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by siffland 7y ago
I don't know, I saw this on an Outer Limits episode once, those tumbleweeds are up to no good or maybe they are trying to communicate....... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_of_Silence
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by siffland 7y ago
I have personally almost hit people riding in the middle of he road on multiple occasions (mostly near the convention center area). On the weekends i will drive around the downtown area wasting time and gas to now avoid that situation. My
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by siffland 7y ago
I ride a motorcycle to work almost everyday (today's 47 degree ride was a bit brisk) and i have to say, drivers don't look out for bikes, and this is a major city (San Antonio). My big issues with motorized bicycles are lanes to r
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by siffland 7y ago
By not caring about who can look at my front lawn, I am implying if that camera footage gets hacked I do not care. I own my lawn and can do whatever I want with the footage. As for people walking or driving by, they are in public and have
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by siffland 7y ago
My other half wanted the nest cameras, especially the doorbell one. She wanted to be able to check in real time when we are not at home if someone was at the door. I wanted camera's in the garage and back yard on at all times (people
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by siffland 7y ago
Most car manufacturers are reactive, like the Jeep hack a few years ago. Cyber Security should be on the forefront of their radar, but takes a back seat. So having outdated software is not that big of a surprise. I have a 3 year old phon
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by siffland 7y ago
This stuff gets me paranoid, i have a nest doorbell, because i don't care who can look at my front lawn, and a nest camera that only gets plugged in when no one is at the house. Other than that i have a closed circuit camera system wi
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by siffland 7y ago
This is the US, the chances of him serving all 10 years is slim, probably parole out after a few. Also anytime he already served in jail will go towards his sentence. However, this is a hospital, imagine if the DOS somehow would of contrib
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by siffland 7y ago
I would bet most of this users clicking things they should not. recently my company put out a phishing email and people clicked on it and then started a thread on the internal forums about how mad they were the company would do this (they
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by siffland 7y ago
Does this mean now we have to coin the phrase "deepfake news" I can just hear people saying it now. Joking aside, and not taking in ANY ethical/unethical misuse considerations this software is capable of, it is really cool t
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by siffland 7y ago
Someone needs to recompile zork to make use of this, just image the time assisted speed run you could get ;) Zork TAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIXUSyC9dpM
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by siffland 7y ago
One main difference is anyone can buy a truck and start a shipment company. Unless you have a ton of cash you cannot lay down infrastructure for your own ISP and must pay someone else to sue theirs. Also I am pretty sure a lot of our infra
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by siffland 7y ago
I will preface this with, my internet costs a ton and i would love it to be cheaper. My issues with the government running the internet is, first money. They say they are going to end price gouging, but they will spend billions, if they su
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by siffland 7y ago
Some people do splurge for flowers and a casket, but the last 4 or 5 funerals i have been to stated "in lieu of flowers" donate to such and such. Some people dont do that and still buy flowers. As for the casket, I believe the ch
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by siffland 7y ago
Living in San Antonio, I ride almost every day. It is funny when I ride and have no phone or music I am much more aware of my surroundings. I also notice people texting more and when a car is driving funny can almost predict if they are o
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by siffland 7y ago
It is an Insignia from Best Buy, so it is a budget brand.
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by siffland 7y ago
Years ago i used to go bowling with a few friends, i would get like 80 or 90 points and they would get around 225ish. Several months later i was up to getting around 200 points per game. Granted it was all for fun, but just playing with t
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by siffland 7y ago
When i got a new TV last year, the kid at Best Buy thought it was funny i wanted a non smart TV. I managed to get a 55" with no networking or applications. I know i am the minority, but i just want the TV to turn on and display a pic
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by siffland 7y ago
It is public because you can walk or ride a bike there. The pay to park in a convenience fee.
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by siffland 7y ago
Just for a clarification, when I said "Voting 3rd party exercises your right to say you don't like either of the other 2 candidates" I actually voted for a third party, i liked better than the other 2. It was not a protest.
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by siffland 7y ago
I have someone I work with who quite literally mocks people for voting for a 3rd party and actually tries to "shame" them for it, usually using a line like "which means he is voting to keep the incumbent in" (usually wi
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by siffland 7y ago
So it is $129 for the device, $9.99 Per month, $x.xx for the internet connection you require at all time due to no offline play, $x.xx to buy titles that you can only play with said internet connection. At least now you CAN buy games you ca
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by siffland 7y ago
cough Nintendo Virtual Boy cough Imagine buying that and only getting 22 Games total.......Good call on waiting on the Oculus Rift
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by siffland 7y ago
I was also told in 15 to 20 years i might need glasses again (late 50's, early 60's). I am cool with that. I once had contacts, they did work OK. My issues were that i suck at putting things in my eye. I never got comfortable p
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by siffland 7y ago
I wanted LASIK so bad starting around 2010, I had worn glasses since I was 6 for my astigmatism. The reason I did not get it was because someone I worked with had a friend who they messed up one of his eyes and he was legally blind. My si
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by siffland 7y ago
Code 1,1A Code 1,1A,2B Code 1B,2B,3 Zero-Zero-Zero Destruct Zero What that is secure.......
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by siffland 7y ago
I have netflix, hulu, sling and amazon (mostly for prime delivery). The family asked me if i would get Disney, i said no. Kind of wanted to watch the Picard series, but not going to get CBS access (or whatever it is on) for 1 show. I wil
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by siffland 7y ago
It is interesting, but then you get into jobs where you cannot shorten the work week, such as Police or TSA workers or other such things. There are tons of thankless jobs that pretty much are built around having to work the 40(+) hours, so
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by siffland 7y ago
It would be awesome if someone would create an online database not just against blackbird, but against all patent trolls, like every time a patent trollish lawsuit is brought forth, just add the company and all their patents and go to town.
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by siffland 7y ago
One would this the best solution for this would be a Federated structure that would ensure a Chinese Systems administrator could only deal with whatever resources assigned (China maybe) and a US administrator can only work with whatever res

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