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1751.	Solve : eMachine ET1831 --- Low Quality Parts & no HDD activity feature?
Answer» Was working on a eMachines ET1831-07 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883114084 with a Pentium E5400 CPU in it tonight to figure out why it randomly locks up after powered for days on end as a office computer. What I found I had to laugh about. Not just is the motherboard in this system a low quality ECS brand board which are known for being bottom of the barrel quality and problematic, but also when looking further to try to figure out why the face of the computer always has a constant green glow, but no HDD activity flicker, I saw that this build was so cutting corners in quality and features that they never designed it with a HDD indicator LED. The FRONT panel has just 2 wire pairs going to it for (soft) Power SWITCH push button, and the other pair is for the System LED which is always on. Looking further at the motherboard it has pins and HDD LED feature, but I guess adding a 10 cent HDD LED to the design would cut too far into their margin. Tempted to drill a hole in the plastic and mount a HDD LED so that I can look over and see what activity is going on if any when it locks up etc. But its not my computer. Memtest86 comes up clean. Added battery backup to it and it still does it. Swapped power supply and still does it. Rebuilt system fresh to clean state with recovery set that was burned to DVD's and it still does it. Determined that its just because its a crappy ECS board with low quality parts and so the solution may be to either just hold the power button in when it locks up to hard reboot it and just have them live with that or swap the motherboard. But I still FEEL this urge that the engineers at emachines seriously messed up by not adding a HDD LED to the design to look to see whats going on. I have used that HDD LED for like 30 years as an indicator to see whats going on when things slow or lag etc. If you have a good paced system that all of a sudden has slowness or lag WITHOUT HDD activity then you know you have some serious problems and its not just swap file traffic or load time of a large application etc. I guess with this model your stuck with using either a CPU & Memory gadget or bring up task manager and look at CPU and memory usage etc.

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1752.	Solve : Blood Moon Yonight Only?
Answer» In some parts of the world you can see a BLOOD MOON tonight. Location and timing are important. Don' be late. The re rum comes six MONTHS from now. So don't wait, see it tonight. Is Tuesday's 'blood moon' eclipse the end of the world? Quote Tuesday's first of four lunar "blood moon" eclipses will mark a major earth-shattering event, depending on your viewpoint -- either the possible START of the end of the world or Tax Day. It could also be just a spectacularly beautiful astronomical event over the next two years. The tetrad -- or four consecutive and complete lunar eclipses occurring at approximately six month intervals -- will all be visible over the United States during 2014 -2015, according to NASA lunar eclipse expert Fred Espenak. Quote from: Geek-9pm on April 14, 2014, 06:28:23 PM Is Tuesday's 'blood moon' eclipse the end of the world? At first I laughed, then I realized there are people who take that seriously. You have to have seriously lost your grip on reality to assign so much meaning to a shadow.Getting up at 3 AM to witness the beginning of the end myself...Quote Getting up at 3 AM to witness the beginning of the end myself... Thanks for a great laugh

1752.

Solve : Blood Moon Yonight Only?

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In some parts of the world you can see a BLOOD MOON tonight.
Location and timing are important. Don' be late. The re rum comes six MONTHS from now. So don't wait, see it tonight.
Is Tuesday's 'blood moon' eclipse the end of the world?
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Tuesday's first of four lunar "blood moon" eclipses will mark a major earth-shattering event, depending on your viewpoint -- either the possible START of the end of the world or Tax Day. It could also be just a spectacularly beautiful astronomical event over the next two years.

The tetrad -- or four consecutive and complete lunar eclipses occurring at approximately six month intervals -- will all be visible over the United States during 2014 -2015, according to NASA lunar eclipse expert Fred Espenak.

Quote from: Geek-9pm on April 14, 2014, 06:28:23 PM

Is Tuesday's 'blood moon' eclipse the end of the world?

At first I laughed, then I realized there are people who take that seriously. You have to have seriously lost your grip on reality to assign so much meaning to a shadow.Getting up at 3 AM to witness the beginning of the end myself...Quote

Getting up at 3 AM to witness the beginning of the end myself...

Thanks for a great laugh

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1753.	Solve : Recover movies from damaged copy protected DVD.?
Answer» This is NOT about how to hack copy protection. Look here: Quote .. a large collection of DVDs which are very vulnerable to scratching, now i have paid for these so see no REASON that my use of the disc should be only for as long as ... Of course that post was blocked by the moderator for ghood reason, Thes foru m does not help people break the law. But can this problem be resolved without breaking the law? Yes. If you have copy protected DVDs, store them in a safe place. And never load them to anyone. But what can you do anger the fact? Retail stores has kits made to resolve this problem. Unless the disc is cracked or perforated, it can be repaired. EVEN deep scratches can be removed. The recording medium is a thin metal layer inside a clear plastic layer. Almost always the problem is deep scratches on the plastic surface. These can be buffed with a DVD cleaning kit available wherever DVDs are sold. Use only the materials in the kit. Read the directions first. It may take two of three times to get it. Normal usage does NOT wear out a DVD. The OPTICAL laser does not touch the surface of the disc. small scratches do not matter. The recording system has a redundant method that IGNORES slight DISTORTIONS. You only need to bujff out the deep scratches. I posted this here for the benefit of those who have never used a DVD cleaning kit. They work very well, if you read the instructions. One usefull reference: A Guide to The Best CD/DVD Repair Kits

1753.

Solve : Recover movies from damaged copy protected DVD.?

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This is NOT about how to hack copy protection. Look here:
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.. a large collection of DVDs which are very vulnerable to scratching, now i have paid for these so see no REASON that my use of the disc should be only for as long as ...

Of course that post was blocked by the moderator for ghood reason, Thes foru m does not help people break the law.

But can this problem be resolved without breaking the law?
Yes. If you have copy protected DVDs, store them in a safe place. And never load them to anyone.
But what can you do anger the fact?
Retail stores has kits made to resolve this problem. Unless the disc is cracked or perforated, it can be repaired. EVEN deep scratches can be removed. The recording medium is a thin metal layer inside a clear plastic layer. Almost always the problem is deep scratches on the plastic surface. These can be buffed with a DVD cleaning kit available wherever DVDs are sold.
Use only the materials in the kit. Read the directions first. It may take two of three times to get it.
Normal usage does NOT wear out a DVD. The OPTICAL laser does not touch the surface of the disc. small scratches do not matter. The recording system has a redundant method that IGNORES slight DISTORTIONS. You only need to bujff out the deep scratches.
I posted this here for the benefit of those who have never used a DVD cleaning kit. They work very well, if you read the instructions.
One usefull reference:
A Guide to The Best CD/DVD Repair Kits

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1754.	Solve : Bill Gates talks about Nuclear Power?
Answer» Bill Gates talks about Nuclear Power This is from last year. Bill Gates was giving alive presentation and somebody asked him about Nuclear Power. He said: “Nuclear innovation stopped in the 1970s.” For the video clip, go to: http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2013/03/11/bill-gates-excellent-case-for-new-types-of-nuclear-power/ Bill is very knowledgeable and passionate. Politics again ? ?Quote from: patio on April 29, 2014, 02:06:21 PM Politics again ? ? Did you hear what he said? It is not about politics in the sense of supporting one ideology over the other. He talks about the lack of good technical research in nuclear energy. He advocates more work should be done in all areas to find non-carbon energy sources. Including g all promising forms of nuclear energy. Hes claims e future has to have some kind of nuclear energy as the main source of power. Balderdash... Just another billionaire telling us how the planet should be run... Similar to how i felt when Al gore stated we should all have solar panels while he's got a 200,000 sq ft mansion that consumes more energy than anyone in his elite neighborhood... I'll leave this open for now...but get ready for it to be locked.Quote from: patio on April 29, 2014, 05:53:39 PM Balderdash... Just another billionaire telling us how the planet should be run... On that note though, we do have "prior art" to consider in this regard. Take Leaded Gasoline. It was found that one COULD add Lead to gasoline and cool, no more knocks. Of course we didn't fully understand the impact that the Leaded gasoline had. Lead suddenly was found everywhere. More interesting was that when it was discovered that this Lead was actually a recent addition by comparing the lead content of places such as the deep ocean and underneath arctic ice, it still took several decades to get the industry to recognize and change, and it still required government bans and international accords. So while one could argue that environmental considerations stem from political motivations, it is already the case that the way things are today are the way they are through politics. And given the history whereby scientific research is refuted by mouthpieces paid by the industries that would be affected by such regulations it bears proper considerations for the motivations of an individual that is essentially saying that "nope, everything is fine". Quote Similar to how i felt when Al gore stated we should all have solar panels while he's got a 200,000 sq ft mansion that consumes more energy than anyone in his elite neighborhood... I agree that one making such claims should lead by example. Additionally he was hardly an environmentalist and one could probably argue that his motivations were political. However I would also argue that this does make his points invalid. It would be a fallacy to do so. There is certainly no doubt That There is a lot of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt about Nuclear power as a fuel. IMO a lot of the fear is a lack of understanding. When Bill Gates says there has not been innovation in Nuclear Power since the 70's he is not entirely wrong. The Public against Nuclear Power in the 70's due to incidents like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island contributed to a public insistence that we ignore the possibilities of Atomic power and instead continue to rely on the power sources that we are already exploiting, despite them having a quantifiable negative effect on the environment. Establishing a Process that works is the first step, making it safe and establishing proper HANDLING and safety for that is another matter. Nuclear Waste, for example, is of course quite dangerous. However the difference, IMO, between Nuclear fission by-products and Fossil fuels is that with Nuclear Fission we can dispose of the waste product more safely, even though it is in general more dangerous. With Fossil fuels "disposal" is basically just tossing it in the air. And even if the emissions are not nearly on the level of nuclear fallout I Do not think it is SOMETHING we should blithely ignore, especially since that call to ignorance is spear-headed by corporate mouthpieces of the likes of those who CLAIMED that Leaded Gasoline had "no negative effect on the environment" and that the problems could be "controlled through self-regulation". This same effect is at play by the industries that would be negatively affected by new power sources. IMO what we have learned from previous Nuclear-related disasters is not that Fission is too dangerous to use as a power source, but that we have been too cavalier so far in our handling of it. It is not a process that should be taken lightly and the repercussions of doing it incorrectly or making mistakes, even in the software, can be catastrophic. What this means is that the system needs more checks and balances, not that it needs to be abandoned. If you want to get right down to it, we are already using a form of nuclear power; Even burning wood or fossil fuels is really just extracting the energy that was originally from Nuclear Fusion in the Sun. If stars can remain as stable, massive Fusion reactors for billions of years using only gravity and nuclear forces, We should be able to, with the proper research and pluckiness, create a safe, clean energy source based on Fission. Breakthroughs always come at a cost, and in many cases we STUMBLED on an unsafe method of doing something before we put our heads together and found a safe way to do the same thing.

1754.

Solve : Bill Gates talks about Nuclear Power?

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Bill Gates talks about Nuclear Power

This is from last year.
Bill Gates was giving alive presentation and somebody asked him about Nuclear Power. He said:
“Nuclear innovation stopped in the 1970s.”
For the video clip, go to:
http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2013/03/11/bill-gates-excellent-case-for-new-types-of-nuclear-power/

Bill is very knowledgeable and passionate.
Politics again ? ?Quote from: patio on April 29, 2014, 02:06:21 PM

Politics again ? ?

Did you hear what he said?
It is not about politics in the sense of supporting one ideology over the other. He talks about the lack of good technical research in nuclear energy. He advocates more work should be done in all areas to find non-carbon energy sources. Including g all promising forms of nuclear energy. Hes claims e future has to have some kind of nuclear energy as the main source of power. Balderdash...
Just another billionaire telling us how the planet should be run...

Similar to how i felt when Al gore stated we should all have solar panels while he's got a 200,000 sq ft mansion that consumes more energy than anyone in his elite neighborhood...

I'll leave this open for now...but get ready for it to be locked.Quote from: patio on April 29, 2014, 05:53:39 PM

Balderdash...
Just another billionaire telling us how the planet should be run...

On that note though, we do have "prior art" to consider in this regard.

Take Leaded Gasoline. It was found that one COULD add Lead to gasoline and cool, no more knocks.

Of course we didn't fully understand the impact that the Leaded gasoline had. Lead suddenly was found everywhere.

More interesting was that when it was discovered that this Lead was actually a recent addition by comparing the lead content of places such as the deep ocean and underneath arctic ice, it still took several decades to get the industry to recognize and change, and it still required government bans and international accords.

So while one could argue that environmental considerations stem from political motivations, it is already the case that the way things are today are the way they are through politics. And given the history whereby scientific research is refuted by mouthpieces paid by the industries that would be affected by such regulations it bears proper considerations for the motivations of an individual that is essentially saying that "nope, everything is fine".

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Similar to how i felt when Al gore stated we should all have solar panels while he's got a 200,000 sq ft mansion that consumes more energy than anyone in his elite neighborhood...

I agree that one making such claims should lead by example. Additionally he was hardly an environmentalist and one could probably argue that his motivations were political.

However I would also argue that this does make his points invalid. It would be a fallacy to do so.

There is certainly no doubt That There is a lot of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt about Nuclear power as a fuel. IMO a lot of the fear is a lack of understanding. When Bill Gates says there has not been innovation in Nuclear Power since the 70's he is not entirely wrong. The Public against Nuclear Power in the 70's due to incidents like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island contributed to a public insistence that we ignore the possibilities of Atomic power and instead continue to rely on the power sources that we are already exploiting, despite them having a quantifiable negative effect on the environment. Establishing a Process that works is the first step, making it safe and establishing proper HANDLING and safety for that is another matter.

Nuclear Waste, for example, is of course quite dangerous. However the difference, IMO, between Nuclear fission by-products and Fossil fuels is that with Nuclear Fission we can dispose of the waste product more safely, even though it is in general more dangerous. With Fossil fuels "disposal" is basically just tossing it in the air. And even if the emissions are not nearly on the level of nuclear fallout I Do not think it is SOMETHING we should blithely ignore, especially since that call to ignorance is spear-headed by corporate mouthpieces of the likes of those who CLAIMED that Leaded Gasoline had "no negative effect on the environment" and that the problems could be "controlled through self-regulation". This same effect is at play by the industries that would be negatively affected by new power sources.

IMO what we have learned from previous Nuclear-related disasters is not that Fission is too dangerous to use as a power source, but that we have been too cavalier so far in our handling of it. It is not a process that should be taken lightly and the repercussions of doing it incorrectly or making mistakes, even in the software, can be catastrophic. What this means is that the system needs more checks and balances, not that it needs to be abandoned.

If you want to get right down to it, we are already using a form of nuclear power; Even burning wood or fossil fuels is really just extracting the energy that was originally from Nuclear Fusion in the Sun. If stars can remain as stable, massive Fusion reactors for billions of years using only gravity and nuclear forces, We should be able to, with the proper research and pluckiness, create a safe, clean energy source based on Fission. Breakthroughs always come at a cost, and in many cases we STUMBLED on an unsafe method of doing something before we put our heads together and found a safe way to do the same thing.

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1755.	Solve : ... Is Full of Love and Made of Flowers.?
Answer» Tongue in cheek.... VIDEOS about WINDOWS vs Linux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIIAfXuIy-g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nglgcWZf4qc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPzPEIK0TUQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAC39aXl1Ao Do not skip the lat ONE I'm the farthest thing from a Linux Zealot but that last one is a severe MISREPRESENTATION of the Open Source Software PERSPECTIVE and Running Linux.

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1756.	Solve : Happy Birthday Wefro_froyas ! !?
Answer» Have a GREAT ONE... HOPE all is well. patio.

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1757.	Solve : Happy Birthday Calum ! !?
Answer» Hope you have a great ONE...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Calum!Happy Birthday Thanks guys sorry for the LATE reply.Musta been a good one...

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1758.	Solve : Happy Birthday Nathan ! !?
Answer» Hope YER HAVIN a Great One fearless leader.... Happy Birthday Nathan Happy birthday!Happy Birthday OK Nathan... We're gonna just keep posting til you check in....

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1759.	Solve : Happy Birthday Quantos ! !?
Answer» Have a GREAT ONE there BUD ! ! PUT some miles on the BIKE...

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1760.	Solve : Modified pig parts to help llate cancer patients?
Answer» Quote Modified pig organs could help late-stage cancer patients 'Humanized' porcine parts would reduce organ transplant waiting lists Thomson Reuters Posted: May 06, 2014 8:30 AM ET Last Updated: May 06, 2014 8:30 AM ET How is this related to computers? It takes a lot of com computational power to work the DNA stuff. Quote Genome pioneer J. Craig Venter is teaming up with a unit of United Therapeutics Corp to develop pig lungs that have been genetically altered to be compatible with humans, a feat that, if successful, could address the urgent need for transplant organs for people with end-stage lung disease... More details... Historical note: Quote ... Celera's Approach Craig Venter adopted whole genome shotgunning. In this method, DNA is cloned several times and then shredded into 60 million bits, each 2,000 to 10,000 letters long. Each fragment is decoded by machines, which then send the results to Celera's massive computers. Now comes the difficult, controversial step: The computers attempt to reassemble the miniscule fragments back into the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. Whole genome shotgunning is FAR faster than more traditional approaches, but critics charge that reassembly results in incomplete, inaccurate results (Venter admits some flaws but says they can be rectified and that HGP's method also yields holes.). Until 1995, shotgunning had been used only to sequence small parts of a genome. Then, along with Nobel winner Hamilton Smith, who had the idea, Venter tried the method on an entire genome. Together, they determined the entire genome of the BACTERIA that causes ear infections and meningitis. Beginning sequencing in September 1999, Celera massed over 20,000 CPU hours involving 500 million trillion base to base comparisons, and MANAGED more than 80 terabytes of data. Just the algorithms and data for sequence and assembly of the 3.12 billion letter of the genetic code required 64 GIGABYTES of shared memory. ... http://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/computers-and-the-hgp/seq.html One thing that is more IT Medical related that I thought was cool was the printer that prints ( sprays ) cells onto sterile surface of some sort to grow skin cells etc. This was a few years ago and I havent followed up with it, but it was before the 3D printers came out. Now with 3D printers. It makes one wonder if they will be able to create a nose or an ear etc. Just had a flash back from the movie Sleeper, with the Presidents Nose, with Woody Allen, where they want to reconstruct the president from just the DNA of the nose. Haven't seen that movie in over 30 years..LOL

1760.

Solve : Modified pig parts to help llate cancer patients?

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Modified pig organs could help late-stage cancer patients
'Humanized' porcine parts would reduce organ transplant waiting lists
Thomson Reuters Posted: May 06, 2014 8:30 AM ET Last Updated: May 06, 2014 8:30 AM ET

How is this related to computers? It takes a lot of com computational power to work the DNA stuff. **
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Genome pioneer J. Craig Venter is teaming up with a unit of United Therapeutics Corp to develop pig lungs that have been genetically altered to be compatible with humans, a feat that, if successful, could address the urgent need for transplant organs for people with end-stage lung disease...

More details...

** Historical note:
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...
Celera's Approach
Craig Venter adopted whole genome shotgunning. In this method, DNA is cloned several times and then shredded into 60 million bits, each 2,000 to 10,000 letters long. Each fragment is decoded by machines, which then send the results to Celera's massive computers. Now comes the difficult, controversial step: The computers attempt to reassemble the miniscule fragments back into the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. Whole genome shotgunning is FAR faster than more traditional approaches, but critics charge that reassembly results in incomplete, inaccurate results (Venter admits some flaws but says they can be rectified and that HGP's method also yields holes.). Until 1995, shotgunning had been used only to sequence small parts of a genome. Then, along with Nobel winner Hamilton Smith, who had the idea, Venter tried the method on an entire genome. Together, they determined the entire genome of the BACTERIA that causes ear infections and meningitis. Beginning sequencing in September 1999, Celera massed over 20,000 CPU hours involving 500 million trillion base to base comparisons, and MANAGED more than 80 terabytes of data. Just the algorithms and data for sequence and assembly of the 3.12 billion letter of the genetic code required 64 GIGABYTES of shared memory. ...
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/computers-and-the-hgp/seq.html

One thing that is more IT Medical related that I thought was cool was the printer that prints ( sprays ) cells onto sterile surface of some sort to grow skin cells etc. This was a few years ago and I havent followed up with it, but it was before the 3D printers came out. Now with 3D printers. It makes one wonder if they will be able to create a nose or an ear etc.

Just had a flash back from the movie Sleeper, with the Presidents Nose, with Woody Allen, where they want to reconstruct the president from just the DNA of the nose. Haven't seen that movie in over 30 years..LOL

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1761.	Solve : Happy Birthday Flame ! !?
Answer» Have a GREAT ONE...WHEREVER you are ! !

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1762.	Solve : Windows 9 release date, news and rumors.?
Answer» Hardly news, But the rumors have some little hints that might mean something to you. You will have to decide if you want to continue with Microsoft producrs of just drop it altogether. Quote In January 2014, well-known Microsoft blogger Paul Thurrott said he believes the company plans to release Windows 9 (codenamed Threshold) in April 2015, less than THREE years after Windows 8. The thinking appears to be that the Windows 8 name is now too tarnished and that - in contrast to Reller's comments above - Microsoft wishes to clear things out by releasing Windows 9 instead. Source: Windows 9 release date, news and rumors The article also hints that it is not an improvement to windows 8. Instead, an improvement to Windows 7. What? -- Yeah, he said that. Remember the Sy Fi android called '7 of 9'? Most articles of this nature are just a writer making things up as they go along so they can push out another column. It's links to speculative information and nothing more. Quote Remember the Sy Fi android called '7 of 9'? seven of nine tertiary adjunct of Unimatrix zero-one wasn't a android, she was a Borg who was freed from the collective on Star Trek Voyager. A somewhat poorly considered character that ended up being exploited entirely for fanservice crap. Not to mention her Ocular implant BECAME the magic tech that would be woven into more plotlines that she could very well have been inspector gadget. It was like Geordi Laforge's Visor from Star Trek:TNG, which apparently could be turned into a bomb, a phaser, a detonator, a force field generator, or a time machine. If reality was anything like Star Trek I'd be able to turn my MP3 player into a phaser by fiddling with it at random and then bombarding it with some exotic radiation, At which point it would explode at the most inopportune time later. Of course, in Star Trek's universe, Starships are built with consoles that explode, and entertainment MACHINES that constantly put thousands of people in mortal danger. But I digress rather heavily. Like OMG bits of cheeto come flying out my mouth as I talk with my mouth full how can somebody not know that? It's almost like you have something better to do with your time or something than watch poorly written science fiction television series.I thought she was pretty sharp looking myself... As BC said, these sort of articles are just people guessing and making very vague statements as to what Windows 9 will do purely so they can PUBLISH something that will gain a lot of traffic. Quote from: Geek-9pm on May 17, 2014, 11:41:23 PM The article also hints that it is not an improvement to windows 8. Instead, an improvement to Windows 7. What? -- Yeah, he said that. Where? From what I see the article states quite the opposite.

1762.

Solve : Windows 9 release date, news and rumors.?

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Hardly news, But the rumors have some little hints that might mean something to you. You will have to decide if you want to continue with Microsoft producrs of just drop it altogether.
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In January 2014, well-known Microsoft blogger Paul Thurrott said he believes the company plans to release Windows 9 (codenamed Threshold) in April 2015, less than THREE years after Windows 8.

The thinking appears to be that the Windows 8 name is now too tarnished and that - in contrast to Reller's comments above - Microsoft wishes to clear things out by releasing Windows 9 instead.

Source:
Windows 9 release date, news and rumors

The article also hints that it is not an improvement to windows 8. Instead, an improvement to Windows 7. What? -- Yeah, he said that.

Remember the Sy Fi android called '7 of 9'? Most articles of this nature are just a writer making things up as they go along so they can push out another column. It's links to speculative information and nothing more.

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Remember the Sy Fi android called '7 of 9'?

seven of nine tertiary adjunct of Unimatrix zero-one wasn't a android*, she was a Borg who was freed from the collective on Star Trek Voyager. A somewhat poorly considered character that ended up being exploited entirely for fanservice crap. Not to mention her Ocular implant BECAME the magic tech that would be woven into more plotlines that she could very well have been inspector gadget. It was like Geordi Laforge's Visor from Star Trek:TNG, which apparently could be turned into a bomb, a phaser, a detonator, a force field generator, or a time machine. If reality was anything like Star Trek I'd be able to turn my MP3 player into a phaser by fiddling with it at random and then bombarding it with some exotic radiation, At which point it would explode at the most inopportune time later.

Of course, in Star Trek's universe, Starships are built with consoles that explode, and entertainment MACHINES that constantly put thousands of people in mortal danger.

But I digress rather heavily.

*Like OMG *bits of cheeto come flying out my mouth as I talk with my mouth full* how can somebody not know that? It's almost like you have something better to do with your time or something than watch poorly written science fiction television series.I thought she was pretty sharp looking myself...

As BC said, these sort of articles are just people guessing and making very vague statements as to what Windows 9 will do purely so they can PUBLISH something that will gain a lot of traffic.

Quote from: Geek-9pm on May 17, 2014, 11:41:23 PM

The article also hints that it is not an improvement to windows 8. Instead, an improvement to Windows 7. What? -- Yeah, he said that.

Where? From what I see the article states quite the opposite.

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1763.	Solve : 3D printing: New Ideas?
Answer» Hey, it is not news. So I put it here in off topic. A number of firms use 3D printing in WAYS you may find very starange. GE: General Electric made big investments in 3D printing in their quest to produce more than 85,000 fuel nozzles for the new Leap jet engines. The printers can make the nozzles in one metal piece and the finished product is stronger and lighter than the ones made in the traditional assembly line... Boeing: The airline company was one of the early adopters of 3D printing technology, and has made more than 20,000 3D printed parts for 10 different military and commercial planes. The 787 Dreamliner has 30 3D printed parts, including air ducts and hinges, which is a record for the industry.... Ford: Ford made engine covers for the 2015 Ford Mustang with 3D printers. The auto company has been using 3D printing technology since the 1980s and recently printed its 500,000th PART with a 3D printer, which was an engine cover ... Nike: Nike REPORTED 13% growth for its latest quarter. CEO Mark Parker has previously stated that 3D printing technology has been a big boost for the company recently. Nike made 3D printed CLEATS for the 2014 Super Bowl. Hershey's: Read Moore: www.techrepublic.com/article/3d-printing-10-companies-using-it-in-ground-breaking-waysThe biggest thing with these printers are that they are not very fast at creating products. At least the ones I have seen are slow. I suppose if you had 1000 of these running, you could make 1000 parts in a given period of time that it takes to make 1 partHershey's looks to me to be the most promising...

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1764.	Solve : SuperStorm of May 18 . Real video.?
Answer» The US has got HIT with some freak whether. Here is a video of a Super-Storm of May 18 . It is a time-lapse photography that looks like a video TRAILER for a Sci-Fri movie.. http://news.discovery.com/earth/weather-extreme-events/amazing-supercell-storm-captured-in-time-lapse-video-140520.htm Quote The super cell storm seen near NEWCASTLE, Wyoming. Looking like a scene from some apocalyptic Hollywood movie, a storm captured on time-lapse film over northeast Wyoming on Sunday is utterly jaw-dropping. The video captured by Basehunters, a storm-chasing team originally based in Norman, Okla., shows a rare kind of thunderstorm KNOWN as a supercell. These storms feature a spinning updraft which, in this case, created an enormous, towering mass of clouds. "Superstore" ? ?Quote from: patio on May 20, 2014, 08:16:49 PM "Superstore" ? ? Super-Storm. The spell checker did it. Edit: Fixed it. Now it is 'Super-Storm' per the spell checker.

1764.

Solve : SuperStorm of May 18 . Real video.?

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The US has got HIT with some freak whether. Here is a video of a Super-Storm of May 18 . It is a time-lapse photography that looks like a video TRAILER for a Sci-Fri movie..
http://news.discovery.com/earth/weather-extreme-events/amazing-supercell-storm-captured-in-time-lapse-video-140520.htm
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The super cell storm seen near NEWCASTLE, Wyoming.

Looking like a scene from some apocalyptic Hollywood movie, a storm captured on time-lapse film over northeast Wyoming on Sunday is utterly jaw-dropping.

The video captured by Basehunters, a storm-chasing team originally based in Norman, Okla., shows a rare kind of thunderstorm KNOWN as a supercell. These storms feature a spinning updraft which, in this case, created an enormous, towering mass of clouds.

"Superstore" ? ?Quote from: patio on May 20, 2014, 08:16:49 PM

"Superstore" ? ?

Super-Storm. The spell checker did it.

Edit: Fixed it. Now it is 'Super-Storm' per the spell checker.

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1765.	Solve : Right to Left script is important t o System Programmers.?
Answer» Not sure where so post this. For some of us, this is important. Right to Left script is important t o System Programmers. RTL WRITING starts from the right of the page and continues to the left. Examples: Arabic, Persian and Urdu Hebrew alphabet Syriac alphabet Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Some are also top-to-bottom. Right-to-left, top-to-bottom text is supported in common CONSUMER software. Often this support must be explicitly enabled. For mixing right-to-left text with left-to-right text, see bi-directional text. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left If you work in IT, someday you may have to deal with a RTL application. Presently, HTML does not have a RTL thing. Doing RTL for mobile apps is not as easy as you MIGHT think. Of special interest is the attention GOOGLE is now giving to the RTL problem. They have announced hgt the Android OS will give more support to RTL. Think about it. Nearly a third of the world lives in a country whee RTL is the standard script. Here is the news from Google reported in PC magazine. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2458338,00.asp RTL or LTR, personally I feel that it can be user preference and if the compiler needs to see it as a specific RTL or LTR, there would be a formatting tool that would CONVERT RTL to LTR or LTR to RTL to make it as flexable to programmer preference as possible. Something like this could actually be a regional option during the installation of the IDE etc. To me it seems almost as easy to implement as a language preference.Applications are not RTL or LTR. Right-To-Left has been supported by the internationalization features of Windows since Windows 98, and applications receive some of these benefits "free". Of course Applications that explicitly support RTL configurations do a much better job than the automatic capabilities Windows attempts to provide. It's similar to support for high DPI, something which I've become acutely aware is lacking since I got this 1440p Monitor. Basically Windows tries to provide support but if an Application explicitly supports it it can do a better job.

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1766.	Solve : How Microsfot has stopped Linux.?
Answer» Yea. How Microsfot has stopped Linux. This is not a new story. It is now three years old. Hardly anybody paid attention. This is what has happened. Moist new Desktops are pre built by the BIG companies. ASUS, Dell, Gateway, HP and IBM. And some others. All, come with Windows 8. The few exceptions prove the rules. FreeDOS? Really? The secure boot feature is turned on. By default. Many Linux newbies can not test out Linux on a new Desktop until they find how to disable the Secure Boot feature. Again, the few exceptions prove the rule. This has all but killed the future of Linux, except for the real die hards. And even they have trouble. Here is the old story: Microsoft to stop Linux, older Windows, from running on Windows 8 PCs ZDNet September 23, 2011 Before you contradict, go to any Linux forum and ask. If you want Linux, you have to build your own system or have it custom MADE. Orr use an old clunker. EDIT: In third world continues Linux is doing very well. Stop bringing this up, it's nonsense! Secure Boot is not a Microsoft technology, it's part of the UEFI specification. Windows 8 is the first OS to support Secure Boot but that doesn't stop Linux supporting it in the future, it is not a scheme by Microsoft to stop people using Linux. Quote This is not a new story. It is now three years old. Therefore it is pretty much irrelevant - Windows 8 was released almost a year after the article was written, all the article does is talk about some rumors about Secure Boot and claim it to be the end of the world to get people to read it - At the point when the Article was written there were no PCs shipping with Windows 8 or Secure Boot. Quote All, come with Windows 8. The few exceptions prove the rules. FreeDOS? Really? I explained this to you in a different thread. FreeDOS is not expected to be used, it's purely to meet a restriction that states the machine must ship with an OS. And it's hardly surprising that most new machines ship with Windows 8 since it's the current version of Windows. Quote The secure boot feature is turned on. By default The one correct thing you stated. Quote Many Linux newbies can not test out Linux on a new Desktop until they find how to disable the Secure Boot feature. It's one setting in the BIOS which takes all of 30 seconds to change. Quote This has all but killed the future of Linux, except for the real die hards. And even they have trouble. No it hasn't. Quote If you want Linux, you have to build your own system or have it custom made. Orr use an old clunker. Complete nonsense. My desktop is self built yes but my laptop isn't - It's a brand new Lenovo THINKPAD T440s which came with Windows 8 preinstalled and therefore has Secure Boot and a UEFI - Guess what OS it runs, Answer: Fedora 20 Linux. All it took was literally a few seconds to disable Secure Boot, alternatively I could just switch the UEFI into legacy. Quote In third world continues Linux is doing very well. Yes, because Linux is totally only used by people who can't AFFORD Windows. I MEAN, there is noone who just prefers it as an OS out there. Here's a Interesting Read on this topic.

1766.

Solve : How Microsfot has stopped Linux.?

Answer»

Yea. How Microsfot has stopped Linux.
This is not a new story. It is now three years old. Hardly anybody paid attention.
This is what has happened.
Moist new Desktops are pre built by the BIG companies. ASUS, Dell, Gateway, HP and IBM. And some others. All, come with Windows 8. The few exceptions prove the rules. FreeDOS? Really?

The secure boot feature is turned on. By default. Many Linux newbies can not test out Linux on a new Desktop until they find how to disable the Secure Boot feature. Again, the few exceptions prove the rule. This has all but killed the future of Linux, except for the real die hards. And even they have trouble.

Here is the old story:
Microsoft to stop Linux, older Windows, from running on Windows 8 PCs
ZDNet September 23, 2011

Before you contradict, go to any Linux forum and ask. If you want Linux, you have to build your own system or have it custom MADE. Orr use an old clunker.

EDIT: In third world continues Linux is doing very well.
Stop bringing this up, it's nonsense!

Secure Boot is not a Microsoft technology, it's part of the UEFI specification. Windows 8 is the first OS to support Secure Boot but that doesn't stop Linux supporting it in the future, it is not a scheme by Microsoft to stop people using Linux.

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This is not a new story. It is now three years old.

Therefore it is pretty much irrelevant - Windows 8 was released almost a year after the article was written, all the article does is talk about some rumors about Secure Boot and claim it to be the end of the world to get people to read it - At the point when the Article was written there were no PCs shipping with Windows 8 or Secure Boot.

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All, come with Windows 8. The few exceptions prove the rules. FreeDOS? Really?

I explained this to you in a different thread. FreeDOS is not expected to be used, it's purely to meet a restriction that states the machine must ship with an OS. And it's hardly surprising that most new machines ship with Windows 8 since it's the current version of Windows.

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The secure boot feature is turned on. By default

The one correct thing you stated.

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Many Linux newbies can not test out Linux on a new Desktop until they find how to disable the Secure Boot feature.

It's one setting in the BIOS which takes all of 30 seconds to change.

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This has all but killed the future of Linux, except for the real die hards. And even they have trouble.

No it hasn't.

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If you want Linux, you have to build your own system or have it custom made. Orr use an old clunker.

Complete nonsense. My desktop is self built yes but my laptop isn't - It's a brand new Lenovo THINKPAD T440s which came with Windows 8 preinstalled and therefore has Secure Boot and a UEFI - Guess what OS it runs, Answer: Fedora 20 Linux. All it took was literally a few seconds to disable Secure Boot, alternatively I could just switch the UEFI into legacy.

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In third world continues Linux is doing very well.

Yes, because Linux is totally only used by people who can't AFFORD Windows. I MEAN, there is noone who just prefers it as an OS out there. Here's a Interesting Read on this topic.

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1767.	Solve : Rachel Carson?
Answer» http://www.rachelcarson.org/Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson and PUBLISHED by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962.[1] The book documented the detrimental effects on the environment—particularly on birds—of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation and public officials of accepting industry claims unquestioningly. - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Today Google marks her 70th birthday. Here books on on Amazon.http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2012/09/05/rachel-carsons-deadly-fantasies/ Quote Carson’s proselytizing and advocacy raised substantial anxiety about DDT and led to bans in most of the world and to restrictions on other chemical pesticides. But the fears she raised were based on gross misrepresentations and scholarship so atrocious that, if Carson were an academic, she would be guilty of egregious academic misconduct. Her observations about DDT have been condemned by many scientists. In the words of Professor Robert H. White-Stevens, an agriculturist and biology professor at Rutgers University, “If man were to follow the teachings of Miss Carson, we would return to the Dark Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again inherit the earth.” BC_Programmer, Very true. Her logic was not academic. All who want to protest can sniff a can of DDT. Google search 'DDT is good for me' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhkRXPd2AdA I don't even...Yeah. Overt half of the people reading this are under 40 years of age and haver no idea what went on 60 years ago. Really. Back then there were magazine articles telling peoplk to wash the heads of lice-infected children using DDT. A young toady in my doctor's office today want not even sure of want DDT was or is. DDT - A Brief History and Status Quote Development of DDT This page summarizes EPA's activities regarding the pesticide DDT. Links to related and historical information are below. DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) was developed as the first of the modern SYNTHETIC insecticides in the 1940s. It was initially used with great effect to combat malaria, typhus, and the other insect-borne human diseases among both military and civilian populations and for insect control in crop and livestock production, institutions, HOMES, and gardens. DDT's quick success as a pesticide and broad use in the United States and other countries led to the development of resistance by many insect pest species. Regulation Due to Health and Environmental Effects The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal agency with responsibility of regulating pesticides before the formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, began regulatory actions in the late 1950s and 1960s to prohibit many of DDT's uses because of mounting evidence of the pesticide's declining benefits and environmental and toxicological effects. Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring in 1962 stimulated widespread public concern over the dangers of improper pesticide use and the need for better pesticide controls. Quote and link are from the US EPA. Quote Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring in 1962 stimulated widespread public concern over the dangers of improper pesticide use and the need for better pesticide controls. Yeah. Right. All it ended up doing was promoting the use of other Pesticides that don't last nearly as long and need to be re-applied more frequently and are no less dangerous to animals or the environment, sometimes even more so. It successfully condemned effectively any and all chemical insecticides and rejected the firmly established principle that products with known but small risks can offset far larger risks and provide a net safety benefit. Quote Carson’s disingenuous proselytizing spurred public pressure to ban DDT in many countries, with disastrous consequences: a lack of effective control of mosquitoes that carry malaria and other diseases. Malaria imposes huge costs on individuals, families and governments. It inflicts a crushing economic burden on malaria-endemic countries and impedes their economic growth. A study by the Harvard University Center for International Development estimated that a high incidence of malaria reduces economic growth by 1.3 percentage points each year. Compounded over the four decades since the first bans of DDT, that lost growth has made some of the world’s poorest countries an astonishing 40 percent poorer than had there been more effective mosquito control. Again, you are right. She did what she did. Overall, she is now considered the start of the modern environmental movement. This has been debated many times in the academic community and in scientific papers. A large body of works refute her ideas. Others contend that if she had been more moderate in her assertions, few people would have even notice. The facts are that widespread use of DDT has had impact on some wildlife. That leads us to the issue of either save a bird or feed a hungry child. Here is a list. Quote Literature Cited: Blus, L.J. 2003. Organochlorine Pesticides. In D.J. Hoffman, B.A. Rattner, G.A. Burton Jr, and J. Cairns Jr., eds. Handbook of Ecotoxicology, 2nd edition. Lewis Publishers, New York. p. 313- 340. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1952. Insects: The Yearbook of Agriculture. United States Government Printing Office, 780 p. Hotchkiss, N. and R.H. Pough. 1964. Effect on forest birds of DDT used for gypsy moth control in Pennsylvania. Journal of Wildlife Management 10: 202-207. Dewitt, J.B., J.V. Derby, and G.F. Mangan. 1955. DDT vs. wildlife. Relationships between quantities ingested, toxic effects and tissue storage. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 44: 22-24. Burden, E. H. W. J. 1956. A case of DDT poisoning in fish. Nature 178: 546-547. Barker, R.J. 1958. Notes on some ecological effects of DDT sprayed on elms. The Journal of Wildlife Management 22: 269-274. Ecobichon, DJ. 2001. Toxic Effects of Pesticides. In C.D. Klaasen, ed., Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: The basic science of poisons, 6th edition. McGraw-Hill, New York. p. 763-810. Blus, L.J. 2011. DDT, DDD, and DDE in Birds. In Environmental Contaminants in Biota: Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, 2nd edition. W.N. Beyer and J.P. Meador, eds. CRC Press, New York. p. 425-446. Beckvar, N. and G.R. Lotufo. 2011. DDT and other organohalogen pesticides in aquatic organisms. In Environmental Contaminants in Biota: Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, 2nd edition. W.N. Beyer and J.P. Meador, eds. CRC Press, New York. p. 47 – 101. Sparling D.W. 2010. Ecotoxicology of Organic Contaminants to Amphibians. In D.W. Sparling, G. Linder, C.A. Bishop, and S.K. Krest, eds. Ecotoxicology of amphibians and reptiles, 2nd edition. CRC Press, New York. p. 261-288. Gilliom, R.J., J.E. Barbash, C.G. Crawford, P.A. Hamilton, J.D. Martin, N. Nakagaki, L.H. Nowell, J.C. Scott, P.E. Stackelberg, G.P. Thelin, and D.M. Wolock. 2006. The Quality of our Nation's Waters – Pesticides in the Nation's Streams and Ground Water, 1992-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1291, 172 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2005/1291/ Gervais, J.A., D.K. Rosenberg, D.M. Fry, L. Trulio, and K.K. Sturm. 2000. Burrowing owls and agricultural pesticides: evaluation of RESIDUES and risks for three populations in California, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 19:337-343. King, K.A., B.J. Zaun, H.M. Schotborgh, and C. Hurt. 2003. DDE-induced eggshell thinning in white-faced ibis: a continuing problem in the western United States. The Southwestern Naturalist 48: 356-364. Burnett, L.J, K.J. Sorenson, J. Brandt, E.A. Sandhaus, D. Ciani, M. Clark, C. David, J. Theule, S. Kasielke, and R.W. Risebrough. 2013. Eggshell thinning and depressed hatching success of California condors reintroduced to central California. The Condor 115:477-491. But if you hate birds, none of the above matters. Malaria is still a big issue in much of the world. Should DDT Be Used to Combat Malaria? Quote DDT should be used "with caution" in combating malaria, a panel of scientists reported today May 4, 2009 \|By Marla Cone and Environmental Health News mosquito ©ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/CHRISTOPHER BADZIOCH A panel of scientists recommended today that the spraying of DDT in malaria-plagued Africa and Asia should be greatly reduced because people are exposed in their homes to high levels that may cause serious health effects. The scientists from the United States and South Africa said the insecticide, banned decades ago in most of the world, should only be used as a last resort in combating malaria. .. From Scientific American. It went on to add: Quote "Based on recent studies, we conclude that humans are exposed to DDT and DDE, that indoor residual spraying can result in substantial exposure and that DDT may pose a risk for human populations," the scientists wrote in their consensus statement, published online today in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. That article was published five years ago. Of course the book by Carson was not about Malaria. It was about the possible harmful effects that DDT might have. Later some of here assertions were verified. As for malaria control, here is recent article that represent some current ideas and practices. Researchers test new ways of controlling malaria Sad to say, the site will not let me finish the article. That shows how much they care. Quote from: Geek-9pm on May 28, 2014, 12:13:55 AM Again, you are right. She did what she did. Overall, she is now considered the start of the modern environmental movement. And whether that's a good thing in some sense is another question altogether. The fact that such a movement is based on a large foundation of lies, fabrications and poor logic is hardly a good thing. Quote Others contend that if she had been more moderate in her assertions, few people would have even notice. In other words what they are saying is, "She had to make up lie about how dangerous things are for people to think she was saying they were dangerous". Quote The facts are that widespread use of DDT has had impact on some wildlife. That leads us to the issue of either save a bird or feed a hungry child. How is that ever an issue? What kind of sick twisted morality would somebody need to have where that is actually any form of dilemma? Quote Should DDT Be Used to Combat Malaria?From Scientific American. It went on to add:That article was published five years ago. It says: "The pesticide accumulates in body tissues, particularly censored milk, and lingers in the environment for decades." I can't seem to find the source research for this claim. I do, however, find it suspicious that it is mentioned to have this effect in Rachel's Book. There is no way she did any particularly scientific study on it, if the "source" of later information is that book it should be re-evaluated I think. Of course DDT is poison, but the poison is in the dose here. DDT does stick around longer but this also means it can be used with a more controlled application. The problem back then was using it for so many things, and in such liberal amounts. Smaller amounts are non-toxic- this cannot be said of the larger and more frequently applied pesticides that have come to replace DDT. In many ways the alternatives are worse than the chemical thy are intended to replace. Quote Of course the book by Carson was not about Malaria. It was about the possible harmful effects that DDT might have. Later some of here assertions were verified. I actually am not able to find that verification. The articles that state the same things do not source any research papers. It's possible some of the repetitions of the same assertions might actually just be repetitions of that information, on the assumption that the book was scientifically sound. I think we can agree if it is indeed the case that these verifications are just folks citing her without any original research that they aren't really acceptable. Primarily I'm not saying we should use DDT, but rather that the alternatives are often worse, and so we should really re-evaluate the stigma we've associated with DDT and whether in the long term we receive a net gain. particularly considering DDT practically went from being unregulated and used in so many things to suddenly being banned and used in nearly nothing. Obviously large amounts of a poison that lasts a long time is a bad idea. But smaller, more measured applications could easily defy reaching toxic levels, even over a longer timespan. Choosing alternatives simply because they don't last as long often ignores what other possible harmful effects they might have. And basing an entire movement on assertions and emotionally charged, non-scientific garbage is being a poet, not a scientist.BC, I have had enough of your misrepresentations. begin sarcasm DDT is never safe in any amount. Do a "scientific test." Find a willing victim that you do not like much, dare him to drink a cup of DDT at 5% and you drink a cup of alcohol at 50%. Then both of you go t o the nearest ER and tell them what you did. end sarcasm . This post thread is about Rachel Carson, not about DDT. Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964 Here is more about here early life. http://womenshistory.about.com/od/carsonrachel/p/rachel_carson.htm Rachel Carson was born and grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. She dreamed of becoming a writer, and had her first story published in St. Nicholas when she was 10. She attended high school in Parnassas, Pennsylvania. Carson enrolled at the Pennsylvania College for Women (which later became Chatham College). She changed her major from English after taking a required biology course. She went on to complete an M.A. at Johns Hopkins University. Early Career: During summers, Carson worked at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, and taught at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins. In 1936, she took a job as a writer with the US Bureau of Fisheries (which later became the US Fish and Wildlife Service). Over the years she was promoted to staff biologist, and, in 1949, chief editor. First Book: Rachel Carson's father died in 1935, and she supported and lived with her mother from that time. In 1937 her sister died, and the sister's two daughters moved in with Rachel and her mother. Carson began writing magazine pieces about science to supplement her income. In 1941, she adapted one of those articles into a book, Under the Seawind, in which she tried to communicate the beauty and wonder of the oceans. First Bestseller: After the war ended, Carson had access to formerly classified scientific data about the oceans, and she worked for several years on another book. When The Sea Around Us was published in 1951, it became a bestseller -- 86 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, 39 weeks as the top seller. In 1952, she resigned from the Fish and Wildlife Service to focus on her writing. Another Book: In 1955, Carson published The Edge of the Sea. While successful -- 20 weeks on the best-seller list -- it did not do as well as her previous book. The Book "Silent Spring" came later. To make her point.she used hyperbole, a literary license to project an idea in a way that creates a vivid mental picture of some unlikely dreadful scenario. She already had the credentials and the background to do that. She was a good writer. And a scientist. About DDT. Here is a modern day response by some individual. Why was DDT banned. The chemicals killed insects effectively, yes, but such pesticides become more and more concentrated as they travel up the food chain. When birds like the peregrine falcon ate several different contaminated prey animals. they suddenly had huge concentrations of DDT in their body. Consequentially, the chemicals damaged their eggs so that the shells were too thin to protect the chicks, and the eggs would easily break at the slightest touch. The impact on peregrine falcons and many other animals led to the BANNING of the pesticide. There are many sources about why DDT was banned. Caron's book was just the start of an avalanche of option against the use of synthetic interstices. It was was not a lie. It was a warming given in a literally style that galvanizes ideas. It was not written as a scientific document, but she did have the training and education do so if she wished. The reason now given for the used of synthetic incidences is that it is cheap in terms of dollars. It is effective to build armies and destroy nations. More reading: http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/ddttech.pdf http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2014/jan/ddt-and-alzheimers Enough! Disclaimer. The section with sarcasm is dark humor and not to dome at home. I've seen enough... Topic Closed.

1767.

Solve : Rachel Carson?

Answer»
http://www.rachelcarson.org/Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson and PUBLISHED by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962.[1] The book documented the detrimental effects on the environment—particularly on birds—of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation and public officials of accepting industry claims unquestioningly.

- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Today Google marks her 70th birthday.

Here books on on Amazon.http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2012/09/05/rachel-carsons-deadly-fantasies/

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Carson’s proselytizing and advocacy raised substantial anxiety about DDT and led to bans in most of the world and to restrictions on other chemical pesticides. But the fears she raised were based on gross misrepresentations and scholarship so atrocious that, if Carson were an academic, she would be guilty of egregious academic misconduct. Her observations about DDT have been condemned by many scientists. In the words of Professor Robert H. White-Stevens, an agriculturist and biology professor at Rutgers University, “If man were to follow the teachings of Miss Carson, we would return to the Dark Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again inherit the earth.”

BC_Programmer,
Very true. Her logic was not academic.
All who want to protest can sniff a can of DDT.
Google search 'DDT is good for me'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhkRXPd2AdA
I don't even...Yeah. Overt half of the people reading this are under 40 years of age and haver no idea what went on 60 years ago. Really. Back then there were magazine articles telling peoplk to wash the heads of lice-infected children using DDT.
A young toady in my doctor's office today want not even sure of want DDT was or is.
DDT - A Brief History and Status

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Development of DDT
This page summarizes EPA's activities regarding the pesticide DDT. Links to related and historical information are below.
DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) was developed as the first of the modern SYNTHETIC insecticides in the 1940s. It was initially used with great effect to combat malaria, typhus, and the other insect-borne human diseases among both military and civilian populations and for insect control in crop and livestock production, institutions, HOMES, and gardens. DDT's quick success as a pesticide and broad use in the United States and other countries led to the development of resistance by many insect pest species.
Regulation Due to Health and Environmental Effects
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal agency with responsibility of regulating pesticides before the formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, began regulatory actions in the late 1950s and 1960s to prohibit many of DDT's uses because of mounting evidence of the pesticide's declining benefits and environmental and toxicological effects. Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring in 1962 stimulated widespread public concern over the dangers of improper pesticide use and the need for better pesticide controls.

Quote and link are from the US EPA.

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Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring in 1962 stimulated widespread public concern over the dangers of improper pesticide use and the need for better pesticide controls.

Yeah. Right. All it ended up doing was promoting the use of other Pesticides that don't last nearly as long and need to be re-applied more frequently and are no less dangerous to animals or the environment, sometimes even more so. It successfully condemned effectively any and all chemical insecticides and rejected the firmly established principle that products with known but small risks can offset far larger risks and provide a net safety benefit.

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Carson’s disingenuous proselytizing spurred public pressure to ban DDT in many countries, with disastrous consequences: a lack of effective control of mosquitoes that carry malaria and other diseases. Malaria imposes huge costs on individuals, families and governments. It inflicts a crushing economic burden on malaria-endemic countries and impedes their economic growth. A study by the Harvard University Center for International Development estimated that a high incidence of malaria reduces economic growth by 1.3 percentage points each year. Compounded over the four decades since the first bans of DDT, that lost growth has made some of the world’s poorest countries an astonishing 40 percent poorer than had there been more effective mosquito control.

Again, you are right. She did what she did. Overall, she is now considered the start of the modern environmental movement.
This has been debated many times in the academic community and in scientific papers. A large body of works refute her ideas. Others contend that if she had been more moderate in her assertions, few people would have even notice.

The facts are that widespread use of DDT has had impact on some wildlife. That leads us to the issue of either save a bird or feed a hungry child.

Here is a list.
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Literature Cited:

Blus, L.J. 2003. Organochlorine Pesticides. In D.J. Hoffman, B.A. Rattner, G.A. Burton Jr, and J. Cairns Jr., eds. Handbook of Ecotoxicology, 2nd edition. Lewis Publishers, New York. p. 313- 340.

U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1952. Insects: The Yearbook of Agriculture. United States Government Printing Office, 780 p.

Hotchkiss, N. and R.H. Pough. 1964. Effect on forest birds of DDT used for gypsy moth control in Pennsylvania. Journal of Wildlife Management 10: 202-207.

Dewitt, J.B., J.V. Derby, and G.F. Mangan. 1955. DDT vs. wildlife. Relationships between quantities ingested, toxic effects and tissue storage. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 44: 22-24.

Burden, E. H. W. J. 1956. A case of DDT poisoning in fish. Nature 178: 546-547.

Barker, R.J. 1958. Notes on some ecological effects of DDT sprayed on elms. The Journal of Wildlife Management 22: 269-274.

Ecobichon, DJ. 2001. Toxic Effects of Pesticides. In C.D. Klaasen, ed., Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: The basic science of poisons, 6th edition. McGraw-Hill, New York. p. 763-810.

Blus, L.J. 2011. DDT, DDD, and DDE in Birds. In Environmental Contaminants in Biota: Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, 2nd edition. W.N. Beyer and J.P. Meador, eds. CRC Press, New York. p. 425-446.

Beckvar, N. and G.R. Lotufo. 2011. DDT and other organohalogen pesticides in aquatic organisms. In Environmental Contaminants in Biota: Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, 2nd edition. W.N. Beyer and J.P. Meador, eds. CRC Press, New York. p. 47 – 101.

Sparling D.W. 2010. Ecotoxicology of Organic Contaminants to Amphibians. In D.W. Sparling, G. Linder, C.A. Bishop, and S.K. Krest, eds. Ecotoxicology of amphibians and reptiles, 2nd edition. CRC Press, New York. p. 261-288.

Gilliom, R.J., J.E. Barbash, C.G. Crawford, P.A. Hamilton, J.D. Martin, N. Nakagaki, L.H. Nowell, J.C. Scott, P.E. Stackelberg, G.P. Thelin, and D.M. Wolock. 2006. The Quality of our Nation's Waters – Pesticides in the Nation's Streams and Ground Water, 1992-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1291, 172 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2005/1291/

Gervais, J.A., D.K. Rosenberg, D.M. Fry, L. Trulio, and K.K. Sturm. 2000. Burrowing owls and agricultural pesticides: evaluation of RESIDUES and risks for three populations in California, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 19:337-343.

King, K.A., B.J. Zaun, H.M. Schotborgh, and C. Hurt. 2003. DDE-induced eggshell thinning in white-faced ibis: a continuing problem in the western United States. The Southwestern Naturalist 48: 356-364.

Burnett, L.J, K.J. Sorenson, J. Brandt, E.A. Sandhaus, D. Ciani, M. Clark, C. David, J. Theule, S. Kasielke, and R.W. Risebrough. 2013. Eggshell thinning and depressed hatching success of California condors reintroduced to central California. The Condor 115:477-491.

But if you hate birds, none of the above matters.
Malaria is still a big issue in much of the world.

Should DDT Be Used to Combat Malaria?
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DDT should be used "with caution" in combating malaria, a panel of scientists reported today
May 4, 2009 |By Marla Cone and Environmental Health News
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A panel of scientists recommended today that the spraying of DDT in malaria-plagued Africa and Asia should be greatly reduced because people are exposed in their homes to high levels that may cause serious health effects.

The scientists from the United States and South Africa said the insecticide, banned decades ago in most of the world, should only be used as a last resort in combating malaria. ..

From Scientific American. It went on to add:
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"Based on recent studies, we conclude that humans are exposed to DDT and DDE, that indoor residual spraying can result in substantial exposure and that DDT may pose a risk for human populations," the scientists wrote in their consensus statement, published online today in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

That article was published five years ago.

Of course the book by Carson was not about Malaria. It was about the possible harmful effects that DDT might have. Later some of here assertions were verified.
As for malaria control, here is recent article that represent some current ideas and practices.
Researchers test new ways of controlling malaria
Sad to say, the site will not let me finish the article.
That shows how much they care.

Quote from: Geek-9pm on May 28, 2014, 12:13:55 AM

Again, you are right. She did what she did. Overall, she is now considered the start of the modern environmental movement.

And whether that's a good thing in some sense is another question altogether. The fact that such a movement is based on a large foundation of lies, fabrications and poor logic is hardly a good thing.
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Others contend that if she had been more moderate in her assertions, few people would have even notice.

In other words what they are saying is, "She had to make up lie about how dangerous things are for people to think she was saying they were dangerous".

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The facts are that widespread use of DDT has had impact on some wildlife. That leads us to the issue of either save a bird or feed a hungry child.

How is that ever an issue? What kind of sick twisted morality would somebody need to have where that is actually any form of dilemma?

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Should DDT Be Used to Combat Malaria?From Scientific American. It went on to add:That article was published five years ago.

It says: "The pesticide accumulates in body tissues, particularly *censored* milk, and lingers in the environment for decades."

I can't seem to find the source research for this claim. I do, however, find it suspicious that it is mentioned to have this effect in Rachel's Book. There is no way she did any particularly scientific study on it, if the "source" of later information is that book it should be re-evaluated I think.

Of course DDT is poison, but the poison is in the dose here. DDT does stick around longer but this also means it can be used with a more controlled application. The problem back then was using it for so many things, and in such liberal amounts. Smaller amounts are non-toxic- this cannot be said of the larger and more frequently applied pesticides that have come to replace DDT. In many ways the alternatives are worse than the chemical thy are intended to replace.

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Of course the book by Carson was not about Malaria. It was about the possible harmful effects that DDT might have. Later some of here assertions were verified.

I actually am not able to find that verification. The articles that state the same things do not source any research papers. It's possible some of the repetitions of the same assertions might actually just be repetitions of that information, on the assumption that the book was scientifically sound. I think we can agree if it is indeed the case that these verifications are just folks citing her without any original research that they aren't really acceptable.

Primarily I'm not saying we should use DDT, but rather that the alternatives are often worse, and so we should really re-evaluate the stigma we've associated with DDT and whether in the long term we receive a net gain. particularly considering DDT practically went from being unregulated and used in so many things to suddenly being banned and used in nearly nothing. Obviously large amounts of a poison that lasts a long time is a bad idea. But smaller, more measured applications could easily defy reaching toxic levels, even over a longer timespan. Choosing alternatives simply because they don't last as long often ignores what other possible harmful effects they might have. And basing an entire movement on assertions and emotionally charged, non-scientific garbage is being a poet, not a scientist.BC, I have had enough of your misrepresentations.
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DDT is never safe in any amount. Do a "scientific test." Find a willing victim that you do not like much, dare him to drink a cup of DDT at 5% and you drink a cup of alcohol at 50%. Then both of you go t o the nearest ER and tell them what you did.

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This post thread is about Rachel Carson, not about DDT.
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964
Here is more about here early life.
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/carsonrachel/p/rachel_carson.htm

Rachel Carson was born and grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. She dreamed of becoming a writer, and had her first story published in St. Nicholas when she was 10. She attended high school in Parnassas, Pennsylvania.

Carson enrolled at the Pennsylvania College for Women (which later became Chatham College). She changed her major from English after taking a required biology course. She went on to complete an M.A. at Johns Hopkins University.

Early Career:

During summers, Carson worked at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, and taught at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins. In 1936, she took a job as a writer with the US Bureau of Fisheries (which later became the US Fish and Wildlife Service). Over the years she was promoted to staff biologist, and, in 1949, chief editor.

First Book:

Rachel Carson's father died in 1935, and she supported and lived with her mother from that time. In 1937 her sister died, and the sister's two daughters moved in with Rachel and her mother.

Carson began writing magazine pieces about science to supplement her income. In 1941, she adapted one of those articles into a book, Under the Seawind, in which she tried to communicate the beauty and wonder of the oceans.

First Bestseller:

After the war ended, Carson had access to formerly classified scientific data about the oceans, and she worked for several years on another book. When The Sea Around Us was published in 1951, it became a bestseller -- 86 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, 39 weeks as the top seller. In 1952, she resigned from the Fish and Wildlife Service to focus on her writing.

Another Book:

In 1955, Carson published The Edge of the Sea. While successful -- 20 weeks on the best-seller list -- it did not do as well as her previous book.

The Book "Silent Spring" came later. To make her point.she used hyperbole, a literary license to project an idea in a way that creates a vivid mental picture of some unlikely dreadful scenario. She already had the credentials and the background to do that. She was a good writer. And a scientist.

About DDT. Here is a modern day response by some individual.
Why was DDT banned.
The chemicals killed insects effectively, yes, but such pesticides become more and more concentrated as they travel up the food chain. When birds like the peregrine falcon ate several different contaminated prey animals. they suddenly had huge concentrations of DDT in their body. Consequentially, the chemicals damaged their eggs so that the shells were too thin to protect the chicks, and the eggs would easily break at the slightest touch. The impact on peregrine falcons and many other animals led to the BANNING of the pesticide.

There are many sources about why DDT was banned. Caron's book was just the start of an avalanche of option against the use of synthetic interstices. It was was not a lie. It was a warming given in a literally style that galvanizes ideas. It was not written as a scientific document, but she did have the training and education do so if she wished.

The reason now given for the used of synthetic incidences is that it is cheap in terms of dollars. It is effective to build armies and destroy nations.

More reading:
http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/ddttech.pdf
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2014/jan/ddt-and-alzheimers
Enough!
Disclaimer. The section with sarcasm is dark humor and not to dome at home.
I've seen enough...

Topic Closed.

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1768.	Solve : Matrix Runs on Windows XP - YouTube?
Answer» Yeah, six years OLD, but still funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM Matrix RUNS on WINDOWS XP - YouTubeNews Editor POSITION still open for all APPLICANTS...

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1769.	Solve : Recent articles about DATA Theft.?
Answer» This is not earth-moving news, so I put it here. Recent articles about DATA Theft. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101739222 First case of Obamacare ID theft? Friday, 6 Jun 2014 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-02/russian-charged-with-running-100-million-data-theft-plot.html Russian Charged With Running $100 Million Data Theft Plot Jun 2, 2014 http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/cal-teen-jailed-arrest-240k-car-24053097 Teen Jailed After Renting $240K Car With Stolen Credit Card SANTA ROSA, Calif. June 9, 2014 (AP) http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26574161 Wm Morrison supermarket SUFFERS payroll data theft 14 March 2014 What really got my attention was the teen in Santa Rosa.

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1770.	Solve : Watch Phone Service Provider?
Answer» I've been searching the internet for phone service providers for watch phones but it's hardly mentioned. I keep Googling but all I get are cell phone service providers, mentioned Consumer Watch. AT&T services only one watch phone which costs $300 and find MANY on-line for under $100. Even C/NET has only one old article on a smartwatch but NOTHING about watch phones. So I don't know what choices I really have. Where can I find a way to compare all plans that COVER watch phones?Not likely you will find what your want. You are dither in North America or the UK. -Right? If so, you will find little. At this time, Watch Phones are the rage in South Korea. One example: http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/KR/watch-phone.html So it would seem that you have to live someplace where technology is more up to date. Perhaps that will change soon. In theory a watch phone is just a regular cellphone in a different case, therefore any plan that works on an unlocked handset should work on a watch phone. Are you sure you are meaning a watch phone though as these are very uncommon and not popular at all. Nowadays the real trend is with smart watches which would connect to a regular cellphone over Bluetooth therefore eliminating the need to have a separate plan for the watch itself.camerongray is right. The point I was trying g to make is that it matters where you buy and use it. The US, the UK , Japan and Asia all have desperate cell systems. A watch phone does not have a case large enough to hold an effective antenna. So it will only work at close range to a cell or a Bluetooth repeater. Here is a general GUIDE: Smartwatch Buying Guide: 8 Things You Need to Know Quote The battle for your wrist is on. From big names like Samsung and Sony to upstarts like Pebble and Martian, more than a dozen companies are creating smartwatches to serve as your smartphone companion. While features and design vary, the main appeal of a smartwatch is to deliver notifications to your wrist (including calls, texts, email and social UPDATES), so you can decide whether it's worth whipping out your phone to respond. In other words, smartwatches can save you time — but there's a lot more to this emerging category. ... Notice the phrase "your smartphone companion" in the above quote.

1770.

Solve : Watch Phone Service Provider?

Answer»

I've been searching the internet for phone service providers for watch phones but it's hardly mentioned. I keep Googling but all I get are cell phone service providers, mentioned Consumer Watch. AT&T services only one watch phone which costs $300 and find MANY on-line for under $100. Even C/NET has only one old article on a smartwatch but NOTHING about watch phones. So I don't know what choices I really have. Where can I find a way to compare all plans that COVER watch phones?Not likely you will find what your want.
You are dither in North America or the UK. -Right? If so, you will find little.
At this time, Watch Phones are the rage in South Korea.
One example:
http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/KR/watch-phone.html
So it would seem that you have to live someplace where technology is more up to date. Perhaps that will change soon.

In theory a watch phone is just a regular cellphone in a different case, therefore any plan that works on an unlocked handset should work on a watch phone. Are you sure you are meaning a watch phone though as these are very uncommon and not popular at all.

Nowadays the real trend is with smart watches which would connect to a regular cellphone over Bluetooth therefore eliminating the need to have a separate plan for the watch itself.camerongray is right. The point I was trying g to make is that it matters where you buy and use it. The US, the UK , Japan and Asia all have desperate cell systems.
A watch phone does not have a case large enough to hold an effective antenna. So it will only work at close range to a cell or a Bluetooth repeater.

Here is a general GUIDE:

Smartwatch Buying Guide: 8 Things You Need to Know

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The battle for your wrist is on. From big names like Samsung and Sony to upstarts like Pebble and Martian, more than a dozen companies are creating smartwatches to serve as your smartphone companion. While features and design vary, the main appeal of a smartwatch is to deliver notifications to your wrist (including calls, texts, email and social UPDATES), so you can decide whether it's worth whipping out your phone to respond. In other words, smartwatches can save you time — but there's a lot more to this emerging category. ...

Notice the phrase "your smartphone companion" in the above quote.

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1771.	Solve : Did Google and Yahoo make a deal with the Devil??
Answer» Got your attention. Hey, this is Off Topic. The full title of the article is: How MANY people here knew that Google is partnered with Israeli malware producer. This was posted about four months ago. To date nobody gave a conniving rebuttal. Quote The firm points out both Perion and reverse merger partner Conduit have two-year deals in place with Google, and that Perion also has a 4-year deal (inked earlier this year) with Yahoo. The toolbars bundled by companies such as Babylon, Perion, and AVG have often been CRITICIZED as "foistware" that users wind up unintentionally installing, and sometimes have trouble removing. Perion's two main consumer brands are IncrediMail and Smilebox. The company's products have had over 150 million downloads and have an installation base of more than 18 million. The company's stock rose in value early in 2013 due to strong growth forecasts.[1] This growth is primarily the result of the adware and malware programs it distributes, among them Incredibar (a web SEARCH toolbar) and SweetIM (an instant messaging program), which are very difficult to remove after installation. Source: https://duck.co/forum/thread/5121/how-many-people-here-knew-that-google-is-partnered This can not be fully verified. But the story is repeated on many sites. Some say that even Yahoo and Bing made deals with the malware people. What is the truth? Curious minds need to know.You should be PC News editor at Yahoo or Bing...not here though.There is nothing wrong with Conduit. Trust me when I say that I have been in and witnessed MANY conversations about Conduit over the years. At first (10 years ago?) Conduit was spyware and it was immediately black listed by every security vendor. It took Conduit about 6 months before they saw the light and cleaned up the software. Since then they have been de-listed as malware and considered safe. It's not the first time Conduit and Google have had a deal and Microsoft also has (had?) a deal with Conduit. Conduit Dumps Google Search for Microsoft's Bing Some things people will just never let go of. The STIGMA of "cookies are spyware" will always be there. Ask.com is no longer a threat but they have a permanent black eye. iObit has corrected their bad behavior but will always be hated. The Norton/Symantec of today is one of the best security suites available but the past still haunts them. And on and on. Conduit is one of the infamous companies that made mistakes and that the internet will never forget or forgive them for it.The Internet never forgets...Quote To date nobody gave a conniving rebuttal. Occam's Razor. That Google, or Yahoo, or any number of other multinational companies would purposely partner with software vendors that create malware is an extraordinary one. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The source and it's links show that Perion merged with Conduit. Ther eis a link leading to this page. Of course the claims, as you've said, cannot be verified. More importantly, nothing indicates a partnership. a "Cooperation agreement" is not a partnership, and the ominous tone with which some of this information is revealed has no factual basis. And this is coming from somebody who is no fan of Google himself. Microsoft uses a lot of the same marketing strategies for Bing that smaller start-up search providers use. Since it's Microsoft they are considered 'aggressive' or 'shrewd' tactics. When you are a small nobody start-up those same tactics can be seen as underhanded or even malicious. I like to complain about toolbars just as much as the next guy-gal. That doesn't mean they are all dangerous or are not useful. TAKE a close look at all of your Firefox add-ons. Some are toolbars only they are compacted into a little button. A little button but still be a toolbar.This is bad But Google has been known to be naughty and its not going to be the first time we read something bad about themI was thinking this thread was dead. But notice that Conduit is mentioned recently in the CH virus forum. And other place where they talk about malware. Also, even Apple Mac users have Conduit issues. For those that believe Conduit is OK, just go download anything off of CNET and see what happens to your default browser search settings. The fatal flaw of Conduit is it is free to alter and re-distribute. Some abuse it and some don't. CNET uses an install wrapper that is created by and distributed by CNET and it can be disabled. Not that I would ever suggest using CNET as a download source. They lost my trust well before the addition of the install wrapper.

1771.

Solve : Did Google and Yahoo make a deal with the Devil??

Answer»

Got your attention. Hey, this is Off Topic.
The full title of the article is:
How MANY people here knew that Google is partnered with Israeli malware producer.
This was posted about four months ago. To date nobody gave a conniving rebuttal.
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The firm points out both Perion and reverse merger partner Conduit have two-year deals in place with Google, and that Perion also has a 4-year deal (inked earlier this year) with Yahoo.

The toolbars bundled by companies such as Babylon, Perion, and AVG have often been CRITICIZED as "foistware" that users wind up unintentionally installing, and sometimes have trouble removing.

Perion's two main consumer brands are IncrediMail and Smilebox. The company's products have had over 150 million downloads and have an installation base of more than 18 million. The company's stock rose in value early in 2013 due to strong growth forecasts.[1] This growth is primarily the result of the adware and malware programs it distributes, among them Incredibar (a web SEARCH toolbar) and SweetIM (an instant messaging program), which are very difficult to remove after installation.

Source:
https://duck.co/forum/thread/5121/how-many-people-here-knew-that-google-is-partnered
This can not be fully verified. But the story is repeated on many sites. Some say that even Yahoo and Bing made deals with the malware people.
What is the truth?
Curious minds need to know.You should be PC News editor at Yahoo or Bing...not here though.There is nothing wrong with Conduit.

Trust me when I say that I have been in and witnessed MANY conversations about Conduit over the years. At first (10 years ago?) Conduit was spyware and it was immediately black listed by every security vendor. It took Conduit about 6 months before they saw the light and cleaned up the software. Since then they have been de-listed as malware and considered safe.

It's not the first time Conduit and Google have had a deal and Microsoft also has (had?) a deal with Conduit. Conduit Dumps Google Search for Microsoft's Bing

Some things people will just never let go of. The STIGMA of "cookies are spyware" will always be there. Ask.com is no longer a threat but they have a permanent black eye. iObit has corrected their bad behavior but will always be hated. The Norton/Symantec of today is one of the best security suites available but the past still haunts them. And on and on.

Conduit is one of the infamous companies that made mistakes and that the internet will never forget or forgive them for it.The Internet never forgets...Quote

To date nobody gave a conniving rebuttal.

Occam's Razor.

That Google, or Yahoo, or any number of other multinational companies would purposely partner with software vendors that create malware is an extraordinary one.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The source and it's links show that Perion merged with Conduit.

Ther eis a link leading to this page. Of course the claims, as you've said, cannot be verified. More importantly, nothing indicates a partnership. a "Cooperation agreement" is not a partnership, and the ominous tone with which some of this information is revealed has no factual basis.
And this is coming from somebody who is no fan of Google himself.

Microsoft uses a lot of the same marketing strategies for Bing that smaller start-up search providers use. Since it's Microsoft they are considered 'aggressive' or 'shrewd' tactics. When you are a small nobody start-up those same tactics can be seen as underhanded or even malicious.

I like to complain about toolbars just as much as the next guy-gal. That doesn't mean they are all dangerous or are not useful. TAKE a close look at all of your Firefox add-ons. Some are toolbars only they are compacted into a little button. A little button but still be a toolbar.This is bad

But Google has been known to be naughty and its not going to be the first time we read something bad about themI was thinking this thread was dead.
But notice that Conduit is mentioned recently in the CH virus forum. And other place where they talk about malware.

Also, even Apple Mac users have Conduit issues.

For those that believe Conduit is OK, just go download anything off of CNET and see what happens to your default browser search settings.

The fatal flaw of Conduit is it is free to alter and re-distribute. Some abuse it and some don't.

CNET uses an install wrapper that is created by and distributed by CNET and it can be disabled. Not that I would ever suggest using CNET as a download source. They lost my trust well before the addition of the install wrapper.

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1772.	Solve : MS Surface Mini Rumors. Who cares??
Answer» MS Surface Mini Rumors are true. I mean it is true that there are rumors. If MS really wanted the world to see the Mini Surface, the must have got cold feet. Which could mean that the prototype was very bad or that it was so bad that it never even got off the drawing board. Apparently it does not exist. Who even cares? The rumor was that it would be under the 8 inch size. Who wants a Windows 8 thing under 8 inches? Not me. If you don't care, just ignore this post. Quote from: Geek-9pm on June 26, 2014, 11:32:56 PM Who wants a Windows 8 thing under 8 inches? Not me. So you are the kind of gal who cares about size? I quite like the idea of a smaller Windows 8 tablet. For my needs a 10" or larger tablet is far too big, I need something I can easily carry to quickly use where my smartphone is too small, for that I have a Nexus 7 which works perfectly. It'll be interesting to see if this is an Intel system or another Windows RT system which at the moment has pretty limited app support compared to the likes of Android and iOS. You can already get 8" Windows 8 tablets like the Toshiba Encore which is a pretty nice looking Windows 8.1 tablet with an Intel Atom CPU, very cheap as well.You may like to hear it is now OFFICIAL... sort of. (Bing search today) http://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Ms+Mini+Surface&qpvt=MS+mini+surface&FORM=EWRE How would I pair it with my mini is I don't have one? ; Quote Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT ) Surface Mini was SUPPOSED to launch last month. The smaller version of Microsoft's tablet has been talked about for quite a while, and nearly all industry watchers expected it to be unveiled at the May PRESS event. It wasn't. At the last minute, management reportedly backtracked on its plans to unveil the DEVICE. CEO Satya Nadella and devices chief Stephen Elop didn't feel confident enough in the product's success, so they PULLED it at the eleventh hour. Instead, Microsoft erased all references to Surface Mini ahead of the event, and Surface head Panos Panay showed off the Surface Pro 3. ... Maybe if they make a 6 inch mini they can make a new OS and call it Windows 6.

1772.

Solve : MS Surface Mini Rumors. Who cares??

Answer»

MS Surface Mini Rumors are true.
I mean it is true that there are rumors.
If MS really wanted the world to see the Mini Surface, the must have got cold feet. Which could mean that the prototype was very bad or that it was so bad that it never even got off the drawing board. Apparently it does not exist.
Who even cares? The rumor was that it would be under the 8 inch size. Who wants a Windows 8 thing under 8 inches? Not me.
If you don't care, just ignore this post.

Quote from: Geek-9pm on June 26, 2014, 11:32:56 PM

Who wants a Windows 8 thing under 8 inches? Not me.

So you are the kind of gal who cares about size?
I quite like the idea of a smaller Windows 8 tablet. For my needs a 10" or larger tablet is far too big, I need something I can easily carry to quickly use where my smartphone is too small, for that I have a Nexus 7 which works perfectly. It'll be interesting to see if this is an Intel system or another Windows RT system which at the moment has pretty limited app support compared to the likes of Android and iOS.

You can already get 8" Windows 8 tablets like the Toshiba Encore which is a pretty nice looking Windows 8.1 tablet with an Intel Atom CPU, very cheap as well.You may like to hear it is now OFFICIAL... sort of.
(Bing search today)
http://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Ms+Mini+Surface&qpvt=MS+mini+surface&FORM=EWRE

How would I pair it with my mini is I don't have one? ;
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Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT ) Surface Mini was SUPPOSED to launch last month. The smaller version of Microsoft's tablet has been talked about for quite a while, and nearly all industry watchers expected it to be unveiled at the May PRESS event. It wasn't.
At the last minute, management reportedly backtracked on its plans to unveil the DEVICE. CEO Satya Nadella and devices chief Stephen Elop didn't feel confident enough in the product's success, so they PULLED it at the eleventh hour. Instead, Microsoft erased all references to Surface Mini ahead of the event, and Surface head Panos Panay showed off the Surface Pro 3.
...

Maybe if they make a 6 inch mini they can make a new OS and call it Windows 6.

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1773.	Solve : Super Hard Drive from Wasted Uranium?
Answer» If it works, super hard drives are coming son. This story is about two or three years old. The text below is copied from: http://www.dvice.com/archives/2011/05/your_next_hard.php Your next hard drive could be made of DEPLETED Uranium Single molecules made up of two uranium atoms are able to store a magnetic charge. The reason to care about this little physical quirk is that we might be able to use depleted uranium to create hard drives that are hundreds, or even thousands of times more DENSE than drives we have today. ... Scientists at the University of Nottingham, where the research was conducted, were careful to be buzzkills and say that "at this stage it is too early to say where this research might lead." It's pretty obvious, though, and it's not just about lots more storage in the same amount of space: it's also about the same amount of storage in a minuscule amount of space, making mobile electronics even more mobile. I like how the article says that it could be the future of hard drives and then quotes the researcher basically SAYING "don't expect it in future hard drives".Quote from: BC_Programmer on June 30, 2014, 07:32:18 PM I like how the article says that it could be the future of hard drives and then quotes the researcher basically saying "don't expect it in future hard drives". Right. Besides the technical problems, does the market really need bigger hard drives? What would you do with a smartphone that contained the entire library of congress? Quote The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with more than 158 million items on approximately 838 miles of bookshelves. But what if a super small super heavy metal Hard Drive was cheaper and faster than a SSD? For what it is worth, when this story first came out some people took it very seriously. Two more links published earlier. http://www.geek.com/chips/uranium-could-be-the-future-of-hard-drives-1354341/ http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109688-New-Uranium-Compound-Could-Lead-to-Atomic-Hard-Drives I think memristors are more likely to be used in future, at least in consumer devices. I think that memristors will be cheaper to manufacture than HDDs. Hard drive as an electro-mechanical device that requires precisely machined components, if memristors hit the mass market the manufacturing price could be lower than that of HDDs. Memristors should also use less power and they will practically be a system on a chip, EVERYTHING in one package. They are the future, at least for the portable devices. As for the HDDs, I think we really do need larger ones. I don't know about you Geek-9pm, but I've almost filled my 500 GB drive, I need more space. And think about data centers - how much more space will Facebook or Google need in the following years?Quote from: Geek-9pm on June 30, 2014, 10:57:03 PM does the market really need bigger hard drives? Maybe not right at the moment, current 4tb drives are generally large enough for most current uses, but in the future we will need larger drives, especially as video moves towards 4k which takes up significantly more disk space. Back in the 80s people said that a 100mb hard drive was massive and couldn't see why anyone would need more. Quote from: Geek-9pm on June 30, 2014, 10:57:03 PM But what if a super small super heavy metal Hard Drive was cheaper and faster than a SSD? If they were then that would be great, but as they are still mechanical objects this would be very difficult and you still get the issues of robustness which is one of the biggest benefits of an SSD - I can throw my laptop in a bag, carry it around and move it while it's running without fear of damaging a hard drive. I also like how the article talks about them being used in mobile devices. I can't see hard drives being used in future smartphones - They are fragile and having a disc spinning will not help their already poor battery life, not to mention the size compared to flash chips that can be soldered to a PCB and take up almost no space at all. I can't see any new hard drive technologies taking over from solid state due to all the benefits that SSDs have and how rapidly the price of them is decreasing. I also can't see SSDs killing hard drives completely any time soon, I can see them taking over in laptops and potentially desktop PCs but Hard Drives will be required for large amounts of storage for quite some time yet.Thank you all for you contributions to this thread. Not only are they looking at different materials for HDD technology, but also different mechanical structures. About variant mechanical devices. It has been shown that they can be made very small. Besides rotation devices, there are other ways to crate a moving magnetic element. A HDD has two rotation devices. One is constantly going around, wile the other strata and stops. They have tried variations of the speed and position to improve speed and reduce size. This, along with more dense recording media, could result in two or three orders of magnitude in size reduction. Very small mechanical devices are more robust. Think of insects. Quote from: Geek-9pm on July 01, 2014, 08:42:13 AM Very small mechanical devices are more robust. Think of insects. I'm not sure that is a good example of what you are trying to say, given that most insects don't live more than year, maybe two, with those living longer lifespans being the exception rather than the rule.Quote from: Geek-9pm on July 01, 2014, 08:42:13 AM Very small mechanical devices are more robust. Think of insects. Even the smallest mechanical device cannot be more robust than something with no moving parts at all. If we are going by insects now, compare an insect to a small stone. With hard drives nowadays, size is not important, They already go down to 1.8" in consumer machines and even smaller in CERTAIN cases, smartphones and tablets will continue to use solid state forms of storage. New technology is not to fit the same amount of data in a smaller drive, it is to fit more data in the same size of drive.The Rolling Stones compared to insects such as the Beatles have been far more robust...Quote from: patio on July 01, 2014, 11:37:44 AM The Rolling Stones compared to insects such as the Beatles have been far more robust... You win, Patio. Can't top that!

1773.

Solve : Super Hard Drive from Wasted Uranium?

Answer»

If it works, super hard drives are coming son.
This story is about two or three years old. The text below is copied from:
http://www.dvice.com/archives/2011/05/your_next_hard.php

Your next hard drive could be made of DEPLETED Uranium

Single molecules made up of two uranium atoms are able to store a magnetic charge. The reason to care about this little physical quirk is that we might be able to use depleted uranium to create hard drives that are hundreds, or even thousands of times more DENSE than drives we have today.
...
Scientists at the University of Nottingham, where the research was conducted, were careful to be buzzkills and say that "at this stage it is too early to say where this research might lead." It's pretty obvious, though, and it's not just about lots more storage in the same amount of space: it's also about the same amount of storage in a minuscule amount of space, making mobile electronics even more mobile.
I like how the article says that it could be the future of hard drives and then quotes the researcher basically SAYING "don't expect it in future hard drives".Quote from: BC_Programmer on June 30, 2014, 07:32:18 PM

I like how the article says that it could be the future of hard drives and then quotes the researcher basically saying "don't expect it in future hard drives".

Right. Besides the technical problems, does the market really need bigger hard drives? What would you do with a smartphone that contained the entire library of congress?
Quote

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with more than 158 million items on approximately 838 miles of bookshelves.

But what if a super small super heavy metal Hard Drive was cheaper and faster than a SSD?

For what it is worth, when this story first came out some people took it very seriously. Two more links published earlier.

http://www.geek.com/chips/uranium-could-be-the-future-of-hard-drives-1354341/

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109688-New-Uranium-Compound-Could-Lead-to-Atomic-Hard-Drives

I think memristors are more likely to be used in future, at least in consumer devices. I think that memristors will be cheaper to manufacture than HDDs. Hard drive as an electro-mechanical device that requires precisely machined components, if memristors hit the mass market the manufacturing price could be lower than that of HDDs. Memristors should also use less power and they will practically be a system on a chip, EVERYTHING in one package. They are the future, at least for the portable devices.

As for the HDDs, I think we really do need larger ones. I don't know about you Geek-9pm, but I've almost filled my 500 GB drive, I need more space. And think about data centers - how much more space will Facebook or Google need in the following years?Quote from: Geek-9pm on June 30, 2014, 10:57:03 PM

does the market really need bigger hard drives?

Maybe not right at the moment, current 4tb drives are generally large enough for most current uses, but in the future we will need larger drives, especially as video moves towards 4k which takes up significantly more disk space. Back in the 80s people said that a 100mb hard drive was massive and couldn't see why anyone would need more.

Quote from: Geek-9pm on June 30, 2014, 10:57:03 PM

But what if a super small super heavy metal Hard Drive was cheaper and faster than a SSD?

If they were then that would be great, but as they are still mechanical objects this would be very difficult and you still get the issues of robustness which is one of the biggest benefits of an SSD - I can throw my laptop in a bag, carry it around and move it while it's running without fear of damaging a hard drive.

I also like how the article talks about them being used in mobile devices. I can't see hard drives being used in future smartphones - They are fragile and having a disc spinning will not help their already poor battery life, not to mention the size compared to flash chips that can be soldered to a PCB and take up almost no space at all.

I can't see any new hard drive technologies taking over from solid state due to all the benefits that SSDs have and how rapidly the price of them is decreasing. I also can't see SSDs killing hard drives completely any time soon, I can see them taking over in laptops and potentially desktop PCs but Hard Drives will be required for large amounts of storage for quite some time yet.Thank you all for you contributions to this thread. Not only are they looking at different materials for HDD technology, but also different mechanical structures.

About variant mechanical devices. It has been shown that they can be made very small. Besides rotation devices, there are other ways to crate a moving magnetic element. A HDD has two rotation devices. One is constantly going around, wile the other strata and stops. They have tried variations of the speed and position to improve speed and reduce size. This, along with more dense recording media, could result in two or three orders of magnitude in size reduction.

Very small mechanical devices are more robust. Think of insects. Quote from: Geek-9pm on July 01, 2014, 08:42:13 AM

Very small mechanical devices are more robust. Think of insects.

I'm not sure that is a good example of what you are trying to say, given that most insects don't live more than year, maybe two, with those living longer lifespans being the exception rather than the rule.Quote from: Geek-9pm on July 01, 2014, 08:42:13 AM

Very small mechanical devices are more robust. Think of insects.

Even the smallest mechanical device cannot be more robust than something with no moving parts at all. If we are going by insects now, compare an insect to a small stone.

With hard drives nowadays, size is not important, They already go down to 1.8" in consumer machines and even smaller in CERTAIN cases, smartphones and tablets will continue to use solid state forms of storage. New technology is not to fit the same amount of data in a smaller drive, it is to fit more data in the same size of drive.The Rolling Stones compared to insects such as the Beatles have been far more robust...Quote from: patio on July 01, 2014, 11:37:44 AM

The Rolling Stones compared to insects such as the Beatles have been far more robust...

You win, Patio. Can't top that!

Discussion

1774.	Solve : Safe Social Networking Sites. -Where??
Answer» Yes, this is a question. My mailbox gets flooded from face book invitation from people I am sure I never knew. I do not want to make friends with absolute estranges. Rather, I want to be in CONTACT with people I have known and have lost contact. So, what social networking sites have some effective FILTERS to keep out the absolute estranges that want my money and not my camaraderie. Facebook is out. PLEASE don't say twitter. Bat all suggestions will be considered. But don't tell me you were my girl friend in the FOURTH grade. Google+ is one that is different than Facebook and allows you more CONTROLS. I havent gotten random invites yet on google+Thanks for the tip. I already have Google account,I will look and see what I need to do. EDIT: Just found this on Bing: http://bloggerspassion.com/google-plus-vs-facebook-will-google-be-able-to-beat-facebook-in-social-media-war/ Facebook has privacy settings, you can set it to only show your profile to people you have accepted as friends, in fact it does this as default for most of your stuff.

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1775.	Solve : Odd Baby names and Stupid Security?
Answer» Odd Baby Names. Th is from a published list,. but I added some of my own. Blaise, Black, Blakeley, Blakely Blaque, Bolivia, Bonanza, Brayden Farmer, FENNEL, Fife, Fifer, Finch, Finlay. Finley, Finn Quarntum, Quince, Quincy, Quinn Kelsey, Kennedy, Kenya Kenzie, Kerr, Kerry, Kieran, Kumquat Thanh, Theo, Tiernan, Tierney Timber, Toby, Tracy, Traveler Tristan, Tully, Tyler, Tyson Wallnut, Winslow, Winter, Wren Here are some of the stupid security question some idiot invented. What was the name of your first School? What is your Father's middle name? Can you believe it? What is the point of a secure password if a criminal mind can just GUESS ate the stupid questions. This is what In did. I didn't tell the truth. I made up some absurd names from r a list of odd names. And I wrote them down in a safe place. Use a random password that includes numbers and letters. Like: Quote E8>L9uh~V&Pg w{P{P4:;59ZE R WsCZSMC7f5n7 ZECYXHCX6 http://passwordsgenerator.net/ What I am saying is that it is more likely somebody will crack your security questions rather that your password. Do the math. In English that are only a limited number of names for people, places and things. Maybe 50,00 names. Just a four character password has over a million permutations. Take a vacation...There's also another site called http://www.mystrongpassword.com/ Its simple and fast for generating random, secure passwords. As far as stupid security GOES... i find it funny how so many give option for mothers maiden name as a security password reset question option from the drop down of questions. I have for years USED random characters alpha numeric with special characters etc for anything important, but for lesser important site registrations, i will usesomething less complex but never something that could be figured out in a dictionary of names, schools, streets, colors, etc to attack with far lesser combinations than that of something that is a mismatch to the question by far. But many people dont like having to keep a small notebook with all this info that is almost impossible to remember. But I dont mind it to be secure as can be. Also every site has a different password, and I use multiple e-mails so anyone getting an e-mail address cant successfully get into other sites with that e-mail with the same password that was used at a prior site etc. Also I use alias information with registrations that are not required by law to post true information. I say everyone should make an alias and use that for registrations that are not a violation of law to register with. I have 4 different alias's written down in a notebook that I use for different levels of security. Also when it comes to facebook its funny when family members wish me happy birthday on the wrong day, and the others question it who really know my birthday in private message. There was a cartoon my daughter use to watch some time ago that some cartoon kid had this Great Big Book of Everything in it...... I call my security book ... "The Great Big Book of Everything" ... LOL . ...... Just looked up that Cartoon called Stanley that she watched when she was much younger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_(2001_TV_series)Quote Odd Baby Names. Don't get me started! I have a thing about people using surnames as given names - Hunter, Tyler, Ryan, Brandon, Riley, McDonald, etc, made up names, especially with embedded capitals - ShaNora, KyLeisha, LaToya, McShayla, stupid names like Pepper, Brandi, Toni, and I kid you not, Jurnee. Also River and (seen on Oprah) Florette Flower Boom. However... Blaise is a French first name of respectable antiquity, e.g. the writer, scientist and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Kelsey - shared by Kelsey Grammer, who got it in 1955, although it has surged as a girls name in the last 30 years Theo - short for Theodore, a slightly old fashioned boy's name in Britain, not seen as odd here. Toby, Tristan - normal English names, although Tristan is German and used since the Middle Ages. Tracy is considered unisex in Britain, although I believe it is mainly a girl's name elsewhere. I heard one the other day, Racket Beauregard.

1775.

Solve : Odd Baby names and Stupid Security?

Answer»

Odd Baby Names. Th is from a published list,. but I added some of my own.

Blaise, Black, Blakeley, Blakely
Blaque, Bolivia, Bonanza, Brayden

Farmer, FENNEL, Fife, Fifer, Finch, Finlay. Finley, Finn
Quarntum, Quince, Quincy, Quinn

Kelsey, Kennedy, Kenya
Kenzie, Kerr, Kerry, Kieran, Kumquat

Thanh, Theo, Tiernan, Tierney
Timber, Toby, Tracy, Traveler
Tristan, Tully, Tyler, Tyson

Wallnut, Winslow, Winter, Wren

Here are some of the stupid security question some idiot invented.

What was the name of your first School?
What is your Father's middle name?

Can you believe it? What is the point of a secure password if a criminal mind can just GUESS ate the stupid questions. This is what In did. I didn't tell the truth. I made up some absurd names from r a list of odd names. And I wrote them down in a safe place.
Use a random password that includes numbers and letters.
Like:
Quote

E8>L9uh~V&Pg
w{P{P4:;59ZE R
WsCZSMC7f5n7
ZECYXHCX6

http://passwordsgenerator.net/

What I am saying is that it is more likely somebody will crack your security questions rather that your password. Do the math. In English that are only a limited number of names for people, places and things. Maybe 50,00 names. Just a four character password has over a million permutations.
Take a vacation...There's also another site called http://www.mystrongpassword.com/
Its simple and fast for generating random, secure passwords. As far as stupid security GOES... i find it funny how so many give option for mothers maiden name as a security password reset question option from the drop down of questions.

I have for years USED random characters alpha numeric with special characters etc for anything important, but for lesser important site registrations, i will usesomething less complex but never something that could be figured out in a dictionary of names, schools, streets, colors, etc to attack with far lesser combinations than that of something that is a mismatch to the question by far.

But many people dont like having to keep a small notebook with all this info that is almost impossible to remember. But I dont mind it to be secure as can be. Also every site has a different password, and I use multiple e-mails so anyone getting an e-mail address cant successfully get into other sites with that e-mail with the same password that was used at a prior site etc.

Also I use alias information with registrations that are not required by law to post true information. I say everyone should make an alias and use that for registrations that are not a violation of law to register with. I have 4 different alias's written down in a notebook that I use for different levels of security. Also when it comes to facebook its funny when family members wish me happy birthday on the wrong day, and the others question it who really know my birthday in private message.

There was a cartoon my daughter use to watch some time ago that some cartoon kid had this Great Big Book of Everything in it...... I call my security book ... "The Great Big Book of Everything" ... LOL . ...... Just looked up that Cartoon called Stanley that she watched when she was much younger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_(2001_TV_series)Quote

Odd Baby Names.

Don't get me started! I have a thing about people using surnames as given names - Hunter, Tyler, Ryan, Brandon, Riley, McDonald, etc, made up names, especially with embedded capitals - ShaNora, KyLeisha, LaToya, McShayla, stupid names like Pepper, Brandi, Toni, and I kid you not, Jurnee. Also River and (seen on Oprah) Florette Flower Boom.

However...

Blaise is a French first name of respectable antiquity, e.g. the writer, scientist and mathematician Blaise Pascal.

Kelsey - shared by Kelsey Grammer, who got it in 1955, although it has surged as a girls name in the last 30 years

Theo - short for Theodore, a slightly old fashioned boy's name in Britain, not seen as odd here.

Toby, Tristan - normal English names, although Tristan is German and used since the Middle Ages.

Tracy is considered unisex in Britain, although I believe it is mainly a girl's name elsewhere.

I heard one the other day, Racket Beauregard.

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1776.	Solve : Microsoft explains quantum computing?
Answer» This MIGHT hold your ATTENTION for an hour. Microsoft explains quantum computing in a way we can all understand

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1777.	Solve : The penultimate TV season is not free on Netflix.?
Answer» Begin dictation. Television series can be addictive, especially when you have Netflix or Hulu. Here is what happened to me. I get interested in a show that might have for five or six seasons. Then I get to the penultimate season. Of course, the last and current season is not going to be available for streaming because it is still being shown on television or cable. But what gets me is they even cut off the penultimate season. This gives me rather irritated because that's not made clear in the advertising from Netflix, Hulu or even Amazon. Am I the only one who feels he has been cheated? If I try going to the official website, they tell me I have to buy the entire season for something like $45. That's effectively about two dollars per episode. So I must wait a year,. Eventually the penultimate season will show up on one of the streaming sites. Meanwhile, I'm going to lose my interest in the show altogether. But maybe there's something I just don't understand. Is there a way to see this second last season for free? Is there some way to get out of actually buying the season from Amazon or some other such site that sells the episodes one by one? It just doesn't seem fair. It's like drug addiction. They GIVE you free samples and then you have to pay for the rest. No, I am not a drug addict. My addiction is watching television over my computer. Am I the only one? What can I do? Does it do any good to COMPLAIN? And no, I don't WANT to use any of those illegal sites for downloading stuff. Should I have posted this is Don's Bar and BEG for a cyber beer?

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1778.	Solve : Windows XP Service Pack 4?
Answer» SP4 is an unofficial rollup for SP3 + patches. So SP4 is SP4 with no other additional patches after required, unless Microsoft decides to RELEASE another patch outside of the support PERIOD which I highly doubt. SP4 = ( SP3 + All Patches to end of support ) Rolled up into a single SP4, which is unofficial and was CREATED by someone who was creative in making their own roll up / service PACK. So a system SP3 patched all the way forward is the same as a system patched to this so called SP4. I doubt that the system will report as being SP4, it will likely state SP3 even after SP4 is run.Below is a RELEVANT link http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/171171-introducing-unofficial-windows-xp-sp4/

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1779.	Solve : Nobody listens to Shortwave Radio anymore.?
Answer» Nobody listens to Shortwave Radio anymore. True? Apparently. List of English broadcasts in the USA is very slim. Except for religious groups that think normal people hear them. I could not find a list of non-government non-religion shortwave broadcaster in the USA. Which implies that nobody in the USA cares about shortwave broadcasting. Exception. There are some "pirates" that get on shortwave once in awhile just because they are not supposed to do it. Like on April Fools day. What do you thin? Never mind, you probably don't even care. Well, it's to be expected that the number of people listening to traditional analogue radio will have dropped due to the fact that the internet allows them to receive the same content in higher quality without specialised equipment. That said, shortwave radio listening is still alive and going strong. I am very interested in this sort of thing and actually regularly listen to shortwave radio as well as VHF and UHF bands. Modern TECHNOLOGY actually makes it better than ever through the use of Software Defined Radios (SDR). Rather than a traditional radio that uses analogue circuitry, an SDR samples the electromagnetic spectrum and sends the data to a computer for processing, this means that the hardware can be made cheaper as well as providing huge amounts of flexibility due to all the signal processing being done in software. Most of these radios cost hundreds however one type, known as the RTL-SDR (http://www.rtl-sdr.com/) can be found for under $20 - http://www.amazon.com/DVB-T-RTL2832U-RTL-SDR-Receiver-Compatible/dp/B00PDM76ZW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1444873632&sr=8-3&keywords=sdr. They are marketed as cheap TV tuners and are terrible for watching TV, however they are actually SDRs and when coupled with the appropriate software (I use SDR#) they can be used to listen to any frequency from around 25MHz all the way up to 1.8GHz. I then coupled mine with an upconverter (http://www.amazon.com/NooElec-Ham-Up-v1-3-Upconverter/dp/B009LQT3G6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444873729&sr=8-1&keywords=ham-it-up) which allows it to receive shortwave frequencies. Another benefit with SDRs is because they are connected to a PC, it is easy to decode all sorts of digital transmissions, simply feed the signal thorough an appropriate piece of software. I've used this to decode morse, RTTY, SSTV, weather fax images and much more! The other extremely cool things with SDRs is that because they can be connected to a computer, it is POSSIBLE to share them over the internet to allow other people to use them, an example of this is SDR at the University of Twente in the netherlands which allows you to listen to the entire HF (shortwave) radio spectrum from directly within your browser! This can be found here: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ One thing I regularly try to receive are so called "Numbers Stations" which broadcast encrypted messages to secret agents. These are particularly fun because they are possible to receive but are rather distant (often from Russia) so it can be a challenge to get a good RECEPTION. Here is a set of some recordings I made of these from a while back on my SDR setup: https://soundcloud.com/cameron-gray-39/sets/sdr-recordings This is the sort of view you get with the software, it shows all signals in its tuning range and lets you easily see what signals they are and then TUNE to them. You can even record a wideband signal which can include multiple stations and then later play back the recording and tune to the stations you want! As for my setup, here are some photos of what I have: http://imgur.com/a/bz6r1 SDR (black USB dongle), Upconverter (Blue PCB) attached to my homemade active whip antenna (for shortwave reception): Close up of the SDR dongle and upconverter board: Inside of the homemade active whip antenna for shortwave reception: Large homemade ~2m long off-centre fed dipole antenna for VHF/UHF reception: Ccamerongray, Wow. You are really into shortwave and VHF.UHF listening. Very nice photos of your equipment. While doing some research on BPL I can across some remarks to the effect that shortwave redo was not important the interference to it by BPL does not matter. Om or about t 2004 the FCC let up on its tight restrictions about incidental radiation for home devices. Prior to that any home computer equipment had to be very clean and not radiate noise over the radio spectrum. Specifically, the Radio Shack TRS080 had to be modified too meet rules at that time. However, the new rules for BPL will kill home reception of shortwave in some places where shortwave signals are weak or home owners an not allowed to erect tall antennas. This has been well documented. Quote On 14 October 2004, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission adopted rules to facilitate the deployment of "Access BPL", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_over_power_lines#US_FCC Here where I live the noise level is very bad. But I do not know if it is from BPL. It is hard to listen to out-of-town AM broadcast stations.And I do not get much shortwave either. I think my neighborhood has some other problem. But I don't know. Once again a mis-leading title in a Geek NEWS story... There's a dozen Clubs alone in a 120 mile radius of where i live.I listen to SW on occasion. Use to be more frequent when I was able to be up late nights and catch the bounce off the ionosphere and get some far reached signals. Most of which I couldnt understand but based on the language you had a pretty good clue. I use to have a Norelco Shortwave Tube Radio that worked better than the small modern compact SW/AM/FM/Weather radio. My wife thought it was junk and threw it away on me... I still have the modern SW combination radio but I really liked the old Norelco. Most people when they hear the brand Norelco they think of electric shavers not Radios. These days it might only be 1 or 2 times a year that I jump onto Short Wave listening. The computer and internet has sucked me into that for audio for the most part. Also use to have a older HAM radio that I bought and got working from a yard sale, but listened in on and didnt transmit for fear that the FCC police would fine(d) me. Since I didnt have a license. Sold that which I bought for $25 for $300 with the antenna and all for a nice $275 profit.

1779.

Solve : Nobody listens to Shortwave Radio anymore.?

Answer»

Nobody listens to Shortwave Radio anymore.
True?
Apparently. List of English broadcasts in the USA is very slim. Except for religious groups that think normal people hear them.
I could not find a list of non-government non-religion shortwave broadcaster in the USA. Which implies that nobody in the USA cares about shortwave broadcasting.

Exception. There are some "pirates" that get on shortwave once in awhile just because they are not supposed to do it. Like on April Fools day.

What do you thin? Never mind, you probably don't even care.
Well, it's to be expected that the number of people listening to traditional analogue radio will have dropped due to the fact that the internet allows them to receive the same content in higher quality without specialised equipment.

That said, shortwave radio listening is still alive and going strong. I am very interested in this sort of thing and actually regularly listen to shortwave radio as well as VHF and UHF bands. Modern TECHNOLOGY actually makes it better than ever through the use of Software Defined Radios (SDR). Rather than a traditional radio that uses analogue circuitry, an SDR samples the electromagnetic spectrum and sends the data to a computer for processing, this means that the hardware can be made cheaper as well as providing huge amounts of flexibility due to all the signal processing being done in software. Most of these radios cost hundreds however one type, known as the RTL-SDR (http://www.rtl-sdr.com/) can be found for under $20 - http://www.amazon.com/DVB-T-RTL2832U-RTL-SDR-Receiver-Compatible/dp/B00PDM76ZW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1444873632&sr=8-3&keywords=sdr. They are marketed as cheap TV tuners and are terrible for watching TV, however they are actually SDRs and when coupled with the appropriate software (I use SDR#) they can be used to listen to any frequency from around 25MHz all the way up to 1.8GHz. I then coupled mine with an upconverter (http://www.amazon.com/NooElec-Ham-Up-v1-3-Upconverter/dp/B009LQT3G6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444873729&sr=8-1&keywords=ham-it-up) which allows it to receive shortwave frequencies.

Another benefit with SDRs is because they are connected to a PC, it is easy to decode all sorts of digital transmissions, simply feed the signal thorough an appropriate piece of software. I've used this to decode morse, RTTY, SSTV, weather fax images and much more!

The other extremely cool things with SDRs is that because they can be connected to a computer, it is POSSIBLE to share them over the internet to allow other people to use them, an example of this is SDR at the University of Twente in the netherlands which allows you to listen to the entire HF (shortwave) radio spectrum from directly within your browser! This can be found here: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

One thing I regularly try to receive are so called "Numbers Stations" which broadcast encrypted messages to secret agents. These are particularly fun because they are possible to receive but are rather distant (often from Russia) so it can be a challenge to get a good RECEPTION. Here is a set of some recordings I made of these from a while back on my SDR setup: https://soundcloud.com/cameron-gray-39/sets/sdr-recordings

This is the sort of view you get with the software, it shows all signals in its tuning range and lets you easily see what signals they are and then TUNE to them. You can even record a wideband signal which can include multiple stations and then later play back the recording and tune to the stations you want!

As for my setup, here are some photos of what I have: http://imgur.com/a/bz6r1

SDR (black USB dongle), Upconverter (Blue PCB) attached to my homemade active whip antenna (for shortwave reception):

Close up of the SDR dongle and upconverter board:

Inside of the homemade active whip antenna for shortwave reception:

Large homemade ~2m long off-centre fed dipole antenna for VHF/UHF reception:
Ccamerongray, Wow. You are really into shortwave and VHF.UHF listening. Very nice photos of your equipment.

While doing some research on BPL I can across some remarks to the effect that shortwave redo was not important the interference to it by BPL does not matter.

**Om or about t 2004 the FCC let up on its tight restrictions about incidental radiation for home devices. Prior to that any home computer equipment had to be very clean and not radiate noise over the radio spectrum. Specifically, the Radio Shack TRS080 had to be modified too meet rules at that time.

However, the new rules for BPL will kill home reception of shortwave in some places where shortwave signals are weak or home owners an not allowed to erect tall antennas. This has been well documented.

**
Quote

On 14 October 2004, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission adopted rules to facilitate the deployment of "Access BPL",

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_over_power_lines#US_FCC

Here where I live the noise level is very bad. But I do not know if it is from BPL. It is hard to listen to out-of-town AM broadcast stations.And I do not get much shortwave either. I think my neighborhood has some other problem. But I don't know.
Once again a mis-leading title in a Geek NEWS story...

There's a dozen Clubs alone in a 120 mile radius of where i live.I listen to SW on occasion. Use to be more frequent when I was able to be up late nights and catch the bounce off the ionosphere and get some far reached signals. Most of which I couldnt understand but based on the language you had a pretty good clue.

I use to have a Norelco Shortwave Tube Radio that worked better than the small modern compact SW/AM/FM/Weather radio. My wife thought it was junk and threw it away on me... I still have the modern SW combination radio but I really liked the old Norelco.

Most people when they hear the brand Norelco they think of electric shavers not Radios.

These days it might only be 1 or 2 times a year that I jump onto Short Wave listening. The computer and internet has sucked me into that for audio for the most part.

Also use to have a older HAM radio that I bought and got working from a yard sale, but listened in on and didnt transmit for fear that the FCC police would fine(d) me. Since I didnt have a license. Sold that which I bought for $25 for $300 with the antenna and all for a nice $275 profit.

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1780.	Solve : 384 new objects in our solar system?
Answer» As of October 1 of the year, they should also be considered planets or dwarf planets. Thus prompting the headline: There are almost 400 planets in the solar system... Here is the principal link: SHOCK CLAIM: There are 397 planets Quote Jerry Stone, from Spaceflight UK, has launched a campaign to reclassify Pluto, where frozen water has been DISCOVERED, as a full planet. Ever since the discovery of Pluto in 1930 there were nine planets in the solar system - the others being Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Will this affect my lunar real estate values? I really am BOGGLED at how strongly people "fight" the reclassification of Pluto. Why do these same individuals not fight for Ceres to be considered a planet? For some time there were actually more than 9 planets in the Solar System until we realized the new "planets" we were discovering were actually Asteroids, and all orbited between Mars and Jupiter. it is especially silly to suggest that Pluto be "graduated" to a Planet because frozen water was discovered on it. Comets contain Frozen Water. Should they be planets too? Eris orbits around the same distance from the sun as Pluto. Is Eris a Planet? Why is nobody fighting Eris' classification as a Dwarf Planet? Why does nobody say "I don't care what dem eggheads sez, Eris will always be a planet to me"? The redefinition gave Planet a clear definition. It changed from "Wanderer" to "a Celestial Body which orbits the sun, has sufficient mass to reach hydrostatic equilibrium, and has cleared the neighborhood around it's orbit." that seems a lot more useful. When I saw the thread title I thought "What? Geek-9pm is a creationist". I wonder if the people who resist Pluto's classification do so partly because they are touched by the story of the little English girl who won the competition to supply a name for the new "planet". Also whether in this secular age, astronomy replaces theology and, just as in the Middle Ages, orthodox minds resist change. The Pluto people are having a hard time with the PR stuff. Just as Pluto was getting into the news, along comes a wandering star that almost hist the earth. OK, it was an asteroid. About that DOOMSDAY asteroid that was SUPPOSED to hit Earth today.. [attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Quote from: Salmon Trout on October 11, 2015, 01:55:20 AM I wonder if the people who resist Pluto's classification do so partly because they are touched by the story of the little English girl who won the competition to supply a name for the new "planet" I THINK that is giving too much credit. They probably associate it with Mickey's Dog, rather than the mythological God of the underworld.

1780.

Solve : 384 new objects in our solar system?

Answer»

As of October 1 of the year, they should also be considered planets or dwarf planets. Thus prompting the headline:
There are almost 400 planets in the solar system...

Here is the principal link:
SHOCK CLAIM: There are 397 planets

Quote

Jerry Stone, from Spaceflight UK, has launched a campaign to reclassify Pluto, where frozen water has been DISCOVERED, as a full planet.
Ever since the discovery of Pluto in 1930 there were nine planets in the solar system - the others being Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Will this affect my lunar real estate values?
I really am BOGGLED at how strongly people "fight" the reclassification of Pluto. Why do these same individuals not fight for Ceres to be considered a planet? For some time there were actually more than 9 planets in the Solar System until we realized the new "planets" we were discovering were actually Asteroids, and all orbited between Mars and Jupiter.

it is especially silly to suggest that Pluto be "graduated" to a Planet because frozen water was discovered on it. Comets contain Frozen Water. Should they be planets too?

Eris orbits around the same distance from the sun as Pluto. Is Eris a Planet? Why is nobody fighting Eris' classification as a Dwarf Planet? Why does nobody say "I don't care what dem eggheads sez, Eris will always be a planet to me"?

The redefinition gave Planet a clear definition. It changed from "Wanderer" to "a Celestial Body which orbits the sun, has sufficient mass to reach hydrostatic equilibrium, and has cleared the neighborhood around it's orbit." that seems a lot more useful.

When I saw the thread title I thought "What? Geek-9pm is a creationist". I wonder if the people who resist Pluto's classification do so partly because they are touched by the story of the little English girl who won the competition to supply a name for the new "planet". Also whether in this secular age, astronomy replaces theology and, just as in the Middle Ages, orthodox minds resist change.
The Pluto people are having a hard time with the PR stuff. Just as Pluto was getting into the news, along comes a wandering star that almost hist the earth.
OK, it was an asteroid.

About that DOOMSDAY asteroid that was SUPPOSED to hit Earth today..

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Quote from: Salmon Trout on October 11, 2015, 01:55:20 AM

I wonder if the people who resist Pluto's classification do so partly because they are touched by the story of the little English girl who won the competition to supply a name for the new "planet"

I THINK that is giving too much credit. They probably associate it with Mickey's Dog, rather than the mythological God of the underworld.

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1781.	Solve : Can We Build a Low-Cost Groundwater Detection System?
Answer» First let me explain. This kind of thing needs people with understanding and experience. So that is why I put it here. Driving copper clad rods rods into the ground is not so hard. But the software needed to interpret the reading sis very deep. No pun intended. So I am asking. Does anybody here have some real knowledge about this? The concept is to measure ground conductivity at the surface across a very large area. An area as wide as the depth we want to probe. In theory, a cavern of air will reduce conductivity and can be located mathematically. However, any flow of underground water would improve the conductivity and can be also localized with a suitable algorithm. After gathering a large number of field SAMPLES, it would be e possible to plot a crude three dimensional graph of the underground conductivity. So we know where to dig. Or not. Here is an article that talks about the concept is a simplified form. Not really enough information to make you own water finder. Bu it introduces the idea. Here's How To Build a Low-Cost Groundwater Detection System Below is a much better explanation. GENERAL FACTS AND CONCEPTS ABOUT GROUND WATER Moderator. Move this post if you must. Any ideas?I would never think that a low cost ground water system could ever be made. You can have rivers of water underground, very deep and it would be costly to get to it to probe for what may or may not be there. I think the cheapest method is to have sensors out scattered in an array and wait for an earthquake or detonate a massive explosion underground, and monitor the data that is gathered. The wave forms from the sensors can be checked at time intervals to look for phase shifting and abnormalities that would indicate the bowl of jello effect under the surface. Rock and soil would have a known signature and water under ground with soil and rock suspended above it also has a signature that can be seen with the right equipment for what i call the bowl of jello affect. The problem is that you need to perform studies of soil analysis with ELF to build up sets of data of how soil, rock, and water suspended under them react with one another. As well as in a place that earth quakes are not frequent, you would need to bore a deep hole and detonate a massive explosion under ground and then data record the shock wave to form a layout of how the earth reacted to the blast wave of energy. The better data coming from the larger the explosion to shock/shake the soil and what lies beneath to look for the bowl of jello effect which would be more defined with a larger release of energy instantaneously. It would be a very crude sonar for mapping whats below, denser, looser, or liquid materials and the ping being a massive amount of energy released to create a shock wave that can be monitored as the wave forms reach each detector. The cheapest water gathering I have ever seen has been in Bermuda. I went on a trip there in 2002 and all the homes have a roof that gathers rain water and places the water into a holding tank in the home. The holding tank is then filtered so you have drinking water. Surrounded by ocean, sure you could get fresh water out of salt water by boiling it and condensing the steam to remove the salt, but the cheapest means was to tap into natural condensation for fresh water. The problem I see with conductivity as a means for ground water is that you might have water at the surface and then have solid granite below that. My property in New Hampshire i found out after I bought my home that there is solid granite less than 4 feet below my entire yard, with some areas the granite showing and just inches below the grass. Grounding my barns electrical was a fun experience with a 8 ft grounding rod. Its in the ground, but not 100% to code as it should be. It has the surface area it requires to function as a ground as tested afterwards, and the soil is always damp around the barn to conduct to ground, but it doesnt hold to a 45 degree installation with 90 degree straight down being optimal. I have areas in the woods near my property that are very wet, but its just pooled moisture on the granite below. My property might come up with a false positive that water is below to be pumped because of this pooling effect on the soil towards the surface. Anyone drilling would soon find less than 4 ft down that they hit solid granite and its a lost cause. Moved here from Don's...Thanks for the input. My daughter is wanting to move to an underdeveloped parcel in Nevada, which is very high and dry. Somebody on the Internet is SELLING a conductivity analyzer that they claim can locate underground pools of water. I was skeptical, but I wanted to hear from somebody will some experience. After posting this, I found the USGS does not even mention conductivity tests. Instead, they say: Quote Using scientific methods to locate water To locate groundwater ACCURATELY and to determine the depth, quantity, and quality of the water, several techniques must be used, and a target area must be thoroughly tested and studied to identify hydrologic and geologic features important to the planning and management of the resource. The landscape may offer clues to the hydrologist about the occurrence of shallow groundwater. Conditions for large quantities of shallow groundwater are more favorable under valleys than under hills. In some regions--in PARTS of the arid Southwest, for example--the presence of "water-loving" plants, such as cottonwoods or willows, indicates groundwater at shallow to moderate depth. Areas where water is at the surface as springs, seeps, swamps, or lakes reflect the presence of groundwater, although not necessarily in large quantities or of usable quality. http://water.usgs.gov/edu/gwhowtofind.html So then, I will give up on a "Low-Cost Groundwater Detection System." It will not work as good as the proven methods. Quote Somebody on the Internet is selling a conductivity analyzer that they claim can locate underground pools of water. I was skeptical, but I wanted to hear from somebody will some experience. Lots of products out there like this and not just for detection of water. The fact that it states "can" locate underground pools of water. And ground water is conductive, so it will detect water if the rods were wet between them etc. There is no guarantee that the water is just shallow surface moisture or a vast amount of it underground. High and Dry is not a choice location to find water. If it was in a dry valley of some sort it would be better to channel any underground water. Most reasons why areas still remain undeveloped to this day is because of problems like lack of water. If water was readily available people would have developed it already. Trying to find water out there is going to be like trying to find oil. High and Dry is not the choice location to be doing that. In a lower dry valley you might be able to bore a hole very deep and tap into some like they do in Arizona, however the water in Arizona is really hard and requires filtration. I wouldnt venture on your own thinking your going to find it on your own. There are great costs associated with drilling wells etc, and you could bore a dry hole and be out all that money. She should probably plan on investing instead into a large holding tank for water and have it trucked in as needed. This would be a GUARANTEED water source and no money wasted on a gamble. If you wanted to go one step further its expensive but wouldnt require frequent water deliveries, but have a water recycle process in place to recycle bath water etc. Even more expensive would be going with an almost NASA shuttle approach where waste water including ones own urine is treated/filtered and drinkable again, although I for one wouldnt be able to bring that crystal clear glass of treated and should be clean water up to my lips knowing that it was originally urine. Sure the world is one great big fish tank and water we require to survive has gone through many living things prior, but I prefer the cycle to have a larger radius of natural and man made filtration treatment before coming back to me to consume again.All you need for water detection is a divining rod...everyone knows that.Quote All you need for water detection is a divining rod...everyone knows that.

1781.

Solve : Can We Build a Low-Cost Groundwater Detection System?

Answer»

First let me explain. This kind of thing needs people with understanding and experience. So that is why I put it here.

Driving copper clad rods rods into the ground is not so hard. But the software needed to interpret the reading sis very deep. No pun intended.

So I am asking. Does anybody here have some real knowledge about this?

The concept is to measure ground conductivity at the surface across a very large area. An area as wide as the depth we want to probe. In theory, a cavern of air will reduce conductivity and can be located mathematically. However, any flow of underground water would improve the conductivity and can be also localized with a suitable algorithm.

After gathering a large number of field SAMPLES, it would be e possible to plot a crude three dimensional graph of the underground conductivity. So we know where to dig. Or not.

Here is an article that talks about the concept is a simplified form. Not really enough information to make you own water finder. Bu it introduces the idea.

Here's How To Build a Low-Cost Groundwater Detection System

Below is a much better explanation.

GENERAL FACTS AND CONCEPTS ABOUT GROUND WATER

Moderator. Move this post if you must.

Any ideas?I would never think that a low cost ground water system could ever be made. You can have rivers of water underground, very deep and it would be costly to get to it to probe for what may or may not be there.

I think the cheapest method is to have sensors out scattered in an array and wait for an earthquake or detonate a massive explosion underground, and monitor the data that is gathered. The wave forms from the sensors can be checked at time intervals to look for phase shifting and abnormalities that would indicate the bowl of jello effect under the surface. Rock and soil would have a known signature and water under ground with soil and rock suspended above it also has a signature that can be seen with the right equipment for what i call the bowl of jello affect.

The problem is that you need to perform studies of soil analysis with ELF to build up sets of data of how soil, rock, and water suspended under them react with one another. As well as in a place that earth quakes are not frequent, you would need to bore a deep hole and detonate a massive explosion under ground and then data record the shock wave to form a layout of how the earth reacted to the blast wave of energy. The better data coming from the larger the explosion to shock/shake the soil and what lies beneath to look for the bowl of jello effect which would be more defined with a larger release of energy instantaneously.

It would be a very crude sonar for mapping whats below, denser, looser, or liquid materials and the ping being a massive amount of energy released to create a shock wave that can be monitored as the wave forms reach each detector.

The cheapest water gathering I have ever seen has been in Bermuda. I went on a trip there in 2002 and all the homes have a roof that gathers rain water and places the water into a holding tank in the home. The holding tank is then filtered so you have drinking water. Surrounded by ocean, sure you could get fresh water out of salt water by boiling it and condensing the steam to remove the salt, but the cheapest means was to tap into natural condensation for fresh water.

The problem I see with conductivity as a means for ground water is that you might have water at the surface and then have solid granite below that. My property in New Hampshire i found out after I bought my home that there is solid granite less than 4 feet below my entire yard, with some areas the granite showing and just inches below the grass. Grounding my barns electrical was a fun experience with a 8 ft grounding rod. Its in the ground, but not 100% to code as it should be. It has the surface area it requires to function as a ground as tested afterwards, and the soil is always damp around the barn to conduct to ground, but it doesnt hold to a 45 degree installation with 90 degree straight down being optimal. I have areas in the woods near my property that are very wet, but its just pooled moisture on the granite below. My property might come up with a false positive that water is below to be pumped because of this pooling effect on the soil towards the surface. Anyone drilling would soon find less than 4 ft down that they hit solid granite and its a lost cause.

Moved here from Don's...Thanks for the input. My daughter is wanting to move to an underdeveloped parcel in Nevada, which is very high and dry.

Somebody on the Internet is SELLING a conductivity analyzer that they claim can locate underground pools of water. I was skeptical, but I wanted to hear from somebody will some experience.

After posting this, I found the USGS does not even mention conductivity tests.
Instead, they say:
Quote

Using scientific methods to locate water

To locate groundwater ACCURATELY and to determine the depth, quantity, and quality of the water, several techniques must be used, and a target area must be thoroughly tested and studied to identify hydrologic and geologic features important to the planning and management of the resource. The landscape may offer clues to the hydrologist about the occurrence of shallow groundwater. Conditions for large quantities of shallow groundwater are more favorable under valleys than under hills. In some regions--in PARTS of the arid Southwest, for example--the presence of "water-loving" plants, such as cottonwoods or willows, indicates groundwater at shallow to moderate depth. Areas where water is at the surface as springs, seeps, swamps, or lakes reflect the presence of groundwater, although not necessarily in large quantities or of usable quality.

http://water.usgs.gov/edu/gwhowtofind.html

So then, I will give up on a "Low-Cost Groundwater Detection System." It will not work as good as the proven methods.
Quote

Somebody on the Internet is selling a conductivity analyzer that they claim can locate underground pools of water. I was skeptical, but I wanted to hear from somebody will some experience.

Lots of products out there like this and not just for detection of water. The fact that it states "can" locate underground pools of water. And ground water is conductive, so it will detect water if the rods were wet between them etc. There is no guarantee that the water is just shallow surface moisture or a vast amount of it underground.

High and Dry is not a choice location to find water. If it was in a dry valley of some sort it would be better to channel any underground water.

Most reasons why areas still remain undeveloped to this day is because of problems like lack of water. If water was readily available people would have developed it already. Trying to find water out there is going to be like trying to find oil. High and Dry is not the choice location to be doing that. In a lower dry valley you might be able to bore a hole very deep and tap into some like they do in Arizona, however the water in Arizona is really hard and requires filtration.

I wouldnt venture on your own thinking your going to find it on your own. There are great costs associated with drilling wells etc, and you could bore a dry hole and be out all that money. She should probably plan on investing instead into a large holding tank for water and have it trucked in as needed. This would be a GUARANTEED water source and no money wasted on a gamble. If you wanted to go one step further its expensive but wouldnt require frequent water deliveries, but have a water recycle process in place to recycle bath water etc. Even more expensive would be going with an almost NASA shuttle approach where waste water including ones own urine is treated/filtered and drinkable again, although I for one wouldnt be able to bring that crystal clear glass of treated and should be clean water up to my lips knowing that it was originally urine. Sure the world is one great big fish tank and water we require to survive has gone through many living things prior, but I prefer the cycle to have a larger radius of natural and man made filtration treatment before coming back to me to consume again.All you need for water detection is a divining rod...everyone knows that.Quote

All you need for water detection is a divining rod...everyone knows that.

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1782.	Solve : Merge some T.V signals with Computer?
Answer» Hello, I am TRYING to merge some T.V signals to my Computer. Is this possible to do this? Thanks, Affiliate Link Removed...TV Card could do this if your trying to watch TV through computer or Cable TV etc through it. You also could RECORD shows this way, however when you STATE (signals), you can only get 1 signal (frequency) at a time. If you have a desktop computer this is pretty easy to set up if you have a budget that allows for a good card. There are some cheap cards out there but their quality and software are generally poor. If you have a laptop, they do many USB TV Capture cards, but they are not as good as internal cards connected directly to system bus. Some can be found here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=tv+tuner+cards+for+pc&N=-1&isNodeId=1

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1783.	Solve : bought new computer with lots of problems?
Answer» I recently bought a used dell INSPIRON mini. It has lots of problems with it and I don't KNOW where to start to fix them. The biggest problem is that everything is extremely slow. The Web browser stops and says it needs to recover. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem would be great.Before you format the drive and start over, consider your options. You said: Quote I recently bought a used dell You need to COMPLAIN to the vendor. Used PC dealers vary a lot in service and HELPFULNESS. If you believe the product was not well represented, you can report it to agencies that investigate bad business practices. Some dealers on eBay maintain good reputations by riving a one year warranty on used PCs. What about the dealer who sold a used unit to you? IMO do not do anything until you know if you have any way to get the dealer to help you. I didn't get the computer from a store. I got it from a friend of my wife. They didn't know what was wrong with it either and sold it to me really really CHEAP. Absolute 1st thing to do with a used PC is a wipe...and a clean install of the OS... You may also wanna run a fitness test on the HDD...

1783.

Solve : bought new computer with lots of problems?

Answer»

I recently bought a used dell INSPIRON mini. It has lots of problems with it and I don't KNOW where to start to fix them. The biggest problem is that everything is extremely slow. The Web browser stops and says it needs to recover. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem would be great.Before you format the drive and start over, consider your options. You said:
Quote

I recently bought a used dell

You need to COMPLAIN to the vendor. Used PC dealers vary a lot in service and HELPFULNESS. If you believe the product was not well represented, you can report it to agencies that investigate bad business practices.

Some dealers on eBay maintain good reputations by riving a one year warranty on used PCs. What about the dealer who sold a used unit to you?

IMO do not do anything until you know if you have any way to get the dealer to help you.

I didn't get the computer from a store. I got it from a friend of my wife. They didn't know what was wrong with it either and sold it to me really really CHEAP.
Absolute 1st thing to do with a used PC is a wipe...and a clean install of the OS...
You may also wanna run a fitness test on the HDD...

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1784.	Solve : Grandparent scam victims get their $3,000 back?
Answer» This is not directly computer related. I put it here because it is a big problem here in the USA. Maybe elsewhere too. (It is not a new scam.) WOOD TV News, Published: July 28, 2015 Quote ...he received a fraudulent call from a person claiming to be his grandson. The caller said he had been arrested in Las Vegas and needed to bond out of jail. The SCAMMER told Andrie that he needed to purchase $3,000 in GIFT cards to furnish the bond, so Andrie went to the local Rite Aid and purchased the cards. This is a very, very common thing now. In some cases the local low enforcement nigh be in on the scam. But the intent is to scare RELATIVES into putting up the bail bond money right away. Whenever anybody is arrested for anything, it becomes data available to ANYONE with a computer. Read the STORY. It has a happy ending.

1784.

Solve : Grandparent scam victims get their $3,000 back?

Answer»

This is not directly computer related. I put it here because it is a big problem here in the USA. Maybe elsewhere too. (It is not a new scam.)
WOOD TV News, Published: July 28, 2015
Quote

...he received a fraudulent call from a person claiming to be his grandson.
The caller said he had been arrested in Las Vegas and needed to bond out of jail. The SCAMMER told Andrie that he needed to purchase $3,000 in GIFT cards to furnish the bond, so Andrie went to the local Rite Aid and purchased the cards.

This is a very, very common thing now. In some cases the local low enforcement nigh be in on the scam. But the intent is to scare RELATIVES into putting up the bail bond money right away. Whenever anybody is arrested for anything, it becomes data available to ANYONE with a computer.

Read the STORY. It has a happy ending.

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1785.	Solve : Looking for a Grand Theft Auto 5 Online Modder for Xbox 360?
Answer» I am looking for a MODDER on GTA 5 Online on XBOX 360. I really want some money and levels and I don't want to waste my time. I am sorry this is WAY too off-topic for this forum but it was the only ONE to come to besides GTA 5 forum, they WOULD find my username and perm-ban me on GTA 5 Online! Email me @ [emailprotected] because I won't look at this post too often and I ALWAYS look at my email. Hope your a modder Bump??We aren't going to help you cheat... All it does is spoil the game for other people.

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1786.	Solve : maybe the fastest delivery ever of an online product order?
Answer» I ordered two printer ink cartridges from staples.com on 6/24 at about 2:45 pm. They arrived the next morning before 9 am. excellent...Meanwhile in the UK many retailers offer next day delivery on orders up until 11pm. AMAZON even offer evening delivery in some areas where you can order early in the morning and get it that evening. Then again, we are a lot smaller so there is a lot less distance to travel.In this case, I believe the order was shipped from London, Ohio [yes, we have a London ], which is about 25 MILES southwest of the Ohio capital of Columbus and I live only about 20 miles east of Columbus. And, obviously, Staples got the item out the door and into the hands of the shipper very soon after I placed the order. And, with free shipping, why bother going to a Staples store, even though the nearest one is only about 9-10 miles away and I could perhaps have postponed the purchase until I happened to be traveling in the vicinity of the store for some other purpose? The odd thing is that the ink cartridges were shipped in a box large enough to actually hold 32 cartridges. The same size box was used for a shipment of only 1 cartridge when I ordered only 1 black cartridge less than 2 weeks ago. Quote from: camerongray on June 26, 2015, 09:07:06 AM Meanwhile in the UK many retailers offer next day delivery on orders up until 11pm. Amazon even offer evening delivery in some areas where you can order early in the morning and get it that evening. Then again, we are a lot smaller so there is a lot less distance to travel. I got a Zoostorm PC from eBuyer last week, I ordered it at 9.30 PM and paid online with a Visa card, it arrived at 9:15 the next morning. I tracked the order and it went something like this Fri 22:05 in dispatch eBuyer warehouse (Howden, near York) Fri 23:20 truck to Wednesbury Hub Sat 01:40 at hub Sat 02:30 truck to Bristol delivery centre Sat 04:40 arrived Bristol Sat 08:05 out for delivery Sat 09:15 delivered to my house Distance about 210 miles. The couriers were Yodel who a lot of people I know (well, one person) have been slagging off, predicting it would be late, have dents, be dumped in the wheelie bin, etc. Quote from: soybean on June 26, 2015, 09:32:21 AM The odd thing is that the ink cartridges were shipped in a box large enough to actually hold 32 cartridges. The same size box was used for a shipment of only 1 cartridge when I ordered only 1 black cartridge less than 2 weeks ago. I ordered a mouse for a staff member at work and it came in a box big enough for a 5-ream (2500 sheet) box of A4 paper, the spare room being taken up with bubble wrap. I've ordered things from Staples.com and they Are very consistently super-fast. I think every single time I got it the next day. Meanwhile, I order something from Tigerdirect and it can sometimes take 3 weeks to show up, and the UPS tracking they give marks it as "delivered" once it is drop-shipped to their warehouse. An order I Placed on the 11th consisting of some components for a budget computer build is marked as delivered though all I've received so far is the Power Supply. They also like to split up orders strangely, presumably based on their stock. I'll receive a giant box with only one item, then the next day receive the rest of my order in the same size box. Even though the first item fits easily with the other items in that same box. Amazon is usually somewhere in the middle. Depending on available shipping options, of course. Quote London, Ohio [yes, we have a London ] There is a London in Ontario, Canada as well. Apparently Early Canadian settlers weren't always imaginative. Even the river running through it is called the Thames.I too like Staples.com. I ordered a 1000 watt inverter through them which I didn't know they even carried. I found it in a google search and had to double check that it was the real deal and not a scam site that sells everything searched for just to steal credit card info etc. But it was Staples. I got the 1000 watt inverter in 2 days which was a jaw DROPPER for regular shipping without paying extra. Quote The same size box was used for a shipment of only 1 cartridge when I ordered only 1 black cartridge less than 2 weeks ago. Wow lots of printing to be EATING up the ink like that. I ended up retiring my inkjet and got a Laser printer to replace it. So far I think I have saved about $120 in the ink I would have had to buy but havn't yet since the toner cartridge is still good. The replacement toner is only $39.99 too whenever I need one. Only draw back is that its not a color laser printer, and so pictures are gray scale. Cheapest printer I ever owned to operate was a Epson LQ-1050+ printer that I bought 2nd hand at a 2nd hand store in the late 1990s for $15 which came with the Parallel Centronics Cable. The ribbon for it was like $6 each and the ribbon would last a very long time printing to the tractor feed paper. I had this back in college and only draw back was clicking print and printing 12 pages of C++ code for a college project at 4:30am and my wife yelling at me to shut the printer off its so ____ loud! I gave it away to a neighbor who needed a printer and I should have kept it. He killed it dumping and ash tray and a beer into it. I got a Epson C60 ink jet and that made my wife happy for late night or early morning printing when she was sleeping. But I got bit by the Epson counter with this printer where after so many printed pages it FAULTS out and you have to throw it away outside of the warranty period.... or as I learned online by a russian hardware hacker reset the internal counter and the printer comes back to life like nothing ever went wrong with it. Epsons statement to this counter feature that leads to it to brick itself was because they figured that after say 10,000 pages the ink pad in the compartment where the ink cartridge parks itself could be overflowing with ink and to protect from ink leaking out of a Epson C60 printer, they decided to have it become non functional with no error message other than a blinking red/green light at the online button. The real intent was to force you to have to buy a new printer vs making a printer that would last a while as part of a planned obsolescence scheme. I havent bought an Epson ever since that one. The laser printer I got I got 2 of them for $29.99 off newegg on black friday deal and they work really well even though no name Pantum Brand and it takes this cartridge: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828731012&nm_mc=KNC-MSNSearch&cm_mmc=KNC-MSNSearch-_-pla-_-Printer+/+Fax+-+Toners-_-28731012Quote from: DaveLembke on June 26, 2015, 11:34:45 AM Cheapest printer I ever owned to operate was a Epson LQ-1050+ printer that I bought 2nd hand at a 2nd hand store in the late 1990s for $15 which came with the Parallel Centronics Cable. The ribbon for it was like $6 each and the ribbon would last a very long time I had an LQ-850. You could get more life out of one by prying the top off and squirting a little WD-40 over the ribbon and then spooling it back and forth by hand a few times...

1786.

Solve : maybe the fastest delivery ever of an online product order?

Answer»

I ordered two printer ink cartridges from staples.com on 6/24 at about 2:45 pm. They arrived the next morning before 9 am. excellent...Meanwhile in the UK many retailers offer next day delivery on orders up until 11pm. AMAZON even offer evening delivery in some areas where you can order early in the morning and get it that evening. Then again, we are a lot smaller so there is a lot less distance to travel.In this case, I believe the order was shipped from London, Ohio [yes, we have a London ], which is about 25 MILES southwest of the Ohio capital of Columbus and I live only about 20 miles east of Columbus. And, obviously, Staples got the item out the door and into the hands of the shipper very soon after I placed the order. And, with free shipping, why bother going to a Staples store, even though the nearest one is only about 9-10 miles away and I could perhaps have postponed the purchase until I happened to be traveling in the vicinity of the store for some other purpose?

The odd thing is that the ink cartridges were shipped in a box large enough to actually hold 32 cartridges. The same size box was used for a shipment of only 1 cartridge when I ordered only 1 black cartridge less than 2 weeks ago. Quote from: camerongray on June 26, 2015, 09:07:06 AM

Meanwhile in the UK many retailers offer next day delivery on orders up until 11pm. Amazon even offer evening delivery in some areas where you can order early in the morning and get it that evening. Then again, we are a lot smaller so there is a lot less distance to travel.

I got a Zoostorm PC from eBuyer last week, I ordered it at 9.30 PM and paid online with a Visa card, it arrived at 9:15 the next morning. I tracked the order and it went something like this

Fri 22:05 in dispatch eBuyer warehouse (Howden, near York)
Fri 23:20 truck to Wednesbury Hub
Sat 01:40 at hub
Sat 02:30 truck to Bristol delivery centre
Sat 04:40 arrived Bristol
Sat 08:05 out for delivery
Sat 09:15 delivered to my house

Distance about 210 miles.

The couriers were Yodel who a lot of people I know (well, one person) have been slagging off, predicting it would be late, have dents, be dumped in the wheelie bin, etc.

Quote from: soybean on June 26, 2015, 09:32:21 AM

The odd thing is that the ink cartridges were shipped in a box large enough to actually hold 32 cartridges. The same size box was used for a shipment of only 1 cartridge when I ordered only 1 black cartridge less than 2 weeks ago.

I ordered a mouse for a staff member at work and it came in a box big enough for a 5-ream (2500 sheet) box of A4 paper, the spare room being taken up with bubble wrap.
I've ordered things from Staples.com and they Are very consistently super-fast. I think every single time I got it the next day.

Meanwhile, I order something from Tigerdirect and it can sometimes take 3 weeks to show up, and the UPS tracking they give marks it as "delivered" once it is drop-shipped to their warehouse. An order I Placed on the 11th consisting of some components for a budget computer build is marked as delivered though all I've received so far is the Power Supply.

They also like to split up orders strangely, presumably based on their stock. I'll receive a giant box with only one item, then the next day receive the rest of my order in the same size box. Even though the first item fits easily with the other items in that same box.

Amazon is usually somewhere in the middle. Depending on available shipping options, of course.

Quote

London, Ohio [yes, we have a London ]

There is a London in Ontario, Canada as well. Apparently Early Canadian settlers weren't always imaginative. Even the river running through it is called the Thames.I too like Staples.com. I ordered a 1000 watt inverter through them which I didn't know they even carried. I found it in a google search and had to double check that it was the real deal and not a scam site that sells everything searched for just to steal credit card info etc. But it was Staples. I got the 1000 watt inverter in 2 days which was a jaw DROPPER for regular shipping without paying extra.

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The same size box was used for a shipment of only 1 cartridge when I ordered only 1 black cartridge less than 2 weeks ago.

Wow lots of printing to be EATING up the ink like that.

I ended up retiring my inkjet and got a Laser printer to replace it. So far I think I have saved about $120 in the ink I would have had to buy but havn't yet since the toner cartridge is still good. The replacement toner is only $39.99 too whenever I need one. Only draw back is that its not a color laser printer, and so pictures are gray scale.

Cheapest printer I ever owned to operate was a Epson LQ-1050+ printer that I bought 2nd hand at a 2nd hand store in the late 1990s for $15 which came with the Parallel Centronics Cable. The ribbon for it was like $6 each and the ribbon would last a very long time printing to the tractor feed paper. I had this back in college and only draw back was clicking print and printing 12 pages of C++ code for a college project at 4:30am and my wife yelling at me to shut the printer off its so ____ loud!

I gave it away to a neighbor who needed a printer and I should have kept it. He killed it dumping and ash tray and a beer into it.

I got a Epson C60 ink jet and that made my wife happy for late night or early morning printing when she was sleeping. But I got bit by the Epson counter with this printer where after so many printed pages it FAULTS out and you have to throw it away outside of the warranty period.... or as I learned online by a russian hardware hacker reset the internal counter and the printer comes back to life like nothing ever went wrong with it. Epsons statement to this counter feature that leads to it to brick itself was because they figured that after say 10,000 pages the ink pad in the compartment where the ink cartridge parks itself could be overflowing with ink and to protect from ink leaking out of a Epson C60 printer, they decided to have it become non functional with no error message other than a blinking red/green light at the online button. The real intent was to force you to have to buy a new printer vs making a printer that would last a while as part of a planned obsolescence scheme.

I havent bought an Epson ever since that one. The laser printer I got I got 2 of them for $29.99 off newegg on black friday deal and they work really well even though no name Pantum Brand and it takes this cartridge: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828731012&nm_mc=KNC-MSNSearch&cm_mmc=KNC-MSNSearch-_-pla-_-Printer+/+Fax+-+Toners-_-28731012Quote from: DaveLembke on June 26, 2015, 11:34:45 AM

Cheapest printer I ever owned to operate was a Epson LQ-1050+ printer that I bought 2nd hand at a 2nd hand store in the late 1990s for $15 which came with the Parallel Centronics Cable. The ribbon for it was like $6 each and the ribbon would last a very long time

I had an LQ-850. You could get more life out of one by prying the top off and squirting a little WD-40 over the ribbon and then spooling it back and forth by hand a few times...

Discussion

1787.	Solve : New rules for DUP (Driving Using Phone)?
Answer» This is in Off Topic, it is not directly computer elated. ABC news had broadcast this back in January. Other states ALREADY have such laws. Cell phone use while driving now illegal in two major Texas cities Story Here... QUOTE Friday, January 02, 2015 AUSTIN, TX -- While there's no statewide law prohibiting hand-held cell phone use while driving, you might find yourself with a big fine if you do it now in two big Texas cities. Still, there are a lot of people who don't get it. They still do it. Related article: More than 500,000 motorists are STILL driving while using their mobile What about you? Never? Maybe? Wow, I thought it would have been illegal EVERYWHERE by now - It's been illegal here in the UK since 2003 - As it should be!Here in the USA the sates can not agree on a universal law about use of mo\bile devices while driving. Here is a map from Life Hacker: http://lifehacker.com/this-map-shows-state-laws-against-cell-phone-use-while-1469665547 Yeah, sometimes one does not understand why somethaing is not banned everywhere. look at this: http://www.cellular-news.com/car_bans/ Quote This page lists those countries that have banned the use of a cell phone when driving UNLESS used with some form of HANDS-free kit. Do they allow a Bluetooth handset where your live? Quote from: Geek-9pm on June 16, 2015, 07:26:02 PM Do they allow a Bluetooth handset where your live? Bluetooth headsets and hands free systems are legal here yeah.

1787.

Solve : New rules for DUP (Driving Using Phone)?

Answer»

This is in Off Topic, it is not directly computer elated.
ABC news had broadcast this back in January. Other states ALREADY have such laws.

Cell phone use while driving now illegal in two major Texas cities
Story Here...

QUOTE

Friday, January 02, 2015
AUSTIN, TX --
While there's no statewide law prohibiting hand-held cell phone use while driving, you might find yourself with a big fine if you do it now in two big Texas cities.

Still, there are a lot of people who don't get it. They still do it.
Related article:
More than 500,000 motorists are STILL driving while using their mobile
What about you? Never? Maybe? Wow, I thought it would have been illegal EVERYWHERE by now - It's been illegal here in the UK since 2003 - As it should be!Here in the USA the sates can not agree on a universal law about use of mo\bile devices while driving.
Here is a map from Life Hacker:
http://lifehacker.com/this-map-shows-state-laws-against-cell-phone-use-while-1469665547
Yeah, sometimes one does not understand why somethaing is not banned everywhere.
look at this:
http://www.cellular-news.com/car_bans/
Quote

This page lists those countries that have banned the use of a cell phone when driving UNLESS used with some form of HANDS-free kit.

Do they allow a Bluetooth handset where your live?

Quote from: Geek-9pm on June 16, 2015, 07:26:02 PM

Do they allow a Bluetooth handset where your live?

Bluetooth headsets and hands free systems are legal here yeah.

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1788.	Solve : Dawn Of The All-Electric Satellite.?
Answer» Not REALLY computer news, per se . This will have a positive impact on the Internet. And yes, Satellite sucks for on-line gaming, but is GREAT for almost all other stuff we like to do over the Internet. So it is good off-topic theme. The new breed of eye-in-the-sky costs less to put into orbit for payload. With electric engines, there is a weight saving benefit. Source: http://aviationweek.com/space/dawn-all-electric-satellite Title: Dawn Of The All-Electric Satellite Date: Mar 16, 2015 Quote PARIS – The first two Boeing-built, all-electric satellites have begun an eight-month journey to reach their final orbit after launching atop a Space EXPLORATION Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket EARLIER this month, ushering in a new era in commercial satellite design. Unlike chemically propelled satellites, the twin Boeing 702SP spacecraft use xenon-ion thrusters for both station-keeping and orbit-raising maneuvers. Weighing a combined 4,100 kg (9,000 lb.) and offering between 3-7 kw of power each, the all-electric 702SPs are half the weight of equivalent chemical-propulsion satellites, enabling significant cost savings, especially when paired on a low-cost Falcon 9. This might mean lower cost Satellite Internet service for areas where cell phones service is not available. And this will offer some competition for the fiber optic services like video conferencing. What do you think?

1788.

Solve : Dawn Of The All-Electric Satellite.?

Answer»

Not REALLY computer news, per se . This will have a positive impact on the Internet. And yes, Satellite sucks for on-line gaming, but is GREAT for almost all other stuff we like to do over the Internet. So it is good off-topic theme.

The new breed of eye-in-the-sky costs less to put into orbit for payload. With electric engines, there is a weight saving benefit.
Source: http://aviationweek.com/space/dawn-all-electric-satellite
Title: Dawn Of The All-Electric Satellite
Date: Mar 16, 2015
Quote

PARIS – The first two Boeing-built, all-electric satellites have begun an eight-month journey to reach their final orbit after launching atop a Space EXPLORATION Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket EARLIER this month, ushering in a new era in commercial satellite design.
Unlike chemically propelled satellites, the twin Boeing 702SP spacecraft use xenon-ion thrusters for both station-keeping and orbit-raising maneuvers. Weighing a combined 4,100 kg (9,000 lb.) and offering between 3-7 kw of power each, the all-electric 702SPs are half the weight of equivalent chemical-propulsion satellites, enabling significant cost savings, especially when paired on a low-cost Falcon 9.

This might mean lower cost Satellite Internet service for areas where cell phones service is not available. And this will offer some competition for the fiber optic services like video conferencing.
What do you think?

Discussion

1789.	Solve : I need an online raw file editor?
Answer» I own my own Garry's Mod servers and I need an online free file hosting website that can view files as a raw file and access other files when a file is ran. Such as a file calling DATA from another file in the \data directory. I tried using GitHub raw file but it cant access other files in that directory. I need this for hosting the PHP file for the LOADING screen. Any luck?How about hosting your own Apache or FTP server? Apache would support the PHP and FTP would allow direct access to the data files.Quote from: DaveLembke on May 30, 2015, 01:08:26 PM How about hosting your own Apache or FTP server? Apache would support the PHP and FTP would allow direct access to the data files. I actually just found one , its called OpenShift by RedHat. Works great with PHP 5.4! It even can read other files in its FTP server. Easy to SET up!COOL glad you found a solution... I'm going to CHECK into that OpenShift to see its pros and cons and make myself aware of its features etc. Thanks for letting us know your all set.

1789.

Solve : I need an online raw file editor?

Answer»

I own my own Garry's Mod servers and I need an online free file hosting website that can view files as a raw file and access other files when a file is ran. Such as a file calling DATA from another file in the \data directory. I tried using GitHub raw file but it cant access other files in that directory. I need this for hosting the PHP file for the LOADING screen. Any luck?How about hosting your own Apache or FTP server? Apache would support the PHP and FTP would allow direct access to the data files.Quote from: DaveLembke on May 30, 2015, 01:08:26 PM

How about hosting your own Apache or FTP server? Apache would support the PHP and FTP would allow direct access to the data files.

I actually just found one , its called OpenShift by RedHat. Works great with PHP 5.4! It even can read other files in its FTP server. Easy to SET up!COOL glad you found a solution... I'm going to CHECK into that OpenShift to see its pros and cons and make myself aware of its features etc. Thanks for letting us know your all set.

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1790.	Solve : The 5 worst ideas in tech history?
Answer» This was published March 6, 2015 in PC Pro by Vaughn Highfield pcpro.co.uk/computing This got my attention for 17 seconds. Quote This new time standard was known as Swatch Internet Time and contained no time zones to LEARN. The new time scale of Biel MEANTIME (BMT) would be the epicentre for all connected devices and users. ... Each .beat lasts for 1 minute and 26.4 seconds. Times were always noted as a three-digit number out of 1000 after midnight, so a time of @400 would mean 400 .beats past midnight, 400/1000 of a day, so around 8:30 in the morning. Got it? .. There's more. See the link.

1790.

Solve : The 5 worst ideas in tech history?

Answer»

This was published March 6, 2015 in PC Pro by Vaughn Highfield
pcpro.co.uk/computing

This got my attention for 17 seconds.
Quote

This new time standard was known as Swatch Internet Time and contained no time zones to LEARN. The new time scale of Biel MEANTIME (BMT) would be the epicentre for all connected devices and users. ...
Each .beat lasts for 1 minute and 26.4 seconds. Times were always noted as a three-digit number out of 1000 after midnight, so a time of @400 would mean 400 .beats past midnight, 400/1000 of a day, so around 8:30 in the morning. Got it?
..

There's more. See the link.

Discussion

1791.	Solve : Amazon prime wants me to pay for third season TV show.?
Answer» Part of the reasons for getting Amazon Prime was to get more free Movies and TV shows. Of course, some movies and not be free. I understand that . So I started watched a TV show and when I get to the end of season two, Amazon wants me to subscribe for the next season. I THINK this is a bait ans switch thing. I think it is unfair to advertise a TV show as part of prime if you can not get the seasons advertised. So I found another site that offered some of the third season with no strings. Not even a log in. Is this a common thing? Is it not STRANGE that Amazon wants extra money for something that other give free. Why? What am I missing? Has this happened to you? Does the free site have commercial breaks that the amazon doesn't have? Just thinking that its only free because advertisers are paying your way for viewing since it means you will see their commercials unless you are using an adblocker that is undetected and works to block ads. CW for example just recently updated their site to detect adblockers and I had been watching up to 2 weeks ago without ads. Now it shows a screen stating you need to disable the adblocker to view for the iZombie show that I am into. Amazon moves content in and out of their "prime" and "instant videos" on a regular basis. The third season may be in "instant" (you have to pay) this month but in "prime" (to which you've subscribed) next month (or next year, or never).I haven't had it HAPPEN to me so far but I could see that Netflix would have past seasons for free but want you to subscribe to watch the current season. Personally, I have been disappointed in the things that Netflix has AVAILABLE free for Prime members. MANY times, a movie I want to watch is not free for Prime but is available to watch for $$.Thanks. So I am not the only one. Advertisements are OK with me. I just go to the kitchen for a quick snack. Just like watching regular TV. But I can not understand why a commercial free movies would cost over even one dollar. What do they charge to he advertisers? Would any advertiser pay $1 per viewer? Or even 25 cents? Let's say there were 5 spots for a commercial in one episode. If each spot cotes 25 cents, the the episode would bring in $1.25 per viewer from the adverser. I find it hard to believe an advertiser would pay that much. But if so, then they should offer the option to the viewer to op out for $1. They might get more revenue that way. But now Amazon want $1.99 per episode. That is too high. At my local drugstore I can rent a full movie for a dollar, not just one 40 min. episode. End of my rant for today.

Discussion

1792.	Solve : Bad lithium batteries, Boeing 787 and a software solution??
Answer» Bad lithium batteries, Boeing 787 and a software solution? This just showed up in the news radar. I put this in 'Off Topic' because it is not directly RELATED to Computers. But it is of interest for the technical implications. Read this first. US testing of lithium batteries alarms aviation officials Then read this. US aviation authority: Boeing 787 bug could cause 'loss of control' The 787 has some of the most advanced designs, including software. But the problem seems to be batteries. Well, if so, then why did one authority say they WOULD alter the control software? What do you think? EDIT: I FORGOT a link Boeing 787 battery problems - Wikipedia

Discussion

1793.	Solve : Bluetooth connection?
Answer» i can connect my any device though BLUETOOTH to my lappy even after i INSTALLED bluetooth drivers. plz LET me KNOW how to do it...

Discussion

1794.	Solve : Earthquakes & Maps Link Oil and Gas.?
Answer» This is OFF TOPIC. It SHOWS what you can do with computers and data. The full title of the ARTICLE is: U.S. Maps Pinpoint Earthquakes Linked to Quest for Oil and Gas The information was released on Thursday. You already know that the US Geological survey does NEAT maps. Great for hikers. But recently they published maps that link earthquakes to old and gas extraction. For the full text go Here. Quote By far the hardest-hit STATE, the report said, is Oklahoma, where earthquakes are hundreds of times more common than they were until a few years ago because of the disposal of wastewater left over from extracting fuels and from drilling wells by injecting water into the earth. But the report also mapped parts of eight other STATES... The report is about data from the USA. It is not about other placers.

1794.

Solve : Earthquakes & Maps Link Oil and Gas.?

Answer»

This is OFF TOPIC. It SHOWS what you can do with computers and data.
The full title of the ARTICLE is:
U.S. Maps Pinpoint Earthquakes Linked to Quest for Oil and Gas
The information was released on Thursday.
You already know that the US Geological survey does NEAT maps. Great for hikers. But recently they published maps that link earthquakes to old and gas extraction.
For the full text go Here.
Quote

By far the hardest-hit STATE, the report said, is Oklahoma, where earthquakes are hundreds of times more common than they were until a few years ago because of the disposal of wastewater left over from extracting fuels and from drilling wells by injecting water into the earth. But the report also mapped parts of eight other STATES...

The report is about data from the USA. It is not about other placers.

Discussion

1795.	Solve : Voice?
Answer» Hi guys, Feel free to place this elsewhere but I'm DESPERATE. Do you know ANYONE with a very deep voice that could say TWO lines of text? I'm in a current YouTube video COMPETITION and I need someone with a Darth Vader style voice. I can't pay you but you will be given full credit in the description. Let me know as soon as possible please. Kindest regards MulreayMy voice is deep, but not scary. Show me the script. Quote from: Geek-9pm on April 21, 2015, 09:20:44 PM My voice is deep, but not scary. Show me the script. Thanks for the reply Geek... the voice doesn't have to be ultra scary just a deep voice I guess.. The two lines are: "Elite Dangerous, by any means necessary" and "In a Universe of commanders, who will survive?" Just two very quick simple lines. I am in talks with two other people but you would be surprised how much money people want for two lines of text. $300 + 10% is a starting point If I remember when I get home, I'll THROW something together for you.Quote from: quaxo on April 22, 2015, 07:58:30 AM If I remember when I get home, I'll throw something together for you. That would be great thank you quaxo :-)The WAV is inside the ZIP Geek-9pm.wav [attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Quote from: Geek-9pm on April 22, 2015, 11:19:27 AM The WAV is inside the ZIP Geek-9pm.wav Thanks a lot bud, very kind of you. Will check it out when I get home tonight The second was great, sadly the first was not, as you pronounced Elite wrong. As in Eleet not elight. But thank you I truly appreciate it friend.Quote from: Mulreay on April 24, 2015, 03:22:37 PM The second was great, sadly the first was not, as you pronounced Elite wrong. As in Eleet not elight. But thank you I truly appreciate it friend. Try again... [attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]That's awesome, thank you friend.

1795.

Solve : Voice?

Answer»

Hi guys,

Feel free to place this elsewhere but I'm DESPERATE. Do you know ANYONE with a very deep voice that could say TWO lines of text? I'm in a current YouTube video COMPETITION and I need someone with a Darth Vader style voice. I can't pay you but you will be given full credit in the description.

Let me know as soon as possible please.

Kindest regards

MulreayMy voice is deep, but not scary.
Show me the script.

Quote from: Geek-9pm on April 21, 2015, 09:20:44 PM

My voice is deep, but not scary.
Show me the script.

Thanks for the reply Geek... the voice doesn't have to be ultra scary just a deep voice I guess.. The two lines are:

"Elite Dangerous, by any means necessary"
and
"In a Universe of commanders, who will survive?"

Just two very quick simple lines. I am in talks with two other people but you would be surprised how much money people want for two lines of text. $300 + 10% is a starting point If I remember when I get home, I'll THROW something together for you.Quote from: quaxo on April 22, 2015, 07:58:30 AM

If I remember when I get home, I'll throw something together for you.

That would be great thank you quaxo :-)The WAV is inside the ZIP
Geek-9pm.wav

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Quote from: Geek-9pm on April 22, 2015, 11:19:27 AM

The WAV is inside the ZIP
Geek-9pm.wav

Thanks a lot bud, very kind of you. Will check it out when I get home tonight The second was great, sadly the first was not, as you pronounced Elite wrong. As in Eleet not elight. But thank you I truly appreciate it friend.Quote from: Mulreay on April 24, 2015, 03:22:37 PM

The second was great, sadly the first was not, as you pronounced Elite wrong. As in Eleet not elight. But thank you I truly appreciate it friend.

Try again...

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]That's awesome, thank you friend.

Discussion

1796.	Solve : Google Streetview Camera Car Fleet Set to Invade America?
Answer» A camera-toting tipster saw what appeared to be a giant armada of Chevy Cobalt cars in the Google parking lot, getting ready to take pictures of the entire world (or thereabouts) with special 360° cameras. The tipster SAYS he followed a Google camera van as it cruised back to its Mountain View, California, lair yesterday after that van finished a session of picture taking for Google's Streetview navigation site. Exactly what did he see? linkHmmm...a 360° camera.....starts day dreamingnot exactly the easiest thing to take inappropriate pictures with, but i'm sure i'll manage somehow Huh, I've always WONDERED what the Google ONES looked like I have seen quite a few of the Microsoft vans DRIVE by, this is NOTHING compared.

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1797.	Solve : PLEO?
Answer» No SERIOUSLY, what NEWSLETTER?For more information about the COMPUTER HOPE newsletters, click here.Thanks

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1798.	Solve : great site lmao?
Answer» QUOTE from: Dilbert on July 09, 2007, 08:26:27 AM I won! feels good savin the bunny a ......... good old fred......as for the rest fo you......im deeply deeply upset you DONT care about fred enough to save ihm It's not that I don't care... It's just that I can turn back time to save him when I "accidentally" kill him by clicking the "play again" button, heh. Although, thinking on it... You're right, I don't care. It's just more fun that way Quote from: GX44 on July 09, 2007, 08:49:23 AM It's not that I don't care... It's just that I can turn back time to save him when I "accidentally" kill him by clicking the "play again" button, heh. Although, thinking on it... You're right, I don't care. It's just more fun that way Or you all suck and cant do it like me and dilbert lmao so whats the fastest times you guys have managed to get? I forget mine and I need to go offline since I'm supposed to be working (hehe) so I'll see what I get when I get home...I think I killed him in 60 seconds.Anyone did it FASTER ? Kill Fred!!! I just shaved the little morons ears and legs and he died again. After he dies and learns to fly with his ears..it is a really relaxing background music. Think I'll kill Fred again!!!Oh!Bwahahaha!Yeah, thats quite impressive, flying with his ears... I think he's better off dead if he can do that...Haha, NICE FINDIve done it in 10 secs i think or 15 not sure......... Quote from: Richenstony on July 11, 2007, 04:51:08 AM Ive done it in 10 secs i think or 15 not sure......... KILL! KILL! KILL!neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr will he dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee on my watch!!! maybe all your you SICK sick PEOPLE Why can't you turn him around and shave his back before you kill him ? Oh no! Fred is dead!!!! Awww... and I didn't even get to cut him open...Fred needs punished some more...

1798.

Solve : great site lmao?

Answer» QUOTE from: Dilbert on July 09, 2007, 08:26:27 AM

I won!

feels good savin the bunny a ......... good old fred......as for the rest fo you......im deeply deeply upset you DONT care about fred enough to save ihm It's not that I don't care... It's just that I can turn back time to save him when I "accidentally" kill him by clicking the "play again" button, heh.

Although, thinking on it... You're right, I don't care. It's just more fun that way Quote from: GX44 on July 09, 2007, 08:49:23 AM

It's not that I don't care... It's just that I can turn back time to save him when I "accidentally" kill him by clicking the "play again" button, heh.

Although, thinking on it... You're right, I don't care. It's just more fun that way

Or you all suck and cant do it like me and dilbert lmao so whats the fastest times you guys have managed to get?

I forget mine and I need to go offline since I'm supposed to be working (hehe) so I'll see what I get when I get home...I think I killed him in 60 seconds.Anyone did it FASTER ?

Kill Fred!!! I just shaved the little morons ears and legs and he died again.

After he dies and learns to fly with his ears..it is a really relaxing
background music. Think I'll kill Fred again!!!Oh!Bwahahaha!Yeah, thats quite impressive, flying with his ears... I think he's better off dead if he can do that...Haha, NICE FINDIve done it in 10 secs i think or 15 not sure......... Quote from: Richenstony on July 11, 2007, 04:51:08 AM

Ive done it in 10 secs i think or 15 not sure.........

KILL! KILL! KILL!neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr will he dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee on my watch!!! maybe all your you SICK sick PEOPLE Why can't you turn him around and shave his back before
you kill him ? Oh no! Fred is dead!!!!

Awww... and I didn't even get to cut him open...Fred needs punished some more...

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1799.	Solve : Biff Henderson's Wacky Sports Bloopers?
Answer» Has anybody seen comedy CLIPS from the WEB site of the Late Show with David LETTERMAN? This ONE happens to be my favorite. It always cracks me up. http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/vide...hp/893038.phtmlI cant stand David Letterman..... QUOTE from: Richenstony on July 29, 2007, 08:32:09 PM I cant stand David Letterman..... I'm not a fan of him either. I much prefer Leno and Conan. Who really ticks me off is Letterman's friend/co-worker Paul Schaffer. He makes so much unnecessary noise.

1799.

Solve : Biff Henderson's Wacky Sports Bloopers?

Answer»

Has anybody seen comedy CLIPS from the WEB site of the Late Show with David LETTERMAN? This ONE happens to be my favorite. It always cracks me up.

http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/vide...hp/893038.phtmlI cant stand David Letterman..... QUOTE from: Richenstony on July 29, 2007, 08:32:09 PM

I cant stand David Letterman.....

I'm not a fan of him either. I much prefer Leno and Conan. Who really ticks me off is Letterman's friend/co-worker Paul Schaffer. He makes so much unnecessary noise.

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1800.	Solve : MY 25TH BIRTHDAY : )?
Answer» MY 25TH BIRTHDAY Happy Birthday!Uhhhhhhhh............. Happy Birthday Mr. Stranger.So...you registered just to announce your birthday? Well, happy birthday.Yeah, happy birthday. Have a good one.You are in the PRIME of your life and I hope you enjoy this day. So,What's the Hub Bub? Happy Birthday! My 25th is in two weeks! Happy birthday.... Will you even be back to comment?this has been dead for a while, yet you still POST? but i agree.. i think it's odd this person did that.Maybe SOLUTION just needed someone to give him/her some confidence???"many many return of the day." This is a great way to enjoy your birthday.Mr.Solution Pls give the solution of my problem HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I have one COMING up in about 4 weeks. I won't be 25, but I remember being 25, I think.

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