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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Scared yourself, didja?
Hey girls!
Nothing new here, which is why I haven’t posted.
Freeze, work, freeze, work......
Freezing here, too. When I got to the building where my Girl Scout troop meets, the heater was on full and the temperature was 41 degrees! We had to meet with another troop to keep from freezing.
Yep. That's the choice most of us have, to work our fanfannie off, or to freeze our fanfannie off.
41?
Yoiks.
Work is always at least 50, when I arrive. Certain areas of the building warm up to 62 before the end of the day.
Whoa! DID I? I even scared the critters!
The heat in that building hasn’t worked since we’ve been there. It was okay in the fall - even if we met outside because it was warmer than inside - but not working out now. By April it should be okay again!
LOL!
Hi Bob.
You’d think by now we’d have no fanfannie left!
My critters are waiting for the kiddle to go to bed. Just a few more minutes ...
Speak for your own fanfannie!
*snort*
When we first started heating with wood, I was surprised to find we needed fires more often in the spring than the fall.
I realized it was because the ground had frozen at least 2 feet deep, and that cold kept radiating into the basement long past the time the weather warmed up outside in the spring.
Mine are still griping.
Life is hard when one has to loll for a living....
I never thought of that. We don’t have a basement!
You have a crawl space?
I have enough frozen fanfannie for the whole thread.
;-)
Concrete slab. The buildings at the Girl Scouts office are on a raised platform, though, about 4 feet high. I think the furnace just isn’t producing heat in the one we’re supposed to use.
Our meeting in two weeks will be the whole group, about 35 girls and their families, so we’ll use a big meeting room, and after that it will be getting into March and might be warming up!
*whispers*
(that’s really scary, Sis....)
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;o]
In your next house, you need to fix that.
My normal consulting fee applies.
I guess if the ground regularly froze, you could get the same effect from the floor.
Are the GS buildings actual "portables"? If so they should warm up faster inside when spring comes.
Shhh.
8^)
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