When this first started, I saw people buying pallets of bottled water being loaded by fork lift into the back of their trucks at Sam's, the retail warehouse outlet for Wal-mart. Now it is just toilet paper and most paper products as well as cleaning supplies.

Or you could stuff this in the back of the gang box and wire it into the light switch yourself and turn your lights on/off from anywhere in your house. No internet connection needed.

I use OPTO-22 modules. You can find them MUCH cheaper elsewhere, this was only place I could find that lists them all. Use this switches with a G4 PB24 board. I then wire the light switch to the input module so the light switch does basically nothing other than turning on the input module. The computer then turns on the output module which in turn turns on the light. This way with the computer connected to the internet, you can turn on and off basically anything in your home. You would have to write a very basic webpage running on a web server.

I use a 18 gauge 4 wire with black, white, red, and green. I undo the connection of the black wire that goes to the light bulb, from the light switch. I connect the red wire from the 4 wire to the black wire going to the light bulb. The other end of that red wire gets connected to the G4 output switch. I then connect the green 4 wire to the output of the light switch, where the black wire to the light bulb was. The other end of the green wire gets connected to the G4 input switch. I connect the black 4 wire to the light switch where the black house wire on the switch is. The other end of that black 4 wire connects to the other terminal on the G4 output switch. Same G4 switch that has the red wire connected to it. The last white 4 wire gets connected to the white neutral home wire that is also connected to the white wire from the light bulb. The other end gets connected to the other terminal on the G4 input module. Same one that has the green wire connected to it. This way all light bulbs remain on the same circuit breaker too.

If the computer should ever fail, or you decide to move, you can jumper the green wire on the input switch to the red wire on the output switch using at least an 18 gauge wire after pulling out the OPTO 22 modules and the light switch will go back to normal.

Now there is no need for a third party to gather all your personal information. You will have to program a Opto 22 PCI-AC5 interface board. You can find them for as cheap as $50 USD. Opto 22 offers a free SDK to help with programming the interface card.

I have been able to re-login to Wikipedia and after several talks with Wikipedia moderators, including the moderator that took down my edit, my edit has been restored as well as some of my faith in Wikipedia.

This would be fine and dandy if no data is being kept and compiled. I'm fairly certain, that a date and time as well as location is being kept too. But in this day and age, deleting any data is highly unlikely. And sure a criminal would be obsessed about a profile on him/her that could match him/her to a crime. But what about other innocent people that also come up false positive and now are under surveillance for no other reason other than a false positive.

There are lots of things people do that are less than legal/want to remain private, that don't want to be bothered by closer surveillance. Say being pulled over every time you don't put your blinker on to make a right hand turn, just to look in your car for other evidence. Say you are cheating on your significant other by going to one of those massage parlors. Say you are moonlighting at the corner comic café and don't want your co-workers to find out? There are lots of stuff you would like to keep private but are now being surveyed 24/7 because you closely match a profile.
Look how much privacy we have lost through the TSA in 19 years and the TSA has not stopped anyone accused of terrorism. Sure they have stopped smugglers and illegal aliens, but is that the purpose of the TSA?

You may not care about your privacy, but there are other that do.

Doesn't "call cmd" from the command line give you a new command prompt with admin permissions or was that only in Windows XP? I'm not anywhere I can test that out on windows 10.

I'm not sure if Microsoft has fixed that with Window XP either.

If this can be turned off at the command line, couldn't a virus execute the same command at the command line to turn it on??

Asking for a friend.

Also... WSB TV announced this morning that Google employees in Atlanta should work from home.

I ride a bicycle to work on days that it isn't raining and rode to work this morning. On a major road this morning, a 2 to 3 mile stretch of US Hwy 23(Buford Hwy), I counted 3 cars. My ride to work Most mornings there are 200 to 300 cars.

The mother of my son is not letting him go to school because 2 Atlanta schools are closed because a teacher has tested positive for the virus. All grocery stores are out of toilet paper and cleaning products.

The hysteria is increasing.

Surprising is that pornhub has better authentication preventing automated logins than CBSNow.com or NBC.com does. I do not have a subscription to any of those websites.

Even worse... Try this website and find out more about you than you know about you... My life dot com There is far more on that site than will ever be on facebook. I know, because I was never on facebook and that website has a shit ton of information on everyone including my father that died in 1994, well before the internet was a thing for more than just porn.

Funny enough that is the spanish pronouncation word for bathroom.. baño

There is a popular media streaming website that if you use the user string for internet explorer 11 for 64 bit Windows XP, and you click on the login button, it does nothing but take you back to the home page.

I found it becase I wanted to scrape this media streaming website for possible videos that I wanted to watch later. I never could figure out why it wouldn't give me a login html page, until I figured out I didn't need a login page as the entire site of videos became available.

I used actual Internet Explorer 11 on Windows XP, and sure enough the actual browser could view any video on the site without logging in. It all came crashing down in January when Windows 7 no longer became supported by Microsoft and this popular media streaming website puts up a message now saying that Internet Explorer is no longer supported.

I'll have to pay for a subscription now, although I haven't watched anything from the site in a few months because I have already watched everything interesting on it. Maybe when I notice that there are new and interesting stuff on it will I renew my subscription that lapsed more than 2 years ago.

But yes, in 2020 stupid stuff like this is happening and I'm surprised that none of the developers ever tested this. Well, that is unless they were using Internet Explorer 11 to do testing and purposely did that so they didn't have to log in to test the website as it only worked with the very specific user string.

Fixed it for you... dueling banjos

Even better, my Wikipedia user ID has now been deleted. I don't see why anyone would think of Wikipedia now as a trusted source.

You are correct.....

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didn't take long before someone here removed the picture, the actual picture of someone famous.

I don't trust Wikipedia for anything now.