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Comment Cell phones are going to screw you (Score 1) 126

"you can bump your mobile against someone's pocket "

This is a feature I won't enable on my Samsung S5 (piss poor phone), it just doesn't sound secure.

Even Bluetooth has the same flaw it had when it first came out. The trick was pulled on me recently so know it's an apparent feature. They even added a contact to my phone via Bluetooth.

One can sit in a mall and collect others contacts (for one) just by having Bluetooth on and passing a "collector", I've disabled Bluetooth again.
Just like the first days of BlueTooth.

Comment Re:Five Billion Years? (Score 1) 249

"...able to keep perfect time for five billion years."

If they were able to create a device that could actually keep the time for five billion years, perfect or not, I would be pretty damn impressed.

My first thought as well, would take a hell of a Radioisotope to generate power for that long.
Wars and such would disrupt it's power after some time if not on an independent power supply.

But in the end due to the relativistic differences (Earth quakes and such); of anyone looking at the clock for the time it was started or past would make it useless - unless you did the math.

Comment Got one of those myself. (Score 1) 168

I have a Samsung 32" LCD (120Hz?)TV, which I only use as a computer monitor.
I read each TOS that came along, it was the third one that you needed to accept to use it as a
very nice TV; It mentioned monitoring and storing everything you do (sites visited, vids viewed, each key stroke, and well everything). Adding a camera to it (gestures) makes it what the XBOX started out as (watching everything) but was shouted down. Not a word about has
really been mentioned about the smart TVs.

I quit there, I have no account (required to open it up fully), monitor only.

Everything is collected to alert you to something coming on your history collected indicates
you might like - price was too high.

Comment Re:avois Asuswrt-Merlin if it's a choice. (Score 1) 103

I can't quote your replies.some text problem but I do apologize Mr. Merlin; just today it hit me that a Xoom tablet was stolen by the same people;
a lack of security on my part, I kept the wifi passwords the same. It was my fault for not changing passwords as soon as it was stolen.

As for Swat, well time will tell.

Geek Squad, I downloaded their private book on "how to fix computers" it was all common knowledge looking for problems, a waste of money and an embarrassment if they park in front of my place.

Purchasing a new computer; I feel tazers are useful for other things - I'm on a borrowed laptop at this time, no video card I own works, I figured my vid's were tazed.
A new vid card almost demands a dual vid computer to me.

Time will tell how things work out. - to repeat when my laptop was stolen I neglect to change passwords, Just today it was a face slap moment -,a stupid security situation over looked on my part,

Comment avois Asuswrt-Merlin if it's a choice. (Score 1) 103

When the "Internet of things" became another M$ phrase I just thought cr*p, as I had to learn of it, to be safe. I like to be ahead of the game and a fairly good computer user till recently.

A story...

I use a ASUS R66U router and doing a whois, damn if Asuswrt-Merlin wasn't on my system; is was open to where I had my pants down on the Internet. Merlin did send me a note (to a private computer that had no web pages to view) to take care of the problem but his software was the cause.

Follow my post and see I supported and had open Internet lines, they were hacked and for two months my system belonged to someone else. Sometimes I could access it, other times nada, so kept it on for those up times and continued to contact Charter.com who suggested I might learn more or even call the Geek Squad, a slap in the face.

I even ordered another computer system from Newegg as mine was fairly dead, due to the free Internet users that took over my system.

Now this hacker found or added ( there's no telling but I might have to explain that to a court) that offended them so they reported me to 911, I had Swat looking for my drives that I hid earlier as the hacker himself bragged so much he posted his name, I had him for slander -Swat, I have no clue what they were looking for. I was a neutral in my own house and watched Swat search my place (very professional).

No charges yet but time will tell.

My story is to say you must be better now, your systems are hackable; this thermostat is controlled by your computer, so from thermostat to computer.

Be better, I had never been hacked till this time (35 years) and had no clue - maybe Asuswrt-Merlin was watching for a hole, I had damn threads on my system and Merlin's job was to block their entry. He lost I don't trust his software anymore.

Comment Samsung S 5 (Score 1) 1

Is a POS which I'm stuck with for 2 years, but my back pocket the normal spot I carry it - there is no case out yet that isn't some spam that just offers a case and an easy way to remove (Lose) the phone from.

Bend? Oh god give me the ability to switch to the iPhone 6, Bending is much better than what I go through..

Comment Re:It's a matter of expectations (Score 2) 406

This video is nothing more than an ad.

There's an old urban legend about a guy leaving the driver's seat of an RV (on cruise control) to use the bathroom. Personally I've never believed it, but it does serve to illustrate something about expectations.

My story was setting the cruise control on the RV on a straight section of road to fix themselves a drink, which of course the van crashed.

Comment Article needs a rewite, simple, yet just the same. (Score 1) 150

As for the article...

First part says "According to the user, there’s a small window of opportunity to minimise the damage. That is, if you can backup files faster than the program encrypts them."

Then buried where many don't wonder (towards the end, it mentions "1) Power off the DiskStation immediately to avoid more files being encrypted"

I would think the wise thing would be to exchange the location of the two sentences. least you have some would be hero actually try to find where to start saving at.

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