I started using a Faraday pouch in my pocket long ago because I knew this day was coming. This security vulnerability was demonstrated years ago but it never got attention of the media until these devices became available on the dark web and cars actually started disappearing off the streets. The insurance industry has since finally woken up and so will be your insurance rate.

I bought a Faraday pouch and trimmed it down so it fits neatly in my pocket where i drop my keyfob into it and have a chain connecting to my other keys. Its easy to extract and put back in the pouch when not in use. The only time it is actually exposed and its signal able to be intercepted is when I am driving. They would have to follow me around until I park someplace, or intercept the signal there using a yagi antenna setup, and then steal the car. They would have to be very dedicated to stealing my specific car to pull it off, and this would not be worth it with so many other cars on the road just like mine that are more much more vulnerable.

The Faraday pouch is cheap enough, you just need to remember that your door is not opening for you by grabbing the handle until you fish out your keyfob. It makes it more of a pain to open the trunk when carrying groceries but that is the price of convenience. Walking out into a parking lot with no car to be found is a lot less convenient. A pouch is a good investment.

Some independent tests were done on many of the watches purchased off of Amazon and what they found was that these watches basically simulated the daily up/down trends of normal daily activity. They spiked during the times near breakfast/lunch/dinner and went down at preprogrammed times in between, modulus random variations. The readings actually had no relation to the true glucose levels in the blood but always gave readings that might make you think they were working correctly. These low end devices are a scam. Nothing more, and you are playing with your life if you try to depend on their accuracy.

I was looking into this technology hoping that their might be something affordable that could give me a 24x7 reading but was quite dismayed with what I found about the fraud that exists on the current market. I'm still waiting for something that even gives near accurate readings without having to stick a probe into my skin. That's not happening any time soon it seems.

I wish they would create an Executive Officer able to run a nonprofit so I could just focus on the research. Business stuff is usually boring but how do you train AI to run a business that has actual challenges that require thinking outside-the-cpu-box ?

My Mother The Car was a 1965 comedy about a man whose mother reincarnated came back as a car, which he just happened to buy and fix up. The general gist of it was he was constantly talking to the car and having it save the day by giving advise.

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I suppose not a whole lot of people out there even know what Amazon Smile was. It was a way for 501(c)(3) nonprofits to get a half a cent on the dollar when a supporter purchases any item on Amazon, providing that they started that purchasing session from a particular URL. While is was not a big source of income for my non-profit it was at least a steady income. Trying to get started as a nonprofit is very difficult in the current economic climate because few people are willing to give, but this money came out of Amazons pocket and did not cost the purchaser any extra cash out of their own pocket. It was a Win-Win situation as long as they would have bought from Amazon anyway, and during covid lots of people were buying online.

So where did it go wrong? Not enough nonprofits even knew about it, and it takes time for a nonprofit to notify others to sign up. Amazon didn't put in much effort to contact any nonprofits, allow enough time for this to ripple through social media, and the sign-up was not the most straight forward process. Most nonprofits were still just learning about the service. It will be missed

More than 41.1 Million people in the US have been exposed to a disease where nobody can even get diagnosed. No statistics can be collected if there are no diagnosis, no money ever allocated for research, and no test for this disease can ever be developed without this research. https://hdri.org

How exactly is just 5 kids in each age group (6 age categories) even statistically significant?

Some children will figure it out before the age 6, so not even all the age groups are represented. I can remember as far back as being in my crib, but I can't ever remember a time where I was ever believing in Santa. Yes, I received toys, but they never appeared by magic. They appeared when my parents were around but I was for some reason intentionally made to be absent at the time.

Then why do Chevy's still have such poor gas mileage? With that equation handy it should be a breeze to improve the aerodynamics.

What we need now is a "service" for deorbiting space junk, because none of the current satellites are designed to be serviced, just rot in space and take up valuable room. At best, they just push the satellite up into a junk collection zone where they can bump into one another and create more space debris to scatter around and destroy prime operational satellites.

We need a delivery system that can place something right in front of these dead satellites to slow them significantly as to deorbit them on a planned trajectory. Either a rocket nozzle with fuel that attaches to the center of mass that can make a controlled decent into the atmosphere or a larger umbrella that will cause resistance for what little gas and particles are out there that could slow it down to deorbit it.

Most of all we need a regulation saying that we don't put anything up there that does not have a contingency plan for end-of-life deorbiting. Stop creating space junk, because anything that does not plan for its own demise is just going to be a cost to others who have to maneuver to avoid their space junk. There should be some kind of dead-mans-switch that deorbits any satellite if it is unable to function properly

Humans did after all write all the words on the Internet that these LLM's have processed. It's a kind of like the convergent evolution of all BS. Talk enough like you know something and pretty soon it might start looking like you have an answer to some problem. Computers are just faster at connecting the dots between completely unrelated topics using statistics. With enough statistics all lies become true.

Now the police can finally track all the scammers that have been calling me!

Now if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.

Your right. If you are not talking to the Russians, Chinese, or North Koreans they are unlikely to notice you are even talking. The bulk spying of US Citizens is left for the FBI to deal with. You know, that child porn thing. There is an actual separation of duties here.

Wire cutters are cheaper and a lot less toxic. Maybe not as exciting to watch though.

The robot does not even have hands, and they call it digit?

Without hands this robot will be very limited in what it is useful for. Like stacking boxes, but you can already buy a purpose built industrial robot that isn't designed just to mimic the human form. For getting actual work done in the industrial setting the human form is sub-optimal. Powering it with batteries, compared to dedicated wired-in industrial robots will require downtime just for swapping batteries. Can you train the robot to swap its own battery? No. So do you buy a second robot for that? Oh, right. They don't have hands.

CPU's capable of any level of intelligence require lots of compute power, so its either connected wirelessly to a big compute farm, doesn't have much intelligence, or it won't last very long out on the floor. Pick one.

Everything inside the Solar System originated from outside the Solar System. That is how the Solar System was born. When our Sun blows up in a super novae (won't happen unless it consumes much more star stuff) then something might be "born" within our own Solar System. Until then everything we know of is from "out there" somewhere.

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