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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*not from MY lips...*
No, they’re wooden-frame buildings, I think octagonal, on elevated decks. Probably wouldn’t be too hard to move one, but they’re not mobile units in the usual sense.
We rarely get long-term below-freezing temperatures here, so the foundations freezing isn’t a real issue.
Apparently we didn’t buy the house, we bought the property.
My normal payment is in the mail.
;-D
*HUGS*
We have buildings like that in a few of our parks, and beach areas, but we don't use them in the winter.
Do yours have high ceilings? If they do, all the heat is up there.
We rarely get long-term below-freezing temperatures here, so the foundations freezing isn’t a real issue.
It doesn't really freeze, per se, but it radiates the cold, competing against the heat we are trying to supply.
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You are used to crowds, right?.....
If the next ice age comes along this year, can we bunk with you and Der Prinze for a while?
There are only 4 (or 5) of us.
Yes, very high ceilings. However, the ones with working furnaces are comfortable enough, even in below-freezing weather. They’re not very big: about the square footage of my kitchen and dining room.
Sure, if you need a place to escape the glaciers, you’ll be welcome here. Bring your cool outdoor grill!
And good night, all. Time to watch TV with DP and Ash for a while, then to bed with catz.
Thanks!
The Egg? We wouldn't leave home without it.
We will bring some Canada Geese with us too. In fact they might get there before we do, so have rifles at the ready.
Good night TC.
We already have Canada Geese, and they’re protected so we can’t shoot them. You can drive around and hit them when they sit in the road, though!
If a glacier starts pushing people south, many “rules” will change.
At 3:19 p.m. I had just left Ontario.
city motto: “Keep Austin weird”
Good point. I'd better get Bill that shotgun and some range time.
My son’s school has a resident flock of geese. Yesterday morning they were sunning themselves spread out over half of the baseball field.
Now if your son’s school just had a shotgun-shooting team ...
Central Piedmont CC has a large goose population, too. (Birds as well as faculty.)
Sorry. World’s falling apart. Kinda busy... ;-)
Our gerbil died. No tacky gerbil jokes, please. It was Pat’s pet!
No jokes here just checking to see if Richard Geer was spotted in your local recently.
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