Welcome / open talk
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Keeping The Windmill Alive - Your Last Trip? – January 2018
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
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Factory Joke Thread – January 2018
Factory Joke Thread – January 2018
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.
12 years
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Contributors Of The Year 2017
Voting has ended, and our general maintainers have selected Mahoney & Alandb as the 2017 POI Factory Maintainers of the Year!
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(Oh this will be rich!) How to listen to everything Amazon Echo has ever heard
If you own an Amazon Echo, you probably know its strange secret. The device records a lot of what you say. Deep inside that dark tower, Echo keeps a vast trove of recordings. Your voice is preserved. Your friends’ voices are preserved. Anyone who has ever been to your house and said, “Alexa!” has contributed to its great library of human sound.
12 years
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The Rise Of Cryptojacking And How To Stop It
Over the last few months, we've seen multiple reports of websites using cryptocurrency mining scripts that load along with the website and use visitors' CPU cycles to mine various cryptocurrencies.
12 years
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How To Fix The 'DPC Watchdog Violation' Windows 10 Error
DPC Watchdog Violation errors were very common when Windows 10 was first released—so much so that Microsoft had to release an update to tackle it. Originally it was caused by an SSD driver that was found to be incompatible with Windows 10, and it's actually a repeat of an issue that occurred in Windows 8 when that was released, too.
16 years
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Apple Message about iPhone Batteries and Performance
Apology and clarification regarding iPhone Batteries and Performance
- Apple is reducing the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone battery replacement
- iOS software update with new features that give users more visibility into the health of their iPhone’s battery
https://www.apple.com/ca/iphone-battery-and-performance/ (Canada)
11 years
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Happy New Year to one and all
A very happy New Year to everyone.
Felix Navidad
May the best of 2017 be the worst of 2018 for you.
12 years
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Digmine Cryptocurrency Bot Spreads Via Facebook Messenger
The Trend Micro security company announced that it found a new cryptocurrency-mining bot, "Digmine," spreading through Facebook Messenger.
The bot first appeared in South Korea and has since spread to Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, and Venezuela. Trend Micro believes that at the rate it’s spreading, it should reach many more countries soon.
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Chit Chat Thread For The Week Of December 25, 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
16 years
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Merry Christmas to all Factoryites
Merry Christmas, everyone, and I hope your and yours all have a happy new year.
Phil
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Holiday/Seasonal New/Traditions
I can't believe this thread hasn't been started yet!
Personally, I really like reading about what you all enjoy doing over the holidays. Sometimes it gives me ideas of things I might like to try (or, in some cases, avoid).
I added the New to the subject line in case there are some of you who, like us, are trying something different this year.
12 years
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How Tech Companies Own Your Day
Each of us has only 24 hours in a day.
As tech companies mature, they’re seeking new ways to generate revenue from each customer, and the battlefield is increasingly your most finite resource: time.
12 years
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Channel Master Targets Cord-Cutters With ‘Stream+’
Channel Master Targets Cord-Cutters With ‘Stream+’
Subscription-free Android TV-based device will pair OTT apps and OTA TV.
Prease to read more here:
http://www.multichannel.com/news/content/channel-master-targ...
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Access to high-speed broadband will be a legal right in the UK by 2020
Rather than work with an ISP on a voluntary plan, the government is taking a regulatory approach
Prease to read more here:
https://www.techspot.com/news/72405-access-high-speed-broadb...
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The FCC's Next Stunt: Reclassifying Cell Phone Data Service as 'Broadband Internet'
The agency is expected to make this change in February, which will make America's broadband situation look better than it actually is.
Prease to read more here:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbpezp/fcc-smartp...
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New York State to Introduce Net Neutrality Bill
New York State is planning to craft its own net neutrality law in the wake of the FCC's repeal of the popular rules. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is already conducting an investigation into the millions of bogus comments filed in support of the repeal; an investigation the FCC is refusing to cooperate with.
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Unsupervised Machine Learning Demonstrated On Quantum Computer
Rigetti, a full-stack (hardware and software) quantum computing startup from California, demonstrated that its new 19-qubit quantum computer could speed up unsupervised machine learning algorithms.
Rigetti Quantum Computing
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Lawmakers Pledge CRA Vote to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal
Lawmakers like Chuck Schumer are promising a vote to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to block the Trump FCC's attempts to kill net neutrality. The FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to kill popular net neutrality protections, though the agency now faces a challenging legal assault by those claiming the agency engaged in numerous process fouls while also ignoring the will of the public.
Chit Chat Thread For The Week Of January 1st, 2018
Happy New Year!
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