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We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident...
“That by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God.”
This week I watched a science show that predicted that we soon won't need to step foot outside our doors to get what we want, because our homes will be able to fulfill our every wish. Our houses will be our computer/fabricator, able to create food, furniture and electronics.
All we will need to do is download blueprints to the fabricator that will construct any "thing" in 3-D. From cutlery to candles, to scrambled eggs and floor lamps, the sky is the limit.
They already have a prototype that I watched make a very crude fork... out of wax. So, they have a ways to go. The scientists are lauding this as a great leap forward in technology, and an all round neat idea but is this really a good thing? How fat and useless do we need to get?
We went to Mexico for a day trip two weeks ago. Whilst there we had an interesting adventure recorded on this blog entry here.We took our three phones so we could call each other if necessary. Unbeknownst to us, one of our phone numbers had been hacked and, according to the invoice we got today, used to call various numbers in Honduras and Mexico bringing our bill to $1800.00.
Apparently, it is not difficult to mess with people's phones. I copied this from the WIRED website... "In the 17 minutes we wandered around, Laurie's computer picked up signals from 39 phones. "It takes only 15 seconds to suck down somebody's address book, so we could have had a lot of those," he says at last. "And at least five of these phones were vulnerable to an attack." The "attack" Laurie mentions so casually could mean almost anything - a person using another person's cell to make long distance calls or changing every phone number in his address book or even bugging his conversations. There are, he says, "a whole range of new powers" available to the intrepid phone marauder, including nasty viral attacks." Click here to read the article in full.
Call your cellphone provider TODAY and find out how secure your phone is. Don't bother, we just spoke to ours and they told us, "Our system is absolutely secure. It was a one in amillion occurence!" which is complete ROT because I looked it up already. If you have the right equipment, it's easy as pie. The trouble is that technology changes so fast the security measures have difficulty keeping up. It's not just your cell phone you need to be worried about. Anything that utilizes wireless technology is vulnerable.
So we are waiting with bated breath to see whether the cellphone company insist we pay the bill. We kindly reported the breach in their system to them. They cancelled the number. We requested a credit. They are thinking about it. We better get the whole thing credited or heads will roll.
Be aware. Turn your cellphone off when you don't need it. (Kind of defeats the purpose though eh?)
Daughter: Mum tried to throw me off the top of the Empire State Building but there's a fence around it so she couldn't. --------------------
Son: What was Jesus' real name?
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Son: (At the Christmas tree lighting ceremony) What's happening now? Mother: They're about to light the tree. Son: On FIRE? (It's hard to adequately portray the glee with which this was said.) -------------------- Daughter: Who is Tiger Woods?
Mother: He's that famous... Daughter: ...golf ball? --------------------
Sister: May I have some of your cake? Sister: From the bottom of my bottomless stomach... NO. -------------------- Son: (observing the High School classrooms) I know why the windows don't open. So the kids can't escape. -------------------- Son: (upon discovery of contraband in pants pocket) I was just looking at it! Only a gangster would take a cap gun to church! -------------------- Daughter: Hey! You can't copy what I wrote! That's polygamy! -------------------- Daughter: Isn't Mark Twain like, "old" and "dead"? -------------------- Grandmother: I'm 84 but I've got a good life... I've got my family, I've got my friends... Wait, no! All my friends is dead! -------------------- Sister: I'm going to open the door but I'm sitting on the toilet so don't look, ok? Brother: ok Sister: I TOLD YOU NOT TO LOOK! Brother: But you're blocking the view! -------------------- Sister: I spoke to her and she agreed. Sister: Is she awake? Sister: No, I talked to her self-consciously. -------------------- 13 yr old Daughter: What do I do with the bun in the oven? Mother: ...choke... -------------------- Child: It's the shape of a box, only it's round. ---------------------- Child: Can I have some chocolate? Mother: Eat lunch first. Child: I did. Mother: What did you have? Child: Nothing.
