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December 20, 2017
That's what Edge looks like while using Application Guard on my copy of Windows 10 Pro Build 17063 (a beta version)
Here's an explanation:
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/12/19/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-17063-pc/#toR0qJ90x6Ejt08h.97
Here's the more technical explanation:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Insider-Program/Announcing-WDAG-in-PRO-SKU/m-p/133395#M701
Caveats: Yes, I know many dislike Edge. Just giving one more option if you use W10 Pro in the future. This feature was only available in W10 Enterprise before. Hopefully this will provide Edge with even more security, to make it a better option.
Microsoft Edge and Application Guard for Windows 10 Pro
That's what Edge looks like while using Application Guard on my copy of Windows 10 Pro Build 17063 (a beta version)
Here's an explanation:
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/12/19/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-17063-pc/#toR0qJ90x6Ejt08h.97
Windows Defender Application Guard (WDAG) update: You spoke, and we listened. Microsoft is bringing Windows Defender Application Guard to Windows 10 Professional in the next feature update of Windows 10. Now, like Windows 10 Enterprise users, Windows 10 Pro Users can navigate the Internet in Application Guard knowing their systems are protected from even the most sophisticated browser attacks.
Windows Defender Application Guard provides unprecedented protection against targeted threats using Microsofts industry leading Hyper-V virtualization technology. Check out this recent RSA talk on Window Defender Application Guard if youd like to understand this feature in some more detail.
It is available now to our awesome Windows Insider community to give it a try and we would like to hear your feedback.
For more details please see our tech community page.
Windows Defender Application Guard provides unprecedented protection against targeted threats using Microsofts industry leading Hyper-V virtualization technology. Check out this recent RSA talk on Window Defender Application Guard if youd like to understand this feature in some more detail.
It is available now to our awesome Windows Insider community to give it a try and we would like to hear your feedback.
For more details please see our tech community page.
Here's the more technical explanation:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Insider-Program/Announcing-WDAG-in-PRO-SKU/m-p/133395#M701
Caveats: Yes, I know many dislike Edge. Just giving one more option if you use W10 Pro in the future. This feature was only available in W10 Enterprise before. Hopefully this will provide Edge with even more security, to make it a better option.
December 20, 2017
Florida Man Rescued From Fountain After Swanning Around
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/19/572091923/florida-man-rescued-from-fountain-after-swanning-aroundHere's what happened, according to the Orlando Sentinel, the Orlando Weekly and WFTV:
Keith Thurston "ingested a large quantity of Molly" and decided he wanted to commune with the swans because, as the police report put it, "they didn't judge him."
So, of course, he stole a swan-shaped boat, paddled to the fountain at the center of the lake, stepped out from the boat, forgot the crucial step of tying the boat to the fountain, and found himself marooned.
"Officers were called about 4 a.m. Friday after people heard Thurston screaming for help," the Sentinel writes. Police set off on a rescue mission.
Keith Thurston "ingested a large quantity of Molly" and decided he wanted to commune with the swans because, as the police report put it, "they didn't judge him."
So, of course, he stole a swan-shaped boat, paddled to the fountain at the center of the lake, stepped out from the boat, forgot the crucial step of tying the boat to the fountain, and found himself marooned.
"Officers were called about 4 a.m. Friday after people heard Thurston screaming for help," the Sentinel writes. Police set off on a rescue mission.
December 19, 2017
need feedback on a book please
This one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0166ISAS8/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o00_?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Did you read it? Love it? Hate it? Meh? What did you think? I finally got curious, so now I'm reading the Kindle version. Thanks in advance.
Steve
December 19, 2017
(as usual, I'm only posting this for discussion. IT people can critique it)
PC cleaning apps are digital snake oil. The web is full of ads for applications that want to clean your PC and make it feel like new. Dont pull out your credit card these apps are terrible and you dont need them.
If you do want to clean your PC, you can do it for free. Windows includes built-in PC cleaning tools that can do almost all of what the average PC cleaning app will do for you.
So what do these apps do, anyway? To investigate, we ran MyCleanPC dont try this at home; we installed this bad software so you dont have to. MyCleanPC is one of the most prominent PC cleaning apps it even advertises itself with television commercials.
First, lets look at its Frequently Asked Questions to see what it promises:
more at link above
PC Cleaning Apps are a Scam: Heres Why (and How to Speed Up Your PC)
https://www.howtogeek.com/162683/pc-cleaning-apps-are-a-scam-heres-why-and-how-to-speed-up-your-pc/(as usual, I'm only posting this for discussion. IT people can critique it)
PC cleaning apps are digital snake oil. The web is full of ads for applications that want to clean your PC and make it feel like new. Dont pull out your credit card these apps are terrible and you dont need them.
If you do want to clean your PC, you can do it for free. Windows includes built-in PC cleaning tools that can do almost all of what the average PC cleaning app will do for you.
So what do these apps do, anyway? To investigate, we ran MyCleanPC dont try this at home; we installed this bad software so you dont have to. MyCleanPC is one of the most prominent PC cleaning apps it even advertises itself with television commercials.
First, lets look at its Frequently Asked Questions to see what it promises:
more at link above
December 19, 2017
A Couple of Frolicking Polar Bears Halt an Amorous Tryst to Put Right the BBC Camera Spying on Them
A Couple of Frolicking Polar Bears Halt an Amorous Tryst to Put Right the BBC Camera Spying on Them
https://twitter.com/LaughingSquid/status/942872866693017601
In a rather saucy video from BBC Earths Polar Bear Spy On The Ice, actor David Tennant gleefully narrated a scene in which couple of frolicking polar bears suddenly halted their amorous tryst in order to put right the skiing BBC blizzardcam that was spying on them. Once all was good, the romantic bears happily resumed their playful love affair.
December 18, 2017
All posts good so far, but.....there's always one. Go check it out.
Awesome thread on Twitter about mental health
https://twitter.com/hashtag/mymentalhealthin5words?vertical=default&src=trenAll posts good so far, but.....there's always one. Go check it out.
December 17, 2017
First automobile speeding ticket in 1904, 12 mph, speed demon!!!
The first speeding ticket issued in the United States (handed to the offender in the paper form were used to today), was issued to Harry Myers in 1904 for driving a blistering 12 miles per hour down West Third Street in Dayton, Ohio.
from today's howtogeek.com newsletter
December 17, 2017
History honoree recalled wagon rides to downtown (Orlando)
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/os-joy-wallace-dickinson-1217-story.htmlWhen Wittenstein died at 94 in 2008, he was the retired leader of a major public accounting firm and longtime civic leader. Born in 1914 on his Shader grandparents farm in Fairvilla, he could remember venturing by wagon from the Fairvilla area into Orlando, about a days journey under horsepower.
If travelers came down whats now Edgewater Drive, he recalled in a 2002 interview, they would water their horses in Lake Ivanhoe, at a busy spot. Folks would drive their horses right into the lake to let them drink.
On one town visit, Wittenstein recalled being at the post office on Central Boulevard and hearing a commotion outside. The Western Union office nearby had just gotten the news of the armistice to end World War I.
He served in the next great war, after he graduated from the University of Florida in 1938. Despite a deferment, he volunteered and was proud he served four years in the Navy.
If travelers came down whats now Edgewater Drive, he recalled in a 2002 interview, they would water their horses in Lake Ivanhoe, at a busy spot. Folks would drive their horses right into the lake to let them drink.
On one town visit, Wittenstein recalled being at the post office on Central Boulevard and hearing a commotion outside. The Western Union office nearby had just gotten the news of the armistice to end World War I.
He served in the next great war, after he graduated from the University of Florida in 1938. Despite a deferment, he volunteered and was proud he served four years in the Navy.
December 16, 2017
Visit Orlando: Discover a world of speakeasy bars and Universal studios
TENTATIVELY stepping through the unmarked door, I crept up the turf-carpeted staircase, following the scent of whisky.
Mickey Mouse wouldnt be seen dead in a place like The Treehouse a tiny, secret cocktail joint in the centre of downtown Orlando.
Welcome to another side of the worlds theme park capital, where the bars are hidden and the drinks are strong.
I was staying at boutique EO Inn, overlooking pretty Lake Eola Park.
a Brit's take on downtown Orlando etc
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/travel/adventure/667455/Orlando-downtown-Universal-studios-speakeasy-barsVisit Orlando: Discover a world of speakeasy bars and Universal studios
TENTATIVELY stepping through the unmarked door, I crept up the turf-carpeted staircase, following the scent of whisky.
Mickey Mouse wouldnt be seen dead in a place like The Treehouse a tiny, secret cocktail joint in the centre of downtown Orlando.
Welcome to another side of the worlds theme park capital, where the bars are hidden and the drinks are strong.
I was staying at boutique EO Inn, overlooking pretty Lake Eola Park.
December 16, 2017
I grew up saying Allahu Akbar numerous times every day.
And no, I wasnt a terrorist.
I wasnt someone who blew buildings up, killed people, or shot a missile from my rocket launcher. Those are the events associated with the saying, when something bad is about to happen. People of the West are terrified of the phrase.
I was a Muslim boy trying to pray as many times as he could amidst a life of love and peace, in a home that did not condone any terrorism. My father was a poet who read me love poetry instead of nursery rhymes. He uttered the phrase when he prayed. If love existed in the form of a man, it was my father.
I Say Allahu Akbar; I am Not a Terrorist
http://arabinalabama.com/i-say-allahu-akbar-i-am-not-a-terrorist/I grew up saying Allahu Akbar numerous times every day.
And no, I wasnt a terrorist.
I wasnt someone who blew buildings up, killed people, or shot a missile from my rocket launcher. Those are the events associated with the saying, when something bad is about to happen. People of the West are terrified of the phrase.
I was a Muslim boy trying to pray as many times as he could amidst a life of love and peace, in a home that did not condone any terrorism. My father was a poet who read me love poetry instead of nursery rhymes. He uttered the phrase when he prayed. If love existed in the form of a man, it was my father.
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