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Post by Ratty on Jan 15, 2020 7:56:09 GMT
Did you check it for listening devices? It used to send out little squeeks occasionally ... but I "muzzled" it. Contact SETI immediately. Do not pass 'Go' ......
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 15, 2020 17:30:49 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 16, 2020 0:20:35 GMT
Definitely not a Pictish trait
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Post by Ratty on Jan 16, 2020 6:09:20 GMT
The Winter Boots
Did you hear about the teacher who was helping one of her class pupils put on his boots?
He asked for help and she could see why.
Even with her pulling and him pushing, the little boots still didn't want to go on.
By the time they got the second boot on, she had worked up a sweat.
She almost cried when the little boy said, 'Teacher, they're on the wrong feet.'
She looked, and sure enough, they were.
It wasn't any easier pulling the boots off than it was putting them on.
She managed to keep her cool as, together, they worked to get the boots back on, this time on the correct feet.
He then announced, 'These aren't my boots.'
She bit her tongue, rather than get right in his face and scream, 'Why didn't you say so? ' like she wanted to.
Once again she struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off his little feet.
No sooner had they got the boots off when he said, 'They're my brother's boots. My Mum made me wear 'em.'
Now she didn't know if she should laugh or cry.
But she mustered up what grace and courage she had left to wrestle the boots on his feet again.
Helping him into his coat, she asked, 'Now, where are your mittens?'
He said, 'I stuffed 'em in the toes of my boots.'
She will be eligible for parole in three years.
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 16, 2020 11:27:31 GMT
Special sunglasses, license-plate dresses: How to be anonymous in the age of surveillanceCory Doctorow’s sunglasses are seemingly ordinary. But they are far from it when seen on security footage, where his face is transformed into a glowing white orb.
The lenses of normal sunglasses become clear under any form of infrared light, but the special wavelength absorbers baked into Urban’s glasses soak up the light and turn them black. Reflectacles’ absorbent quality makes them effective at blocking Face ID on the newest iPhones. While Urban said the glasses aren’t designed to evade facial recognition that doesn’t use infrared light, they will lessen the chance of a positive match in such systems.
A longtime privacy advocate, Urban has avoided the adoption of smart technologies that could store his personal information. “Me and my grandmother are the only two people left that don’t have a smartphone,” Urban said over his flip phone.
Some gear demonstrates the faultiness of AI systems that are relied upon for investigations. L.A.-based cybersecurity analyst Kate Rose created her own fashion line called Adversarial Fashion to obfuscate automatic license-plate readers. A clothes maker on the side, she imprinted stock images of out-of-use and fake license plates onto fabric to create shirts and dresses. When the wearers walk past the AI systems at traffic stops, the machines read the images on the clothes as plates, in turn feeding junk data into the technology.www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/special-sunglasses-license-plate-dresses-juggalo-face-paint-how-to-be-anonymous-in-the-age-of-surveillance/
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 16, 2020 11:37:10 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Jan 16, 2020 22:20:15 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 16, 2020 22:49:30 GMT
Yours?
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 16, 2020 23:02:14 GMT
In the spirit of the season, I voted twice!
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Post by Ratty on Jan 16, 2020 23:29:31 GMT
Yours? Not mine, do not use.
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Post by Ratty on Jan 17, 2020 0:25:52 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 17, 2020 0:59:16 GMT
Been there done that. The real problem comes when the glitch is in a 'library' routine that has apparently been working with no problems nobody thinks about and is only stored as a binary. Happy days - "It crashed - here's the hex dump" - two boxes of printout dumped on desk. Used to get up to 3 a day. Urgent fixes could be typing in the machine code then hand link edit that into the broken code - while the operational machine was running with a circle of nervous engineers checking every key press 8-) .
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 17, 2020 2:13:40 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 17, 2020 3:45:27 GMT
Found this on an Aussie Facebook site.
West Coast joke for Jay Schlechter
"A man died and found himself waiting in the long line of judgment. As he stood there, he noticed that some souls were allowed to march straight through the pearly gates into Heaven and others were led over to Satan, who then threw them into a burning pit. However he also observed that every now and again, instead of hurling poor souls into the fire, Satan would put them to one side on a separate pile.
After watching Satan do this several times, the man’s curiosity got the better of him, so he strolled over to Satan and said: “Excuse me, Prince of Darkness, I’m waiting in line for judgment, but I couldn’t help noticing that whereas you throw some people into the burning pit, you put others to one side.”
“Ah, those,” groaned Satan. “They’re all from Seattle; they’re too wet to burn.”
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 17, 2020 4:00:41 GMT
Darwin award early 2020 heats...
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