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Thursday, May 31, 2012
- Debts Owed By Deceased Relatives: ...
- Debts Owed By Deceased Relatives: Do Not Paylapinlawoffices.comCollecting on debts of the deceased h http://ow.ly/1k8GDo
Debts Owed By Deceased Relatives: Do Not Pay
Collecting on debts of the deceased has become a very profitable area in the debt collections industry. Using tacti ... http://bit.ly/N0JZVu
Can Your Mobile Apps Be Trusted? [INFOGRAPHIC]
SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Good article and infographic about mobile apps and your privacy. Mobile apps can create privacy issues at four levels/ layers (application, hardware, network and operating system). Privacy breaches can range anywhere from permitting access to your data to letting an attacker control your device.
Good apps let you you control what information and data the app has access to and what gets shared or is accessible to the developer or others. They also do not permit anyone to control your phone. Alternatively, apps should clearly identify the data it has access to as well as whether and how your data will be shared. No app should permit anyone to have administrative access to your device.
Mobile users need to be cautious when installing apps and consider the potential privacy threat especially when you have sensitive/ confidential data on your mobile device. Also need to consider the risks when using mobile Wi-Fi.
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Good apps let you you control what information and data the app has access to and what gets shared or is accessible to the developer or others. They also do not permit anyone to control your phone. Alternatively, apps should clearly identify the data it has access to as well as whether and how your data will be shared. No app should permit anyone to have administrative access to your device.
Mobile users need to be cautious when installing apps and consider the potential privacy threat especially when you have sensitive/ confidential data on your mobile device. Also need to consider the risks when using mobile Wi-Fi.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Using iPhone 4S speech-to-dictation f...
Using iPhone 4S speech-to-dictation for legal or other confidential dictation? T... http://ow.ly/1jXoto
Good tips to get your health insurer ...
Good tips to get your health insurer to pay more than they want as well as other... http://ow.ly/1jXe8Q
Vehicle backup camera are extremely i...
Vehicle backup camera are extremely important to safety. Federal red tape and... http://ow.ly/1jXe8R
There have been some very large damag...
There have been some very large damage awards against companies that let their e... http://ow.ly/1jXe8T
- Dog bites drive up insurance payou...
- Dog bites drive up insurance payouts; premiums could be nextwww.usatoday.comDog bites accounted for http://ow.ly/1jXe8S
Video: Why backup cameras needed more than ever
SUMMARY: Vehicle backup camera are extremely important to safety. Federal "red tape" and disagreements with feds and automakers, not cost, are the major stumbling block.
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Dog bites drive up insurance payouts; premiums could be next ? USATODAY.com
ARTICLE SUMMARY: Put a muzzle on your mutt, or your insurance premium might go up. Dog bites accounted for more than one-third of homeowners insurance liability claims paid in 2011, costing nearly $479 million in the U.S., according to the Insurance Information Institute.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
German chronobiologist Till Roenneber...
German chronobiologist Till Roenneberg: our sleep patterns have little to do wit... http://ow.ly/1jLHJH
Internal Time: The Science of Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired | Brain Pickings
SUMMARY: German chronobiologist Till Roenneberg: our sleep patterns have little to do with laziness and other such scorned character flaws, and everything to do with biology.
Each of us possesses a different chronotype - an internal timing type best defined by your midpoint of sleep, or midsleep, which you can calculate by dividing your average sleep duration by two and adding the resulting number to your average bedtime on free days, meaning days when your sleep and waking times are not dictated by the demands of your work or school schedule.
Roenneberg added, "I am often asked whether we cannot get used to given working hours merely through discipline and by confining our sleep habits to certain times. The assumption inherent in this question is that the human body clock can synchronize to social cues. I tend to find that any such questioner, who usually also displays a somewhat disdainful tone towards the weakness of late chronotypes, is an early type — someone who has never experienced the problems associated with the [desynchronized] sleep-wake behavior of late chronotypes."
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Each of us possesses a different chronotype - an internal timing type best defined by your midpoint of sleep, or midsleep, which you can calculate by dividing your average sleep duration by two and adding the resulting number to your average bedtime on free days, meaning days when your sleep and waking times are not dictated by the demands of your work or school schedule.
Roenneberg added, "I am often asked whether we cannot get used to given working hours merely through discipline and by confining our sleep habits to certain times. The assumption inherent in this question is that the human body clock can synchronize to social cues. I tend to find that any such questioner, who usually also displays a somewhat disdainful tone towards the weakness of late chronotypes, is an early type — someone who has never experienced the problems associated with the [desynchronized] sleep-wake behavior of late chronotypes."
From: http://ping.fm/V2v6L
Friday, May 11, 2012
The guide to password security (and why you should care) | How To - CNET
SUMMARY: Good information regarding password security, including why it is important and some tools to check the strength of a password. The longer and more complicated (upper and lower case, numbers and symbols) your password the better. Users should consider a password management tool to store your passwords. The article suggests LastPass but there are many management tools.
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Report: Law on credit-reporting fails consumers - CBS News
SUMMARY: The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is supposed to help consumers. Unfortunately, as the article notes, filing is a lawsuit is usually the only way consumers can get the credit-reporting agencies to correct information and pay damages for their mistakes.
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
USA.gov posts article noting the impo...
USA.gov posts article noting the importance of including what should happen to y... http://ow.ly/1jnsJk
Social Security statements now availa...
Social Security statements now available online. Provides complete earnings hist... http://ow.ly/1jnerq
How and Why You Should Write a Social Media Will - USA.gov Blog - United States Government Blog
SUMMARY: USA.gov posts article noting the importance of including what should happen to your social media accounts when you die in your will.
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Social Security Press Office: Social Security Statement Now Available Online at www.socialsecurity.gov
SUMMARY: Social Security statements now available online. Provides complete earnings history and the total Social Security and Medicare taxes paid. Also provides information as to how much money will be received if found to be disabled and survivor benefits.
Must enroll online to obtain access.
Online Social Security statements are the latest in a series of paperless changes to help the Social Security Administration save money.
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Must enroll online to obtain access.
Online Social Security statements are the latest in a series of paperless changes to help the Social Security Administration save money.
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