IPHONE: IOS telling other iphones to reboot and lock up?

Thursday, November 14, 2024

https://www.androidauthority.com/confiscated-iphones-reboot-en-masse-3497803/

Mobile
Feature or bug? iPhones confiscated by cops reboot en masse

  • iOS in the BFU state is significantly more secure, making unauthorized data extraction much more challenging.

By Mahmoud Irani
5 hours ago

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-11-08>>

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TL;DR

  •     iOS 18 is reportedly causing confiscated iPhones to reboot after a day of inactivity or disconnection from the cellular network.
  •     After restarting, these iPhones seemingly send signals to other nearby iPhones to trigger the same behavior.
  •     It’s unclear whether this is a new iOS 18 security feature or merely the reboot bug that impacted certain iPhones a while back.

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The company has long offered system-level features that prevent thieves and law enforcement officers from easily accessing user data on a locked iDevice. 

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Well this seems like a good feature, since thieves seem to be everywhere and not all police have to obey a Fourth or Fifth Amendment rights, if they have them in their jurisdiction.

It’s a good admonishment to Users to restart their phones when thieves or police are about,

FWIW

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INTERESTING: Elephant demonstrates the use of a tool — not something seen in other than humans

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/this-elephant-figured-out-how-to-use-a-hose-to-shower/

An elephant never forgets

This elephant figured out how to use a hose to shower
Jennifer Ouellette – Nov 12, 2024 6:06 PM 

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An Asian elephant named Mary living at the Berlin Zoo surprised researchers by figuring out how to use a hose to take her morning showers, according to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology. “Elephants are amazing with hoses,” said co-author Michael Brecht of the Humboldt University of Berlin. “As it is often the case with elephants, hose tool use behaviors come out very differently from animal to animal; elephant Mary is the queen of showering.”

Tool use was once thought to be one of the defining features of humans, but examples of it were eventually observed in primates and other mammals. Dolphins have been observed using sea sponges to protect their beaks while foraging for food, and sea otters will break open shellfish like abalone with rocks. Several species of fish also use tools to hunt and crack open shellfish, as well as to clear a spot for nesting. And the coconut octopus collects coconut shells, stacking them and transporting them before reassembling them as shelter.

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It’s pretty funny to watch.  I wish I had a trunk like that for my showers.  And, the way she tosses it like a trunk extension is amazing to me.

Maybe we need to redefine “intelligence” or “human like”?

Certainly we shouldn’t be shooting them for any reason other than to alleviate suffering.  

We could learn “humanity” from animals.

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POLITICAL: Lessons from the DJT electoral landslide

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/has_the_left_learned_anything_from_the_election.html

americanthinker.com
Has the Left Learned Anything from the Election?
By Susan Quinn

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-11-07>>

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Trump’s election to the Presidency is a breathtaking achievement. So many thought he had too many issues working against him and were certain that the country would not elect a convicted felon or a man who “planned to be a dictator” on his first day in office.

But they were wrong.

It’s a worthwhile exercise to study the Left’s positions now that they’ve lost the Presidency. A major factor in their loss is that they ignored the people.

  •  The Left (which includes the legacy media) paid no attention to the desperation of the people when they cried out about the economy and inflation. Kamala Harris made some pathetic promises in her campaign to help the people, but at that point, I think that no one believed her.

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  • Regarding legislation, the Republicans must stop agreeing to pass laws that increase our debts. If they want to pass another part of the legislation, they must free it from large financial commitments. Fiscal responsibility must become our goal.Regarding legislation, the Republicans must stop agreeing to pass laws that increase our debts. If they want to pass another part of the legislation, they must free it from large financial commitments. Fiscal responsibility must become our goal.

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I’d say that the legacy lame-street media is dead.  Podcasts bypass the filters and take ideas directly to “We, The Sheeple”.

Further, I’d say that DJT4547 has a long list of things he has to do.  Day 1  — pardon all those unjustly imprisioned  — repeal ALL of the Executive Orders ever signed  —  Close the Department of Education and move the Department of Agriculture to Kansas.  Send Elon Musk and Ron Paul into the swamp to cut the size and shape of the Federal Gooferment bureaucracy.

Day 2  — make peace your number 1 priority.

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TECHNOLOGY: AI generated books are killing real authors?

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

https://www.survivalmonkey.com/threads/note-to-my-readers-ive-pulled-my-books-from-sale.72020/

FROM A POSTER:

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Have to sell books to make $$$.

The market is saturated with BS AI generated ‘survival ‘ books.

Last year I logged $37 in sales for the year…. 

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AI generated books are killing real authors?

I guess that it is possible to generate a “book” by AI.  Not sure how it’s done, but if I knew I’d do it too.  It’s the old conundrum.  If the cost to “publish” an AI generated book is zero or negligible, then one could “generate” a million and post them.  Regardless of quality, if you can “sell” a few for a profit, then you might hit the mother lode and make some real money.

Argh!

Not sure how to exploit this finding?

Maybe take old blog content and “publish” “2001 Thoughts on Guns”, or “2012 Thoughts on Money”, or even “2007 Thoughts”. 

Could that work?

Opinions?

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VETERANS: My loyalty is tarnished by “free meals” from hypocrits

Monday, November 11, 2024

https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/s/j0qb1/veterans-day-2024-discounts-freebies-and-deals-in-nj

Veterans Day 2024: Discounts, Freebies And Deals In NJ

  • Businesses are thanking NJ’s veterans and active-duty military personnel for their service with special special Veterans Day deals.

Russ Crespolini, Patch Staff

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NEW JERSEY — Restaurants, coffee shops and other businesses are thanking NJ’s veterans and active-duty military personnel for their service with special Veterans Day discounts, freebies and deals. Veterans Day, which is always observed on Nov. 11, falls on Monday this year.

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I think this cheapens being a veteran when our brothers-in-arms are second class to illegal immigrants, being denied the mental and physical health care promised, and used a political pawns on the global stage.

Tell me about your offers for them!

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VETERANS: Remember determined U.S. naval air attacks, limited Japanese situational awareness, and pure dumb luck of the Americans

Monday, November 11, 2024

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/samar.html?ICID=ref_fark

 history.navy.mil

The Battle off Samar: The Sacrifice of “Taffy 3”
<<Author Unknown>>
Published: Thu Oct 31 13:34:56 EDT 2019
<<Year Unknown>>

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The initiative, aggressiveness, and outright heroism demonstrated by Taffy 3, combined with determined U.S. naval air attacks, limited Japanese situational awareness, and pure dumb luck of the Americans had stymied Vice Admiral Kurita’s intent to destroy U.S. landing forces in the Leyte Gulf. Along with the defeats in the Sibuyan Sea, the Surigao Strait, and off Cape Engaño, the Samar engagement blunted or destroyed much of the Japanese navy’s remaining offensive capabilities and turned its surviving surface forces into a “fleet in being”—a concern for Allied commanders, but never again the threat it had still posed into early 1944.

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Hard to imagine living and dying in these situations.

Hand Salute!

To these valiant warriors.

On both sides, men stepped up to do their duty as they saw it.

Hope we never run out of such men, and now women, or “waste” their efforts.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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INTERESTING: Do we have “guardian angels”?

Sunday, November 10, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-14042965/truth-guardian-angels.html

The truth about guardian angels. Countless people have reported a mysterious ‘Third Man’ who helps in times of need – and their stories offer a tantalising glimpse of what lies beyond

  •     READ PART ONE HERE: ‘If you could see what I do, you’d know I can’t stay.’ Astonishing visions of heaven revealed by dying patients and doctors in a startling book show there’s nothing to fear – and the surprises that wait on the other side
  •     READ PART TWO HERE: The dead do come back to us: As scientists reveal astonishing proof, the stories that will convince you, from a drowned son who returns for bedside chats to the astronaut who spoke to his father’s ghost

By Patricia Pearson

Published: 06:55 EST, 5 November 2024 | Updated: 06:59 EST, 5 November 2024

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A new book, Opening Heaven’s Door, will make you re-think everything you thought about death. Here, in the third part of our spine-tingling series, survivors of shipwrecks, air crashes and terrorist attacks tell how they were mysteriously guided to safety.

 As he lay sleeping in a muddy trench in France one night, William Bird woke to find someone shaking him. It was 1917. He’d just been through the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and he was exhausted. Irritably, he tried to pull away — but whoever it was continued to shake him with some urgency.

So Bird — a journalist in civilian life — wearily opened his eyes and, to his utter astonishment, recognised his brother, Steve, who’d been reported missing in action two years earlier.

‘Steve put his warm hand over my mouth as I started to shout my happiness,’ Bird recalled. ‘Then he pointed to the sleepers in the bivvy and to my rifle. “Get your gear,” he said.’

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I am something of a agnositic atheist.  As a fat old white guy electrikal injineer, I can see electricity but I “know” something is there.  So too, I see trees sway in the wind, but I can see wind.  

And, my “sainted” wife was so lucky I suspect that she had precognition (i.e., see around the bends in the river of time to know what was coming).  I want her to go to Duke University and be tested; she never did.  As she aged that “ability” faded.

So, I know that there is a JoHari window for all of us.  I readily admit that I don’t know what I don’t know.

BUT, big butt, I suspect here is a whole lot we, as a species, don’t know.

Sigh!

Very hard to make decisions based on incomplete information!  For sure, there is a LOT of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) that we are unable to comprehend.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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TECHNOLOGY: Was able to reread Stainless Steel Rat

Saturday, November 9, 2024

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/harry-harrison/the-stainless-steel-rat

The Stainless Steel Rat
Harry Harrison

James “Slippery Jim” diGriz is a criminal in a galaxy where crime has almost been eradicated. In his own words, he’s a rat in the wainscoting of society, and now that society is all ferroconcrete and stainless steel only a stainless steel rat can find the gaps. Despite a nose for the hustle and a healthily paranoid survival instinct, Jim’s luck has to run out at some point—and when it does, it isn’t a prison cell he’s offered, but a job with the Special Corps.

The Stainless Steel Rat—a fix-up novel based on two earlier short stories for Astounding magazine—was the first in a long series of books by Harry Harrison to star the anti-hero. It is never less than a breathless ride, with twists and turns at every corner. As well as the twelve novels and additional short stories, the Stainless Steel Rat has appeared in numerous comics and games over the years, and has become Harrison’s most enduring character.

# – # – # – # – # 

As good as I remember reading it decades ago.

Funny that the technology makes it so available.

If this had existed when I was a kid, I’d have never stopped reading EVERY sci-fi book available.

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FUN: Kiss a llama and avoid airport rage?

Saturday, November 9, 2024

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/03/nx-s1-5173755/therapy-animals-portland-airport-llama-alpaca

HEALTH NEWS

Anxious at the Portland airport? Beni the Llama is here for you, spreading joy
NOVEMBER 4, 2024 · 5:00 AM ET
By Katia Riddle

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When Beni the llama and Captain Jack the alpaca saunter with their handlers through the front doors of the Portland International Airport on a recent morning, time seems to stop.

People who were moments earlier hustling to their gates stand still. Those who were occupied with their phones look up and stare. Some take videos. A crowd quickly forms. Within minutes, a dozen people are lined up for the chance to have their picture taken with one of these animals.

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Cute.  Llamas are strangely attractive. And all I’ve seen at a llama farm are friendly.  Could be due to the fact that we had “llama food” and they’re all on special diets.

Scratching them was uniquely and strangely calming.  Mush like petting a dog. 

Wonder what the magnetism is?

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GUNS: The Gooferment has to STRICTLY enforce “felon in possession” and enhanced sentences for crimes using a firearm

Friday, November 8, 2024

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/11/07/requiring-ids-doesnt-prevent-illegal-gun-sales-n1226822

Requiring IDs Doesn’t Prevent Illegal Gun Sales
By Tom Knighton | 12:29 PM | November 07, 2024

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One thing many anti-gunners want is for there to be an ID requirement for each and every gun sale in this country. The fact that many also oppose ID requirements for voting seems kind of hilarious to me, but it is what it is.

Most of us have had to show ID while buying a firearm at one point or another. Maybe not for face-to-face transfers, but any gun bought in a store required an ID. 

This, some would argue, makes those sales nice and secure.

Yeah, about that…

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ID requirements may sound good, but the truth is that it just means the market for fake IDs gets a little bigger. Similar can be said about literally everything else means to thwart criminals in their efforts to arm themselves.

It’s a lost cause and a waste of time to keep beating heads against walls and calling it gun control.

Tom Knighton

Tom Knighton is a Navy veteran, a former newspaperman, a novelist, and a blogger and lifetime shooter. He lives with his family in Southwest Georgia. He also puts out a daily newsletter of non-Second Amendment stories at https://tomknighton.substack.com/

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The Gooferment has to STRICTLY enforce “felon in possession” and enhanced sentences for crimes using a firearm.

I hope DJT4547 requires each of his Assistant Attorneys General to report how many convictions they get for “felon in possession”.  The following month, the lowest scoring AAG, and their next in command, should be required to report in person, a la Apprentice style, why this happened and how it’s to be remedied.  If DJT4547 doesn’t like the excuses, then their second in command can give it a try.  I bet crime with guns will drop like a rock within a year.  Criminals are not stupid.

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