Felger Sounds Off on Internet Insanity

For many people, no strange hookups are needed to view internet stuff on their TVs. If you are getting cable, internet, and telephone from the same player, and have a modern digital TV, then it is likely that your TV is by default connected to the internet. I use my TV to play music from You tube quite often although I don't generally surf the web from my TV. In fact, I don't have any stereo equipment hooked up in my house other than my TV/computer set up anymore.I doubt that I'll bother with the game from London, but if a funky set up were required for me to view some astronomy related program on my TV set was required, I'd certainly figure out how to do it.I suppose I can understand the reluctance of the ordinary citizen to figure this stuff out. But the truth is that viewing internet content on your TV isn't all that hard for many cable subscribers.

Yes, this is true. Maybe one solution is to use your iPad?

I understand.But I also understand from other discussions that you have quite a bit on your plate right now.Despite it not being your preference, you can save the trip to the bank by using your iPad. Might save you some aggravation, time, and gas.I'll bet you can get your scanner plan to work by fiddling around a bit with your settings and using some kind of template to get your checks lined up in the same place or places on the scanner. Getting it right will probably take some work, but maybe it will be worth the trouble if you have a bunch of checks to deal with.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Here is one of my favorite sites take on ad blockers:Forbidden - Stack Exchange

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The truth is: we don’t care if our users use ad blockers on Stack Overflow. More accurately: we hope that they won’t, but we understand that some people just don’t like ads. Our belief is that if someone doesn’t like them, and they won’t click on them, any impressions served to them will only annoy them-- plus, serving ads to people who won’t click on them harms campaign performance.

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If you trust the security of your own computer, then there are plenty of technical aids that allow you to retrieve your passwords for a site using a single password or pass phrase that you enter at your computer. With such a system your passwords on every site can be randomly chosen strings that meet the requirements. You can have the computer generate those for you since you don't have to remember them.Of course, now your password storage becomes a huge attraction for hackers. But you can keep that in one or more physical media that you keep on your person. Just don't lose it...

Maybe the password is not important to you. But on any site where you can post your opinions, there is also the possibility of someone pretending to be you and posting a bunch of offensive or stupid nonsense that you don't want associated with you. Even on websites where you don't use your real name, you probably have at least a small investment in your pseudonym's reputation.

A good number of password managers work on multiple devices. Maybe one of those is a solution for you. It is pretty easy to find articles comparing the many offerings.

Might be due to lack of current interest. My understanding is that linux stopped using DES with crypt decades ago due to its cryptographic weakness. On FreeBSD, crypt can use DES, but can also be configured to use stronger encryption. Most of the commercial unix variants just aren't popular anymore.Perhaps you have the option of upgrading from DES.

You are safe primarily because there is no value to be found in cracking the password system here. I also note that the numbers for the cost and time to crack DES are based on experiments that are nearly 20 years old. Wikipedia gives some idea of how rapidly the state of the art advances. See EFF DES cracker - Wikipedia at TechnologyEdited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

That is an unfortunate but understandable practice. In such a case, your passwords are only as strong as the security at the weakest site. One of my web based email accounts seems to detect when I log in from a different IP address. That means I get turned away if I try to log in from my telephone. I guess that's enhanced security, but I had to drop them because it just wasn't practical.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.