I leave BT and WIFI on all the time and my phone lasts from around 7am to 6pm and is at around 50% charge by that time.
I don't really do much with it except read ebooks (about 40 minutes during lunch), check/respond to e-mail/messages (1-2minutes many times a day) and listen to podcasts (around an hour with the screen off) with the occasional game (about 10 minutes or less), web search or map/bus schedule lookup (5 minutes or so max).
I can definitely second the OP3 route. I don't have a 3T, I bought my 3 right before the 3T came out. However, it is a fantastic phone. It is very fast and, so far, it has been rock solid stable as well as having impressive battery life.
Also, while the Dash charging is proprietary... which does kind of suck, it *does* indeed charge very fast. My experience is that 10 minutes of charging will give you 2 hours or more battery life. 30 minutes charging will get you back to 100% from any charge level.
I never thought I would see screensavers and login screens as the touted new Linux features.
Not a bad thing. I just think it speaks to how mature Linux has become as a general user OS. No longer are we talking about dependency hell or config file editing. Almost everything *just works*.
My first distro was Slackware on several floppy images. I spent days tracking down and installing package dependencies just to try to get X11 to work and, giving up on that, working on simpler problems like getting Sendmail configured....
Pretty amazing if you ask me.
Though, I think Linux would still be strictly a hacker's OS if it weren't for commercial interests and money.
... my non-portables can go to hell ... sometimes *that* way ... I like juice ... the skies are not cloudy all day ... my life is not going as I had hoped ... my husband thinks I have OCD
We are writing to inform you about a data security issue that may involve your Yahoo account information. We have taken steps to secure your account and are working closely with law enforcement.
What Happened?
Law enforcement provided Yahoo in November 2016 with data files that a third party claimed was Yahoo user data. We analyzed this data with the assistance of outside forensic experts and found that it appears to be Yahoo user data. Based on further analysis of this data by the forensic experts, we believe an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with a broader set of user accounts, including yours. We have not been able to identify the intrusion associated with this theft. We believe this incident is likely distinct from the incident we disclosed on September 22, 2016.
What Information Was Involved?
The stolen user account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (using MD5) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. Not all of these data elements may have been present for your account. The investigation indicates that the stolen information did not include passwords in clear text, payment card data, or bank account information. Payment card data and bank account information are not stored in the system we believe was affected.
What We Are Doing
We are taking action to protect our users:
We are requiring potentially affected users to change their passwords.
We invalidated unencrypted security questions and answers so that they cannot be used to access an account.
We continuously enhance our safeguards and systems that detect and prevent unauthorized access to user accounts.
What You Can Do
We encourage you to follow these security recommendations:
Change your passwords and security questions and answers for any other accounts on which you used the same or similar information used for your Yahoo account.
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Avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from suspicious emails.
Additionally, please consider using Yahoo Account Key, a simple authentication tool that eliminates the need to use a password on Yahoo altogether.
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I launched Firefox (my main web browser still) as normal and I got a little tooltip thing stating that Edge is some % safer than Firefox against "social engineering attacks" WTF does that mean?
I launch Chrome (used for Netflix and other streaming) and get the same message with a different (lower) % safer tooltip.
I don't recall seeing a Windows computer without this since... geez... probably Windows XP.
I am not sure that it has ever been all that accurate though.
I am surprised that Mac even had this indicator in the first place. The main difference I have always seen between Mac and Windows is that Mac tends to hide more stuff from you.
I am coming to the conclusion that I just don't give a crap. If people want to bury their heads in the sand and say "nothing is out of the ordinary and let's just continue business as usual", let them.
I'll be dead long before this stuff hits the fan anyway. I don't have any kids so... really, why should I care?
That was quite enlightening. I never would have known about this company had it not been for this story.
These guys run with the big boys, it doesn't surprise me at all that their first response was legal action. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that is their first reaction to any bad news.
I used to think that it was unfair that breeders get all kinds of breaks. But then I learned how difficult it is to raise a child. I don't envy parents at all and they really do deserve every break they get (and they don't get that many, really).
I am perfectly happy with giving them all these breaks and more because I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. They can't.
Yeah, they may have chosen to have children. But on the other side of that, I chose not to have children knowing full well that our society values one type of person more than the other... Not exactly fair... but to quote Marcus Cole on Babylon 5:
"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
Yeah, it's not like everyone has kids all at the same time of year or anything. You are distributing the workload among other co-workers, those with as well as those without kids.
On the surface, this seems like just because someone decides to have a kid, they get all kinds of extra perks. The thing is, yeah, they get extra perks, but they also have to work their ass off to be a parent.
I am perfectly fine being the single guy with no kids. I love my freedom. No amount of minor perks is going to get me to give that up. Those 20 weeks are going to be spent in intensive child rearing, then the 20 years after that....
You get the benefit of not having to deal with a screaming kid ever. You can just decide to shoot heroin or play world of warcraft for 30 straight hours and nobody will call you a bad person for neglecting your kid...
You make up the 20 weeks in just leisure time that you can spend how you will...
See... you need to work at Hardee's/Carl Junior.... they don't wash anything.... It's 100% glamorous burger flipping (followed by heat lamp storing)...
Well, considering that the Surface is the first line of computers that Microsoft has ever produced, there are plenty of opportunities for record setting when measured against themselves.
From everything I have seen, the Surface is a pretty neat device and I think it is getting better with every rev. Also the Surface Studio is looking like a real winner. Still... Any time I hear a company tout their own sales numbers, I roll my eyes.
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I leave BT and WIFI on all the time and my phone lasts from around 7am to 6pm and is at around 50% charge by that time.
I don't really do much with it except read ebooks (about 40 minutes during lunch), check/respond to e-mail/messages (1-2minutes many times a day) and listen to podcasts (around an hour with the screen off) with the occasional game (about 10 minutes or less), web search or map/bus schedule lookup (5 minutes or so max).
I can definitely second the OP3 route. I don't have a 3T, I bought my 3 right before the 3T came out. However, it is a fantastic phone. It is very fast and, so far, it has been rock solid stable as well as having impressive battery life.
Also, while the Dash charging is proprietary... which does kind of suck, it *does* indeed charge very fast. My experience is that 10 minutes of charging will give you 2 hours or more battery life. 30 minutes charging will get you back to 100% from any charge level.
I never thought I would see screensavers and login screens as the touted new Linux features.
Not a bad thing. I just think it speaks to how mature Linux has become as a general user OS. No longer are we talking about dependency hell or config file editing. Almost everything *just works*.
My first distro was Slackware on several floppy images. I spent days tracking down and installing package dependencies just to try to get X11 to work and, giving up on that, working on simpler problems like getting Sendmail configured....
Pretty amazing if you ask me.
Though, I think Linux would still be strictly a hacker's OS if it weren't for commercial interests and money.
It does... I just use Chrome for the option of chromcasting if I want to.
I like to segregate by function. That way all of my saved tabs in FF are relevant to what I am doing.
I use Opera for work related stuff. Every time I open a browser, it is for a purpose, with all of the saved session states for that purpose.
I could probably just use tab groups... but it just seems easier to me to do it this way.
I have my portables all covered this way and
... my non-portables can go to hell
... sometimes *that* way
... I like juice
... the skies are not cloudy all day
... my life is not going as I had hoped
... my husband thinks I have OCD
I guess what they are saying is that if you lose an ear bud, you can get a replacement for $10 less than what it would be new...
So... basically, they have a SKU for one ear bud....
We are writing to inform you about a data security issue that may involve your Yahoo account information. We have taken steps to secure your account and are working closely with law enforcement.
What Happened?
Law enforcement provided Yahoo in November 2016 with data files that a third party claimed was Yahoo user data. We analyzed this data with the assistance of outside forensic experts and found that it appears to be Yahoo user data. Based on further analysis of this data by the forensic experts, we believe an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with a broader set of user accounts, including yours. We have not been able to identify the intrusion associated with this theft. We believe this incident is likely distinct from the incident we disclosed on September 22, 2016.
What Information Was Involved?
The stolen user account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (using MD5) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. Not all of these data elements may have been present for your account. The investigation indicates that the stolen information did not include passwords in clear text, payment card data, or bank account information. Payment card data and bank account information are not stored in the system we believe was affected.
What We Are Doing
We are taking action to protect our users:
What You Can Do
We encourage you to follow these security recommendations:
Additionally, please consider using Yahoo Account Key, a simple authentication tool that eliminates the need to use a password on Yahoo altogether.
For More Information
For more information about this issue and our security resources, please visit the Yahoo Security Issues FAQs page available at https://yahoo.com/security-upd....
Protecting your information is important to us and we work continuously to strengthen our defenses.
Sincerely,
Bob Lord
Chief Information Security Officer
Yahoo
So.... is this a bad law or a good law? I don't know whether or not be outraged...
I am running Windows 10 on my gaming box.
I launched Firefox (my main web browser still) as normal and I got a little tooltip thing stating that Edge is some % safer than Firefox against "social engineering attacks" WTF does that mean?
I launch Chrome (used for Netflix and other streaming) and get the same message with a different (lower) % safer tooltip.
Dually noted MS... thanks /rolleyes
I don't recall seeing a Windows computer without this since... geez... probably Windows XP.
I am not sure that it has ever been all that accurate though.
I am surprised that Mac even had this indicator in the first place. The main difference I have always seen between Mac and Windows is that Mac tends to hide more stuff from you.
I am coming to the conclusion that I just don't give a crap. If people want to bury their heads in the sand and say "nothing is out of the ordinary and let's just continue business as usual", let them.
I'll be dead long before this stuff hits the fan anyway. I don't have any kids so... really, why should I care?
It looks a lot like nepotism, cronyism and imperialism to me... good thing those aren't elements of swamp water...
Google needs to get a grip on Android, somehow
They have, it's called a Pixel.
If you buy an AOSP or Android device from any other manufacturer, your relationship is with that manufacturer, not with Google.
Google just makes the OS that runs on the hardware.
You are part of the problem...
I would do the opposite. The bread is the best part of any meal. And pizza bread is among of the most exquisite of breads...
That was quite enlightening. I never would have known about this company had it not been for this story.
These guys run with the big boys, it doesn't surprise me at all that their first response was legal action. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that is their first reaction to any bad news.
Exactly this.
I used to think that it was unfair that breeders get all kinds of breaks. But then I learned how difficult it is to raise a child. I don't envy parents at all and they really do deserve every break they get (and they don't get that many, really).
I am perfectly happy with giving them all these breaks and more because I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. They can't.
Yeah, they may have chosen to have children. But on the other side of that, I chose not to have children knowing full well that our society values one type of person more than the other... Not exactly fair... but to quote Marcus Cole on Babylon 5:
"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
Yeah, it's not like everyone has kids all at the same time of year or anything. You are distributing the workload among other co-workers, those with as well as those without kids.
On the surface, this seems like just because someone decides to have a kid, they get all kinds of extra perks. The thing is, yeah, they get extra perks, but they also have to work their ass off to be a parent.
I am perfectly fine being the single guy with no kids. I love my freedom. No amount of minor perks is going to get me to give that up. Those 20 weeks are going to be spent in intensive child rearing, then the 20 years after that....
You get the benefit of not having to deal with a screaming kid ever. You can just decide to shoot heroin or play world of warcraft for 30 straight hours and nobody will call you a bad person for neglecting your kid...
You make up the 20 weeks in just leisure time that you can spend how you will...
They will give you all the time you need. And they will even pay the rate that they are currently paying you!
Individuals with 10 times the money they could ever spend in a lifetime
Well... to be fair, their dreams probably aren't big enough then.... I am thinking: personal space station or villa on the moon...
If this was how the world worked, we would all be eating sawdust by now.... oh... I see your point...
See... you need to work at Hardee's/Carl Junior.... they don't wash anything.... It's 100% glamorous burger flipping (followed by heat lamp storing)...
How does one operate private property? Am I holding it wrong?
Well, considering that the Surface is the first line of computers that Microsoft has ever produced, there are plenty of opportunities for record setting when measured against themselves.
From everything I have seen, the Surface is a pretty neat device and I think it is getting better with every rev. Also the Surface Studio is looking like a real winner. Still... Any time I hear a company tout their own sales numbers, I roll my eyes.