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Hackers Crack Into Texas Road Sign, Warn of Zombies Ahead
Fox News ^ | 1/28/2008 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 01/28/2009 10:29:13 AM PST by Domandred

Transportation officials in Texas are scrambling to prevent hackers from changing messages on digital road signs after one sign in Austin was altered to read, "Zombies Ahead."

Chris Lippincott, director of media relations for the Texas Department of Transportation, confirmed that a portable traffic sign at Lamar Boulevard and West 15th Street, near the University of Texas at Austin, was hacked into during the early hours of Jan. 19.

"It was clever, kind of cute, but not what it was intended for," said Lippincott, who saw the sign during his morning commute. "Those signs are deployed for a reason — to improve traffic conditions, let folks know there's a road closure."

"It's sort of amusing, but not at all helpful," he told FOXNews.com.

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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I can rest easy, knowing it might be a distant relative of Dobby....


261 posted on 02/01/2009 6:45:29 PM PST by Monkey Face (Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!)
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To: Monkey Face

It is a new game now, with 2 and a half minutes to play.


262 posted on 02/01/2009 6:50:28 PM PST by NicknamedBob (It's getting harder and harder to distinguish those ululations of joy from primal screams of anguish)
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To: NicknamedBob

Wrong...the Cards lost...


263 posted on 02/01/2009 7:12:05 PM PST by Monkey Face (Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!)
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To: Monkey Face

I guess it just wasn’t in the cards.


264 posted on 02/01/2009 7:14:33 PM PST by ThomasThomas ( Never mind.........it may go both ways...)
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To: Monkey Face
And sew to bed.

Good night everybody!

265 posted on 02/01/2009 7:14:35 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Faith Manages.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I wish I had one of those....
LOL!

*HUG*
Good night, Sweetie!


266 posted on 02/01/2009 7:35:38 PM PST by Monkey Face (Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!)
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To: ThomasThomas

God love ‘em...they sure tried. And I yelled myself hoarse!


267 posted on 02/01/2009 7:36:33 PM PST by Monkey Face (Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!)
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To: Monkey Face
They did try -- respectable job, but too many fumbles and it became a Steelers game.

Back to packing for trip. (Once the shirts are packed, it's about a 5 - 10 minute task.

268 posted on 02/01/2009 7:57:44 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5(SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|TaglineSpaceForRent)
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To: sionnsar

w00t!


269 posted on 02/01/2009 8:40:21 PM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Dead Corpse

Howdy!


270 posted on 02/01/2009 8:42:55 PM PST by Monkey Face (Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!)
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To: Monkey Face
Surprised you guys didn't show up earlier. I was in on #28. ;-)

Still tempted to join in on the Zombie fun in MLPS this summer. Last one almost got a bunch o' folks canned though... Forewarning for the gendarmes seems prudent if you are walking around dressed up as a flesh wound.

271 posted on 02/01/2009 8:49:38 PM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Dead Corpse; Monkey Face
"Forewarning for the gendarmes seems prudent if you are walking around dressed up as a flesh wound."

I try to let my fantasies be a departure from my regular life.

272 posted on 02/01/2009 8:57:48 PM PST by NicknamedBob (It's getting harder and harder to distinguish those ululations of joy from primal screams of anguish)
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To: Dead Corpse; Darksheare

Darks pinged me, but it was on a day when I was ferrying a friend’s mum to the doctor and such.

Zombie threads are hard to come by!


273 posted on 02/01/2009 8:59:17 PM PST by Monkey Face (Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!)
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To: NicknamedBob

Fantasies are good for what ails ya!


274 posted on 02/01/2009 9:06:53 PM PST by Monkey Face (Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!)
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To: Salamander

Of course!

All the young dudes know that tune.


275 posted on 02/01/2009 10:34:36 PM PST by shibumi (By the Authority of Hung Mung, Patron of Chaos and Keeper of The Sacred Chao)
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To: Monkey Face; A CA Guy; Darksheare; Dead Corpse; fanfan; Harmless Teddy Bear; NicknamedBob; ...

Just now you’d find it’s a balmy 42F in the shade, here, and quite remarkably shady, indeed, but destined for a high ~70F, or so later on.

This is the first I’ve been really able to squeak in more than a single-line post in the past several days, and many of you who’ve been keeping score will be thrilled to learn that my youngest daughter arrived last week on the 28th, just before ten at night. At just over 6 1/2 pounds, the Mrs. is especially happy to have had an induced delivery at 36 1/2 weeks, and not gone full-term.

The ladies were discharged in good health on Friday, and we’ve had my in-laws at the house daily helping out, and getting in their time with the baby.

I’ll get pictures as soon as I have the time to get them uploaded where I can link them so you can see them.

We ARE still playing watch the clock with that pesky bilirubin number, and hope that it peaked, today. After all, “little punkin” is SUPPOSED to be a term of endearment, not an accurate physical description. Dr’s visit tomorrow to verify the direction of the trend.

MEANWHILE.....

I am in the throes of beating the infernal 64-bit Vista out of a perfectly decent HP Pavillion a6628f workstation. On behalf of my FIL, I will have it bow its architecture to his O/S of choice: XP Home.

So far, so good.

Tomorrow...drivers.

Now, to sleep. [At least until the next feeding...]


276 posted on 02/02/2009 12:58:30 AM PST by HKMk23 (Without ID Obama is no more that simply PRES__ENT.)
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To: HKMk23

Good morning! Sunny and 37 here, supposed to be 60 later. My Thomas (#3) was bright orange for two weeks. He turned out ... well, I hesitate to say “just fine,” but healthy!


277 posted on 02/02/2009 4:44:50 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Even for a thin-skinned solipsistic narcissist, Obama seems a frightful po-faced pill." ~Mark Steyn)
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To: HKMk23

Oh, and congratulations to the whole family!


278 posted on 02/02/2009 4:45:10 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Even for a thin-skinned solipsistic narcissist, Obama seems a frightful po-faced pill." ~Mark Steyn)
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To: Tax-chick

Here's your LOLcat, everyone. I have to go supervise the Offspring!

279 posted on 02/02/2009 4:46:54 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Even for a thin-skinned solipsistic narcissist, Obama seems a frightful po-faced pill." ~Mark Steyn)
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To: HKMk23

YIKES!
Vista-ectomy!

*wincing*


280 posted on 02/02/2009 6:51:11 AM PST by Darksheare (Hi, I'm D-sheare, and I am proud to inform you of your Impending Typos!)
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