If you haven't seen this one I recommend it.

Looks fun. May have seen it...just bookmarked a stream for this evening.

You gotta know a guy who knows a guy.

Now you're screwed, "they" are going to see that, 'cos you typed it.

I'm cool as it's a quote for me...

A couple examples of service levels between couriers and their ground service in the last week and some change.

We are moving so needed to buy a couple things, most came from Vancouver area but 3 items Amazon shipped by ground from Toronto area, with 2 different couriers.

Fedex Ground was shipped Monday June 22nd, arrived in Vancouver on Friday June 26th, would have been delivered that day but we missed the call so was delivered on the 27th.
Fedex Ground shipped this past Monday, scheduled delivery is Friday, last update was today and says its in CYPRESS COUNTY, AB

Then we have Purolator, shipped June 25th, so far its managed to sit in Toronto apparently since June 25 with no movement, they say delivery July 7th.

So I guess if your gonna ship something ground, use Fedex Ground ha ha

Make a killing with a group rate. Heh.

This article was a bit interesting, one part in particular anyhow. BC is trying to keep people out of the park, but Washington State has left their side open, and BC can't put up barriers because of this treaty apparently. “Basically what the Treaty of Ghent says is neither side, so neither the Canadians nor the Americans, can put up any barriers within 10 feet of either side of the border. So Canadians, even if they wanted to stop Canadians from entering the U.S. side of the Peace Arch Park on 0 Avenue, they’re legally unable to.”

“The Treaty of Ghent says if either side breaks that treaty, the borders are reverted back to prior to 1814, which means that part of southern Ontario and Quebec reverts back to the United States if the Canadians put up a boundary.”


Between COVID affecting available labor for farms, and the the fairly wet season areas have had, not looking to be a great cherry season.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...d-19-1.5627630

I had a message along similar lines appear on my laptop screen about 7 years ago, except it was 'from' the FBI. It was a scam that was apparently widespread at the time, something like 'the FBI has detected illegal pornography on your computer, in order to have your computer activated again pay (forget how much) to (I forget who/where). I suppose the scammers think that if they do it enough they'll snag someone who a) accesses pornography on their pc and b) is too dumb/gullible/vulnerable/guilty to see that it's a scam.

The only thing that gave me an initial jolt was on top of the 'FBI' form was a photograph - of me! They'd accessed my computer's camera and taken my photo. Bastards, it gave me a hell of a shock to see a photo of myself obviously taken within the last 10 minutes or so.

EDIT: I've just realised that I typed 'pornography' and 'FBI' in the same message, I'm doomed.

My wife keeps the camera on her laptop covered with duct tape.

We do have 1 security camera in the apartment, we keep in unplugged most of the time, we only have it so those times we are gone for a long period to keep an eye on the dog, but otherwise don't trust it being on when we are home even if they claim its secured and under password.

I remember hearing about that scam...or something like it. But it was more a blackmail thing.
My all-in-one (that i don't use ) has a slider thingy.

After watching that Blackmirror episode 'Shut up and Dance' and the Edward Snowdon movie, my laptop camera has since had a piece of masking tape over it when not in use.

I keep a piece of cardboard secured with tape over mine on the laptop as well -

... and the slider thingy closed on the 2nd hand (new to me) all in one that I had to buy recently (I needed for work only - I hate Windows 10 with a passion!)

I just keep the inbuilt webcam off in settings and turn it on for Skype, then back off again. I too hate Windows 10, and having read the last few posts, I thought best go have a look at the microphone settings...




Aren't we in enough crap already?

Why, what's the risk in the camera being on ?