game 4 ginebra vs tnt Dear Eric: I have an ongoing disagreement with my very polite and well-mannered husband. When we enter a venue together, he opens the door/elevator door to let me through and then holds the door so that at least two or three people and sometimes large groups can walk in ahead of him. He then follows them, and I am significantly ahead of him. Therefore, I often stand off to the side/wait or move forward/wait. For example, I often wait for a while at the hostess stand of a restaurant while he makes his way there. I would appreciate standing next to him as we enter. Should courtesy require getting the door/holding the elevator door open for strangers or moving forward with his wife so we can enter together? — Manners Dear Manners: His politeness is so extreme that it’s come around to being impolite back to you. One wonders how far he’s willing to take this. At a certain point, one stops being a random nice man and becomes a restaurant’s volunteer doorman. If he won’t stop holding the door to groups following you, you can decline to enter without him, stand next to him as he holds the door, and you could both become restaurant doormen together. Perhaps this act of polite “solidarity” will show him the mannerliness of moderation. Dear Eric: I play Mahjong with senior citizens several times a week at a local Barnes & Noble. One day our group needed two tables, and one table had stuff sitting on it, along with a backpack on the floor with no one around. I moved it to the table right next to it because we needed that specific size table and there were many other open tables around us. When the young man finally came back, he then told me it was rude to touch his stuff. Many of the ladies agreed with him, so I wonder if I was wrong. But the way I look at it is, you can’t expect someone to save a table and then walk around for an hour and expect no one to want the table. Also, I have come many times early and sat at a table to “reserve” it and never left my stuff on it expecting no one to move it if they needed the table. What do you think? — Game Play Rules Dear Rules: I think you shouldn’t have touched another person’s belongings. Coffee shops, bookstores and spaces where we gather can be catch-as-catch-can when it comes to seating. But the general rule is that if your stuff is on the table, it means you intend to come back to it in the place you left it. Your need for the table didn’t supersede his need. It would’ve been better to make-do with another table until he returned, then ask him to move. Dear Eric: One of my neighbors and I have been taking a long walk (about five miles) on most Saturday mornings since the pandemic. Recently, another woman, who also lives in the neighborhood, has expressed a desire to join us. We have both decided that we don’t enjoy this woman’s company enough to spend a couple of hours with her on a weekly basis. Any ideas what we might say to her that would not be cruel but would get the message across? — Walk Off Dear Walk Off: As this is a tradition that goes back a few years, it’s fair to tell the third neighbor that you and your friend have come to appreciate this special time together and would prefer to preserve it. Sure, it could come off as cliquish, but you’re not obligated to respond to every person who invites themselves into your plans. Send questions to R. Eric Thomas at eric@askingeric.com . Get local news delivered to your inbox!Consumer Reports applauded the Federal Communications Commission for proposing a fine against a China-based company that made video doorbells with troubling security vulnerabilities. The FCC fine is somewhat adjacent to the actual security and privacy concerns about the video doorbells. The proposed $734,872 fine, announced Thursday, is because the company, Eken, didn’t respond to the letter of inquiry from the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau and for not maintaining a required active domestic point of contact, according to the FCC. Investigators discovered that the company’s domestic point of contact address in Colorado was a mailbox that had been inactive since 2019. The FCC’s investigation into Eken’s equipment remains ongoing. “It’s good to see more enforcement in this space that’s been traditionally radically under-enforced,” said Justin Brookman, the director of technology policy at Consumer Reports. Brookman said his team flagged their concerns over the Eken video doorbells to the FCC after routine product testing uncovered security vulnerabilities. The video doorbells — sold under different brand names, including Eken and Tuck, at online retailers, including Amazon, Walmart and Temu — “revealed pretty alarming stuff” during the Consumer Reports testing, Brookman said. The video doorbells exposed a user’s home IP addresses and Wi-Fi network names to the internet without encryption, potentially opening a user’s home network to malicious activity, according to Consumer Reports’ investigation from earlier this year. Hackers could potentially take over the device by downloading the associated smartphone app and entering the doorbell into pairing mode, which would allow them to take ownership of the device, view footage and lock out the owner of the device, Consumer Reports said. “It was far too easy for a bad actor ... to get access to who’s coming in, who’s going,” Brookman said. He said they have no reason to think the company itself was collecting images off their video doorbells, and that wasn’t the focus of Consumer Reports’ investigation, Brookman said. Ensuring products are safe and up to high standards can be tough in today’s world of online shopping, where the reviews many folks rely on can be “gamed,” Brookman added. The platforms selling the products, such as Amazon, “need to take more responsibility” to protect customers, he said. The FCC said it’s taking action to protect consumers. One example is the voluntary cybersecurity labeling program for wireless consumer “Internet of Things” products. Video doorbells fall into that product bucket, along with an array of internet-connected devices like smart TVs, home smart speakers and home security cameras that must be protected from hackers.

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A man tears up a photo of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Serbia (Image: AP/Darko Vojinovic) Bashar al-Assad was secure in power right up until the moment he wasn’t, which it turns out was November 30, when the northern city of Aleppo — or what was left of it after Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies devastated the city and murdered tens of thousands of its inhabitants between 2012 and 2016 — fell to the forces of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led alliance. Few observers picked that a full-scale collapse of the Assad regime was imminent — the fall of Aleppo was merely a “significant threat”, according to the sober-minded Foreign Policy . Then Homs, a city far to the south and more than halfway to Damascus, fell at the end of last week and it became clear an Afghanistan-style collapse was happening to a regime that had appeared immovable. Assad has now reportedly retreated to Moscow, now the guest of another monster. It’s an outcome he could have obtained more than a decade ago with some honour and international credit if he had stepped down in the face of Arab Spring protests against his vicious rule. Don’t let the hard left, the propagandists and apologists for Assad tell you otherwise: the removal of this monster is an unmitigated good. He is responsible for the slaughter of at least half a million people , including more than 160,000 civilians. His regime’s systematic use of torture and sexual violence — against women , men and children — is a matter of record, as is his use of chemical weapons and illegal munitions on his own citizens. The only pity is that he wasn’t dragged from a ditch by his enemies like Muammar Gaddafi, but will instead enjoy the luxury of exile. ‘This is the toughest time since the genocide began’: Famine continues to spread across Gaza Read More But like the welcome overthrow of Gaddafi did for Libya, Assad’s removal only rolls the dice on Syria’s political future rather than guaranteeing any sort of better world. The Libyan example demonstrates the chaos and misery that can follow the removal of a tyrant, as well as the consequences for the broader region (ask Italians about the scourge of mass illegal migration caused by Gaddafi’s removal, and the impact it has had on the nation’s politics). The leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Ahmad al-Sharaa (formerly Abu Mohammed al-Golani), might seek to portray himself as an unusually pluralist kind of Islamist militant, but as yet there is no evidence he can hold Syria together any more than Assad could in the face of multiple factions and a continuing Russian presence — or that he won’t resort to the same brutal measures to hold on to the territory he’s now claimed. At this point, Libya Mark 2 would seem to be the most likely outcome, despite the celebrations in Syrian cities, with the Islamic State poised to try to take advantage. Assad’s deposition is a very late win for the Biden administration, which, like the Obama administration, has continued to fund and arm whichever Syrian rebels it determined were the least worst. It’s also an illustration of the limits of Vladimir Putin’s power. The once mighty Russia now can’t prop up its closest allies even with the support of Iran and major terrorist groups like Hezbollah. All Putin can do is offer a safe haven for the fleeing tyrant. It’s also problematic for Donald Trump, whose famously subtle idea of “diplomacy” will be tested by having to find a way to help prevent Syria from falling into chaos. He could start by ditching Tulsi Gabbard as his pick for director of national intelligence given her enthusiastic support for Assad . You may, if you’re a glutton for punishment, remember Murdoch buffoon Greg Sheridan lauding Trump as having “ greater deterrent credibility ” than Kamala Harris. Sheridan has never explained how appointing a Putin and Assad supporter as director of national intelligence demonstrated “greater deterrent credibility”, but the case, such as it is, took an almighty hit over the weekend. Have something to say about this article? Write to us at letters@crikey.com.au . Please include your full name to be considered for publication in Crikey’s Your Say . We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity.No. 2 Auburn not taking Monmouth lightly

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