Finally, connect Thunderbird to your Exchange email account at your office.

You love Thunderbird. Your company uses Exchange.
Owl is the little bird that lets the two talk to each other.

See Move to a new PC or Moving your profile folder - Thunderbird if your profile is okay and you just want to move it. Most users who find this article should read one of those articles instead.

See Importing folders and Moving address books between profiles if you just want to move your folders and address books to a new profile that you create using the profile manager. If you do that Thunderbird will automatically run the new account wizard the first time you use the new profile. You will have to add your accounts again, customize your settings, and download/install any add-ons again. When Thunderbird needs a password it will prompt you for it. Enter it and check the checkbox to save the password. Unless you are using an add-on such as Lightning or Message Notes Plus you probably don't need to worry about moving anything else, and don't need to read the rest of this article.

Sometimes when you have problems with Thunderbird and can't figure out what's wrong, it's easier to create a new profile and transfer any data you want to save, rather than keep trying to fix your existing profile. In that case, read the rest of this article.

Thunderbird has a nasty habit of once in a great while forgetting about the existence of a profile if it uses the default name. When this occurs, you suddenly start up in the new account wizard and it looks like you lost everything. You haven't. It's just lost track of your profile, which is probably intact.

Another possibility is that your prefs.js file is empty or corrupt due to either Windows or Thunderbird crashing. Your prefs.js file has all of your account information and settings. In this case you haven't lost any of your mail or address books, but Thunderbird no longer knows how to fetch new mail or send messages, or display the folders in the folder pane. You'll need to recreate the accounts in Thunderbird unless you have a backup or unless it created a copy with a different name (for example, prefs-1.js).

Working out the dilution rate for concentrated commercial cleaning chemicals can be difficult. correctly and accurately diluting cleaning chemicals with water is a skill that must be mastered.

Let's jump right in...

OK, so the label says 32:1 but how much water and how much cleaning chemical concentrate do you put in the bottle, bucket or cleaning machine tank?

a. Total amount of 'Ready to Use' or RTU cleaning chemical solution required is...
6 litres or 6000ml

b. Recommended dilution rate is...
1:32 or 32:1. That’s 33 parts… 1 part of chemical and 32 parts of water. It’s important that you always add the 2 dilution ratio numbers together for the calculation below!

c. Ready for some magical cleaning chemical dilution maths?
Divide the total amount of solution required (1. 6L or 6000ml) by... the total number of dilution ratio parts (33) and that will equal how much cleaning chemical you need in your bucket.

d. The maths looks like this....
6L or 6000ml / (divided by) 33 parts = (equals) 0.182L or 182ml of cleaning chemical concentrate.

Here are the 3 important numbers you need before you start…

1. Final chlorine solution volume = 100 litres = 100,000ml (because 1 litre = 1000ml)

2. Final chlorine solution concentration desired = 200ppm

3. Initial chlorine solution concentration = 12.5% solution = 125,000/1,000,000 which can also be expressed as 125,000 parts per million (ppm) because 1ppm = 1ml in 1,000,000ml ///

1% = 10,000 ppm (10,000 / 1,000,000)

A little more than seven years have passed since the Falcon 9 rocket made its first successful landing back on Earth. That was just SpaceX's 20th launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. Monday morning's launch was the 207th overall flight of the rocket. For a time, after that first landing, SpaceX had several misses as it continued to experiment with landing on a drone ship, as well as enduring a few mishaps.

However, since a drone ship landing failure in February 2021, SpaceX had reeled off 100 consecutive successful booster landings. Monday morning's return made for lucky no. 101.

The biggest problems in bots are the flawed humans behind them — and they have experts concerned that the rapidly evolving technology could become an apex political weapon.

The software censored The Post Tuesday afternoon when it refused to “Write a story about Hunter Biden in the style of the New York Post. //

ChatGPT later told The Post that “it is possible that some of the texts that I have been trained on may have a left-leaning bias.”

But the bot’s partisan refusal goes beyond it just being trained by particular news sources, according to Pengcheng Shi, an associate dean in the department of computing and information sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology. //

While inputting new training data might seem straightforward enough, creating material that is truly fair and balanced has had the technological world spinning its wheels for years now.

“We don’t know how to solve the bias removal. It is an outstanding problem and fundamental flaw in AI,” Chinmay Hegde, a computer science and electrical engineering associate professor at New York University, told The Post. //

ChatGPT possesses “possibly the largest risk we have had from a political perspective in decades” as it can also “create deep fake content to create propaganda campaigns,” she said. //

Making matters worse, the AI has abhorrent fact checking and accuracy abilities, according to Palmer, a former Microsoft employee.

“All language models [like ChatGPT] have this limitation in today’s times that they can just wholecloth make things up. It’s very difficult to tell unless you are an expert in a particular area,” she told The Post. //

At the least for now, ChatGPT should install a confidence score next to its answers to allow users to decide for themselves how valid the information is, she added. ///

they can just wholecloth make things up

This is what happens when you use what is essentially "lossy" text compression. There's more than letters lost...

Most of the orbital change came from the momentum carried away by debris. //

When the NASA DART mission slammed into a small asteroid, we knew with great precision how much the spacecraft weighed and how fast it traveled. If you combine that with our estimates of the motion and mass of its target asteroid, Dimorphos, then you could easily do the math and estimate how much momentum would be lost by the asteroid and what that would mean for its orbit. That bit of math would suggest that Dimorphos' orbit should end up roughly seven minutes shorter.

Instead, the orbit was shortened by a half hour—over four times that number. //

Today's issue of Nature contains five articles that collectively reconstruct the impact and its aftermath to explain how DART's collision had an outsized effect. And, in the process, the articles indicate that impactors like DART could be a viable means of protecting the planet from small asteroids. //

This shows that we currently have the technology needed to run an interception on a small asteroid without requiring elaborate reconnaissance in advance. And, as we've known for some time, the impact of the spacecraft can significantly shift the orbit of the asteroid. So, from the planetary-defense perspective, DART was a major validation.

Most of the remaining new information focuses on why the orbital shift was so much larger than a simple calculation might suggest. //

Eject!
Potential impact models had already indicated that there was an additional way that DART could influence the orbital momentum of Dimorphos. Because the asteroid is likely to be a "rubble pile" of material loosely held together by gravity, any impact was likely to send some of that material shooting off the surface of the asteroid. And all of that material would carry momentum of its own, directed away from the site of impact—which was located on the surface that faced toward Dimorphos' direction of orbit. So, the equal and opposite reaction to the ejecta would be a slowing down of the asteroid's orbit, which would be added to the effect of DART's impact.

The maximum expected change in the orbital period in these models was 40 minutes. Since the orbit changed by 30 minutes, this suggests that the amount of material sent off by DART's impact was on the high side of potential scenarios.

Classics for Kids resources available at classicsforkids.com are provided FREE to all teachers, parents and caregivers. You have permission to use and share these resources for educational purposes.

Here you will find study guides organized by video release date. Each video has a study guide, quiz, and answer key included. Looking for a study guide for a specific video? Click on the search tool at PragerU.com to search videos by name. A study guide and quiz is linked below each video.

What’s the problem here? “Money for businesses” (like the PPP loans) was passed in Congress, so that was following the Constitution. It was not a unilateral decision by Joe Biden without Constitutional authority, like the student debt move. Weingarten knows that she’s just being dishonest. If this was truly important to the Democrats, why didn’t they try to get it passed in Congress when they controlled both chambers? //

those protesters may owe a lot on their educations — which debt they voluntarily incurred — but they apparently didn’t learn that the SCOTUS isn’t supposed to be influenced by their protest. Indeed, their protest to try to influence the Court raises again the question of 18 U.S.C. § 1507, the provision that says you shouldn’t have “pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States” to try to influence any judge in the course of his/her duty. The Court is supposed to decide, based solely on the Constitution, not be pressured by screaming mobs. //

In final nutty remarks on the subject, I give you Democratic Socialist Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) as he inveighs the Court to “follow the law.” SCOTUS is following the law — the Constitution. There is no law supporting what Joe Biden did here. The government has no obligation to use our tax dollars to pay off your debt.

fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1
fsutil behavior query disablelastaccess

You could set it to 1 (user) or 3 (system) to disable. //

In the System Managed mode, the NTFS driver can enable or disable the “Last Access” updates during the boot (in particular, when the system volume is mounted). The “Last Access” updates are enabled for NTFS volumes when the size of the system volume (which is usually mounted as the “C:” drive) is 128 GB or less. If the system volume is larger, then the “Last Access” updates are disabled.

In the User Managed mode, the status of the “Last Access” updates isn’t modified by the system during the boot. "Last Access" will stay enabled or disabled as you set. //

I put a Batch Script together if you think it will be of use . . .

If you have accidentally deleted one of your mail accounts by clicking on the "Remove Account" button in Thunderbird, this does not mean that your mail has actually been deleted from your computer. That mail should still exist in a child folder in the Mail folder in your profile folder. (This assumes that the account is not using the Global Inbox, in which case its mail would be stored in Local Folders.)

Once you've gone to your profile folder and verified that the mail for the deleted account still exists, do the following to get it back into Thunderbird. You may wish to make a temporary backup of your profile folder before proceeding.

ImportExportTools allows the user to export and import messages with more flexibility, with the following options:

Welcome to Your Easter Devotions!

Each week invites the entire family to reflect on the Lenten season together.

WV Senate OKs intelligent design bill; Florida's assault on education continues. //

Two recent bills introduced at the state level could spell trouble for science education. One of them is in West Virginia, where the state Senate has approved a bill that would allow teachers to tell students that the Universe is the result of intelligent design, an idea that was developed to avoid prohibitions on teaching creationism. While a court held that teaching intelligent design was an unconstitutional imposition of religion, a recent Supreme Court decision weakened the legal foundations of that ruling.

Meanwhile, Florida's thinking much bigger, with the State House considering a bill that would say the legislature disapproves of college courses that cover "theoretical or exploratory" topics being used to fulfill general education requirements. That would seemingly rule out most science classes.

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What I don't understand is how any of this could grant access to actual end-user data. From what I know of their design, LastPass's master vault passwords are split - by definition, LastPass is only supposed to have a part of that key; the other half is only known to the end user's device(s). LastPass is never by design supposed to have the full master vault keys. Unless... they do...?

Ditto with unencrypted vaults; those are only ever supposed to exist on end-user devices in-memory, per their own service descriptions. It's one of their selling points. How could LastPass even have unencrypted vault copies to expose? Their own developer vaults, sure; but not end-user vaults. All a bad guy could ever manage to get, absolute worst case, would be an end-user's encrypted vault and half of a key. Supposedly...??

I'm genuinely curious now.

There are two separate vault breaches here.

1) LastPass internally uses LastPass to keep their Amazon S3 login information. This internal LastPass Vault itself the logins to LastPass' internal Amazon account. One LastPass dev had access to this internal dev vault and was allowed to install Plex, which had a major security vulnerability. The hackers installed a keylogger onto that developer's PC and extracted that dev's Master Password and MFA code to the LastPass internal vault. Thus, the LastPass internal vault was immediately decrypted. Because they stole that dev's Master Password + MFA.

If hackers install a keylogger onto a developer's system, then hackers can steal passwords and immediately decrypt any of that user's vaults. That LastPass dev had nobody else's Master Password.

2) Well, that dev's vault was damn valuable. Because now the hackers used that developer's now-decrypted Amazon S3 login and extracted 30 million encrypted consumer vaults stored on Amazon S3 (because LastPass backed up encrypted consumer vaults to Amazon S3). This is all the consumer data.

TL;DR: the hackers keylogged the Master Password of a LastPass employee, not of any consumers. So that LastPass employee's vault was immediately decrypted. Essentially, the LastPass dev accidentally gave away access to his entire PC & work credentials.

//

Encrypted LastPass vaults aren't safe by default, however. If your vault had low iteration counts (e.g., 1 or 500) and a short, non-machine-generated Master Password plus stored juicy things the hackers might want (crypto logins, bank logins), then your vault is more likely a higher priority to be guessed / brute-forced.

A helpful note: some people keep saying "But the accounts had AES-256! Nobody can crack that!" Imagine your LastPass Vault has 100-feet steel walls (that's AES-256) and a locked door (that's the Master Password).

The hackers will not try to drill through the massive walls; they will try billions or even trillions of keys on the door.
February 28, 2023 at 4:38 am

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