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Astronomers have stumbled upon a supermassive black hole in an unexpected corner of the Universe, implying these galactic monsters are much more common than once thought, a study said Wednesday. They're inside the house!
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When was the last time you needed to Google something and Google wasn’t there? Human sacrifice and dark utterances in the shadows?
Cthulhu fhtagn!
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Can't read the article, they block adblocking viewers. What's the gist of it?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Yeah, I figured someone would point that out 
Here's Google's line (that will hopefully persuade you do disable your blocker for the 3 seconds it takes to open the article  )
Quote: Don’t get IT people who specialize in running Internet services to run your Internet services. Have software coders run them instead.
TTFN - Kent
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Thanks, Kent! 
It's a custom HOSTS file, so it's a bit more laborious to dis- and reenable. I'll think about it 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Really? I don't have any problem reading the article, and I have both uBlock AND adBlock running.
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Only the iPhone 5c running iOS 9 can be unlocked by the tool the FBI bought to crack the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers.
The tool does not work on the iPhone 5s or 6, so it addresses only a "narrow slice" of iPhones, Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey said late Wednesday at Kenyon College.
The government is considering whether it should disclose to Apple the flaw that aided the hack: "We just haven't decided yet," he said at the Ohio college's Center for the Study of American Democracy. Time to upgrade...
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Jason Cardoza wrote: Time to upgrade...
Just the final part of the iPlan.
Here's a thought: why does one carry around their private information on a small easily lost or stolen device to begin with?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Do you carry a wallet?
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Yup - and guess what.
I absentmindedly left my Social Security number off of any of its contents.
And my bank account information.
And my health history (alas, I do have my health plan ID)
And it doesn't know where I am, where I've been, or what I've bought with its buy-stuff content.
And my keys aren't in my wallet - and the keys don't have my address on them!
And . . . (by now, you should get the picture).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: you should get the picture
Yep...
- You're security conscious
- Maybe even a bit paranoid
- You think other people's security concerns are really corporate plots
- Maybe considerably paranoid
- You avoid technology (especially smart phones)
- Seriously paranoid
Pretty much makes you a paranoid delusional Luddite.
Am I right?
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Am I right?
Except about Security Conscious, no - basically wrong on all counts.*
The corporate plot's really no secret: make as much money as you can. That's the point of the business. It just so happens that they realize that personal information is very valuable and figured out how to harvest it; have enough computing power to correlate it; and then we're back to making money, again.
I don't avoid technology - but I also don't let it rule my life. Smart-phones? They own their users. Always having the phone in their face; texting at all times (even while driving!). They look at their little device strapped to their hip (feeling important) and keep looking at it hoping someone will validate them as a human being by texting them - or even a tweet. Micro$lut's Windows 10 even owns your computer for you! After you by the O/S, they tell you that they can access your PC whenever they want, download and modify the system, and you can't stop them. And A$$wipes, far and wide, buy into this.
So - you phone is pre-set to expose as much of your harvestable information as possible. Trying to disable it, assuming you even are even aware of it, can be quite a challenge as one goes down layer-after-layer (if they've even the wit to follow the path for setups).
So - back to the original premise: Apple's only concern for security is how it will impact sales and persist their phenomenal markups. If security and privacy were any concern to them at all, then their phone - and the applications they so strictly control - would all be opt-in for anything related to the user's privacy.
But guess what kitty - they don't do it that way. Shows you what your privacy's worth to them.
* A bit paranoid? Only a fool grins and walks into the lion's den.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Wow! Looks like I touched a nerve.
Good luck...
Mike slowly slinks off to call his broker. Time to buy shares in tin foil manufacturers.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Nah - not a nerve. If you look at me, historically, I will tend to spew on certain subjects. Especially earlier in the day when I'm fully alert.
And there's always the hope that in the tomb I'll 'hit a nerve' and have someone rethink their position. [It's rare].
It's the lounge (even though this really isn't the lounge) - enjoy: what else is it for?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Just because he is paranoic it doesn't mean he is not being followed
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Just the final part of the iPlan.
Don't you want to have a safer device ? (whatever brand/OS you have).
I'd rather be phishing!
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I do have a safer device - and LG FlipPhone.
And I don't view my life through its little window.
Actually, all it does it send and receive phone calls.
Because that's all I'll let it do
(and, whilst my watchband is broken, I looked at it once, yesterday, for the time).
And if I lose the thing? US$20 and I'm back in business.
So, unless I lay back, hold it over my face and carefully drop it in my eyeball, it's pretty safe as it is.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I could have gone either into technical management or continued as a programmer. I chose programmer because it was easier. "Two roads diverged in a wood..."
Your mileage will vary (and I notice his site doesn't take comments)
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Codist article wrote: I chose programmer because it was easier.
Whatevs!
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Quote: "Two roads diverged in a wood..."
Actually, they were converging; you were just going the wrong way.
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the power to change exists at a level not available to you as a mere delivery device That's the most important point.
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It's a choice many of us have made. I chose to remain as a programmer because I enjoy it.
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I chose the BOFH road, drove a good mileage and then ran back as fast as I could. Which wasn't easy as everyone looking for a developer saw my CV and told things on the line of "hey, we see you have a good experience in system administration, we have an opening that...".
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
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"I could have gone either into technical management or continued as a programmer."
"I chose programmer because it was easier."
How can coding, problem solving, designing, keeping up on technology... be easier than doing nothing or worse, getting in the way?
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With this extension you can author C++ code for Linux servers, desktops and devices. You can manage your connections to these machines from within VS. My head still hurts seeing those words in the same sentence
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