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Wednesday’s All of Big Brother’s Offspring – Open Commentary

This is what clicking that ‘I’m Not A Robot’ button REALLY does — and it’s probably not what you’re thinking

“If you’ve spent any time online, you’ve probably been confronted with a pop-up asking to confirm that you’re not a robot. The security prompt, designed to check if you’re a real person, often appears when you’re trying to login to an online account.

Sometimes tapping on the “I’m Not A Robot” button isn’t enough, and you’ll be quizzed with a grid of 3×3 pictures ans asked to identify the stairs, bikes, motorcycles, school buses, and more. Other times, you’ll be shown manipulated text that you need to decipher to type the letters and numbers.”

but wait,

“Google owns and operates reCAPTCHA, one of the most commonly-used CAPTCHA tests to determine whether you’re a real user trying to access a web service — or a spam bot trying to brute-force entry.  GOOGLE PRESS OFFICE”

and,

“As revealed by the researchers from BBC’s QI in an episode that first aired in 2020, ticking the box allows Google to trawl your internet browsing history to determine whether you’re a real user or a bot trying to force entry.”

however there is a cure,

“The only way to keep your browsing history completely out-of-reach is to encrypt everything with a Virtual Private Network. NordVPN is an example of a VPN that keeps everything you do online locked away— so that even Google or your broadband provider is unable to see what you’re doing.”

If that doesn’t hack you off, try this one…

Your car is secretly spying on you and driving your insurance rates through the roof: report

“Drivers of cars manufactured by General Motors, Ford, Honda and other popular brands say that their insurance rates went up after the companies sent data about their driving behavior to issuers without their knowledge.

Kenn Dahl, 65, is a Seattle-area businessman who told The New York Times that his car insurance costs soared by 21% in 2022 after GM’s OnStar Smart Driver computerized system installed in his Chevy Bolt collected information about the particulars of his driving habits.

Dahl said that his insurance agent told him the price increase was based on data collected by LexisNexis, which compiled a report tracking each and every time he and his wife drove their Chevy Bolt over a six-month period.”

 

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63 responses to “Wednesday’s All of Big Brother’s Offspring – Open Commentary”

  1. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Quote of the Month

    The idiot left’s belief that the world is a fixed pie and by impoverishing us they’ll make the world rich would make a Greek playwright weep.

    Sarah Hoyt, novelist & commentator

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    New data shows that Democrats’ longtime advantage with Black, Latino and Asian American voters has shrunk to its lowest point in more than 60 years — creating a massive vulnerability for President Biden and congressional Democrats.

    Check out the trend lines.

  3. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    In the previous version of Hambone, in the Comment Tool Bar, there was a button that would erase all hyperlinks from highlighted text. The button looked like a broken link.
    Is that button hiding somewhere, or just not available in this version?

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      If you copy something from another page and it has a couple of links in it, right click on it and a box comes up that says edit or remove and that erases the blue highlight and the link. Dang, imagine old Dave knowing how to operate something besides a tractor and chainsaw. 😉 You know computers hate me.

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh, and Good Morning.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Great OC piece and they had the report about the car companies reporting bad driving to you insurance company on the 5 last night. I think I’ll buy an old square body like my 84 GMC and rebuild it form the ground up to avoid all this nonsense. That would actually be cheaper than new truck.
    Oh and Mornin’ Gang

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    FWIW; My old GMC looked just like the one it the picture except it didn’t have the fancy red strips but don’t they liven up the dull two-tone paint job. 😉

  7. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m having trouble getting my arms around this whole TikTok thing.

    How much of a Chinese espionage threat the site is isn’t completely clear, but since they are our Enemy, let’s stipulate that something needs to be done about TikTok.

    But there seems to be some real problems with the solutions in the Bill they’re trying to push – namely that it gives the Secretary Of Commerce new, broad powers that could be used to further limit freedom of speech and the free exchange of information. (Although I am unsure if this feature is in the current version of the Bill.)

    Then you have Trump seeming to do a 180 on his previous anti-TikTok position after meeting with a billionaire mega-donor who owns a substantial stake in TikTok. He is Jeff Yass, who is paying Kellyanne Conway to defend TikTok on Capitol Hill.

    Mark me confused.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      My gut tells me that the Chinee have been spying through Tic Toc and numerous other electronic and online methods for decades. The solution, as proposed by Big Brother, are likely not going to yield the advertised results. This is just another avenue for BB to monitor and censor the public. The lefties just love them some social credit scores as it provides a massively powerful tool to control the masses.

  8. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Juan Brown has a good report on the United plane that drove off the runway at Bush.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Very, very interesting. I learned quite a bit.

  9. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    SD @ 5:16

    I had an ‘81 GMC, black and silver as well but flipped from that one. Yeah no red lines.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK putting on my Tin Foil Hat, slowly closing the door on my Screen Room,…Now, I really hate to be a conspiracy theory nut BUT how many of Y’all think that the Boeing Whistle Blower committed Arkancide instead of run of the mill suicide? He was about to give a deposition so if he went that far why check out?

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I mentioned yesterday that I think the clintons loaned out their hitmen.

      1. Bonecrusher Avatar
        Bonecrusher

        Yes, his “suicide” pegged out my BS-O-METER.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Like Super Dave says @ 5:14 AM:

    I continue to see more fully restored 1990s and early 2000s pickup trucks around here. If you spend even $20K on an old truck (it’s unbelievable !) and put $13,000 on a new engine, trans rebuild and a paint job, you have a like new truck at less than half of MSRP of new trucks.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      AND you can drop a Romper Stomper LS 3 with 430 HP/425 Ft Lb Tq in it. But knowing me I’d probably go with the 502 big block. You can’t beat cubic inches. 😉

    2. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Hubby’s is currently transitioning a 1990 Chev double can into a work truck. If something happens to him I’ll probably keep it fer myself. It’ll cost to revert it back but would be worth it. I’ve been pondering if my next vehicle would be a truck. If like to haul stuff, but if definitely want a double cab to hopefully haul grandkids.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    About TikTok

    The Trump/Conway/O’Leary turnaround is because there are some very wealthy American investors who really want to buy TikTok.

    The Chicom’s front company, Bytedance, say they will close TikTok in the USA before they will sell it.

    It serves as huge suction machine for personal data, but the worst thing about TikTok is its corrosive, destructive affects on America’s youth.

    The transgender crisis, Black Lives Matter, riots, racial conflict, flashmob robberies, 41% of US teenagers claiming to be gay or non-binary and every deviant, anti-social trend among children and young adults is largely driven by TikTok.

    It is a critical component of the Chinese Communist Party’s detailed program to poison and spoil the American democratic, open nation.

    The CCP doesn’t really want a hot war and are thoroughly convinced they can tip the whole society into self-destruction with the right mix of subversive efforts.

    The Chinese version of TikTok has none of this. In China, it is controlled by the CCP and provides only educational programs, positive entertainment and kids are only allowed to watch it for limited times of the day.

    What does that tell you ?

    Personally, I think the fabulous success at poisoning American society has probably even surprised the Chinese.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Personally, I think the fabulous success at poisoning American society has probably even surprised the Chinese.

      I’ll agree wholeheartedly on that. It still amazes me how the Cell phone has been turned into a hypnosis machine for the younger folks and hell, some of the older ones also.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Most normal, productive, rational adults in America are busy, working, living life and blissfully unaware of what is really going on with TikTok and how it has consumed America’s children and youth.

    It is evil as hell.

    Teachers and school administrators are the most likely to be aware and unless a person works around a lot of children they don’t have a clue.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    About to head out to do more garden work. Trying to get as done as possible before the rain and my dental surgery. My back is reflecting my efforts. It’ll get some rest when the weather turns.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Yesterday.

    SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance spacecraft returned to Earth around 4:40 a.m. The capsule was carrying a NASA astronaut, a Japanese astronaut, a member of the European Space Agency and a Russian cosmonaut.

    The crew has been on a six-month mission to the International Space Station.

    While some people woke up early to catch a glimpse of the capsule returning, others were unaware and were awoken by what they described as a big boom.

    The boom was heard and felt in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.

    Super Dave didn’t even mention it.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I didn’t hear it, I’m deaf doncha’ know. I was up though so you might think I’d have heard it. Since they mentioned it on the news yesterday I should have went outside and listened for it. 😉
      Edited; oh and the wife slept through it.

  16. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I didn’t attend the annual Car Show in downtown Bellville last Saturday but I saw what appeared to be a fully restored late 70’s Ford Bronco running around town. Pretty sweet.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I love the old 70’s Bronco’s but if you don’t have about $70K to $100K forget about it.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        About 2014, I had the money set aside and was ready to buy a fully restored, mechanically and cosmetically, 1995 Ford Bronco. It had belonged to an Air Force lifer down at Dover AFB in Delaware. It looked absolutely brand new, but I thought the $7,000 price was little high. He had passed away and his daughter was selling the Bronco.

        My neighbor was going down with me, but I got busy and put it off for a week. Snooze…you lose. I should have gone down the day I saw it.

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Austin is a big live music city and SXSW brings in musicians from all over the world. This year there is controversy because many bands and musicians scheduled to perform at the festival are pulling out of the event because of the U.S. Army’s “super sponsorship” of the festival. They are also taking a pass on performing because of America’s support of Israel in the Israel-Hamas war.

     

    For example, there’s a rap trio called Kneecap that is based in Belfast, Ireland. The group calls the sponsorship “depraved” in light of the war.

    and,

    The Jew haters never express any concern about Israel or the fact that the war began because of the massacres by Hamas, killing Jews while a ceasefire was in place on October 7, 2023. Nope. They willingly are useful idiots of Hamas, spreading the internationally recognized terrorist organization’s propaganda.

     

    Shouldn’t the trio be sued for breach of contract? Seems like that should be on the table. 

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    8:44 Texpat

    That video is pretty cool. At about the 1:03 mark, they have a thermal camera following the vehicle through re-entry and parachute deployment (2 different sets of parachutes), and splashdown.
    And the SpaceX engineer spokesperson could be a candidate for a Friday OC. 🙂

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The story that I read sounded like the SXSW folks refused to back down on the Army sponsorship and suggested that the protesters are welcome to their opinion.

  20. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Biden unveils massive $7.3T budget with $5.5T in tax hikes, plans for ‘highest burden’ in US history
    Not to worry y’all he is just going to tax the rich.

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Every time I think the Republican Party is the dumbest, the Democrats outdo them. It’s a race to the bottom. What political party offers up trillion dollar tax hike bills during an election year ?

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon @ 9:20 AM

    The competition to perform at SXSW has got to be brutal. These remarkably clueless asshats are also marking themselves as high-risk booking acts and promoters and venues will take that into consideration.
    They think their virtue signaling buys them admiration. Morally, they’re disgraceful.

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Spotted over yonder; Back to the 60s

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Human nature never changes a bit. It’s all about conformity.

    2. mharper42 Avatar
      mharper42

      I don’t remember wearing high heels with short skirts back in the 60s. That was the decade of the go-go boots with the short skirts.

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A couple of nice Italian boys from Staten Island step up.

    A pair of Staten Island lawyers offered Tuesday to represent any Big Apple firefighter for free if they get jammed up for booing state Attorney General Letitia James at last week’s raucous promotion ceremony.

    Lawyers Mark Fonte and Louis Gelormino said the firefighters had the right to voice their support for Donald Trump and to lambast James, who has been prosecuting him — as FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanaugh threatens to discipline the jeering Bravest.

    “If you are being ‘hunted down’ by FDNY brass for exercising your freedom of speech contact our office at once,” the men’s firm, F&G Legal Group, wrote in a letter to the Fire Department’s rank-and-file.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Ten Harvard University alumni filed a lawsuit against the school, alleging that Harvard “despicably failed to address, prevent, and rectify the prevalence of antisemitism, hate, and discrimination on its campus.”

    The civil action lawsuit states that “[p]laintiffs all attended Harvard for their higher education with the expectation that Harvard would strive to uphold its reputation as one of the highest-ranking universities in the world with a strong commitment to its values” and that “[p]laintiffs have been harmed as a direct result of Harvard’s abject failure to address and prevent antisemitism . . . The value of a Harvard degree has been significantly diminished, rendering it functionally damaged in the professional and academic spheres. Plaintiffs are in a situation they never imagined: they are ashamed to say they went to Harvard.”

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    One more thing about TikTok. Chicoms’ Bytedance cannot sell the video platform without including all the nasty invasive software embedded in it, thereby revealing to Americans what they have really been up to.

    The American investors who think they can wave around a few billion dollars and persuade the CCP to sell are fools. The Chinese don’t care about the money. TikTok is a cultural and social warfare weapon.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I won’t speculate on the death of the Boeing whistleblower. However, this news interview with his lawyer sure does raise some questions.
    VIDEO HERE.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    More insanity in Alabama with NASA’s Space Program in Huntsville.

    Huntsville father’s Facebook post on biological male ‘Butch coded space queer’ Space Camp worker goes viral

    A Huntsville father’s incensed social media post is going viral after discovering a worker at Huntsville’s U.S. Space and Rocket Center Space Camp is a biological man with a colorful social media.

     

    A Facebook post from Huntsville-based Clay Yarbrough that has circulated around social media states that Yarbrough was planning on sending his daughter to space camp before discovering that a self-identified transgender individual, Molly Bowman, would act as team lead and a hall monitor in the girls’ dormitories.

  29. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Wow look at the engine

  30. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Look! Dual carbs!

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Well, my analysis is one area where we have made real progress is in the design and construction of women’s brassieres. The ones from the 1940s, 50s and 60s looked abnormal awkward. They didn’t even look comfortable.

    Howard Hughes knew what to do with them. Russell’s breasts — not actors Walter Huston and Thomas Mitchell — were the stars of Hughes’s 1943 western The Outlaw. Lovingly encased in flimsy blouses and a seamless brassiere that the millionaire engineer Hughes had designed for her (Russell says she never wore that “ridiculous contraption” on camera), and best displayed in her several bending-forward scenes, these soft monuments provided a spectacle of flesh that had not before been shown in mainstream movies.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Jane Russell referred to herself as “full figured”

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Wow.

    Via Restate.com

    Family Dollar, the struggling discount chain that caters to low-income customers predominantly in cities, will close about 1,000 stores as inflation takes a bite out of consumers’ wallets and low-cost-retailers’ profits.

    Family Dollar will close 600 locations in the first half of 2024 and 370 stores over the next several years as store leases expire.

    Dollar Tree, which owns Family Dollar, also said it will close 30 stores as leases expire.

    There is a Family Dollar Store near here that is very busy and a lot of older and poor people depend on it for food.

    FJB.

  33. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Your car is secretly spying on you and driving your insurance rates through the roof: report

    https://youtu.be/wMKPTSE14tY?si=-dKDEt_sVeLzPKWB

  34. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    A friendly PSA reminder; Be sure to wear your seat belts. 😉

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Was that vehicle hotwired?

  35. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    THis is VERY interesting concerning the 4 horsemen of the Apacolypse.
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0WdkU4O8xoA?t=8&feature=share

  36. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I am amazed that this can be done.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r-RenJyNec8?feature=share

  37. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I took my big cat Lynx to the vet so they could examine a lump on one of his toes. They were able to extract the thing, give him some medication, and put a cone on him for 2 weeks.I’ll be surprised if the cone holds up for that long.

    Poor baby, his cone is annoying the other cats.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yes. Family Dollar, Dollar General, and Dollar Tree are everywhere in rural Texas. And poor folks depend on them. Shoot, even tiny Industry,TX has a Family Dollar.
    Why should I pay $2 more for the exact same 64-load Laundry Detergent at Brookshire Brothers?

  39. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Makes sense since we no longer have a sovereign country and the disloyal joined@thehipparties Vampyres have completely destroyed the country from within.

    just a big glob of dirt where everything is for sale to our enemies and any Tomas Pancho or Ricardo can jota right in.

    https://www.newsmax.com/us/u-s-army-west-point-duty/2024/03/13/id/1157085/

  40. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Speaking of which.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/major-measles-outbreak-reported-us-migrant-shelters-become-infectious-disease-breeding

  41. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Confirmed: America Has Lost Its Ever-Lovin’ Mind

    Democrats, Donald Trump, Thomas Massie, Rand Paul and the rest of these idiots. They’re all crying about TikTok.

    Rand Paul is actually repeating Chinese Communist Party propaganda on Twitter.

    He claimed CCP only owned 20% of TikTok while somebody fact-checked him with the facts. CCP bought a 20% “golden stake” in Bytedance which meant CCP gets controlling votes over anything the company does.

    You would think Rand Paul is smarter than that.

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ve been on the move all day. Did some more gardening this morning, still trying to get as much done before rain and surgery as possible. Created another rosary, helped Hubby with some insurance administrative stuff. (If I die before he does, he is so screwed. He just doesn’t get stuff like that, and he gets frustrated easily, especially when it’s not down on paper for him to look at. Forget computer web sites.) That took a while. He has an appointment Friday morning with the knee surgeon, and I plan on tagging along. He may need me to drive him anyway.

    Then I wanted to get out for a bit, so I took some asparagus bean seeds to one of Hubby’s car club gal friends. Hubby kinda looks on her daughter as a sort of faux granddaughter. I talked to Mom the other day and I volunteered to drop off some seeds so her daughter can experience bean pods over a foot long. Mom thought she’d enjoy growing them, and she was very happy when I texted her that I’d dropped them off.

    Next up, a trip to Hobby Lobby, looking for some specific types of beads and met a man there. He used to work for Houston Parks Department, and the story he told….he stopped a rape in progress and got the crap beaten out of him by the perps. One half of his face has no feeling in it, and the other side was all titanium rebuild. The city decided to fire him. He’s trying to find something he can do at home to make some money, and he’s started making jewelry and was buying some beads for his next project. Poor guy. A real sweetheart though, still counting his blessings and just grateful to be alive.

    Home to make dinner and wash dishes. Hubby said he’d wash them, but I let him know he still wasn’t ready to be up on that knee.

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I bought some pokey mesh thingies at the 99 Cent store the other day. I’m glad I bought more than the one I really needed; critters are digging in some other tubs, too. They seem to be working in the first one, the tub that had gotten two thorough dig-ups.

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Over at the C&C, Mr. C. has an interesting discussion on a Texas case pitting a protective father against BidenCo, the upcoming class between parental rights and sexual freedom (being foisted upon students).

    I’m so glad my kids are grown. I bet my parents felt the same way. And their parents before them. Societal entropy is an ongoing process.

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    OMG! This guy is freakin’ scary:
    https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1768009862963728480

  46. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Further to Rand Paul’s hypocrisy…

    Paul has received $2.4 million over the years in campaign contributions from billionaire Jeff Yass who owns a 15% stake in TikTok.

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The state of Michigan has 83 counties.

    The RNC filed suit in federal court today asserting Michigan is in violation of federal law because 53 of those counties have more registered voters than the US Census says they have residents over the age of 18.

    In Michigan, fake live people vote. In Illinois, many dead people vote.

  48. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Confirmed: America Has Lost Its Ever-Lovin’ Mind Democrats, Donald Trump, …………………………….

    I told ya so. you ain’t seen nuthin yet.

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