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Amazon: Trump used “improper pressure” to block AWS from DOD cloud contract
Trump said "screw Amazon" and used contract as political weapon against Bezos, suit claims.
In a redacted filing released today by the US Federal Court of Claims, attorneys for Amazon asserted that Amazon Web Service's loss of the Department of Defense Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing contract to Microsoft's Azure was the result of "improper pressure from President Donald J. Trump, who launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks to steer the JEDI Contract away from AWS to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos, founder and CEO of AWS' parent company, Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon"), and owner of the Washington Post." -
Phishing, pyramid schemes and more: 4 scams to avoid this holiday shopping season
Pyramid schemes disguised as gift exchanges, virtual card skimmers and other digital traps are set and waiting for you when you shop online.
Between Thanksgiving and the New Year, consumers are estimated to spend a staggering $143 billion, according to Adobe Analytics. All that money changing hands means that, now more than ever, cybercriminals will be targeting both you and the online retailers you trust. Some hackers, like those who struck Macy's in October, infect merchants' websites directly with identity-stealing malware. Far more scams, however, try to lure you away from legitimate sellers to malicious sites or apps that often spoof familiar retailers like Amazon, Best Buy or Walmart. Recent research from RiskIQ lists nearly 1,000 apps using holiday-related terms that the security company deemed malicious, as well as over 6,000 apps infringing on copyrighted names and slogans from popular retailers to fool you into giving up your credit card number. RiskIQ also identified 65 fraudulent websites posing as popular retailers. -
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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Useless.
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Just because there is a paid option, doesn't make it useless, just less useful.
And the current free version is only good for 12 hours per month.
/sigh... if only we had protections to make carriers be carriers only, and not data brokers as well.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Just because there is a paid option, doesn't make it useless, just less useful.
And the current free version is only good for 12 hours per month.
/sigh... if only we had protections to make carriers be carriers only, and not data brokers as well.
I pay for a service now. That is not the issue. The issue is it is all or nothing.
I do not want that. That is why I use the service I use now. When I want it, I enable it.
They also offer SOCKS proxy so I can have specific things using that instead of my entire PC or network.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Just because there is a paid option, doesn't make it useless, just less useful.
And the current free version is only good for 12 hours per month.
/sigh... if only we had protections to make carriers be carriers only, and not data brokers as well.
I pay for a service now. That is not the issue. The issue is it is all or nothing.
I do not want that. That is why I use the service I use now. When I want it, I enable it.
They also offer SOCKS proxy so I can have specific things using that instead of my entire PC or network.
Ok, perhaps for you it's closer or fully useless, but for the average person - OMG who am I kidding, the average person will never use this or even know about it.
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Microsoft’s first Office app arrives on Linux
Yeah, who is going to jump on that band wagon?
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft’s first Office app arrives on Linux
Yeah, who is going to jump on that band wagon?
You might be surprised - I'd bet some governments will try.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft’s first Office app arrives on Linux
Yeah, who is going to jump on that band wagon?
Is that a bandwagon or grenade?
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Gmail Can Now Send Emails as Attachments
Yes, you read that right, Gmail users can now email emails.
Google decided to make it easier to send emails to other people using Gmail, so it's now possible to add one or more emails as an attachment. Typically, if you want to share an email you've received with someone else the easiest way to do so is to forward the email. However, that's not always suitable, especially when there's multiple email threads to send. Until now, you'd have to download the emails first from Gmail and then add them as an attachment, but not anymore. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Gmail Can Now Send Emails as Attachments
Yes, you read that right, Gmail users can now email emails.
Google decided to make it easier to send emails to other people using Gmail, so it's now possible to add one or more emails as an attachment. Typically, if you want to share an email you've received with someone else the easiest way to do so is to forward the email. However, that's not always suitable, especially when there's multiple email threads to send. Until now, you'd have to download the emails first from Gmail and then add them as an attachment, but not anymore.Ugh, I HATE systems that do this!
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Gmail Can Now Send Emails as Attachments
Yes, you read that right, Gmail users can now email emails.
Google decided to make it easier to send emails to other people using Gmail, so it's now possible to add one or more emails as an attachment. Typically, if you want to share an email you've received with someone else the easiest way to do so is to forward the email. However, that's not always suitable, especially when there's multiple email threads to send. Until now, you'd have to download the emails first from Gmail and then add them as an attachment, but not anymore.Ugh, I HATE systems that do this!
I'm really trying to understand the need for this IRL? When is forwarding really not enough?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Gmail Can Now Send Emails as Attachments
Yes, you read that right, Gmail users can now email emails.
Google decided to make it easier to send emails to other people using Gmail, so it's now possible to add one or more emails as an attachment. Typically, if you want to share an email you've received with someone else the easiest way to do so is to forward the email. However, that's not always suitable, especially when there's multiple email threads to send. Until now, you'd have to download the emails first from Gmail and then add them as an attachment, but not anymore.Ugh, I HATE systems that do this!
I'm really trying to understand the need for this IRL? When is forwarding really not enough?
And when do you want an attachment that requires special software to read?
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Gmail Can Now Send Emails as Attachments
Yes, you read that right, Gmail users can now email emails.
Google decided to make it easier to send emails to other people using Gmail, so it's now possible to add one or more emails as an attachment. Typically, if you want to share an email you've received with someone else the easiest way to do so is to forward the email. However, that's not always suitable, especially when there's multiple email threads to send. Until now, you'd have to download the emails first from Gmail and then add them as an attachment, but not anymore.this is by far the funniest thing i've seen today.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Gmail Can Now Send Emails as Attachments
Yes, you read that right, Gmail users can now email emails.
Google decided to make it easier to send emails to other people using Gmail, so it's now possible to add one or more emails as an attachment. Typically, if you want to share an email you've received with someone else the easiest way to do so is to forward the email. However, that's not always suitable, especially when there's multiple email threads to send. Until now, you'd have to download the emails first from Gmail and then add them as an attachment, but not anymore.Ugh, I HATE systems that do this!
I'm really trying to understand the need for this IRL? When is forwarding really not enough?
And when do you want an attachment that requires special software to read?
What makes a special software requirement? Granted reading a .eml will likely contain a bunch of junk normals can't understand if not opened in an email reader...
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Gmail Can Now Send Emails as Attachments
Yes, you read that right, Gmail users can now email emails.
Google decided to make it easier to send emails to other people using Gmail, so it's now possible to add one or more emails as an attachment. Typically, if you want to share an email you've received with someone else the easiest way to do so is to forward the email. However, that's not always suitable, especially when there's multiple email threads to send. Until now, you'd have to download the emails first from Gmail and then add them as an attachment, but not anymore.Ugh, I HATE systems that do this!
I'm really trying to understand the need for this IRL? When is forwarding really not enough?
And when do you want an attachment that requires special software to read?
What makes a special software requirement? Granted reading a .eml will likely contain a bunch of junk normals can't understand if not opened in an email reader...
Um.... it's a file type that requires a client. It's decently standard as a file type, but it's also super standard for normal people to not have clients that read it. The average person, by far, and a good percentage of companies don't have EML readers. Pretty much anyone on modern web mail doesn't, for example. It's a legacy thing... storing emails in an end user format. It's not part of "email", it's a file for the client.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Gmail Can Now Send Emails as Attachments
Yes, you read that right, Gmail users can now email emails.
Google decided to make it easier to send emails to other people using Gmail, so it's now possible to add one or more emails as an attachment. Typically, if you want to share an email you've received with someone else the easiest way to do so is to forward the email. However, that's not always suitable, especially when there's multiple email threads to send. Until now, you'd have to download the emails first from Gmail and then add them as an attachment, but not anymore.Ugh, I HATE systems that do this!
I'm really trying to understand the need for this IRL? When is forwarding really not enough?
And when do you want an attachment that requires special software to read?
What makes a special software requirement? Granted reading a .eml will likely contain a bunch of junk normals can't understand if not opened in an email reader...
Um.... it's a file type that requires a client. It's decently standard as a file type, but it's also super standard for normal people to not have clients that read it. The average person, by far, and a good percentage of companies don't have EML readers. Pretty much anyone on modern web mail doesn't, for example. It's a legacy thing... storing emails in an end user format. It's not part of "email", it's a file for the client.
yeah, hadn't considered mobile users.. that could be a problem. But most users are using a web based email client, like yahoo, gmail, outlook.com, etc... I'm assuming most of those will display a .eml file natively with their own viewers.
