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Comment Re: Agreed! mod up (Score 1) 24

by mikesd81 (#46917635) Attached to: Foursquare Splits To Take On Yelp
I suppose you could install the app and NOT put a shortcut on your homescreen. If it is an app used but only very little, then you don't need the shortcut. Also on Android you can make folders on the home screen. So if you put all FB apps in that folder and touch the folder all apps in there are available.
Security

Submission + - Barracuda Networks Confirms Exploitable Backdoors In Its Appliances (net-security.org)

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Orome1
Orome1 writes: "Barracuda Networks has released firmware updates that remove SSH backdoors in a number of their products and resolve a vulnerability in Barracuda SSL VPN that allows attackers to bypass access restrictions to download potentially insecure files, set new admins passwords, or even shut down the device. The backdoor accounts are present on in all available versions of Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall, Web Filter, Message Archiver, Web Application Firewall, Link Balancer, Load Balancer, and SSL VPN appliances."
Intel

Submission + - Intel gets go-ahead for $4 billion chip plant in Ireland (engadget.com)

Submitted by alancronin
alancronin writes: Intel has been planning to make its Ireland base one of three global manufacturing sites for its 14nm chips since May last year, and its now been given the okay by Ireland's lead planning agency. The new $4 billion plant will create around 4,300 jobs for the region in Co. Kildare, where Intel already has around 4,000 on staff. The two-year plan involves redeveloping its existing operation, expanding and shifting to make its smaller, more efficient 14nm process. Intel's plans don't stop there, however. It still plans to roll out 10nm products sometime in 2015.
Facebook

Submission + - Wolfram Alpha Updates Facebook Analytics Features (slashdot.org)

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Nerval's Lobster
Nerval's Lobster writes: "Wolfram Alpha has upgraded its Personal Analytics for Facebook module, giving users the ability to dissect their own social-networking data in new ways. Wolfram Alpha’s creators first launched its Facebook data-mining module in August 2012. Users could leverage the platform’s computational abilities to analyze and visualize their weekly distribution of Facebook posts, types of posts (photos, links, status updates), weekly app activity, frequency of particular words in posts, and more. This latest update isn’t radical, but it does offer some interesting new features, including added color coding for “interesting” friend properties, including relationship status, age, sex, and so on; users can also slice their network data by metrics such as location and age."
Google

Submission + - Google is pushing back on law enforcement requests for access to Gmail accounts (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Virtucon
Virtucon writes: Ars technica has an interesting article on how Google is handling requests from law enforcement for access to Gmail accounts. With the recent Petraeus scandal where no criminal conduct was found, it seems that they're re-enforcing their policies and standing up for their users.

"In order to compel us to produce content in Gmail we require an ECPA search warrant," said Chris Gaither, Google spokesperson. "If they come for registration information, that's one thing, but if they ask for content of email that's another thing."

Comment Re:on warranties (Score 1) 248

by mikesd81 (#35186564) Attached to: Microsoft To Work With Windows Phone 7 Jailbreakers

The OP never claimed that you could fix a board yourself, have the repair go sour, and then expect the company to fix that.

If, OTOH, you fix caps on the board, and then something else goes wrong, which is not provably related to your repair, then the board is *still* under warranty, at least in the US.

Fair enough. If the problems are not related, I'll buy that argument

That is the same law that allows you to have your oil changed at your local garage, rather than your car maker's local dealership, and still have an intact warranty (unless the local garage screws up).

So the screw up falls on the garage to fix their mistake. But if YOU change the oil and somehow put a wrench through the oil pan while taking out the plug, and you're not a licensed mechanic, it would not fall under the warranty for the manufacture to replace. A licensed mechanic would fall under a qualified technician.

Comment Re:on warranties (Score 1) 248

by mikesd81 (#35186334) Attached to: Microsoft To Work With Windows Phone 7 Jailbreakers

Look at your microwave, DVD player, or any electronic. Find that piece of tape that says "warranty void if broken"

That piece of tape does not have the force of law. It is there to frighten you. You have a legal right to have service performed by any qualified person, at least in the USA, without voiding your warranty. That person can be you. Replacing bad caps on a motherboard with caps which meet or exceed their specification, for example, is something you have a legal right to do without voiding the warranty as it applies to other components.

That piece of tape does have the force of the companies of warranty and their terms for honoring it. Just because you know how to replace bad caps on a board, doesn't mean you're qualified. Go ahead and do that, and fry it and then go back to the manufacture and say "Well I know how to do it so I did it and well oops." There's also reasons why companies have certified technician partners. Yes, you may have a legal right to do whatever, it is your property, but that doesn't mean the company has the legal right to fix your mistake.

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