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December 20, 2017

Microsoft Edge and Application Guard for Windows 10 Pro



That's what Edge looks like while using Application Guard on my copy of Windows 10 Pro Build 17063 (a beta version)

Here's an explanation:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/12/19/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-17063-pc/#toR0qJ90x6Ejt08h.97

Windows Defender Application Guard (WDAG) update: You spoke, and we listened. Microsoft is bringing Windows Defender Application Guard to Windows 10 Professional in the next feature update of Windows 10. Now, like Windows 10 Enterprise users, Windows 10 Pro Users can navigate the Internet in Application Guard knowing their systems are protected from even the most sophisticated browser attacks.

Windows Defender Application Guard provides unprecedented protection against targeted threats using Microsoft’s industry leading Hyper-V virtualization technology. Check out this recent RSA talk on Window Defender Application Guard if you’d like to understand this feature in some more detail.

It is available now to our awesome Windows Insider community to give it a try and we would like to hear your feedback.

For more details please see our tech community page.


Here's the more technical explanation:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Insider-Program/Announcing-WDAG-in-PRO-SKU/m-p/133395#M701

Caveats: Yes, I know many dislike Edge. Just giving one more option if you use W10 Pro in the future. This feature was only available in W10 Enterprise before. Hopefully this will provide Edge with even more security, to make it a better option.

December 20, 2017

Florida Man Rescued From Fountain After Swanning Around

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/19/572091923/florida-man-rescued-from-fountain-after-swanning-around




Here's what happened, according to the Orlando Sentinel, the Orlando Weekly and WFTV:

Keith Thurston "ingested a large quantity of Molly" and decided he wanted to commune with the swans because, as the police report put it, "they didn't judge him."

So, of course, he stole a swan-shaped boat, paddled to the fountain at the center of the lake, stepped out from the boat, forgot the crucial step of tying the boat to the fountain, and found himself marooned.

"Officers were called about 4 a.m. Friday after people heard Thurston screaming for help," the Sentinel writes. Police set off on a rescue mission.





December 19, 2017

need feedback on a book please

This one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0166ISAS8/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o00_?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Did you read it? Love it? Hate it? Meh? What did you think? I finally got curious, so now I'm reading the Kindle version. Thanks in advance.


Steve

December 19, 2017

PC Cleaning Apps are a Scam: Heres Why (and How to Speed Up Your PC)

https://www.howtogeek.com/162683/pc-cleaning-apps-are-a-scam-heres-why-and-how-to-speed-up-your-pc/

(as usual, I'm only posting this for discussion. IT people can critique it)

PC cleaning apps are digital snake oil. The web is full of ads for applications that want to “clean your PC” and “make it feel like new.” Don’t pull out your credit card — these apps are terrible and you don’t need them.

If you do want to “clean your PC,” you can do it for free. Windows includes built-in PC cleaning tools that can do almost all of what the average PC cleaning app will do for you.

So what do these apps do, anyway? To investigate, we ran MyCleanPC — don’t try this at home; we installed this bad software so you don’t have to. MyCleanPC is one of the most prominent PC cleaning apps — it even advertises itself with television commercials.

First, let’s look at its Frequently Asked Questions to see what it promises:

more at link above
December 19, 2017

A Couple of Frolicking Polar Bears Halt an Amorous Tryst to Put Right the BBC Camera Spying on Them

A Couple of Frolicking Polar Bears Halt an Amorous Tryst to Put Right the BBC Camera Spying on Them

https://twitter.com/LaughingSquid/status/942872866693017601



In a rather saucy video from BBC Earth‘s “Polar Bear Spy On The Ice“, actor David Tennant gleefully narrated a scene in which couple of frolicking polar bears suddenly halted their amorous tryst in order to put right the skiing BBC “blizzardcam” that was spying on them. Once all was good, the romantic bears happily resumed their playful love affair.
December 18, 2017

Awesome thread on Twitter about mental health

https://twitter.com/hashtag/mymentalhealthin5words?vertical=default&src=tren

All posts good so far, but.....there's always one. Go check it out.
December 17, 2017

First automobile speeding ticket in 1904, 12 mph, speed demon!!!

The first speeding ticket issued in the United States (handed to the offender in the paper form we’re used to today), was issued to Harry Myers in 1904 for driving a blistering 12 miles per hour down West Third Street in Dayton, Ohio.

from today's howtogeek.com newsletter

December 17, 2017

History honoree recalled wagon rides to downtown (Orlando)

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/os-joy-wallace-dickinson-1217-story.html

When Wittenstein died at 94 in 2008, he was the retired leader of a major public accounting firm and longtime civic leader. Born in 1914 on his Shader grandparents’ farm in Fairvilla, he could remember venturing by wagon from the Fairvilla area into Orlando, about a day’s journey under horsepower.

If travelers came down what’s now Edgewater Drive, he recalled in a 2002 interview, they would water their horses in Lake Ivanhoe, at a busy spot. Folks would drive their horses right into the lake to let them drink.

On one town visit, Wittenstein recalled being at the post office on Central Boulevard and hearing a commotion outside. The Western Union office nearby had just gotten the news of the armistice to end World War I.

He served in the next great war, after he graduated from the University of Florida in 1938. Despite a deferment, he volunteered and was proud he served four years in the Navy.
December 16, 2017

a Brit's take on downtown Orlando etc

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/travel/adventure/667455/Orlando-downtown-Universal-studios-speakeasy-bars

Visit Orlando: Discover a world of speakeasy bars and Universal studios

TENTATIVELY stepping through the unmarked door, I crept up the turf-carpeted staircase, following the scent of whisky.

Mickey Mouse wouldn’t be seen dead in a place like The Treehouse – a tiny, secret cocktail joint in the centre of downtown Orlando.

Welcome to another side of the world’s theme park capital, where the bars are hidden and the drinks are strong.

I was staying at boutique EO Inn, overlooking pretty Lake Eola Park.
December 16, 2017

I Say Allahu Akbar; I am Not a Terrorist

http://arabinalabama.com/i-say-allahu-akbar-i-am-not-a-terrorist/

I grew up saying “Allahu Akbar” numerous times every day.

And no, I wasn’t a terrorist.

I wasn’t someone who blew buildings up, killed people, or shot a missile from my rocket launcher. Those are the events associated with the saying, when something bad is about to happen. People of the West are terrified of the phrase.

I was a Muslim boy trying to pray as many times as he could amidst a life of love and peace, in a home that did not condone any terrorism. My father was a poet who read me love poetry instead of nursery rhymes. He uttered the phrase when he prayed. If love existed in the form of a man, it was my father.

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