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Saturday, July 27, 2013
The Scary, Passenger's Eye View From Inside the Crashed Southwest Plane
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Changes eyed in door-to-door mail delivery
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. Postal Service wants to end door-to-door delivery for new homes in favor of curbside service and neighborhood cluster boxes.
A House panel is considering legislation that would take that one step further, phasing out door-to-door delivery for nearly all Americans.
The proposal is part of a broad reform effort designed to cut costs at the cash-strapped agency by up to $4.5 billion a year. The Postal Service had a $16 billion loss last year.
In a change the Postal Service began in April, people moving into newly built homes will receive curbside or neighborhood cluster box service.
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Microsoft: No Plans for Xbox One Without Kinect for Lower Price
Video game hardware maker Microsoft says that it currently has no plans to ever launch a version of the Xbox One next gen console that does not include the Kinect motion tracking system.
The company is seeking to dispel recent rumors that have suggested that a stripped down device with a lower price and smaller hard drive might be launched in the summer of 2014.
The company is seeking to dispel recent rumors that have suggested that a stripped down device with a lower price and smaller hard drive might be launched in the summer of 2014.
Gamers have speculated that such a move is designed to create a version of the Xbox One that has a lower price than the PlayStation 4 from Sony, which will sell for 399 dollars or Euro.
A spokesperson tells Gamefront that, "We believe in Kinect and the value it brings to both games and entertainment, and believe $499 is a great value for what consumers receive with their Xbox One."
Both next gen device are set to launch during November.
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Changes eyed in door-to-door mail delivery
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Americans for generations have come to depend on door-to-door mail delivery. It's about as American as apple pie.
But with the Postal Service facing billions of dollars in annual losses, the long-cherished delivery service could be virtually phased-out by 2022 under a proposal a House panel was considering Wednesday. Curbside delivery, which includes deliveries to mailboxes at the end of driveways, and cluster box delivery would replace letter carriers slipping mail into front-door boxes.
The proposal is part of a broader legislation by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Darrell Issa, R-Calif., designed to cut costs at the cash-strapped agency by up to $4.5 billion a year. The Postal Service had a $16 billion loss last year.
The agency has been moving toward curbside and cluster box delivery, which is less expensive to provide than door-to-door service, in new residential developments since the 1970s. The Postal Service in April began deciding whether to provide curbside or neighborhood cluster box delivery for people moving into newly built homes, rather than letting the developers decide.
"A balanced approach to saving the Postal Service means allowing USPS to adapt to America's changing use of mail," Issa said. "Done right, these reforms can improve the customer experience through a more efficient Postal Service."
About one in three mail customers has door-to-door delivery, Issa said. The shift would help provide safe and secure delivery areas, Issa said, especially for elderly customers who receive things like Social Security checks and prescriptions through the mail.
Rep. Steve Lynch, D-Mass., said the plan to move some 30 million addresses from door-to-door to curbside and cluster box service would be virtually impossible in dense urban areas such as his hometown of South Boston crowded with triple-deckers ? three apartments stacked on top of each other.
"You'd have to knock houses down in my neighborhood to build cluster boxes," Lynch said. "This will not work."
It might work in places like Manhattan with big apartment buildings, he said.
The financially beleaguered U.S. Postal Service, an independent agency, gets no tax dollars for its day-to-day operations, but is subject to congressional control.
The Postal Service is pursuing a major restructuring throughout its retail, delivery and mail processing operations. Since 2006, it has reduced annual costs by approximately $15 billion, cut its workforce by 193,000 or 28 percent, and consolidated more than 200 mail-processing locations.
The service's losses are largely due to a decline in mail volume and a congressional requirement that it make advance payments to cover expected health care costs for future retirees. About $11.1 billion of last year's losses were due to payments for future retiree health costs.
The Postal Service is considering several options to fix its finances, including negotiations with unions to reduce labor costs and another possible increase in prices.
The service earlier this year backpedaled on its plan to end Saturday mail delivery after running into opposition in Congress. It has tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully over the past several years to have Congress approve ending Saturday mail delivery and to free it from the advance health payments.
Postal officials have said that to restore the service to long-term financial stability, the agency needs more flexibility to reduce costs and come up with new revenues.
The Senate last year passed a bill that would have stopped the Postal Service from eliminating Saturday service for at least two years and required it to try two years of aggressive cost cutting instead. The House didn't pass a bill.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/changes-eyed-door-door-mail-delivery-135435463.html
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Amazon adds ?10 minimum spend for UK super-saver delivery
Remember when Amazon lifted the requirement for a minimum spend before you qualified for free delivery? Well, from July 23rd, customers in the UK will be required to spend a minimum of £10 ($15) before they're entitled to the service -- but there are a few exceptions. Purchases of DVDs, Books, Blu-Ray discs, CDs, video games and software won't require a minimum spend, and the company specifically suggests you pick up a paperback alongside a new HDMI cable to get around the rule.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Android MasterKey found buried in kiddie cake game on Google Play - report
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Two Google Play apps that use the so-called "MasterKey" vulnerability, albeit harmlessly, have been detected, security researchers have announced.
The Android signature vulnerability, which first came to light two weeks ago, affects the vast majority of Android smartphones and tablets, creating a means to load fake files into Android installation packages without changing the signatures.
Apps for Android come as .APKs (Android Packages), which are actually just ZIP archives. Mobile security start-up Bluebox Security discovered it was possible to pack an installation file with files whose name is the same as those already in the archive but whose arbitrary contents might easily contain malicious code.
Android's cryptographic verifier checks the first version of any repeated file in an APK archive, but the installer extracts and deploys the last version.
Google has reportedly begun scanning apps in its Google Play Store for the MasterKey vulnerability. These scans also cover a similar flaw along the same lines that was recently discovered by Chinese security researchers.
Despite this, checks by antivirus firm BitDefender have revealed the presence of a number of apps featuring the vulnerability on the official Google Play store. The doctored apps are harmless and the abuse of the vulnerability is probably accidental, BitDefender security researcher Bogdan Botezatu explains in a blog post (extract below):
Two of the apps, Rose Wedding Cake Game ? ?air.RoseWeddingCakeGame v 1.1.0? and Pirates Island Mahjong Free ?air.PiratesIslandMahjong v 1.0.1?, have been last updated? in mid-May and are increasingly popular with Android users. While the Pirates Island Mahjong Free has been installed by between 5,000 and 10,000 users, Rose Wedding Cake Game has between 10,000 and 50,000 installs.There is no need to panic right away: the applications contain two duplicate PNG files which are part of the game?s interface. This means that the applications are not running malicious code ? they are merely exposing the Android bug to overwrite an image file in the package, most likely by mistake. In contrast, malicious exploitation of this flaw focuses on replacing application code.
One thing that is particularly interesting about today?s discovery is the fact that the two applications exhibiting this behaviour managed to make their way into the Play Store without raising any red flags. However, patched Android distributions such as CyanogenMod will refuse to install the application with the mention that the ?Package file was not signed correctly?.
The obvious concern is that if effective screening for the vulnerability is not even taking place on Google's official Play store, then something more potent and nasty might easily appear.
Aside from any screening, recent changes mean that Google Play Store apps are only supposed to update through the official Play update mechanisms. Google banned outside updating mechanisms two-and-a-half months ago, a move that in retrospect looks like a response to Bluebook Security's private notification that it had a problem involving Android app integrity checks back in February.
We asked Google for clarification of how the two doctored apps identified by BitDefender shipped up on Google Play. The Chocolate Factory has so far failed to respond to our previous queries about the Android MasterKey vulnerability but we'll update this story if we hear any more.
Almost all Android devices are potentially at risk from the MasterKey flaw, since the vulnerability has existed since Android 1.6 (Donut), but only the Samsung Galaxy S4 has been patched to protect against it.
Bitdefender Mobile Security & Antivirus suite, as well as the Romanian vendor's Antivirus Free for Android, are all being updated to detect and block Android package files that abuse the MasterKey vulnerability, which might be used in attempted to distribute doctored versions of popular apps containing hidden backdoor or other malicious code.
Rival antivirus vendor Webroot has also updated its Android anti-malware software. And more protection is available with the free-of-charge ReKey application from Duo Security and Northeastern University's System Security Lab, which offers a third-party unofficial patch designed to fix the underlying vulnerability rather than detecting and blocking attempts to exploit the security hole. ?
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What is your Windows 8 WEI score on O/C 4770K
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The screenprint is at an easy 4.0GHz o/c on all four cores with the cpu cache also at a 40 multiplier. I get an 8.2 on CPU score. Voltage for both CPU and Cache is at 1.1. Speed step is disabled. It's prime95 and Intel Xtreme Tuning Utility stable here.
I've played with 4.5Ghz range but the CPU isn't stable in prime95 runs at 1.2 volts and my CPU cooler (H70) is in the mid 90's at that temp - so I don't want to push more voltage. For whatever reason Intel Extreme Tuning utility is very happy running all day at 4.5GHz on this chip, but Prime95 crashes within seconds or minutes at 4.5GHz.
At stock CPU speed both my RAM and Memory say 7.9 - while the others stayed the same. So my mild overclock is worth .3 apparently.
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