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IIRC, the roadway was a DFW airport access road or frontage road and the driver was an airport employee, tested at twice the legal limit for alcohol. Per local TV news last night.
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I believe these two cyclists were laggards of a larger group of cyclists inexplicably tying up an airport frontage road.
Sadly they both will live to continue to collect SS and Medicare.
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I have a running riddle:
Does Subaru attract bad drivers, or does Subaru make bad drivers?
Works with Jetta.
To high score challenge a double limit takes more than 6 beers. That being said, if the cyclists were not really supposed to be there, I understand. No excuse for DUI.
Judge me accordingly, but there is an event called Bike Across Kansas when during Harvest Season a bunch of cyclists ride Agriculture Harvest Routes. Assholes.
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I was 9 when the Giants moved to San Francisco. Willie Mays was always my hero. Especially when he helped, offensively or defensively, to beat the Dodgers.
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Manhunt underway in Utah for Collin Bailey, a man who thinks he’s a woman and goes by “Mia.” He’s the prime suspect for the m*rder of 2 people. Police say he’s armed and dangerous.
What's with all the asterisks? More and more of them showing up lately Can't say "murder," "rape", or "sex." Probably best to refer to women's "l*mbs." Oh, wait. Can we still say wimmin? Or is it womyn? Well, I'm a s*n of a b*tch! F&cking meatb*lls, scr*win' with my native language!
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[ reitbart] A crucial piece of intelligence can turn the tide of an entire battle or even a war. During the Civil War before the Third Battle of Winchester, that intelligence was obtained from two of the most unlikely of sources—a school teacher and a slave.
By 1864, the war was not going well for the North. Lincoln had staked the Republican Party’s political future on military victory over the Confederacy. Yet Confederate General Jubal Early’s army had nearly marched on Washington. Another military disaster on the battlefield would be disastrous.
As General Philip Sheridan recalled, “I deemed it necessary to be very cautious, and the fact that the Presidential election was impending made me doubly so, the authorities at Washington having impressed upon me that the defeat of my army might be followed by the overthrow of the party in power, which event, it was believed, would at least retard, if, indeed, it did not lead to the complete abandonment of all coercive measures.”
Sheridan’s solution: better intelligence.
“I could not risk disaster. . . . I determined to take all the time necessary to equip myself with the fullest information, and then seize an opportunity under such conditions that I could not well fail of success.”
So the Jessie Scouts, some of Lincoln’s special forces, were charged with gathering that intelligence, including by forging connections and building relationships like those with Thomas Laws and Rebecca Wright.
“They learned that just outside of my lines, near Millwood, there was living an old colored man [Thomas Laws], who had a permit from the Confederate commander to go into Winchester and return three times a week for the purpose of selling vegetables to the inhabitants.”
One Sunday evening, Private James Campbell and another Scout approached the enslaved African American Laws and his wife as they were sitting on the steps of their cabin. “Two unknown men came through the yard and struck up a conversation with me about Winchester. I told them I could go to Winchester any time I choose as my master lived there, that was, in Berryville.” The two Scouts returned to Sheridan’s headquarters with the information about their potentially valuable informant. The general wanted to determine whether Laws was reliable. Campbell returned to the cabin with an invitation for Laws: “The general wants to see you tonight.”
“They carried me to the general,” Laws recalled. “When I got there, the general and I took our seats on an old log that was laying by the camp.” Among other inquiries, Sheridan asked Laws if he knew Rebecca Wright. The twenty-six-year-old Winchester native was a Quaker schoolteacher, Union supporter, and ardent abolitionist recommended by General Crook as a possible informant.
Wright lived in a divided house. Her sister Hannah was a “dyed-in-the-wool Rebel,” and her brother David was conscripted into the Confederate Army. At the same time, the Confederates imprisoned her father for his fervent Unionist beliefs. “After a little persuasion,” Laws agreed to carry a message to Wright for the general. Campbell carried Sheridan’s letter behind enemy lines to Laws and stayed at Laws’ cabin until he returned from his mission. “[Laws’] message was prepared by writing it on tissue paper, which was then compressed into a small pellet, and protected by wrapping it in tin-foil so that it could be safely carried in the man’s mouth,” or swallowed if the Confederates searched him.
Rebecca Wright remembered the middle-aged Laws as a “quiet, dignified” man, “very” well dressed in a white shirt, coat, and tie, who approached her in her yard asking if he could see her privately. She took him into the school room where she taught, and he asked if she was “a Union lady” and if she knew General Sheridan.
“When she said she did not, I thought I was between Heaven and Earth,” remembered Laws. Risking his life, Laws “ventured anyhow and gave her the letter.”
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The US car industry was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after a cyber-attack targeted one of its leading software suppliers.
Hackers broke into the systems of CDK Global late on Tuesday night, potentially putting the sensitive financial details for millions of customers at risk.
The software company had shut down most of its operations by 2am on Wednesday, leaving 15,000 auto retailers offline and customers angrily demanding an update.
'Our first priority is always the security of our customers, and our actions reflect our obligation to them as a trusted partner,' said CDK spokeswoman Lisa Finney.
Dealerships use the company's software to manage vehicle acquisitions, sales, financing, insuring, repairs and maintenance, and clients include General Motors, Group 1 Automotive and Holman.
Finney said it shut down most of its systems 'out of an abundance of caution', and had restored its core document management system and digital retailing software by Wednesday afternoon.
'We are continuing to conduct extensive tests on all other applications, and we will provide updates as we bring those applications back online,' she added.
Some dealers were reverting to post-it notes and hand-drawn spreadsheets to stay open.
'We are already back online in GA,' tweeted one from Marietta at 4.53pm.
'Not able to access digital deal jackets but we could print a deal and sell a car.
'Would have to manual load everything to do so.'
'Our first priority is always the security of our customers, and our actions reflect our obligation to them as a trusted partner,' said CDK spokeswoman Lisa Finney
'Why do you guys not have local replication so at least the dealers could perform basic functions?' demanded another. 'NOT A GOOD LOOK.'
'It's Michigan, it's the entire country - about 15,000 dealers they service, so this is a big outage in our industry,' said Todd Szott, president of the Detroit Auto Dealers Association.
'And hopefully it will be rectified soon.'
'To me, it has all the looks and feel of a ransomware event,' cybersecurity expert David Derigiotis told Fox News.
'We're dependent on technology, we're dependent on software and if there's any fail-point along the whole digital supply chain, it has ripple effects and that's what we're seeing with this exact example here.'
The attack took place just days after a separate hack which pushed the Findlay Automotive Group offline.
Insurance company Zurich North America warned that dealerships are a prime target for hackers because they hold a 'treasure of information' on customers' credit applications and financial information.
'In addition, dealership systems are often interconnected to external interfaces and portals, such as external service providers,' Zurich explained, with many dealerships lacking 'basic cyber security protections'.
CDK produced figures suggesting attacks by cyber-hackers on individual car dealerships rose from 15 to 17 percent last year.
It boasts that it offers a 'three-tiered cybersecurity strategy to prevent, protect and respond to cyberattacks'.
But it was roasted on social media after the hack which brought much of the car retail industry to a grinding halt.
[FoxNews] An international law enforcement operation led by the Department of Justice (DOJ) has disrupted a botnet known as 911 S5, which exploited free VPNs to facilitate various cybercrimes, including fraud, harassment and child exploitation.
YunHe Wang, 35, a citizen of China as well as St. Kitts and Nevis, was arrested on May 24 for allegedly creating and running this whole botnet scheme. The feds say he used malware to infect millions of personal Windows computers around the world, building a network with more than 19 million unique IP addresses.
FBI busts alleged mastermind behind massive network of hijacked devices
Wang allegedly created a system that allowed cybercriminals to mask their identities and commit crimes. He did that by creating and disseminating a botnet called 911 S5 to compromise and amass a network of millions of residential Windows computers worldwide from 2014 through July 2022, according to the DOJ. These devices were associated with more than 19 million unique IP addresses, including 613,841 IP addresses located in the U.S.
FBI Director Christopher Wray called 911 S5 the world's largest botnet. It lets cybercriminals bypass financial fraud detection systems and steal billions of dollars from banks, credit card companies and federal lending programs. The government estimates that 560,000 fake unemployment insurance claims came from compromised internet addresses, leading to over $5.9 billion in confirmed losses.
"Additionally, in evaluating suspected fraud loss to the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, the United States estimates that more than 47,000 EIDL applications originated from IP addresses compromised by 911 S5," the DOJ wrote. "Millions of dollars more were similarly identified by financial institutions in the United States as loss originating from IP addresses compromised by 911 S5."
The DOJ alleges that from 2018 until July 2022, Wang made about $99 million from selling hijacked proxied IP addresses through his 911 S5 operation, receiving payments in both cryptocurrency and fiat currency. Wang used this money to buy real estate in the United States, St. Kitts and Nevis, China, Singapore, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates.
FBI busts alleged mastermind behind massive network of hijacked devices
How the botnet operated
According to the DOJ, the malware was spread through free VPN programs like MaskVPN and DewVPN, which were distributed via torrent sites. It was also bundled with other programs, including pirated software, using pay-per-install services.
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The operator managed around 150 dedicated servers globally, with 76 rented from U.S. online service providers. These servers were allegedly used to deploy and manage the malicious applications, control the infected devices, run the 911 S5 service and provide paying customers with access to the IP addresses of the compromised devices.
Essentially, the operator hijacked devices by infecting them with malware, the DOJ said. The infected devices then became part of the botnet, allowing their IP addresses to be rented out to cybercriminals. These cybercriminals could then use the hijacked IP addresses to anonymously carry out various offenses while concealing their true locations and identities.
FBI busts alleged mastermind behind massive network of hijacked devices Why free VPNs should be avoided
Wang's arrest serves as a cautionary tale against using free VPN services. As discussed, he allegedly exploited free VPNs like MaskVPN and DewVPN to distribute malware and enable cybercriminals to misuse the IP addresses of infected devices. However, this is not the only drawback of free VPNs.
Free VPN services often lack robust data protection measures, as they typically do not undergo third-party audits to verify their security practices. Users of free VPNs may also experience sluggish internet speeds and an increased risk of phishing attacks.
Instead of relying on free VPNs, you should consider investing in reputable, paid VPN services that prioritize user privacy, security and performance. Paid VPN providers are more likely to implement robust encryption protocols, maintain strict no-logging policies and offer faster connection speeds.
Free VPN services often lack robust data prote
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You should also consider that the privacy sold by VPN's is only a govt search warrant thick.
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VPN
Virtually Public Network.
Think about it.
Ref. what we already know about Fed MAE EAST & MAE WEST tracking centers. Toss in ISP DNS tracking, time stamps,OS FLAVOR ID,MS Edge,cookie data,and MAC tracking.
VPN's w/o 2048DH encryption end to end are good for basics.
[Breitbart] A bipartisan bill that will advance the development of nuclear energy power plants in the nation was passed by the United States Senate on Tuesday.
In an 88-2 vote, the Senate voted to pass the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act, which is part of the Fire Grants and Safety Act (S.8.70), according to a press release from the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). The ADVANCE Act will now move forward to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed.
“Today, we sent the ADVANCE Act to the president’s desk because Congress worked together to recognize the importance of nuclear energy to America’s future and got the job done,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) said in the press release.
Under the bill, the current process for exporting “American technology to international markets” would be improved, the “regulatory costs for companies seeking to license advanced nuclear reactor technologies” would be reduced, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) chair would be given additional “tools” to “hire and retain” more qualified staff members who will “successfully and safely review and process applications for advanced nuclear reactor licenses,” among many others, according to the press release.
The bill would also task the NRC with evaluating “manufacturing techniques” that would help to “build nuclear reactors better, faster, cheaper and smarter.”
American Nuclear Energy Leadership would also be facilitated under the bill, by “empowering” the NRC to “read in international forums to develop regulations for advanced nuclear reactors.”
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Given Yucca Mountain remains stopped and abandoned, where will they store the vastly increased quantity of nuke waste? Above ground long-term cask storage is a catastrophe waiting to happen.
Wiki cite-"Right now, all of the nuclear waste that a power plant generates in its entire lifetime is stored on-site in dry casks. A permanent disposal site for used nuclear fuel has been planned for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, since 1987, but political issues keep it from becoming a reality."
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#1 they store it in the state where all NIMBYs go - at Los Alamos, NM. Doesn't bother the Forest Service from trying the burn the whole place down. Unfortunately, the FS doesn't learn and seems to do it on a regular basis in NM.
[BBC] Every public school classroom in Louisiana has been ordered to display a poster of the Ten Commandments - a move that civil liberties groups say they will challenge.
The Republican-backed measure is the first of its kind in the US, and governs all classrooms up to university level. Governor Jeff Landry signed it off on Wednesday.
Christians see the Ten Commandments as key rules from God on how to live.
The new law describes them as "foundational" to state and national governance. But opponents say the law breaks America's separation of church and state.
The first amendment to the US Constitution - known as the Establishment Clause - says that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
The state law requires that a poster include the sacred text in "large, easily readable font" on a poster that is 11 inches by 14 inches (28cm by 35.5cm) and that the commandments be "the central focus" of the display.
The commandments will also be shown alongside a four-paragraph "context statement" which will describe how the directives "were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries".
The posters must be on display in all classrooms receiving state funding by 2025 - but no state funding is being offered to pay for the posters themselves.
Similar laws have recently been proposed by other Republican-led states, including Texas, Oklahoma and Utah.
Four civil liberties groups have confirmed that they plan a legal challenge, highlighting the religious diversity of Louisiana's schools.
The law was "blatantly unconstitutional", said a joint statement from the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
But the bill's author, Republican state lawmaker Dodie Horton, has spoken of the importance of returning a "moral code" to classrooms. She was quoted saying "it’s like hope is in the air everywhere" as the bill was rubber-stamped by the governor.
There have previously been numerous legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings, including courthouses and police stations as well as schools.
In 1980, the US Supreme Court struck down a similar Kentucky law requiring that the document be displayed in elementary and high schools. This precedent has been cited by the groups contesting the Louisiana law.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court said the requirement that the Ten Commandments be posted "had no secular legislative purpose" and was "plainly religious in nature" - noting that the commandments made references to worshipping God.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Here is another Excellent read on the Civil War origins of US Army Intelligence by author Pete Tsouras. 
[GEO.TV] Relatives of dead pilgrims scoured hospitals, pleaded online for news, fearing worst after temperatures hit 51.8 degrees Celsius
