@#76 ... Or have we already been facing such an assault? ...

To wit...

As a follow-up ...

Why might Pres Trump apparently need such a safe space to retreat to?

imo, is this a preview to what we might see in early January 2029?

And what will Amazon's AI do with the video the camera records?

Who might it be shared with?

Will the video be able to be taken and used in court proceedings?

Is Amazon just extending the Flock's Big Surveillance goals into the home?

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... The camera speaker ships today for $249.99. Hold up a board game box and Alexa can explain the rules, or show it a box of cereal and it can help you reorder it, according to Amazon. Owners can also check in on the room from the Alexa app while they are away. The Echo Studio without a camera stays on sale at $219.99. ...

@#43 ... Eberly is here to tell you we've ...

Nah.

My view is that the eberly alias, like other far less capable current alias (hey Jeffy), is here just to troll for replies ...

But that is A Good Thing because those replies generate ad revenue to support this site.

:)

@#1 ... Time Warp ...

Back in the day, I remember reading that Mick Jagger had been considered for the lead on the film.

imo, Mr Curry's performance in that role hit it out of the park.

Mr Jagger's fame would not carry him to even come close to Mr Curry's supreme performance in the role.

OK, so the Trump admin went for the headline that it sold the missiles to Ukraine.

But has delayed the delivery so that Pres Putin can gain yet more advantage?

@#3

... and speaking of Pres Trump, his recent, I'll say, supportive comments about a male candidate's derriere leads me to this tune ...

... ICE paid almost $500 million to acquire a private prison in Minnesota that was previously offered to the state for just $75 million, according to a report. ...

OK, this leads me to ask a question ...

WTF is up with Pres Trump's wild spending spree?

If GOP's Paxton cannot win Texas by a significant margin, something is very different.

That is all I'll say at this point.

@#75 ... Only if due to a series of massive failures. ...

While I may generally agree with your comment, I also add that ~America's next war~ may have already reached US soil.

I am not referring to foreign soldiers entering our shores.

I am talking about foreign cyber-soldiers entering our networked systems.

A.k.a. cyber-warfare.

Europe is already facing such an assault from Russia.

How soon before we face such an assault?

Or have we already been facing such an assault?

@#78 ... The arrogance of such an individual knows no bounds ...

Oh, I agree. The arrogance of Pres Trump knows no bounds.

But, what else does yer current trolling got?

@#77 ... At issue is whether this was a conspiracy to mislead voters or interfere with a fair election. ...

If I may be so bold to alter that statement ...

At issue is whether this was an unproven conspiracy to mislead voters or interfere with a fair election.

Stated differently, the Trump administration, and its supporters, have stated many things they think to be true.

But the Courts seem to be of a differing opinion.

That aside, yeah, we now seem to be at the beginning of a legal fight that may delay the rsults of the Alaska election.

Which, imo, is the actual goal here.

Throw uncertainty onto our elections.

imo, there's more to come. Stay tuned.

@#2 ... "poorly formatted excel spreadsheet with missing and jumbled information." ...

So, Pres Trump's DoJ does not even seem to know how to use MS Office Excel?

I guess that is what may occur when Pres Trump seems to have a preference for hiring adulating toadies instead of qualified people.

But my opinion may be wrong. ...

Still more from the article ...

... Since then, county election officials have been sifting through the lists. According to some county officials, the results so far seem to confirm their skepticism of the Trump administration's claims.

In Butte County, situated just north of the Sacramento Valley, officials received a list of 47 names from federal prosecutors late Friday. The county's top election official, Keaton Denlay, told ABC News that he personally reviewed what he called the Justice Department's "poorly formatted excel spreadsheet with missing and jumbled information."

Denlay found that 32 of the 47 individuals "are not on Butte county's active voter rolls," and another seven "did not have sufficient information for me to match to our voter list with confidence." ...

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... The Trump administration has sued the state of California and threatened other states over the issue of noncitizen voting, a longtime concern of the president and his administration despite experts saying it is already illegal and "vanishingly rare." Federal officials have demanded action after presenting to states what they say are lists of noncitizens who are registered to vote, gathered using a combination of federal immigration data and commercially available state voter registration rolls.

But in the final weeks of the campaign, as the administration implores state and local officials, both in and out of court, to investigate those individuals, the lists -- and the grandiose numbers Trump and his allies publicly trumpeted -- appear to be buckling under the scrutiny of state and local election officials.

In California, Washington and Nevada -- and beyond -- state and local officials say the lists provided by the Justice Department appear grossly inaccurate and justify the states' reluctance to purge individuals from registration lists so close to the election. ...

'Lack of credibility'

The Trump administration initially accused California of harboring over 190,000 noncitizen voters on its rolls over the summer. That sum was whittled down to 20,000 by the time the Justice Department filed its lawsuit against the state last week.

It's not clear why the administration reduced the figure so dramatically. But even the smaller figure seems inflated, according to state and local officials. ...

Anyone want to discuss the actual topic of this thread?

@#3

... America's next war could reach US soil, top Army general warns ...

So, if these preparations are taking place, what tactics might Pres Trump have in mind against Iran?

A ground invasion?

Why else might the military have a need to prepare for the burial of American soldiers until that subsequently could be repatriated to the US?

@#75 ... Putting this guy on the ballot is not a stunt? ...

Is it a stunt, or is it illegal?

If the former ... well, welcome to politics in America.

If the latter ... prosecute, but with evidence, not the usual evidence-starved manned of Pres Trump.

@#53 ... I purchased a 11000watt generator at Costco ...

I have a 1600watt generation that I purchased after SnowTober occurred here in Connecticut in 2011.

20 inches, and more in some areas, of a wet snow of trees that had not yet dropped all their leaves.

Tree limbs plummeted to earth.

I had no power for three days.

So, that caused me to buy the generator that could power two things in my house - the furnace and the refrigerator. That is, keep me warm and keep the food appropriately cold. The generator can supply power to more, but that is the critical requirement. And the generator works for a full day on just one filling of its gas tank!

That generator was most helpful when Hurricane Irene killed power here for three days the following year.

@#59 ... How hard is it to just check the live maps? ...

Those live maps show just the transponders that want to be tracked.

How many military missions want to be tracked?

OK, aside from Sec Def Hegseth apparently providing such info on a chat session?

@#1 ... Following the incident, ICE said officers observed a suspect they were targeting, identified as Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, entering a vehicle with Parra Hernandez. An immigration advocacy group, FIEL Houston, said the alleged suspect died years ago according to documentation provided by the man's family, The New York Times reported. ...

So, ICE was targeting a person, who may have died years ago.

And because of that apparent ICE mistaken identification, a person had his leg broken by ICE agents?

Maybe the I-95 anal-pores in this song are ICE agents, a.k.a. apparently Pres Trump's private militia?

@70

Also, how many other such races have the current Republican incumbent so clearly marked?

More from the article ...

... Still, customers are increasingly handing over their log-ins as personal AI assistants grow more popular. Sharing your banking username and password with an AI assistant runs the risk that it could do something with your finances without your knowledge, or that your bank thinks someone's raiding your account and locks you out of it.

Worse, a security flaw in the AI assistant could result in it leaking your banking credentials elsewhere, giving financially motivated hackers a way into your bank account.

This latest warning comes as banks are still exploring how AI agents fit into the financial world but are reportedly grappling with unauthorized agents accessing their customers' money.

As we discussed onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt, banks, payment providers, and processors are still trying to figure out how to allow customers access to their bank accounts using AI tools, such as for agentic payments, which allow people to set agents to autonomously buy things at the best price or the right time.

A spokesperson for Bank of America confirmed the authenticity of the bank's email that was posted to social media. ...

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... "The evidence that we have in this case is as clear as any that I've ever prosecuted or investigated," Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said in a news conference on Friday, according to NBC.

"An ICE badge does not give you free rein to injure, kill, or violate the constitutional rights of anyone," Teare said.

Parra Hernandez, a 48-year-old immigrant without legal status, was driving to work when federal authorities attempted to pull him over. He stopped his car, and he and his passenger attempted to run away.

Surveillance footage from the incident shows the two men running away while an SUV veers and hits Parra Hernandez, who suffered multiple injuries to his leg.

An ICE spokesperson said in an emailed statement to NBC that the indictment "is nothing more than a political stunt by Houston sanctuary politicians." The spokesperson said that only federal agencies can investigate "federal officers acting in the course of their duties."

At the press conference, Teare said that is "false."

Following the incident, ICE said officers observed a suspect they were targeting, identified as Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, entering a vehicle with Parra Hernandez. An immigration advocacy group, FIEL Houston, said the alleged suspect died years ago according to documentation provided by the man's family, The New York Times reported. ...

The original version of that song title from 1929, right before the Depression struck ...

@#20 ... But this stunt proved EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what the moron perpetrators were trying to "prove". If anything, this should make folks feel SAFER regarding their vote. ...

Agreed.

... And just like any other election fraud, I believe they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. ...

Again, agreed.

@17 ... It's only one person. Statistically nonexistent. Am I doing this right? ...

No, you're not.

For starters it looked to me to be two people.

If you want to go on, let me know.

But for now I'll stop here...

Yer up.

@#6 ... Not that it's hard. That was pretty funny though... Obama has serious standup chops. ...

Yup.

@#4 ... It was Obama's typical disdain for what he perceives to be beneath him. ...

How so?

This does not bode well.

@#4 ... Our Pentagon is run by Russia. ...

Well, Sec Def Hegseth seems to be assuring that those remaining leaders in the Pentagon are like himself, i.e., a Pres Trump most-ample-derriere-kissing toady.

So that the Pentagon seems to be telling our European allies to go easy on Pres Putin should be no surprise.

@#66 ... In an election so skeeed by Elon Musk this minor thing is just too minuscule in importance. ...

Thanks for bringing that up.

That one person tries to have such an overwhelming effect upon the elections based solely upon trying to buy the results of elections.

I mean, that is something that should be investigated.

@#50 ... The problem isn't the "dirty tricks" of putting people on the ballot

The problem is Piggy using this as a justification for a bullshit legal justification

The problem is magat scum using this as a justification to not certify a D win ...

Agree.