Need a "Sad But True" mod.

F@$king mod system, slip of this mouse and modded wrong but no option to change the mod other than piss it away by commenting. This site is coded stupid. I would love to use the slider on my phone's browser too...

Any way, I would love to do the flaming hydrogen balloon release for my boy's birthday. Let's hope for a good wet April next year just in case...

The Y axis on the Moore's law is distorted to make the resulting line linear.

That is what I call my computers sometimes. My office is always the most comfortable room during the cold seasons since that waste heat keep it warmer (and the fact that it is in the upper level of the home). However, in the hot season (now), it is unbearable to work on much in my office. I had 5 computer running yesterday (4 were client computer getting serviced) and it was 85 F in my office with fans going and the AC nearly runs 24/7 lately due to the heat wave. This is a 10 F difference to the middle level where the thermostat is located. This house will built in 1956 and is a partial split level. The office and bedrooms are above a garage and utility rooms on a ground level slab and the mid level is over a crawl space. Poor insulation (by today's standards) in the walls is another factor as well.

This agency would have to have international power and able to act swiftly. It would be nice to see some high profile punishment for hackers on the payroll of organized crime in countries that are weak on enforcement. Maybe we should take a Vegas casino stance on these guys like they do with their cheaters. Have fun with your "1337" hacking skills after someone breaks all your fingers with a hammer.

Most people hate all the crap people send out for games that they have no interest in ever playing. I play a few games but hate the aspect where you need to bug other people for stuff. That is a reason many make alternate accounts so they can feed gifts and support to a main account.

Being unhappy with Facebook is probably being from a user being in the category of "just barely able to use it" so these people do not use Firefox with an ad blocker and they can't figure out that they can block Farmville posts from their walls so they instead unfriend someone that is excessive with requests and wall posts.

Facebook is not innocent, their interface changes enough that even savvy users get frustrated and some of the defaults have been something nobody would really want if they understood the consequences.

True, everyone is out to make a buck. Nutritional supplement makers can't usually corner the market on a product like a big pharma could. Some supplement maker may make a product that is a poor delivery method compared to natural sources or overpriced snakeoil in regards to the benefits. There might be dozens of brands for the same product with quality that may vary wildly.

The big thing to remember is the price difference for some of these products. In my case, $5 for a 3-month supply of vitamin D-3 or $75 of copay to get the equivalent in a big pharma product using prescription coverage. Can't imagine how harsh that would be if I had to pay the full price on some of the meds I have tried.

I started dealing with depression about 10 years ago. I have tried many drugs with little benefit but plenty of the worse results such as weight gain, sexual side effects, and mania. I have been hospitalized multiple times on both sides of the spectrum but nothing was ever stated as a physical cause other than stress.

Only in the past year was a test done to check for imbalances that may lead to depression. It turns out my vitamin D levels were very low. Many people cannot create or absorb vitamin D very well (especially a problem in winter). To treat it, I was told to take 5000 IU of D-3. Guess what, it worked! And within a few days and not 30 days like some drugs that must build up in your body. Now I take a lower dose (2000 IU) as supplement. If I feel a bit off mood-wise, I can take a dose and it makes a difference within 30 minutes. Also, it significantly cheaper. I can get a 100 doses of D-3 5000 IU for $5 or 200 doses of 2000 IU for $6. I would pay at least $25 for a 30 day supply of anything else as a prescription and that is only if my deductible was met.

Big pharma always downplays nutrition supplements (even studies that support it) as natural cures because they cannot patent it and charge $5 and up per dose. That being said, some of these drugs do genuinely help people with certain conditions. The problem is the lack of diagnosis to determine the cause of the problem and just trying to chase symptoms with drugs that create more problems than they may fix and may take a month before any benefit is seen. With depression, that is a long time to basically go without help and subjected to immediate side effects only to make a person feel even worse about life.

Exercise and diet is not downplayed because they know that people do not have the drive, resources and/or time for it be a factor in not needing to take their drug for whatever condition.

For most, purchase of an iPhone is mostly hype and a failure to understand the BS the contracts and service quality issues either Verizon or AT&T will offer. They are the only 2 carriers in our service area. I like to call our choices "dumb and dumber" with the option of dumber being dependent on your coverage in a particular location and what POS phone you have.

An often ignored fact (or barely mentioned by sellers) is that choosing the iPhone over the other replacement options AT&T gave to Alltel customers is that a new contract would be signed and unlimited data would go away. I have an HTC Aria since I wanted to try Android and it was a free and clear phone with no contract issues. I have had issues with internal memory limitations and the HTC Mail program leaking memory and not cleaning up very well after itself but otherwise happy with the phone. Seems like every device is gonna have some quirk or limitation either by design or after losing favor to the next shiny thing they are marketing.

Could have worked while at the restaurant if they weren't already on the phones trying to steal a reservation. Also, depending on the ability of the intercom noise feature, you could filter out real background noise and insert fake background noise of a humidifier, fan, or other noisy device associated with being ill.

This reminds me of the hack used in the Ferris Bueller movie when the door bell was pressed and a recording would playback over the intercom. If Ferris had this then, he could do his improvise the "sick and can't come to the door" routine from anywhere using a cell phone and not get busted by the recording repeating.

Thanks for the info. That just reinforces the need to do a survey with a wifi analyzer. I have an Android phone now after the Alltel to AT&T switch (so far, it is not too bad of a service for me but others in the area have dumped their service for Verizon which is the only other choice). I will have to get that app so I don't have to lug the laptop around as much for that purpose.

It really depends on the age and quality of the microwave oven. I have a client that has a really old beast of a microwave that is pre-1980's old. I have a tool on my laptop to analyze the 2.4Ghz band and I could see that some channels would be obliterated with noise when the microwave was on. This just meant assigning the access points to channels least effected by the noise. In newer and/or higher grade routers, the auto-select feature should pick out a good channel so this would be a non-issue anyway.

Recently, I have dealt with a couple of Mac laptops that had a malware events.

In the first case, it was a scareware page through Safari and the user interacted enough to download files that were unable to install but had the scareware load up multiple times within the browser for two weeks. My examination found the history of the events and the Windows-based malware files but no installed malware.

In the second case, it was scareware page that was brought up and was targeting Apple platforms. The user was smart enough not to believe it and shutdown the system instead of interacting with it or providing any personal info/payment for the fake product. When I checked it the next day, the domain for the scareware page was already taken down.

If Apple wants more marketshare for Macs, they need to acknowledge the growing security risks and provide legit tools instead of letting third-party vendor provide "mafia protection" type products. The users Apple is converting from Windows are buying in because some other user tells them "Macs don't get malware" and then you see the attacks going after weakest point of the users instead of operating system and other software. They will probably end up with a Mac with the "walled garden" so only software can be installed via Apple and not off other sites or removable media.

My sig says it all. For those who have sigs turned off: "I Cater to the Needs of Stupid People"

It is sad that people do not know what anti-virus program they are using yet do understand that they need anti-virus. Some of these saps will keep buying Norton and McAfee products and pay expensive auto-renewals or even install additional anti-virus and firewalls without removing or disabling the old ones. These people will click on anything that says something vaguely close to "security" or "anti-virus" in the name.

I favor the free (without paid version prompts) for these people since it easier to clean it up later when (not if) they get infected again because no product will stop the user from disabling or ignoring valid security alerts when they want to install the latest crapware that will be filled with adware, malware, or just a POS that crashes any application or OS it touches.