[H] Just a question?

[DSinc]

Sotoday I did my normal clean-up of my PC. For s&g's I ran my epbfi 
(ISP) speed test.

I got numbers back made very little sense to me:
upload speed: 14.3 mbps (s/b 100mbps)
download speed: 341mbps (s/b 100mbps)
download capacity: 1680mbps (WTF?)

Odd to me because I pay for 100mbps synchronous service; but, I heard a 
rumorthat my ISP was going to

double my speed by 2x in the futurefor the same price. Fine.

So, I call my ISP's tech shop. I get 'Vincent.' He explains that I now 
have 1000mbps service, no charge. Well, dang!
I explain my confusion. 'Vincent' asks me if I can allow him to speak to 
my router remotely. Since I trust that I am still
speaking to my ISP (who is also my electric service supplier), I ask 
what does this involve? He offers to send me an
email explaining it all. Fine. I get an email from EPB Support. 
'Vincent' asks me to download and launch the 1st link:

http://connect.teamviewer.com/v8
I do this. Suddenly, my mouse pointer is moving and windows are opening. 
'Vincent' then asks me for my router's LAN creds.
I share them and soon 'Vincent' is in my router. He finds and disables 
my QOS settings. Fine. He then digs into my browser and checks its' 
specs. The next thing I see very quickly isthat I am upgrading my Java 
business to v7 upd40! What? Then, 'Vincent' re-enables some Java-related 
plugins/extensions I had disabled. Whatever, my hands are in my lap! 
'Vincent' is driving my PC

from 10-miles away in the EPB Tech-shed! Am I a bit creeped out? Yes.

The second link is the home page for the product.
www.teamviewer.com (Easy remote control & collaboration)
The product is 'TeamView.'  I think it is a remote access app. I get it, 
but since I am speaking to my ISP, I feel safe.
I assume he already knows everybody else on my LAN. I know, 'tin-hat.' 
Bad me. And, he never goesanywhere else. Cool.
Mind you, we are talking on the phone the whole time. I am still in 
shock-mode!


The router comes back online and 'Vincent' launches a 'new-2-me' 
speedtestfrom OOKLA. The specs reported caused me to
ask if I had died and gone to the happy hunting grounds! 'Vincent' 
confirmed that the numbers were true and how my future
service would be. The numbers were 607mbps upload/627mbps download. To 
me, this is 6x increase to what I have lived with since
I joined the 'fiber' world. I always knew this fiber-optic business was 
where to go,but, DAMN! I'm sold. And, it cost me not a dime. Just a 
phone call to tech support and an afternoon session with 'Vincent.'
Let's just say that I am a much happier 
camper.. :)


I've scanned my PC and see no footprints/remnants of anything 
'teamviewer' even though I know that I actually launched it directly 
from my desktop.


I am still in shock. I may calm down by Monday. Thanks for listening. 
Any opinions about "Teamview' gratefully accepted, cuz I have now been

manipulated by it via my ISP.
Thank you,
Duncan

Re: [H] iOS 7

[DSinc]

Thanks List,
I wiki'd NFC this AM and got these 3 sorta techie hits:

 * Near field communication
   , a wireless
   communication technology
 * Nintendo Family Computer
   , the
   Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console
 * Network File Control
   , a networking
   technology

I sorta figured in might be the 1st one. Reminds me of the Phillips 
Petro key-fob thinky of way back when. Aware that Starbucks is

still trying to get this to work also.
Yes, Brian, I get that Apple will 'rename it' and claim they invented 
it. Fine. Just marketing wars. Ho-Hum. :)
I will read your link and wise-up to perhaps a future IBeacon! Jeez, I 
am still happy building 'white boxes' personally!

Duncan

On 09/21/2013 07:45, Brian Weeden wrote:

And something Apple is unlikely to ever support since they're going with
their own proprietary iBeacon protocol which is based on Bluetooth.Lowe
Energy:

http://gigaom.com/2013/09/10/with-ibeacon-apple-is-going-to-dump-on-nfc-and-embrace-the-internet-of-things/

Main difference is range and cost - iBeacon is higher in both. From a
security standpoint, I don't think that's good news. There are already
plenty of attacks against NFC that are ultimately limited because you have
to get within a few centimeters of the chip. If that range is now tens of
meters with iBeacon, it's a whole new class of problem.



-
Brian



On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Naushad Zulfiqar  wrote:


Near field communications

It's basically a non contract or light touch method of exchanging data.
On Sep 21, 2013 2:34 PM, "DSinc"  wrote:


Guys.NFC? Enjoying the shares.
Duncan

On 09/20/2013 15:56, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:


Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that NFC is not useful...or even that it
won't be one day.  But, its promise is not fulfilled on a large scale

yet

as no one as made it indispensable to the masses.  I have at least two
devices that support NFC (and I bought them in part because of this
feature), so I personally see the potential there. As far as I can tell,
NFC is not a compelling technology yet because too many folks are

getting

along happily without it.

The same with the touch-ID. Fingerprint readers aren't new...and, no one
has shown them to be something most really want or need. It will be
interesting to see if Apple can incorporate it into their devices in

such a

way to make it compelling.  If they can, it will be yet another example

of

"not invented here, but hey, we figured out how to make it really work

for

folks".  I'm not a believer.

On 9/20/2013 8:19 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:


Well, I'd wildly disagree on NFC.   I use NFC frequently and frankly,
it's one of the cooler phone technologies I've worked with.  Using NFC

tags

I: set my thermostats on the way out the door with a swipe; auto-update
calendar schedules, evernotes will auto-tag notes to NFC tags which for
those of us with 'eh' memory is damn slick.


On 2013-09-20 05:14, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:


The unwashed masses will always be ignorant.  Having a beef with them
will be counter productive.

Monikers help sell things.  A retina screen is no big deal to us, but
to the unwashed masses it makes sure they get the high-resolution
screen without having to remember all of the details.  And I do give
apple the credit for realizing that WE needed this in everything and
starting to bring it out. But they certainly didn't invent
high-resolution screens, but they are the main reason they are
ubiquitous on tablets.  If the touch-ID thing pans out, they won't
(and shouldn't) get credit for a fingerprint reader but making is a
thing we can use and depend on, they should get credit for, if it
works, which remains to be seen.  Still to this day no one has made
NFC into a useful product.  So who invented that is not really so
important.

On 9/20/2013 5:02 AM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:


My beef in general is with people who don't understand the technology
and believe the advertising that companies do.

And let's not forget that Apple is the master of masking the
underlying technology with a moniker that they call their own and
making people believe that they were the ones who either invented it
or are the first one to do it.

But as I mentioned it really doesn't make a big difference in the end
as long as the steady march of progress is being made but what really
bothers me is the uneducated people out there.



Sent from my iPhone

  On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:20 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <

amar...@charter.net> wrote:

So your beef is with fanboys. Nobody likes fanboys. :)

Sent from my mobile device.

  On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad 

wrote:

What annoys me is when Apple fanboys see something and say apple
invented it. Good example is iCloud.



Sent from my iPhone

Re: [H] iOS 7

[Brian Weeden]

And something Apple is unlikely to ever support since they're going with
their own proprietary iBeacon protocol which is based on Bluetooth.Lowe
Energy:

http://gigaom.com/2013/09/10/with-ibeacon-apple-is-going-to-dump-on-nfc-and-embrace-the-internet-of-things/

Main difference is range and cost - iBeacon is higher in both. From a
security standpoint, I don't think that's good news. There are already
plenty of attacks against NFC that are ultimately limited because you have
to get within a few centimeters of the chip. If that range is now tens of
meters with iBeacon, it's a whole new class of problem.



-
Brian



On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Naushad Zulfiqar  wrote:

> Near field communications
>
> It's basically a non contract or light touch method of exchanging data.
> On Sep 21, 2013 2:34 PM, "DSinc"  wrote:
>
> > Guys.NFC? Enjoying the shares.
> > Duncan
> >
> > On 09/20/2013 15:56, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that NFC is not useful...or even that it
> >> won't be one day.  But, its promise is not fulfilled on a large scale
> yet
> >> as no one as made it indispensable to the masses.  I have at least two
> >> devices that support NFC (and I bought them in part because of this
> >> feature), so I personally see the potential there. As far as I can tell,
> >> NFC is not a compelling technology yet because too many folks are
> getting
> >> along happily without it.
> >>
> >> The same with the touch-ID. Fingerprint readers aren't new...and, no one
> >> has shown them to be something most really want or need. It will be
> >> interesting to see if Apple can incorporate it into their devices in
> such a
> >> way to make it compelling.  If they can, it will be yet another example
> of
> >> "not invented here, but hey, we figured out how to make it really work
> for
> >> folks".  I'm not a believer.
> >>
> >> On 9/20/2013 8:19 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well, I'd wildly disagree on NFC.   I use NFC frequently and frankly,
> >>> it's one of the cooler phone technologies I've worked with.  Using NFC
> tags
> >>> I: set my thermostats on the way out the door with a swipe; auto-update
> >>> calendar schedules, evernotes will auto-tag notes to NFC tags which for
> >>> those of us with 'eh' memory is damn slick.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 2013-09-20 05:14, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> >>>
>  The unwashed masses will always be ignorant.  Having a beef with them
>  will be counter productive.
> 
>  Monikers help sell things.  A retina screen is no big deal to us, but
>  to the unwashed masses it makes sure they get the high-resolution
>  screen without having to remember all of the details.  And I do give
>  apple the credit for realizing that WE needed this in everything and
>  starting to bring it out. But they certainly didn't invent
>  high-resolution screens, but they are the main reason they are
>  ubiquitous on tablets.  If the touch-ID thing pans out, they won't
>  (and shouldn't) get credit for a fingerprint reader but making is a
>  thing we can use and depend on, they should get credit for, if it
>  works, which remains to be seen.  Still to this day no one has made
>  NFC into a useful product.  So who invented that is not really so
>  important.
> 
>  On 9/20/2013 5:02 AM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:
> 
> > My beef in general is with people who don't understand the technology
> > and believe the advertising that companies do.
> >
> > And let's not forget that Apple is the master of masking the
> > underlying technology with a moniker that they call their own and
> > making people believe that they were the ones who either invented it
> > or are the first one to do it.
> >
> > But as I mentioned it really doesn't make a big difference in the end
> > as long as the steady march of progress is being made but what really
> > bothers me is the uneducated people out there.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >  On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:20 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <
> >> amar...@charter.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> So your beef is with fanboys. Nobody likes fanboys. :)
> >>
> >> Sent from my mobile device.
> >>
> >>  On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad 
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> What annoys me is when Apple fanboys see something and say apple
> >>> invented it. Good example is iCloud.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>

Re: [H] iOS 7

[Naushad Zulfiqar]

Near field communications

It's basically a non contract or light touch method of exchanging data.
On Sep 21, 2013 2:34 PM, "DSinc"  wrote:

> Guys.NFC? Enjoying the shares.
> Duncan
>
> On 09/20/2013 15:56, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that NFC is not useful...or even that it
>> won't be one day.  But, its promise is not fulfilled on a large scale yet
>> as no one as made it indispensable to the masses.  I have at least two
>> devices that support NFC (and I bought them in part because of this
>> feature), so I personally see the potential there. As far as I can tell,
>> NFC is not a compelling technology yet because too many folks are getting
>> along happily without it.
>>
>> The same with the touch-ID. Fingerprint readers aren't new...and, no one
>> has shown them to be something most really want or need. It will be
>> interesting to see if Apple can incorporate it into their devices in such a
>> way to make it compelling.  If they can, it will be yet another example of
>> "not invented here, but hey, we figured out how to make it really work for
>> folks".  I'm not a believer.
>>
>> On 9/20/2013 8:19 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I'd wildly disagree on NFC.   I use NFC frequently and frankly,
>>> it's one of the cooler phone technologies I've worked with.  Using NFC tags
>>> I: set my thermostats on the way out the door with a swipe; auto-update
>>> calendar schedules, evernotes will auto-tag notes to NFC tags which for
>>> those of us with 'eh' memory is damn slick.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2013-09-20 05:14, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
>>>
 The unwashed masses will always be ignorant.  Having a beef with them
 will be counter productive.

 Monikers help sell things.  A retina screen is no big deal to us, but
 to the unwashed masses it makes sure they get the high-resolution
 screen without having to remember all of the details.  And I do give
 apple the credit for realizing that WE needed this in everything and
 starting to bring it out. But they certainly didn't invent
 high-resolution screens, but they are the main reason they are
 ubiquitous on tablets.  If the touch-ID thing pans out, they won't
 (and shouldn't) get credit for a fingerprint reader but making is a
 thing we can use and depend on, they should get credit for, if it
 works, which remains to be seen.  Still to this day no one has made
 NFC into a useful product.  So who invented that is not really so
 important.

 On 9/20/2013 5:02 AM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:

> My beef in general is with people who don't understand the technology
> and believe the advertising that companies do.
>
> And let's not forget that Apple is the master of masking the
> underlying technology with a moniker that they call their own and
> making people believe that they were the ones who either invented it
> or are the first one to do it.
>
> But as I mentioned it really doesn't make a big difference in the end
> as long as the steady march of progress is being made but what really
> bothers me is the uneducated people out there.
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>  On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:20 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <
>> amar...@charter.net> wrote:
>>
>> So your beef is with fanboys. Nobody likes fanboys. :)
>>
>> Sent from my mobile device.
>>
>>  On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> What annoys me is when Apple fanboys see something and say apple
>>> invented it. Good example is iCloud.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

Re: [H] iOS 7

[DSinc]

Guys.NFC? Enjoying the shares.
Duncan

On 09/20/2013 15:56, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that NFC is not useful...or even that 
it won't be one day.  But, its promise is not fulfilled on a large 
scale yet as no one as made it indispensable to the masses.  I have at 
least two devices that support NFC (and I bought them in part because 
of this feature), so I personally see the potential there. As far as I 
can tell, NFC is not a compelling technology yet because too many 
folks are getting along happily without it.


The same with the touch-ID. Fingerprint readers aren't new...and, no 
one has shown them to be something most really want or need. It will 
be interesting to see if Apple can incorporate it into their devices 
in such a way to make it compelling.  If they can, it will be yet 
another example of "not invented here, but hey, we figured out how to 
make it really work for folks".  I'm not a believer.


On 9/20/2013 8:19 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:
Well, I'd wildly disagree on NFC.   I use NFC frequently and frankly, 
it's one of the cooler phone technologies I've worked with.  Using 
NFC tags I: set my thermostats on the way out the door with a swipe; 
auto-update calendar schedules, evernotes will auto-tag notes to NFC 
tags which for those of us with 'eh' memory is damn slick.



On 2013-09-20 05:14, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:

The unwashed masses will always be ignorant.  Having a beef with them
will be counter productive.

Monikers help sell things.  A retina screen is no big deal to us, but
to the unwashed masses it makes sure they get the high-resolution
screen without having to remember all of the details.  And I do give
apple the credit for realizing that WE needed this in everything and
starting to bring it out. But they certainly didn't invent
high-resolution screens, but they are the main reason they are
ubiquitous on tablets.  If the touch-ID thing pans out, they won't
(and shouldn't) get credit for a fingerprint reader but making is a
thing we can use and depend on, they should get credit for, if it
works, which remains to be seen.  Still to this day no one has made
NFC into a useful product.  So who invented that is not really so
important.

On 9/20/2013 5:02 AM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:

My beef in general is with people who don't understand the technology
and believe the advertising that companies do.

And let's not forget that Apple is the master of masking the
underlying technology with a moniker that they call their own and
making people believe that they were the ones who either invented it
or are the first one to do it.

But as I mentioned it really doesn't make a big difference in the end
as long as the steady march of progress is being made but what really
bothers me is the uneducated people out there.



Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:20 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin" 
 wrote:


So your beef is with fanboys. Nobody likes fanboys. :)

Sent from my mobile device.

On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad  
wrote:


What annoys me is when Apple fanboys see something and say apple
invented it. Good example is iCloud.



Sent from my iPhone