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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This ol’ gal is so conservative she makes me look like a liberal!!!
I think it’s a privilege of being old.
And FReepmail me your business p.o. box please. Thanks
Ohyah!
But she can talk about any subject you bring up. Some things, she is VERY passionate about, and if you don’t like the heat, you need to head for the door or wear asbestos underwear!
She reads the paper every day, almost page by page (except for sports!) and can argue both sides of a conflict.
He son (my friend) is probably the smartest man I know. Which may explain why we’ve been friends for so many years.
But push comes to shove, his Mum is the BOMB!
Okay, I'll let you slide on this one for now, since technically, we don't know each other.
:kicks self:
(I KNEW I’d pay for that!!!)
OK: to qualify: He is the smartest YOUNGER man I know...
You and sion run neck and neck when it comes to technical stuff. Ohyah. And DC, too...but since I’ve only met sion...well....
My birthday, too. So, “great women,” too.
And for some reason all this week, I keep finding people older than me who were born later than I was.
I frequently tell my wife, (five years my junior), when she complains about her ailments, "I'm glad I'm not as old as you are."
Usually, she just growls.
Lemme 'splain.
I don't know everything. I just have a fascination for those things that are interesting. (I'm interested in a lot of things.)
And I'm not afraid to delve into something new. If someone clues me in on a new idea, application, or technology, I jump on it until I'm more or less up to speed. If you aren't learning new things then you're shrinking.
"You scream and you leap."
Yah.
Like that. Yah. Got it!
I knew a guy that had a Phd in physics worked on the Manhattan project and one afternoon we sat around reading my old number history book I got around 4th grade. He had no memory of ever studying Fibonacci numbers, Rabbits, spirals and golden numbers. I was in high school and was amazed somebody so smart and well educated didn't know something I found fascinating and learned in grade school. It made it easier for me to learn from less educated people.
I suspect that one of the reasons kids who are home-schooled often do better than their public-schooled peers is that children are not made cookie-cutter fashion.
Kids find fascination with different things at different stages in their development. That’s why it’s important to have a varied and enriched learning environment for them.
On the other hand, excitement is viral. One kid who is fascinated by magnets or optics can spread his enthusiasm to others who might not have developed the interest on their own. So the rich environment has to include a variety of people.
I’ve been doing a lot of real-time engineering and architecting. I’m fizzled out these days by the time I get some online time.
Fictional engineering and architecting is a lot easier and more satisfying.
I’m still trying to work out this Venus thing. We’re probably better off to keep our Habitats here as they are. ‘Face will be pleased.
But our shuttles are basically unemployed. I’m thinking we need to develop a way to scoop Venusian atmosphere and use it for propulsion gases as well as a raw material for producing carbon nanotubes and carbon sheet.
Maybe we’ll position an asteroid as previously described, and slowly lower a different kind of floating city into the soup.
It kinda loses the Romanticism of taking the Flying Castle to Venus, but we could do that anytime anyway.
Some of that math stuff rings a bell.
Morning!
I saw the snow in Carolina on the weather...7 degrees????
Oh please! Don’t make me jump in dat briar patch!
Temp’s around 20 here now, and most of the snow from yesterday has melted. Schools are back on - not that we were affected, except that Anoreth didn’t have classes yesterday. Plenty of sun for the pets. Slash is sitting on the table in the schoolroom helping Bill with math.
My mother decided not to come next week after all. She said rental car prices are way up. She’s going to drive to visit one of her friends in Florida, instead. I said that was fine; it will probably be cold here next week, anyway!
3.8 degrees here last night while I was at work.
Add the light breeze we had, and it was slightly nippy.
For Carolinans, that’s Apocalyptic Cold.
For Ny’er, Pennsylvanians, Buckeyes, and the odd Michigander or two it is merely an inconvenience.
Wisconsin?
They had -8 or so.
Tell yer Mum not to come here...we’re headed for colder, wetter weather for the next week.
I’d like to find some sun...cloudy today. And only 45.
*shudder*
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