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That's part of the problem. I also teach. I don't like what I see. Many things have been lost over the years. I don't know where it will end up, but I don't have much time left so it don't matter... Having lived through this technology and what it has done to and for the world is wild. I still think of the article in Wired Magazine back in 2000 by Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems on Why the future doesn't need us - 18 page .pdf file. Even starring crazy Teddie the Unibo*ber. <- keeping NSA away

No argument. I was coming from the technology angle. Computers could do math so much faster (even back then), which helped with things like CAD (computer aided design). Next thing you know, they are making things on the computer that simulated real life parts. Even people parts. It exploded time to market and the race was on. My first kick ass system was a Sun Microsystem Sparx station running UNIX. Cost 20k circa 1990. Then came DOS (not saying that was better for what we were doing), Windows, and personal home computers. Incredible stuff when you think about it. From the eng/mfg world, the impact was huge. AutoCad went Windows in 1992. Once that happened, every business, large or small, could (eventually) reduce head counts by getting rid of engineers/mechanical draftsmen. Same thing happened in the offices. Excel, Word, you name it. All more efficient due to computers so less people. The next steps we are seeing now. Both mechanical, and digital. Robots and AI. It all starts with math. Mechanical side is x,y,z and the digital side is binary numbers. Zero's and ones. It's almost Orwellian, no?

I remember the days when we had no computers. I started in the engineering world making drawings with a pencil, a mechanical arm, and a hand held calculator. Just missed the slide rule days. Then computers came along and it all changed. IPS changed everything. Math became easy with a computer and some language. The result gave us all the nice things we have today that were not practical back in those days. The downside - computers and passwords. Passwords and the management of them, are a pain in the ass. A necessary evil, but a pain in the ass.

US Treasury says it was hacked by China in 'major incident' - BBC FTA: Steal funds? Hey dumbasses, we are $36,144,183,375,647.43 in debt as of yesterday. LOL!

Once the plastic runs out... U.S. homelessness rises 18% amid affordable housing shortage - NBC

To manage/update passwords I have a page and a half Word document named passwords.doc. The hackers shouldn't miss that one. I would like to rename it, but if I do, I will forget the name. Giggle

I enjoyed that interview. Great job and great deal. Loved the Detroit baseball hat, but I would expect nothing less from you. 🙂

Observation on the Fed rate cuts. I'm looking at the 10 year yield, which some say follow housing interest rates. Not sure how true that is, but nevertheless, an indication of how well the Fed is doing. Depending on what, exactly, they are trying to do, which might be different than what they say they are trying to do. I like to call it Fedspeak. A 9 month chart. Looks like the 50 bps cut was priced in, the second did its job for a while (going with the assumption they were trying to lower interest rates - what part of the curve I don't know), but then went back up, so they cut again in Dec. Still going the wrong way as we speak, and almost back to where it started 9 months ago. Funny that...

How about we not get some girl maimed or killed because some idiot isn't happy with the size of his ****.

For fun; 2025 is 7E9 in Hexadecimal 11111101001 in Binary

It is rare; 40 1600 41 1681 42 1764 43 1849 44 1936 45 2025 46 2116 47 2209 48 2304 49 2401 50 2500 I've lived through one of them, guessing I won't make the next. If you were born in 1936 and are still alive (89) you would have lived through two. If you are born on Jan 1, 2025 you will need to live to 91 for the next (2116). That's probably more than anyone wants to know about the date and squared.

Just to clarify, it has nothing to do with presidents. Simply 45x45=2025 or 45^2=2025

I though it was clever (also math, and I like math). When we see someone next week with that on a tee shirt, you heard it here first. 😉 I wish I had one TBH.

I'll get in a week early for this;

No argument - and they should. It amazes me how some take the security risk as no risk at all. You can't be too careful, but I assume many just don't know the risks. The cloud is one example. I want no part of a cloud storage. I can do the very same thing with an external drive or even a thumb drive if it is big enough. I think I paid less than 10 bucks for a 64 gig thumb drive. That stores everything I need to back up and it never leaves the house. 🙂 But I'm talking about a computer on my home network, which I have secured. The phone is another animal, and I don't think mine is as safe as it should be because I know next to nothing about these damn things. I hate them with a passion. While we are carrying around a mini-computer that does so many neat things, it is still a traveling security risk in various ways.

I think network security, like military intelligence, is an oxymoron. You can do everything possible to secure a network, but it can still be unsafe. Anytime data goes from point A to point B, it can be hacked. TCP/IP packets are hackable. Wall Street has been doing it for years. The "cloud" is not safe. Nothing is. The internet is the playground, and we are the victims. Mining our data and selling it is huge money, and big tech owns most of DC. It will only get worse over time. An example I happen to run across today; Forget Chrome—Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks - Forbes

Me too. He taught me. Honest as the day is long - he looked exactly like Ben Hogan. He even wore his hat. Might have hit more golf balls too. He was even on the front page of the local paper when they took a picture of him hitting balls at the local park - which he did every day before he went to the golf course. It was titled "Mr. Chips." That was off the charts cool. He not only taught me how to play golf, and he was a student, he taught me about life. I was a lucky guy. We only got to do one Father/Son tourney. We didn't win, but we were right there. I played in scrambles with my boys, and a league with one. But thanks the gramps, golf was passed down to through the generations. A truly great game. Very humbling, difficult, and cerebral.

That's sweet. I remember watching Player, Nicklaus, Trevino, Palmer, etc. Great stuff back in the day. Bobby Jones was the best ever. I can't prove it of course. I read he had a club head speed of 135. That would have been with a hickory shaft.

As a dad, a golfer, and 3 boys who golf, this is as good as it gets. Bravo!

They lost to a reality show circus clown - twice. Maybe it's time they look in the mirror instead of blaming everyone but themselves.

Elon didn't get Trump elected, the democrats did.

I'm not so sure. The blowing up of the Nord Stream pipeline didn't help. Who was it, Vicky "warmonger" Nuland who said **** the EU. I'm sure they will find the dinghy who blew it up someday. 🙂

I hate giving that stuff to anymore places than I have to, but at this point they know more about us than we do. Nothing is secret or safe anymore. Big Brother won. The stupid part of this, and I now wonder how long this has hosed me because I obviously didn't pay close enough attention, is why the bank won't let me pay this bill when I want to. I can only pay it after it was due. Even though this is archaic enough they still send a check (wonder why that is?), if I pay enough ahead it should still get there. It isn't like I just bought a 50 grand worth of Exxon Mobile and seconds matter. It only goes a state over. Last I looked we got away from horse and buggy years ago. Just for ****s and giggles I decided to ask my bank why this is going on. I only spent 15 or 20 minutes and failed to contact a person. For my blood pressure and a buck and a half - it ain't worth it - so I went and drank beer.

I got an email today from the Water company from the ticket I submitted that I should give them my banking information so it will be a direct withdrawal and there would be no fee. This is exactly what I figure would happen, and exactly why I didn't want to do that to begin with. I don't like giving these company's my bank information and automatic pays. It's not like I don't have the money, but I want to see the bill before I pay it, and pay it when I want. This would all be moot if I could change the pay date on the banks bill pay website, but I can't. I suppose I could ask the bank what is going on, but I'm sure that would raise my blood pressure to unsatisfactory levels, and they might have me on ignore anyway since the last dust up we had last year. Which they never addressed, I might add. I would like to ask them why they work so hard to suck so bad.

This is funny. Speaking of banks, I just jumped over to my bank website to pay a few bills. I know it is easier to just take it out of your account, but I like to push the go button. Anyway, most of my utility bills come early in the month, with the exception being my water bill. Not sure why. I tend to forget and get whacked with a late charge cause I forgot. That's on me, no issue. That happened again for this bill I just got. But... When I went to pay it, I noticed my bank will not issue the check until a day after it is due. This is goofy too, because some bills are paid electronically, and some are still paper checks and the mail (like this one). It is due December 26th, and the pay date the bank picks is December 27. I can't change it unless it is later. So I will once again get whacked with a late fee. That's not my fault, and maybe what has happened before. I know I can setup auto payments but I don't like that. That's just me. I have also been told by my house and car insurance people payments got there late due to the mail, and not me. Great... And it gets better. I decide to create an account with my water company so I can pay them directly. I have this with other utilities because I commodity shop. So I create the account and go to pay my bill, which I could see online. It doesn't match the one I have in my hand because of timing. I owe them $2.16 online, buy my paper bill is $68.26 - containing a $1.48 late fee. Again, that's on me (maybe). So when I get to paying the bill part, the last screen shows me the transaction and I see a $1.95 convenience fee. Apparently for doing so online. I quit. Found the support hotline, sent them a little note that I might as well pay it late. Saves me $.47. WTF?