you can't make this stuff up

Giant harmonica? I don't get it

I'd sell it off.

Rub it in man, rub it in.

@silvermouse said:
If you pass by a café that operates a Wi-Fi network, you can be identified—even if you do not carry a smartphone with you. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have found out that it is possible to identify people solely through Wi-Fi signals. They point out that this constitutes a significant risk to privacy.

To infer the identity of people, it is no longer necessary that they carry a smartphone or tablet on them. It takes nothing but Wi-Fi devices communicating with one another in the person's surroundings. This creates an image comparable to a camera shot, but based on radio waves. The research team calls for adequate privacy safeguards.

"By observing the propagation of radio waves, we can create an image of the surroundings and of persons there," says Professor Thorsten Strufe from KASTEL—KIT's Institute of Information Security and Dependability. "This works similarly to a normal camera, the difference being that in our case, radio waves instead of light waves are transformed into an image," explains the cybersecurity expert.

"Thus, it does not matter whether you carry a Wi-Fi device on you or not." Even switching a device off does not help: "It's sufficient that other Wi-Fi devices in your surroundings are active."

https://share.google/Z2YI6UqN9gIgIyGcD

Don't even know how to take this.

They’ve been using this technology and a form of radar/sonar to map the inside of building from above for years.

Check out all the Hacking Conferences and past ones and see we have no security or little at best..

@Rdp77 said:

@TRayB said:
Rub it in man, rub it in.

They actually fired him 😳
$70 million buyout too so the boosters must have really been fed up

Holy Moly, I wanted it, but never expected it to happen. I guess when the adult fan base (non-students) have turned on you, the Athletic Department's main concern becomes avoiding the blame, which would soon have turned on them if they did nothing. I wonder what happens to Jim Knowles, who for the past three weeks has seemed to still be on Ohio State's payroll.

ETA: I'm reading it's a $48M buyout, even so, I guess Lame Game James will be OK until he secures a new gig.

@Rdp77 said:

@TRayB said:

@Rdp77 said:

@TRayB said:
Rub it in man, rub it in.

They actually fired him 😳
$70 million buyout too so the boosters must have really been fed up

Holy Moly, I wanted it, but never expected it to happen. I guess when the adult fan base (non-students) have turned on you, the Athletic Department's main concern becomes avoiding the blame, which would soon have turned on them if they did nothing. I wonder what happens to Jim Knowles, who for the past three weeks has seemed to still be on Ohio State's payroll.

ETA: I'm reading it's a $48M buyout, even so, I guess Lame Game James will be OK until he secures a new gig.

Yeah, I had heard several different ones previously. Everything from 50-70 was said. Looks like it’s just shy of 50 which should be more than enough for him to drift away into obscurity like he should.

He will be a head coach again, no doubt, probably after a stint in broadcasting.

Scrapple sculpting contest last week in Philly. They gave each participant five pounds of scrapple.

https://youtu.be/QLyJOkWLYGU?si=5EYoMa2exlIGY0uD

@ShawnOL said:
Had to Google scrapple. Interesting.

"Everything but the oink"

I am all for conservation, ours is the only house on the street that encourages wildlfe. But then there is this, from Semafor:

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a snail

The Western world is in the grip of a housing crisis, and the best way to fix a housing crisis is to build more houses. But much of the West is limited in its ability to do that, because interest groups are able to use existing legislation to prevent their building. A good example, says the former British civil servant Michael Dnes, is the case of the little whirlpool ramshorn snail. They are rare, and thus protected under British law, and all construction near a colony must take them into account. Dnes has previously written about a stretch of road that has been denied important safety work for years — a period during which six people have died on that road — because of the snails.

Now, he writes, the presence of the snails in a valley in the southeast of England has led to a block on the construction of 20,000 new homes. The valley itself will not be built on; the concern is simply that building homes nearby might reduce the amount of water that reaches the valley. Any project, in an area of 350 square miles home to 250,000 people, must prove that it will not create any more water demand, in case it dries out the snails; simply bringing in more water, perhaps via a pipe, will not do. “No one appears to have stood up and said ARE YOU COMPLETELY INSANE!?!,” says Dnes. “Which seems like a missed opportunity.”

@TRayB said:

@ShawnOL said:
Had to Google scrapple. Interesting.

I don't eat anything with crap in the middle.

LOL, Don't blame you. Many old-timers do everything. We throw the bone in to a Vat type thing and simmer over fire for several hours. Go through it to remove the bones and such and then make it. You can add as much or as little of the pig as you want. Sort of like hot dogs.