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Message 2071568 - Posted: 23 Mar 2021, 2:59:45 UTC

'They're being hacked faster than we can count'
with security researchers at F-Secure identifying tens of thousands of attacks targeting organisations around the world
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Message 2071716 - Posted: 24 Mar 2021, 20:26:29 UTC

However, Intel has repeatedly missed manufacturing targets over recent years.
As a consequence, its latest desktop processors use older transistor technology than rival silicon from AMD and Apple, putting the components at a disadvantage.
Crawling out of the pothole?
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Message 2072163 - Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 16:23:12 UTC

Working from home due to Covid?
Don't leave your computer unlocked
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Message 2072448 - Posted: 3 Apr 2021, 16:43:43 UTC
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Hi guys, colour me dumb as never experienced this before.
Received a text message at 17:28.
Checked it. It's a voicemail message.
Huh?
No missed call.
No call received & ignored.
So, how was voicemail possible?
Never mind. Found the answer.
Persistent sod. He's blocked.
Still, a blocked number shouldn't be allowed any access.
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Message 2072454 - Posted: 3 Apr 2021, 18:04:01 UTC - in response to Message 2072448.  

Hi guys, colour me dumb as never experienced this before.
Received a text message at 17:28.
Checked it. It's a voicemail message.
Huh?
No missed call.
No call received & ignored.
So, how was voicemail possible?
Never mind. Found the answer.
Persistent sod. He's blocked.
Still, a blocked number shouldn't be allowed any access.

Ah, block applies at the phone, not the phone line. Your phone company might have a block available that applies to the line.
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Message 2072455 - Posted: 3 Apr 2021, 18:31:53 UTC - in response to Message 2072454.  

Does that also apply to mobiles?
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Message 2072459 - Posted: 3 Apr 2021, 19:38:42 UTC - in response to Message 2072455.  

Does that also apply to mobiles?

On your mobile, you should have a block feature that is your phone itself doing the blocking for any numbers that you have told it to block. You might have further settings on your phone to specify what message/indication the blocked numbers are sent when blocking (not answering) them.

Voicemail is usually a feature provided by your service provider that is set up on their servers/equipment. You will need to either use their caller block features or see if they can selectively not offer voicemail to certain numbers. That feature might be a 'cost extra'... Your service provider might even have an app for that!

See what features you have available on the online (web) account for your service?


Hope that helps,

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Message 2072460 - Posted: 3 Apr 2021, 19:48:01 UTC
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Intel gets desperate?

... By "redefining" what is called 'performance'!?...


See for yourselves:

(Especially note how the Marketing comparison slide data ends at 2017... Whereas we are now in 2021...)

Forget 10nm? Intel May Change CPU Naming Scheme
wrote:
Team Blue would rather not compare 7nm to 10nm...


Confused?

Well, see this for the explanation:


Linus Tech: How far will Intel GO?
wrote:
Intel’s 11th-gen Core architecture wasn’t supposed to be on 14nm - But it is. Let’s find out what kinds of trade-offs they’ve had to make...



All just the wonders of Marketing?

Or from my most humble personal viewing: Just a continuation of Lies and Deceit and Obfuscation and Naughty Intel reborn?


IT is what we allow it to be...
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Message 2072468 - Posted: 3 Apr 2021, 21:48:03 UTC - in response to Message 2072455.  

Does that also apply to mobiles?

A mobile or smart phone has the smarts in your hand, where the block list lives.
The voicemail is offered at the phone company HQ which hasn't a clue what is in your phone.
A landline phone has no smarts except what the phone company has at its HQ.

To make things interesting I've noticed some spam/scam are now calling twice at the same time. They expect the first to fail in a block at the mobile and the second to go to the Phone Company offered voicemail.

I'm fully confident there is a special place in hell reserved for spam/scam people. Now if we could just make them all catch Covid and arrive there sooner.
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Message 2074264 - Posted: 26 Apr 2021, 14:50:15 UTC

2 WSL teams (World Super League) go head-to-head.
Facebook v Apple
Never thought I would welcome an Apple update. :-)
Meanwhile...
Google
...a 3rd WSL team loses track of its team. :-)
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Message 2074595 - Posted: 30 Apr 2021, 12:02:40 UTC
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Good for everyone and good for the environment and this should be good for (if done right,) Marketing also:


'It's your device, you should be able to repair it'
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A record 53.6 million tonnes of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2019, with less than a fifth of it being recycled, ...

By 2030, the report predicts global e-waste will reach 74 million tonnes. "E-waste is the world's fastest growing waste stream,"...

... "It's your device, you should be able to repair it, there shouldn't really be anything stopping you."

Fridges, washing machines and TVs should last longer and be cheaper to run under new EU rules that will be introduced in the summer. "The goal is to ensure that sustainable products become the norm," EU Environment Commissioner, Virginijus Sinkevi?ius, told BBC News. "Reparability is a key element of striving for high-quality products that last."...

... systematic change is needed. "It requires laws in place that prevent manufacturers from stopping [supporting] a product too early, or making it pretty much impossible to repair it by design."

Electronics shouldn't be Marketed as 'disposable items'...

And for the latest 'trick': Beware those "cloud connected" devices that become disabled useless when the manufacturer 'upgrades' or otherwise switches the cloud off for your device...


Aside: Whatever happened to the USA John Deere gouging money-spinning practices for restricting the repair of tractors?...


All in our polluting greedy world,
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Message 2074602 - Posted: 30 Apr 2021, 13:56:44 UTC - in response to Message 2074595.  

revenue streams and the fiduciary duty to the shareholder to maximize profit
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Message 2074607 - Posted: 30 Apr 2021, 14:37:20 UTC - in response to Message 2074595.  

Good luck with that. My fridge door seal has split, and assuming the freezer door will not be far behind, I tried to source replacements. No luck with any UK supplier, but did find them listed in an EU country.
The price quoted with delivery, tax etc. was greater than a cheap replacement fridge/freezer, but not right size.

Now trying to find a replacement in stock that fits the height/width dimensions and with preferred split. Not having much luck even though most manufacturers have one listed.
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Message 2076269 - Posted: 20 May 2021, 17:56:59 UTC
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Think Microsoft needs to sit down with their programmers & tell them not to use their fingers & toes to count. :-)
KB890830
Normally this is a monthly update & again normally the version increases by 1.
For example April 2021 is v5.88
So May is v5.89.
Just wondering, just what crap are they installing on people's systems?




Todays updates installed, but...

...they want to install it yet again.
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Message 2077227 - Posted: 3 Jun 2021, 19:04:04 UTC

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/03/politics/supreme-court-cybercrime-law-case/
Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of a federal cybercrime law, holding that a policeman who improperly accessed a license plate database could not be charged under the law.
In a 6-3 majority opinion penned by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court held that Nathan Van Buren, a Georgia police officer, did not violate the nation's top computer crime law when he searched a license plate database for non-official purposes.
Responding to a third party who offered to pay him to search the database -- a person who turned out to be an FBI informant -- Van Buren agreed, leading to what the US government alleged was a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Barrett wrote that Van Buren's conduct "plainly flouted" his department's policy, which authorized him to obtain database information only for law enforcement purposes.

But, she said, the court had been asked whether he violated the CFAA, which "he did not," she wrote. Barrett said the provision of the law at issue does not cover those "who have improper motives for obtaining information that is otherwise available to them."

Hum, thinking back to Aaron Swartz ...
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Message 2078801 - Posted: 28 Jun 2021, 16:39:32 UTC

Some trickery to watch out for...


The Dirty Way Manufacturers are Downgrading Your PC


That is nasty... There should be a law against such cheapskate profiteering deceit...

Buyer beware?!

IT is what we allow it to be...
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Message 2078845 - Posted: 29 Jun 2021, 7:33:09 UTC - in response to Message 2078801.  

Nothing new. Think back 15+years & Dell.
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