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A lot of people in the IT field use them because they don't want to work on computers when they go home too.

  Costs more up front but they last forever.  I'm an extremely heavy user and am still happy with going on a 4 year old iMac and the only thing that has been done to it is bump up the RAM to 8gb.  Thing runs windows 8 and OSX at the same time with zero lag.  in 3+ years it has never once locked up with anywhere from 2-10 hours of use per day.

We always tip if there is good service, if not, we don't. But we also try to remember that a lot of times the issues are the fault of the kitchen and not the server. And sometimes if the food is just awesome, we'll throw a 20 directly to the chef. Have also went with a group and had a great server, we folded up a 50$ really small and laid it under a 1$ bill. Was funny watching her pick up the 1$ and looking pissed off, then I think she thought it was a 5$ under. Then she unfolded it and started crying. It was funny watching someone go from pissed off to content to excited in like 5 seconds.

That was good, but the dead hooker in the bed, burning room and Antonio Banderas' kids was my favorite.

  This guy is full of win!  He even quoted an Eagles song lyric right in the middle of making a serious statement.

Four Rooms is mine by far, surprised anyone else knew about it... Never seemed to take off here in the states but was massive in Europe.  Still have an original movie theater poster of it around here somewhere

Man those are some awesome planes

Who cares who the strong candidates are? People sitting out the last election because of principles are ecatly why we are in this mess now. Just vote for God's sake!

If you're interested I can get my wife to message you when she gets back in town, she started working for Liberty Mutual and would at least be able to tell you the specifics for them.   But State Farm has not changed anything as of yet; just the deductible and costs, don't think they depreciate.

Heck, didn't know they made those, might have to pick myself up one

Lot's of options, easiest one as they said before is to put a screwdriver through it.  I hope those tards at the shop didn't put that on with an air wrench

  Technically the facial recognition stuff will be a paid, private service too cause your plethora of taxes paid for it and we're sure as hell never going to know what kind of data is being recorded or what it is used for - so it will be very private  :up:

The black men can track us too, being able to check your fuel level from your cellphone before walking out in the morning to know if you'll have to leave early and gas up or grab another vehicle is just too awesome to give up.  Plus the remote start from anywhere you have phone service can't be beat either.   If you're about to renew, call them up and tell them you want to cancel because it's too expensive.  They cut $80/year off the plan with navigation over what's listed on the website.

Shot you back over a PM, would rather discuss it there.

  Yep, Britain has been using it, and very effectively for years.  There was a story last month actually about the UK .gov skimming all of the facebook profile photos and loading them up into their system.

  +1 for this one, that is the way every military action should be handled, forget this meals on wheels/mall security guard crap.

To tag on with what Spots is saying, I've seen plenty of magazines fall out on the range when we had them loaded with completely random amounts of ammo to practice reloading.  It normally happened when people were limp-wristing an insert.   But also spots, I don't get your statement concerning it only happening to female marines, I thought all marines were girls?

Guy isn't giving good info, using his suggestion, we should just put 8 rounds in each magazine so the spring doesn't compress very much. Not sure what his other videos are like, but this was more like "the bolt locked back, but I digress, the sky was blue, it was a hot day, you are not a killing machine, but I digress, don't use your finger to release the bolt"  Impossible to even follow.

I didn't hear anything bad there   Paul for anything! 2016

man that was pretty original, I like!

  That's exactly what we do, and we only do it to the volunteer departments not the ones with paid firefighters.

There's no passwords in the meters, they normally have an internal, for lack of a better term, proprietary connector or an external infrared sensor (and you can program via infrared).     Granted all of this info I got was just from reading IBM's book on information architecture, I have not personally seen them get hacked into, but have no doubt that the 4 or 5 phd's that contributed to the book, know what they're talking about.  If it was some data from wikipedia, I would question it myself.

Pretty funny conversation today, but at my expense... Guy posing as a Nashville Fire Dept. rep calls today and it went like this:   Guy: Hello, I'm looking for Mr Welch Me: Sorry, wrong number Guy: Are you the man of the house? maybe you can help me out.  I'm calling from NFD...[I interrupted] Me: We already donate each year, not interested in doing any other donations.  Guy: Oh, NFD will never ask you for a donation over the phone Me: Ok, so what do you want?  Guy: We're having a benefit concert...[I interrupted again] Me: We're not interested Guy: I understand that not everyone can afford $50 or $100 at one time, can I send you a form to provide a one-time benefit of $26 to NFD? Me: I thought you didn't ask for donations over the phone. Guy: I didn't, I just asked if I could send you the form.   I had nothing... so there was an awkward silence, then I just hung up knowing the guy got me on a technicality.

  This is the field I work in, so deal with it on a daily basis. And encryption levels are irrelevant if you use the tools available to log in and reprogram the meter (what I was talking about in the previous post).   As far as communications go, from what IBM said there's no set standard (of using wireless or wired communications) that will work everywhere and hacking PLC's has become more popular since they are essentially functional hubs with connectivity available to anyone with an electrical outlet.  It's similar to how you capture your neighborhood's internet traffic on a cable connection, granted extracting a smart meter signal from PLC is a wee bit more difficult than the cable thing.

    I just did some research on these for my last class and they have the potential to be pretty scary.  The power companies are putting fancy security measures on them like local optical ports, but they don't even address the antiquated communications framework that they operate on.   Basically these are running on a master-slave configuration with one meter on each node running as the master.  You get into the master, and viola, every meter now belongs to you.  So someone may hack a meter 4 streets over and it has an impact on your house.  From what IBM said in the textbook, there are already tools on the market and programs available for people to do this with, and because of the way these propagate information, some are impossible to detect where the changes originated from.