TECHNOLOGY: KODAK may go Chapter 11; are your pictures backed up

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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SERVICE: a LIFETICK reminder

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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SERVICE: When the “Cloud” disappears!

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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TECHNOLOGY: Fool drone to land in Iran

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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TECHNOLOGY: GOODRX is an interesting concept

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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SERVICE: BIZNAR search doesn’t pass the MC test

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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SERVICE: Data rot example; wrong!

Sunday, December 11, 2011

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=13525688&privcapId=4304480&previousCapId=100440&previousTitle=NDS%20Group%20plc

Manhattan College

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ROFL, calling a Brother “Mister”, I know that at the Prep that would result in some immediate “behavior modification”.

And, they still have Brother S as President.

That’s hugely out of date.

Everything on the inet is trustworthy!

Inspires confidence in everything else you find.

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TECHNOLOGY: ATT starts Throttling

Saturday, December 10, 2011

http://www.evdoinfo.com/content/view/3876/64/

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AT T Starts Throttling Heavy iPhone Data Users on Unlimited Plans (Image courtesy of TipB.com) Earlier this year AT T indicated that they’d begin to throttle customers in the top 5 percent (content/view/3748/64/) of data users that are on unlimited plans. This won’t affect anyone that is on a newer tiered pricing plan, but could be unwelcome for customers that stuck with AT T because they were locked into unlimited service. However, if you don’t use a lot of data then there’s probably nothing you need to worry about. You’ll know right away if you’ve used to much data because AT T will send you a text that reads Your data usage is among the top 5 percent of users. Data speeds for the rest of your current bill cycle may be reduced.†In AT T’s original announcement this plan would only effect jailbreakers using third party software through Cydia. Related Links: AT T Starts to Throttle Wireless Users This Week (content/view/3748/64/) AT T Kills Unlimited 3G Data for iPad iPhone (content/view/3234/64/)

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Guess “unlimited” ain’t so “unlimited”.

And I’m sure the FCC, FTC, DOJ, and all the politicians ‘n’ bureaucrats will be right on this.

(To get paid off by the regulatee!)

Argh!

I wouldn’t buy AT&T anything. Not that the other ISPs are much better. But, changing the rules after the contract is signed.

Where’s Judge Judy?

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SERVICE: SKYPE ng on mifi

Friday, December 9, 2011

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Huh!?!

What’s going on?

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TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps

Friday, December 9, 2011

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/0046230/microsoft-can-remotely-kill-purchased-apps

Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @09:54PM

from the killing-distance dept.

Meshach writes “The terms of service for Microsoft’s newly launched Windows Store allows the seller to remotely kill or remove access to a user’s apps for security or legal reasons. The story also notes that MS states purchases are responsible for backing up the data that you store in apps that you acquire via the Windows Store, including content you upload using those apps. If the Windows Store, an app, or any content is changed or discontinued, your data could be deleted or you may not be able to retrieve data you have stored.”

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Better you than me!

I won’t be buying any apps in the MICROSOFT app store. And, neither should anyone.

Sorry, best way to “help them understand” that this is unacceptable is to boycott!

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