I think I may have met you at the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention here in Bellingham, Washington. I remember having a long talk with a retire Motorola engineer on this very topic. We were standing in main gallery where we had the old radios. Mark Allyn Bellingham, Washington

A question that I am forced to consider morally; I am forced to look carefully in the mirror and reflect on my own ethics and conscience when you are about to do something like this? Yes, I may find the hard drive and recover the bitcoins. Yet, I lay awake alone in the darkness, unable to get to asleep. The demons found the the dark corners of the catacombs of my dreams are staring at me while silently projecting the questions into my soul! 1. The environmental damages? Can I live with them? 2. Is this fruit of someone else's labor or wealth really my own to do whatever? 3. Is this wealth tainted with pains inflicted upon others? A story that I remember from nearly 60 years ago. I made myself a master key to my high school to learn locksmithing. I suddenly got very scared. I ended up cutting the key in half and throwing it away. I barely felt better. Thank you! Respectfully Yours, I Love You All! Mark Allyn Bellingham, Washington

This friend speaks my words. Thank you!

Google:

Can you please tell me when the Burke Gilman Bicycle Trail in Seattle will have the fewest bicycle pace line racers and rollerblade speed skaters so that I can safely walk with my walker on the trail without being hit?

I can see where this would help frail elderly folks like me who are nervous using some of our multi-use-trails.

Folks:

All of this boils down to a very simple phrase that I hold dear to my heart.

If you don't want to be in a compromising position, please don't even take that picture of yourself or whomever that you are contemplating.

Once you touch the click button on your camera/phone/tablet/whatever, and that image has bee captured, for all intents and purposes, you have lost control of it. You have to fight off whatever software/spyware/whatever on your device. But you also have to fight off your own carelessness and impulses. It does not take much for that electronic image of you doing something embarrassing to 'jump' from your camera/tablet/phone memory to somewhere on the net, which leads to somewhere else on the net and so forth.

Myself? I make sure that all cameras in my house are either put in a drawer (DSLR cameras) put facedown on the table (webcam) or covered with lid closed (laptop cameras) before I even start to undress for my nightly shower/bedtime. In addition, the only computer that is turned on is my router. Everything else is hard switched off.

I get fully showered and dressed as if I am ready to go to the office before I turn anything electronic on in the morning. No. I do not turn the Zoom unit on before my pants are fully on and that zipper is firmly closed.

Facebook/Twitter/etc??? I post only videos and photos that I fully intend to publish. Before I post anything, I think very hard of why I am posting it and what, if any, are consequences. Sometimes, I simply turn off the computer and chill out for a day before confirming my decision to publish something. And no, nothing below my stomach and above my knees is uncovered before even setting up any cameras.

What goes on-camera is what I have been doing in full public for a long time prior to that camera being turned on and the file sent up to the cloud.

Humbly and Respectfully Yours

I Love You All!

Mark Allyn

Bellingham, Washington

The only thing I purchased for my smart phone was the recycling fee to get rid of it.

Folks: I went to a gay dance years ago. I had nothing on but a black thong and clothing made out of transparent plastic. I was told that was dangerous and in-appropriate. Now it's got to be the new normal compared to this . . .

OOPS! That's my own age! I am 67 years old! That's too early to die!

Eloquently said about Seattle. How do I give upvotes on Slashdot like we do on Reddit?

It *was* the combination of the lock on a very junked up bicycle I had as a child. Last I know, that lock is rusted shut after 60 years and is still on the bicycle rack at Wedge Pond in Winchester, Massachusetts. Tell them Mark Allyn sent you there with love!

I had this vision of making a transparent raincoat using these transparent displays! Let the beauty of my home made clothing shine through, yet show movies of certain individuals being gently escorted out of 1600 Penn Ave for the last time.

I wonder how much the construction contractor's liability underwriter will have to shell out on this one?

Thank you. This code will serve as my prescription refill for my badly needed insomniac medication. Love Mark Allyn Bellingham, Washington

{Music] - When I was Sixteen {Music}

It was a very fun year

{music}

I made myself a master key to my high school

{music building}

I made myself a master key to Boston Garden, home of the Bruins!

{Final crescendo; cymbals crashing}

I made myself a master key to Logan Airport in Boston!

{Music gets softer}

Now that I have done it, I know I can do it, I threw the keys away

Music gives way to silence

It's time to get on in life

Luv you all
Mark Allyn
Bellingham, Washington

Fire hazard? Return to phones bursting in flames like Gotterdammerrung?