The same in the kitchen if I'm cooking and my hands are covered in flour or grease again... it's useful to ask things like "how many teaspoons make a tablespoon" without having to take out my phone.
See this is the real application for these devices. Mechanics, cooks,...
Yup. Cooks who don't know how many teaspoons are in a tablespoon. It's three BTW - something I've known since I was 5.
And yet phones aren't expected to last past their year warranty.;)
Well... if the phone cost as mush as the spacecraft, it probably would. I'm guessing that cost was in the $1.4b "pre-launch dev" part. From Cassini–Huygens:
The total cost of this scientific exploration mission was about US$3.26 billion, including $1.4 billion for pre-launch development, $704 million for mission operations, $54 million for tracking and $422 million for the launch vehicle.
I use Thunderbird and POP3, view my messages in Plain Text, have Javascript and all plugins disabled -- for those cases where I have to view the message body as HTML because (for some reason) nothing (or not everything) displays in Plain Text mode (which annoys me to no end, anyone have a workaround?).
I'm confident that I'm not missing out on anything by viewing in Plain Text, 'cause it's freaking email, not art.
In my Virginia Beach precinct, we had electronic voting machines a while ago, but have had paper -- fill in the bubble, then scanned -- ballots for the past several years including the 2016 election. The ballots are scanned on their way into the locked ballot box. This system is easier and faster than the electronic versions were, plus there's a paper trail.
Adding insult to injury, the credit agency's advice and support site looks, at first glance, to be a bogus, phishing-type site: "equifaxsecurity2017.com."
We should wait for the "equifaxsecurity2018.com" release.
A permanent freeze is permanent in all but a few states. In those states it expires after a few years. A security / fraud freeze automatically expires after a set amount of time. Placing a permanent freeze costs about $10 per bureau while a fraude freeze is usually free in certain circumstances -- like providing notification of a breach or a police report.
When I have frozen credit, that means that you can't loan me money without first authenticating me and getting my authorization.
A credit freeze only blocks access to your credit history. Technically, lenders can open new accounts in your name, but almost certainly won't, without a current credit report. Without a credit report they wouldn't know anything about your financial status.
I wonder why you don't use something like Duck Duck Go or Ask if you dislike Google so much.
I actually like Google, their results and fairly simple interface. I just don't like suggestions as I type and I don't find them helpful. Disallowing Javascript for Google via NoScript helps with this.
... some people want to learn the truth and some want to validate their own beliefs. The former will continue research the things, the latter will be happy with what they find. "Fake News" is a problem for the former to weed through, but is the answer for others. Intervention and/or identification may help some, but won't make any difference to others - or may make them hold on to their beliefs more tightly. Some people have their identities built around what they believe, regardless of the truth. You can't fix that with a warning label.
Yep, the autocomplete for searches should be completely separate from the autocomplete for URLs.
Anybody who thinks differently is an idiot.
I have actually *never* used the Search Bar and have disabled searching from the URL Bar (I refuse to call it the Awesome Bar, 'cause it's not). When I want to search, I navigate to the home page of the search engine I want to use and search there. I also have disabled search suggestions in Google as that creeps me out. Perhaps a bit old-fashion and/or Luddite of me, but it gives me more control rather than whatever *else* the Search Bar does under the covers.
If they actually sold stock after the breach before it was public information, they will be guilty of insider trading, and the SEC will have a field day with them.
Not necessarily. The trades could be the result of automatic sell orders that have been in place for years.
Potentially adding to criticism of the company, three senior executives, including the company’s chief financial officer, John Gamble, sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the breach was discovered. The shares were not part of a sale planned in advance, Bloomberg reported.
Hurricanes wouldn't dare come close to a well-armed population.
Although fear of human punishment didn't prevent the Weather from destroying Xerxes pontoon bridges:
During the time Xerxes and his huge army were marching from Sardes to Abydos, then an important harbour on the Hellespont, two bridges were built from there to the opposite side near Sestos over a distance of seven stadia (some 1,300 m or 1,400 yd), but were destroyed by a storm before the army arrived. Xerxes was enraged and had those responsible for building the bridges beheaded. He is then said to have thrown fetters (shackles) into the strait, given it three hundred whiplashes and branded it with red-hot irons as the soldiers shouted at the water.
Regardless, in most states you can pay $10 -- to each credit bureau -- and freeze your account permanently anyway. I did just that in 2011. When getting a loan or new line of credit, you can ask the company which bureau it will use for the credit check, call the bureau and either (a) unconditionally unfreeze it or (b) unfreeze it with a password or PIN, which they will US mail you -- for a specific number of business days. It's actually fairly painless.
Social Security numbers are fine. The problem is that organizations have foolishly been using them for authentication ("Prove you are you!"), rather than merely identification ("Who are we talking about?"), which was all they were ever designed to do.
Even more narrowly than that. It's original purpose was to track workers solely for use in determining SS benefits - that's it. From The Story of the Social Security Number
The Social Security number (SSN) was created in 1936 for the sole purpose of tracking the earnings histories of U.S. workers, for use in determining Social Security benefit entitlement and computing benefit levels.
I want to know why Amazon just passed this along without vetting the law firm out? Doesn't anyone do something as simple as making a phone call, checking if the law firm is even licensed? All this is easy enough to obtain.
Sounds like Amazon needs to brush up on their processes and procedures.
I know a vendor than may be able to help them... oh, wait.
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The same in the kitchen if I'm cooking and my hands are covered in flour or grease again ... it's useful to ask things like "how many teaspoons make a tablespoon" without having to take out my phone.
See this is the real application for these devices. Mechanics, cooks, ...
Yup. Cooks who don't know how many teaspoons are in a tablespoon. It's three BTW - something I've known since I was 5.
It was launched in 1997!
And yet phones aren't expected to last past their year warranty. ;)
Well... if the phone cost as mush as the spacecraft, it probably would. I'm guessing that cost was in the $1.4b "pre-launch dev" part. From Cassini–Huygens:
The total cost of this scientific exploration mission was about US$3.26 billion, including $1.4 billion for pre-launch development, $704 million for mission operations, $54 million for tracking and $422 million for the launch vehicle.
...there will be 100,000 Bodegas spread out, with one always 100 feet away from you.
They're called Starbucks.
Thanks!
I use Thunderbird and POP3, view my messages in Plain Text, have Javascript and all plugins disabled -- for those cases where I have to view the message body as HTML because (for some reason) nothing (or not everything) displays in Plain Text mode (which annoys me to no end, anyone have a workaround?).
I'm confident that I'm not missing out on anything by viewing in Plain Text, 'cause it's freaking email, not art.
In my Virginia Beach precinct, we had electronic voting machines a while ago, but have had paper -- fill in the bubble, then scanned -- ballots for the past several years including the 2016 election. The ballots are scanned on their way into the locked ballot box. This system is easier and faster than the electronic versions were, plus there's a paper trail.
Adding insult to injury, the credit agency's advice and support site looks, at first glance, to be a bogus, phishing-type site: "equifaxsecurity2017.com."
We should wait for the "equifaxsecurity2018.com" release.
... otherwise they wouldn't give two sharts about the rest of us....
Can you just say "shits"?
Stop whinging about his vocabulary. :-)
Freezing is also not permanent.
A permanent freeze is permanent in all but a few states. In those states it expires after a few years. A security / fraud freeze automatically expires after a set amount of time. Placing a permanent freeze costs about $10 per bureau while a fraude freeze is usually free in certain circumstances -- like providing notification of a breach or a police report.
When I have frozen credit, that means that you can't loan me money without first authenticating me and getting my authorization.
A credit freeze only blocks access to your credit history. Technically, lenders can open new accounts in your name, but almost certainly won't, without a current credit report. Without a credit report they wouldn't know anything about your financial status.
Can Blockchain Save The Music Industry?
Their fallback is 2 Chainz.
Most MitM toolkits fail to correctly rewrite the user's encrypted connections, causing SSL errors that Chrome will detect.
Shouldn't all browsers already detect incorrect encrypted connections and/or SSL errors? Otherwise, what's the point?
But the world is ending! With each passing day, we are one day closer to the end of the world!
Calm down. Trump just tweeted that everything is fine.
I wonder why you don't use something like Duck Duck Go or Ask if you dislike Google so much.
I actually like Google, their results and fairly simple interface. I just don't like suggestions as I type and I don't find them helpful. Disallowing Javascript for Google via NoScript helps with this.
Yep, the autocomplete for searches should be completely separate from the autocomplete for URLs.
Anybody who thinks differently is an idiot.
I have actually *never* used the Search Bar and have disabled searching from the URL Bar (I refuse to call it the Awesome Bar, 'cause it's not). When I want to search, I navigate to the home page of the search engine I want to use and search there. I also have disabled search suggestions in Google as that creeps me out. Perhaps a bit old-fashion and/or Luddite of me, but it gives me more control rather than whatever *else* the Search Bar does under the covers.
It could easily end up in Middle Eastern countries where they would use it to kill people based on the algorithm.
Well, the white people anyway:
One caveat is the paper mentions it only used Caucasian faces.
It's not a very good place to be considering all narcissists and trolls.
Sounds like a representative sample of humanity to me.
Or the US Congress anyway.
Not necessarily. The trades could be the result of automatic sell orders that have been in place for years.
From: Equifax Says Cyberattack May Have Affected 143 Million in the U.S.
Potentially adding to criticism of the company, three senior executives, including the company’s chief financial officer, John Gamble, sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the breach was discovered. The shares were not part of a sale planned in advance, Bloomberg reported.
For example, the six types of Rinos:
Hurricanes wouldn't dare come close to a well-armed population.
Although fear of human punishment didn't prevent the Weather from destroying Xerxes pontoon bridges:
During the time Xerxes and his huge army were marching from Sardes to Abydos, then an important harbour on the Hellespont, two bridges were built from there to the opposite side near Sestos over a distance of seven stadia (some 1,300 m or 1,400 yd), but were destroyed by a storm before the army arrived. Xerxes was enraged and had those responsible for building the bridges beheaded. He is then said to have thrown fetters (shackles) into the strait, given it three hundred whiplashes and branded it with red-hot irons as the soldiers shouted at the water.
Regardless, in most states you can pay $10 -- to each credit bureau -- and freeze your account permanently anyway. I did just that in 2011. When getting a loan or new line of credit, you can ask the company which bureau it will use for the credit check, call the bureau and either (a) unconditionally unfreeze it or (b) unfreeze it with a password or PIN, which they will US mail you -- for a specific number of business days. It's actually fairly painless.
Social Security numbers are fine. The problem is that organizations have foolishly been using them for authentication ("Prove you are you!"), rather than merely identification ("Who are we talking about?"), which was all they were ever designed to do.
Even more narrowly than that. It's original purpose was to track workers solely for use in determining SS benefits - that's it. From The Story of the Social Security Number
The Social Security number (SSN) was created in 1936 for the sole purpose of tracking the earnings histories of U.S. workers, for use in determining Social Security benefit entitlement and computing benefit levels.
I want to know why Amazon just passed this along without vetting the law firm out? Doesn't anyone do something as simple as making a phone call, checking if the law firm is even licensed? All this is easy enough to obtain.
Sounds like Amazon needs to brush up on their processes and procedures. ... oh, wait.
I know a vendor than may be able to help them