Curiously, it's warmer near the coast.
7.20.2019
You can always trust Comcast to be right on the money (mostly money)
From an email I received:
🔥 Hot Xfinity tips for the coolest summer ever
Here are some things about dictionaries…
Lexicographers do not decide what is a word - Dictionary Facts and Trivia | Merriam-Webster
…most of which you already know if you've read Kori Stamper's excellent Word by Word (https://amzn.to/2O4ZByA) and if you haven't, you really should, but still, in the meantime.
7.18.2019
Better late than never, but not much
Slack resets user passwords after 2015 data breach | TechCrunch
In 2015, the company said it was hit by hackers who gained access to its user profile database, including their scrambled passwords. But the hackers inserted code that scraped the user's plaintext password as it was entered by users at the time.
It remains to be seen if this is the answer, but at least it's the question
New cyberthreats require new ways to protect democracy
http://bit.ly/32zjcKEYou knew there had to be *some* good news today's, right? Well, here it is.
All-white creature identified as rare albino porcupine
http://bit.ly/2NZZlRq7.17.2019
Wait, August freaking 1?
2019 NFL schedule: Preseason will kick off with Broncos and Falcons in Pro Football Hall of Fame game - CBSSports.com
That's only two weeks. Well, two weeks from tomorrow. Woohoo.
Now, I'm not a big fan of the Trumpian Tweets…
…not as big a fan as your average TeeVee news show, for instance, but I do keep an eye on them for comedic value—a pretty thankless task, I admit, but still, once in a while…
Maybe that's what happened to him. He didn't read the directions.
But how perhaps, exactly?
FaceApp: Is The Russian Face-Aging App A Danger To Your Privacy?
Despite having gone viral in 2017, FaceApp is doing so again, but do users need to worry about their privacy? Perhaps not, according to researchers.
Read in Forbes: https://apple.news/ABtZaeJIyR_aSGQ0PH0ThVw
See, the good news here for me is I don't need an app like this because I already know how I look when I get old. But you? Well, you're on your own. Perhaps you wind up contributing your photo to Russian hackers but even more perhaps your picture, according to this Forbes piece, winds up in the good old U. of S.
And we know how safe that is.
(Still, I bet you look great)
But certainly you would trust Facebook to…
Facebook’s vast reach “over a quarter of the world’s population” risks creating a new “financial system that is too big to fail,”
Facebook’s vast reach “over a quarter of the world’s population” risks creating a new “financial system that is too big to fail,”
–Washington Post
Oh,. Facebook. Well.
"Chance the Snapper"
"He has inspired T-shirts, headlines and Twitter accounts. But if Chance the Snapper — the fugitive alligator that mesmerized Chicago during his long, strange swim in the murky waters of the Humboldt Park Lagoon — is now a bona fide local celebrity of the reptile variety, he’s by no means the only one."
http://bit.ly/32v5fwZ
http://bit.ly/32v5fwZ
7.16.2019
In today's sporting news
New Zealand ties England in World Cup of cricket game, 241-241 (but England still wins)
According to some guy who writes for ESPN:
It was insane. It was pulsating. It was chaotic. It was breathtaking. It was cruel. It was unbelievable. It was extraordinary. It was epochal. It will be unforgettable. After we have dealt with it all, we will be forever grateful we saw it.
According to me:
If you've never seen a cricket game you've never had a good day's sleep.
7.15.2019
Alligator Bob has apparently struck out
Half of Humboldt Park closed as search for alligator enters second week - Chicago Tribune
The reptile, believed to be a 4- to 5-foot-long American Alligator indigenous to southern states, has drawn nationwide attention. "Alligator Bob," a volunteer with the Chicago Herpetological Society, initially led efforts to capture the alligator.
Fortunately for this alligator, Taste of Chicago ended yesterday.
7.14.2019
In the future, all crimes will be pre-confessed
The FBI plans more social media surveillance
The tool would provide the FBI with access to the full social media profiles of persons-of-interest. That could include information like user IDs, emails, IP addresses and telephone numbers. The tool would also allow the FBI to track people based on location, enable persistent keyword monitoring and provide access to personal social media history.
But now at least you do
Cheap automatic license plate readers are creeping into neighborhoods.
I was wondering how tenants felt about this, and I asked Burnett whether anyone had ever complained about the license plate readers. "No," he said with a laugh. "I'd say they probably don't know about it."
Be prepared
Uranium, a rattlesnake and whiskey found during Oklahoma traffic stop
[Audio:] http://bit.ly/2xSSZZ3
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