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NY Attorney General Schneiderman estimated that hundreds of thousands of Americans’ identities were stolen and used in spam campaigns that support repealing net neutrality. My research found at least 1.3 million fake pro-repeal comments, with suspicions about many more. In fact, the sum of fake pro-repeal comments in the proceeding may number in the millions.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

I hope everyone will have a happy Thanksgiving and hopefully snag some of these amazing Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals!

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This week we're recognizing three members: metricman, Timantide, and alandb.

Just because we don't have enough Off Topic and wandering threads. Give us a quick post with your favorite Holiday Side Dish.

Mine is an Oyster soufflé.

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.

Sorry it's up so late. Still recovering. Have plastic splints in my nose until tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get a full nights sleep after they're removed. It's not easy being a mouth breather.
Thanks for all the well wishes!

~Angela

Here is a perspective from a former GM executive.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/07/former-gm-vice-chairman-bob-...

Robotics are making great advancements. Watch how human-like the movements are. Even the minor foot and arm adjustments to stay balanced must require major programming to accomplish.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/11/17/nightmare-inducing-ro...

This should come as no big surprise to anyone with a new car. As technology continues to invade automobile dashboards, the rate of distracted driving accidents increases. I'm not exactly sure why but apparently, some vehicles are less safe than others.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/10/05/aaa-dis...

I got a new phone with Android 6 and I loaded Fitbit app.

I was forced to turn on location services. I have a Fitbit Zip which does not have GPS connectivity.

Does anyone have idea why Fitbit forced this?

This week’s Contributor of the Week is, Ralphy1!

Ralphy1 maintains the ever popular North American Breweries file!
I don’t know about the Eastern US, but local breweries are popping up everywhere across the Pacific Northwest.
I believe we’ve had 3 more open just in my area in the last year.

Thanks for the work you put into this file Ralphy1!

~Angela

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.

Side note: I will be going in for sinus surgery today, so behave yourselves! Jonathan will be keeping an eye on things.
Hope everyone here enjoys a less painful week!

~Angela

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wrf6/jeep-black-friday-sales-event-g...

Has anybody else here heard the commercial advertisement for Jeep in which they are navigating to Grandma's house "...over the river and through the woods..."?

I like to visit one general overall news site daily to see what's happening in the world in terms of news, entertainment, technology, etc., etc. For many years now, I've been reasonably happy using msn.com.

Lest We Forget
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In a study that ran from March 2016 to March 2017, researchers from Google, the University of California, Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute discovered that data breaches were the No. 1 way to steal users’ account credentials. Far behind them were phishing and keyloggers.
Damage Caused By Stolen Credentials

Artificial intelligence could sideline and “destroy” its human creators if engineers cannot get a grip on the ethics behind it, Stephen Hawking has warned.

Speaking at the Web Summit in Lisbon, the theoretical physicist said AI has the potential to be the best or worst thing humanity has ever seen and the scary reality is we just don’t know which yet.

Migration watch: In October, Microsoft's most popular OS continued to be Windows 7; it powered 51.4% of all Windows machines. Meanwhile, Windows 10 ran 32.8% of Windows PCs.

Windows 7 surrendered a few more users last month as its share of the overall Windows universe slipped a bit closer to 50%.

If anyone is in the market for a new printer, a friend of mine told me of one a while back and I finally picked one up last week. The one I picked up is the Epson ET-3750. While this particular one may not be for everyone, the ET series in particular is what's interesting. It is an inkjet BUT it doesn't use ink cartridges. It actually has ink wells.