I had been wondering what the transmitter that was found with him had been used for.

@#12 ... A plan trying to "shut the border" ...

Fmr Pres Trump's plan is not just to shut the border, but also deport the immigrants in the US.

A common GOP bumper sticker saying notes that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.

That is wrong.

What is actually occurring is that American companies and corporations are giving jobs to immigrants instead of giving those jobs to Americans. The immigrants are not taking jobs from Americans, American companies and corporations are giving the jobs to immigrants instead of Americans.

Let me say that again, as #10 notes ...

American companies and corporations are choosing to give jobs to immigrants instead of giving those jobs to Americans.

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... A security camera recorded the killing, inside the bedroom they shared on July 15 in Humboldt, Tennessee, the county prosecutor said.

The recording shows the older child using bedding to suffocate her cousin as the younger girl slept in the top bunk, Gibson District Attorney Frederick Agee's statement said. After the child died, "the juvenile cleaned up the victim and repositioned her body," Agee said.

A relative told WREG-TV in Memphis that the girls had been arguing over an iPhone after coming from out of town to stay with their grandmother.

The girl was charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence after authorities obtained the video on Wednesday. ...

fwiw...

Related...

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... The high school student is among a growing number of teens defying liberal stereotypes of America's youngest voters and hopping aboard the Trump train.

"I feel like he reflects a lot of my personal values," Schaefer-Rose, wearing mirrored sunglasses, told AFP at a "Youth VoteFest" Wednesday near the Republican National Convention.

He first became aware of Trump in 2016, seeing him on television during that year's raucous campaign. Other young voters at the event said their first memory of Trump was seeing his cameo in "Home Alone 2," or as a brash boss in television's "The Apprentice."

"I kind of just connected with him," Schaefer-Rose said. "I was only eight years old at the time, but I could see that he was someone I could eventually look up to."

Same with Matthew Paley, a New Jersey 19-year-old who was playing--------- outside the Republican convention arena.

He met his idol Trump -- "very nice dude!" -- recently in Florida and fully backs the billionaire as he seeks a White House comeback.

"Honestly in the beginning ... I just liked Trump because I thought he was hilarious," said Paley.

"Then once I started doing my research, I was like Oh wow, alright.'"

Paley said he embraces the same "core conservative values" as Trump, including gun rights. ...

... Russia is ready to work with any U.S. leader willing to engage in "equitable, mutually respectful dialogue," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said ...

My translation: Russia is ready to work with any U.S. leader willing to acts as a puppet of Russia," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

@#9 ... that caused prices to go up. I'd pay it ...

My guess would be that most who favor fmr Pres Trump's immigration rhetoric would just complain about the increased inflation and try to blame the increased inflation on the Democrats.

@#9 ... The thing is if we had a solid border plan, ...

The problem is less the border and more those who hire the immigrants.

... Trump's platform -- including tax cuts, tariff increases and a crackdown on immigration -- would, in the view of many economists and investors, stoke price pressures. ...

Yup.

Who pays for tariffs? The companies typically pass on the cost of tariffs to consumers via higher prices.

Why do farming corporations prefer to hire immigrants? Lower cost of labor. The higher cost of non-immigrant labor will be passed on to consumers via higher prices.

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... The climate crisis is causing the length of each day to get longer, analysis shows, as the mass melting of polar ice reshapes the planet.

The phenomenon is a striking demonstration of how humanity's actions are transforming the Earth, scientists said, rivalling natural processes that have existed for billions of years.

The change in the length of the day is on the scale of milliseconds but this is enough to potentially disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS navigation, all of which rely on precise timekeeping.

The length of the Earth's day has been steadily increasing over geological time due to the gravitational drag of the moon on the planet's oceans and land. However, the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets due to human-caused global heating has been redistributing water stored at high latitudes into the world's oceans, leading to more water in the seas nearer the equator. This makes the Earth more oblate -- or fatter -- slowing the rotation of the planet and lengthening the day still further. ...

@#43 ... That post must have taken you a while to write out. LOL ...

Nope.

Once I had spent the few seconds to get the research done, the writing of the post went quite quickly.

:)

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... Sniffer dogs may soon become a useful means of improving physical security in datacenters, as increasing numbers of people are adopting implants like NFC chips that have the potential to enable novel attacks on access control tools.

So claims Len Noe, tech evangelist at identity management vendor CyberArk. Noe told The Register he has ten implants " passive devices that are observable with a full body X-ray, but invisible to most security scanners.

Noe explained he's acquired access cards used to enter controlled premises, cloned them in his implants, and successfully walked into buildings by just waving his hands over card readers.

Unless staff are vigilant enough to notice he didn't use a card, his entrance appears to be a normal, boring, instance of an RFID being scanned.

But like most electronics, Noe's implants include a chemical called triphenylphosphine oxide that has a bunch of uses, including flame retardation, and does find its way into the manufacturing of electronics. Sniffer dogs have thus been trained to sniff out the chemical to detect electronic devices. ...

@#1 ... tracking pixels ...

An evil of the Internet.

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... The U.S. Postal Service was sharing the postal addresses of its online customers with advertising and tech giants Meta, LinkedIn and Snap, TechCrunch has found.

On Wednesday, the USPS said it addressed the issue and stopped the practice, claiming that it was "unaware" of it.

TechCrunch found USPS was sharing customers' information by way of hidden data-collecting code (also known as tracking pixels) used across its website. Tech and advertising companies create this kind of code to collect information about the user " such as which pages they visit " every time a webpage containing the code loads in the customer's browser.

In the case of USPS, some of that collected data included the postal addresses of logged-in USPS Informed Delivery customers, who use the service to see photos of their incoming mail before it arrives.

It's not clear how many individuals had their information collected or for how long. Informed Delivery had more than 62 million users as of March 2024. ...

@#36 ... Fat Donnie Loser is a f!!king pile of sh!!. ...

Yeah, but you need to tell us something that may not already be known.

@#39 ... Today I Learned that you're not into space exploration. If you were, you'd have recognized Mark Kelley's name. ...

Actually, I am quite into space exploration. The actual exploration and the results. But not the political exploitation thereof.

So, please explain why I should recognize Sen Kelly's name because of that.

Oh, (after spending some time in a search engine) he has been an astronaut. I also learned he has a twin brother, Scott. Both Mark and Scott were selected to be Space Shuttle pilots in 1996.

Yeah, I readily admit that I do not keep track of every and all astronauts we send into space.

But I do appreciate that Voyager is still sending back data after, what?, 50 years?

So, I go back to my original question...

Mark Kelly, who?

What are his political views?

What will he bring to the ticket?

On the other hand, I see...

@#35 ... Not gonna happen. It's Kamala or Biden. ...

If it is an open convention, who knows what is going to happen.

Keep in mind, these are Democrats.

Democrats do not just fall in line with a cult leader as Republicans seem to do.

Democrats do not seem to have the mantra of the current GOP, ~obey and conform, or be ousted.~

@#34 ... Obscurity is in the eye of the beholder. ...

Cute, but that does not explain anything.

Do try harder.

@#23 ... Someone buys a ladder ...

@#29 ... Not a fan of space exploration, eh? ...

I fail to see the connection your comment implies.

Taking a step back, if Sen Kelly is the Great Candidate that some here are proffering, why all the obscure stuff?

TIL?

Really.

At this point I am looking to just watch how this plays out.

@#24 ... It looks pretty fact/reality based to me ...

whether or not that is true, I stand by my comment...

Sen Kelly ... who?

@#24 ... Are you getting pissy ...

Nope.

I just call your political posts as I see 'em.

:)

@#21 ... he's really just a failed comedian. ..

"Comedian" implies some manner of entertainment to those who may watch him perform.

Oh wait...

@#17 ... The big story is the failure in security. They made a bunch of dumb mistakes. ...

Yup.

Offense only needs to succeed once in many tries.

Defense needs to succeed 100% of the time.

The odds are against defense.

That said, I will proffer that my current opinion is that Secret Service blew it, big time.

Someone buys a ladder and climbs to a rooftop 150 (or so) yards from the fmr Pres. With a deadly weapon.

That ain't right, no matter how it is explained.