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The issue here is that the driveway is on the same side of the house as the window wells. There's little I can do here in the way of outside measures without breaking up the driveway and paying to have it reinstalled. A picture is worth a thousand words: The first window well is right near...

Did anyone check for blocked salivary glands? I've had one of those on and off for the last year. While at worst it's a slight pressure (as opposed to any kind of pain), I've heard it can sometimes be painful.

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/articles/executive-physicals-can-a-5000-exam-help-improve-your-health-and-business/ A quick $200 exam where they check your BP and listen to your heart isn't go to tell you much. I was looking for an exam to get to the root causes of...

Why don't I have insurance? I can't afford it. Forget that I made 6 figures the last 2 and half years. Eventually this gig will end and I may well not find anything paying even close to it. End result is I'll go back to earning less than $10K annually, as I did much of my adult life. Either way...

That's what they quoted me. You do know that doctors charge a lot more for patients with no insurance on the supposed theory that most out of pocket patients are wealthy? Also, don't forget this is NYC where a lot of things are more expensive to start with.

Generally in my family the ones who get sick abuse their body in some way (smoking, heavy drinking, grossly overweight, not exercising, unhealthy diet). Even then, they typically don't have major health issues until their 60s. My father's mother for example weighed in excess of 300 pounds her...

Interesting to see I'm not the only one who hasn't been to a doctor in decades. After seeing what little help they've been to my parents and most other people I know, I just don't see the point. Not having medical insurance doesn't help, either. Few doctors these days will see a patient without...

Thanks, mubs! Still well before midnight here.

Thanks guys for the warm wishes! So far the rain has been kind to me. Only a little water downstairs.

Whether it is or isn't there's not a thing I can do about it. The water is outside the foundation regardless. I just want to keep it from coming inside.

That looks like it's used to trigger an alarm on the 5821 but I'm not seeing any way to use that to turn on a sump pump. Interesting device nonetheless. I'm sure I could make some sort of circuit. This issue here is there's a fine line between getting it to reliably turn on when there's water...

Do moisture probes like that even exist? Most ones I see are really closely spaced. So pedestal pumps might be the way to go? I'll look into it. We already tried that. A contractor put bricks and concrete in the wells. It didn't help much. That problem appears to be that water comes in under...

I highly doubt a moisture sensor would work here given that the water is often muddy. The sensor would eventually get shorted with dirt, it would think there was always water, and the pump would always be running, bringing me right back to where I started. Thermal protection seems like the best...

A float switch isn't going to work here. That's why I asked about sump pumps which can run dry in the first place. The water level never gets high enough to trigger any kind of float. Basically, the pumps are buried about 2" in gravel. I need them to be on as soon as water hits the bottom of the...

We've had basement flooding problems whenever it rains since we've moved here. I gradually fixed most of the problems except on one side of the house. The issue is caused by water flowing in under the driveway, then eventually filling the window wells, and spilling over into the basement. It...

Cool. That looks like it could level a house in seconds.

Doesn't your company sell these? https://3sr05l2l7ihe1u4u613nqp53-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Schaufelradbagger_01.jpg

Maybe that's a factor. I have a very low credit utilization rate and I always pay my balance in full each month. I've been doing that since I've had credit cards. Also, I've had most of my cards for years. The oldest was issued in 1989. I guess as my income increased my credit utilization...

Not sure whether to put it here or in the something random thread but I hit the magic number on my FICO score: I had been hovering near this mark for a while but never quite reached it. I figured it was unreachable. I guess not.

Same here. I hope all is well with him.

On his way to Canada?

After reading this thread, I bought one of these for the front door, which is 1.5" solid wood. We also have had steel security doors like these for the last 23 years. Another good feature which at least helps when you're home is a physical bolt like this. Obviously can't be opened from the...

Not going to be me. I'm living in a paid-for house, and finally doing decently making over $100K annually (at least for the time being). I probably will benefit from a Trump administration in the form of lower taxes, plus no longer having the specter of possibly being dinged for "personal...

A few months ago I may well have predicted this but his numbers were in a meltdown ever since. I'm surprised the polls can be this wrong. The next four years are going to be ...interesting.

My thoughts exactly.

I don't think anybody expected this. Earlier today I actually posted somewhere that it looked like a lock for Hillary to win. That said, this may well be for the best. I was genuinely afraid of what Trump supporters might resort to if he lost.

I'm not, nor would I ever see any scenario where that would happen.

Maybe it's just me or the city I live in, but that's not something I would let stop me if they were OK with it. The good thing with people that age is most don't have kids. I agree 100% with your feelings on that:

Well, that was the mistake I made, sort of. I didn't outright turn them down, but I was really bad at showing my feelings (or really great at hiding them). So was she, to some extent. I still regret that to this day, having someone who was perfect for me in every way and not having anything come...

My neither. I just don't have anything important enough that it needs to be stored offsite. That includes my data. My rationale with my data is I'm almost always home. In the unlikely event something destroyed the house it would most likely kill me. If I'm dead, it doesn't matter if my data...

I have the same issue except all I have to do is paste in a space once in the reply and then the spacebar works normally again. Totally weird problem.

Don't forget to add roads and driving to that. The right wing almost never saw a highway expansion it didn't love. They love socialism when it comes to their private automobiles. Free highways, free curbside parking (even in cities with expensive land), wars to keep gas prices low, etc. But of...

That would also have the secondary effect of making it more cost effective for most freight to go by rail instead of truck. This in turn would considerably reduce the repair bills for highways. In most of the country probably true. I've seen a lot of light rail systems which are boondoggles by...

Not in our lifetimes.

NYC sends far more money to Washington and upstate than it gets back in spending. Without those burdens we can easily pay for what we need and probably lower the overall tax burden to boot. Besides that, the gas tax doesn't even cover the maintenance cost of highways, let alone pay for transit...

That's kind of what I want to happen at this point. I think the US is done, dead, finished, going the way of the old USSR. Electing Trump will be like a bullet to the head. Death will be quick, probably not all that painful. Hillary will be more like getting shot a bunch of times, none near...

I'd love to see Trump win just to see the reactions from both the mainstream media and Congress. Chances are great he would be impeached before he could do much damage.

This might be the year to elect a third party candidate. The ones from the two major political parties are unelectable.

A 12K display? Don't give the panel makers any more ideas. I have a gut feeling we're at the start of a resolution war where things will get crazy. I can see it now-try our new 50K 55" panel with a resolution of 1000 ppi AND 16 bits per color. Never mind that you probably don't need anything...

Does any of that work with Yahoo? While Yahoo doesn't explicitly block people who disable ads, it seems they keep trying to load junk which pegs the CPU at 100% and more or less makes the computer unresponsive for a while. I've manually killed the process in Task Manager each time it occurs but...

No, the cloud really does exist: This is where your data goes when you send it to "the cloud". Unless of course this guy gets to it first (yes, he's real too and he's running the NSA):

Hopefully they'll go after all the other telescammers next, starting with the ones claiming your computer has a virus. Sad to say it, but telescamming seems to be a cottage industry in India.

I sit about 15" away from my monitor. Any further and I'll need glasses which introduces its own set of problems (distortion, annoying to wear, etc.). I do have great closeup vision for anyone, never mind someone who's pushing 54. I can read the numbers off 0805 resistors, for example. For those...

When I looked last time I was at Microcenter, I can definitely still notice pixels on a 4K 27" display, albeit barely, at the distance I sit from my monitor. 8K eliminates that issue altogether. It also eliminates the problem on displays up to perhaps 40". That said, I'll probably get a 24 to...

Turns out I actually was born under the new sign. Not that it matters.

Ouch! Pretty hard to defend against that.

Which devices were being hacked to send all this data? If it was webcams and DVRs in the offices where Krebs operates, why not just physically unplug them?

I found some interesting reading on SSD data retention: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/205382-ssds-can-lose-data-in-as-little-as-7-days-without-power http://www.militarysystems-tech.com/articles/slc-vs-mlc-proper-flash-selection-ssds-industrial-military-and-avionic-applications...

Stuff like that is exactly why I think IoT is a horrible idea. I don't need some hacker screwing with my lights or heating system or any other device of mine. The downsides of having everything connected to the Internet outweigh the relatively minor convenience of being able to dim your lights...

I tend to save stuff which is potentially useful to me with the thought I might not be able to easily find it in the future. I have tons of saved research papers, for example. Some of them are hard to find now, even impossible.