The future of health care

from here

Going for my annual checkup is cheaper for me than flying somewhere, but that may be because I'm in Canada.

When best practices should be the only practices

found on Stack Exchange

I know this best practice. I follow it as best I can, but after spending a week trying to figure out a way to use PBKDF2 securely with just ordinary .Net (no  extensions or additional 3rd party libraries) and failing, I'm starting to see why people continue to violate this best practice.

We occupy the enclosures identified by numbers less than 4

from here

Confession time: the style and substance of the memes I create are sometimes randomly selected. When Joseph Ducreux and exploit came up (and after I spent some time making sure I knew exactly how to make a Joseph Ducreux meme, aka an archaic rap meme) there was really only one option - use All The Things by Dual Core.

The Internet of Nagging Things

found on LinkedIn

As more and more things become connected, and as they all seemingly have conditions under which they'll send you a notification or alert or some other kind of message that the makers think needs your attention, just imaging what a home full of smart devices like that will be like. Imagine what it will be like when 2 things are vying for your attention at the same time, or 3 things, or 5, or 10. The more smart devices you have, the more likely the occasional overlap will be and the more devices will overlap with each other attempting to get your attention. It'll be like the film "Cheaper by the Dozen" except instead of a bunch of precocious children it'll be a bunch of appliances with sensors and alerts and updates that need to be applied.

A Roomba with a view

from here and here

Selling data about the insides of people's homes seems pretty creepy if you ask me. What's next, selling photos from inside people's homes?

Still young enough

found on Memebase

As we get older, our memory starts to fade. If you can still remember  a changed password after a holiday, good for you, but it won't always be that way, so start developing alternative strategies.

The FUD was strong with that one

form here

I remember a friend of mine downloading a special (older) version of Norton AV specifically because of it's purported ability detect/disinfect Michelangelo even though by that point the virus was a year or two old and should have been handled just fine by any up-to-date AV.

A lock is a terrible thing to waste

Watch on YouTube

I hope their car upholstery is brown because that would make most people crap their pants. Those two, however, don't seem sufficiently scared of the lumbering threat just outside their car. The bear may not have got them but sooner or later they're going to be food for something the way they're going.

Cars have locks for a reason. Use them.

This post gave my computer AIDS

from here

Just in case you thought ransomware was a relatively new phenomenon, the AIDS trojan dates back decades.

I love free things!

found on Memebase

Sometimes "free" is all the enticement a person needs to fall for a trap.