2016-Nov-30
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How do I insert date and time in a document
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Argh!
It was so easy in Word.
Guess I’ll have to try it in pages.
Argh!
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SOFTWARE: Google Docs has a limit
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TECHNOLOGY: Tom Woods reports that academia and old media is ignored
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I’m just Mr. Good News lately.
This week I reported on falling profits at the New York Times, as well as my car giveaway (I’m giving away a 2017 Kia Soul, as you know from yesterday’s email).
And today it’s this:
American academics have zero impact on anything.
Five different people sent me an article on this today. It made me happy.
American academia is dominated by left-liberalism. Some good work is done. Lots of forgettable, insignificant, or insane work is done.
And most of it, thank heavens, is not read.
Some 82 percent of articles in professional humanities journals have not been cited even once, ever.
It’s estimated that the typical academic journal article is read by no more than 10 people. In some fields, that’s actually a vast overestimate.
As academia has become more and more isolated from the normal experiences of regular Americans, so too have professors begun to offer fewer and fewer policy recommendations.
In the 1930s and 1940s, 20 percent of articles in the American Political Science Review focused on policy recommendations. Now 0.3 percent do.
And that’s all to the good, if you ask me.
The New York Times is hemorrhaging ad revenue, and nobody is listening to the left-liberal academic echo chamber.
Now go celebrate.
Tom Woods
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I agree. It’s about time that the Sheeple ignore their “leaders” and do what’s right.
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SOFTWARE: Apple’s email has a poor design
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Validation
Yesterday at 7:11 PM
From
To
Dear XXXX@me.com
Your Mail Outgoing and Incoming is blocked. Reason : Daily Mail Bounce Count Exceeds Limit [ Bounce count=10 ]
Please follow the link below to unblock yourself:
Update Now
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The link points to http://inkallpatours.com/cgi/index.html
How can Apple design such poor software that it doesn’t highlight an obvious forgery?
Argh!
While it had little chance of fooling me — a quick email from gmail and visa versa proved it “lame” — I wonder how many it does catch?
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HARDWARE: My first night with a BPAP machine
Sunday, October 30, 2016For those that know me, I don’t sleep well. And, evidently, I was getting worse.
I bought a FITBIT Surge for the “sleep stats” it would give me. Being an ingineer, I like “evidence based” decisions.
The initial results were troubling — 100+ steps in my sleep, terrible awake / restless numbers, and the “heart rate” was in the 80 to 120 range. The pattern continued.
So off to the doc I went.
After an initial visit and screening, a sleep study was ordered.
(Giant PIA)
That reported that I had very bad sleep apnea where I was over “60”. That meant I was breathing 60+ times per hour. (That’s scary!)
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sleep-apnea/basics/definition/con-20020286
So a machine was ordered.
I was pretty skeptical until a friend related her relative’s experience — untreated, diagnosed later with a n enlarged heart due to the struggle to supply oxygenated blood to the body, he went on to heart problems with a long list of drugs, complications, and hospitalizations, leading to eventual death from a heart attack.
That got my attention.
So, what were my “results” from the first night?
I’d say that was a dramatic improvement.
I’d agree that having a “headset on your nose” is a “pain in the a double q”, but it seems worthwhile.
SO, for those that snore, here’s some anecdotal evidence that you should look into it further.
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SOFTWARE: New release of Portable Software/USB for Windoze
Monday, October 3, 2016https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/editorial/?source=psp
Portable software for USB, portable, and cloud drives
Editor’s ReviewRead User Reviews
PortableApps is an open source, application launcher that you install directly to your USB or cloud drive and use on any PC. You can download hundreds of portable applications from the PortableApps integrated directory, like Firefox, Skype, and more. This means you take your browser with your bookmarks and extensions, your office suite, your photo editor, your music collection, your games, your development tools, and more with you everywhere you go. And because everything stays on your drive, every PC becomes your PC. Additional features include integrated backup, interface themes, a search option, support for personal files, favorites and more.
PortableApps.com at a Glance
It took a few minutes to install the PortableApps Platform, and several more to install six apps including ClamWin, Firefox, GIMP, KeePass, Skype, and Stellarium. To start, we launched the heavyweight GIMP without a hitch, while each additional app opened just as quickly. The idea of carrying apps around on a USB seems plausible but the idea of loading the PortableApps Platform to Dropbox, or the like, seems like an even better idea. So, without further adieu, consider trying the PortableApps Platform, especially if you’ve been thinking about the best way to take your apps for a joy ride.
Product Details
Here is a detailed breakdown of PortableApps’ features:
- Take your apps everywhere—PortableApps lets you carry all your favorite apps on a portable device or cloud drive and use them on any PC.
- Use a portable device, cloud directory, or local drive—The PortableApps Platform comes with a smart installer that easily installs your environment to a portable device, a cloud drive (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.), or a local PC, so you can safely back up data to the cloud.
- Quickly find and install apps—PortableApps has a built-in app store that lists apps by category, title, or new and recently updated so you can install the apps you want with just a few clicks. And there’s no download limit.
- Easily organize apps—Grow and organize your app collection with folders that group them automatically or as you see fit. Pick favorites and have the menu learn what to keep up front and center. Or use the search to find what you’re looking for.
- Easily update apps—When a new security fix for your browser is released or a new feature in your favorite game is available, the PortableApps Updater automatically lets you know. Just click a button and the updates are downloaded and installed without messing up your settings and saved files.
- Personalize your app menu—With a dozen bundled themes, each with a rainbow of color selections, the PortableApps Platform lets you pick a different look every day for months and never have the same menu twice.
- Take your fonts along too—The PortableApps Platform supports the ability to carry fonts on your portable device and use them with your portable software without needing to install them on the local machine.
- Advanced Features—The PortableApps Platform has the power and the options to work the way you want. And if there’s something we haven’t added that you’d like to see, just ask in the forums. We add new features every month!
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HARDWARE: Safety jewelry
Monday, September 19, 2016“Smart safety jewelry designed to help reduce assaults”
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$100 pre release.
A little pricy, but it may be a lifesaver.
Marketed to women, but maybe should be for children?
Interested in opinions?
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TECHNOLOGY: A cardboard small house
Tuesday, August 9, 2016Published on Feb 28, 2016
A special little house, made out of cardboard. Sustainably built to last. And suit all your needs.
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Most impressive. Cheap, small, and apparently long lasting.
Could solve a lot of “housing issues”.
Better than a shanty or a mcmansion!
imho.
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TECHNOLOGY: I just refuse to buy anything that’s “locked”
Monday, August 8, 2016https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/drm-you-have-right-know-what-youre-buying
AUGUST 5, 2016 | BY CORY DOCTOROW
DRM: You have the right to know what you’re buying!
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Today, the EFF and a coalition of organizations and individuals asked the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to explore fair labeling rules that would require retailers to warn you when the products you buy come locked down by DRM (“Digital Rights Management” or “Digital Restrictions Management”).
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Clearly, it’s a “devil’s bargain” to buy anything that has “DRM” on it.
At the very least, this has to be disclosed well in advance of the purchase of “crippled wares”.
Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Comcast service plans — worthless according to WA
Thursday, August 4, 2016Washington state sues Comcast, says it sold near-worthless service plans
Comcast defends $5-per-month service plans, will fight $100 million lawsuit.
JON BRODKIN – 8/1/2016, 1:42 PM
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Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced a $100 million consumer protection lawsuit against Comcast, alleging that the nation’s biggest cable company “engag[ed] in a pattern of deceptive practices constituting more than 1.8 million individual violations of the Washington Consumer Protection Act.” Comcast’s conduct affected about 500,000 customers who purchased service protection plans in Washington, Ferguson said.
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It’s amazing that corporation would be so … … rapacious … … as to sell basically worthless service plans.
Where’s the FCC and the other 49 states?
And Comcast can’t be the only one.
How about these “extended warranty” products? Where three years equals the cost of the product!
Makes me think that the product is so poorly built that it won’t last three years.
Argh!
That’s why I advocate for chromebook for the average User. Something goes wrong, buy a new one. It’s so cheap. Of the 8 that I am aware of the only failure was from a wine spill over it. My oldest is 4 years old (I think) and has only barfed up the OS once requiring a reload. (So now all the chromebooks I support have the rescue USB velcroed to the power cord.)
That’s what technology and technology offerings should be like — how Western Electric used to make telephone handsets.
Sigh!
One can only hope
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TECHNOLOGY: SSA goes to two factor authentication
Wednesday, August 3, 2016BY EMAIL
Interesting that the industry is moving AWAY from cell phones as a form of two factor authentication.
Clearly, there is a spectrum of added risks that may NEGATE this additional control.
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Starting in August 2016, Social Security is adding a new step to protect your privacy as a my Social Security user. This new requirement is the result of an executive order for federal agencies to provide more secure authentication for their online services. Any agency that provides online access to a customer’s personal information must use multifactor authentication.
When you sign in at ssa.gov/myaccount with your username and password, we will ask you to add your text-enabled cell phone number. The purpose of providing your cell phone number is that, each time you log in to your account with your username and password, we will send you a one-time security code you must also enter to log in successfully to your account.
Each time you sign into your account, you will complete two steps:
- Step 1: Enter your username and password.
- Step 2: Enter the security code we text to your cell phone (cell phone provider’s text message and data rates may apply).
The process of using a one-time security code in addition to a username and password is one form of “multifactor authentication,” which means we are using more than one method to make sure you are the actual owner of your account.
If you do not have a text-enabled cell phone or you do not wish to provide your cell phone number, you will not be able to access your my Social Security account.
If you are unable or choose not to use my Social Security, there are other ways you can contact us. To learn more, please review the Frequently Asked Questions found here.
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