Talk of monetizing the Android, a week after MicroSoft decides to give it's phone software away; in hope many will select the dual bootable Windows over Android.
I didn't post this, then today I read "Google shares touch $1,000 for the first time ever" http://www.cnbc.com/id/101093044 a surge in mobile and video advertising that helped drive quarterly revenue up 23 percent. Google seems to be doing rather nicely, thank you
Google has started doing small things that tick me off, but two request one for each account to be removed from Google+ was met without the whining that had me on facebook 4 years after I thought I had quit that POS.
One or two Good Game can certainly make a difference
One decent game would get me into Linux; I dual boot Win7 and Mint, but only visit Mint, I don't really use it as there's nothing "special" I use it for.
Doom took me from the Amiga and to the PC, as did Quake II (made for my video card (3DFX drivers)) graphics were incredible. Installed Win3.1, the easy networking and abundance of programs shelved the Amiga.
I have Portal 2 I can play from Mint but have played it on the PC already, and it's not as good as the first. Guess the cake was my carrot and an out right lie.
The Games I've found for Mint are Civilization types, build this then you can build that; but those can impede your progress or even stop you if not taken care of.
I tried Red hat in the 1990's bought the book and CD. The Red hat disk partition tool was so confusing I quit at the very start. If the instructions had just said "or you can just use FDISK" things would be much different now.
I'm a new linux user that used Unix commands to get around on old shell accounts. So have a leg up; but still trying to get know to the command line while Linux is swaying folks to the GUI.
Then there's the flavor of Linux I started with Ubuntu as it was very popular at the time, the Live CD didn't work so stopped there. Another serious approach was Mint as Ubuntu was sending search query's to third parties - and where I'm at now. Just that I have no reason to use Mint, at the moment I play Battle Field 3 all the time - a very enjoyable game for me for close to two years now.
jon manock 1 week ago "this video is extremely misleading. the electron does not know it is being observed and decide to behave like a particle. it is the electron interacting with the test equipment that collapses the wave function. consciousness has nothing to do with it."
It's not enough to log out, you have to wipe the cookies, too. Google sets a lot of them and then there are Google-related sites like Youtube which also set Cookies. I'm not sure how much these other sites share Cookies with Google, but I wouldn't trust them on it.
It's much more than not logging in to block tracking, just one step. Web Beacons are the concern logging in or reading html email. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacons running a huge a$$ HOSTS file is also very important.
Mostly used for mobile devices Flurry.com will let you opt-out if you give them your device ID. http://www.flurry.com/user-opt-out.html every time I change the OS on my rooted Xoom tablet the ID changes so I block it at the router level (just got a new router with firewall). Also your device ID isn't all that easy to find. - for Android > play.store look for: Device ID
Read the ToS, Privacy Policy at http://rovio.com/ it explains in detail what angry birds does with your collected data. One is they send your info to Flurry.com who in return sends them prospective clients.
There was a thread about tracking I happened on after my registration, the operator of that site replied to the thread mentioning he was very happy to be working for Google, it was a good company. I replied that it's odd your so up front about being part of Google yet one would never know through the ToS http://flurry.com/ was Google as well. Now reading the ToS you'd never know http://testmy.net/ is part of Google.:} unless you went to Robtex.com https://top.robtex.com/testmy.net.html#records
Yes Google provides a service and expects something in return, they can have my searches and the links I visit, as I find them through Google. But I don't need Google+ shoved not only in my face, but into my lifel Google+ isn't a service it's totally different.
I don't log onto a site unless I have to, then log off when I'm done, keeps the tracking down a tad.
I have two Youtube accounts Googles aware of. Yesterday I logged in to do some work on the videos and joined Google+. I don't want to be part of Google+, I've no interest in the "social networks". I've changed the settings to send no Email my way and keep from displaying my actions, but don't wish an account I want no part of. Took me 4 years to finally get out of Facebook, an account I started but never did anything with.
Youtube videos have always been in the lowest resolution as I've no cookie to remember a setting, no big deal. Now all of the videos are muted as well on all browsers.
Youtube has a lot of full length movies, I have a PS3, A HDTV, and a Motorola Xoom tablet that can access youtube. I wanted to watch Dogma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwZ8fw6AIzQ on the HDTV, I can't. The searches never came close; even spelling them out word for word, there are quite a few I can't access. The links can't be accessed by any thing but the PC, no way to enter them or the PS3 reverts to a Youtube program that can't find them either.
I've started downloading the videos transferring them to each device; the start of my inadvertent youtube movie collection.
After the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing that killed "241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers" Areas of high security have barriers put in place so you have to weave, no more straight shots.
Beirut Barracks bombing: The 19-ton Mercedes-Benz truck then passed between two sentry posts, passed through an open vehicle gate in the perimeter chain-link fence, crashed through a guard shack in front of the building and smashed into the lobby of the building serving as the barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (BLT). The sentries at the gate were operating under rules of engagement which made it very difficult to respond quickly to the truck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing
Sounds like all the shooting was police or Secret Service. Car impact, female with babe in a car with out of state plates, chased, and shot ?
What if she was lost, confused and just made a wrong turn while talking on her cell phone, surprised by the barrier?
Perhaps the true price of paranoia.
Yes it was tragedy of errors and mayhaps bad timing on her part (being in the area).
Shots reported fired, a helicopter reported landing in front of the Capitol. The cop car that hit the barricade appears to of hit it sliding sideways, he was at first reported as being injured by gunfire - and an "active shooter" scenario was called.
I had a friend who managed the network for Bechtel, set my BBS up to pull in usenet that many said it wasn't possible; my setup was his proof.
What year? Didn't many BBSes do this with (non-UNIX) implementations of the UUCP protocol? I also thought some FidoNET systems had gateways to Usenet (I saw a brief mention on the wikipedia article but not sure how long back that went).
I ran an AmigA 3000, Cnet software and was part of the FidoNet. Cnet was getting ready for the Internet; we had a cookie file which was a text file of his wife's recipe for chocolate chip cookies, but a cookie file was required so he added one. FidoNet does connect to the Usenet, but just as another group. From the Usenet you can read FidoNet, but not the other way around
I can't tell you how it was done as my friend set it up (UUCP protocol and all the supporting files for the Amiga and Cnet) which was easy for him. His system was a Sparc workstation, we were worlds apart in computer systems
I pulled my messages from him who was pulling them from across the state. I'd pay him a bit for my feed (a couple Amiga text groups) but his largest group was for the NeXTstation, so most likely around 1990-91.
Secondly, none of that has exactly dick to do with what's being discussed -- which is the use of motion sensors to capture vibration, which is then via a complex software application, recreates the keystrokes entered from a nearby keyboard.
Yep - I read the summery, replied to your reply, then read the article and thought damn ----------- missed it by that much.
First you need to download and install a neural network program in your smartphone, train it with loads and loads of data.
You know, the same smartass attitude was held by our government officials regarding the "hollywood" possibility of hackers gaining control over power grids, missile launch systems, water distribution systems, etc. And then Stuxnet showed up,
Not the same, Stuxnet and even.bat files are run by default on a MicroSoft OS. To this day I have to disable auto-run, the largest most over looked backdoor into a system. Auto-run being on by default is most likely because people would be inconvenienced or not having a clue what to do next.
This is a proof of concept; It demonstrates that such an attack is now possible.
Proof of concept of something I've known since the early 90's that a computer system gives off electromagnetic energy and you can read that energy through a wall (apartment). They just made it smaller and moved it closer.
I had a friend who managed the network for Bechtel, set my BBS up to pull in usenet that many said it wasn't possible; my setup was his proof. He ended up going to The University of Colorado to study telecommunication; talking about getting in at the ground floor.
It's 817 pages "The World Wide Web, shortened to the Web" takes up pages 495 to 512 (17) intro: "Is an ambitious project whose goal is to offer simple, consistent interface to the vast resources of the Internet".
It covers everything at that time. Just like anything there garbage and there's gold, this Osborne book it top notch. Such a keeper that obviously I have it in front of me for this post.
Strangely enough, nobody seems to be calling attention to the fact that this slideshow confirms TrueCrypt has been backdoored (second slide, page 15). Is it possible to get a degree in applied mathematics without meeting the NSA's recruiting arm?
I didn't read it as there being a backdoor for TrueCrypt -but one being available, and there is if you don't use it correctly.
I started using TrueCrypt and back doored it myself without knowing.
I encrypted one data partition to test it out; but if the OS partition isn't encrypted your not hiding anything, especially Windows where everything you do is listed in multiple places. Thats just one of many precautions.
Showing that in the USA, Apple can't make the claim that biometric data is never transmitted over the network'
Who gives a flying phantasm about the transmission of data? In the U.S. this is a step backwards for privacy.
Your fingerprints are something you have, not something you know. You can be compelled to produce them, and they are not considered protected 'testimonial', just like blood, urine, or DNA samples. Your 5th amendment rights, on shaky ground as it is regarding pass-phrases, will not apply to this security model.
It was mentioned in Russia one can't just up and move or go somewhere . You must first get permission and be supplied with the proper papers. Showing papers at every border crossing or when asked for them. To be arrested or penalized in some manner if you papers weren't in order or being carried.
It went on to say there's no real difference in the United States.
At any time you can be asked for your drivers license or an ID; if you don' t have one, you can be arrested for not having a proper ID. If you don't have a place to live or less that so many dollars at the time, you can also be arrested for vagrancy
The situation isn't new; just the ways of running afoul of the legal system have increased.
But because of that the privacy concerns raised are pointless. Casual use is exactly where biometrics are useful, they are very convenient but don't provide any real security.
In the USA the privacy concerns are very real.
* The Patriot Act allows for the ue of backdoors for counter-terrorist investigations.
* Vendors are legally and commercially prevented from acknowledging their backdoors. Defense will not be able to prove their existence.
* Users of Mobile devices and cloud stroage sign off on their rights to data scanning. There is no opt-out option.
My downstairs apartment neighbor has a dog. Always barks when I'm going up or down the stairs, sometimes before.
I used to live in a house with a driveway that was right next to my neighbor's, separated only by a low fence and a few feet of grass. The dog was usually outside, and considered my driveway to be part of his territory, so he'd bark if I went out to the car or drove up and got out of it.
My neighbor got a new dog that he left alone during the day while he went to work. I was working the graveyard shift when this started. Damn dog barked all freaking day, for two days. I purchased a BB pistol and when it started barking the third day I cracked the door a bit and shoot it in the a$$.
Dog never barked again:} figure it didn't know what happened and it stung so bad that keeping a low profile was to it's benefit.
I feel I treat my dog very well, we go to the park and walk along the river everyday rain, shine, 2 feet of snow...
He protects the neighbors on both sides as well, knows them but lets it be known if a stranger is around. He's all bark, not a brave one is he; It's the fence that gives him his "power". Self firing but he shoots blanks, at the park leash-less and outside the fence he ignores people, as he should.
20+ years of owning big dogs. I've lived in several "rough" neighborhoods and I have never had anyone try to break in. A German Shepard's bark is far more effective than any form of electronic protection.
The best security system you can have is a dog, You have a lot of what if replies but it's a known fact. Nobody gets close to my place without my dog letting me know, he also does this without being a nuisance.
Security companies also make more money than one would think just selling signs or decals claiming a home alarm is installed for those with or without pets.
That's not a "consumer grade home security system". It's a motion sensor alarm. A cheap, pitiful motion sensor alarm. That a $7.80 alarm doesn't use a sophisticated or even up-to-date remote shouldn't be a surprise to anyone
Yes, something someone would take with them on a trip. a take along security system. How many people you think are going to be waiting for them to record their code:}
Which means that through some process Penrose has never explicated - if that's a word - the ultimate future can wrap onto the ultimate past and suddenly there's a new Big Bang.
(TIC)
So there is life after death, see ya all on the rebound.
What would one use to accelerate fast enough to get out of this time loop?
One astrophysicist now claims Black Holes are made by Freaking Magic...
This comes after NuSTAR found Black Holes "wherever it looked" {my words}, ""We found the black holes serendipitously," explained David Alexander, "We were looking at known targets and spotted the black holes in the background of the images."" anywhere between 0.3 and 11.4 billion light-years from Earth. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130909154918.htm
Now it's a race to explain this, and in the lead is Marco Spaans with mini black holes aka "Quantum uctuations in the form" that I would tend to think would of made itself more pronounced than just adding substance to a Black Hole.
The best HDTV you can purchase is LED with LCD back lighting. You have to investigate the HDTV to ensure it's a full LCD backLighting and not just side lighting with baffles to spread the light, sometimes it takes a lot of digging.
The best 3D is through Flicker glasses or one who's lens blink alternately. Mine are battery operated. would cost a fortune replacing them if I used that option a lot. If you go 3D make sure they are rechargeable or USB power cord.
I purchased a HDTV recently and researched them first to be sure I got the right one. Only to purchase one when Costco dropped them from $1000 to $300. I thought I made the right choice as well as it's a 600Hz. but a no return purchase.
The key is 24 fps, HDTV's resolution needs to be divisible evenly by 24 or "tricks" have to be used; 600Hz was so I was happy, 3D games were possible only to find out I fell for Panasonic big lie.
It's actually a 60 HZ, a plasma fires 10 times a second, so they multiply that by 60HZ = 600HZ to Panasonic. My 3D games come in at 30 FPS. Plasma is the best picture but nobody mentioned white is 105 F, during the summer the HDTV and air conditioner have a stand off. Then there's the burn in and a 100,000 hour life time of the screen. While it comes across as a lot of time, it's dimming from day one.
My Panasonic TC-P42GT25 also can't be calibrated the contrast breaks at 30%, it's actually too dark to view, I have it on game or vivid mode (very bright) to see. It's a "smart TV" so I can watch Netflix, youtube, HULU, what have you; but the processor can barely run Netflix - captions aren't an option.
Weary be the purchaser of a HDTV.
Here's a PDF that may help some- Display Myths Shattered: How Monitor & HDTV Companies Cook Their Specs www.hephnertv.com/pdf/DisplayMythsShattered.pdf
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Talk of monetizing the Android, a week after MicroSoft decides to give
it's phone software away; in hope many will select the dual bootable Windows
over Android.
I didn't post this, then today I read "Google shares touch $1,000 for the first time ever"
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101093044 a surge in mobile and video advertising that helped drive quarterly revenue up 23 percent.
Google seems to be doing rather nicely, thank you
Google has started doing small things that tick me off, but two request one for each account
to be removed from Google+ was met without the whining that had me on facebook 4 years
after I thought I had quit that POS.
Quoting an Apple fan boy http://venturebeat.com/author/johnkoetsier/ who use a company that
agrees with his agenda http://www.nanigans.com/ is just sad.
One or two Good Game can certainly make a difference
One decent game would get me into Linux; I dual boot Win7 and Mint, but only visit Mint, I don't really
use it as there's nothing "special" I use it for.
Doom took me from the Amiga and to the PC, as did Quake II (made for my video card (3DFX drivers)) graphics were incredible.
Installed Win3.1, the easy networking and abundance of programs shelved the Amiga.
I have Portal 2 I can play from Mint but have played it on the PC already, and it's not as good as the first.
Guess the cake was my carrot and an out right lie.
The Games I've found for Mint are Civilization types, build this then you can build that; but those can
impede your progress or even stop you if not taken care of.
I tried Red hat in the 1990's bought the book and CD. The Red hat disk partition tool was so confusing
I quit at the very start. If the instructions had just said "or you can just use FDISK" things would be much different now.
I'm a new linux user that used Unix commands to get around on old shell accounts. So have a leg up;
but still trying to get know to the command line while Linux is swaying folks to the GUI.
Then there's the flavor of Linux I started with Ubuntu as it was very popular at the time, the Live CD
didn't work so stopped there. Another serious approach was Mint as Ubuntu was sending search
query's to third parties - and where I'm at now. Just that I have no reason to use Mint, at the moment
I play Battle Field 3 all the time - a very enjoyable game for me for close to two years now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc
A quote from the comments (saves time):
jon manock 1 week ago
"this video is extremely misleading. the electron does not know it is being observed and decide to behave like a particle.
it is the electron interacting with the test equipment that collapses the wave function. consciousness has nothing to do with it."
They get their qualification. It's a win for all involved.
It's not enough to log out, you have to wipe the cookies, too. Google sets a lot of them and then there are Google-related sites like Youtube which also set Cookies. I'm not sure how much these other sites share Cookies with Google, but I wouldn't trust them on it.
It's much more than not logging in to block tracking, just one step. Web Beacons are the concern logging in or reading html email.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacons running a huge a$$ HOSTS file is also very important.
Ever hear of flurry http://flurry.com/ https://top.robtex.com/flurry.com.html#records
that's a biggie to block. It's Google analytics, for a price they provide advertisers
user demographics and what ads to send to you.
Mostly used for mobile devices Flurry.com will let you opt-out if you give them your device ID.
http://www.flurry.com/user-opt-out.html every time I change the OS on my rooted Xoom tablet the ID changes
so I block it at the router level (just got a new router with firewall). Also your device ID isn't all that easy to find.
- for Android > play.store look for: Device ID
Read the ToS, Privacy Policy at http://rovio.com/ it explains in detail what angry birds does with your collected data.
One is they send your info to Flurry.com who in return sends them prospective clients.
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Here's a good one... Read the ToS at http://flurry.com/ you'd never know it was Google.
I registered at http://testmy.net/ to keeps a data base of my connection rates; of course I read their terms of service,
it led you to https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/?fg=1
There was a thread about tracking I happened on after my registration, the operator of that site :}
replied to the thread mentioning he was very happy to be working for Google, it was a good company.
I replied that it's odd your so up front about being part of Google yet one would never know through the ToS
http://flurry.com/ was Google as well. Now reading the ToS you'd never know http://testmy.net/ is part of Google.
unless you went to Robtex.com https://top.robtex.com/testmy.net.html#records
Yes Google provides a service and expects something in return, they can have my searches and the links
I visit, as I find them through Google. But I don't need Google+ shoved not only in my face, but into my lifel
Google+ isn't a service it's totally different.
I don't log onto a site unless I have to, then log off when I'm done, keeps the tracking down a tad.
I have two Youtube accounts Googles aware of. Yesterday I logged in to do some work on the videos
and joined Google+. I don't want to be part of Google+, I've no interest in the "social networks".
I've changed the settings to send no Email my way and keep from displaying my actions, but
don't wish an account I want no part of. Took me 4 years to finally get out of Facebook,
an account I started but never did anything with.
Youtube videos have always been in the lowest resolution as I've no cookie to remember a setting,
no big deal. Now all of the videos are muted as well on all browsers.
Youtube has a lot of full length movies, I have a PS3, A HDTV, and a Motorola Xoom tablet that can access youtube.
I wanted to watch Dogma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwZ8fw6AIzQ on the HDTV, I can't.
The searches never came close; even spelling them out word for word, there are quite a few I can't access.
The links can't be accessed by any thing but the PC, no way to enter them or the PS3 reverts to a Youtube program that can't find them either.
I've started downloading the videos transferring them to each device; the start of my inadvertent youtube movie collection.
Thought that was a hugh clue.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/09/30/2338230/delta-replacing-flight-manuals-with-surface-tablets
Just read the headline of the summery, was enough, I've come to know BS when and it's presentation.
After the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing that killed "241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers" Areas of high security have barriers put in place so you have to weave, no more straight shots.
But using Google Earth I get pillars that autos can't get between
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/82858047?source=wapi&referrer=kh.google.com
For a car to set them off defeats their purpose. Her cars front end wasn't damaged, even after the chase
her front end looks to be fully intact, and these pillars are seen as well in the pictures of the event.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442703/Miriam-Carey-Woman-killed-outside-Capitol-Hill-trying-ram-gates-White-House.html
Yet they still refer to it as a ramming. "The Connecticut woman who rammed a White House barrier with her young daughter in the car before being gunned down by police was suffering from postpartum depression after giving birth last year, her mother has revealed."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442703/Miriam-Carey-Woman-killed-outside-Capitol-Hill-trying-ram-gates-White-House.html
Beirut Barracks bombing:
The 19-ton Mercedes-Benz truck then passed between two sentry posts, passed through an open vehicle gate in the perimeter chain-link fence, crashed through a guard shack in front of the building and smashed into the lobby of the building serving as the barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (BLT). The sentries at the gate were operating under rules of engagement which made it very difficult to respond quickly to the truck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing
Sounds like all the shooting was police or Secret Service. Car impact, female with babe in a car with out of state plates, chased, and shot ?
What if she was lost, confused and just made a wrong turn while talking on her cell phone, surprised by the barrier?
Perhaps the true price of paranoia.
Yes it was tragedy of errors and mayhaps bad timing on her part (being in the area).
Shots reported fired, a helicopter reported landing in front of the Capitol. The cop car that hit the barricade appears
to of hit it sliding sideways, he was at first reported as being injured by gunfire - and an "active shooter" scenario was called.
A horde of jellyfish-like animals has forced the shutdown of a nuclear power plant in California.
The gelatinous creatures, 2 to 3 inches long, are called sea salp.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/04/24/2041453/diablo-canyon-nuclear-reactor.html
Sea salp can reproduce sexually and asexually, and "you can have millions in a couple of days," e
http://www.newser.com/story/144935/jellyfish-like-creatures-shut-down-nuclear-plant.html
Actually jelly fish took down a California reactor many years ago but 1912 (the above links) is all the shows.
What year? Didn't many BBSes do this with (non-UNIX) implementations of the UUCP protocol? I also thought some FidoNET systems had gateways to Usenet (I saw a brief mention on the wikipedia article but not sure how long back that went).
There were always gateways but at 10 a minute it was spendy, newsgroups weren't a priority for me
I was a chat board (8 lines). I did use PC prusuit for my personal files http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/CONCEPTS/SERVICES/PCPURSUIT/
I ran an AmigA 3000, Cnet software and was part of the FidoNet. Cnet was getting ready for the Internet; we had a cookie file
which was a text file of his wife's recipe for chocolate chip cookies, but a cookie file was required so he added one.
FidoNet does connect to the Usenet, but just as another group. From the Usenet you can read FidoNet, but not the other way around
I can't tell you how it was done as my friend set it up (UUCP protocol and all the supporting files for the Amiga and Cnet) which was easy for him.
His system was a Sparc workstation, we were worlds apart in computer systems
I pulled my messages from him who was pulling them from across the state. I'd pay him a bit for my feed (a couple Amiga text groups)
but his largest group was for the NeXTstation, so most likely around 1990-91.
Secondly, none of that has exactly dick to do with what's being discussed -- which is the use of motion sensors to capture vibration, which is then via a complex software application, recreates the keystrokes entered from a nearby keyboard.
Yep - I read the summery, replied to your reply, then read the article and thought damn ----------- missed it by that much.
First you need to download and install a neural network program in your smartphone, train it with loads and loads of data.
You know, the same smartass attitude was held by our government officials regarding the "hollywood" possibility of hackers gaining control over power grids, missile launch systems, water distribution systems, etc. And then Stuxnet showed up,
Not the same, Stuxnet and even .bat files are run by default on a MicroSoft OS. To this day I have to disable auto-run, the largest
most over looked backdoor into a system.
Auto-run being on by default is most likely because people would be inconvenienced or not having a clue what to do next.
This is a proof of concept; It demonstrates that such an attack is now possible.
Proof of concept of something I've known since the early 90's that a computer system gives off electromagnetic energy
and you can read that energy through a wall (apartment). They just made it smaller and moved it closer.
I had a friend who managed the network for Bechtel, set my BBS up to pull in usenet
that many said it wasn't possible; my setup was his proof. He ended up going to The University
of Colorado to study telecommunication; talking about getting in at the ground floor.
The local book store had a book "The Internet "Complete Reference"" 1994 by Osborne.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2868340-the-internet-complete-reference
He kept pushed the book on me saying if I wanted to know about the Internet read that book, so I bought it.
It's 817 pages "The World Wide Web, shortened to the Web" takes up pages 495 to 512 (17) intro:
"Is an ambitious project whose goal is to offer simple, consistent interface to the vast resources of the Internet".
It covers everything at that time. Just like anything there garbage and there's gold, this Osborne book it top notch.
Such a keeper that obviously I have it in front of me for this post.
Strangely enough, nobody seems to be calling attention to the fact that this slideshow confirms TrueCrypt has been backdoored (second slide, page 15). Is it possible to get a degree in applied mathematics without meeting the NSA's recruiting arm?
I didn't read it as there being a backdoor for TrueCrypt -but one being available, and there is if you don't use it correctly.
I started using TrueCrypt and back doored it myself without knowing.
I encrypted one data partition to test it out; but if the OS partition isn't encrypted your not hiding anything,
especially Windows where everything you do is listed in multiple places. Thats just one of many precautions.
I found this after I dug a bit deeper into TrueCrypt (Read TFM). IMPORTANT: If you want to use TrueCrypt, you must follow the
security requirements and security precautions listed in this chapter. http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/security-requirements-and-precautions
The TrueCrypt FAQ http://www.truecrypt.org/faq links to Operation Satyagraha
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/26/1825204/fbi-failed-to-break-encryption-of-hard-drives
"the FBI has failed to decrypt files of a Brazilian banker accused of financial crimes by Brazilian law enforcement,
after a year of attempts" "Truecrypt and the other unnamed. 256-bit AES was used"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#Operation_Satyagraha claims "They enlisted the help of the FBI, who used dictionary attacks"
-real high tech stuff.
Back in May, Google announced that they would be making changes to their SSL/TLS certificates in the coming months: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/05/changes-to-our-ssl-certificates.html
Oh No's!
"Even in less-than-obvious places to look for information, such as Google's Online Security Blog, are silent."
To a non-story
"Back in May, Google announced..."
Thanks for that.
Showing that in the USA, Apple can't make the claim that biometric data is never transmitted over the network'
Who gives a flying phantasm about the transmission of data? In the U.S. this is a step backwards for privacy.
Your fingerprints are something you have, not something you know. You can be compelled to produce them, and they are not considered protected 'testimonial', just like blood, urine, or DNA samples. Your 5th amendment rights, on shaky ground as it is regarding pass-phrases, will not apply to this security model.
From the first or second "The People's Almanac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People's_Almanac
and http://www.amazon.com/The-Peoples-Almanac-David-Wallechinsky/dp/0385040601
November 1975 and October 1978 respectfully
It was mentioned in Russia one can't just up and move or go somewhere . You must first get permission and
be supplied with the proper papers. Showing papers at every border crossing or when asked for them.
To be arrested or penalized in some manner if you papers weren't in order or being carried.
It went on to say there's no real difference in the United States.
At any time you can be asked for your drivers license or an ID; if you don' t have one,
you can be arrested for not having a proper ID. If you don't have a place to live or less that so many dollars at the time,
you can also be arrested for vagrancy
The situation isn't new; just the ways of running afoul of the legal system have increased.
But because of that the privacy concerns raised are pointless. Casual use is exactly where biometrics are useful, they are very convenient but don't provide any real security.
In the USA the privacy concerns are very real.
* The Patriot Act allows for the ue of backdoors for counter-terrorist investigations.
* Vendors are legally and commercially prevented from acknowledging their backdoors.
Defense will not be able to prove their existence.
* Users of Mobile devices and cloud stroage sign off on their rights to data scanning. There is no opt-out option.
a few lines from http://www.techarp.com/article/LEA/Encryption_Backdoor/Computer_Forensics_for_Prosecutors_(2013)_Part_1.pdf
Showing that in the USA, Apple can't make the claim that biometric data is never transmitted over the network'
My downstairs apartment neighbor has a dog. Always barks when I'm going up or down the stairs, sometimes before.
I used to live in a house with a driveway that was right next to my neighbor's, separated only by a low fence and a few feet of grass. The dog was usually outside, and considered my driveway to be part of his territory, so he'd bark if I went out to the car or drove up and got out of it.
My neighbor got a new dog that he left alone during the day while he went to work. I was working the graveyard shift when this started.
Damn dog barked all freaking day, for two days. I purchased a BB pistol and when it started barking the third day
I cracked the door a bit and shoot it in the a$$.
Dog never barked again :} figure it didn't know what happened and it stung so bad that keeping a low profile was to it's benefit.
I feel I treat my dog very well, we go to the park and walk along the river everyday rain, shine, 2 feet of snow...
He protects the neighbors on both sides as well, knows them but lets it be known if a stranger is around. He's all bark, not a brave one is he;
It's the fence that gives him his "power". Self firing but he shoots blanks, at the park leash-less and outside the fence he ignores people, as he should.
20+ years of owning big dogs. I've lived in several "rough" neighborhoods and I have never had anyone try to break in. A German Shepard's bark is far more effective than any form of electronic protection.
The best security system you can have is a dog, You have a lot of what if replies but it's a known fact. Nobody gets close to my place
without my dog letting me know, he also does this without being a nuisance.
Security companies also make more money than one would think just selling signs or decals claiming a home alarm is installed for those
with or without pets.
That's not a "consumer grade home security system". It's a motion sensor alarm. A cheap, pitiful motion sensor alarm. That a $7.80 alarm doesn't use a sophisticated or even up-to-date remote shouldn't be a surprise to anyone
Yes, something someone would take with them on a trip. a take along security system. How many people you think are going to be waiting for :}
them to record their code
Which means that through some process Penrose has never explicated - if that's a word - the ultimate future can wrap onto the ultimate past and suddenly there's a new Big Bang.
(TIC)
So there is life after death, see ya all on the rebound.
What would one use to accelerate fast enough to get out of this time loop?
One astrophysicist now claims Black Holes are made by Freaking Magic...
This comes after NuSTAR found Black Holes "wherever it looked" {my words}, ""We found the black holes serendipitously," explained David Alexander, "We were looking at known targets and spotted the black holes in the background of the images."" anywhere between 0.3 and 11.4 billion light-years from Earth. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130909154918.htm
NuSTAR http://www.nustar.caltech.edu/ and http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/nustar/main/index.html#.UjDw25I03n0
Now it's a race to explain this, and in the lead is Marco Spaans with mini black holes aka "Quantum uctuations in the form" that I would
tend to think would of made itself more pronounced than just adding substance to a Black Hole.
The best HDTV you can purchase is LED with LCD back lighting. You have to investigate the HDTV to ensure it's a full LCD
backLighting and not just side lighting with baffles to spread the light, sometimes it takes a lot of digging.
The best 3D is through Flicker glasses or one who's lens blink alternately. Mine are battery operated.
would cost a fortune replacing them if I used that option a lot. If you go 3D make sure they are rechargeable or USB power cord.
I purchased a HDTV recently and researched them first to be sure I got the right one. Only to purchase one when Costco dropped them
from $1000 to $300. I thought I made the right choice as well as it's a 600Hz. but a no return purchase.
The key is 24 fps, HDTV's resolution needs to be divisible evenly by 24 or "tricks" have to be used; 600Hz was so I was happy,
3D games were possible only to find out I fell for Panasonic big lie.
It's actually a 60 HZ, a plasma fires 10 times a second, so they multiply that by 60HZ = 600HZ to Panasonic.
My 3D games come in at 30 FPS. Plasma is the best picture but nobody mentioned white is 105 F, during the
summer the HDTV and air conditioner have a stand off. Then there's the burn in and a 100,000 hour life time of the screen.
While it comes across as a lot of time, it's dimming from day one.
My Panasonic TC-P42GT25 also can't be calibrated the contrast breaks at 30%, it's actually too dark to view, I have it on game or vivid mode
(very bright) to see. It's a "smart TV" so I can watch Netflix, youtube, HULU, what have you; but the processor can barely run Netflix - captions aren't an option.
Weary be the purchaser of a HDTV.
Here's a PDF that may help some- Display Myths Shattered: How Monitor & HDTV Companies Cook Their Specs
www.hephnertv.com/pdf/DisplayMythsShattered.pdf