Yes. I now use the last 4 digits of my phone# for SSN these days. It works amazing well.
It's just a security question. And I also use a different month for DOB too (January 1, Feb 1, March 1 etc). Facebook is January (1), LinkedIn is Feb (2), Google is March (3), TicketMaster is (4) etc etc. This way when my data is stolen I know where the leak came from.
I have a scheme written down - just in case they ask me to prove myself.
Sometimes I have no idea what I'm searching for. I have a vague idea, but I don't know what it's called, the words used to describe etc. So I start searching using the words that come to mind to describe it, fail, learn, try again.
I'd love it if the system could read my mind. If I was speaking with a Reference Librarian s/he would ask me questions and help direct me towards what I wanted.
However, I probably wouldn't appreciate seeing "horrifying" results. Of course if I was searching on the history of Jews -- I might see something horrifying, and it would probably be an acceptable result.
I just don't want to see the "fake" results and run the risk of becoming a member of a devil worshiping cult.:-P
While I'm aware research is still in its early phase --- are they suggesting that, should Planet X exist, that Goblin is actually a Moon?
I heard Goblin described as "at the very small end of a dwarf-planet." Are they suggesting it is a planet that was knocked out of orbit by X? Or is it technically orbiting X making it a moon?
Or do we need a different definition --- rocks that float in space?!
OOhhh -- I see the movie now. Super Earth X. Magical planet of mysterious inhabitants. The sequel will be called "Return to Xs":-P
Most people who I know that visit the Pirate Bay et al web sites do it... because it's free. I know a few people who purchased old-school Apple iPod (the big ones) and fill it with all the free music they can find. Then buy a hacked Roku box to get the free shows.
Admittedly, neither one has the money to buy shit. But they download far more than a few favorites.
Another guy I knew was into Tennis and would visit several offsite streaming services. He liked to watch the big matches and they weren't available via his local cable TV packages. That is licensing/copyright I'm sure and DRM that was attempting to prevent him from accessing this foreign content. But he just wanted to watch professional tennis from around the world. He said he'd even pay for it from ESPN if they offered it.
I think people fall into 2 buckets (big generalization coming up...) -- bucket 1: I want it and can't get it via legal means. 2. the big companies have it coming to them, they don't own nothing and they are "the man." So f-them I'm taking everything I can get for free.
I just love how this digital holiday comes the day before a true Pirates day!
I've never heard of Day against DRM - so maybe they did this on purpose. But this story is the reason I dislike DRM and purchasing from iTunes. Apple Tv is just so darn convient - I can't possibly download all of those movies. Nor do I know that they'd be playable "next year" on a new device.
Hence my rather large BluRay collection. All I need is for the industry to keep making bluray players.
When the camera zooms out and shows more of the neighborhood at the end, and the presenter becomes this little bug in the middle of it all - wow, that really drives it home. I also liked how the storm intensified, stronger winds, water color changes. Geez, it all looked real (I've been near big storms and have seen the water & sky change). How big is this friggen stage?!
That is an amazing marriage of technology and reality.
It sounded like a terrific idea - it was an experiment. It turned out to not be such a good idea, but valuable information & feedback has been gained. Who knows, maybe a v2 will come in the future after these years of feedback is digested. It sounds like the long-touch provides "80%" of the functionality without having extra wires and chips. I remember, when it was announced, thinking it was going to be a cool feature as it seemed to have terrific potential.
My wife has it on her phone-7, and my Watch (v0) has it too. It works fine on the Watch because of how hard you need to press it. But I don't like it on the phone - I keep accessing the secondary functions instead of the primary ones. You have to press, but not too hard. Sometimes is does require a hard press. I don't know - it has confused me several times. I don't find it intuitive.
Although on the Watch it is easy to accidentally swap faces. Normally it is hard press but I keep finding different the watch faces active. And the "clear all" hard-press is nice. While not perfect it has been more predictable on the Watch than the iPhone7. Rarely do I access the wrong function on the Watch. But the phone - I constantly access the secondary layer.
Maybe that's it. It works find on a limited input device. But complex input devices (pinch zoom, scroll, swipe etc) just adds complexity.
yes and, if they use their dominance to make it more difficult to find the competition, via confusing statements or tedious steps, are they back into the antitrust bucket?
It's one thing to list Edge as the top choice (or even a link to a propaganda article touting the wonderfulness of Edge) in the search results. But injecting into the flow of a webpage feels like everything we don't want ISPs doing.
My credit is fine. Have there been reports of massive fraud that can be traced back to this? What are they doing with it?
I predicted that this won't be a consumer problem. The credit system now has an issue - all of their previously "Secret" data is floating around. As a consumer I don't know what to do or what is happening out there. But if a rash of fraudulent loans start appearing then the credit market will really have a problem.
Just like I have to press "block caller" due to the high level of scam phone calls --- the credit market may need to start doing the same. Then we all have a problem.
yes but.... are these connections available to an outside source? Linked in knows this connection. Can an affiliate also see this, thus passing it off to spammers?
We've been thinking long, but not hard, on this issue.
We have started receiving some very high-quality Office365 "Your password is about to expire" notifications. They are super specific and somehow they know we use MS. As usual they are an exact copy of the real email (none of the usual grammar or spelling mistakes). The fact MS spam filtering doesn't flag these is troubling.
If it weren't for the "From: Microsoft Office365 (billybob3248@ustexasam.edu)" it would look totally legit. My big issue that is that Outlook normally hides some of this information - at times making it difficult to see the mail headers. Gmail is a bit better, but only when it gets flagged as spam, I like their "Caution - this looks like [fishing/spam/other]"
Only a select sub-group of employees receives these emails. It's very focused, and apparently not random. They pit specific employees against each other "hey Sally, I'm not in the office, please pay this bill, signed Bob" And both Sally and Bob are real people who work together. Sally isn't on LinkedIn - so their relationship, if guessed, was spectacularly a good guess. It amazes me where this information might be mined from.
Geez. What is up in Japan? In the USA people breakup from dating via SMS text messages. That's one way to avoid conflict.
Not that I've quit a lot of jobs. Only once did I feel that I was letting them down - it was a great job, I loved them, they loved me...but I had to go a different direction for personal reasons.
The other few times I quit a job I was more than willing to let them know !!
Nope really - that was his name. He's a consultant who teaches requirements and testability. Looks like he goes by Richard Bender when searching on Google. I mean really, I had to pause before typing that into the search bar while at work.
But in the end, do we really need to care? Sure, message boards possibly care about offensive looking handles. Maybe the answer is "Report this profile"
Seriously though - I do see email addresses from people trying to cross the private to professional line that are rather unprofessional. Sure, "ILoveKitties" is cute and on the edge, but I've seen some that are distressing.
Please let the "Personal Branding" people disappear.
They build a general purpose CPU - and it is owned by the person who purchases it. How can this possibly be enforced? It feels like selling car, and stating that the new owner can't drag race and post the times.
Although I read it as distinct pieces. "You" won't provide documentation to others explaining how to look inside, and also won't provide benchmark software / results, nor documentation that uses these "Secrets" to benchmark.
but some random person off the street can certainly figure it out themselves. "You" can't use your insider knowledge to help them.
Def Con is the land of hacks and attacks - including Social Engineering workshops.
The hotels may really have search protocols like this -- and some random person shows up using that knowledge and claims to be a hotel employee. The idea is in a hotel guests head so they figure "sounds legit"
Seems they need to take a page from Banks "our employees will never call and ask you for this information" -- Hotel security staff will never do X/Y/Z.
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Something that finally hits home on climate change, a beer shortage!
We all need something to drink ourselves silly as the water rises up over our ankles.
Yes. I now use the last 4 digits of my phone# for SSN these days. It works amazing well.
It's just a security question. And I also use a different month for DOB too (January 1, Feb 1, March 1 etc). Facebook is January (1), LinkedIn is Feb (2), Google is March (3), TicketMaster is (4) etc etc. This way when my data is stolen I know where the leak came from.
I have a scheme written down - just in case they ask me to prove myself.
They probably outsourced it --- and no where in the requirements did it say "please protect servers with a password"
You are correct. Well, maybe both of you are.
Sometimes I have no idea what I'm searching for. I have a vague idea, but I don't know what it's called, the words used to describe etc. So I start searching using the words that come to mind to describe it, fail, learn, try again.
I'd love it if the system could read my mind. If I was speaking with a Reference Librarian s/he would ask me questions and help direct me towards what I wanted.
However, I probably wouldn't appreciate seeing "horrifying" results. Of course if I was searching on the history of Jews -- I might see something horrifying, and it would probably be an acceptable result.
I just don't want to see the "fake" results and run the risk of becoming a member of a devil worshiping cult. :-P
I've seen this at other stores. So it isn't fake news. Is there a technology problem that I should try to solve?
Is there a problem? Maybe a I should read the Vox article.
But I don't care.
I can see it now... the system boots and prompts
Please Enter Password> _
User enters: "password"
Confirm new Password> ********
Buck passed to user who has now entered a well known password. Problem solved !!!
While I'm aware research is still in its early phase --- are they suggesting that, should Planet X exist, that Goblin is actually a Moon?
I heard Goblin described as "at the very small end of a dwarf-planet." Are they suggesting it is a planet that was knocked out of orbit by X? Or is it technically orbiting X making it a moon?
Or do we need a different definition --- rocks that float in space?!
OOhhh -- I see the movie now. Super Earth X. Magical planet of mysterious inhabitants. :-P
The sequel will be called "Return to Xs"
Most people who I know that visit the Pirate Bay et al web sites do it ... because it's free. I know a few people who purchased old-school Apple iPod (the big ones) and fill it with all the free music they can find. Then buy a hacked Roku box to get the free shows.
Admittedly, neither one has the money to buy shit. But they download far more than a few favorites.
Another guy I knew was into Tennis and would visit several offsite streaming services. He liked to watch the big matches and they weren't available via his local cable TV packages. That is licensing/copyright I'm sure and DRM that was attempting to prevent him from accessing this foreign content. But he just wanted to watch professional tennis from around the world. He said he'd even pay for it from ESPN if they offered it.
I think people fall into 2 buckets (big generalization coming up...) -- bucket 1: I want it and can't get it via legal means. 2. the big companies have it coming to them, they don't own nothing and they are "the man." So f-them I'm taking everything I can get for free.
I just love how this digital holiday comes the day before a true Pirates day!
I've never heard of Day against DRM - so maybe they did this on purpose. But this story is the reason I dislike DRM and purchasing from iTunes. Apple Tv is just so darn convient - I can't possibly download all of those movies. Nor do I know that they'd be playable "next year" on a new device.
Hence my rather large BluRay collection. All I need is for the industry to keep making bluray players.
darn.
well, real in a virtual sense.
Obviously force fields don't exist that can protect a person standing in the middle of a flood.
When the camera zooms out and shows more of the neighborhood at the end, and the presenter becomes this little bug in the middle of it all - wow, that really drives it home. I also liked how the storm intensified, stronger winds, water color changes. Geez, it all looked real (I've been near big storms and have seen the water & sky change). How big is this friggen stage?!
That is an amazing marriage of technology and reality.
It sounded like a terrific idea - it was an experiment. It turned out to not be such a good idea, but valuable information & feedback has been gained. Who knows, maybe a v2 will come in the future after these years of feedback is digested. It sounds like the long-touch provides "80%" of the functionality without having extra wires and chips. I remember, when it was announced, thinking it was going to be a cool feature as it seemed to have terrific potential.
My wife has it on her phone-7, and my Watch (v0) has it too. It works fine on the Watch because of how hard you need to press it. But I don't like it on the phone - I keep accessing the secondary functions instead of the primary ones. You have to press, but not too hard. Sometimes is does require a hard press. I don't know - it has confused me several times. I don't find it intuitive.
Although on the Watch it is easy to accidentally swap faces. Normally it is hard press but I keep finding different the watch faces active. And the "clear all" hard-press is nice. While not perfect it has been more predictable on the Watch than the iPhone7. Rarely do I access the wrong function on the Watch. But the phone - I constantly access the secondary layer.
Maybe that's it. It works find on a limited input device. But complex input devices (pinch zoom, scroll, swipe etc) just adds complexity.
yes and, if they use their dominance to make it more difficult to find the competition, via confusing statements or tedious steps, are they back into the antitrust bucket?
It's one thing to list Edge as the top choice (or even a link to a propaganda article touting the wonderfulness of Edge) in the search results. But injecting into the flow of a webpage feels like everything we don't want ISPs doing.
Is Edge really faster/better/cheaper? Or is that statement fake propaganda?
My credit is fine. Have there been reports of massive fraud that can be traced back to this? What are they doing with it?
I predicted that this won't be a consumer problem. The credit system now has an issue - all of their previously "Secret" data is floating around. As a consumer I don't know what to do or what is happening out there. But if a rash of fraudulent loans start appearing then the credit market will really have a problem.
Just like I have to press "block caller" due to the high level of scam phone calls --- the credit market may need to start doing the same. Then we all have a problem.
yes but.... are these connections available to an outside source? Linked in knows this connection. Can an affiliate also see this, thus passing it off to spammers?
We've been thinking long, but not hard, on this issue.
We have started receiving some very high-quality Office365 "Your password is about to expire" notifications. They are super specific and somehow they know we use MS. As usual they are an exact copy of the real email (none of the usual grammar or spelling mistakes). The fact MS spam filtering doesn't flag these is troubling.
If it weren't for the "From: Microsoft Office365 (billybob3248@ustexasam.edu)" it would look totally legit. My big issue that is that Outlook normally hides some of this information - at times making it difficult to see the mail headers. Gmail is a bit better, but only when it gets flagged as spam, I like their "Caution - this looks like [fishing/spam/other]"
Only a select sub-group of employees receives these emails. It's very focused, and apparently not random. They pit specific employees against each other "hey Sally, I'm not in the office, please pay this bill, signed Bob" And both Sally and Bob are real people who work together. Sally isn't on LinkedIn - so their relationship, if guessed, was spectacularly a good guess. It amazes me where this information might be mined from.
Geez. What is up in Japan? In the USA people breakup from dating via SMS text messages. That's one way to avoid conflict.
Not that I've quit a lot of jobs. Only once did I feel that I was letting them down - it was a great job, I loved them, they loved me...but I had to go a different direction for personal reasons.
The other few times I quit a job I was more than willing to let them know !!
Nope really - that was his name. He's a consultant who teaches requirements and testability. Looks like he goes by Richard Bender when searching on Google. I mean really, I had to pause before typing that into the search bar while at work.
But in the end, do we really need to care? Sure, message boards possibly care about offensive looking handles. Maybe the answer is "Report this profile"
I crack myself up.
Seriously though - I do see email addresses from people trying to cross the private to professional line that are rather unprofessional. Sure, "ILoveKitties" is cute and on the edge, but I've seen some that are distressing.
Please let the "Personal Branding" people disappear.
What's the tech behind this?
They build a general purpose CPU - and it is owned by the person who purchases it. How can this possibly be enforced? It feels like selling car, and stating that the new owner can't drag race and post the times.
Although I read it as distinct pieces. "You" won't provide documentation to others explaining how to look inside, and also won't provide benchmark software / results, nor documentation that uses these "Secrets" to benchmark.
but some random person off the street can certainly figure it out themselves. "You" can't use your insider knowledge to help them.
Did this guy ever exist? Resume copied, works copied, employment history?
Dunno - maybe he's just a secret agent.
I pasted a link to CNN article and FB didn't delete it. What gives?!
Def Con is the land of hacks and attacks - including Social Engineering workshops.
The hotels may really have search protocols like this -- and some random person shows up using that knowledge and claims to be a hotel employee. The idea is in a hotel guests head so they figure "sounds legit"
Seems they need to take a page from Banks "our employees will never call and ask you for this information" -- Hotel security staff will never do X/Y/Z.