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October 6, 2017
FYI for those who got Trustedid.com from Equifax after their breach....
I locked my account with Equifax. I also locked my account with the other two big credit reporting agencies.
Equifax informed me, via their portal https://www.trustedid.com/premier/myaccount.php that my report was UNLOCKED. I locked it AGAIN.
Word to the wise. Check your Equifax account AGAIN. If they fail again, I'm going to call them. Hope this helps a few.
October 6, 2017
to the UK Daily Mail, good for teaching me a new word
Pulchritudinous: your fun vocabulary word for the day!
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/pulchritudinousEven though it looks (and sounds) like it would describe a disease or a bad attitude, pulchritudinous actually describes a person of breathtaking, heartbreaking...beauty.
Let's be honest: Your opportunities for using this word in casual conversation are probably pretty slim. But, just in case, let's do a quick run-down on the pronunciation: Pulchritudinous: "pul-kruh-TOO-di-nuhs." And one last note about this 15-letter, 5-syllable beast (which may win the award for least-beautiful word meaning "beautiful"
: It's only used to describe people.
Definitions of
pulchritudinous
1
adj used of persons only; having great physical beauty
Let's be honest: Your opportunities for using this word in casual conversation are probably pretty slim. But, just in case, let's do a quick run-down on the pronunciation: Pulchritudinous: "pul-kruh-TOO-di-nuhs." And one last note about this 15-letter, 5-syllable beast (which may win the award for least-beautiful word meaning "beautiful"
: It's only used to describe people.
Definitions of
pulchritudinous
1
adj used of persons only; having great physical beauty
to the UK Daily Mail, good for teaching me a new word
October 6, 2017
When we think about the spectacular collapses of once untouchable Internet properties, companies like MySpace and Pets.com come to mind. The rise and fall of AOL Instant Messenger rivals them all. Once the dominant force in digital messaging and a source of innovations other companies spun off into billions of dollars of businesses, AIM is now mostly dormant. Mashable sat down with three of the early engineers of the program to learn about its origins, why AOL never quite embraced the concept of a free messaging service, getting hacked by Microsoft and the features that never quite made it to users.
The 1990s belonged to America Online.
It had risen above competitors in Prodigy and CompuServe to become the dominant Internet service provider for American households. Millions of subscribers paid AOL monthly for the ability to sign online. Its disks could be found almost anywhere. The "You've got mail" notification became the sound Americans associated with their first email accounts, as well as a movie with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
Barry Appelman, Eric Bosco and Jerry Harris worked at AOL in the 1990s and early 2000s as engineers on AOL Instant Messenger, known commonly as AIM. They weren't hired to build a messenger. Appelman and Bosco programmed in the Unix operating system. Harris had been a programmer at a small web browser company purchased by AOL.
The Rise and Fall of AIM, the Breakthrough AOL Never Wanted
http://mashable.com/2014/04/15/aim-history/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#diOH1Iqi8PquWhen we think about the spectacular collapses of once untouchable Internet properties, companies like MySpace and Pets.com come to mind. The rise and fall of AOL Instant Messenger rivals them all. Once the dominant force in digital messaging and a source of innovations other companies spun off into billions of dollars of businesses, AIM is now mostly dormant. Mashable sat down with three of the early engineers of the program to learn about its origins, why AOL never quite embraced the concept of a free messaging service, getting hacked by Microsoft and the features that never quite made it to users.
The 1990s belonged to America Online.
It had risen above competitors in Prodigy and CompuServe to become the dominant Internet service provider for American households. Millions of subscribers paid AOL monthly for the ability to sign online. Its disks could be found almost anywhere. The "You've got mail" notification became the sound Americans associated with their first email accounts, as well as a movie with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
Barry Appelman, Eric Bosco and Jerry Harris worked at AOL in the 1990s and early 2000s as engineers on AOL Instant Messenger, known commonly as AIM. They weren't hired to build a messenger. Appelman and Bosco programmed in the Unix operating system. Harris had been a programmer at a small web browser company purchased by AOL.
October 5, 2017
call me naive but this is counterproductive long-term
1- I'm assuming you actually did it
2- If you did, no goodwill was generated towards Democrats.
Hardly the stuff of promoting our side.
October 5, 2017
Sir Edward Heath 'would have been questioned' over abuse claims
Sir Edward Heath would have been questioned over sex abuse claims if he was alive when they came to light, police have said.
Wiltshire Police launched Operation Conifer in 2015 when the former PM was accused of historical child sex abuse.
The Conservative politician would have been interviewed under caution over seven claims, including the alleged rape of an 11-year-old, they said.
No inference of guilt should be drawn from this, police stressed.
"The Sir Edward Heath Foundation called the report 'profoundly unsatisfactory' "
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41503143Sir Edward Heath 'would have been questioned' over abuse claims
Sir Edward Heath would have been questioned over sex abuse claims if he was alive when they came to light, police have said.
Wiltshire Police launched Operation Conifer in 2015 when the former PM was accused of historical child sex abuse.
The Conservative politician would have been interviewed under caution over seven claims, including the alleged rape of an 11-year-old, they said.
No inference of guilt should be drawn from this, police stressed.
October 5, 2017
They make a lot of claims about their superior privacy features. Since I'm not in IT, I will leave it to others to evaluate.
Epic browser
https://www.epicbrowser.com/privacy/intro.htmlThey make a lot of claims about their superior privacy features. Since I'm not in IT, I will leave it to others to evaluate.
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