a lot of research that has to go into patent reviews.
Cyanogenmod allows you to "accept" apps that ask for all sorts of non-core access, and then revoke it afterwards. The app can attempt to access your addressbook, but it will get blocked.
Of course I havent had to use it, because I generally dont run into issues with apps asking for insane levels of access. Maybe its the apps you're using?
Except that the first link clearly indicates that they have not phased out paper-based tax returns....
I should clarify. Do you have any examples of what you posted, that is a country where windows is required to file taxes because paper returns have been phased out?
Or you use some common sense, and use transport encryption.
Right but you wouldnt compare the accuracy of an M1A1 to the accuracy of an infantry rifle.
Im not seeing where you're getting your info; everything Ive ever heard indicates that the only issues reported with the M4 are reliability, due to its tighter tolerances, but that its also more accurate. Thats backed up by this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Which indicates the M16 /5.56 is accurate to 500m, whereas the AK47 with 7.76 ammo is only effective to 380m. If those are accurate, the M4 is lighter, uses 50% lighter ammo, and is accurate 25% further
Its still not gonna be terribly accurate with a smoothbore barrel.
Get a Mikrotik.
Care to give an example?
Most of those jumps are relatively small. Switching between HoN, LoL, and DOTA isnt really similar to switching from basketball to baseball. Many of the skills (kiting, lasthitting, etc) are very similar in the games; a lot of the barrier is just knowledge (what champions do what, particular mechanics differences.
Ditto BroodWar to SC2. Its been pretty widely known that BW players moving to SC2 tend to be very good at SC2 because of the similarity of the games, and the reputed higher difficulty of BW.
Wifi and Bluetooth arent using "exactly 2.400000 ghz". They use frequency bands. It is entirely possible that you have 2 access points and 2 bluetooth devices and none of them interfere with each other in the slightest.
Hows that Mozilla Kool-Aid taste?
You want security, use Opera, Safari, Chrome, anything-- but Mozilla is a disaster.
Anyone want to play "spot the libertarian"?
Updating Java has long been known to break stuff. Old Cisco Pixes used Java for the web interface, and it didnt work with anything but JRE 1.4.2. EFI printing controllers rely on 1.6.0 and break with anything newer. Im sure other admins can vouch for a million widgets that break when you upgrade java.
Wow, using a 15 day old build of firefox to assert that IE is terribly insecure (because it has an unpatched vuln).
Of course, you couldnt have made this post 15 days ago, because the score would have been "1 unpatched for IE11, 11 unpatched for mozilla"
IE isnt the greatest security-wise, but Id probably trust it over Firefox these days.
Oh look, more FUD.
Do you know what a chain of custody is? How the courts work? What the difference between hard evidence, and hearsay is?
Arrest everybody and let the courts straighten it out is what they do.
Yes, that results in whats called "dismissed, with prejudice". I mean, if the cops wanted to waste a ton of time and potentially get slapped down for it, they could do that.