v.19 n. 46 – Released November 12, 2015
Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified documents.
Fearing that terrorist or criminal networks could use the games to communicate secretly, move money or plot attacks, the documents show, intelligence operatives have entered terrain populated by digital avatars that include elves, gnomes and supermodels.
After dealing with non-stop crashes of my Outlook account, I found this posting. Disable Update patch KB3097877 and your Outlook will work just fine again.
Per subject, was finding that specific e-mail were consistently causing Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 to crash. They were always HTML messages, typically the sort of “on sale” e-mail you get from distributors etc that include a lot of tables, images etc.
I started by removing the IE11 cumulative update but that didn’t resolve the crashes. I then removed KB3097877 & KB3101746 and I’ve not been able to reproduce the crashes on 2 PC’s since.
“This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Windows. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker convinces a user to open a specially crafted document or to go to an untrusted webpage that contains embedded fonts.”
The patches were only release 10~ hours ago
Podcaster and author James Altucher recently stopped by Business Insider to talk about his provocative blog post about whether or not owning a home is a smart investment.
Altucher is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, angel investor and former hedge fund manager. His podcast and blog teach the lessons he’s learned about money, health and happiness after having it all, losing it, and getting it back again.
Typically, entertainers travel by limo to the red carpet at awards shows. Granger Smith is not normal. He insisted on traveling to the recent Country Music Awards red carpet in a Chevy Silverado. It’s authentically who he is: Smith has always owned a Silverado and it’s what his “customers” expect from him.
It reminded me of a similar incident 20 years earlier at the ACM awards. Alan Jackson walked the red carpet in jeans and a T-shirt. The show producers told Jackson to “play along” with a pre-recorded track. Jackson disagreed, so he had his drummer play along without drumsticks as a weird way of clueing in his audience. He walked away with the male vocalist of the year award and I would argue his authenticity is precisely why fans love him.
The more we drive with GPS—or walk down the sidewalk staring at directions on a smartphone—the less we’re able to navigate on our own. Relying on navigational tech might even make the hippocampus, the part of our brain that handles memory, shrink a little.
A set of maps from designer Archie Archambault might help us rebuild the mental maps of cities that we’re starting to lose. Instead of a literal grid of streets, he maps out neighborhoods and the basic parts of a city the way someone who lives there might think of it, or at least the way they probably did before Google Maps existed.
When my younger brother and I went trick-or-treating as kids at Halloween, he was scared of kids dressed as ghosts. When he was very young, he had eye surgery a couple of times. All of the OR people wore white. He associated their white dress and the white sheets of “the ghosts” with pain.
Like him, we can associate the ghosts of business pain past with present opportunities. We often fear stepping up into them because of our past failures.
Here are 3 Positive Strategies to Transform Business Fear so you Work Positive this week:
It is wishful thinking that Airbnb can scale up “what makes this global community so special” rather than have its community become co-opted by the values of the global marketplace — presumably efficiency, the maximization of profit, and personal interest (as opposed to “trust and safety”). It seems like Airbnb would like to wish away the complexities of what community really means: shared interests that hold people together, a set of agreed-upon rules to keep people in check, and transparency.
I admit it. I was under a rock. I hadn’t heard about Peeple until I watched John Oliver’s hysterical send up of it on Last Week Tonight. Touted as Yelp for people, the application would have allowed you to create a profile for someone you wanted to rate (without their consent) and then rate them using 1 to 5 stars along with comments. If you posted something negative, the subject had 48 hours to talk you out of posting it. If negotiations didn’t work, the posting went up and you could engage in rebuttal on the site. And all of those comments would stay up forever because you couldn’t delete your account.
What could possibly go wrong in this scenario?
The Washington Post saw the possibilities for abuse and slammed the site as it was coming out in its beta launch to a limited number of opted-in users. Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough pitched Peeple as a ‘positivity app’ designed to ‘lift up people’. To be fair, they also limited profanity, sexism and discussion of private health conditions. But the fundamental premise, that others have the right to rate you on a public platform without your permission and that you are reduced to a star rating was what the Post found most disturbing.
If you plan to leave your current employer to start a rival company, you better bring a strong team with you, new research suggests.
The success of a “spin-out” company — a business created by employees who leave one company to form another in the same industry — depends on the founder’s ability to attract a large and experienced team of colleagues, according to a study scheduled for publication in the upcoming edition of the Academy of Management Journal.
