Google maps and navigation is more accurate than my Garmin GPS when it comes to directions.
Never any issue with errors in SoCal. The Garmin sometimes runs me around inefficiently while Navigation on Android takes the most efficient route every time.
I downloaded some crapware from Cnet a few days ago, the request to install the so called tool bar was designed to trick the user into installing it.
Of course I avoided that, then found the app was only a garbage demo with no functionality (partitioning software). I went elsewhere and found the correct FREE product.
This is a much higher energy than any cell phone or laptop, but it's somewhat humorous.
While working in Turkey at a NATO 50 KW HF radio transmitter site. The land was leased from a local farmer and sheep herder.
The farmer found that in winter his sheep would cluster under the transmitter antennas. He noticed that he felt nice and warm in the area around and under the antennas.
So, he built a house under one of the antennas. One of the guy wires actually went in a window and out the back door.
Then he noticed that there were very few lambs born the next spring . . .
I guess someone told him it was the radiation that sterilized the sheep, he sued NATO for damages and won. NATO payed to replace his entire flock of sheep and then built fencing around the antennas to keep the sheep safe.
The funny thing, or not so funny, is the farmer continued to live in the house, constantly bombarded by HF radiation (The signals were ship to shore teletype with many channels so it never stopped).
I sometimes wonder what effects he and his family must have suffered. I'm betting he never had any grandchildren. I still have a photograph of the house somewhere.
I wonder if this guy was working in Budapest a few years ago.
I worked a security incident at an RMA center in Budapest for my company. Product was being detected as infected in final inspection.
We traced the source to a thumb drive used by a guy with a very similar, if not the same name.
We spend a few thousand investigating and international calling and fired the person once we were sure it was him. Not a single problem from that facility since.
When I worked with SAC communications we had redundancy upon redundancy upon redundancy.
This reminds me of that; We had two sets of land lines connecting all sites. NO line went the same route or through the same equipment. On several occasions we found telcos routing the redundant lines through the same switch and had to demand a change for security reasons. This made for a very robust system and it was only the first tier of at least three... Shouldn't detail the others.
The point is that if enough money was spent to build an independent network it would be so complex that security would still be a huge issue due to the complexity.
I have a Philips player with 16GB, can't remember the model. Paid $79 a couple of years ago. Nice, though small color screen will display photos, video, has an FM tuner, and sounds great, it even has a volume limiter so you don't accidently blow your ears out.
Shop around there are MANY good players without the apple logo or price point.
I first used Seagate drives when the 20mb MFM was the standard. They never admitted the 'stiction' problem, where you had to tap the drive to get it to start spinning, even when NEW.
Next I had a 120 MB Seagate drive that lasted two months, then Seagate charged me $25 to replace it.
Seagate drives were always weak, especially compared to Western Digital's offerings. I stick with WD for the foreseeable future.
Firefox is not only supported at work, but embraced. I have one app that will only work under Firefox. The ONLY time I launch Firefox is for that one app.
We have hundreds of users with Firefox installed.
Everything else is IE, which is the default browser.
The most valid way to display reviews or comments is chronological. Yes you might see a bunch of bogus reviews together that way, but common sense should help weed those out.
The new markets way of putting selected reviews in no particular order is worse than useless, it is counter productive. This needs to be fixed.
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Propoganda
Isn't propaganda wonderful?
Just look at the nonsensical responses to this nothing article for plenty of examples.
Ehh, I get nothin'
My digital music collection is not a big deal at all, it is ALL replaceable without re-purchasing.
Literally the least of my worries.
No sympathy here
The greedy, stupid victims got what they paid for.
Instincts
I knew there was a good reason to avoid this AV like the plague.
Women are here
I work for a fortune 50 company. Nearly 1/2 the senior IT staff is women.
My boss is a woman, her boss is a woman.
I like women, and have no problem working for my boss, she's highly competent.
Re: Can we please...
Ads? I don't see no stinking Ads... Adblock is my friend.
Re: iPhone users <> Apple fanbois
A real programmer would use:
69 50 68 6F 6E 65
or
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Wait for Moller
This has been done at least twice before and it failed. It will fail this time too as it is impractical.
Re: Colour QR
I believe that was closer to 15 years ago. I remember some crazy stuff from that period that never took off.
Re: Nah...
It would be funny if it's compiled BASIC... it very well could be!
Works for me
Google maps and navigation is more accurate than my Garmin GPS when it comes to directions.
Never any issue with errors in SoCal. The Garmin sometimes runs me around inefficiently while Navigation on Android takes the most efficient route every time.
I could care less what Apple does or does not do.
don't blame the moon
twas incompetence that sunk that ship.
Once WD is fully back up and running their superior product will prevail.
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Ideally, you will just take your stupid coat and GO.
From personal experience, they taste like nothing. Closest is unsalted popcorn flesh.
Not a big deal
PC Anywhere is BANNED from use where I work, and the last place I worked, so this is not a problem for us.
The term 'Douche Bag' is far too kind.
"Enema Nozzle" is a closer fit, but still doesn't go far enough to describe the despicable waste of skin.
New? What?
Nothing at all new here.
Most of us saw or did this in grade school and out grew it long ago.
Folks behind the survey must have been raised in a closet or something, causing them to have the intelligence of a fungus.
Just follow that thumb!
Not just nMap
I downloaded some crapware from Cnet a few days ago, the request to install the so called tool bar was designed to trick the user into installing it.
Of course I avoided that, then found the app was only a garbage demo with no functionality (partitioning software). I went elsewhere and found the correct FREE product.
Anyone ?
Anyone use that crap?
For the win!
True story dealing with RF radiation
Off topic, but maybe interesting.
This is a much higher energy than any cell phone or laptop, but it's somewhat humorous.
While working in Turkey at a NATO 50 KW HF radio transmitter site. The land was leased from a local farmer and sheep herder.
The farmer found that in winter his sheep would cluster under the transmitter antennas. He noticed that he felt nice and warm in the area around and under the antennas.
So, he built a house under one of the antennas. One of the guy wires actually went in a window and out the back door.
Then he noticed that there were very few lambs born the next spring . . .
I guess someone told him it was the radiation that sterilized the sheep, he sued NATO for damages and won. NATO payed to replace his entire flock of sheep and then built fencing around the antennas to keep the sheep safe.
The funny thing, or not so funny, is the farmer continued to live in the house, constantly bombarded by HF radiation (The signals were ship to shore teletype with many channels so it never stopped).
I sometimes wonder what effects he and his family must have suffered. I'm betting he never had any grandchildren. I still have a photograph of the house somewhere.
Makes me go "Hmmm"
I wonder if this guy was working in Budapest a few years ago.
I worked a security incident at an RMA center in Budapest for my company. Product was being detected as infected in final inspection.
We traced the source to a thumb drive used by a guy with a very similar, if not the same name.
We spend a few thousand investigating and international calling and fired the person once we were sure it was him. Not a single problem from that facility since.
I wonder
I wonder what WD thinks of their drive being displayed as art?
Alligators actually have been found in NYC sewers.
So what else ya got?
BTW isn't Peter Norton dead as a result of a plane crash or something?
Smart? Meter
My meter was replaced about 2 weeks a go. I've had a lot of wireless issues and didn't realize the meter may be involved.
I switched to the 5Ghz channel on the router and my wireless is rock solid and fast again.
So, the study is BS
Leaving out the free versions of some of the more popular AV products invalidates the study making it MEANINGLESS.
About done
Lookout has turned to crap recently. I'll likely uninstall it when I get home today.
And remember they also have a patent on hypocrisy.
Hang in there
Seagate is crap, but the competition is needed to keep WD stimulated.
You use the product as an appliance and that's OK for many people.
It is refreshing to read an honest response instead of the foaming at the mouth fanboi rants.
Thank you
Shades of Strategic Air Command
When I worked with SAC communications we had redundancy upon redundancy upon redundancy.
This reminds me of that; We had two sets of land lines connecting all sites. NO line went the same route or through the same equipment. On several occasions we found telcos routing the redundant lines through the same switch and had to demand a change for security reasons. This made for a very robust system and it was only the first tier of at least three... Shouldn't detail the others.
The point is that if enough money was spent to build an independent network it would be so complex that security would still be a huge issue due to the complexity.
So FAIL.
It's not just computers
We have other technology today that can contain sensitive information.
For example last week I replaced my home phone system, replacing a base station and 4 hand sets. My wife was going to recycle the old equipment.
First we went to the garage and I destroyed the old equipment with a chipping hammer.
This may seem trivial, but those phones contained sensitive call records. The destruction was was fun and the data is destroyed.
Got the list
Deleted it, I wasn't on it, cool.
Maybe not the power, but
Seems this might be more useful as a form of feedback to further improve electromechanical precision in hard disk drives.
Many possibilities
I have a Philips player with 16GB, can't remember the model. Paid $79 a couple of years ago. Nice, though small color screen will display photos, video, has an FM tuner, and sounds great, it even has a volume limiter so you don't accidently blow your ears out.
Shop around there are MANY good players without the apple logo or price point.
No way Jose
I won't go to Facebook for anything, EVER.
I first used Seagate drives when the 20mb MFM was the standard. They never admitted the 'stiction' problem, where you had to tap the drive to get it to start spinning, even when NEW.
Next I had a 120 MB Seagate drive that lasted two months, then Seagate charged me $25 to replace it.
Seagate drives were always weak, especially compared to Western Digital's offerings. I stick with WD for the foreseeable future.
Reminder to self
Uninstall openoffice (LibreOffice). It is bloated, slow, and of no value to me as I never use it.
Thanks for reminding me about that Reg.
You know what they say
Or at least I say.
False security is no security at all.
Thanks for the misleading FUD Microsloth.
Scum tends to float
So it resurfaces every few years to try and lure in more victims. And it surely will draw in more suckers without changing anything.
I was fighting crap like this for my company years ago, before most people recognized it for what it is.... bad news.
Firefox is not only supported at work, but embraced. I have one app that will only work under Firefox. The ONLY time I launch Firefox is for that one app.
We have hundreds of users with Firefox installed.
Everything else is IE, which is the default browser.
I use Chrome Portable for browsing at work.
Better solution
I dumped Firefox several months ago. Never really liked the Mozilla stuff, but for a while it was the best game in town. Many other choices today.
But, but, wait!
How did this happen? Apple app Nazis should have stopped this before it even started...
Oh, Right, Apple cares NOTHING about it as they got a cut.
Really?
I find it difficult to find products that are NOT made in China here in the US.
not completly
It doesn't initially taste like vomit, but the after taste is VOMIT and nothing else fits.
Any other order . . .
The most valid way to display reviews or comments is chronological. Yes you might see a bunch of bogus reviews together that way, but common sense should help weed those out.
The new markets way of putting selected reviews in no particular order is worse than useless, it is counter productive. This needs to be fixed.
Proven
Travelling forward in time faster as speed increases is proven.
The thing is though there is (currently and probably won't be) no way to move backward in time, so there is no advantage.
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