I reset mine at least 5 times a day. A game I play uses the ID to identify me to ads they play so I get in free game stuff. If I don't reset it, the ads don't play, because I already got my free stuff that day. If I reset it, I can see another set of ads, which play while I am doing something else, and get more free in game stuff.
Settings->Privacy->Advertising there is a Reset Advertising Identifier button to do this.
It seems that the elderly that use Facebook Messenger on their PCs are getting their Facebook accounts hijacked at a pretty good clip. Having banking information assigned to their Facebook account sounds disastrous.
Losing your Facebook account is not a huge deal, losing your bank account because of Facebook, especially when you are unlikely to know that the link is there being a retiree, could be the worst case scenario.
And the average consumer just looks at the smallest number and picks that one.
It's the gamer and power user market that cares, and they can research through Intel's ark.intel.com and compare on the sites that do that like cpu.userbenchmark.com or www.cpu-world.com, then do it all again for GPUs on gpu.userbenchmark.com or gpuboss.com. It's a 3 week process for me to pick out a system. I get tired of it, and stick with my Windows 7 system for years so I don't have to do the comparisons.
I am hoping they will eliminate the non-useful results as well.
You know the ones, where you search for a product and Target and Best Buy both have links with your product in the result, clicking the link shows that they don't have that product. This is highly annoying, and totally useless. Makes me ignore any site that appears in the list that I can remember has fake results.
I never click on ads, so it does not matter what they show, if I ever saw an ad.
Putting up a post for a new college graduate, or junior developer is considered to be an age discrimination issue. Most new graduates are under 25 years of age, so by asking for that level, you are apparently telling the old guys that you are not interested in them.
HR has advised that we just post the position, asking for 0-5 years experience (how is that different?) and don't increase the pay if an over qualified person applies.
There is too much "news" to pay attention to every detail, so people tend to focus on the news that might be of interest to them. So, a technical weakness that was exploited doesn't really make it into the financial news of people that own the stock. Or if it does, the information is so watered down that there is no sense of the impending impact of the breach.
Really, only those of us that pay attention to computer security news are the ones that know about the breaches and the severity of them. How many of us own enough stock that when we move it, the price gets affected? Probably none of us. Try a poll with your neighbors and non-work friends and ask if they have heard of the latest breach. My findings is none of them, not even non-security software engineers have heard of the problem.
If security was valued, which it is obviously is not, then breaches would have an impact on stock price.
I used to use smart playlists for my podcasts. Once the podcast app stopped supporting them a couple of years ago, I had to find an alternative. Overcast was it. No I can't use my playlists, but it at least works to get podcasts and play them in the order I want. No need for syncing, or iTunes or playlists. If you want playlists added back to the Podcasts app, then you'll need to log a bug at bugreport.apple.com I have seen several changes because of bugs logged. The star ratings are back because of a bug, as is playing old Protected AAC files over Home Sharing.
I have deleted all my podcast feeds from iTunes. I deleted the Apple Podcasts app from my phone, and with the iTunes 12.7 update where they removed the apps from downloading, I rarely open iTunes anymore. iTunes is just there for an occasional backup. The next step for Apple is to remove iTunes altogether and force us to backup to iCloud.
If Google wants to do something really useful as regards images, they can make a way for me to block or otherwise remove images with watermark from search results. These watermark images are a growing plague that pollutes image searching.
Just add -stockphoto and the other sites that have watermarks to your search criteria to ignore them.
Though since the Timex Sinclar 2068 was borrowed and easily confused (try nesting 5 for loops) I am not sure it really counts as my first home computer, especially since it could not connect to anything other that the tape player and cartridges I had.
The first one I bought was a Tandy Computer 2, with a multi-pack interface, dot matrix printer and an external dual floppy, used of course. OS/9 was a pretty cool compared to DOS and Deskmate was a neat interface. I used this to program, connect to BBS systems (where I met many people) and university computers at 300 baud. I had a basic word processor on this for papers, and handed it down to my parents who wrote an unpublished book on it.
The next one was a Tandy 1000 TL, a 286SX (that's right half the bus) with a blazing 1200 baud modem, 3.5 inch floppy and a 40 MB hard drive, monitor and a Dot Matrix Printer for $3500 new. I expanded the RAM to 786K to give video more space, and bought my first online purchase for this the 80287 math co-processor. Found a guy online selling them, I mailed him a check, he mailed me the chip. Real trust there. I used the modem to transfer the book off of the COCO2 to this computer and imported it into Word Perfect. Connected to the university computers to do coding assignments and play games, downloaded stuff as well as uploaded my first shareware (now freeware) to reset the Tandy Graphics to normal mode. Most third party developers did not know the assembly required to get out of Tandy graphics properly, so I got the system manual with all the details and created a program you could run in a batch after you exit programs like Fractint to reset the graphics, if you didn't reset, they were all weird when you opened something like Word Perfect. I wrote my own password based access system on this, preventing my roommate from playing games on the PC while I was at work and insisting he gets time to use it for homework when I got home. I sold this whole system online to a collector. He ended up playing for 90% of the shipping, I lost 10% of the shipping in the deal. Used 3.5 inch floppy to transfer my parent's book to a Windows PC and convert to Word, it is still unpublished, not for the lack of trying.
Me too. There are Windows, IOS and Mac versions so I can use 1 passwordsafe database across all 6 devices that need it. I have my parents using it, as well as my in-laws. Every site gets a random password that meets their criteria. Once you get used to not knowing your passwords, the stress goes away. Often used ones get memorized even if they are random.
The flight attendants will have to start checking that you have a wire to your headphones more than they do now. For those that buy the iPhone 7, you're out of luck for listening while flying, unless there is an adapter.
I was considering getting the last one with a headphone jack and trying to wait it out until the jack is returned. Maybe I'll have to go Android to get the usage model I want. I fly weekly, and noise cancelling headphones are my standard attire, they require a jack.
I just use it as a single point of log in for games. So really doubt they know for sure. Of course they could assume based on my location, but that's not a highly accurate assessment.
The Guardian reporting on tech seems not to be good. They reported that Windows 10 installed automatically, when actually it was an update to an installation of Windows 10 that already existed.
The Twitch stream clearly shows that he had Windows 10 installed already. It then shows him looking for a way to delay the upgrade...
Due to their original design and the use of Objective C, yes.
Their screening process consists of scanning code for using "undocumented" system calls that are restricted for Apple's use only. Obfuscate those system call strings and you have now bypassed the screening process (ala: XcodeGhost) Too bad they can't stop it, until they move every app to Swift (now you know why they created a new language). Even if they could crack every system call string alteration an app could do, the app could request the system call string from a server, and execute it on the fly and get around the scan.
There is probably more to the screening process, but I am doubting there is much more to it.
If the statement "first successful collision attack" were true, then I would put money into that Kickstarter.
But, if you follow the links, you'll find that they only partially succeeded on the collision in just the compression section of SHA-1. There's a lot more work to be done to make this into an actual SHA-1 collision. Their estimate of a full collision by the end of the year is overly optimistic.
The Kickstarter would have some cash, that would be quickly drained without a full collision in sight. So, I'll have to pass on giving it any of my cash.
Main PC for the house. Office apps, Backup host for all other PCs, Skype, Music, Photo library, Video Editing, Gaming
Windows 7 x64 HP Pavilion Tower 2nd Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K six-core processor [3.2GHz, Shared 12MB Cache] 12GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM 256GB Solid state drive 1TB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive 3GB AMD Radeon HD 7950 [Dual Bracket, DVI, HDMI, 2x mini-DP] Liquid Cooling Solution Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner Wireless-N LAN card (1x1) 15-in-1 memory card reader, 4 x USB 2.0 (front), 2 x USB 3.0 (top) HP 2711x 27 inch Diagonal LED Monitor HP HD-4110 Webcam Bose Companion 2.0 Speakers Razer Naga Mouse Razer Black Widow Ultimate Keyboard Logitech Mouse Logitech Wireless Headset H800 Belkin Nostromo Speedpad n52
A spam email that went to the Inbox stating that Yahoo! was going to close all inactive accounts if you did not click on this link and log in was probably how the attacker got the passwords. The link went to one of those off-shore URLs that we should all avoid.
Phishing is still alive and well.
And there are a lot of gullible people to phish for.
Don't hold your breath for LEDs, they are very expensive, produce poor color in comparison to incandescent, and last the same amount of time as incandescent.
If you use LEDs, you'll be paying 10x for your bulbs, and the energy savings don't cover that cost.
I've been stockpiling bulbs, I should be good for 5-8 years now. Maybe by then there will be something better than the current alternatives.
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You are right, Altus is wrong.
I reset mine at least 5 times a day. A game I play uses the ID to identify me to ads they play so I get in free game stuff.
If I don't reset it, the ads don't play, because I already got my free stuff that day.
If I reset it, I can see another set of ads, which play while I am doing something else, and get more free in game stuff.
Settings->Privacy->Advertising there is a Reset Advertising Identifier button to do this.
It seems that the elderly that use Facebook Messenger on their PCs are getting their Facebook accounts hijacked at a pretty good clip.
Having banking information assigned to their Facebook account sounds disastrous.
Losing your Facebook account is not a huge deal, losing your bank account because of Facebook, especially when you are unlikely to know that the link is there being a retiree, could be the worst case scenario.
And the average consumer just looks at the smallest number and picks that one.
It's the gamer and power user market that cares, and they can research through Intel's ark.intel.com and compare on the sites that do that like cpu.userbenchmark.com or www.cpu-world.com, then do it all again for GPUs on gpu.userbenchmark.com or gpuboss.com. It's a 3 week process for me to pick out a system. I get tired of it, and stick with my Windows 7 system for years so I don't have to do the comparisons.
I am hoping they will eliminate the non-useful results as well.
You know the ones, where you search for a product and Target and Best Buy both have links with your product in the result, clicking the link shows that they don't have that product. This is highly annoying, and totally useless. Makes me ignore any site that appears in the list that I can remember has fake results.
I never click on ads, so it does not matter what they show, if I ever saw an ad.
Putting up a post for a new college graduate, or junior developer is considered to be an age discrimination issue. Most new graduates are under 25 years of age, so by asking for that level, you are apparently telling the old guys that you are not interested in them.
HR has advised that we just post the position, asking for 0-5 years experience (how is that different?) and don't increase the pay if an over qualified person applies.
This is based on some court ruling I hear.
There is too much "news" to pay attention to every detail, so people tend to focus on the news that might be of interest to them. So, a technical weakness that was exploited doesn't really make it into the financial news of people that own the stock. Or if it does, the information is so watered down that there is no sense of the impending impact of the breach.
Really, only those of us that pay attention to computer security news are the ones that know about the breaches and the severity of them. How many of us own enough stock that when we move it, the price gets affected? Probably none of us. Try a poll with your neighbors and non-work friends and ask if they have heard of the latest breach. My findings is none of them, not even non-security software engineers have heard of the problem.
If security was valued, which it is obviously is not, then breaches would have an impact on stock price.
I used to use smart playlists for my podcasts. Once the podcast app stopped supporting them a couple of years ago, I had to find an alternative. Overcast was it. No I can't use my playlists, but it at least works to get podcasts and play them in the order I want. No need for syncing, or iTunes or playlists. If you want playlists added back to the Podcasts app, then you'll need to log a bug at bugreport.apple.com I have seen several changes because of bugs logged. The star ratings are back because of a bug, as is playing old Protected AAC files over Home Sharing.
I have deleted all my podcast feeds from iTunes. I deleted the Apple Podcasts app from my phone, and with the iTunes 12.7 update where they removed the apps from downloading, I rarely open iTunes anymore. iTunes is just there for an occasional backup. The next step for Apple is to remove iTunes altogether and force us to backup to iCloud.
I had a similar image, only it was the car lurching forward a few feet each time the elderly got close...
If Google wants to do something really useful as regards images, they can make a way for me to block or otherwise remove images with watermark from search results. These watermark images are a growing plague that pollutes image searching.
Just add -stockphoto and the other sites that have watermarks to your search criteria to ignore them.
TRS-80 Model 3 with dual floppy drives, took 30-45 minutes to compile COBOL programs. So you had 1 maybe 2 shots to compile and run.
Interestingly enough, COBOL is not on my resume.
Though since the Timex Sinclar 2068 was borrowed and easily confused (try nesting 5 for loops) I am not sure it really counts as my first home computer, especially since it could not connect to anything other that the tape player and cartridges I had.
The first one I bought was a Tandy Computer 2, with a multi-pack interface, dot matrix printer and an external dual floppy, used of course. OS/9 was a pretty cool compared to DOS and Deskmate was a neat interface. I used this to program, connect to BBS systems (where I met many people) and university computers at 300 baud. I had a basic word processor on this for papers, and handed it down to my parents who wrote an unpublished book on it.
The next one was a Tandy 1000 TL, a 286SX (that's right half the bus) with a blazing 1200 baud modem, 3.5 inch floppy and a 40 MB hard drive, monitor and a Dot Matrix Printer for $3500 new. I expanded the RAM to 786K to give video more space, and bought my first online purchase for this the 80287 math co-processor. Found a guy online selling them, I mailed him a check, he mailed me the chip. Real trust there. I used the modem to transfer the book off of the COCO2 to this computer and imported it into Word Perfect. Connected to the university computers to do coding assignments and play games, downloaded stuff as well as uploaded my first shareware (now freeware) to reset the Tandy Graphics to normal mode. Most third party developers did not know the assembly required to get out of Tandy graphics properly, so I got the system manual with all the details and created a program you could run in a batch after you exit programs like Fractint to reset the graphics, if you didn't reset, they were all weird when you opened something like Word Perfect. I wrote my own password based access system on this, preventing my roommate from playing games on the PC while I was at work and insisting he gets time to use it for homework when I got home. I sold this whole system online to a collector. He ended up playing for 90% of the shipping, I lost 10% of the shipping in the deal. Used 3.5 inch floppy to transfer my parent's book to a Windows PC and convert to Word, it is still unpublished, not for the lack of trying.
Me too. There are Windows, IOS and Mac versions so I can use 1 passwordsafe database across all 6 devices that need it. I have my parents using it, as well as my in-laws.
Every site gets a random password that meets their criteria. Once you get used to not knowing your passwords, the stress goes away. Often used ones get memorized even if they are random.
If you leave browsers up all all the time, they have the same problem. Firefox and Chrome. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-580....
The flight attendants will have to start checking that you have a wire to your headphones more than they do now.
For those that buy the iPhone 7, you're out of luck for listening while flying, unless there is an adapter.
I was considering getting the last one with a headphone jack and trying to wait it out until the jack is returned.
Maybe I'll have to go Android to get the usage model I want. I fly weekly, and noise cancelling headphones are my standard attire, they require a jack.
I just use it as a single point of log in for games. So really doubt they know for sure.
Of course they could assume based on my location, but that's not a highly accurate assessment.
Maybe because I block the like buttons on all web sites they can't track me.
Or maybe because when I did see ads a few years ago, I reported them as offensive.
Let them try and get past my ad blockers. Yes that is plural on purpose.
I guess you read the book on it too? Platform Embedded Security Technology Revealed: Safeguarding the Future of Computing with Intel Embedded Security and Management Engine
The Guardian reporting on tech seems not to be good. They reported that Windows 10 installed automatically, when actually it was an update to an installation of Windows 10 that already existed.
The Twitch stream clearly shows that he had Windows 10 installed already.
It then shows him looking for a way to delay the upgrade...
Due to their original design and the use of Objective C, yes.
Their screening process consists of scanning code for using "undocumented" system calls that are restricted for Apple's use only.
Obfuscate those system call strings and you have now bypassed the screening process (ala: XcodeGhost)
Too bad they can't stop it, until they move every app to Swift (now you know why they created a new language).
Even if they could crack every system call string alteration an app could do, the app could request the system call string from a server, and execute it on the fly and get around the scan.
There is probably more to the screening process, but I am doubting there is much more to it.
If the statement "first successful collision attack" were true, then I would put money into that Kickstarter.
But, if you follow the links, you'll find that they only partially succeeded on the collision in just the compression section of SHA-1. There's a lot more work to be done to make this into an actual SHA-1 collision. Their estimate of a full collision by the end of the year is overly optimistic.
The Kickstarter would have some cash, that would be quickly drained without a full collision in sight. So, I'll have to pass on giving it any of my cash.
Main PC for the house. Office apps, Backup host for all other PCs, Skype, Music, Photo library, Video Editing, Gaming
Windows 7 x64
HP Pavilion Tower
2nd Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K six-core processor [3.2GHz, Shared 12MB Cache]
12GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM
256GB Solid state drive
1TB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
3GB AMD Radeon HD 7950 [Dual Bracket, DVI, HDMI, 2x mini-DP]
Liquid Cooling Solution
Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner
Wireless-N LAN card (1x1)
15-in-1 memory card reader, 4 x USB 2.0 (front), 2 x USB 3.0 (top)
HP 2711x 27 inch Diagonal LED Monitor
HP HD-4110 Webcam
Bose Companion 2.0 Speakers
Razer Naga Mouse
Razer Black Widow Ultimate Keyboard
Logitech Mouse
Logitech Wireless Headset H800
Belkin Nostromo Speedpad n52
A spam email that went to the Inbox stating that Yahoo! was going to close all inactive accounts if you did not click on this link and log in was probably how the attacker got the passwords. The link went to one of those off-shore URLs that we should all avoid.
Phishing is still alive and well.
And there are a lot of gullible people to phish for.
Don't hold your breath for LEDs, they are very expensive, produce poor color in comparison to incandescent, and last the same amount of time as incandescent.
If you use LEDs, you'll be paying 10x for your bulbs, and the energy savings don't cover that cost.
I've been stockpiling bulbs, I should be good for 5-8 years now. Maybe by then there will be something better than the current alternatives.
On most of my systems, Java has been uninstalled. One system has it installed, but the browsers are not allowed to use it.
I haven't found a site that requires Java that I need yet. If I find one, I'll probably look for an alternative, or temporarily enable Java.