![]() It’s how readily available so much of her information was to someone she’d gone to great lengths to block from her life. “We do not share customer information with third parties including individuals, marketers, retailers or vendors unless compelled to by a court order or other court process.”Įllen said she isn’t concerned that the tollway tracks her movements. “The Illinois Tollway works tirelessly to protect the information of our customers,” Rozek wrote. Tollway attorneys, he wrote, “take great care in carefully handling customer information and ensuring the Illinois Tollway adheres to applicable law.” In one, Illinois Tollway Executive Director José Alvarez said he’s “very open and interested in working with lawmakers” and vowed to examine I-Pass privacy issues.Īdditionally, Illinois Tollway spokesman Daniel Rozek wrote in an email that all state agencies - including the tollway - must comply with subpoenas, according to state law. The agency did not address a list of WBEZ’s questions for this story, but responded with written statements. It’s not clear whether the tollway has ever rejected any subpoena for its customers’ data. I would call it mission creep,” she said. “It should not be a system that allows the government to turn over to private litigants detailed information about your whereabouts, and to the extent that it is, people should know that. “This is supposed to be a program that collects money for when you drive on the roads,” said Karen Sheley, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. “It’s scary when these government agencies, like the tollway or places that have what feels like nearly unlimited access to my whereabouts or my child’s whereabouts, are careless with the information,” she said. ![]() Ellen’s ex-boyfriend also requested similar private information about her parents, and the tollway turned all of it over - without ever notifying Ellen or her family. The tollway complied with that legal request, and also turned over information about Ellen’s new cell phone number, email address, credit card and license plate. That’s because he opened a court case to which Ellen wasn’t even a party, then subpoenaed the Illinois Tollway for I-Pass transponder records that would show her movements on the state’s tollways. She even bought a new car with a new license plate - all to make it harder for her troublesome ex to contact her.īut a few months later, Ellen’s ex obtained all that information - and much more - without her knowing. With the order of protection in place, Ellen said she also changed her cell phone number and email address. ![]() ![]() She said even the cops eventually got sick of coming out and suggested she get a restraining order against her ex. (WBEZ is identifying her with a pseudonym for her family’s safety.) In a court filing, Ellen said he would call and text so much - he even started sending letters to her house every day - that she felt like she was being stalked. He continued requesting wellness checks on the little girl even though police never found anything wrong. ![]()
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![]() If you are using facebook and "rah rah-ing" about Obama or the latest political fever you probably are at very little current risk of long term data retention. To the point of encryption, as noted by the NSA (inclusive of present revelations), it actually makes you a target for state surveillance. The stasi (or other pernicious organizations organized to carry out state censorship) could easily have someone smeared in the press, dismissed from their job, or many other means short of official imprisonment. ![]() Although this was noted by Mitnick in his "hacking" (which generally was just clever social engineering), it is equally true when governments are targeting you. If you're transmitting any data that could be illegal, your safest bet is to use some kind of encryption that would take longer than the statute of limitations for whichever crime you're committing to break (you'd probably also have to factor Moore's law into your calculation and pray that quantum computing doesn't become viable in the next x years).Īdditionally, it is worth noting that the weakest target is very often the human element. Not to get all tin-foily, but I would assume that any undertaking that ambitious would have government agents working from the inside. This is why ideas like Raspberry Pis on balloons have been proposed as true "alternative" internets. The entire issue with the government surveillance of today is that they're (allegedly) storing all data, even the encrypted data, and holding it to either brute-force crack, waiting until whichever cipher/protocol gets broken, or waiting until computing power is abundant enough to crack the encryption-du-jour in a reasonable amount of time. (assuming that an alternative internet would be a variation on the IP protocol). ![]() directly gathering information from the wire).Ī true "alternative internet" would, at this point, require its own infrastructure due to the routers and switches of the Internet using the TCP/IP stack. Since I know the skill gap on HN is pretty wide, I just wanted to chime in to say that if this is some kind of counter-intelligence measure, it's not really going to work considering that the US government is collecting information at layer 1 (i.e. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can download several third-party apps for free or purchase them from the App Store. You can download third-party apps to help you increase the clock size on your iPhone, such as xClock, Bigger Clock, Big Clock HD, Big Flip Clock, and so on. If method #2 is not convenient for you, then your last resort is to download a third-party app for this feature. With the magnification mode activated, anytime you want to see anything on your iPhone screen, including the clock, double-tap the screen with three fingers to zoom in and double-tap again to zoom out.Select “General” > “Accessibility” > “Zoom”.Open the Settings app on the home screen or ask Siri to open the Settings app.Here’s how to use magnification to increase the clock size on an iPhone. So, with this feature, you can still read the time and other tiny text on your iPhone even if you’re not with your glasses. Magnification is a feature on most smartphones that enables users to zoom in on specific areas of their phone to read it properly. If you like the current position, tap “Done” to exit the edit mode.Īnother method you can use to increase the clock size on your iPhone without worrying about its OS version is activating magnification. On the home screen, adjust the position of the widget.When done, tap the “Add Widget” option to display the widget on your home screen. ![]() Swipe right to choose your desired size and layout.Scroll down until you find the clock widget, then tap it.From the pop-up menu, tap the plus (+) sign at the top-left corner of your screen to add a new widget.Long-press an empty area on your home screen to enter the Edit mode.Here’s how to use a widget to increase the clock size on an iPhone. If your iPhone does not support this version of iOS, then you can try the other methods below. For this method to work for you, you must use an iPhone running iOS 14 and later. This method does not work on all iPhones. 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( prev and curr), the scheduler will put them into a sched If this hook returns true for the given insn pair This hook is used to check whether two insns should be macro fused forĪ target microarchitecture. Target Hook: bool TARGET_SCHED_MACRO_FUSION_PAIR_P (rtx_insn * prev, rtx_insn * curr) ¶ This hook is used to check whether target platform supports macro fusion. Target Hook: bool TARGET_SCHED_MACRO_FUSION_P (void) ¶ These other insns can then be taken into account properly. Scheduling one insn causes other insns to become ready in the sameĬycle. ![]() ![]() This hook can be useful if there are frequent situations where Return the number of insns to be scheduled in the same cycle. ‘ TARGET_SCHED_VARIABLE_ISSUE’ it can reorder the ready list and Is called once per iteration over a cycle, immediately after Thatįunction is called whenever the scheduler starts a new cycle. Like ‘ TARGET_SCHED_REORDER’, but called at a different time. Target Hook: int TARGET_SCHED_REORDER2 (FILE * file, int verbose, rtx_insn ** ready, int * n_readyp, int clock) ¶ The return value is the number of insns thatĬan issue this cycle normally this is just issue_rate. Reads the ready list in reverse order, starting with n_readyp isĪ pointer to the number of elements in the ready list. List of instructions that are ready to be scheduled. List, to allow the machine description to reorder it (for example toĬombine two small instructions together on ‘ VLIW’ machines). This hook is executed by the scheduler after it has scheduled the ready Target Hook: int TARGET_SCHED_REORDER (FILE * file, int verbose, rtx_insn ** ready, int * n_readyp, int clock) ¶ Do not define this hook if you do not need to adjust the Increase the priority toĮxecute insn earlier, reduce the priority to execute insn This hook adjusts the integer scheduling priority priority of Target Hook: int TARGET_SCHED_ADJUST_PRIORITY (rtx_insn * insn, int priority) ¶ See Specifying processor pipeline description. If these values are notĪcceptable, you could use the hook to modify them too. Output-dependence is maximum of one and the difference of latency If the scheduler using the automaton based pipelineĭescription, the cost of anti-dependence is zero and the cost of Used for example to specify to the scheduler using the traditional pipelineĭescription that an output- or anti-dependence does not incur the same costĪs a data-dependence. The default is to make no adjustment to cost. Relationship between insn and dep_insn through aĭependence of type dep_type, and strength dw. This function corrects the value of cost based on the Target Hook: int TARGET_SCHED_ADJUST_COST (rtx_insn * insn, int dep_type1, rtx_insn * dep_insn, int cost, unsigned int dw) ¶ Than others, so that fewer insns can follow them in the same cycle.įile is either a null pointer, or a stdio stream to write anyĭebug output to. You should define this hook if some insns take more machine resources USE, which normally are not counted against the issue rate. ‘ more - 1’ for insns other than CLOBBER and It should return the number of insns which can This hook is executed by the scheduler after it has scheduled an insnįrom the ready list. Target Hook: int TARGET_SCHED_VARIABLE_ISSUE (FILE * file, int verbose, rtx_insn * insn, int more) ¶ It to vary depending on what the instructions are, you must use This value must be constant over the entire compilation. Hooks ‘ TARGET_SCHED_REORDER’ and ‘ TARGET_SCHED_REORDER2’). The default is one.Īlthough the insn scheduler can define itself the possibility of issueĪn insn on the same cycle, the value can serve as an additionalĬonstraint to issue insns on the same simulated processor cycle (see Issue at the same time on the target machine. This hook returns the maximum number of instructions that can ever Target Hook: int TARGET_SCHED_ISSUE_RATE (void) ¶ Them: try the first ones in this list first. It is usually enough to define just a few of The instruction scheduler may need a fair amount of machine-specificĪdjustment in order to produce good code. Next: Dividing the Output into Sections (Texts, Data, …), Previous: Describing Relative Costs of Operations, Up: Target Description Macros and Functions ġ8.17 Adjusting the Instruction Scheduler ¶ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The final step is to change the Host value to match the AuraDB instance DBID and also populate the username and password.In the Generic JDBC Connection Settings window, click on the Edit Driver Settings button, update the URL template value to be jdbc:neo4j:neo4j+s://]/ and click on the OK button. We now need to adjust the Driver settings to have the correct format for connecting to an AuraDB instance.Click on the "Download" button to download the latest driver file shown in the window and once it has completed click the Finish button. When you click on the "Driver properties" tab, this opens the "Driver settings" window which should display the files required by the driver. In the "Generic JDBC Connection Settings" window that opens, click on the "Driver properties" tab. The next step is to download and install the latest driver from DBeaver.Scroll down the list of database vendors (or search for neo4j), find and select Neo4j and click "Next >" at the bottom of the screen.With DBeaver open, click on the "New database Connection" button in the top left hand corner of the screen.Create your query and run it by clicking Execute SQL Statement to view the results in the same window.DBeaver is a multi-platform database tool for developers, database administrators, analysts and all people who need to work with databases, this article covers how to connect to a Neo4j AuraDB instance using DBeaver. If you want to write a custom SQL query that will include only the necessary columns from the table, you can select New SQL Editor in the SQL Editor main menu. To view and edit the data in a table, you need to right-click on the target table name and select View data.The content of the table will be displayed in the main workspace. You can expand out the database structure in DBeaver's Database Navigator to visualize all the tables in MySQL database. ![]() Viewing MySQL Database Objects and Querying Data If everything goes well, you'll see the Success message. ![]() Enter the previously configured DSN in the Database/Schema field.In the Connect to database wizard, select ODBC and click Next. In the Database menu, select New Database Connection. Below you will see guidelines on how to connect MySQL database in DBeaver.Ĭonnecting to MySQL Data from DBeaver via ODBC Driver for MySQLįollow the steps below to establish a connection to MySQL in DBeaver. Create a connected app to connect DBeaver to Data Cloud through the Java Database Connectivity Driver (JDBC).Required Editions Available in: Lightning Edi. To prevent this, you need to set the string data types to Ansi either in the Advanced Settings tab of the driver configuration dialog or directly in the connection string (String Types=Ansi) - all string types will be returned as SQL_CHAR, SQL_VARCHAR and SQL_LONGVARCHAR. When using ODBC driver for MySQL with DBeaver, SQL_WVARCHAR data types may be displayed incorrectly in DBeaver. Click the Test Connection button to verify that you have properly configured the DSN.Give a name to your data source and set up the connection parameters.Click the Add button and double-click Devart ODBC Driver for MySQL in the list.Click on the System DSN tab if you want to set up a DSN name for all users of the system or select User DSN to configure DSN only for your account.Select Administrative Tools, then click ODBC Data Sources.Click the Start menu and select Control Panel.For the purposes of this guide, we'll use the Community Edition of DBeaver to retrieve data from MySQL via the Open Database Connectivity driver.Ĭreating an ODBC Data Source to Use MySQL Data in DBeaver Note though that you can access a MongoDB database from DBeaver Community Edition using the respective Devart ODBC driver. Enterprise Edition supports NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB or Cassandra, persistent query manager database, SSH tunneling, vector graphics (SVG) and a few other enterprise-level features. The tool comes in two editions - Community and Enterprise. Devart DBeaver provides you with the most important features you'd need when working with a database in a GUI tool, such as: DBeaver can be used to access any database or cloud application that has an ODBC or JDBC driver, such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQl, Salesforce, or Mailchimp. DBeaver is a free, open source multiplatform database management tool and SQL client for developers and database administrators. ![]() ![]() ![]() For more control, there are options to tweak exposure, lighting, color (saturation, hue, vibrance), color balance (temperature and tint) as well as sharpening. Choose Quick for some basic editing options, including a Smart Fix that often does a pretty good job and can be a safe place to start. A trio of options appears at the top of the main window: Quick, Guided and Expert. Undoubtedly, the Photo Editor is where most users will spend their time. ![]() There are options to order prints or begin various creative projects including slideshows, photo collages and photo books. Within the Organizer, users can share images via email and to a handful of social media sites. While I disagreed with some of the choices, most were some of my favorites, too. Not surprisingly, I disagreed with some of the software’s automated choices, but many were spot-on in terms of exposure and focus.Īdobe Photoshop Elements' Organizer provides multiple tools for searching and sorting images, including an automatic curating function that selects your 'best' photos. And, if you want the program’s help in picking out your 'best' images, there’s an Auto Curate function. While organizing images requires input from the user, Adobe provides the tools needed to sort photos logically – from creating albums to automatically recognizing and stacking faces so they can be further grouped (family, friends, etc.). Move to the Organizer for photo management tasks including importing, rating, captioning and categorizing images. Not surprisingly, I disagreed with some of the software’s automated choices but many were spot-on in terms of exposure and focus. The Home Page, which is the opening screen, provides direct access to news and special tasks like creating slideshows and accessing recent projects and images. The software is segmented into three different sections: the Home Page, the Organizer and the Photo Editor (plus, if installed, the Premiere Elements video editor). None of these quirks are a big deal, but to make full use of the application it’s best to explore all the drop-down menus to get a better idea of what’s available. Instead, I had to use a drop-down menu to choose whether I wanted to open it in an external editor or the native Photo Editor. Instinctively, I double-clicked on an image in the Organizer expecting it to open in the Photo Editor. Camera Raw wasn’t installed by default, for example, and had to be downloaded. Overall, Photoshop Elements is logically organized and easy to navigate. Collage and animated slideshow templates have also been updated. New content, including new backgrounds and skies, as well as new patterns have also been added. Included with the software are visuals that can be added to the corners of an image to add depth or use as ornamentation, like the foreground reeds seen here. I chose to mimic focus stacking instead with both the overlay and main image in focus since I couldn’t find any images in my archives that made an interesting combination. It has an option to adjust the overlay's blur to give a sense of depth, though it’s important to choose the right image to make it work. These include 'peek-through overlays' – elements such as flowers or plants that can be added to one or more corners of an image to frame the photo. That said, Adobe has given Photoshop Elements 2023 a boost in performance and continues to take advantage of its Sensei AI technology to add features and make certain tasks easier.Īdobe has added new Guided Edits (and a search function for the edits), bringing the total to more than 87 step-by-step guides. What’s new?įirst released more than two decades ago, Adobe Photoshop Elements has reached a level of maturity that places many of its updates into the evolutionary versus revolutionary category. Project-oriented users, such as scrapbookers and craftspeople, as well as those who want to add artistic or fun effects to their images, often gravitate to Adobe Photoshop Elements for its creative content as well as its ease of use. Users can opt to edit photos on their own, utilize automatic adjustments or get assistance from the software’s Guided Edits. It's the only remaining Adobe product to come as a perpetual license, so if you like this version of Photoshop Elements, you can stick with it for years to come. With the power of Adobe Photoshop at its core, Elements includes many of the features of its high-end sibling but without the steep learning curve (or, maybe more importantly, the subscription commitment). Photoshop Elements includes playful filters and effects like these floating hearts (Credit: Adobe)Īdobe recently announced the latest version of its consumer editing software: Photoshop Elements 2023 ($99.99 or $79.99 as an upgrade). ![]() |
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