Title: Anyone watching the debate? You can post thoughts here Source:
Fox News URL Source:http://n/a Published:Aug 6, 2015 Author:n/a Post Date:2015-08-06 20:56:58 by Rufus T Firefly Keywords:None Views:24880 Comments:185
JEB played it safe and looked uncomfortable when stating things he did not believe. Does that make sense:)
Jeb recited answers. His team obviously made lists of every possible question and drilled Bush on them, right down to the exact phrasing he should use.
Bush delivered his lines like an amateur actor, mostly in a flat voice. You could tell he was reciting. It had all the drama of a bad amateur theater production. Bush was a total snoozer.
I thought someone said Chris Matthews was a moderator at that one.
No. Martha Blondelowcut and Bill Hemmer. They seemed a little lightweight to me but did okay, I guess.
However, Carly Fiorina apparently left her victory at the 4pm debate and went on Matthews' show and tore him to shreds. Maybe we'll have some video tomorrow.
For some reason my tablet no longer likes playing videos (even with a Flash Player update) even on YouTube. However, was able to view the above on the MSNBC site.
Wow...She did not squirm or deflect and went right at it on Hardball. Which means it was not scripted and she knows what she is talking about.
For some reason my tablet no longer likes playing videos (even with a Flash Player update) even on YouTube. However, was able to view the above on the MSNBC site.
Download the Penguin browser if on an android. Plays flash. You have to pay a one time fee though.
Download the Penguin browser if on an android. Plays flash. You have to pay a one time fee though.
Thanks will give it a try.
Went to the company help site and there is a message there that Adobe Flash no longer supports Android devices. I'm sure they will figure it out. If not, I know what's going on my birthday/Christmas list this year...an iPad:)
Went to the company help site and there is a message there that Adobe Flash no longer supports Android devices. I'm sure they will figure it out. If not, I know what's going on my birthday/Christmas list this year...an iPad:)
All 950 million Android devices can be compromised by sending a single invisible MMS message to corrupt the texting/photo feature.
Various other exploits on Android are making it look like a terrible platform for security.
/. sez: "We've already looked at the Stagefright vulnerability, discovered by Zimperium, and shown what can be done to deal with it. Affecting up to 95 percent of Android devices, the vulnerability has led to Google and Samsung announcing monthly security updates. Now the mobile security company has released additional details about how the exploit works. To help explain the vulnerability, a video has been produced which uses a Stagefright demonstration to illustrate it in action. Zimperium has also released an Android app that checks devices for the vulnerability."
You can see a video demonstrating exactly how it can take over your phone invisibly. Zimperium has a free app to test if your Android device is vulnerable. My Galaxy S3 was vulnerable to the app (when I pretended to allow it to do what it wanted to do on my rooted custom-ROMmed S3).
Otherwise, I have disabled MMS entirely a year back. I always suspected it.
These kinds of horrible elementary exploits recall the IE6 scandal with the JPG, GIF and BMP format. You may recall your computer could get taken over by a malicious web JPG or BMP or GIF picture.
Google and Samsung are so nervous they have finally committed to monthly security updates for all Android devices. Long long overdue. So you'll get patches now with newer devices and Google's own Nexus products getting the best and fastest patches. Older Androids won't benefit.
But it's not just Android.
./ sez: "Security researcher Christopher Domas has demonstrated a method of installing a rootkit in a PC's firmware that exploits a feature built into every x86 chip manufactured since 1997. The rootkit infects the processor's System Management Mode, and could be used to wipe the UEFI or even to re-infect the OS after a clean install. Protection features like Secure Boot wouldnt help, because they too rely on the SMM to be secure."
So every Windows (and Mac and Linux x86) machine is vulnerable to a rootkit attack that can survive reboots and even formatting your system drive.
A couple of very serious Mac vulnerabilities against root takeover have also surfaced in the last few weeks.
So security is terrible across the board.
Now, do I actually need to discuss whether using an obscure third-party browser with a roll-yer-own version of Adobe Flash player is a good idea?
You'd be surprised how many techies, celebs and top corporate players are going back to dumb flip phones and dumping their smartphones.
BTW, you might check on those iPads/iPhones before you buy one for Flash. They don't like Flash either. However, Apple does have a pretty solid YouTube client but you can't just run any old Flash website on Apple's devices. And few people want to because Flash is just so vulnerable. That's why you have to update it every week. Much like WinXP, you just can't fix it technically.
