Daily Tech News 2 May 2024

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The CEO of United Healthcare said maybe a third of US citizens were affected by a recent security breach. (Tech Crunch)

That... Is rather a lot.

Tech News

Dropbox says hackers breached its secure digital signature product, Dropbox Sign. (Yahoo Finance)

All users of Dropbox Sign should consider themselves, I think the technical term is "fucked".
Meanwhile more than a million New South Wales club-goers have had their information leaked via a dubious double-outsourcing arrangement by a provider of club management software. (MSN)

Including one club that I have actually been to.

The Register has a paragraph explaining why these clubs have your data in the first place.
Clubs enjoy tax exemptions for some food and drink sales to members, as many were founded as community hubs for military veterans. Members therefore sign in to clubs when they visit to prove they are eligible for the discounts on offer. Clubs capture those sign-ins, plus info on visitors, and data required under laws that regulate gambling and aim to make life hard for money-launderers.
Maybe you should use a VPN. Or not. Microsoft has confired that the latest Windows security update breaks VPNs. (Tom's Hardware)

There will be a fix. At some point. Probably.

If you're using a Mac you already went through this last September.
Want your own supercomputer with 8000 CPUs and 300TB of RAM? Act now! Bidding ends tomorrow! (Tom's Hardware)

The GSA's Cheyenne SGI supercomputer from 2016 is up for auction. It's probably not worth anything, because 8 human years is 500 supercomputer years. It's like buying a 16th century house. Looks pretty, but you can expect a few issues, like it collapsing on your head.
Republicans have pounced on tech executives' internal conversations. (The Verge)

Conversations with federal government officials trying to coerce them into censoring protected speech.

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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 BOING!

I mean BOEING - again:

https://tinyurl.com/7ct9wveh

(X.com)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 02, 2024 04:00 AM (kj8Vc)

2 Thank you, Pixy

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 04:01 AM (a1415)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)

4 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 04:02 AM (omVj0)

5 Having to bat away ads to comment slows me down

Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2024 04:02 AM (fwDg9)

6 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 02, 2024 04:05 AM (YoT4f)

7 Evening and morning to all the early risers, sleepyheads, and late toilers! Today is the second day of the 24/7 closing of the ramp I've been using for years to the bridge for my homeward commute, plus the rightmost lane of the bridge. Miss Linda is coming with me to work today, so this evening we can use the high-occupancy lanes to come home. Tomorrow and going forward? As Pixy put it, I will be, as the technical term goes, "fucked."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 04:06 AM (omVj0)

8 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2024 04:06 AM (T4tVD)

9 So my most recent effort to get Mesh-like WiFi without the higher cost of a true mesh system thought stately VIA Manor seems to have paid off.

House was pre-wired with ethernet throughout when we bought it.

So, one Netgear router as the main router, a powered 8 port ethernet switch, and four refurbished Netgear routers, all connected by ethernet, and in access point mode.

Pretty much have strong WiFi everywhere, and so far, very stable.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 04:07 AM (a1415)

10 Re: my No. 7 . . . on the other hand, my boss will be back next week. If I tell him that I am retiring as of 5/31, then I will only have four weeks of tough homeward commuting ahead of me instead of months or years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 04:08 AM (omVj0)

11 "If I tell him that I am retiring as of 5/31, then I will only have four weeks of tough homeward commuting ahead of me instead of months or years."

Can you just tell him that you are transitioning...

to retired status?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 04:11 AM (a1415)

12 "If I tell him that I am retiring as of 5/31, then I will only have four weeks of tough homeward commuting ahead of me instead of months or years."
*
Can you just tell him that you are transitioning...

to retired status?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024

***
As long as the last three words don't get garbled or lost!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 04:16 AM (omVj0)

13 The biggest problem I can see with buying the aging supercomputer is the operating cost for the now mediocre throughput. It's kind of like how the then state of the art CGI for 'The Last Starfighter' took six months to render on a Cray. The then most processing capacity you could buy if there was no concern about the price tag or power draw. By 1996, the Playstation offered 'Starblade Alpha' a rail shooter plainly inspired by TLS, that did in real-time comparable or better graphics, albeit at NTSC resolution.

And things progressed much slower during that span of years than 2016 to today.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 02, 2024 04:20 AM (/0z9K)

14
Awakened by the dog. Ordinarily, at this hour, the awakening comes about because she is throwing up something. This time, it was an urgent need to go outside (and for good reasons).

Back to sleep it is ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 02, 2024 04:21 AM (xG4kz)

15 Another fairly close job today, might only be today though

Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2024 04:21 AM (fwDg9)

16 Have a good one and stay safe Skip !

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2024 04:23 AM (T4tVD)

17 Yesterday, with a second day off, I visited Walmart and picked up the oil and filter for the spring change for the '16 Buick. The Supertech oil, their house/budget brand, is excellent oil for $4 less for 5 qts. than is Quaker State, and something like $9 less than Mobil 1. Still, I can afford it, and I have this odd sense of guilt that I'm cheating the car. Completely illogical; the car, at only 76K miles, will never know the difference.

The filter can make a bit more difference -- but I change every 5K miles, and for that any Fram filter (Tough Gard, in this case) will be fine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 04:29 AM (omVj0)

18 I'm not in a rush this morning, oddly enough. Perhaps there's time for a half-slice of whole-grain toast with peanut butter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 04:30 AM (omVj0)

19 Just got dense fog advisory till 10:00am.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 04:37 AM (a1415)

20 Just got dense fog advisory till 10:00am.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 04:37 AM (a1415)

Did they give the fog an IQ test ?

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2024 04:39 AM (T4tVD)

21 Did they give the fog an IQ test ?
Posted by: JT

HA!

Posted by: Bruce at May 02, 2024 04:40 AM (/HWS4)

22 "Did they give the fog an IQ test ?"

Yup.

It scored 'Biden' on the test.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 04:40 AM (a1415)

23 I'm looking for a new car and my credit score got whacked 40 points.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 02, 2024 04:42 AM (IG7T0)

24 "I'm looking for a new car and my credit score got whacked 40 points."

Damned if you do...

Damned if you don't.

Perhaps Biden will offer some type of automotive loan debt forgiveness.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 04:48 AM (a1415)

25 Government Super computer. Not impressed. Texas Instrument Ti99. Now your talking.

In other news, the police are looking like they may go kinetic at UCLA before sunrise.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 04:49 AM (MhGhb)

26 "In other news, the police are looking like they may go kinetic at UCLA before sunrise."

* Chomp...chomp*

Popcorn, anyone?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 04:51 AM (a1415)

27 Near record warm today, 88 degrees

Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2024 04:55 AM (fwDg9)

28 The smellies has erected a wall of plywood. I leaning towards calling the smellies encampment Fort Rampart in honor of the infamous LAPD division

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 04:55 AM (MhGhb)

29 Seems like I'm seeing more counter-protests popping up.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 04:55 AM (a1415)

30 When I got the Sorento, it was to trade in for the car I wanted, the 2017 Q7.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 02, 2024 04:56 AM (IG7T0)

31 Good morning morons

Local TV news says a city auditor blames "lack of leadership" for Oakland's failure to apply for a state grant to fight retail theft.

*shocked face*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 04:59 AM (RIvkX)

32 Near record warm today, 88 degrees
Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2024

***
About the same here, Skip, except that's no record in May (or even April) in this pesthole.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 05:00 AM (omVj0)

33 Russia reportedly used the choking agent chloropicrin against Uke troops.

I will assign this a rating "pants on fire abject bullshit" until I get concrete proof.

Chloropicrin is also a soil antifungal/ antimicrobial which is even approved for use in the US.

I believe Uke farmers are using it on their fields before spring planting before I believe russia is violating international war crimes by launching chemical warfare.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 02, 2024 05:09 AM (3CVIc)

34 Only 70 degrees tomorrow, Wolfus you probably won't get that

Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2024 05:10 AM (fwDg9)

35 Local TV news says a city auditor blames "lack of leadership" for Oakland's failure to apply for a state grant to fight retail theft.

*shocked face*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 04:59 AM (RIvkX)

And money..money solves all the problems

Posted by: a dude in MI at May 02, 2024 05:10 AM (+I6Y/)

36 Near record warm today, 88 degrees
Posted by: Skip

That will keep your birdbath from freezing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 02, 2024 05:11 AM (3CVIc)

37 In the tech news I am using my new C. Crane CCRado 3 showed up yesterday. Its claim to fame? It is an AM/FM radio that can act as a Bluetooth speaker, and receives 2 meter Ham radio and NOAA weather broadcasts.

The case and interface are nearly identical to my CCRadio Plus that dates to 2006 and still functions perfectly.

Part of their charm is the are well designed, well made, and excel at what they are designed to do.

Unlike the cocked-up venture capitol write off and immediate e-waste that is the Rabbit R1 AI Personal Assistant that is pretty much the equivalent of an Android app. *snort*

https://tinyurl.com/yc2pa44k

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 05:11 AM (MhGhb)

38 Dear Gavin Newsom;

Thank you for your stellar leadership. Your statement in support of law and order, really advanced the cause of peace and unity. Your actions have meant an end to the chaos and violence on our college campuses and restoration of normality. Thank you so much.

Signed,
No One

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 05:11 AM (RIvkX)

39 My customers have me under close surveillance. Just a minute or two after I refill the feeder Mr. Bluebird shows up to feast.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 05:13 AM (RIvkX)

40 I really need to get my birdbath out, I don't keep it out all winter

Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2024 05:17 AM (fwDg9)

41 Incidentally, if you need door alarms on an outbuilding. YoLink has "LoRa" sensors which connect to a smart hub device in your house. They claim 1/4 mile range. In my use, the little magnetic battery powered door sensors work from inside my metal sided barn 350ft from the house. Send an instantaneous alert to my phone when a door is opened. They also have a door sensor with a wired magnetic sensor that allowed me to clip the sensor off and plug the wires into my Dakota Alert driveway alarm receiver so I get phone alerts when someone enters my driveway. Pretty cool for a relatively cheap device.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 02, 2024 05:19 AM (3CVIc)

42 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 02, 2024 05:19 AM (3CVIc)
===
Good sitesec

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 05:24 AM (RIvkX)

43 'CCRadio Plus'

Hmm, may have to check this out. I have a Emergency Radio that is similar. Have had it for years. Has a hand crank on it to power it up during long outages. Also AC/DC power, of course. I own a little AM/FM/WX radio too. I used to have an WX only radio from Radio Shack but it stopped working last year, for some reason. Had it for almost 30 years so got some use out of it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 02, 2024 05:25 AM (YoT4f)

44 Old Marxist Hotness: Black Lives Matter.
New Marxist Hotness: Kill the Jews.

This shit is happening with regular frequency it seems. I am starting to think the left is trying to trigger an all out insurrection. The may get the West Coast and the North East if that is the plan, leaving the entire Mississippi River system and all that means in the hands of people that go to work go to worship, raise their kids, and drive their ATVs around on weekends.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 05:27 AM (MhGhb)

45 History repeats?

1Maccabees11 [61] From there he departed to Gaza, but the men of Gaza shut him out. So he beseiged it and burned its suburbs with fire and plundered them. [62] Then the people of Gaza pleaded with Jonathan, and he made peace with them, and took the sons of their rulers as hostages and sent them to Jerusalem. And he passed through the country as far as Damascus.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 02, 2024 05:35 AM (3CVIc)

46 The Turks have maintained a brutal military occupation of Cyprus for 50 years, driven Christians from their ancestral land, and divided their capital city.

No Jews, No News.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 05:36 AM (RIvkX)

47 . I used to have an WX only radio from Radio Shack but it stopped working last year, for some reason. Had it for almost 30 years so got some use out of it.
Posted by: Puddleglum

C. Crane has a number of different radios for sale. I also have their pocket sized Skywave AM/FM/Shortwave radio. It is just excellent. I take it to the Aggies football game which is a radio interference zone from hell and it rejects all that and pulls in the local broadcast without issue. They're not inexpensive so I highly recommend you buy orphans (reconditioned). With these you save a few bucks and they're absolutely like brand new.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 05:37 AM (MhGhb)

48 Hazy out, low 60s about
Forward Dog 9 hitting short road

Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2024 05:37 AM (fwDg9)

49 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 02, 2024 05:39 AM (ju2Fy)

50 C. Crane used to advertise with Art Bell. Since he was a radio techie, I trusted.

Pickups up AM/FM/SW, Aliens and Voices from Beyond.

Posted by: Miklos stays in touch at May 02, 2024 05:39 AM (DhOlS)

51 C. Crane used to advertise with Art Bell. Since he was a radio techie, I trusted.

Pickups up AM/FM/SW, Aliens and Voices from Beyond.
Posted by: Miklos

In fact, that's how I found out about C. Crane. I loved him pitching them. I actually looked forward to those commercials. I actually owned the original CCrane radio because of him. The only reason I bought the CCrane Plus it's because I lost the original in a move.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 05:44 AM (MhGhb)

52 Word is the LAPD is about ready to move on the smellies Fort Rampart.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 05:45 AM (MhGhb)

53 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 02, 2024 04:00 AM (kj8Vc)

w00t!!!

Posted by: m at May 02, 2024 05:47 AM (o3SCB)

54 Word is the LAPD is about ready to move on the smellies Fort Rampart.
Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 05:45 AM (MhGhb)
===

Gov. Reagan knew what to do

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 05:47 AM (RIvkX)

55 "Source of Strength" -,A man from Texas reflects on a passage from the Book of Joshua. It is an appropriate devotional for both interested Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/53sj4yhv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2024 05:49 AM (3RU/T)

56 Gov. Reagan knew what to do
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Yes he did. California was once a great state and an essential part of the American story.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 05:50 AM (MhGhb)

57 Word is the LAPD is about ready to move on the smellies Fort Rampart.
Posted by: Lost in Space

I guess the knouts are made of hemp.

Posted by: Miklos speculates at May 02, 2024 05:50 AM (DhOlS)

58 Today is the National Day of Prayer. Dear pray-ers; Thanks for your prayers today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2024 05:51 AM (3RU/T)

59 21 Did they give the fog an IQ test ?
Posted by: JT

HA!
Posted by: Bruce at May 02, 2024 04:40 AM (/HWS4)

; )

Posted by: m at May 02, 2024 05:53 AM (o3SCB)

60 The smellies has erected a wall of plywood. I leaning towards calling the smellies encampment Fort Rampart in honor of the infamous LAPD division
Posted by: Lost in Space

Don't we now have flame throwing robot dogs? Seems like a good time for a test run.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at May 02, 2024 05:56 AM (1KCcl)

61 Today is the National Day of Prayer. Dear pray-ers; Thanks for your prayers today.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2024 05:51 AM (3RU/T)

Hiya Fen !

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2024 05:56 AM (T4tVD)

62 To my earlier point, from Powerline about the Eurovision song contest:

A group of nine of Golan’s rival contestants, including the British entrant, Olly Alexander, released a statement in March expressing their concern over “the current situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, and particularly in Gaza, and in Israel”.

None of these people care about the enslavement of the Uyghurs, the slaughter of Nigerian Christians, Gaza’s sickening massacres of October 7, or any of the other outrages and tragedies that beset the world. Only Israel’s desperate attempts at self-defense merit condemnation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 05:58 AM (RIvkX)

63 Don't we now have flame throwing robot dogs? Seems like a good time for a test run.
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp

That gives the phrase "who let the dogs out" a whole new meaning. I suggested earlier that the LAPD should attack the terrorists with 50 manure spreaders and then drop wet cement from helicopters on them.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 05:59 AM (MhGhb)

64 None of these people care about the enslavement of the Uyghurs, the slaughter of Nigerian Christians, Gaza’s sickening massacres of October 7, or any of the other outrages and tragedies that beset the world. Only Israel’s desperate attempts at self-defense merit condemnation.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Amen. When the Israelis get done with Gaza, I hope they flood the tunnels and salt the land. These local Hamas terrorists have awakened a slow burning and permanent anger in me. Calling for the extermination of the Jewish people does that to you.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 06:04 AM (MhGhb)

65 @redsteeze has lots of good comments on the campus clowns

Posted by: m at May 02, 2024 06:05 AM (o3SCB)

66 truth, SFp

they only condemn what they are instructed to

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 02, 2024 06:06 AM (tQtDb)

67 The inability of many America-first intellectuals, podcasters and their followers to call Hamas evil and morally defend Israel is not necessarily a function of antisemitism. It is a function of a broken moral compass.
-Dennis Prager

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 06:07 AM (RIvkX)

68 That gives the phrase "who let the dogs out" a whole new meaning. I suggested earlier that the LAPD should attack the terrorists with 50 manure spreaders and then drop wet cement from helicopters on them.
Posted by: Lost in Space

Your alternatives are acceptable to me. Still, the thought of a pack of flame throwing robot dogs sending smellies screaming into the night while their plywood goes up in a cheerful blaze of flames makes me smile.

Sigh. Off to work so my tax dollars can buy the smellies more plywood.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at May 02, 2024 06:10 AM (m0Mi4)

69
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
13h
Jewish students should show up and just start tossing bagels at them.

@BillMelugin_
15h
NEW: @FoxNews has obtained a Google Doc w/ a list of needs that protesters at the UCLA camp are requesting, including:
- Vegan & gluten free food

Posted by: m at May 02, 2024 06:10 AM (o3SCB)

70 Hiya Fen !
Posted by: JT at May 02, 2024 05:56 AM (T4tVD

Good morning, JT.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2024 06:13 AM (7s5Sb)

71 Yup. Never fails. I can’t pay electric bill because O can’t recall the hieroglyphic psssword chose 18 years after 18 failed attempts to register my account “We are locking you out of your account for your own protection “

And 6 months later: “we regret to inform you that a recent data breach may have….”

Apparently these enhanced security measures only keep me from accessing my data

Posted by: Fen at May 02, 2024 06:13 AM (ICn6q)

72 When the Lyndon Larouche people would protest at my college the students wadded up dollar bills and threw them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 06:14 AM (RIvkX)

73 Karine Jean-Pierre's schooling:

She earned a bachelor's degree from the New York Institute of Technology in 1997. She earned a Master of Public Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, in 2003, where she served in student government and decided to pursue politics.

ahem

Posted by: m at May 02, 2024 06:14 AM (o3SCB)

74 Good morning early risers!

Posted by: Rosasharn at May 02, 2024 06:27 AM (PzBTm)

75 If I prescribed IVM to treat covid, i would have lost my ability to practice medicine.

Among the nonstudents hauled away by cops was Fernando Bobis, 42, an internal medicine doctor in Washington Heights who whined Wednesday morning about the conditions he faced behind bars.

“Five and 1/2 hours in a holding cell with no bathroom, no water, no food. I had a hard time checking my insulin to make sure I was okay. I’m Type 1 diabetic,” Bobis, who was arrested at the CUNY college, told reporters after his arrest was processed at NYPD headquarters.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 02, 2024 06:27 AM (3CVIc)

76
Stephen L. Miller retweeted
@davidharsanyi
16h
People love to talk about dead Jews who couldn't defend themselves. They're not too crazy about the living ones who do.

@ChadPergram
16h
WH’s Jean-Pierre: On May 7th, the president will travel to Capitol Hill to deliver the keynote address at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual Days of Remembrance ceremony.

Posted by: m at May 02, 2024 06:28 AM (o3SCB)

77 "“Five and 1/2 hours in a holding cell with no bathroom, no water, no food. I had a hard time checking my insulin to make sure I was okay. I’m Type 1 diabetic,” Bobis, who was arrested at the CUNY college, told reporters after his arrest was processed at NYPD headquarters."

Oh no!

Anyway.....

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 06:29 AM (a1415)

78 One would think that a Doctor who is both a type 1 diabetic and a professional ~~protestor~~ shit-stirrer, he would have a Plan B for when he is arrested or detained.

Perhaps he's not a very good Doctor, either.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 06:31 AM (a1415)

79 The cops are finally starting to use pepper balls.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 06:33 AM (MhGhb)

80 I'm a little disappointed in the Columbia protestors. They folded awfully quickly, and never even held out for vegan food deliveries.

Such a pleasure watching left-on-left conflict in an election year, and Slo-Joe furiously ducking the issue.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2024 06:33 AM (13w+k)

81 From Wiki:
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2019) was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization, the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC).[1][2][3][4] He was a prominent conspiracy theorist and perennial presidential candidate.[5][6] He began in far-left politics in the 1940s and later supported the Civil Rights movement, but in the 1970s he moved to the far-right.

And, in his entire bio on the same site, it never mentions him as anything but a leftist democrat until the day he died.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 02, 2024 06:35 AM (3CVIc)

82 @alexcoheninla

Lots of UCLA reporting.

Posted by: m at May 02, 2024 06:36 AM (o3SCB)

83 Speaking of President Goofball, you might be astounded to hear he intends to show up in the office an hour early today, at 9 AM. He's going to Charlotte to attend a service for the officers who died trying to serve a warrant there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2024 06:36 AM (13w+k)

84 In fact, that's how I found out about C. Crane. I loved him pitching them. I actually looked forward to those commercials. I actually owned the original CCrane radio because of him. The only reason I bought the CCrane Plus it's because I lost the original in a move.
Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024

***
LiS, Miklos, do they pick up shortwave well? Using my Grundig portable AM/FM/SW, I used to set my watches to the WWV time broadcasts, but for some reason I can't pick that or anything intelligible up on SW. This has been going on for a few years, and I didn't need an external antenna to get WWV before that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 06:37 AM (omVj0)

85 Cops are starting to use less than lethal shotguns on the terrorists.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 06:38 AM (MhGhb)

86 "Cops are starting to use less than lethal shotguns on the terrorists."

It's a start.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 06:39 AM (a1415)

87 Any of them I dealt with personally came across as extremely disordered.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 06:40 AM (RIvkX)

88 Hey...is this a rubber bullet?

* Points to orange earplug, lying on the ground*

Posted by: Some Leftist Protestor at May 02, 2024 06:40 AM (a1415)

89 I don't know how rough the cops got with the pro-Pali pinheads in front of my building, but the essential thing is, they're gone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 06:41 AM (omVj0)

90 LiS, Miklos, do they pick up shortwave well? Using my Grundig portable AM/FM/SW, I used to set my watches to the WWV time broadcasts, but for some reason I can't pick that or anything intelligible up on SW. This has been going on for a few years, and I didn't need an external antenna to get WWV before that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

When I get a good signal yeah it's clear. Most of the I time the quality is something less than that. I'm not the best person to ask that question since my SkyWave is the first short wave receiver I've ever had, so I don't really know what to expect or really how to go about using it effectively. With that said, it's pretty remarkable what it pulls in.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 06:41 AM (MhGhb)

91 I'm more and more satisfied with my lack of College education.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 06:41 AM (a1415)

92 88 Hey...is this a rubber bullet?

* Points to orange earplug, lying on the ground*
Posted by: Some Leftist Protestor at May 02, 2024 06:40 AM (a1415)

LOL

Posted by: m at May 02, 2024 06:41 AM (o3SCB)

93 Cops removing UCLA encampment

UCLA PROTEST LIVE FEED 5/1/24
Smoke N' Scan
youtube.com/watch?v=uW3vXjRqqKo

Fox 11
youtube.com/watch?v=XkGTdNpcKko

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at May 02, 2024 06:43 AM (9aVck)

94 The reprehensible Kristen Clarke has been caught out perjuring herself during her confirmation process, according to todays NYPost. She is blaming her lies to Congress on being a victim of previous domestic abuse.

Yeah, that makes to sense to me either.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2024 06:44 AM (z4DCN)

95 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2024 06:45 AM (ENQN6)

96 yo wut sup.

The revolution is being televised.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 06:46 AM (MhGhb)

97 The commentary on the smoke n scan channel is hysterical! LOL

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 06:47 AM (RIvkX)

98
@OliLondonTV
Hundreds of American students convert to Islam and participate in an Islamic call to prayer at UCLA.

https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1785891276228895152

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 06:47 AM (RKVpM)

99 Morning inspiration

Robin Mark Holy holy holy

https://tinyurl.com/2peac8hv

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 02, 2024 06:47 AM (3CVIc)

100
The revolution is being televised.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 06:46 AM

Will it put a tiger in my tank, or make me look five pounds lighter?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 06:48 AM (RKVpM)

101 Don't we now have flame throwing robot dogs? Seems like a good time for a test run.
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp

*lifts leg on plywood barrier*

*ignites flammable pee*

Posted by: flame throwing robot dogs, as designed by Miklos at May 02, 2024 06:49 AM (DhOlS)

102 Big action now

https://youtu.be/uW3vXjRqqKo

Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2024 06:49 AM (QB+5g)

103 I must say the smellies are really crappy military engineers.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 06:50 AM (MhGhb)

104 "Hundreds of American students convert to Islam and participate in an Islamic call to prayer at UCLA."

I hope they know they can never go back.

No I don't. Suck it, assholes.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at May 02, 2024 06:51 AM (vFG9F)

105 Hearing a lot of flash-bangs or fireworks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 06:51 AM (RIvkX)

106 University of Tehran professor says protesters at US colleges will support Iran in American conflict: Students are ‘our people’

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2024 06:52 AM (ENQN6)

107 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 02, 2024 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

108 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

I see lots of attempts to get a totalitarian government, for your health.

Yet life expectancy has gone down under Bribe-me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 02, 2024 06:56 AM (u82oZ)

109 Breach!

Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2024 06:57 AM (QB+5g)

110 Arizona and Nevada’s chief election officials are using taxpayer dollars to turn out Democrat-favorable young voters ahead of the 2024 election.
~~The Federalist
===================
It begins.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2024 06:58 AM (jqPhM)

111 Arizona and Nevada’s chief election officials are using taxpayer dollars to turn out Democrat-favorable young voters ahead of the 2024 election.
~~The Federalist
===================
It begins.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Kegger at our place!

Posted by: unimpressed frat boys at May 02, 2024 07:00 AM (DhOlS)

112 Many of the rioters wearing identical white hard hats, goggles, face masks. Resisting with fire extinguishers and thrown objects.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 07:01 AM (RIvkX)

113 Many of the rioters wearing identical white hard hats, goggles, face masks. Resisting with fire extinguishers and thrown objects.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

PD should be pulling the plywood barriers sideways so that the pepper balls can be applied liberally.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 02, 2024 07:02 AM (TkA04)

114 Many of the rioters wearing identical white hard hats, goggles, face masks. Resisting with fire extinguishers and thrown objects.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Yep. Well funded insurrectionist para military organization.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 07:02 AM (MhGhb)

115 33
I believe Uke farmers are using it on their fields before spring planting before I believe russia is violating international war crimes by launching chemical warfare.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 02, 2024 05:09 AM (3CVIc)
----
But TNT is also a chemical. All bombs are chemical and even A-bombs use chemical explosives to start the thing. Is it that much worse to get gassed vs blown to bits?

Posted by: Ciampino - imbeciles, morons, & idiots all of them at May 02, 2024 07:05 AM (qfLjt)

116 Bags of cement being disposed of.

Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2024 07:06 AM (QB+5g)

117 They certainly give the appearance of being trained and organized to offer maximal resistance.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 07:06 AM (RIvkX)

118 Lost in Space

We are funding those protesters. And any intel on the people in charge is a circular search.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 02, 2024 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

119

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 02, 2024 07:08 AM (X4yCj)

120 San Franpsycho

Stay safe!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 02, 2024 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

121 It's face to face now. The tie wrap guys are showing up. Get ready for melee.

Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2024 07:08 AM (QB+5g)

122 Hillary Clinton

Ah, one of the Great Old Ones has arrived.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 02, 2024 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

123 Stay safe!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 02, 2024 07:08 AM (u82oZ)
===
Thanks, My rocker-recliner is pretty comfy

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 07:09 AM (RIvkX)

124 I really need to get my birdbath out, I don't keep it out all winter
Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2024 05:17 AM (fwDg9)

Your birds must have BO.

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2024 07:10 AM (T4tVD)

125 Your birds must have BO.
Posted by: JT at May 02, 2024 07:10 AM (T4tVD)

Birdy odor?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 02, 2024 07:11 AM (+yhUM)

126 I recall a technique I saw in Budapest.

The cops would use water cannon with blue dye in the water. If any miscreant tried to slip away, the blue was easy identification.

Posted by: Miklos was personally uninvolved at May 02, 2024 07:11 AM (DhOlS)

127 Meanwhile, the Free Beacon has taken on the task of searching through pictures of rioters in hopes of finding one that is "sort of hot", instead of fat and ugly.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2024 07:11 AM (izFTT)

128 Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and thoroughly immoral -- doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein in Starship Troopers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 02, 2024 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

129 Meanwhile, the Free Beacon has taken on the task of searching through pictures of rioters in hopes of finding one that is "sort of hot", instead of fat and ugly.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2024 07:11 AM (izFTT)

Well this one looks relatively hopeful... wait, no, that's a fire hydrant.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 02, 2024 07:12 AM (+yhUM)

130 Warai-otoko

** Snort **

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 02, 2024 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

131 I recall a technique I saw in Budapest.

The cops would use water cannon with blue dye in the water. If any miscreant tried to slip away, the blue was easy identification.
Posted by: Miklos

That's the proper technique.
They should have been spraying dye on the antifa rioters.
Don't let them hide in the wood work.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 02, 2024 07:14 AM (TkA04)

132 The CEO of United Healthcare said maybe a third of US citizens were affected by a recent security breach. (Tech Crunch)

-

Be sure to use a 64 character password including six special characters and two-factor authentication in order to protect your account, user!

Change it every month for your security!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - 2024 is an IQ test. Why are you poorer? at May 02, 2024 07:15 AM (M4M2/)

133 I bet a few wild hogs would clear that UCLA crowd PDQ.

Posted by: Miklos has a suggestion at May 02, 2024 07:16 AM (DhOlS)

134 Now I'm picturing a police captain walking the line of officers with fire hoses shouting "Dye! Dye!"....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 02, 2024 07:17 AM (+yhUM)

135 LiS, Miklos, do they pick up shortwave well?

One last thought about C. Crane. They have a very good customer service department that could probably answer that question thoroughly. Another approach is they also sell their products through Amazon which means you could buy one, try it and If you don't like it, send it back.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 07:17 AM (MhGhb)

136 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 02, 2024 07:18 AM (dg+HA)

137 Meanwhile, Stanford antisemitism gets worse and worse.

https://shorturl.at/mM138

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2024 07:19 AM (izFTT)

138 Cops are out numbered.

Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2024 07:19 AM (QB+5g)

139 It is heartening how the "Hey we're just protesters exercising our rights" bullshit really isn't sticking at all.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 02, 2024 07:19 AM (+yhUM)

140 Morning peeps
_______

The Iranian mullahs are correct; the pro-Hamas assholes will side with Iran in a conflict. Should the thousands of Middle Eastern men who've crossed over the wide open southern border be activated, these kids will be more than willing to fight along side them.

Against you. They've no idea what they have stirred up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2024 07:20 AM (Q4IgG)

141 The CEO of United Healthcare is a blackguard who belongs in jail, not managing a health care benefits scam which steals taxpayers money and gives it in the form of "medical" insurance to non-taxpaying layabouts.

The idiot probably did the data breech with his side hustle.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 02, 2024 07:20 AM (4a+k3)

142 Cops are out numbered.
Posted by: pawn

Zip ties will fix that.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 02, 2024 07:21 AM (TkA04)

143 UCLA: cops cleaning up
https://www.twitch.tv/smokenscan

Posted by: Ciampino - imbeciles, morons, & idiots all of them! at May 02, 2024 07:22 AM (qfLjt)

144 CNBC says buckle up for the coming crisis shortage of olive oil.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2024 07:23 AM (izFTT)

145 BREAKING

Police being pelted with halal avocado toast

Posted by: MiklosWatch at May 02, 2024 07:24 AM (DhOlS)

146 Have a great day, everyone.

But have a plan with your head on a swivel.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 02, 2024 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

147 Cops are out numbered.
Posted by: pawn

Whiff this

Posted by: Grapeshot at May 02, 2024 07:26 AM (DhOlS)

148 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Serving customers

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2024 07:26 AM (T4tVD)

149 @32

>>Be sure to use a 64 character password including six special characters and two-factor authentication in order to protect your account, user!

64 characters? I wish, most times your limited to 8 characters and and at most 16.

Studies have shown, the most effective password would be three random dictionary words and not all this added alphanumeric nonsense.

And none of this matters when the admins forget to change the root password from 123456.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2024 07:27 AM (XV/Pl)

150 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Serving customers
Posted by: JT

turn on the jacuzzi

Posted by: Avian customers at May 02, 2024 07:28 AM (DhOlS)

151 Cops are loading up on tear gas. They just brought out a couple of cases.

Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2024 07:28 AM (QB+5g)

152 They just brought out a couple of cases.
Posted by: pawn

Dudes!

Posted by: frat bros follow suit at May 02, 2024 07:29 AM (DhOlS)

153 War elephants would sort this right quick.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 02, 2024 07:30 AM (MhGhb)

154 Shooting them would be a lot simpler.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 07:30 AM (RIvkX)

155 Cops are loading up on tear gas. They just brought out a couple of cases.
Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2024 07:28 AM (QB+5g)
===

I see lot of the rioters are wearing respirators, not just masks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 07:31 AM (RIvkX)

156 "Shooting them would be a lot simpler."

Fuck you.

Our turn is coming.

Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2024 07:32 AM (QB+5g)

157 I demand that REI divest themselves from any Soros involvement.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2024 07:34 AM (a1415)

158 Two former Attorneys General, Edwin Meese and Michael Mukasey, From the brief:

Although this case raises a weighty issue of presidential immunity, it also necessarily raises a preliminary question, i.e., whether Jack Smith actually has authority to prosecute this case all.

He does not.

Those actions can be taken only by persons properly appointed as federal officers to properly created federal offices.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2024 07:35 AM (ENQN6)

159 Okay, then.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2024 07:36 AM (RIvkX)

160 it never mentions him as anything but a leftist democrat until the day he died.

As the LP picked up professional poli-sci practitioners and swung for the fences in the "How you can profit from the coming cholera epidemic" days, there was a LaRouche libertarian wing. I believe this was an inspiration for Hillary and Cass Sunstein.

I sat across the aisle from him on an Amtrak train one evening. He was holding forth to a disciple about the "reign of terror" he would usher in when he was in charge of everything. I'll give him this: he didn't try to sugar-coat a thing.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 02, 2024 07:36 AM (zdLoL)

161 ‘It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring….’
- S. Tramp

Posted by: Eromero at May 02, 2024 07:36 AM (o2ZRX)

162 JJ is here

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at May 02, 2024 07:39 AM (DIB8X)

163 JJ is nood!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 07:39 AM (IUd0M)

164 There are hundreds of cheap white construction hats being worn by the protestors.

Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2024 07:39 AM (QB+5g)

165
I hope they know they can never go back.

No I don't. Suck it, assholes.

mornin yall
Posted by: fd

They will embrace their new religion with the same depth of knowledge and conviction that they have demonstrated for every other cause they have taken to heart.

Their romance will be over for them in a matter of months.

Now, true believers and keepers of the faith will disagree. That is when matters will get sporty among the former fellow travelers.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 02, 2024 07:49 AM (xG4kz)

166 98
@OliLondonTV
Hundreds of American students convert to Islam and participate in an Islamic call to prayer at UCLA.

https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1785891276228895152
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 06:47 AM (RKVpM)

A Billy Graham crusade this is not.

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