Our company is one of those small businesses. Someone purchased several HP printers with the 'e' suffix before we (or really, *I*, since I'm the IT department) realized how awful HP's practices are. I know now that HP has multiple lines and that some of them don't require an internet connection, but it's too late. HP is now on our "do not buy from" list.

If your browser is using HTTPS (which is the default nowadays), your ISP can see that you've connected to a particular server, and may also know what domain you're visiting. However, the rest of the request, including everything after the https://domain/, is encrypted.

I've tried several times to make the hop to Linux, each time running into one showstopping issue or another. About a year ago, however, when I got a new-to-me laptop, I decided to give it another shot. I installed Ubuntu Mate, and when it booted to the desktop the first time, it just ....worked. No driver downloads needed, minimal-to-no bloat and spyware. Just a desktop ready to go.

It really took me aback. I kept expecting to run into some sort of wall, but never did.

So you might give it a shot.

That's the thing. For the most part, Windows 7 just gets out of your way and lets you do stuff. Windows 10 seems to go out of its way to make life harder for you. And what makes it worse, is that Win10 tries to make life easier for you, but in the process makes things worse.

For example: Printers. They worked fantastic in Windows 7. You could install drivers from Windows Update if you wanted. Or, you could manually install drivers, if WU didn't happen to have what you needed. Not so in Win10. Just two days ago, I spent a couple of hours trying to fix a printer driver issue in Win10. I even downloaded the drivers from the manufacturer, but Windows wouldn't let me install them, insisting that its own drivers (which were the ones causing the problem!) were the most up-to-date, and therefore the only acceptable ones.

What solution did I end up with? I replaced the machine with another, running Windows 7. It took me all of 5 minutes to get the proper drivers installed and working.

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everyone's getting excited about outing some LGBTQs, but i'm guessing there are many more couples sharing joint accounts with names like John Jane Doe. and then you have all the completely fake accounts that do nothing but spam. my guess is that if someone wants to use a fake name, the only way facebook is going to know about it and take some action is if some of their friends are jerks and turn them in.

They're not stacking silicon wafers on top of each other. Rather, they're putting more layers of oxide, semiconductor, etc onto each wafer in order to produce the 3d stacking. Yes, it's more complex. But it's a pretty mature technology.

"noise during takeoffs and landings"? I've been on plenty of airplane flights, from a Cessna up to a 747, and on none of them have I ever noticed noise from flaps. I don't get the whole fuel-savings bit, either. That's kinda the point of flaps--increase lift at lower speeds, with a corresponding increase in drag. When you're landing, your engines are running at reduced power anyway, and when you're taking off, the flaps don't stay extended for very long--just the first few minutes of flight. Now, if you told me they were making wings that could alter the thickness of the airfoil or the length of the wing in-flight, I'd be interested.