Thursday, March 8, 2012
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:12 AM, XXXX wrote:
Thanks John. I have another favor of a technical nature. A DVD is stuck in the R-drive. It wants to open, but something is preventing it-sounds like a Twilight Zone story. Any suggestions?
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Two ideas:
(1) there is usually a hole for “emergency open”. You mae need a magnifying glass and an unbent paper clip to insert.
(2) sometimes the CD doesn’t get flat on the “turntable”. I’ve found that inverting it and then back can sometimes free it. Also, a gentle washing machine agitation — 5 or 10 minutes — just put it on the machines when they cycle. :-) It sometimes will let the cd reset in the “tray”.
Just some things that I’ve done.
BTW the disk and the drive are probably toast. When it attempts to force the drawer open, it knocks the “heads” out of line.
Hope this helps,
fjohn
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Posted by reinkefj
Monday, March 5, 2012
http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2012/02/25/a-closer-look-at-google-public-dns/
Tech|2/25/2012 @ 5:34PM
A Closer Look at Google Public DNS
Elise Ackerman, Contributor
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What role has Google played in the DNS ecosystem? Do you see them as a competitor or a partner?
Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good. They’ve also worked with us to advance the state of the art for DNS performance, something we’ve really enjoyed working with them to make happen. It’s not so much competition as it is choice in the market. If they started defaulting Chrome to use Google DNS, I think that’s something we would take issue with, but for now, we like the idea of people using a DNS other than their ISPs, that’s a good idea for a lot of reasons.
What are some of those reasons?
I like the idea of separation of services. ISPs provide a pipe. Other vendors provide security. Other vendors provide email. When one party controls all the services, it’s a “synergy” for the company, but rarely for the consumer. With DNS in particular, there are performance and security benefits that third party DNS providers offer that ISPs aren’t incentivized to do since DNS is a cost-center for them, and a profit-center for us.
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I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important. Your ISP no longer provides you email because everyone either uses their own or has an account with Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo mail. The same way people unbundled their email from their ISP, I think they should do with their DNS. Separation of services has been a long-standing best practice in the security community, and it applies now more than ever. In that vein, I’ll reiterate my view that I think Google controlling search, the browser, and the network or DNS layer is a dangerous trifecta that the consumer will probably be best served avoiding. I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough.
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I’ve been a fan of separation of duties.
ISP EMAIL has always been a trap for their Customers. That “customer@isp.net” is the property of the ISP; not the Customer. Once you give that out to enough people you’re locked in.
Why not use a DNS service that has an incentive to be loyal to you?
Since finding OPENDNS, I have not had an DNS outages. I know that VERIZON, COMCAST, and GOOGLE have had outages.
Easy decision fmpov.
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Posted by reinkefj
Sunday, February 26, 2012
It really sounds off around police cars. I guess they leave it ‘hot’ when not trapping. I’d be worried about radiation and cancer.
It hasn’t saved me a ticket yet. So we’ll see if it’s has an ROI.
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Posted by reinkefj
Saturday, February 25, 2012
DO I get a refund for the overpriced scanner I bought with the promise of an eternal free webservice?
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We emailed you a few weeks ago that we were finalizing a solution to replace CardScan At Your ServiceTM. We selected a powerful comprehensive solution provided by ScanBiz Mobile Solutions and consists of two parts: the ScanBizCards Web Sync web-based card management application and the ScanBizCards mobile app.
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Posted by reinkefj
Monday, February 20, 2012
On Saturday, I visited an old Jasper in the hospital. He was in for an emergency tune up. Hope he’s out by now. But, to the point, he was telling me his troubles with an unbacked up old Windoze box that was giving him fits. And, his family’s designated stuckee for tech support. Last time, he went through this, I pitched Mozy, Carbonite, or Pogoplug. Reprised that song.
On Sunday, I heard from a relative who’s old unbacked up Windoze box was circling the proverbial bowl. (Seems like “unbacked up” goes with “old Windoze box”.) Reprise my backup song.
Now I realize I’m crazed about it. Two belts and two suspenders.
My photos are on three live boxes, sugarsynced, carbonited, and pogopluged.
My data is on two live boxes, dropboxed, carbonited, and pogopluged.
Special projects are on one, two, or three live boxes, dropboxed, carbonited, and pogopluged. AND, boxneted.
I’ve lost work to Microsoft’s crappy solutions before.
Sure it’s messy, but if I lose something because I fat finger something, there’s always several places to recover from.
Argh!
It’s only common sense.
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Posted by reinkefj
Sunday, February 12, 2012
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/european-technology/raspberry-pi-how-a-25-computer-
could-spark-a-computing-revolution/123?tag=nl.e019
European Technology
Raspberry Pi: How a $25 computer could spark a computing revolution
By Nick Heath
February 9, 2012, 6:08 AM PST
Takeaway: Ultra-cheap computers like the Raspberry Pi could usher in a new wave of pervasive computing
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One of the machines at the vanguard of the low-cost computing revolution is the Raspberry Pi, a $25 Linux box that will go on sale before the end of February. Despite its budget price the Raspberry Pi still packs a punch, with the multi-media capabilities of an original Xbox console, 1080p video playback, and general processing power of a Pentium II/III. Specs-wise the credit card-sized computer is powered by a 700MHz ARM chip inside a Broadcom BCM2835 has a single USB port and 128MB of memory, with an additional $10 buying a souped-up version with two USB ports, 10/100 ethernet and 256MB of memory.
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At the very least, it’ll be back to the days of Byte Magazine and hardware hacking galore. At the very least, those kids with all the time in the world will be computing savants.
Hard to imagine what it will be capable of?
Kids will probably break into two camps — 90% being the ipad Users and the other 10% will be the next hacking generation.
I’m going to buy some just to play.
This is stuff that was a dream when I was in injineering school.
p.s., I still have my slide rules. In case I have to design a bridge in TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It)!
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Posted by reinkefj
Thursday, February 9, 2012
http://blog.lastpass.com/2012/02/resolutions-with-lastpass-10-strengthen.html
Feb 8, 2012
Resolutions with LastPass: #10 Strengthen Your Master Password
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For the last installment in our resolutions series, we wanted to touch upon an important aspect of using LastPass: the strength of your master password. At LastPass, we’ve always touted we’re “the last password you’ll ever need”. With only one strong password to remember and a host of customizable security options, you can let LastPass take care of the rest. So it goes without saying, then, that your LastPass master password should be strong and unique while still memorable.
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Personally,
I never use (i.e., reuse) the same password anywhere. I used to use my SecureId token to generate random numeric passwords. When it died, I moved to a book code to generate passwords. Then, I generated pages of random noise with http://clsc.net/tools/random-string-generator.php as the tool.
(1) for websites that I won’t have to authenticate to manually, I let LASTPASS give me a random string that’s as long as the site allows.
(2) for websites that I will have type or tap in, I use four random words with a special characters as separators. And, I log in once from a real keyboard and let LASTPASS capture it.
(3) for bank accounts and other sites related to finances, I do the old fashioned random sentence like “wrong#sign#bridge#fall#down#nooo#partial#credit”. With a LASTPASS safe not with a reminder: “What did Doctor Zia say about a sign error? With #’s”.
I don’t trust anyone with my money. :-) Even myself.
Hope this helps?
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Posted by reinkefj
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Hopper — save links, text, images, and files in moments.
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Interesting tool. It’s made it onto my bookmark bar.
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Posted by reinkefj
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Tried to watch my alma mater on ESPN3.
(Great idea!)
But on the computer, it’s unwatchable.
Poking around, I found it was available on the IPAD with its own free app.
Downloaded the APP and, same network, it looks perfect.
Watching both side by side!
The computer side is unwatchable; the IPAD is perfect.
It appears that there is a 10 second delay between what the computer is showing and what the IPAD is.
Also, the IPAD goes quiet during the commercials. (How kool is that!)
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
Sunday, January 29, 2012
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/2epub-convert-document-files-popular-epub-format/
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2epub is an free to use website that will be useful for anybody who owns an eBook reading device. The site lets you convert popular document file formats to the ePub format. You can provide the site with the URL of your documents or upload them straight from your hard drive – up to 5 files can be provided to the site in a single conversion.
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Here you can make anything into an ebook for your reader.
You’d think that businesses would be adopting this BIG TIME.
They can’t even handle email.
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Posted by reinkefj
Saturday, January 28, 2012
http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/
MarsEdit 3
Desktop blog editing for the Mac.The best way to write, preview, and publish your blog.
Browser-based interfaces are slow, clumsy, and require you to be connected to the internet just to use them. Browsers are perfect for reading web content, but not so great for creating it.
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Note: They gave a thirty day trial and it worked flawlessly. Unlike what I was using ECTO.
Soooo:
RECOMMENDED MARSEDIT3
NOTRECOMMENDED ECTO
… … if anyone cares.
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Posted by reinkefj
Thursday, January 26, 2012
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-57362293-12/ibooks-2-brings-textbooks-to-life-hands-on
iBooks 2 brings textbooks to life (hands-on)
by Jason Parker
January 19, 2012 3:01 PM PST
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We decided to download a free preview version of E.O. Wilson’s “Life on Earth” textbook to get a feel for the features (the preview comes with only two chapters). Navigating through chapters and sections of a textbook works great on the iPad. You swipe to switch chapters, or touch sections or pages to get right into the content. We think this will be useful for students who need to jump around through chapters. Once you’re looking at a page, you also have touch options, such as a pinch, which shrinks a page, and slide, which returns it to the navigation area on the bottom of the chapter screen.
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Looks like Apple hit this one out of the park.
(I’ve got to upgrade my MACBOOKAIR to try the “AUTHOR” software.)
If it’s as easy and as free as they say, it might be another even bigger revolution. Figure education, from a technology pov, hasn’t changed since Plato taught Aristotle.
This is BOTH a paradigm and meme shift.
Wonder how to extract some of the value from such a shift?
And, how does it impact medicine, engineering, and Informaton Technology?
Free AUTHOR software and easy e-publishing throws the doors open even wider than LULU did.
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Posted by reinkefj
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/the-poor-get-poorer-and-the-rich-get-richer-with-apples-ipad-based-textbooks/10186
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Here’s the strike back against Apple’s IBOOKS2.
Apple had the opportunity to break the marketplace open and whiffed.
(1) It’s IOS only and doesn’t support EPUB. In fact Apple’s format is reportedly a broken form of EPUB. Like what Microsoft does, take an open format and break it by extension.
(2) It crony capitalism as Apple enlists the Big Textbooks in locking things up by DRM.
(3) The restrictions on IBOOKS2_AUTHOR are onerous and expensive for authors.
(4) I’m no fan of Gooferment diktats, but this sure looks like an illegal tie in and restraint of trade.
What it does do is to popularize the questioning of expensive text books!
With Open Courseware and Open Text Books?
Look at all the classics in the public domain. Despite bookstores, Apple, and Amazon trying to sell them. Project Guttenberg for me.
And, with the ability to “publish” ebooks and print books cheaply, it will encourage folks to “roll their own”. Lulu print volumes under 25$ a copy and the ebook versions are basically free with no restrictions. Amazon’s Create Space is cheap; although I just saw a hint they were “revising” their offering.
It’s going to collapse the market, imho.
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Posted by reinkefj
Saturday, January 21, 2012
http://www.vertex42.com/
Spreadsheet, Templates, Calculators, and Calendars
by Vertex42: The Guide to Excel in Everything
Vertex42® is a leading provider of Spreadsheet Templates for Microsoft® Excel®, OpenOffice.org, and Google Docs. Our collection of Financial Calculators include some of the most powerful and user-friendly Debt Reduction and Money Management tools you can find. We also provide a large selection of Free Calendars, and even some Word Templates such as Resume Templates and Business Cards. We hope you enjoy what you find!
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Posted by reinkefj
Friday, January 20, 2012
Yeah, big deal.
Everyone put black on, and the politicians and bureaucrats executed a site the next day.
Bet they were just cowering in their boots at the protest.
Yeah, “afraid enough” to sput in everyone’s “eye”!
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200689200
Getting Started: MP3 Store and Cloud Player for Web on iPad
Frequently Asked Questions
The Amazon MP3 Store on iPad lets you shop one of the world’s largest DRM-free (digital rights management free) digital music stores and save your purchases for free to Amazon’s online storage service, Amazon Cloud Drive. Purchases stored in Amazon Cloud Drive are available for playback from any iPad, Mac, PC, or Android device and available for download from any Mac, PC, or Android device using the free web browser-based application Amazon Cloud Player.
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OK, first time I’ve “found” a significant flaw in the AMAZON_CLOUD with the IPAD.
You can play your music, BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), you can’t copy it TO the IPAD.
That means you have to be connected to the INET and play YOUR music, that you’ve bought, with their application.
Argh!
The quest is now on for a work around.
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No easy workaround.
(yet)
Why if I buy the song from APPLE_ITUNES does it get downloaded to the IPAD’s version, but if I buy it from AMAZON it can’t be?
Restraint of trade by technology?
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Well it’s there. BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), you have to go thru ITUNES to get it to the IPAD. The downside is that it makes extra copies on the desktop in ITUNES.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
Friday, January 13, 2012
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Dear DYMO Customer,
As you know, CardScan At Your Service was discontinued at the end of the December. At the request of current AYS users, we have begun working with a 3rd party software provider that may be able to offer you a similar service to store your contacts. With the new provider, you may able to synchronize your contacts from your local CardScan application with their cloud application.
Additional details about the new provider will be distributed in the coming weeks, however we wanted to make you aware of this offering as soon as administratively possible.
We would like to thank you again for being a valued CardScan user.
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And, why would I care what you want to do for me? Like I’d trust anyone that you’d recommend. I bought your product (a desktop card scanner) which included your “eternal” update service. First you downgraded the service to eliminate the update. Then you left me high dry. Now you want to “save” me. Argh! Guess what I’d never buy your product or anything with the “Rubbermaid” brand again. Fool me once. I suspect the only reason your doing this is to make a few bucks off the data. Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
Friday, January 13, 2012
http://www.lifelock.com/identity-theft/types/
How Identities Are Stolen
When it comes to identity theft, the first step in protecting yourself is learning what thieves are doing to steal your personal information.
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Interesting that LIFELOCK doesn’t have their commercials on their websites. GODADDY, boo hisss sopa-lover, integrates their hyper-sex commercials with their website (i.e., the TV commercial points to the X-rated version and the website has both the TV version and the “X-rated one. I’d dispute the X rating. Yeah, they sucked the lecherous me to watch. I, of course, did it from a technology and moral arbiter pov. Just so you didn’t have to endure it.) LIFELOCK misses the opportunity to reinforce their message.
MORE interesting, is that LIFELOCK’s TV commercial points out the flaw in what I’ll call secondary authentication and what the banks call “easy password recovery”. Argh! Those “password reset” questions are really passwords controlling the reset function. Mother’s Maiden Name, Date of Birth, Pet’s Name.
ARGH!
Absolute stupidity.
I know why the banks and others do it. They don’t want the expense of fielding a telephone call for a password reset. (When I was at CSFB, I figured each one cost “me” 45$. I figured a clever way to “solve” that problem at ZERO cost. Hire me and I’ll share it.)
So, how does the average User defend themselves?
(1) Never ever use these resets for the named purpose? For examples, “Mother’s Maiden Name” for me might be “TAYLOR_SWIFT”; DOB for me is 10/19/62 (Cuban Missile Crisis); Pet’s name is “58#ae#MK#Es#82”. All carefully captured on paper.
(2) Use a tool like LASTPASS, KEYPASS, or 1PASSWORD for NON-FINANCIAL uses.
(3) Use real passwords that you memorize or write down in your calendar or note book for FINANCIAL sites.
(4) Always insist that FINANCIAL institutions or SERVICE PROVIDERS send you a paper bill. Upon receipt, take the statement and review it. Initial EVERY page.
(5) Never permit any one or any thing to have direct access to your financial accounts. (Made that mistake once.)
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Posted by reinkefj
Sunday, January 8, 2012
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, X wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/27/tech/mobile/dropbox-camera-auto-import/index.html?c=mobile
Sent from my iPhone
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Nah, it’ll just blow out storing pictures. Now if KODAK offered it, I’d be interested.
BTW the impending KODAK chapter 11 has led me to back up all my pictures into SUGARSYNC and I ordered and have an EOY cd.
Can’t depend upon any ONE service provider.
Argh!
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Word to the wise: Cloud services are useful, BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), always worry that they could disappear tomorrow.
Argh!
Remember the Rawles adage: “Two is one; one is none”. Service providers or survival tools, same rules apply!
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Posted by reinkefj
Saturday, January 7, 2012
RECEIVED AN EMAIL THAT MADE ME LAFF!
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From: Lifetick <service@lifetick.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:30 PM
Subject: The completion of your goal is overdue.
To: fjohn reinke
Hi fjohn,
We’re sorry to inform you but your goal of Reduce weight from 325 to 175 is one week overdue.
Nevertheless, all is not lost. You may just need to revise your goal or push the date out a little bit. Whatever you do, don’t give up. Many people are in the same situation as you and it’s nice to know it can be overcome. If your priorities have changed then that’s ok. There are many other goals you can be working towards. So take a deep breath, re-focus and give yourself the best chance in life.
Remember, this is the reason why you wanted to achieve this goal:”Health, energy, image”
Click Here to Update your Goal
Best of luck,
The Lifetick team
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I was just joshing around trying it out.
p.s., I’m down to 310 and doing it.
ROFL!
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Posted by reinkefj
Friday, December 23, 2011
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This is an important Google Health service announcement. You are receiving this email because you have an active Google Health account.
As we announced earlier this year, the Google Health service will be discontinued as of January 1, 2012. After that date, you will no longer be able to access Google Health, and 3rd-party services that you have linked to your Google Health profile(s) will no longer be able to send data to or receive data from those profile(s).
If you want to keep using the data you have stored in Google Health, we strongly recommend that you take action before the end of the year to download it or transfer it to another online health service. We’ve made this easy for you. All you have to do is:
– go to the Google Health site at https://health.google.com
– log in with your Google account
– click on the link in the yellow bar at the top of your screen to start the process of downloading your information and closing your Google Health account.
For more information, see our help center article at http://www.google.com/support/health/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1347989
If you have not retrieved your Google Health data before January 1, 2012, it will remain available for download from https://health.google.com for an additional year, through January 1, 2013. Please note that during this period, functionality will be limited to downloading your data in ZIP format only and deleting your Google Health account; you will no longer be able to view, enter, edit, or print data. We may also find it necessary to limit or discontinue the ability to automatically transfer a copy of your profile to another health service, based on technical considerations.
For more details on the discontinuation of Google Health, see our blog post at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-google-health-and-google.html, and see answers to frequently-asked questions at http://www.google.com/intl/en/health/faq.html.
Note: you will continue to receive periodic service announcements as long as you have an active Google Health account. If you do not wish to receive further announcements, simply go to https://health.google.com and follow the process to download your data (if desired) and delete your Health account.
Thank you for your support and use of Google Health.
The Google Health Team
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So what’s your plan? For when the Software As A Service “Cloud-based” that hosts your mission-critical app goes “toes up”?
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Friday, December 23, 2011
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/2013249/us-sentinel-drone-fooled-into-landing-with-gps-spoofing
McGruber writes “Following up on the earlier Slashdot story, the Christian Science Monitor now reports that GPS spoofing was used to get the RQ-170 Sentinel Drone to land in Iran. According to an Iranian engineer quoted in the article, ‘By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain.’ Apparently, once it loses its brain, the bird relies on GPS signals to get home. By spoofing GPS, Iranian engineers were able to get the drone to ‘land on its own where we wanted it to, without having to crack the remote-control signals and communications.'”
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How did they know that?
Mole, lucky guess, or something else?
Argh!
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
GoodRx – Different pharmacies tend to charge different prices for the same drug but as consumers, we don’t have that much information about medicine prices. Sometimes, companies even offer discounts on medicines which many of us are unaware of but thanks to GoodRx, we can track of all the above mentioned things. Read more: GoodRx: Find Lowest Price Medicine Across Different Pharmacies
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
AFTER USING DEEPWATCH’S NEW SEARCH OFFERING BIZNAR
http://biznar.com/biznar/search.html
Dear Ms. Toni:
Just an observation, …
… from a fat old white guy injineer who does IT consulting, and an alumni newsletter http://jasperjottings-daily.com/.
I look for news about Manhattan College and its alumni.
On Google, my search is <<“manhattan college” -marymount -“marymount manhattan college” -“borough of manhattan college” -marymount -manhattan.edu -bmcc.cuny.edu -msmnyc.edu -mancol.edu -gojaspers.com>>.
I always try all free search services for adherence to what I call the Google, or “Manhattan College”, standard. (Those that work get my continued “business”. Lucky them!)
What happens when I search using <<“manhattan college”>>?
Using Google, I get good results. (OK, sometimes false positives come out like <<manhattan. College>> or <<manhattan, college>>. And, I’ve “suggested” to Google that needs fixing. No response. It’s been a flaw for a while. Guess I should suggest again.)
Using your new engine, <<“manhattan college”>> returns results as if it was <<“manhattan”+”college”>>. (It took Legacy dot com a while to fix it and it’s broken it a few times.)
Any chance, this can be fixed?
Till it is, I can’t use it because it returns too many false positives.
Now I realize that I’m just a “free rider”. I have no budget for services. But maybe my “testing” is useful?
Thanks,
fjohn
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