Welcome / open talk
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   17 years
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Chit Chat Thread For The Week Of August 21, 2017
Angela and JM are away for the solar eclipse and have asked me to start the official Chit Chat thread this week.
This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.
This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.
canuk 
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18 years
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Question about Extra POI Editor
Hello, long absence, now setting up some GPS units. My Bitdefender AV just went off when I tried to download the latest current version and is not liking it at all. Has this happened with anyone else?
I should add I am proceeding with the Garmin POI loader but was just interested.
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  17 years
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Eclipse May Affect GPS Accuracy
Interesting comments from NASA on GPS impact from the solar eclipse:
http://gpsworld.com/nasa-describes-expected-impact-of-total-...
 14 years
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Contributors Of The Week 2017-08-14
Yes, I know it's a day early but #Eclipsageddon!
This week's Contributor of the week is, Canuk!
Canuk has been a member of POI Factory for over 8 years and was one of 2016's Contributor's of the Year.
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19 years
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Motorcycle Helmets, Bluetooth, And GPS
For those of you that ride motorcycles, do you have Bluetooth in your helmet, if you wear one, and get GPS directions that way? If so, how well does it work out? What Garmin, or other, devices would you recommend for motorcycle navigation that uses Bluetooth?
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18 years
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No Advance Notice (Joe's Crab Shack Closings)
Not fun to be an employee of one of these...https://www.thedailymeal.com/joes-crab-shack-closes-without-warning/81917
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15 years
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Stamford Officials Eye Legislation That Would Outlaw ‘Distracted Walking’
Really??? Next it will be farting in public!! Just wait!
Now, there’s a proposal to keep pedestrians safe that could set off a national trend.
Crossing busy Broad Street in downtown Stamford can be a challenge, even if you’re not staring down at text messages on your cell phone.
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15 years
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A proposed ‘textalyzer’ bill might give cops the right to access your cellphone
I'm sure this could cause all kinds of differing points of views oh well...
A New York bill that would allow police to use a "textalyzer" device to determine whether drivers have been using their phone at the scene of a car accident is causing concern among some civil liberties groups, who say that it could interfere with people's cellphone privacy.
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14 years
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Contributors Of The Week 2017-08-07
This week we’re recognizing, Eaglesft!
Last week he updated his True Food Kitchen file (I’m big on the quinoa thing right now, so hoping I’ll get to check one out soon!) as well as re-building the Historical Markers-US file.
We’re not sure what happened to the original, but appreciate him taking the time to get this one put together.
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14 years
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Chit Chat Thread For The Week Of August 14, 2017
This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.
This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.
~Angela
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17 years
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Military Bases Get the OK to Shoot Down Drones
I was a bit surprised to learn the military was not doing this all along!
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/news/a27670...
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15 years
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Facebook Uses AI To Fight Malicious Link 'Cloaking'
Facebook announced that it's using AI to decloak malicious content that's masquerading as legitimate advertisements or web pages. These efforts are supposed to help the company make sure bad actors can't evade its reviewers' gazes to mislead or harm the billion-plus people who use its service.
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15 years
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FCC Mulls Combining Wired And Wireless Broadband Goals
What is "broadband" internet access? Right now the FCC restricts the term to wired connections with 25Mbps download and 3Mbps upload speeds. Now the agency has asked the public to comment on its proposal to include in that definition wireless connections, which have a minimum 10Mbps down and 1Mbps up.
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15 years
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Pressed By Antitrust Complaints, Microsoft Changes Third-Party Antivirus Policies
In June, Russian antivirus company filed an antitrust lawsuit in the European Union against Microsoft. Kaspersky has been frustrated for some time with what it called "underhanded tactics" from Microsoft that were meant to eliminate third-party antivirus competition on Windows.
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   18 years
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Senior Pass for NPS, Forest Service and other federal recreation sites
Greetings,
I thought we already had a thread here on the subject but I can't find it. Given that we GPS owners travel a lot and that many of us are age 62+, I thought I'd share this.
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18 years
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Stop Flying
Army issues order to the troops to stop flying DJI drones, wonder why?...
I try to limit my Chinese consumption to Wonton soup and fried rice and occasional egg roll
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14 years
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Contributors Of The Week 2017-07-31
This week we’re recognizing, Mahoney!
Of the top 10 popular file downloads last week, Mahoney maintains 5. The most popular and labor intensive being, Rest Areas Combined-USA
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14 years
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Chit Chat Thread For The Week Of August 07, 2017
This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.
This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.
~Angela
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15 years
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The Places in America Where Seniors are Most--and Least--Likely to Take Their Blood Pressure Meds
Your ZIP code can signal a lot about your health — including how consistent you are in taking your pills.
STAT wanted to know: Where in America are people most likely to take their prescription drugs? And where are they least likely?
Eclipse results
Well, my driveway was only going to give me a 70%-ish coverage of the eclipse, and that percentage matched the roughly 70% cloud cover today. My best view was supposed to be at around 10:30 but the sun was behind a cloud from 15 minutes before the peak to 15 minutes after its max.