Betty Long long ago when you bought a new computer, the manufacturer provided CDs with the computer that would help you to restore the computer back to its original factory condition in the event that something went wrong. Nowadays – they don’t. They’ve changed over to providing you with an operating …
Unsecured wi-fi networks, like those found at airports, restaurants and coffee shops – are public networks that are available for anyone to use. Some of these are managed by legitimate businesses while others are managed by “Honey Pot Operators”. In either case – on an open network – users are …
And why would you want to do that?
Some of my best thoughts come from conversation. A phone conversation, a chat, conversations with myself when I am driving down the road. I think I’m a pretty smart girl. Quite often, some of my conversations get quite deep. The answer to something I’ve been looking for is in the conversation. But an hour later when the conversation is done; so is that thought. Even if I could write that one thought down, it is dependent on the conversation that came before and the conversation that came after.
While the brain (another thing I’ve always been interested in) is a far better ‘computer’ with far more capability and I’m sure that it captures everything .. we’ve got our lives so cluttered with crap that recollection is hard to come by.
So these are the tools I use …
Facebook, for quite a while now, has been sharing our personal information across the web. It’s all about marketing and who owns the demographics. Does it jeopardize your identity? Yes – it does. Can you stop it? Not really. You can spend your life blocking the multitude of applications that want your personal information. Can you opt out later or take them to court? Sure. Good luck with that.
WIth YELP hooked into Facebook, you can see whose looking at what, what they “Like”, and what they’re doing on the Yelp site. Some of you might like that. If you own a business it might be good for your business.
Personally, I don’t want to publish what I am buying or reviewing or website I am visiting. To me; that’s private information …
He asked if I’d take a quick look at his computer; it wasn’t working well and he didn’t have a lot of money to spend on it but he really needed his computer for his business – this afternoon if possible. Friends being friends, I said “sure, bring it over”. He brought me FIVE of them. “Somebody” had already worked on them for him. Two of them were literally gutted – parts lying loose inside the machine.
The original machine that we were talking about came in with “pop-ups” and “system32 errors”. 343 viruses plus a rogue antivirus program plus Norton Internet Security that expired a year ago.