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Guess WHAT this is, and WHERE it is. Answers below first pic. It's a bug, and it's INSIDE my friggen monitor. F-me. I just went from a pixel perfect 43" monitor to a "10 dead pixel" spot. So I was just surfing the web and saw a tiny bug/gnat moving on my monitor and attempted to wipe...

Well unfortunately Spain passed Italy as far as the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Hopefully their health care system is not so overloaded that they pass Italy's number of deaths. As far as my comment immediately above, "hop[ing] we don't "reopen" the country TOO soon" has layers of...

SMH. Is the possible bad publicity worth the cost savings WD?

Things still AFU. I hope we don't "reopen" the country TOO soon.

Just an FYI. I had my $1200 stimulus check deposited into my account at 2am today.

The cost to efile Fed+State has spiraled out of control with Taxact. Cost for Fed+State below: 2011 - $18 2012 - $20 2013 - $18 2014 - $20 2015 - $40 2016 - $60 2017 - $60 2018 - $69 2019 - $117 I'd like to see a site that can efile FEDERAL and State returns (for AZ) using 1040 + Schedule D +...

Additional information added to the JHU COVID-19 map page. The total number of test performed and hospitalization in the U.S. are displayed with breakdown by state. 2.69M test performed in the U.S. with 82.9k hospitalized.

^^^ Makes sense. Thanks for the above analysis. Nothing statistically accurate can be said about the Covid-19 pandemic as of right now. And unless we eventually test a huge percentage of the populations effected we won't know the true mortality rate. If the above percentages hold steady...

800 Gb Ethernet.

As of 10-April-2020 Worldwide COVID-19 infection rates are still constant with linear growth for the past two weeks now. Deaths as a percentage of infections are listed below: U.S. 3.8%. (Total U.S. deaths via Wiki as above JHU site splits U.S. deaths between cities/counties/states). Italy...

All politicians rarely admit failure or admit mistakes were made. All politicians try to deflect the negative and assign blame if they can't deflect. The media love it because it makes for good entertainment and ratings. The media feed this because it generates even more "newsworthy"...

-going to split this response up as there are too many points to keep track of in a single post- "constitutional amendment to make him president for life" ... All the "nuts" said nearly the same thing when Obama was president. Obama went away when his terms were up and Trump will also go away...

I've stayed with TaxAct mostly because of inertia. I already have an account, they do a decent enough job calculating taxes/refunds, efile both fed+state and staying with them means there is one less company with my SS#, address, and other vital info. I think the $69,000 cutoff for free tax...

Any news from DD or Lunar? Last night I filed my 2019 taxes with TaxAct Online. Cost $117 for Fed & State forms and e-file. Fuck me. 10 years ago it was $25-30 for both. Of course I had to buy the "premier plus" tax prep version as I had two shares of stock vest and then were immediately...

My multi-hour shopping adventure... Most stores are closing one or two hours earlier than normal. The 24-hour WinCo is now closed from 10p-7a. All the grocery stores have set aside 1 to 1.5 hours, starting at 6am or 7am, for senors. I started shopping at 2:30pm. The two stores I went to...

I'm about to hit the grocery store for the first time in nearly a month. I'm not concerned about catching COVID-19 but I'm uneasy about any store/public protocols I should be following. Will there be a line to get into store? What will be available for purchase? Quantity limits on "staple...

As China's death toll drops below 5% (and eventually 2%??) of worldwide total, any sympathy for China will rapidly turn to blame and hate. I wouldn't be surprised if China dropped quarantine restrictions to get China's overall infections and deaths back up to support their narrative. Trump's...

This. Without data on the number of tests being performed any data regarding new cases or infection rates is not all that useful.

And two weeks later, Italy has 5x the number of deaths as China. :(

I haven't read the article yet, but it's just common sense that you can't continue testing at an exponential rate. If I'm understanding things correctly.... Eventually the number of test kits and personal to give tests will top out. So number of infections will continue to rise while the...

Lying or misleading statements are bad. No argument from me. I don't watch news for the most part and don't have any facts/info on either side so my above reply was somewhat rhetorical in nature. I would be concerned if Trump was "too honest and dire" regarding possible infections and deaths...

Italy, Spain, France and soon the U.S. and Iran have passed China on the total number of deaths from COVID-19. I don't know if China's swift and/or complete lock-down and quarantine has kept their total number of deaths low, of if China is not being completely honest. Maybe it's irrational...

^^^ When did the testing issue(s) in Montana begin? Two weeks ago or 6 hours ago? Testing issues in Helena, or some tiny random town? Compared to the pandemic in the U.S. as a whole a testing issue in a low population density state of Montana is a minor bit of minutia? How often is Trump...

My state of Arizona has ramped up quarantine efforts. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has issued a new executive order: “Stay Home, Stay Healthy, Stay Connected”

For U.S. residents: "Everything You Need to Know About the Stimulus Payments" I was emailed this page by the site I use for my taxes. The IRS will use your 2019 tax return to calculate your payment. If you haven't filed your 2019 return yet (IRS filing deadline now July 15) your 2018...

I saw this on fujirumors. 300/4 DOE and 500/5.6 DOE (Diffractive optical element) tele lens patents. If these come to pass and Nikon never gets around to updating the D500 (in a timely manor) the Fujifilm XT4 paired with either/both of the above lenses looks very interesting.

Flakey motherboard and/or CPU. :(

Not to make light of the above posts......but I saw this on Hardforums. I LOL'd

Spain has unfortunately seen a doubling of their fatalities from 1800 to 3600+ in 3 days. Spain has passed China in total number of COVID-19 deaths. The U.S. is currently third in the number of infections but it looks like the U.S. will pass Italy and possibly China tomorrow and have the most...

Finally. Olympics delayed until 2021, from USA Today, "IOC member says 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed because of coronavirus pandemic" Without a doubt. High population density, international city, etc, etc. Nailed it! Take care. How many days have you been sick now? Longer than a...

Johns Hopkins University modified their COVID-19 update page and stripped out the Chinese specific data from the graphs as the Chinese now represent less than 25% of all confirmed cases and deaths. Unfortunately two days from now Italy will have suffered twice as many deaths as China while...

Canada drops out of the 2020 Olympics. Why doesn't the IOC just postpone games until summer 2021. By then, hopefully, things will be getting back to normal and hopefully the economy will be on the upswing. Edit: Maybe Nikon can delay launch of their D6 till Feb'21 and actually update the camera!

For those of you who missed it. IRS filing deadline has been pushed back three months. New filing deadline is July 15. Arizona also extended the state filing date to July 15. Your state may be be different. Applies to U.S. residents only of course.

This has been the case for a long time now. The President or government does something good = boring news. Scandal = eXCiTinG sTorY! = veiwership = ratings = ad $$$. Simple economics. It's scummy, but that's the way it works now a days with the "infotainment media." Fear & Panic & Scandal &...

800 more deaths recorded in Italy on 21-March. Italy now has 50% more reported deaths that the number of "reported" deaths in China.

Since you had to bump the voltage a bit, is there any "test points/contacts" of the MB you can manually check voltages with a multimeter and compare to reported voltages on BIOS screen? Perhaps the CPU/RAM is being unintentionally under-volted and the voltage drops enough to cause a crash?

This pretty much echos my shopping experiences posted earlier in this thread. I haven't been back as I don't need anything. I think we may see a leveling off of positive COVID-19 tests but that would probably be caused by the number to tests leveling off due to lack of test kits, lack of...

600 more deaths recorded in Italy on 20-March. The number of cases in the U.S. is increasing at an alarming rate. At least then number of U.S. deaths is relatively small when compared to Italy. Interesting that the number of infections in China has not increased since mid Feb. Has China...

Damn. Over 242k cases now. Italy reported nearly 500 additional deaths and has surpassed the "reported" cases in China. Fuck. Take another look. I don't see much leveling out. The actual reported cases for areas outside of China looks like y=e^x. I'm hoping it will level out soon but we...

^^^ That blows.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html Total confirmed cases was just under 200k (198k'ish) earlier this A.M. Now it's at 215k. Maximize the bottom-right panel. The exponential growth does not look good. HOPEFULLY growth will level out like China's growth has the last month. Italy (pop...

I'm saying don't forgive students loans, but eliminate the current horseshit and past fuckery (like all the things you mentioned) and the problem would be reduced. And it might be instantly solved for many who have already paid the entire principle of their loan plus a healthy amount of...

SD your random computer lockups are spreading like a virus. I just had a strange lockup myself a few minutes ago. I tried to edit my long post in the COVID-19 thread and computer freezes. CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't do anything. Even the hardware reset button on my case didn't reboot computer right...

Telemarketers will be the second to last thing to perish on this planet. The first being cockroaches. :unsure: (what happened to the head scratch emoticon?) You are paying for a landline that's you don't have a phone on? Part of a "internet/tv/phone bundle" you can't, or not worth it to...

Current Estimates of the Severity of Cases by Age of COVID-19.

I got an email from Bath & Body Works today (I must have bought a candle online 150 years ago or something?). The email's purpose was to inform me that all of their stores will temperately close. The big mall next to where I used to live in Cali has closed. "South Coast Plaza closes for 2...

How many 100s of rolls of TP do you have now? /kidding

I received another email from my HOA. The community center, the two aux community centers, ballroom, workshops, activity rooms, pools, workout/weight room, sports bar, tennis courts, softball field and every other building/room have now been closed immediately and until at least May 1...

Where and what is the line between retail arbitrage and complete scumbag? Admittedly those brothers were dumb. They should have ramped up prices bit, by, bit, instead of going crazy to prevent themselves from being seen as obvious profiteers and getting themselves banned. I think Amazon and...

Probably will be marketed to those "high-end," "custom," "stupid-money" builders that want a super custom looking cable management setup.