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Cutie! Bought that sawed-off shotgun yet, dad?

It was my sarcasm that was missed!

Spoken like a true American!

Thanks for the heads up. I just checked - zero contacts in my GMail account. I remember saying No, don't share contacts when the phone was first set up (and before signing in to GMail thru the phone the first time). Am glad that at least this much integrity is maintained.

It should be an option if I want to let G-Maps read my contacts list. For the record, even though I have a GMail account, it is dormant. My primary email a/c is Yahoo. Besides, of the 700+ contacts in my phone, only about 20 are in Yahoo Email's contacts list. So no way am I going to let G-Maps...

Updated Google Maps is available for Android. Why the heck does it need access to your contacts list? Why does WebMD need access to your call list? Sheesh, this totally negates the advantages of these apps. The invasion and rape of privacy is reaching epic proportions.

My gear was purchased in 2006 - works only on 2.4 GHz :) Sad part is my cordless phone also works on 2.4 GHz and suffers from interference :(

After a few days, another network popped up on the same channel I was, and other than the second Buffalo AP that could connect without any problems, no mobile device could, despite mu signal strength being much stronger. I changed by channel to one a few steps away, and my signal strength became...

I really, really like Mouse the Cat! (so did wifey).

Thanks Liam. So should one get off MSE and use Avast? I know that's what Merc has been saying all along in this thread, but wanted to know if the effort should be made.

Many, Many, Happy Returns of the Day, P5-133XL! Any more pics in fancy T-shirts?

Sounds familiar, haha. The combined Prime Minsiter, Finance Minister, Home Minister wields the most power! Beautiful pics, DD. Soon you'll have to buy a sawed off shotgun to keep the boys away. Budget for it now.

+1. Partying too much, Dave ? ;-)

Carpets with embedded dust in offices vs hard floors on the shop floor that are easier to keep clean? Most vacuums are a joke anyway.

My only experience with a Gigabyte product was like that: returned in the same box with a scribbled note that no problems were found with the video card when it had intermittent issues which I had explained.

Thanks Merc, but I've been using Paste (unformatted) text in Word for donkey's years. I don't use Metapad to strip formatting so I can paste it in Word; I do that directly in Word. I use Metapad to strip formatting if I need to paste the text in an email (Yahoo) etc.

My current and previous (still working after 6+ years) Seasonic's are great. Fan never turns on. When I turn off the switch on the power supply to cut the mains power every night, I can see an LED on the motherboard and another on the keyboard lit for several minutes (yeah, I know LED's consume...

Awesome idea, Mark. That way the cards don't get damaged by other stuff sitting on top of it. Bozo, you know what to do!

Is AC ratified or still draft? I'd hate to spend a pile of money and find my router is non-compliant. My point was that my Buffalo gear use WPA, not WPA2. AFAIK, WPA is easily hacked.

Done. I am on Channel 11; one neighbor is on 1, another on 6. No conflicts. My signal is the strongest (about 3x as high as the next most powerful one). Each parameter shows my current settings to be best. Of course I will check again multiple times tomorrow to make sure current results aren't...

Awesome link, Striker! Will use it and get back here. Thanks!

I'm using an Asus P8Z77-V (not Pro version) with an i5-3570K since Nov. 2012 without any problems. I guess Tannin's advice is sound.

Long story, please bear with me. My wi-fi gear is Buffalo, purchased in 2006. There's a router/mothership and two identical access points that work with the router. They all have 4 Ethernet ports in the back. Have never used one of the access points; it continues to stay in its box. The router...

Th reason expressed surprise at printing from Notepad is how crappy yhe printout is - large text in courier font. I too use Notepad's equivalent to strip off formatting, but paste back in Word or Excel, format it and print it out. I've used Metapad for years; I think someone here had written...

Very illuminating, and so true. Thanks for the link.

Holy Crap! Who in their right mind prints from Notepad? I never knew Notepad was an attack vector. I use Metapad as the default text editor, but Notepad is still in my system.

Nobody cares about this? Granted Nokia is nobody in the US, but they still are pretty big everywhere else in the feature phone market. They used to be big in business phones as well. IMHO, last gasp of Nokia and MS' mobile business.

Many tire shops have insurance for tires that they sell when you buy tires from them. It covers all road hazards, whether it's your fault or not.

Your tyre could fail anytime without warning. I'd replace it pronto, if I were you. The rim's condition is more difficult to assess. You may want to wait and see how it holds up. Don't exceed posted speed limits in the meantime. And what Mark said.

Many, Many Happy Returns of the Day, Dave!

40mpg @ 70mph is certainly astounding!

I think this sums it up perfectly. Amen.

You're barking up the wrong tree. They ain't competing with GM or Ford or Chrysler. They're competing with MBZ, BMW and Audi in the upper segment, and with Volvo on safety. You're quite right, but it'll do nothing for you when a drunk hits you from out of nowhere. That's when the car can save you.

Strange co-incidence: I saw a link to the Tesla S safety performance a few minutes ago. Wish every car performs as well.

Over here, that would disqualify 99.999999% of present and aspiring drivers. And that would be a good thing. Heck, if current US practices were applied, that would still disqualify 99.999% of present drivers (there's a couple of nines less there). Absolutely. And that is something that is not...

Smartphones typically gorge on batteries because all functions are on by default always: GPS, Wi-Fi, Mobile Data (3G/4G), Bluetooth. A bigger hog is the largse diaply they come with. Turning them off extends battery life many x times. I have all these turned off all the time, and turn on or or...

Euro NCAP, which tests vehicles for safety, has pedestrian safety as a key part of the score. Go to the website, select a vehicle and see the scores to understand what I mean. This has to flow down to all countries, though.

jtr, I never implied ESC os good for drunk drivers. You can be in the best condition to rive, you can be a very good driver, and can still benefit from ESC. Nasty, unpredicable bends, snow, sand, unexpected patch of water, etc. can all cause serious loss of control. There are enough videos on...

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Awesome. While ESC I believe is now mandatory in Europe, most manufacturers have to be dragged kicking and screaming to improve safety. Remember the protests against seat belts? And airbags? Seatbelts, ABS and EBD now seem to be standard even in economy cars in most parts of the world. Airbags...

Well, sis is on the wrong side of 50 :), and she's no hawk-eye like good ole Pradeep or our other gent from Chicago, Fushigi. And this machine will pretty much be used like a desktop - parked in one place while being used, then put away on a shelf. Except that the whole thing is much smaller...

My sister's 3-yr old Dell laptop is getting flaky (she lives 600 miles away). The Dell store guy has tempted her with a buyback offer, offering a decent amount for the current laptop if she buys a new one. The new ones look crappy to me: see here. She mainly uses it for email, some web surfing...

Whoever buys it, it'll be to milk the IP.

Methinks the second big para in the middle of your post starting with "FlexRAID:" should have started with "SnapRAID" ?

Not true. Compatibility pack for Office 2003 (a free download from MS) has been around for years, and is one of the first things any competent IT group would have installed on users' machines, as was the case in my company. It allows you to open, edit and save back in Office 2007 and 2010...

My heartfelt condolences, Handy. May you have the strength to bear this loss, and fond memories that never fade.

Is there an app that tells me what is using mobile data and battery power, and how much? On my Galaxy Grand Duos, I've got GPS, WI-Fi and BT off. I left mobile data on, and the battery depletes really fast (full charge gone in a day) without me using 3G/2G data explicitly. If I turn mobile data...

I use Syncback, free version. Handy linked to that years ago. It is my manually operated Raid-1 & back-up system. Works very well.

I'm a few days into my first Android (4.1.2) - Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos. Stumbling and bumbling my way though. I looked at a few apps, but it seems every app wants acess to your USB storage, your emails, your location, what not. I feel very naked. So Merc, which calculator do you use?