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  1. Re: What happened to backup generators? on Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Whooosh? Humour alert... it's how the next generation of passengers will be transported.

  2. Not really. But at long last we have a single data point where Window 95 is better than Windows NT.

  3. Also bitlocker is 128 bit by default, and limited to 20 chars for the pw

  4. Re:boil it down: End of Internet Connections on US Says It Doesn't Need a Court Order To Ask Tech Companies To Build Encryption Backdoors (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So your hacker access point is the WPA2. Hope you have logs.

  5. You just stopped your own future access to your account. FB still has it.

  6. He means RV not mobile home

  7. Every country with internet infrastructure is attempting to hack, probe, manipulate every other country.

    Why pick on NK?

    Funny how dirty tricks are ok if we do it to them, but oh horror! They're trying to do it to us! Badness! "We" being any first world country.

  8. Too dangerous on Crowdfunded 'PowerWatch' Runs on Body Heat, Never Needs Charging (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    It got updated from c thru to c sharp, and the beta testers kept cutting themselves.

  9. Then your career may be limited on Vendor Tracks LinkedIn Profile Changes To Alert Client Employers (techtarget.com) · · Score: 1

    The HR I've known enough to discuss this sort of internal working say that a web search of prospective hires is standard due diligence. Just to see if any obvious no-noes pop out of the woodwork. FB and LI are very obvious places to check.

    HR people have networks among the companies that candidates typically come from, so while actually blacklists probably don't exist, previous activities at previous employers can rollover...

  10. You might be interested to know that people whose contact database is "only in their cell phone"

    • probably

    have that contact list backed up by their vendor.

    I suggest that 'probably' and 'backup' are a scary combination.

  11. But it won't happen to me! on Google Docs Is Randomly Flagging Files for Violating Its Terms of Service (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It continues to astound me how many people I know, who'd I'd expect to know better, have all their emails only accessed by webmail. No POP client to save a local copy.

    Ditto those who entire contact database is only on their cellphone.

  12. Yes, but his later tweet: on Facebook Exec: 'Just Not True' That We Listen To Your Phone's Mic (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Alex Goldman @AGoldmund
    Replying to @robjective @PJVogt

    Hi, Rob. I don't believe that facebook is listening, but a number of our listeners called yesterday with stories that are hard to dismiss.

    I don't believe that facebook is listening takes his assertion from fact to opinion.

  13. Re:Should be an easy way to submit dash cam video. on Body Camera Giant Wants Police To Collect Your Videos Too (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Recommended dash cam please?

  14. Kindly enlighten me as to the problem grammar.

  15. As an an author, Shirley you can do better than introducing a straw man into the argument? The poster did not make comment about living authors, so it ain't reasonable to criticise him for your unsupported inference.

  16. There's a company called The Work Number that collected detailed salary info from employers. Freescale supplied them, and when I requested the consumer report from TWN, it had every detail.

    So don't lie, perhaps just put a range, or show it as approximately: $90k - $100k, or ~$100k.

  17. Oyster doesn't identify the passenger who paid cash.

  18. ...talk about how you can be tracked using WiFi if you have your phone on airplane mode on the London tube.

  19. Is that thanks to Sony vs Betamax, it's legal to record OTA TV with a DVR.

    Bet that's not true for the same material transmitted any other way, such as cable.

  20. 4 months to lower the price to $0 on Equifax Will Offer Free Credit Locks for Life, New CEO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a presumption.

    A more cynical presumption is that the existing system will remain, but one will have to sign up for a new service for the instant free version. Be interesting to see what baggage it includes in the Ts and Cs.

  21. If everyone old enough to receive credit or get a job locked down their CRA files, the CRAs would go out of business.

    Look for:
    1. The lock down fee changing from one-off to a yearly subscription.
    2. The definition of what access is allowed to a person's locked down file to be changed to allow everything but opening a new account.

  22. Just curious... on Equifax CSO 'Retires'. Known Bug Was Left Unpatched For Nearly Five Months (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ..but were David Webb and/or Susan Mauldin amongst those execs that sold shares before the breach was made public?

  23. Re:snip the cord on There Will Be 22 Million Cord Cutters By 2018, Says Report (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of the good stuff becomes available on disc (so probably for free at your local library).

    For free OTA, I'll plug the ChannelMaster DVR... uses your external HDD, so you can use that spare one pulled from your lappie when you converted to SSD. The program guide is optional (over your internet) but free, and no ongoing fees unlike Tivo, which was the dealbreaker for me.

    Note very well: has some internet streaming options including Sling and Youtube, but you CANNOT record those, just the OTA TV. Sling works fine with 2Mbit/s, and you can stop/start it month by month very easily.

  24. Re:Thunderbird, viewing in Plain Text ... on The Only Safe Email is Text-Only Email (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    In Thunderbird, add HTML Mode to the toolbar which toggles between text only, simple html, and the full bollocks.

  25. ...did you buy outright, or get a loan from the dealer? Sounds like the former, so credit frozen didn't affect the transaction.