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Comment VGA Ports are out now? (Score 1) 324

Back a couple of decades ago, this was supposed to be possible remotely by monitoring RF output from those noisy, leaky VGA ports. Never saw a demonstration from 8 miles away, just across the street or from a van on the street. No special hardware in the computer, just the right gear to listen to the RF leaking all over the place.

Sorry for no link, Google is full of connecting HDMI to VGA stuff these days.
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Journal Journal: How Would You Kill Superman? New Seinfeld 1

How Would You Kill Superman? is the latest from Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians In Cars Drinking Coffee" internet series.

In this week's Jerry Seinfeld adventure, Jerry and Patton Oswalt discuss how one might kill Superman while Jerry's borrowed 1981 DeLorean DMC 12 is attended to by the on-call mechanics who have to follow those cars around.

Comment Re:So now... (Score 1) 259

Sigh. There's more to Chicago than Capone, you know?

The Daleys were the longest serving mayors in Chicago history. Between J Daley and M Daley, Chicago had a mayor named Daley for 43 years. Chicago natives who were children in the 1960s will tell you that they grew up thinking that "Mayor-Daley" was the official title of the office holder and not just a man's name. That's what happens when you don't have term limits and everyone keeps voting for the guy who's been mayor forever.

Vote early, vote often, vote daily, vote Daley, vote Daley.

Um, yes AC I am fully aware of the longevity of the Daley brand. Be that as it may, Cermak was the one in Chicago who started the "vote early, vote often" saying even before Richard J. Daley was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican in 1936, or before he lost his Cook County Sheriff's race in 1946. Cermak was shot while shaking hands with President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt at Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida, on February 15, 1933. Now that you know there were other mayors of Chicago, you are welcome.

Comment Re:So now... (Score 1) 259

hackers will not only steal my identity, they will steal my vote.

That is what I was thinking the first time I heard about voting via remote terminal. It was back in the early 1980s, before very many had personal computers. The idea was to have terminals in public places where people could walk by just any old time, log in and vote on all manner of issues. ATMs were newly popular (not exactly new, but finally showing up all over) and I suppose they were the metaphor. Anyway, accounts were being "cracked" by various means at ATMs already, and making the news. At the same time, my PoliSci 1001 instructor was talking about the "near future" of voting via unattended computer terminal.

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