Rant: Apple’s “Forget your password” pain in the ass
If you forget a password with Apple products, you have a choice: Receive a code sent to “your other Apple devices” (this means you must own more than one Apple…
Yes: Is Twitter shadow banning accounts?
Today, the entire Twitter network was taken over by hackers who then took over perhaps thousands of accounts and used them in a mostly ineffective digital currency scam. As a…
What does it mean to use no fossil fuels for electricity generation by 2035?
2035 is 15 years from today. Presidential candidate Joe Biden unveiled his plan to eliminate all carbon-based fuels for electricity generation. Most people have no idea how large the numbers…
Utah mostly abandons its contact tracing smart phone app
The GPS-based contact tracking system was hardly used; the app will continue to have a Bluetooth “close encounter” detector but unless a majority install the app, its mostly useless. “We’ve…
You become passionate about what you do well
Public school programs have long advised students to pursue their passion. Mike Rowe – and others before him – have noted this is probably not good advice. Instead, pursue success.…
Smart phone Covid-19 contact tracing apps accomplishing little
In May, a report said Iceland had achieved the largest penetration of any virus-tracking app, with 38% of its 364,000 inhabitants installing it. But the Iceland app, which collected people’s…
Facial recognition’s 96 percent false positive rate
Close enough for government work, eh? “If we would use the software only , we would not solve the case 95-97 percent of the time,” Craig said. “That’s if we…
Not everyone can wear a mask, so let’s publicly humiliate them!
In February or early March, if you wore a mask, you were publicly humiliated and the subject of antagonism on social media – masks were useless when worn by the…
Primary business of the Internet is spying: More apps found to have copied contents of your phone’s clipboard
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, and scores of other apps may have accessed your passwords and other copy and pasted data. Source: Tons of news apps caught…
The “hovercover” – very interesting concept
Interesting concept, using hovercraft-like technology to create a “floating” covered area on a sensitive surface. See the above for more information. I am a hovercraft enthusiast. I just finished re-coating…