Octopus Overlords

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:50 pm My idea to replace our current phone system with CB radios is not getting the serious attention I expected.

Sudy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2018 9:56 pm Some months ago I lost one of my credit cards. I knew it wasn't stolen... I'd just misplaced it. But despite searching everywhere, I couldn't find it.

After endless procrastination, I finally called in to the credit card company this afternoon to have a replacement sent to me.

I just found the card.

Zarathud wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:33 pm A cheap pair of walkie talkies could be just as fun. And annoying.

Ian Primus, an IT repair technician and CRT aficionado, has amassed a basement and storage unit full of old TVs. He has a reputation as one of the increasingly few people who will take CRTs off people’s hands. “If you let people know that you’re looking for old TVs, suddenly you’ve got three or four people calling you,” he says. He gives out his number to thrift stores that have decided the bulky sets are more trouble than they’re worth and want to direct donors elsewhere. Sometimes he simply drives around at night before garbage collection, looking for castoffs.

Primus says he doesn’t just hoard old TVs; he uses them constantly in his daily life. “I don’t have an LCD computer monitor, and I don’t have an LCD TV. Everything is CRTs,” he says. “I know I’m crazy.” Most new devices exclusively support current TVs, including one of Primus’ newer tech purchases — Nintendo’s NES Classic — which, ironically for such a retro-looking device, only features a modern HDMI adapter. But it’s still possible to use adapters with many of them. As long as that’s true, Primus says he’ll probably stick with CRTs.

AWS260 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:06 am CRTs in 2018.

Ian Primus, an IT repair technician and CRT aficionado, has amassed a basement and storage unit full of old TVs. He has a reputation as one of the increasingly few people who will take CRTs off people’s hands. “If you let people know that you’re looking for old TVs, suddenly you’ve got three or four people calling you,” he says. He gives out his number to thrift stores that have decided the bulky sets are more trouble than they’re worth and want to direct donors elsewhere. Sometimes he simply drives around at night before garbage collection, looking for castoffs.

Primus says he doesn’t just hoard old TVs; he uses them constantly in his daily life. “I don’t have an LCD computer monitor, and I don’t have an LCD TV. Everything is CRTs,” he says. “I know I’m crazy.” Most new devices exclusively support current TVs, including one of Primus’ newer tech purchases — Nintendo’s NES Classic — which, ironically for such a retro-looking device, only features a modern HDMI adapter. But it’s still possible to use adapters with many of them. As long as that’s true, Primus says he’ll probably stick with CRTs.

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 7:32 pm

KDH wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 7:03 pm .
... ... America’s Top 20 most-hated companies

List (without verbage)

Spoiler:

20. The Weinstein Company
19. United Airlines
18. Facebook
17. CenturyLink
16. Monsanto
15. Comcast
14. Uber
13. Sears Holdings
12. The Trump Organization
11. Wells Fargo
10. Cigna
9. Spirit Airlines
8. Vice Media
7. Sprint
6. Foxconn Technology Group
5. Electronic Arts
4. University of Phoenix
3. NFL
2. Fox Entertainment Group
1. Equifax

A few surprises on that list, more with the rankings than with the contents. I find it hard to believe that more people hate EA than Cigna, for example, and I expected to see Comcast nearer the top. I've never heard an approving word for Comcast.

Sudy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2018 9:56 pm Some months ago I lost one of my credit cards. I knew it wasn't stolen... I'd just misplaced it. But despite searching everywhere, I couldn't find it.

After endless procrastination, I finally called in to the credit card company this afternoon to have a replacement sent to me.

I just found the card.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:02 pm McDonalds fries help cure baldness? Sorta..a chemical in them might do just that.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medica ... ar-BBIJqnv

morlac wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:30 pm Any yet, not a single one of them appears to be in any danger of going out of business soon. The Corporations truly do run the world. Rise up Sheeple!

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:38 pm Which is sad, considering that I work for one credit union and am a member of a second one that perform debit card instant issue. I can have a new debit card with an EMV chip in my hands in probably 15 minutes.

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:44 pm

morlac wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:30 pm Any yet, not a single one of them appears to be in any danger of going out of business soon. The Corporations truly do run the world. Rise up Sheeple!

13. Sears Holdings

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:38 pm Which is sad, considering that I work for one credit union and am a member of a second one that perform debit card instant issue. I can have a new debit card with an EMV chip in my hands in probably 15 minutes.

morlac wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:37 pm My mother in law got robbed at the grocery store yesterday. Nice little 2 woman operation. 1st distracted her and the 2nd stole her wallet out of her purse. Anyhow, she had to reorder all her cards. Working with Wells Fargo on her new bankcard she told them how bad/quickly she needed a new one due to stuff. The lady said it would take up to 10 business days to get her a new one. When asked about an expedite and over nighting one she was told that yes they could. When asked what it would cost she was told nothing. So I guess she just needed to beg more?

Sudy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:21 pm Mrs. Nym has wanted to find a good credit union so that we don't have to be loyal to the big Canadian banks anymore, but we haven't found one with a convenient location.

Before about 25 years ago, the species simply did not exist. A single drastic mutation in a single crayfish produced the marbled crayfish in an instant.

The mutation made it possible for the creature to clone itself, and now it has spread across much of Europe and gained a toehold on other continents. In Madagascar, where it arrived about 2007, it now numbers in the millions and threatens native crayfish.

“We may never have caught the genome of a species so soon after it became a species,” said Zen Faulkes, a biologist at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, who was not involved in the new study.

As marmorkrebs became more popular, owners grew increasingly puzzled. The crayfish seemed to be laying eggs without mating. The progeny were all female, and each one grew up ready to reproduce.

The scientists concluded that the new species got its start when two slough crayfish mated. One of them had a mutation in a sex cell — whether it was an egg or sperm, the scientists can’t tell.

Normal sex cells contain a single copy of each chromosome. But the mutant crayfish sex cell had two.

Somehow the two sex cells fused and produced a female crayfish embryo with three copies of each chromosome instead of the normal two. Somehow, too, the new crayfish didn’t suffer any deformities as a result of all that extra DNA.

It grew and thrived. But instead of reproducing sexually, the first marbled crayfish was able to induce her own eggs to start dividing into embryos. The offspring, all females, inherited identical copies of her three sets of chromosomes. They were clones.

It’s such a strange juxtaposition — how Michael’s music was so joyous, but his life just seems sadder and more odd as time goes by.
Yes, but at the end Michael’s problem was Propofol, and that problem affects everyone — doesn’t matter if you’re famous. Big Pharma making OxyContin and all that shit is a serious thing. I was around the White House for eight years with the Clintons, and I’d learn about how much influence Big Pharma has. It’s no joke. What’s your sign, man?

Pisces.
Me too. It’s a great sign.

You just mentioned the Clintons, who are friends of yours. Why is there still such visceral dislike of them? What are other people not seeing in Hillary, for example, that you see?
It’s because there’s a side of her — when you keep secrets, they backfire.

Like what secrets?
This is something else I shouldn’t be talking about.

You sure seem to know a lot.
I know too much, man.

What’s something you wish you didn’t know?
Who killed Kennedy.

What’s stirred everything up? Is it all about Trumpism?
It’s Trump and uneducated rednecks. Trump is just telling them what they want to hear. I used to hang out with him. He’s a crazy motherfucker. Limited mentally — a megalomaniac, narcissistic. I can’t stand him. I used to date Ivanka, you know.

Wait, really?
Yes, sir. Twelve years ago. Tommy Hilfiger, who was working with my daughter Kidada, said, “Ivanka wants to have dinner with you.” I said, “No problem. She’s a fine motherfucker.” She had the most beautiful legs I ever saw in my life. Wrong father, though.

Maybe not the cha-cha.
[Marlon] Brando used to go cha-cha dancing with us. He could dance his ass off. He was the most charming motherfucker you ever met. He’d fuck anything. Anything! He’d fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye.

He slept with them? How do you know that?
[Frowns.] Come on, man. He did not give a fuck! You like Brazilian music?

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:58 pm What should your fantasy eye color really be

My result

KDH wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:44 pm .
... Beware the looming Google Chrome HTTPS certificate apocalypse!

In April, Google-Chrome will stop trusting Symantec Certificates of Trustworthyness (of a certain date) ... In October, All Symantec certs

From December 1, 2017, all Symantec certificate brands (Symantec, GeoTrust, Thawte and RapidSSL) will be issued from DigiCert’s validation platform and Chrome will trust those certificates. For clarity: the Symantec certificate brands will continue to exist after December 2017, they will only be issued from a different, upgraded validation platform. Google will continue to trust all Symantec certificates that have been issued from this new platform after December 1st, 2017.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2018 5:10 pm
edit3: Ok, I'm pretty sure I've figured out your situation Kraken. Here's a link to GeoTrust's own notification about the problem and how to deal with it:

GeoTrust plan for Chrome distrust

There is a table at that link, and the last entry applies to you.

In effect, you're the worst case scenario, with a cert issued after April 2016, but before Dec 1 2017, and yours expires after September 13, 2018.

All that means is that you'll have to manually request a new cert from GeoTrust. You can do this any time between Dec 1, 2017 and Sept 13, 2018. i.e. now.

This is the only part of my rambling that matters to you Kraken:

ACTION Kraken should: contact GeoTrust and ask for a new cert. If you have someone managing your website for you, email them, tell them that your cert is going to be distrusted by Chrome (and other browsers are going to follow, almost certainly) and you need a new cert.

That's it.