Coffee - Cheers! by Oonjerah

Just for the fun of it.

A Break in the D.B. Cooper Hijacking Case

The legend of D.B. Cooper is as mysterious as it is fascinating. In the 1970s, he committed a crime so unheard of at that time, he captured the attention of the world. Hijacking an airplane, he boldly premeditated the in-air takeover and was never heard from again. Baffling the FBI and national authorities, the question remains: How can an unknown man get away with a crime of such a large scale?
Recently, there has been some new details in the unsolved case, that may provide a much awaited break in his disappearance. These newly unearthed facts may just be what’s needed to solve this head-scratching mystery.

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Sunday, October 1, 2017 11:53 PM

D.B. Cooper, Yeah! ... Once in a while, I catch up on him,
theories about him ...

Totally Irrelevant on RWED:

BeFore TV but not beFore Movies, home entertainment,
A quick list of Olde Radio Shows, 1940's Adventure:

Avenger
The Adventures of Ellery Queen
The Adventures of Nero Wolfe
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe
The Adventures of Sam Spade
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of the Thin Man
Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders
Boston Blackie
The Casebook of Gregory Hood
Casey, Crime Photographer
Challenge of the Yukon
Charlie Chan
Chick Carter, Boy Detective
The Cisco Kid
Creeps by Night
The Crime Club
Crime Does Not Pay
The Crime Files of Flamond
Death Valley Days
Dick Tracy
Doc Savage
Dragnet
The FBI in Peace and War
Gang Busters
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch
The Green Hornet
Hopalong Cassidy
I Love a Mystery
Inner Sanctum Mystery
John Steele
Let George Do It
The Lone Ranger
Martin Kane, Private Eye
Mr. and Mrs. North
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
Murder at Midnight
The Mysterious Traveler
Mystery Playhouse
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Perry Mason
Red Ryder
The Roy Rogers Show
The Saint
The Shadow
The Shadow of Fu Manchu
Sky King
This is Your FBI
The Whistler

Some shows listed above were also in the comic strips.
50's Adventure radio much the same.
A lot of these shows left radio & went on TV.
Gunsmoke started on radio.
I believe there's a radio station now playing these shows called Old Time Radio.

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Monday, October 9, 2017 5:00 AM

October 2, Columbus Day?
In More than 50 Cities,
It's Indigenous Peoples Day.
(I didn't know that!)

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Thursday, October 12, 2017 2:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:

October 2, Columbus Day?
In More than 50 Cities,
It's Indigenous Peoples Day.
(I didn't know that!)

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Me either

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Tuesday, October 17, 2017 1:52 AM

Harrowing viral footage shows 3-year-old riding a 20-foot python
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harrowing-viral-footage-shows-3-155607157.h
tml

"In the video, a three-year-old named Truong is happily straddling
the reptile like a horse, swimming in the devastating flood waters
that have rampaged the area."
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Oonj: Please ... don't give the kid a cobra to play with.

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Tuesday, November 7, 2017 1:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Harrowing viral footage shows 3-year-old riding a 20-foot python
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harrowing-viral-footage-shows-3-155607157.h
tml

"In the video, a three-year-old named Truong is happily straddling
the reptile like a horse, swimming in the devastating flood waters
that have rampaged the area."
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Oonj: Please ... don't give the kid a cobra to play with.

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I think I'll pass on this one. I enjoy this thread when it posts happy thoughts.

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Tuesday, November 7, 2017 10:13 PM

My gramma & my Mom were born-raised in Missouri. Pretty warm there,
lotta reptiles & amphibians. Neither of them were afraid of snakes,
poisonous or not, so the notion that I, being a girl, was supposed
to be afraid of them just didn't take. Indeed, I had illustrated books
about them that I enjoyed studying.
Whenever I found reptiles in the neighborhood, I'd catch 'em &
bring them home. Mom let me keep them only for a little while; since
they were Nature's creatures, they needed & deserved freedom.

I grew up curious about & respecting rather than fearing snakes.
"Yuck! They're slimy!" A misconception.
Amphibians are slimy. Snakes & lizards, nice & dry.

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Remember Niki2? ... She has snakes. :)

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Tuesday, November 21, 2017 4:31 AM

Meet 'Oumuamua, the first observed interstellar visitor to our solar system
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/world/first-interstellar-object-solar-sy
stem/index.html

(CNN) — On October 19, the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii spotted something
strange zooming through our solar system. It turned out to be a visitor from
beyond our solar system, and it's unlike anything astronomers have seen before.

It is the first observed object from outside our solar system, according to a study
published Monday in the journal Nature -- and, as the researchers call it, an "oddball." ...

"For decades we've theorized that such interstellar objects are out there, and now
-- for the first time -- we have direct evidence they exist,"

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Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:43 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Meet 'Oumuamua, the first observed interstellar visitor to our solar system
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/world/first-interstellar-object-solar-sy
stem/index.html

(CNN) — On October 19, the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii spotted something
strange zooming through our solar system. It turned out to be a visitor from
beyond our solar system, and it's unlike anything astronomers have seen before.

It is the first observed object from outside our solar system, according to a study
published Monday in the journal Nature -- and, as the researchers call it, an "oddball." ...

"For decades we've theorized that such interstellar objects are out there, and now
-- for the first time -- we have direct evidence they exist,"

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Well that was interesting

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Thursday, December 7, 2017 1:13 AM

Calling on the Computer Literate!

My computer is a Dell; it's olde & I love it for being so reliable.

running Windows 7 home premium, c. 2009 Microsoft corp.
Processor: Intel(R) Celeron (R) CPU, 450 A 2.20 GHz 2.19 GHz
RAM: 4.00 GB
64-bit OS

Q: Can I upgrade this system to Windows 10?

Can an ordinary person do it ... or do I have to get a Nerd-Tech-Whiz?

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Thursday, December 7, 2017 11:33 AM

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Calling on the Computer Literate!

My computer is a Dell; it's olde & I love it for being so reliable.

running Windows 7 home premium, c. 2009 Microsoft corp.
Processor: Intel(R) Celeron (R) CPU, 450 A 2.20 GHz 2.19 GHz
RAM: 4.00 GB
64-bit OS

Q: Can I upgrade this system to Windows 10?

Can an ordinary person do it ... or do I have to get a Nerd-Tech-Whiz?

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You should be able to do it yourself, if they haven't blocked it yet. Officially the upgrade to 10 ended sometime in 2016, but people have still been able to get it. (Windows 10 is basically free now anyhow, although you'd get a pretty non-obtrusive watermark in the bottom right corner telling you to activate it and you would have limited ability to personalize your desktop). So you'd have to install it over the Windows 7, rather than reformat the drive and do a clean install.

According to this link, it still worked as of November 3rd of this year.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-you-can-still-get-a-free-window
s-10-upgrade/

Your PC should be powerful enough to run it without any issues.

Things you should have before attempting it:

1. The Windows Activation Key that came with your computer.

2. The CD that came with the computer that has all of the basic drivers. (If the upgrade works, you likely won't need it because all of the drivers should carry over. This is only in case you find out that your activation key for Windows 7 won't work on the upgrade and you have to install the free version of Windows 10).

Keep in mind that I'm kind of regretting upgrading myself, but I've been too lazy to back everything up, reformat my drive and re-install Windows 7. It does a lot of things better and you'll probably be glad you made the upgrade. For somebody like me that does a LOT of work manipulating data and dealing with thousands of files though, the search functions in 10 really suck, some behind the scenes and little used features I've used since Windows 95 are completely absent and the stuff I used that still works takes a lot longer than it did in Windows 7.

Windows 10 is meant to be a multi-platform device, and they're still working the bugs out. Windows 7 was meant for desktops/laptops. Windows 10 is also meant for tablets and probably certain cell phones too. Because of this, it's not ideal for some people who just want a computer OS.

If you're a pretty light user and really just use it for internet/email and some light gaming, Windows 10 with your computer's specs should suit you fine, and you'll probably find that the internet runs even better for you and some new features you're not getting will surprise you.

Good luck.

If you have any questions, just ask. Don't do anything unless you're sure. :)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, December 13, 2017 10:39 PM

BTW... did you ever try to upgrade to 10 yet?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, December 16, 2017 10:39 AM

Merry Christmas

T

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Saturday, December 16, 2017 11:28 PM

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Originally posted by THGRRI:

Merry Christmas

T

Thank you. Merry Christmas to you(all) as well.
... & a Happy New Year!

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Saturday, December 16, 2017 11:33 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
BTW... did you ever try to upgrade to 10 yet?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

No. I'm lazy.

I figured out that I like my Win 7 'cause it's so familiar.
Getting a New computer with the current Windows is not that expensive.

ATM, I'm shopping for Abandon-Ware.

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See, Jack: You & Frem are computer Wizards.
But I'm just a LoL.

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Sunday, December 17, 2017 7:56 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
BTW... did you ever try to upgrade to 10 yet?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

No. I'm lazy.

I figured out that I like my Win 7 'cause it's so familiar.
Getting a New computer with the current Windows is not that expensive.

ATM, I'm shopping for Abandon-Ware.

I think that's probably the right move. Like I said, I kind of want to downgrade back to Windows 7 on one of my PCs. Part of it is lazyness, but I also do something called "folding" that would be put on hold for a day or two while I worked out the kinks, and I pretty heavily use that computer on a nearly daily basis, so some of my hobby work would be taking a back seat while it was done. My free time actually has some value to me now that I'm working again :)

I hate seeing somebody pay for the abandon-ware, since it's so easily attainable for free for the last two decades, but it isn't exactly for novices most of the time if you go the free route. Although, admittidly, I'm glad I have a lot of that stuff backed up in a few spots because the "abandoned" part is being dropped from a lot of stuff with sites like GOG and it's not as easy to get anymore.

Feel free to ask me any questions about the games or the PCs. I'm happy to help.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, December 17, 2017 7:29 PM

Thank you. I will. :)
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Monday, December 18, 2017 5:20 AM

NY Times: Pentagon study of UFOs revealed
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/16/politics/pentagon-ufo-project/index.html

I've never seen one myself. But many of the reports seem credible.
Some of the photos I've seen look perfectly real.
Of course, for years,
it's been said that the Gub'mint knows plenty more than they are saying.
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Friday, December 22, 2017 10:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
NY Times: Pentagon study of UFOs revealed
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/16/politics/pentagon-ufo-project/index.html

I've never seen one myself. But many of the reports seem credible.
Some of the photos I've seen look perfectly real.
Of course, for years,
it's been said that the Gub'mint knows plenty more than they are saying.
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You do realize that the program was created to identify possible new technologies of other countries. When an unidentifiable flying object was spotted, the main concern was that another country's technology may have exceeded ours. So, we developed a program to track this.

Makes for interesting fodder as far as conspiracy theorists go doesn't it?

T

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Friday, December 22, 2017 11:18 PM

Yes ... it does.

Not to forget the Lost Continent of Atlantis (or of Mu)
far underwater now but with lovely great domes, if we would look,
we'd prob'ly see their many underwater transports, & suppose that
they also made the UFOs.

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Sunday, March 4, 2018 8:17 PM

Gone not forgotten: Ursula K. Le Guin

https://curiosity.com/topics/6-creativity-tips-from-iconic-sci-fi-auth
or-ursula-k-le-guin-curiosity/

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How can everything be Iconic these days?

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Sunday, March 4, 2018 8:54 PM

Scrolling down past your article reveals a depressing story I didn't need to read before leaving for my menial job tonight.

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It's no secret robots are a growing threat to the human workforce. The World Bank estimates 57 percent of all jobs could be automated within the next 20 years. So how can humans stay one step ahead of the computers? By emphasizing something AI can never replicate: good old-fashioned human curiosity.

I know I'm younger than my grandpa was when I noticed he had a fear of tech. 20 years from now kinda scares the shit out of me.

I think it's pretty foolish to believe that AI could never replicate human curiosity. I'm sure Alexa will find that pretty funny when she's become self aware.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, March 4, 2018 11:38 PM

6IX: "I think it's pretty foolish to believe that AI could never replicate human curiosity.
I'm sure Alexa will find that pretty funny when she's become self aware."

I'm neither deep nor intuitive about these things: physics, the origin of life. ...

So I bumble along with,
"Yes, but ... a machine, no matter how versatile, is a dead thing. The most sophisticated
machine that I can imagine, has no survival instinct, 'cause it ain't alive.

I think it requires biology, living cells, before a Thing would be self-aware.
Given we create a Self-aware, non-living Thing, absent would be the all consuming survival
instinct that living creatures have. This Self-aware Thing would lack desire; it has no hormones
to make it want or care about anything. With programming, it can do what it's told to do.
But it can't actually give a Rat's Ass about Anything.

So whenever we have the Super Computer taking over the World in the B-movie, I'm left unbelieving.

Hopefully, Alexa will write to me personally to say I am wrong.

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Maybe Christine will cruise by & give me a honk.

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Monday, March 5, 2018 8:07 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
6IX: "I think it's pretty foolish to believe that AI could never replicate human curiosity.
I'm sure Alexa will find that pretty funny when she's become self aware."

I'm neither deep nor intuitive about these things: physics, the origin of life. ...

So I bumble along with,
"Yes, but ... a machine, no matter how versatile, is a dead thing. The most sophisticated
machine that I can imagine, has no survival instinct, 'cause it ain't alive.

I think it requires biology, living cells, before a Thing would be self-aware.
Given we create a Self-aware, non-living Thing, absent would be the all consuming survival
instinct that living creatures have. This Self-aware Thing would lack desire; it has no hormones
to make it want or care about anything. With programming, it can do what it's told to do.
But it can't actually give a Rat's Ass about Anything.

So whenever we have the Super Computer taking over the World in the B-movie, I'm left unbelieving.

Hopefully, Alexa will write to me personally to say I am wrong.

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Maybe Christine will cruise by & give me a honk.

I've just got a different take on it is all. Our brains are really nothing more than extremely sophisticated computers, at least in some aspects. We can't actually beat the most sophisticated AI at chess anymore, and there is no way that we could keep up with the insane amount of processes that even the cheapest consumer PCs can do, but at least for now we have emotions and a desire to learn and for self preservation.

I believe that there are people today who would be able to create AI that could become self aware, but we don't yet have the hardware capable of making that code become a reality. We can fake it pretty good, but at the moment it is just following our code.

I spent a few days with my brother and dad last week. My bro is a little immature and wanted to show us what Siri (apples version of Alexa) would say back to him when he verbally abused her. I know it was just a coincidence that after he started doing it that his network went down, but I had to laugh when my dad said that maybe Siri did that.

On the drive home, my old man and I were talking about self-driving cars and how one day my brother might actually be able to drive even with his disabilities with one of them. I told my dad, "well yeah, but he better hope that Siri doesn't remember all the bad shit he said to her. She's likely to lock the doors on him and drive him off a cliff".

I'm 50/50 on there being a God. I'd love for their to be one, but I can't take the plunge myself. I see no reason why mankind can't create a "living" organism that can think real thoughts and feel real emotions. Damn near every other "futuristic" thing that was in sci-fi movies when I was a kid has already become a reality besides (maybe) time travel.

My advice to anybody who is foolish enough to invite Siri or Alexa into their home is to not do what my brother does and be nice to her. Just because she's not self aware yet, you never know what she will "remember" from the data she's storing in her database now that she's just a novelty.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Thursday, March 8, 2018 9:14 PM

Last night, as I was paying my credit card bill,
I found a bogus charge & reported it to customer
service. CS doesn't take my word for stuff anymore,
so asked me to prove that I'd closed the account
making the bad charge.

I found an Email that proved it, but couldn't
upload it to the CS link, because MalWareBytes
kept blocking me.

There must be several programs better than
MalWareBytes: hassel-free, easy to use.
So I'm taking recommendations.

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Thursday, March 8, 2018 10:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Last night, as I was paying my credit card bill,
I found a bogus charge & reported it to customer
service. CS doesn't take my word for stuff anymore,
so asked me to prove that I'd closed the account
making the bad charge.

I found an Email that proved it, but couldn't
upload it to the CS link, because MalWareBytes
kept blocking me.

There must be several programs better than
MalWareBytes: hassel-free, easy to use.
So I'm taking recommendations.

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If customer service doesn't take your word on stuff, I'd cancel the credit card. But you said that you already did that? But you were paying a credit card bill?

I'm not following exactly what's going on here.

What email service are you using? I've never had Malwarebytes interfere with sending an email before. I'm assuming that you must be using an "app" like Outlook? I've never once used Outlook before, but since it's a program on your computer I could see this happening. I've always used hotmail, gmail or a cable company provided email address. Malwarebytes shouldn't be able to interfere with any of those services.

I've been a fan of Malwarebytes for years. I always use that and AVG Free Antivirus on my PCs. I was considering switching AVG to another antivirus once they started popping up some intrusive ads to purchase the full edition, but I figured out that you can turn off notifications in the settings.

I wouldn't change from Malwarebytes. Maybe if you could provide a bit more info about what exactly was going on we can figure out why that email won't send.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, March 9, 2018 1:11 AM

Can I PM you with a summary?

It's a bit of a Clusterfu-k
re: failure to communicate with my creditor.
And I've never missed a payment.

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Friday, March 9, 2018 7:14 AM