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Comment Re:So, Garmin 5 Years Ago (Score 1) 63

Garmin now has livetrack and incident detection on all of their latest marq/fenix/forerunner/vivoactive watches. livetrack has been there for a few years but incident detection is pretty new as of the vivoactive3 I believe. You have to have your phone on you at the time to make the txt. But it will generate a live track of the incident and stay active for 24 or 48 hours. The vivoactive 3 has verizon (lte) built in and you don't need your phone. It don't contact emergency services.

https://support.garmin.com/en-...

It works pretty well. I was biking recently and came to a sudden stop on purpose up to a trail map. It thought I crashed and I was able to cancel the alert before it went off. Then again, I was in the bathroom using the hand dryer and it went off there too... It was during a run. I just paused my run to go into a store to use the restroom and when I used the dryer it went off. It hasn't done that when I'm not in an activity.

You can also hold the light button when not in an activity to trigger a txt alert/track to your predefined contacts. Say a creeper is following you out of a store or bar... or worse. you can hit emergency alert to your predefined contacts and it'll create a live track of your activity.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/b...

Comment TacoBell Winner (Score 3, Funny) 225

The only reason I have one is because I won it from TacoBell. I can't even use some of the features because I don't have a PS3. None of my old PSP games will work on it (even the downloadable ones). None of my friends with a PS3 are interested in buying it from me at half MSRP... :(

http://unlock.tacobell.com/?utm_campaign=PSVita2012

Comment Re:Zombies in Ohio... (Score 2) 219

That's a pretty good protocol given the recent development and marketing of products to help protect you from zombies. Zombie Max is ammunition by Hornady.

Disclaimer: Hornady® Zombie Max ammunition is NOT a toy (IT IS LIVE AMMUNITION), but is intended only to be used onZOMBIES, also known as the living dead, undead, etc. No human being, plant, animal, vegetable or mineral should ever be shot with Hornady® Zombie Max ammunition. Again, we repeat, Hornady® Zombie Max ammunition is for use on ZOMBIES ONLY, and that's not a nickname, phrase or cute way of referring to anybody, place or thing. When we say Zombies, we meanZOMBIES!

http://www.hornady.com/ammunition/zombiemax

Comment url lookups (Score 3, Informative) 143

I could care less who is doing the categorization. There are going to be mistakes. The important thing is being able to challenge the rating. Most of these content filtering products have URL category lookup and you can report sites that need further review.

McAfee http://www.trustedsource.org/en/feedback/url
BlueCoat http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp

The rest are easily found via google or from their respective support sites.

Comment Not fragmentation, just maturing. (Score 1) 315

I personally don't see this as fragmentation, just maturing. These last couple of updates are just finally getting around to the features that users really wanted from the beginning. FULL exchange support, tethering, hotspot, multitouch, etc. These are all features that users wanted from experiences with other phones but Android didn't have full support for.

The problem will be when you can't upgrade the OS because of hardware related reasons within 6 months. Someone who signs a 2 year contract expects that phone to last 1.5-2 years. You can't just go in and upgrade your phone and get the deal price because you haven't completed your contract. Some vendors let you trade in early. Or, if you purchase the phone outright for $500 with no contract, having to shell out another $500 6 months later to get features that should already be there would really suck. Fortunately, the hardware specs on the majority of these newer devices should last at least 2 years IMO.

Comment good publicity and great value (Score 1) 238

I ended up purchasing these games all for $50. I had never heard of any of them prior to seeing this on SD. I've only downloaded/installed and played a little bit of World of Goo and doubt I'll have much time to download and play any of the others. I was originally going to offer less knowing that I only would be able to play one but I felt cheap knowing that this was also a fundraiser.

Comment Re:Do power users abuse their IT knowledge? (Score 1) 460

In our company it's as simple as opening up a ticket. Submit your request as well as your reason and in almost 100% of the cases it gets approved and the proxy/firewall policy gets changed to permit whatever it was you wanted. It goes along the lines of deny all to start and then start allowing as things are needed. It's security 101. Now, if you submit a ticket asking for request to some obvious non work related site (p2p, gambling, pr0n, etc.) its going to get blocked. Otherwise we are very reasonable. We've had requests come though to allow users to listen to their online media subscriptions (sirius) or Zune. Doesn't mean I'm going to allow users to start downloading music via torrent or emule.

Comment Re:Do power users abuse their IT knowledge? (Score 1, Insightful) 460

I don't understand why people always try to "get around" these restrictions. If there is a legitimate business need, then get it approved. These preventions are put in place for a reason. The more open the network, the more risk. The more risk means more virus, trojans, botnets, data leakage, etc. IT then has to cleanup your mess.

Besides, SSH tunnels won't work on my network. I've got all protocols being intercepted by the proxy (including encrypted). Then an application firewall behind that to make sure the proxy is doing it's job. Social networking is blocked. End of story. And yes, management backs me.

Want to screw off at work? Get an smartphone and do it on your own device. Get a netbook with an aircard. I don't give a fsck what you do at work. It's not my job to make sure you're spending your time wisely. However, it is my job to protect our computers/network and I do that by blocking "risky" sites.

Comment Re:8.8.8.8/4 (Score 1) 540

Any sysadmin who is in charge of said filtering is likely blocking all DNS servers at the firewall and only allowing their DNS servers to perform outbound requests. And/or intercepting DNS requests at the transparent proxy and forwarding them to their internal DNS servers which are authorized to perform outbound requests. Not to mention that you need admin privileges to change the DNS servers on your NIC. If you're thinking rogue DHCP server, they can be blocked rather easily using DHCP snooping on the switch.

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