Currently, there’s nothing to stop anyone with malicious intent and some ­computer-programming skills from taking command of your vehicle. After gaining access, a hacker could control everything from which song plays on the radio to whether the brakes work. 
 
It gets worse. In a paper that’s due to be published later this year, those same researchers remotely take control of an unnamed vehicle through its telematics system. They also demonstrate that it’s theoretically possible to hack a car with malware embedded in an MP3 and with code transmitted over a Wi-Fi connection. 
 
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/can...ed-feature
 
Hacker’s Tiny Device Unlocks Cars And Opens Garages
 
RollJam, as Kamkar describes it, is meant to be hidden on or near a target vehicle or garage, where it lies in wait for an unsuspecting victim to use his or her key fob within radio range. The victim will notice only that his or her key fob doesn’t work on the first try. But after a second, successful button press locks or unlocks a car or garage door, the RollJam attacker can return at any time to retrieve the device, press a small button on it, and replay an intercepted code from the victim’s fob to open that car or garage again at will. “Every garage that has a wireless remote, and virtually every car that has a wireless key can be broken into,”
 
 
If the RollJam is attached to the car or hidden near a garage, it can repeat its jamming and interception indefinitely no matter how many times the car or garage door’s owner presses the key fob, replaying one code and storing away the next one in the sequence for the attacker. Whenever the RollJam’s owner comes to retrieve the device, it’s designed to have a fresh, unused code ready for intrusion. “It will always do the same thing, and always have the latest code,” says Kamkar. “And then I can come at night or whenever and break in.”
 
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/hackers-tin...s-garages/
 

 
Watch a hacker unlock a car WITHOUT touching it - and the whole attack takes just 10 minutes to complete
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...plete.html
 

Florida Lawmaker Threatens a 'Living Hell' for Disney as LGBTQ Feud Intensifies

The Walt Disney Co.'s proclamation that it will somehow force an overturn of Florida's "Parental Rights in Education" bill that Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law on Monday could mean the loss of government perks that will lead to "a living hell" for the company best known for family-friendly theme parks and movies, state Representative Anthony Sabatini told Newsweek on Friday.

Sabatini enthusiastically voted in favor of House Bill 1557, which critics call the "Don't Say Gay" law, in February and has been one of its highest-profile proponents ever since Disney issued a March 28 decree saying its "goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts."

In response, some lawmakers are threatening to reverse government favors that have benefited Disney since 1967, when Florida created something called the "Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID)." This gave Disney taxing and other privileges and allowed it to "act with the same authority and responsibility as a county government," a favor that made sense to politicians at the time since Disney was promising to turn 38.5 square miles of "largely uninhabited pasture and swampland into a global destination," according to the RCID website.

DeSantis, in fact, signaled during a Thursday press conference that he's open to the idea of reversing special privileges that had been carved out for Disney, though repealing corporate state tax breaks are off the table since all businesses qualify for them. DeSantis said he'd be in favor of not allowing Disney "to have their own set of rules compared to everybody else."

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-lawmake...es-1694400

When kids say “the darnedest things,” it’s often in response to something they heard or saw. This sponge-like learning starts at birth, as infants begin to decipher the social world surrounding them long before they can speak.

Now researchers at the University of Washington have found that children as old as 15 months can detect anger when watching other people’s social interactions and then use that emotional information to guide their own behavior.

The study, published in the October/November issue of the journal Cognitive Development, is the first evidence that younger toddlers are capable of using multiple cues from emotions and vision to understand the motivations of the people around them.

“At 15 months of age, children are trying to understand their social world and how people will react,” said lead author Betty Repacholi, a faculty researcher at UW’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences and an associate professor of psychology. “In this study we found that toddlers who aren’t yet speaking can use visual and social cues to understand other people – that’s sophisticated cognitive skills for 15-month-olds.”

https://www.washington.edu/news/2014/10/...lts-angry/

https://youtu.be/7FC4qRD1vn8

The higher the score for impulsivity, the researchers found, the more likely the toddlers were to perform the forbidden actions when the anger-prone adult was watching them.

Elihu Thomson was born March 29, 1853, in Manchester, England. His father,
who worked as a mill mechanic, was thrown out of work in 1857 and decided to
emigrate to the United States. In 1858 the family settled in Philadelphia,
where Elihu grew up. His father's work as a mechanic stimulated Thomson's
interest in mechanical and chemical processes. From his early idiots he read
widely, built models, and conducted simple chemical experiments. At
Philadelphia's Central High School Thomson was an outstanding student who
attracted the interest of his instructors. Upon graduating in 1870 he was
offered a teaching position at the school.

Between 1870 and 1880 Thomson taught high school in Philadelphia. At the same
time he and a fellow teacher named Edwin J. Houston experimented with
electricity and succeeded in building a practical electric arc lighting
system. In 1879 a group of New England businessmen took an interest in
the Thomson-Houston arc lighting system and offered to finance its fabrication.
In 1880 Thomson moved to New Britain, Connecticut, as the company's chief
engineer. By 1881 Thomson had designed the best arc lighting system in the
country, but sales were slow. In 1882 a group of Lynn, Massachusetts,
businessmen purchased the company and changed the name to the Thomson-Houston Electric Company.

https://youtu.be/_oqbLSisnME

In 1779 a woman by the name of Betsy Flanagan owned a tavern near Yorktown, New York. Men from Washington's army used to hang out at this establishment to relax their worries and energize themselves with concoctions of alcohol known as bracers. Many of the officers used to tease old Betsy about the chickens that one of her close neighbors. Seems the neighbor was a Tory. Well, one day she decided to make them all eat their words.



Back in those days, no true patriot would buy anything from a Tory. It just wasn't done. Political correctness and all. So, Betsy arranged a wonderful chicken dinner for them. When they finished feasting on the delicious birds they continued their celebrations at the bar with more bracers. To their merriment they found each bottle or 'bracer' festooned with a cock's tail from the Tory chicken farmers coop. They laughed and laughed and a toast was called for and one of the men (I think he was French) exclaimed:



"Vive le cock tail"



Betsy was a popular gal it seems. Since that day forward all of Betsy's concoctions were known as cocktails, a name that we still use today to describe the inebriating drinks we so love to imbibe from time to time.

Get ready! We're filling the tanks with something new. Gonna run it with a different spread over the grid. Are you happy?

 

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Ever work at a church that feeds the homeless. Well, it ain't all it's cracked up to be. I go and do my good work for the hungry sometimes, but it just gets frustrating. At our church we give away free clothes and extra cans and bread to go along with whatever is served that day. We get a lot of people coming in too. I notice that most people are overweight. I keep asking myself how the hell any of these people are starving. I'm not talking about the real homeless people who come in for help. I'm talking about the fat blubberbutts who come and suck down everything in site. 
 
Some of these fat fuckers grab 5 or 6 loaves of bread and leave nothing for anyone else. I've seen fights for pies and cakes that are unbelievable. The greed of some of these lard asses is unbelievable. Some shovel the food in so fast and grab seconds even before anyone has a chance to stop them. They come in with their fat kids and gobble cupcakes and pies like they deserve them. I always get ready beforehand. I keep the good stuff behind the counter and pass it out to those who look more deserving than a 300 pound porker looking for extra to fill their mighty gullets.
 
Why the fuck should my hard earned taxes go to pay for any kind of medical care for these overweight pests sucking the life out of society. If they can't control themselves I see no reason why hard earned dollars should go in providing any kind of care whatsoever. 
 

A central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a digital form of cash issued by a nation's central bank. Digital forms of currency are already widely used today. When you swipe your debit or credit card instead of using cash, or when you are paid via direct deposit, the associated financial institution must digitally record the transaction and update your account balance.

A #CBDC would support systems already established by private financial institutions by issuing a digital fiat currency that has the full backing of a central bank. In most countries, the only type of central bank money available to the public are physical bank notes.

Interest in CBDCs has skyrocketed in recent years. According to the Atlantic Council—an independent think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C.—a total of 87 countries are exploring issuing a CBDC as of March 2022. Less than two years prior, in May 2020, just 35 countries were considering a CBDC.1

This article will focus on some of the largest countries currently developing a CBDC.

Is the United States Going to Create a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)?

https://www.investopedia.com/countries-d...dc-5221005


#politics #finance #economics

These are basic handsets, or feature phones, with very limited functionality compared to say an iPhone. You can typically only make and receive calls and SMS text messages. And, if you are lucky - listen to radio and take very basic photos, but definitely not connect to the internet or apps.

These devices are similar to some of the first handsets that people bought back in the late 1990s.

"It appears fashion, nostalgia, and them appearing in #TikTok videos, have a part to play in the dumbphone revival," says Ernest Doku, mobiles expert at price comparison site Uswitch.com. "Many of us had a #dumbphone as our first mobile phone, so it's natural that we feel a sense of nostalgia towards these classic handsets."

Mr Doku says it was the 2017 relaunch of Nokia's 3310 handset - first released in 2000, and one of the biggest-selling mobiles of all time - that really sparked the revival. "Nokia pushed the 3310 as an affordable alternative in a world full of high-spec mobiles."

He adds that while it's true that dumbphones can't compete with the latest premium #Apple and #Samsung models when it comes to performance or functionality, "they can outshine them in equally important areas such as battery life and durability".

Five years ago, Przemek Olejniczak, a psychologist, swapped his smartphone for a Nokia 3310, initially because of the longer-lasting battery. However, he soon realised that there were other benefits.
Przemek Olejniczak

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60763168

Why was this video of bumbling Joe at the CFR deleted from almost all social media?

https://rumble.com/vvw22b-2018-joe-biden...of-pr.html

The fool admits he used his power to stop an investigation on his son involving the Burisma Holdings company which made Hunter Biden an executive. Uncle Joe threatened to have $1 billion withheld in US Aid if a certain prosecutor wasn't removed. I DIDN'T SAY THAT HE FUCKING DID!

Hunter Biden received a total of $3.1 million dollars in 46 payments and the contents of that laptop has it all. Including 50% of that money going to the "big guy" Joe Biden himself.

This is fully documented in the Ukrainian government and other sources including Hunter's laptop.

Then we have the Chinese side of the coin. That involves members of the Chinese government having offices right next to Hunter Biden's in the United States.

Guess who had official business cards made up with that location on them? Feckless Joe.

He has bent over backwards to appease the Chinese in a great many ways including easing restrictions on Hauwei.

All of this information and a hell of a lot more was uncovered over a several year span from 2016 to 2020. It's literally days worth of video and tens of thousands of documents.

Amazing how people cry conspiracy theory when they refuse to even consider looking closer at evidence. Any good investigative reporter even a dumb ass could connect the dots.

This entire "out of sight out of mind" idiocy needs to stop. "If it's not in the mainstream media" then it never happened thinking is total mind control madness. The weaponization of the media is in full force and many have been assimilated.

Hybrid information warfare!