Got a new roomba
PIA
I didn’t pick it, I’m just tech support.
Argh!
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https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/australia-car-flood-escape-safety/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Australia Wants to Make Your Car Easier to Escape in a Flood
Steven Ewing
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What’s happening
The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) will implement new safety regulations making cars easier to escape in a flood.
Why it matters
The rules would require a car’s power windows to remain operational for 10 minutes after going under water, making it easier for occupants to escape or rescue workers to get in.
What’s next
ANCAP’s new rules go into effect in 2023.
There’s a pretty simple rule of thumb to follow when it comes to driving in floods: If the water looks too deep, it is too deep.
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The Australian Gooferment want to make cars escapable. Doesn’t everyone have one of those windshield breakers on their car key reing? I give them to all new drivers and have them on my ring!
Depending upon the Gooferment for anything is foolish.
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Internet Archive’s Controlled Digital Lending Program Is Lawful Fair Use That Preserves Traditional Library Lending in the Digital World
Press Release
July 8, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO—The Internet Archive has asked a federal judge to rule in its favor and end a radical lawsuit, filed by four major publishing companies, that aims to criminalize library lending.
The Internet Archive, headquartered in San Francisco, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit library which preserves and provides access to cultural artifacts of all kinds in electronic form. The motion for summary judgment, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Durie Tangri LLP, explains that the Archive’s Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program is a lawful fair use that preserves traditional library lending in the digital world.
The brief explains how the Internet Archive is advancing the purposes of copyright law by furthering public access to knowledge and facilitating the creation of new creative and scholarly works. The Internet Archive’s digital lending hasn’t cost the publishers one penny in revenues; in fact, concrete evidence shows that the Archive’s digital lending does not and will not harm the market for books.
“Should we stop libraries from owning and lending books? No,” said Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive’s founder and digital librarian. “We need libraries to be independent and strong, now more than ever, in a time of misinformation and challenges to democracy. That’s why we are defending the rights of libraries to serve our patrons where they are, online.”
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When do we put a stop to BIG X (Pharma, Auto, Government, Medicine, etc.), in this case Big Publishing, from trying to monopolize everything?
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Posted by reinkefj
A friend got a check “washed” that had been mailed in a drop box, altered, and cashed.
Needless to say, they didn’t even conceive of such happening.
I suggested a few follow ups on what to do.
First and foremost, immediately file a police report.
He’d notified bank and changed accounts Updated on the credit reporting agencies (transunion, experian, equifax, etc).
Then, he’s going to notify all the places he hold accounts.
Argh!
I think IMHO the banks should have the ability for account holders to “pre post” the checks they write with the check number and amount. In effect, “write” it twice — once on paper and once on line. Then if the check gets altered, the bank will no to reject it. Seems simple enough to me and would be a great “value added service”. I’d think it would be real popular with business. After all the bank’s bill pay is almost that already.
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Folly of the fob: Skyrocketing car thefts more proof that old metal keys were better
Apr 08, 2022, 6:32pmUpdated 10h ago
By: Brian Donohue
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I agree.
It’s funny when I switch cars and look for the start button to press in the truck.
Force of habit and a lack of mindfulness.
How many people still walk around their vehicle and look underneath before driving? I was taught to look at each of the tires reporting the . Yes, I’m older than dirt! Was driving long before tires reported they were flat.
It’s like the habit of opening the (left) driver’s side door with your right hand. And visa versa. (With distracted pedestrians on the sidewalk, one has to look out for those fools as well. Argh!)
FWIW.
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Company’s Innovative Smart Beehive Gets $80 Million in Funding to Save Bees From Any Hazard
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The traditional hive most commonly used in the world today (the Langstroth box) was designed by humans about 150 years ago. Most people are so used to them they mistakenly confuse them with bees’ natural habitat.
By completely redesigning the beehive, a company called Beewise was able to address many of the inefficiencies of the box and significantly improve bees’ well-being and life longevity.
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I found this fascinating.
And, an example of replacing a 150 year old solution with an improved one.
400$/month? Too rich for my backyard.
Maybe a GoFundMe could put one in a park as a way of “helping”?
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The final word from Twitter on my account (after 13 years): we’re deleting you and everything you ever wrote
Steve Kirsch
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Summary
Twitter, LinkedIn, and Medium all believe deplatforming me (and others who share my beliefs that early treatments work and the vaccines are dangerous) is a service to their community.
The message these companies want to send to everyone is that if you stick to the popular narrative, you will not be punished.
This is a new America where you need to conform or you will be deplatformed.
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I guess it’s time for me to leave ANY platform that “deplatforms” ANY ONE for anything other than a “free speech violation”.
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CLOUDREADY BECOMES CHROME OS FLEX —
Google turns old Macs, PCs into Chromebooks with Chrome OS Flex
Google acquisition results in free, downloadable Chrome OS.
SCHARON HARDING – 2/15/2022, 12:00 PM
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Google is positioning Chrome OS Flex as an answer to old Mac and Windows PCs that might not be able to handle the latest version of their native OS and/or that might not be owned by folks with budgets to replace the devices. Rather than buying new hardware, consumers or IT departments could install the latest version of Chrome OS Flex.
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Sounds like something I want to try and maybe better than trying to run some version of Linux on old junk?
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EMAIL FROM LUDDITE
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I have been talking a lot with friends about the push for EVs, and am hoping that you would consider doing a segment that investigates the practicality of electric vehicles. Here are the questions I have that I believe have not been addressed:
1. The cost of EVs are much higher than our current gas vehicles, that will exclude many from being able to afford one.
2. I have also heard that the cost of replacing the batteries in 4-5 years is in the thousands of dollars. Add that to the high cost of a new vehicle, and it makes it even more prohibitive.
3. Each home or business that needs to charge their vehicles will require a new electrical circuit installed.
4. Charging an EV requires anywhere from 25 minutes to 1.5 hours, depending on whether the charging station has a fast super-charger or not. What will the impact be on people waiting to get their EV charged? First, assume that every current gas station will have to convert to have both gas and electric fill pumps, making them available for older gas vehicles and new EVs, more additional costs and additional space required. With an EV the average time to “charge up” will be at least 4 times longer (5 minutes for gas versus 20 min for EVs). Without the “fast” chargers, it could be 12 times longer (5 min vs 60 min) or even longer to charge up. Think of the impacts, time itself on the traveler, at “least” twice as many charging stations as current gas pumps, waiting locations for travelers while they charge up?
5. What about apartment/condo dwellers that park outside, or city street dwellers that have to park in the street? Will chargers be installed in all apartment parking lot locations or street parking spaces? At whose cost?
6. Where is all the additional electrical power to come from? Can you imagine the peaks during nighttime charging?
7. Hazard/space component to storing so many dead batteries after they are no longer useful?
I’m sure there are several more questions that I have not thought of, and many more issues that would need to be addressed. But it does seem as if the government has “environmental blinders” on, and are not able to foresee the damage that moving to EVs will cause. If they are concerned about “climate change” they shouldn’t be, that’s what our climate does, change. It’s been very cold and very hot off and on since it’s creation, it’s what the earth does, and we are just along for the ride!
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EV’s seem to be a dead end technology.
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4034897/posts
You can add your COVID vaccination certificate to the Apple Wallet… but should you?
TNW ^ | 2/2 | Callum Booth
Posted on 2/2/2022, 5:01:47 PM by nickcarraway
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Spoiler: Yeah, why not?
The modern world hurts my brain. Let’s take the news that Apple enables users to store their COVID vaccination certificates in the Wallet and Health apps as an example.
When I first heard about it, I was pumped. Flashing my QR code to enter a restaurant or grab a coffee would be far simpler if it sat in my Apple Wallet. Friends, the time I’d save!
But, of course, the world had something to say about that.
We talked to 4 successful entrepreneurs This is what they wish they knew before getting started
While putting my digital certificate of vaccination in an easy-to-access place is cool… is it safe? And because I can do it, does that mean I should?
Something that seemed simple on the surface is actually a minefield. I wanted some clarity on this issue.
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COVID vaccine certificates in the Apple Wallet app: not a huge concern To put it bluntly: there are no obvious dangers of moving your vaccine certificate to the Apple Wallet. This does come with a large caveat though, as this is only true if you tightly control what apps can access your data.
In this way, vaccination certificates differ from digital IDs. The majority of the former are digital by nature, while the most common forms of identification (driver’s licenses and passports) are paper-based. Digitizing them opens a huge and wriggling can of worms — while the vaccine pass system could actually benefit from being incorporated into the Apple Wallet.
So, there you have it! A little bit of respite before the modern world messes with our heads again.
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It’s just too easy for the Gooferment make this the digital version of “show me your papers”!
It’s a BIG “NO” for me.
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