Can I use your phone to view the menu? The camera in my phone is broken.

Among other things, since moving to a more rural part of our state, we have uncovered these items that I assume the previous owners dumped in the woods around us:

• A 1960-ish era chainsaw
• A car battery
• Rusty pipe
• Jugs full of what looks like motor oil
• Empty plastic bottles
• A large roll of some sort of material like landscaping cloth that is overrun with moss & roots now.
• A rechargeable battery for power tools
• What appears to be the bed cover for a pickup truck
• Loads of other smaller plastic scraps

The NSA is already known to have tapped into the fiber optic lines at an AT&T datacenter back in the early 2000’s. That sort of tap would generate absolutely massive amounts of data.

If they did something like that 20+ years ago then the volume & analysis isn’t the issue. It’s whether or not they decide they need to perform mass surveillance of mobile devices.

No, but if somebody like the NSA comes along with a request to intercept a specific package, or even a bunch of packages then customs will gladly turn them over. As was posted elsewhere in this thread, NSA has been known to do this in targeted cases and installed software into routers etc. before returning them to customs for delivery.

So it truly depends on whether an organization like the NSA has you on their radar.

That, and pretty much every movie he’s in these days are just an ego based adrenalin rush designed by and for himself. All the parts he plays just come off as “Tom Cruise half heartedly pretending to be X”.

We’ve seen him a few times now and the breadth of his work absolutely amazes me. We’ve seen his well known show where he reprises his music videos twice. A few years ago we saw him when he toured with a full orchestra, and most recently we saw him do an “unplugged” concert which was just him and his band playing acoustically and only doing his original songs, no parodies. I’d honestly forgotten how many original songs he’s written.

I would have loved to have seen Rush in concert. My wife and I did see a Rush tribute/cover band last year called Lotus Land that was pretty darned good.

Not to mention you need to buy gas, schedule & pay for maintenance, etc.

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Not a data target, but my wife was pick pocketed in Paris a few months ago. We were boarding a train to the airport and somebody yanked it from her pocket as she boarded with her hands full.

We both have iPhones. Within five minutes while sitting on the train I remotely locked her phone then wiped it. Never saw any fallout that could be attributed to somebody having access to it.

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My initial thought was similar but from the opposite perspective. Rich people like Elon would figure out a way to hold onto their wealth when they’re reborn. Like keep most of your wealth in an anonymous numbered account and make sure you have that number well memorized…

Got pulled over in an EV. Not so much as an on/off switch. Cop didn’t ask me to do anything.

You know you’re old when most of the answers involve video games from one era or another.

The first video game we owned was a Coleco Telstar, which came out in 1976. It had a whopping 3 games:

• hockey
• handball
• tennis

Basically all were just variations of Pong…

Followed by your mom ringing a bell or using some other noisemaker to call you home for dinner. We’d have about ten kids from around our neighborhood playing kick the can. And we could all tell who had to go home based on the type of bell etc. and the direction it came from.

No. THX-1138 would have been filmed decades before these tunnels existed. I think that was filmed in San Francisco subway tunnels that were still under construction in the early 70’s.

These are the Boston tunnels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

I know a guy who spent 40+ years in special effects. He now goes around giving talks/demonstrations about it all. He has a series of photos showing how a typical car is rigged to explode into a fireball.

Depending on what the director is looking for, steel horns are welded to the car frame inside each door, the hood, trunk, windshield, etc. The horns will direct the fireball out the car when ignited. Each horn holds an explosive similar to gasoline connected to a detonator.

After that, each window is wired with a squib, a small explosive smaller than a coin that will shatter the window about 1/10th of a second before the fireballs are ignited.

If necessary the hood, trunk, and/or doors are also wired with smaller explosives to pop them open immediately before the fireball as well.

All those smaller explosives are needed to get the doors/windows out of the way for the main fireball explosives. The fireball doesn’t have enough punch to push the doors open on its own, and it also provides significantly more control of the whole explosion. (You’re not guessing where the windshield might get blown to, etc).

Part of the Tom Cruise movie Knight and Day was filmed in Boston. There’s a car chase scene through the underground highway tunnels at one point. Anybody that’s driven here for more than a few days would recognize that there’s no way the chase could play out the way it did. The tunnels don’t interconnect the way the movie shows it.

Building on this, see if you can collect pricing over time where Comcast is the only option vs. places where Comcast faces competition from other providers. I’ve lived in Comcast-only markets and where they compete with Verizon FiOS. Their pricing when forced to compete is often more reasonable.

I’m dating myself:

• Hogans Heroes
• Mission: Impossible (the TV series from the 60’s & 70’s, not the movie franchise that’s just a Tom Cruise adrenaline fantasy)