Being heavily invested in home automation including Phillips Hue, it's been my experience that you can trust only the major IoT players when it comes to pushing frequent security updates, something Hue does well. So does Ring.
I wish non-techie people knew about routers that can isolate the IoT stuff to its own network, or that buying cheap IoT stuff is no bargain in the long term.
Google or Bing: internet reputation management. There are many legitimate companies that help people from all walks of life get their good names back via a variety of legitimate methods.
If restauranteurs include streaming video of the kitchen so i can see if my Tilapia Livornese comes with a side of roaches--hopefully not, then I'll be so down with this.
Guy gets a ticket, goes to court dressed respectfully, treats the judge with deference, geeks out to a clueless judge about his nifty new GPS toy, asks the cop something he heard a previous defendant's lawyer ask about lack of evidence that worked, and is found not guilty. The judge goes out of his way to note the GPS evidence played no part in the decision. How is this a story about a smart phone getting someone out of a ticket?
If so, please type in 'yes, I'd like to be inundated with ads and malware please' in the box bellow."
It wouldn't make any difference. My sister would still just as blindly type YES as she does click OK. I love her dearly, but I've stopped trying to change her habits because this way I wind up with a fairly new free laptop about once a year.
If the disk/screen/battery/whatever was part of the original purchase, and if they won't give it back to me after I pay for a new one, then yes, I would technically consider it theft. In reality I probably wouldn't want it back, so it's not an issue.
Plunkett should be sacked because he is ultimately responsible for his team.
Right now Gawker needs him because he (probably) knows more about their systems than anyone. I'm sure in time there will be an announcement that he's decided to resign to spend more time with his family.
Is need the keyword there? I don't need an outdoor antenna because I am required to pay for cable as part of my monthly maintenance. My association refuses to let any of us install an outdoor antenna or even a satellite dish because we already get cable.
Around here the broadcast stations don't seem all that concerned. They recently started charging the cable company to carry them. At least that's what the cable company claims.
I wouldn't bother with cable if I had to pay for it myself, but I'm forced to get it since it's mandated by my condo association and my bill is included in my monthly maintenance fee.
An old-fashioned answering machine won't work for me because I don't have one. However, I do have a software-based answering system that lets me enter custom greetings based on Caller ID. What I've done is whitelist everyone I want to receive calls from and add a custom greeting for them. Everyone else gets my default greeting which states, "I've received so many calls where the Caller ID is spoofed and the caller tries to defraud me via one method or another that unless you're on my whitelist you'll hear this message and then get hung up on before you can leave me a message." If it turns out the call is from someone I'd actually like to hear from I add them to the whitelist and let them know it's alright to call me. This works well for me because I do not use my phone for most of my voice communications and therefore it's not a hassle or inconvenience for me.
Now as to why they don't really show any Microsoft products, I have some guesses. First, you know the products already. You've seen Windows. If you'd consider buying an XBox, then you already know what one is and probably know the advantages/disadvantages compared to other platforms. Talking about their products is about as useless as Coke trying to describe the flavor of their cola; you know what Coca-Cola tastes like.
It tastes like the "real thing". It might not describe exactly what Coca-Cola tastes like, but it makes it clear it tastes the best out of all the colas on the market. Translated to the MSFT commercial: I wanna know why Vista is the best OS on the market. But Vista is never mentioned.
What needs to happen is for the government to have a serious look on whether the electoral college voting system is still needed today.
I remember back in the election of 2000 there were some supposedly very bright people who kept referring to the Electoral College as the Electorial College. As long as we have people like that there is a need for the Electoral College.
Funny example, that - Slashdot probably has one of the highest ratios of users capable of ad-blocking of any site on the entire web, yet manages to pay the bills. Curious...
Could it be that a lot of us are subscribers? I like supporting/. via a subscription. It makes me feel good that I'm helping finance a community I like.
I agree. There is a large distinction between copying files unique to you or your computer, and media files that reside on both your computer and thousands of others.
Will you still have that same opinion when the tech person steals your DRM-free iTunes files that are loaded with personal information, puts them on a P2P network, and next thing you know the RIAA is suing you for illegal file sharing?
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Being heavily invested in home automation including Phillips Hue, it's been my experience that you can trust only the major IoT players when it comes to pushing frequent security updates, something Hue does well. So does Ring.
I wish non-techie people knew about routers that can isolate the IoT stuff to its own network, or that buying cheap IoT stuff is no bargain in the long term.
Google or Bing: internet reputation management. There are many legitimate companies that help people from all walks of life get their good names back via a variety of legitimate methods.
It's an even bigger pity that our government has given us so many reasons to distrust it!
If restauranteurs include streaming video of the kitchen so i can see if my Tilapia Livornese comes with a side of roaches--hopefully not, then I'll be so down with this.
That's what I was wondering, too.
A search on that phrase found this article, which provides great documentation. (-:
Guy gets a ticket, goes to court dressed respectfully, treats the judge with deference, geeks out to a clueless judge about his nifty new GPS toy, asks the cop something he heard a previous defendant's lawyer ask about lack of evidence that worked, and is found not guilty. The judge goes out of his way to note the GPS evidence played no part in the decision. How is this a story about a smart phone getting someone out of a ticket?
It wouldn't make any difference. My sister would still just as blindly type YES as she does click OK. I love her dearly, but I've stopped trying to change her habits because this way I wind up with a fairly new free laptop about once a year.
If the disk/screen/battery/whatever was part of the original purchase, and if they won't give it back to me after I pay for a new one, then yes, I would technically consider it theft. In reality I probably wouldn't want it back, so it's not an issue.
Yep, I agree. That's why I qualified my statement.
Right now Gawker needs him because he (probably) knows more about their systems than anyone. I'm sure in time there will be an announcement that he's decided to resign to spend more time with his family.
if you need an outdoor antenna,
Is need the keyword there? I don't need an outdoor antenna because I am required to pay for cable as part of my monthly maintenance. My association refuses to let any of us install an outdoor antenna or even a satellite dish because we already get cable.
Around here the broadcast stations don't seem all that concerned. They recently started charging the cable company to carry them. At least that's what the cable company claims.
I wouldn't bother with cable if I had to pay for it myself, but I'm forced to get it since it's mandated by my condo association and my bill is included in my monthly maintenance fee.
I'd like to think she did mean it. The first one is perhaps my favorite thing spoken by Majel as Lwaxana.
Um, you're quoting a character, not the woman herself. Still, I think that was one of my favorite lines of Lwaxana's.
If I use an aol.com e-mail address for my business does that mean I work for AOL?
An old-fashioned answering machine won't work for me because I don't have one. However, I do have a software-based answering system that lets me enter custom greetings based on Caller ID. What I've done is whitelist everyone I want to receive calls from and add a custom greeting for them. Everyone else gets my default greeting which states, "I've received so many calls where the Caller ID is spoofed and the caller tries to defraud me via one method or another that unless you're on my whitelist you'll hear this message and then get hung up on before you can leave me a message." If it turns out the call is from someone I'd actually like to hear from I add them to the whitelist and let them know it's alright to call me. This works well for me because I do not use my phone for most of my voice communications and therefore it's not a hassle or inconvenience for me.
Can't you just get one of those government subsidized converter boxes like the ones being used for television and be done with it?
I wonder if the money has been tested to see if it's counterfeit? If it is that would make the hoax easier to afford.
Although from a potential "time spent in jail" point of view this would still be a stupid hoax and hoaxer.
It tastes like the "real thing". It might not describe exactly what Coca-Cola tastes like, but it makes it clear it tastes the best out of all the colas on the market. Translated to the MSFT commercial: I wanna know why Vista is the best OS on the market. But Vista is never mentioned.
I made the same observation before seeing your comments, Rick. Sorry about that.