Bsmith

Hi there,

Recently my system updated my Excel 365 proplus version to the latest version 1903 (build 11425.20228 ) but since then I haven't been able to create graphs or anything, I tried the IT helpdesk at school but they have been unable to do anything, does anyone know a way to revert the installed update to it's previous build version? my attempts at google so far seem to have been pointless in finding a solution, I only came across people with the same issue.

3 minutes ago, Amazonsucks said:

What caused said implosion?

drama within the team and the actual mind behind everything leaving them.
Wendell had all knowledge and a background, where as most others where more personalities then people with knowledge, they could host pretty well but that was it.

2 minutes ago, XenosTech said:

Who's really the bad guy here ? It could be that nintendo is blocking it on their end and just being tight lipped about it too. Given their past this isn't really surprising.

Sony has a bad past too here, this woudnt be the first time of them blocking crossplatform options.

from 2017 https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-13-sony-defends-decision-to-block-cross-play-with-xbox-one-and-nintendo-switch

1 hour ago, AntiTrust said:

I havent been following this case (now I will) but is this not similar to the famous Microsoft antitrust suit about them bundling IE into windows? In the USA the case didn't go anywhere, but in the EU microsoft to this day still has to include other browsers (like chrome, firefox) into their OS packages. 

yes it's kinda the same like that.

@Sniperfox47I haven't been following the case myself really, but I believe it came down to the fact that manufacturers are freely able to use android, even without all the google apps(chrome, g+, the play store etc) However that is for the standard version of android, if I'm not mistaken it was mostly about the part where devs get forced to include all these applications if they want to make changes to stock android, like putting their own skin on it or their own app store.

On one hand it makes it easier since you don't need to make another account since the google play store is there, but on the other hand it keeps other players out of the market.
If apple (for example) would start to license IOS or mac OS, then they would be running into the same issue, although by keeping everything to their own they are able to get away with it, since they can't dictate other manufacturers on what they can and can't do(since there aren't any)

So just like Microsoft with the webbrowser issue, google has to give people the choice of what they want to use if there are more contenders, instead of forcing both options to be there. Just like IE got enforced although there where other options available.
Ofcourse it's a logical choice for a manufacturer/developer to try to enforce their own service, although(by eu law/logic) they should allow others too in the field and let the consumer have it's own choice, especially if they basically all do the same stuff, work the same and the product/platform has a major marketshare.

and another video that didn't show up in my subscription box

nevermind it just popped up

people usually don't see the difference between white hat, grey hat and black hat hackers, you are learning to be a white hat currently(someone that hacks with permission and to gain money) which basically is digital security.

mehh

yes they do, they get a very small amount of money from people that watch their content while having youtube red.

Before my old shit channel got demonetized I got around $0.01 total(!) from 2-3 youtube red viewers, without having any content on youtube red specifically.

the british are crazy about their royalties and now someone form the colonies USA get's taken into it the murices paparazzi also eat their fair share of it, basically the two countries that idolize famous people the most made a mash up.

they are mere political tools so to speak, they attract some tourism and are basically the highest ranking diplomats of a country. Outside that depending on the country they still sign laws, meaning if the king/queen refuses to sign something(although there ways to circumvent that) it already shows there are flaws in it.

11 hours ago, Christophe Corazza said:

 

Completely agree. Those current laws only ease the use (or better yet: abuse) of such technology.

I’m wondering what’s the situation in the EU though...

 

As far as I can remember, I’m not aware of a similar case in the EU. Although, that does not say a darn thing, since they might as well not have been caught yet.

in the EU it varies by country, I can only speak for the Netherlands on this.
Earlier this your the government tried to pass a law which would allow the AIVD(dutch spy agency) to tap all calls, messages and what not, this gave a huge backlash within the country and even let to a referendum about it and people voted massively against it(except the elderly who didn't get it) it lead to the law being retracted in it's current shape and being looked at, since the opposition(politicians who didn't get elected) and some elected officials saw flaws in the law after the tech sector pointed them out.

it might be due to tech linked being news related, thus having a shorter release schedule

19 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

Wow it took this long to have someone abuse this?  Not surprised. 

Real question is now can we get some laws made to stop this and fix the patret act 

I believe with the original Snowden leaks there was evidence of that happening within the NSA, so not the first time and probably impossible to stop it with current laws regarding privacy in the US.

50 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

should the ticket system be designed that an entrance proof is only pegged to the original buyer? (e.g. you need a ticket and an ID (/active app) that is hopefully pegged to the ticket to enter?)

That is something which is already a thing in some countries(the Uk and Netherlands so far I'm aware) and depending on the organizer/venue there might even be a separate market place for people that have to sell their tickets for whatever reason, with a set limit on the max price(~10% max above original price) while keeping everything bound to a persons Identification Card/passport, other organizations use the ID/passport verification, but don't allow them to be sold at all against scalpers, not even a managed market place.

ahh yes, it's a thing, some skull candy headphones also have it and combines it with bass tones to make it seem more aggressive and give that festival/concert kind of feel. Nice for a short while, but it quickly becomes a gimmick.

A US (ex)sheriff has been caught abusing a tracking service, while on duty, without warrant to track multiple people including a judge and other police officers.
Said sheriff however has been fired since, due to a unrelated case where a inmate has died, but earlier has been charged with forging of documents and similar cases.

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Mr. Hutcheson, the defendant in the surveillance case, was charged with forgery in state court last year and also by a federal grand jury in March over similar offenses related to the phone pinging. He was removed from his duties as sheriff in 2017 after an inmate’s death, though he was not charged with a crime in that matter. The Highway Patrol officers who were allegedly tracked filed suit in federal court. Mr. Hutcheson’s lawyer declined to comment on the litigation.

 

Although this might be a isolated case where it's just a single individual abusing his powers, it is still slightly worrying about how potent those programs are and how easy it is for them to use these services without warrant.

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Thousands of jails and prisons across the United States use a company called Securus Technologies to provide and monitor calls to inmates. But the former sheriff of Mississippi County, Mo., used a lesser-known Securus service to track people’s cellphones, including those of other officers, without court orders, according to charges filed against him in state and federal court.

The service can find the whereabouts of almost any cellphone in the country within seconds. It does this by going through a system typically used by marketers and other companies to get location data from major cellphone carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, documents show.

Between 2014 and 2017, the sheriff, Cory Hutcheson, used the service at least 11 times, prosecutors said. His alleged targets included a judge and members of the State Highway Patrol. Mr. Hutcheson, who was dismissed last year in an unrelated matter, has pleaded not guilty in the surveillance cases.

As location tracking has become more accurate, and as more people carry their phones at every waking moment, the ability of law enforcement officers and companies like Securus to get that data has become an ever greater privacy concern.

Securus offers the location-finding service as an additional feature for law enforcement and corrections officials, part of an effort to entice customers in a lucrative but competitive industry. In promotional packets, the company, one of the largest prison phone providers in the country, recounts several instances in which the service was used.

In one, a woman sentenced to drug rehab left the center but was eventually located by an official using the service. Other examples include an official who found a missing Alzheimer’s patient and detectives who used “precise location information positioning” to get “within 42 feet of the suspect’s location” in a murder case.

The article also goes on about possible implications within the law and how it is possible for the company to have access to all this data without problems, which is legally allowed up to the point where they can even sell location data without issues, it however is a vague situation since they are also legally obliged to protect costumer's personal information and location data falls within a grey area, whether it is or isn't considered personal information that they can(and probably will) sell.

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Phone companies have a legal responsibility under the Telecommunications Act to protect consumer data, including call location, and can provide it in response to a legal order or sell it for use with customer consent. But lawyers interviewed by The New York Times disagreed on whether location information that was not gathered during the course of a call had the same protections under the law.

As long as they are following their own privacy policies, carriers “are largely free to do what they want with the information they obtain, including location information, as long as it’s unrelated to a phone call,” said Albert Gidari, the consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and a former technology and telecommunications lawyer. Even when the phone is not making a call, the system receives location data, accurate within a few hundred feet, by communicating with the device and asking it which cellphone towers it is near.

Other experts said the law should apply for any communications on a network, not just phone calls. “If the phone companies are giving someone a direct portal into the real-time location data on all of their customers, they should be policing it,” said Laura Moy, the deputy director of the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology.

It also opens up the dialogue on how well companies like Securus or isps do actually check warrants to see if they are legal, since in this situation the tracking was done without legal permission or use of warrants that forced them to give access to said locations.

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Mr. Wyden, in his letter to the F.C.C., also said that carriers had an obligation to verify whether law enforcement requests were legal. But Securus cuts the carriers out of the review process, because the carriers do not receive the legal documents.

The letter called for an F.C.C. investigation into Securus, as well as the phone companies and their protections of user data. Mr. Wyden also sent letters to the major carriers, seeking audits of their relationships with companies that buy consumer data. Representatives for AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon said the companies had received the letters and were investigating.

“If this company is, in fact, doing this with our customers’ data, we will take steps to stop it,” said Rich Young, a Verizon spokesman. T-Mobile said it “would take appropriate action” if it found any misuse of data.

T&T also said it followed industry “best practices” in handling data, and Sprint said it shared location information only with customer consent or in response to lawful requests.

Although Securus only operates within the USA and it (so far I'm aware) is one of the few modern nations where it is allowed to sell information from your costumers to a third party, I find it pretty concerning that it is possible for people to have access to things like this without the decent checks being carried out.

But I guess this will just be another small drop in the bucket of questionable practices within the United States; of course tools like this have benefits in search and rescue situations, although then it still has to be carried out the proper way, something that here hasn't been the case.

source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/cellphone-tracking-law-enforcement.html

3 hours ago, matrix07012 said:

whoops! looks like I forgot to check dates after this popped up on my twitter timeline

3 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

Thread moved to the General section.

 

This is old news, nothing new here.

thanks for moving it!

The big old office photocopier, which company doesn't have them?

Well, it might be an idea for companies to set up a policy around them, because photocopiers store a digital file of everything they copy, without encryption or any other security measures, unless you get the "upgrade".

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Juntunen picked four machines based on price and the number of pages printed. In less than two hours his selections were packed and loaded onto a truck. The cost? About $300 each. 

Until we unpacked and plugged them in, we had no idea where the copiers came from or what we'd find. 

We didn't even have to wait for the first one to warm up. One of the copiers had documents still on the copier glass, from the Buffalo, N.Y., Police Sex Crimes Division. 

It took Juntunen just 30 minutes to pull the hard drives out of the copiers. Then, using a forensic software program available for free on the Internet, he ran a scan - downloading tens of thousands of documents in less than 12 hours.

The results were stunning: from the sex crimes unit there were detailed domestic violence complaints and a list of wanted sex offenders. On a second machine from the Buffalo Police Narcotics Unit we found a list of targets in a major drug raid. 

The third machine, from a New York construction company, spit out design plans for a building near Ground Zero in Manhattan; 95 pages of pay stubs with names, addresses and social security numbers; and $40,000 in copied checks. 

But it wasn't until hitting "print" on the fourth machine - from Affinity Health Plan, a New York insurance company, that we obtained the most disturbing documents: 300 pages of individual medical records. They included everything from drug prescriptions, to blood test results, to a cancer diagnosis. A potentially serious breach of federal privacy law.

"You're talking about potentially ruining someone's life," said Ira Winkler. "Where they could suffer serious social repercussions."

Winkler is a former analyst for the National Security Agency and a leading expert on digital security. 

"You have to take some basic responsibility and know that these copiers are actually computers that need to be cleaned up," Winkler said. 

The Buffalo Police Department and the New York construction company declined comment on our story. As for Affinity Health Plan, they issued a statement that said, in part, "we are taking the necessary steps to ensure that none of our customers' personal information remains on other previously leased copiers, and that no personal information will be released inadvertently in the future." 

Ed McLaughlin is President of Sharp Imaging, the digital copier company.

"Has the industry failed, in your mind, to inform the general public of the potential risks involved with a copier?" Keteyian asked. 

"Yes, in general, the industry has failed," McLaughlin said. 

In 2008, Sharp commissioned a survey on copier security that found 60 percent of Americans "don't know" that copiers store images on a hard drive. Sharp tried to warn consumers about the simple act of copying. 

"It's falling on deaf ears," McLaughlin said. "Or people don't feel it's important, or 'we'll take care of it later.'"

All the major manufacturers told us they offer security or encryption packages on their products. One product from Sharp automatically erases an image from the hard drive. It costs $500.

The possibility to wipe drives is there of course and judging by this scenario, that $500 sounds to more then worth it, especially if you work with information regarding drug criminals or medical information from people.

The fact that those copiers can just be bought from auctions without hassle even though they have been from police departments or insurance companies like the case has been in this research, to make matters worse these copiers even go to different continents when sold, who knows what happens there to them. 

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The day we visited the New Jersey warehouse, two shipping containers packed with used copiers were headed overseas - loaded with secrets on their way to unknown buyers in Argentina and Singapore.

source:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/digital-photocopiers-loaded-with-secrets/

1 minute ago, djdwosk97 said:

I'd love to see what store accepts electronic returns after 4+ months. 

me too, sounds like heaven with some short generation gaps, but hey maybe there is a loophole somewhere to abuse

I doubt it, but for that you would need to check warranties from the product and the rules of the store and what not, we can't answer this although we can predict a "no"

31 minutes ago, Kamjam21xx said:

Bmpcc4k isnt out until november 4th

 

That said... it will have-

-12 bit color 

-13 stops of dynamic range

-internal raw recording

-4k

 

And the general cool stuff.

ahh danig, that's true, I forgot about the release still having to come around.

you could take it apart and try to bent things back, but it sounds like that is going to be a pain(especially since you don't want to take a hammer to the lens) you can try visiting a repair shop and see if they can do something for you without it costing too much, otherwise there is nothing else possible then replacing it

your best options within the budget are either the sony HDR-CX440 or canon HF R700, they can both shoot 1080x1920 at 60fps, with good zoom ranges and USB connections to source data off.

I can't comment on their "graininess" since this is dependent on the settings you are using to capture footage with and thus will vary in different scenario's. In theory both of them should allow for live capturing data without issues, although sometimes that gets locked out from cheaper devices to both protect them against overheating and have people more reasons to buy a step higher into their segments.

I don't know how high your budget is or what your exact wishes are, but if you don't mind having to get dedicated lenses you might look into the blackmagic pocket cinema 4k model, which at $1.295 is pretty well priced and it having a micro four thirds sensor opens up a lot of options for lenses both natively and through adapters at reasonable prices.

If you won't mind being stuck to a fixed lens you might look into a sony FDR-AX33 which has the typical camcorder format and roughly half the price.

I was looking at the time stamps and noticed the category was set to "cars and vehicles"(auto's en voertuigen in dutch) might want to change that 

cleaningl with a vacuum cleaner wouldn't do any harm, atleast considering you don't please the electro engine close to it, the magnetic field from the vacuum cleaner's engine is most likely to be the bigger issue since it creates a potentially damaging electromagnetic field