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Stop talking about drugs and border. Start another thread for that.
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Houston scored 39 points in Q1 and 9 in Q4.
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The problem with gun control in the USA is, with 300 million firearms out there, how do you put the genie back in the bottle? You could ban the sale of semi-auto rifles like in the 90s, but there would still be millions of them on the street that you could buy used.
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100-105 F every day? WTF is wrong with the weather? Are we gonna have another summer of 2011?
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What’s with Tucker’s green shoes?
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2 minutes ago, Machinator said:
What exactly did Steve Kerr tell the Warriors between Thursday night and today?
Nothing, apparently
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Holy shit, 39 points in a quarter.
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Warriors looks like shit now. No confidence, no leadership, no coaching. It’s like they think repeating is automatic.
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Social justice warriors
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Also, there’s Chris Paul’s injury.
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Time to re-write the second amendment?
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The Florida school had a cop, and that didn’t do any good.
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I’m impressed by the rockets. They’ve been showing that they are ready during the do-or-die moments.
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Draymond loses the game (and probably also the series). Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
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I don’t understand why somebody other than KD is taking that last shot.
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Warriors are playing sloppy and they are gonna lose the game.
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9 hours ago, Lobwedgephil said:
A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa -- the voice-controlled smart speaker -- and that the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list.
"My husband and I would joke and say I'd bet these devices are listening to what we're saying," said Danielle, who did not want us to use her last name.
Every room in her family home was wired with the Amazon devices to control her home's heat, lights and security system.
But Danielle said two weeks ago their love for Alexa changed with an alarming phone call. "The person on the other line said, 'unplug your Alexa devices right now,'" she said. "'You're being hacked.'"
That person was one of her husband's employees, calling from Seattle.
"We unplugged all of them and he proceeded to tell us that he had received audio files of recordings from inside our house," she said. "At first, my husband was, like, 'no you didn't!' And the (recipient of the message) said 'You sat there talking about hardwood floors.' And we said, 'oh gosh, you really did hear us.'"
Danielle listened to the conversation when it was sent back to her, and she couldn't believe someone 176 miles away heard it too.
"I felt invaded," she said. "A total privacy invasion. Immediately I said, 'I'm never plugging that device in again, because I can't trust it.'"
Danielle says she unplugged all the devices, and she repeatedly called Amazon. She says an Alexa engineer investigated.
"They said 'our engineers went through your logs, and they saw exactly what you told us, they saw exactly what you said happened, and we're sorry.' He apologized like 15 times in a matter of 30 minutes and he said we really appreciate you bringing this to our attention, this is something we need to fix!"
But Danielle says the engineer did not provide specifics about why it happened, or if it's a widespread issue.
"He told us that the device just guessed what we were saying," she said. Danielle said the device did not audibly advise her it was preparing to send the recording, something it’s programmed to do.
When KIRO 7 asked Amazon questions, they sent this response:
“Amazon takes privacy very seriously. We investigated what happened and determined this was an extremely rare occurrence. We are taking steps to avoid this from happening in the future."
Amazon offered to “de-provision” Danielle’s Alexa communications so she could keep using its Smart Home Features. But Danielle is hoping Amazon gives her a refund for her devices, which she said their representatives have been unwilling to do. She says she’s curious to find out if anyone else has experienced the same issue.
"A husband and wife in the privacy of their home have conversations that they're not expecting to be sent to someone (in) their address book," she said.
Hahahaha. Dumb people.
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Can you eat them?
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17 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
I believe physical laws are determinative because cause and effect seem to be the way the universe operates.
Physicists nowadays think that there is randomness.
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Phil Jackson used to always rest Jordan at the end of the 3rd and first few minutes of the 4th. That strategy made sense to me.
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Houston wins. Durant should have taken the shot
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19-4 Houston run, damn
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D’Antoni talks like his denture is about to pop loose.
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They are unstoppable right now.
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What citizens’ militia? Where is this militia? Is there one in central Texas so that I can go and check it out?