GadgetComa’s Subconscious Rantings

Photographer Captures Eagle and Fox Fighting Over Rabbit in Midair

Wow. I’d hope that I could react quickly enough to get a shot like this. Wildlife photographer Kevin Ebi was out shooting a few days ago when he witnessed and photographed a crazy sight: a bald eagle and red fox fighting over a rabbit… in midair. While photographing the non-native foxes in San Juan Island National Historical Park on San...

05/16/18

Gay Prom Date Goes Viral After NJ Bachelor Party Bros Offer Enthusiastic Approval: WATCH

Glimmers of hope like this show up every once in a while. A gay NJ high school couple’s prom date has gone viral on Twitter, catching the attention of ABC7 New York, who spoke with Theodore Vidal about he and his boyfriend Colin Beyers’ stroll on the Seaside Heights boardwalk last Friday. Read the full article and see the video...

05/15/18

#SavedYouAClick: It’s hot as hell

05/15/18

Domestic Hypocrits

Is the NRA bankrupt yet (other than the obvious moral bankruptcy)?

05/14/18

Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs can reveal encrypted e-mails. Uninstall now

Happy Monday. The Internet’s two most widely used methods for encrypting e-mail–PGP and S/Mime–are vulnerable to hacks that can reveal the plaintext of encrypted messages, a researcher warned late Sunday night. He went on to say there are no reliable fixes and to advise anyone who uses either encryption standard for sensitive communications to remove them immediately from e-mail clients....

05/13/18

Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again.

This is infuriating! Equifax has a handy little backdoor way of getting around credit freezes to still make money off of our data. (Not to mention the other companies that have easy access without much oversight.) I spent a few days last week speaking at and attending a conference on responding to identity theft. The forum was held in Florida,...

05/13/18

Robert N. Hall, 96, Whose Inventions Are Everywhere, Is Dead

It’s sad that some who influenced so much is not well known. Robert N. Hall’s legacy can be found at almost every checkout counter — that little red blinking laser scanner that reads bar codes on milk cartons, boxes of light bulbs, price tags dangling from a new jacket and just about everything else that can be bought in a...

05/13/18

Amazon’s Rocky and Bullwinkle brings back an old favorite… but why?

How unfortunate. It would have been fun to have the real Bullwinkle and Rocky back. Rocky and His Friends debuted in the ABC network’s afternoon lineup in the fall of 1959, and it quickly became a sensation. Co-created by innovative animators / entrepreneurs Jay Ward, Alex Anderson, and Bill Scott, the series took the hip, self-aware humor that, at the...