Yup, it’s true. Wouldn’ta believed it if i hadn’t seen it with my own eyes.
This map is generated from a database file stored in a backup of my iPhone. This is everywhere i’ve been in the NW Oregon/SW Washington since 9/22/10.
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Report: Meat Now America’s No. 2 Condiment | The Onion -What if? Sixty Symbols – Physics and Astronomy videos -Nurture your inner science nerd (you know [...] From an Associated Press article: More than 70 retailers and payment processors have disclosed breaches since 2006, involving tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers… Meanwhile, many others likely have been breached and didn’t detect it. Even the companies that had the payment industry’s top rating for computer security, a seal of [...] A friendly public service announcement to the droves of Mac-toting netizens out there who browse the webs with an inflated sense of security: Your system is weak. Whether or not you decided to ignore the warning signs and upgrade to the latest OS X 10.5.7 recently, you are all equally susceptible to an exploit [...]
Stumbled across this post on Mac desktop locking and and learned a few things myself. They cover the Keychain Access method. They also highlight some nifty/useful widgets and preference panes. Via UsingMac.com: Lock Your Mac Desktop (Part II). The office network has recently been updated to use Firefox 3 as the default browser. FF3 makes many great improvements in speed and internet security. On the whole, you shouldn’t have to do anything different, just enjoy the awesome new location bar and slick interface. One new feature that may pose as a snag [...] Do you deal in sensitive information? Private? Paranoid? Cautious? Then this tip is for you! In this tutorial i will demonstrate a quick and easy way to help protect any sensitive data from prying eyes or passersby.  padlock menubar Allow me to draw your attention to the padlock icon showing in the menubar above. By clicking on this icon i can very quickly send my computer into screen saver mode and, whats more, the user will be required to enter their login password to be able to exit the screen saver. This effectively locks your desktop while keeping you logged in and all of your documents and applications open, untouched, and secure! Here’s how you can get a padlock icon of your very own… Continue reading Added security for your desktop
Sometimes people wonder what it is that i do here all day (and sometimes night) long. Sometimes nobody cares but i feel like sharing anyhow. Lately i’ve been patching servers and shoring up our inter and intranet security. You see… A while back, internet security researchers discovered a [...] If you ever find call to change your existing login password—and you might—here’s how you can do it: Go to your System Preferences, either from your dock, or through the Apple menu. Click on Accounts, see?…
In the Accounts preferences you can now change your password. The window looks different [...] |
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If you are one of the many who relies on Gmail as your base of operations then you are no doubt enjoying it’s many productivity-enhancing features (labels, filters, priority inbox, i’m talking to you). But what if the unthinkable should happen? Or [...]
It’s not as if you asked, but here are my latest delicious links, from June 29th through July 6th:
