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We received a member nomination for Contributor of the Week this week;

“The member Asallwey should be considered for the COW award. He has been setting up his Nuvi 2699 and a result he has posted questions that have resulted in some good topic discussions. Asallwey follows through on the topics and is reporting his progress on his achievements also is adding his own input.”

Only 48 days left till Christmas. Is everyone ready, and who's counting?

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

Onboard Computers and Sensors Could Stop the Next Car-Based Attack

Much of the necessary technology already exists

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.The Conversation

Verizon was one of several giant ISPs that paid lobbied the GOP and Trump administration to gut consumer broadband privacy rules earlier this year.

This is the official POI Factory Joke thread.

It will be closed on the last day of the month and a new one will be opened.

Please read the forum rules before posting.

"POI Factory is not a forum for politically charged debate.
Let's avoid topics that already have a long list of Democrat or Republican talking points or that name specific politicians."

~Angela

In danger of losing your windmill?

Maybe you can share the last place your GPS took you and if you encountered any problems, or if you used it to seek out special places to go (like Thai Food, ice cream shoppes, etc.).

Anything to keep your windmill alive.

This thread will be closed on the last day of the month and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

I have Windows 10 on my laptop and Win10 comes with a calendar. I've just this past week started using the calendar. Well, a couple of days ago I opened it in the morning and found that someone (Microsoft, Google, who knows) had filled in the day of each month that my wife and I will receive our Social Security checks.

This week we’re recognizing KenSny!

KenSny’s been with us for 4 years.
This week we’re recognizing him for his help in the Android 7.1.1 discussion.

Thanks for your contributions, KenSny!

~Angela

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/vehicle-connectivity-p...

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.

Surly this has been covered but I'm new to the forum. Heck I'm new to GPS, Basecamp and I'm not great on computers. I've watched all Norwood's tutorials which are great by the way but I am having trouble converting csv files to gpx. I've downloaded GPS Babel in which one of two things happen. One, it says successful but then I can't find the new gpx file anywhere on my computer.

Saw an Edsel Corsair in real good shape today in a local parking lot, I've always liked odd/different things, count the Edsel among them.

Built the same year I was ....

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I recently had an opportunity to run a real world, side by side test of Garmin Cyclops and POI Factory red light and speed camera performance during a 500+ mile trip.

I just purchased a Garmin DriveLuxe 51 LMT-S to replace my retiring Garmin 3597 LMT. The DriveLuxe came loaded with the latest (I checked) version of the Cyclops software, and the 3597 had the latest POI Factory update.

Last year, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), which consists of all the leaders of the national Data Protection agencies in the European Union, started investigating WhatsApp over its data sharing with Facebook. Following its investigation, the group sent a letter to Facebook in which it notified the company that WhatsApp is still not abiding by European Union (EU) privacy laws.

Update, 10/24/17, 6:05am PT: After this story's publication, we (Tom'sHardware) received the following statement from Matt Strathman, Newegg Legal Counsel, North America:

Last year, Microsoft launched a lawsuit against the U.S. government because the Department of Justice (DOJ) was too often handing the company gag orders for indefinite amounts of time whenever it was making a data request.

It’s no secret by now that the vast majority of (Internet of Things) IoT devices have little to no security, as well as a poor track record of support. This can and has caused many issues over the years, for both the customers who bought those devices and the companies being targeted by botnets that are powered by hacked IoT devices.

Google, Facebook, Comcast and other large ISPs teamed up to kill a California bill intended to protect broadband user privacy in the state. The law was intended to replace FCC broadband privacy rules killed by the GOP and Trump administration earlier this year that would have forced companies like Comcast to transparently indicate how your private data is being sold -- and who it's being sold to.

I've never seen a windows update taking so long before!!!

Laptop isn't slow, either! HP I7 2.6Ghz with 8 cores...

I'm 2 hours since I started, and has yet to get to Install part yet!