I'm well aware that correlation != causation, but...
I use win7 systems with UAC on full, firefox with noscript and adblock, and Microsoft Security Essentials. I install only software I require from trusted sources, tracking it back to the source page. I keep a general eye on Task Scheduler, and on currently running things with Sysinternals Process Explorer, and AutoRuns to make sure I'm not running anything I don't wish to.
If I really want to check out something new and unproven it goes in a VM and gets scanned by 50 AV engines on virustotal.com, I know how to trace malware with Process Monitor and keep an eye on current events with regards to rootkit detection.
I've used googles SSL options since availability, and use SSL elsewhere whenever I can.
I laugh at phishing in general, do my best to educate others on it, and companies like my mobile provider's 3rd party contractors that call me from unknown numbers and ask me to confirm my pin before we can talk get politely explained the irony of their security protocol, and that they can let me call in to them on a number I trust instead.
I don't reuse my passwords. I don't ever discuss them with anyone, I don't let my browser store important passwords, I manually type in domains and occasionally double check my hosts file for redirects, I check the SSL cert is valid where applicable.
I manage the router in the home myself and use WPA2 with a strong key, and keep an eye on the connection logs in general, the systems consider it a public network (by win7 terms) so no access to other machines. Despite living in a 2 foot thick limestone wall farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.
I even had a good laugh when Google Maps android app was last updated and suddenly required pretty much every privilege on the phone, and seriously considered not updating (not that I think it was a Google App that leaked my info).
If I was any more paranoid I'd be a pure linux geek instead, there really isn't a great deal more a person can do.
No other account I have has been compromised, only the one that I really haven't been using lately other than that it's the one attached to the phone.
My email account is by no means a high profile name that would attract targeted hack attention.
I certainly didn't want to damage Android's rep with my post, I LOVE my phone otherwise, I just really do wish there were better post-install access controls, and I really don't see how my account info could have been leaked otherwise, it's not impossible it's just highly unlikely.
correlation != causation but it sure does cause for unwanted paranoia.
PS. Googleing android malware certainly does comes up with a few stories, so it wasn't beyond the realms of possibility from my point of view.
I was sure that there would be no repurchasing necessary, it's just a hassle to make a list of what to get again, and the time it takes to reinstall them all. Especially frustrating when having no idea which app was the culprit.
It's not like you can install one app then sit around and wait a few months to see if anything untoward happens before installing the next one to test.
I'm worried because in all the years I've had a Google mail account I haven't had any issues, yet a month after getting an Android 2.1 phone, despite being really careful about only installing high rated applications with tens of thousands of users and mostly keeping an eye on what they're allowed to access, my gmail account was hacked and used to send out a spam email via a mobile device in canada.
I've never had an email account hacked before, so I'm pretty convinced that some phone app has leaked my account details (as it's the gmail account tethered to my phone).
Admittedly Google immediately suspended my account due to suspicious activity (access from Mobile Canada (71.17.214.49), I live in the UK), and a token to my mobile phone was how I unlocked it and changed my password, but I'm still rather wary now despite how much I love my Galaxy S mobile.
I have bought apps I don't want to lose wiping the phone, and I have no real way to tell what it may have been that leaked my data.
I have droidsecurity antivirus installed now, but wish google could offer some stronger post-install controls on what an app's allowed to do.
I'd be much more interested to see it being done with the builds of FF 4 that have jaegermonkey enabled. Though that should be merged into the main branch fairly soon with any luck.
I'm thinking of the galaxy S as my example here with 1500mah battery, and lower power use cpu/gpu (at idle obv.) and SAMOLED screen.
The iphone4 has a 1420 mah battery.
So the best that I can find out here in this case the android phone not only can run using less power drain, but it has the bigger battery also, and it's still replaceable.
"It really irks me that newspaper websites don't link to original sources... its not like putting a URL in print... it'd mean if people were interested, they could simply click and find out more. Silly newspaper website making people."
Absolutely, I can't believe the number of so called professional articles, even ones entirely about a website, that at no point actually link the website in question leaving you to hunt around for it instead.
If they're strangely worried they would be promoting the page's rank (funny thing when any article is promotion anyway) and don't want to do that, then they just need rel=nofollow
Aside from when a friend of mine was flat out told he got the job because from a bunch of otherwise pretty much identical candidates, he was a member of the BCS, and none of the others were.
Other than that I've been struggling to see why I should join myself.
It was hard for a BFG card to 'crap out before the warranty does' as BFG was the first gfx card manufacturer to offer a true lifetime warranty, instead of the *shelf life* of the part.
Excellent manufacturer, I waited for years for them to start selling in the UK and was very happy when they did. Incredibly sad to hear they're pulling out, and I really don't know what to replace them with.
There's a LOT of eVGA going about on these stories it's hard to imagine it's not a marketing campaign atm, is their hardware actually high quality and very long lasting? The last time I looked at them (3 years ago, maybe more) they were not held in high regard.
In the UK at least it comes under something stronger than simple false advertising law iirc.
There was a scratch card company (maybe even from Camelot the lottery company I forget) that was taken to court over the fact they sold hundreds (thousands? more?) tickets after they knew the main prize had been won, so people were buying tickets under a misapprehension.
If there is similar in the US as I'd expect, I'd think 2K Sports only (slim) hope would be claiming you didn't have to purchase anything to enter, so you didn't have to be out of pocket (assuming you could enter using someone else's console/copy of the game). Or somehow proving that they didn't asses the entries until shortly before the announcement of the winner.
So I have prior knowledge of X highly efficient algorithms to do various things that I have come up with in the past, If I happen to have need of them then I instinctively will use that method, to fluff it up with placebo code to make it unique in some way would be wrong, and any half decent coder coming after me would remove placebo code spotting it's uselessness anyway so my original algorithm would be left.
Everyone knows 'new' code is highly rare as it is unless working with a very specific problem.
So how the heck do you explain to ANY company you work for that due to this you can work for them, and give them a product they own they have entirely paid for, but tons of the methods within it you can simply never give them any rights to, as you've used them countless times before for yourself and other paying and non paying clients. And it would be impossible for you to continue to work in the field if you were to not use them elsewhere also.
And it's 'Fibre To The Home' not Fibre To The Desktop, ISP's don't expect you to deploy fibre gear throughout your existing infrastructure any more than cable providers expect you to have a home cable network. Everything is output over Ethernet once it's in your house.
Both CNT and the kind of similar Diamond tech promised CRT-like no native rez however, and the ease-on-the-eye of LCD, but with CRT colour. Though yes I am well aware of recommended resolutions of CRT's they still other resolutions far better than scaling on LCD's.
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I'm well aware that correlation != causation, but...
I use win7 systems with UAC on full, firefox with noscript and adblock, and Microsoft Security Essentials. I install only software I require from trusted sources, tracking it back to the source page.
I keep a general eye on Task Scheduler, and on currently running things with Sysinternals Process Explorer, and AutoRuns to make sure I'm not running anything I don't wish to.
If I really want to check out something new and unproven it goes in a VM and gets scanned by 50 AV engines on virustotal.com, I know how to trace malware with Process Monitor and keep an eye on current events with regards to rootkit detection.
I've used googles SSL options since availability, and use SSL elsewhere whenever I can.
I laugh at phishing in general, do my best to educate others on it, and companies like my mobile provider's 3rd party contractors that call me from unknown numbers and ask me to confirm my pin before we can talk get politely explained the irony of their security protocol, and that they can let me call in to them on a number I trust instead.
I don't reuse my passwords. I don't ever discuss them with anyone, I don't let my browser store important passwords, I manually type in domains and occasionally double check my hosts file for redirects, I check the SSL cert is valid where applicable.
I manage the router in the home myself and use WPA2 with a strong key, and keep an eye on the connection logs in general, the systems consider it a public network (by win7 terms) so no access to other machines. Despite living in a 2 foot thick limestone wall farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.
I even had a good laugh when Google Maps android app was last updated and suddenly required pretty much every privilege on the phone, and seriously considered not updating (not that I think it was a Google App that leaked my info).
If I was any more paranoid I'd be a pure linux geek instead, there really isn't a great deal more a person can do.
No other account I have has been compromised, only the one that I really haven't been using lately other than that it's the one attached to the phone.
My email account is by no means a high profile name that would attract targeted hack attention.
I certainly didn't want to damage Android's rep with my post, I LOVE my phone otherwise, I just really do wish there were better post-install access controls, and I really don't see how my account info could have been leaked otherwise, it's not impossible it's just highly unlikely.
correlation != causation but it sure does cause for unwanted paranoia.
PS.
Googleing android malware certainly does comes up with a few stories, so it wasn't beyond the realms of possibility from my point of view.
eg. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180561/New_Android_malware_texts_premium_rate_numbers
http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/28/android-wallpaper-app-that-steals-your-data-was-downloaded-by-millions/
(It blows my mind people pay for wallpaper on phones with bluetooth/microusb)
I was sure that there would be no repurchasing necessary, it's just a hassle to make a list of what to get again, and the time it takes to reinstall them all. Especially frustrating when having no idea which app was the culprit.
It's not like you can install one app then sit around and wait a few months to see if anything untoward happens before installing the next one to test.
Did you inadvertently reuse your email password somewhere else?
nope. I'm careful to use letters numbers and extra chars too.
I'm worried because in all the years I've had a Google mail account I haven't had any issues, yet a month after getting an Android 2.1 phone, despite being really careful about only installing high rated applications with tens of thousands of users and mostly keeping an eye on what they're allowed to access, my gmail account was hacked and used to send out a spam email via a mobile device in canada.
I've never had an email account hacked before, so I'm pretty convinced that some phone app has leaked my account details (as it's the gmail account tethered to my phone).
Admittedly Google immediately suspended my account due to suspicious activity (access from Mobile Canada (71.17.214.49), I live in the UK), and a token to my mobile phone was how I unlocked it and changed my password, but I'm still rather wary now despite how much I love my Galaxy S mobile.
I have bought apps I don't want to lose wiping the phone, and I have no real way to tell what it may have been that leaked my data.
I have droidsecurity antivirus installed now, but wish google could offer some stronger post-install controls on what an app's allowed to do.
The js-preview builds have it, as shown in the article that I linked.
It's not in Trunk yet, I run the latest nightly build, about:buildconfig is still lacking the --enable-methodjit option
I'd be much more interested to see it being done with the builds of FF 4 that have jaegermonkey enabled. Though that should be merged into the main branch fairly soon with any luck.
http://www.conceivablytech.com/2673/products/first-look-firefox-4-jaegermonkey/
I'm thinking of the galaxy S as my example here with 1500mah battery, and lower power use cpu/gpu (at idle obv.) and SAMOLED screen.
The iphone4 has a 1420 mah battery.
So the best that I can find out here in this case the android phone not only can run using less power drain, but it has the bigger battery also, and it's still replaceable.
1 spare battery, or even several is a hell of a lot cheaper than a spare unit.
1 spare battery is smaller, lighter, and less prone to breakages than a spare unit.
Why give your enemy 2 devices for free if you're taken out when you can only risk one instead.
Decent android phones make their batteries last a lot longer than any iphone offering atm. ( samoled, hummingbird etc)
If you actually need to use it as a phone for any reason, you don't want an iphone.
From TFA "first ever directly photographed by telescopes on Earth" Formalhaut_b was imaged from Hubble.
Frequency calibration apparently http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/25/death_grip_hysteria_may_end_monday_with_ios_4_01.html
So, what they're saying is, all phones suffer from this, apart from any phone that has the aerial behind an insulating layer, such as a plastic case.
Off topic, we're the only phone with the external metalwork acting as the aerial, isn't that awesome.
Don't forget all phones suffer this defect, so it's not a design defect, no really.
"It really irks me that newspaper websites don't link to original sources... its not like putting a URL in print... it'd mean if people were interested, they could simply click and find out more.
Silly newspaper website making people."
Absolutely, I can't believe the number of so called professional articles, even ones entirely about a website, that at no point actually link the website in question leaving you to hunt around for it instead.
If they're strangely worried they would be promoting the page's rank (funny thing when any article is promotion anyway) and don't want to do that, then they just need rel=nofollow
It's pre installed on the Samsung Galaxy S, you just have to click and hold on a text input field to get the menu up that lets you enable it.
Aside from when a friend of mine was flat out told he got the job because from a bunch of otherwise pretty much identical candidates, he was a member of the BCS, and none of the others were.
Other than that I've been struggling to see why I should join myself.
Don't have the memory/performance to do what exactly?
The Buffalo routers that come with ddwrt pre-installed now, like the WZR-HP-G300NH, are great, USB for NAS, the works.
It was hard for a BFG card to 'crap out before the warranty does' as BFG was the first gfx card manufacturer to offer a true lifetime warranty, instead of the *shelf life* of the part.
Excellent manufacturer, I waited for years for them to start selling in the UK and was very happy when they did.
Incredibly sad to hear they're pulling out, and I really don't know what to replace them with.
There's a LOT of eVGA going about on these stories it's hard to imagine it's not a marketing campaign atm, is their hardware actually high quality and very long lasting? The last time I looked at them (3 years ago, maybe more) they were not held in high regard.
It's not in quake 1 at all.
Power stops at the rocket launcher there.
Doesn't Supreme Commander let you do that?
I haven't seen it I'm just sure I heard it did.
In the UK at least it comes under something stronger than simple false advertising law iirc.
There was a scratch card company (maybe even from Camelot the lottery company I forget) that was taken to court over the fact they sold hundreds (thousands? more?) tickets after they knew the main prize had been won, so people were buying tickets under a misapprehension.
If there is similar in the US as I'd expect, I'd think 2K Sports only (slim) hope would be claiming you didn't have to purchase anything to enter, so you didn't have to be out of pocket (assuming you could enter using someone else's console/copy of the game). Or somehow proving that they didn't asses the entries until shortly before the announcement of the winner.
Will the Adobe CS5 Mercury Playback Engine run on this or are they really locking it JUST to Quadro's ?
I'd put 'theoretical' in >'s at the top but forgot even set to plain text slashdot removes it.
So I have prior knowledge of X highly efficient algorithms to do various things that I have come up with in the past, If I happen to have need of them then I instinctively will use that method, to fluff it up with placebo code to make it unique in some way would be wrong, and any half decent coder coming after me would remove placebo code spotting it's uselessness anyway so my original algorithm would be left.
Everyone knows 'new' code is highly rare as it is unless working with a very specific problem.
So how the heck do you explain to ANY company you work for that due to this you can work for them, and give them a product they own they have entirely paid for, but tons of the methods within it you can simply never give them any rights to, as you've used them countless times before for yourself and other paying and non paying clients. And it would be impossible for you to continue to work in the field if you were to not use them elsewhere also.
Presumably autohotkey has to stay running in the background?
If you just remap your keys nothing extra has to stay loaded :
http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/remap-keyboard.htm
or Remapkey.exe from the MS server 2008 resource kit : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en
Me!
And it's 'Fibre To The Home' not Fibre To The Desktop, ISP's don't expect you to deploy fibre gear throughout your existing infrastructure any more than cable providers expect you to have a home cable network. Everything is output over Ethernet once it's in your house.
Or were you looking for a +funny?
Both CNT and the kind of similar Diamond tech promised CRT-like no native rez however, and the ease-on-the-eye of LCD, but with CRT colour.
Though yes I am well aware of recommended resolutions of CRT's they still other resolutions far better than scaling on LCD's.