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I don't know where the problem is - charger or phone. Between my wife and I, we have two Samsung phones, same type but hers is one gen older. Hers is a 2100 mAh battery; my next gen has a 2600 mAh battery. She's out of town now, and she's run off with my charger. I'm using her charger to charge...

The current gen Camry is supposed to have one of the best back seats in the business. Haven't sat in one, though.

Semi-pro DSLRs have so many controls it's mind boggling. Even the flash is. Since my D700 use is infrequent, I keep forgetting anything beyond AV/RV mode and the basic settings. When I'm in a hurry, I just grab the point and shoot.

Then why the hell do they use them as cabs?

Here's the script I downloaded and used. Instructions: Download, unzip, right click on aegis.cmd, click "run as administrator", follow on-screen instructions. I got the link from a tech newsletter, article in a tech journal (ARS Technica?) or some such. I went through all of the unzipped...

I once rode in the back of a large taxi (Crown Vic?) some 55 miles to Newark Airport. Was the most uncomfortable ride of my life. The seat offered little thigh support, the back support sucked, and I was sliding all over the place despite being belted and the older driver driving sedately. It...

For a simian, the little one gives excellent advice!

Just ran a script I downloaded to rid my Win 7 of the "telemetry" crap. It removes the concerned installed KBs, hides them so Win Update doesn't offer them, etc. May decide to just stay with W7 unless MS relents and backs off from tall the spying. Meanwhile Linux can only get better.

What, LM, you forget that DB is a sock puppet?

They ask for mobile # because they spam with text messages and tie it to their loyalty programs. I couldn't care less. F them.

Don't they check shutter actuations before renting out and after the body comes back?

Sometimes people's thinking is screwed up. At times it makes more sense to rent. The number of people (including the wife) that tell me I'm throwing away money every month is crazy. I tell them I'm living in a nice home they appreciate, and not on the street or a shelter. Isn't that worth...

Win 8.1 castrated (removing MS' spy features - there are some guides /scripts out there) makes even more sense now. It is sorta unlimited; I get 60GB per month, then speed drops from 8mbps to 512 kbps. The latter is so slow it makes checking web mail or net banking excruciating. We do hit the...

I am on a metered connection. And I hate invasions of privacy, putting up with the minimum I have to so I don't have to live in the hills. ??

Tim & Sed: Too many things happening in life right now; can't afford the time and the patience for the learning curve. No, but it's support cycle is longer because it came out after Win 7. :(

Considering all the issues with Win-10, I'm just wondering if I should buy a copy of Win 8.1 (assuming they are still available) since 8.1 will be supported a lot longer than the Win-7 I am running now. And then at some point jump off into Linux... Thoughts?

Cool. Do any of these come with ABS? Some bikes here are now being offered with ABS as an option.

Sorry to hear this, Lunar. Since you say it's returned, it presumably went away once. May be it will again, with treatment or because of spontaneous remission?

Shit. I'm on W7 Ultimate. Went back till May 17 on the updates already installed and found these: KB2952664 on July 28 KB3035583 on July 16 These are described as compatibility updates and it's not really clear at all what they do on the KB description on MS' website. How the hell is one...

Leaky Win10. Privacy issues, and constant bandwidth use, both big worries for me. Even when told not to, Windows 10 just can’t stop talking to Microsoft

Bastards. Researchers reveal electronic car lock hack after 2-year injunction by Volkswagen

I understand a major update (similar to service pack) will occur to W-10 early next year. A month after that would probably be good to upgrade to W-10.

There are also reports of a KB for Win-10 that does not install properly. So Win-10 reboots, un-installs it. Then finds an update pending, so installs it. And goes on doing it. Not all systems, some. Still, since updates atr forced on Home/Pro versions, this ain't a good thing. Hopefully it's...

Where did I say to run your Air Conditioning unit on DC? Is anybody even reading my posts in full?

Amen. A bit of a weirdo, probably would have fit in better in the hippie era. Sigh, I'm not endorsing or justifying his views, only posted about it to illustrate that there are guys with such radical views. While I don;t agree with him, I respect him for pursuing his vision, however warped it...

Sorry to hear this Merc, and glad you're ok!

Merc, thanks for the clarification. Clocker! My confusion was that you did a fresh install from the downloaded media without doing the upgrade first. That's why I was wondering if the media creation process wrote the win 7 / 8 key to the media for use during the win 10 clean install process...

Thanks. I'll be downloading once and updating the laptop and desktop as well. Anybody know for sure, please let me know.

Inefficient to convert DC to AC and vice-versa; he's on a quest for efficiency. He invented Soylent because: a) he wanted to eat healthy and b) he didn't want to waste time cooking Soylent *may* be a good alternative when you travel and are not sure of availability of food; like hiking, for...

How? Does it save the win 8.1 / Win 7 key on the media created, and use that when clean installing Win 10?

His premise is that coal is being burned to produce AC, instead we should switch to DC generated by solar panels.

An off-beat blog by Soylent founder Rob Rhinehart about giving up alternating current.

Interesting read of IBM's Nana Research facility outside Zurich.

A rather long article, but I learned a few things about W10.

Thanks much, Chewy. Very troubling. Of course it was too good to be true; schweet MS, offering free updates to the latest & greatest OS. I'm on a metered connection, so I'll have to turn off the bit-torrent feature. Plus all the workarounds for the privacy rape. Thankfully, I haven't updated...

Don't remember if this has been posted before. From another website I frequent: I swear the words in the spoof version match the sounds you hear! I was ROFL for quite a while!

Didn't know about this; thanks! Your link didn't work for me (Access Denied) but I found the blog elsewhere. If true, this certainly solves the fossil fuel running out problem, but is bad for global warming.

Even for you, Lunar, this is outstanding in it's ability to mystify.

A few months ago I bought 2 x 3TB HGST NAS drives to replace the aging drives in my machine. Locally, there was not much of a price premium, and AFAIK, they suck a lot less than other brands.

If whites work fine in the same camera and XXs don't, your XXs are fake, no doubt about it. I don't know where you're located, but even Amazon has been known to ship fake Eneloops. In the US, the safest place to buy Eneloops, white or XXs, is Thomas Distributing. I've bought from them multiple...

Gee, thanks, I think I'll stick with my PS CS3 and Foxit Phantom PDF.

Loved the way you phrased that!

Didn't Google recently make a change where they penalize sites that are not mobile friendly by pushing them down in the search results? It was in the news for ages, but I didn't read through much of it since it's not relevant to me. The news sites even had a name for this project; I forget it now.

Congrats, Joe, thanks for making every post count and for the wonderful contribution you've made to this forum!

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Thanks Blake. The owners of the business (and website) are several degrees removed from me. I've passed on the info to the acquaintance closest to me; haven't heard back. How seriously they'll take it is anybody's guess.

Older phones (non-Android) don't have an encryption option.

time, not clear what ScriptBlock did for you. Please elucidate!

7:45 pm. Awesome view of Jupiter and Venus holding hands in the western sky. Wish I had a good telescope. The crappy Bushnell 10x25 binocs we have sucks big time.

Besides, I'd hate for my contacts' personal details (name, phone #, address, etc.) to be available to someone else. I've read that for phone repair shops with the appropriate cables to connect the phone to a PC and appropriate sw, it's easy as pie to retrieve all the info on the phone.