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Comment Re:Print More (Score 1) 347

This way, once both editions are OCR'd, a simple DIFF will tell us what the government considers to be critical data. The bad guys (if there are any who care about this and don't already know it) don't even have to read the whole thing now.

Comment The odd thing? (Score 2, Insightful) 374

That's how all of the library loan systems I've used work. They can only have the number of files that they purchased out at once. Otherwise they could buy one copy and lend it to a million people at once. One service could buy one copy of everything and loan it to everyone for practically no cost.

Audiobook downloads work the same way.

How the heck else could it work, if authors are to ever get paid anything?

Comment Re:An Advertiser's Fantasy ... (Score 1) 385

Yup, I'm really highly concerned that an advertiser might learn that I like electronics and am a huge computer geek. Because there's no other way they could know that.

Seriously, this is what I did; I pushed everything to GMail, like the OP, tens of thousands of emails, going back to the 90s.

Email is not and has never been a secure media, so if you've been putting sensitive data in emails, you're not being really bright anyway.

Comment Re:Cars Don't Cause Accidents... (Score 1) 825

It's ALWAY driver error, since one of the responsibilities of being a driver is keeping your vehicle in proper operating condition.

The only time it's not driver error is when completely unforseeable incidents occur, like someone jumping in front of a car from a blind location like from behind a parked truck or something.

Comment So is he saying... (Score 1) 825

A) The speed limits are actually BS and speeding enforcement is simply a way to make money
B) He's willing to sell the lives (safety) of other road users for $25
C) They're actually going to put that money into a trust to be used to pay for property damage or personal injury of people hurt by a driver on the program?

ISTM that it has to be one of these, or some combination of them.

Comment Re:News flash (Score 1) 190

In the case of Vista, "upgrade" is a matter of definition.

I had 7 on my machine for a couple of months but it drove me crazy, they made some GUI changes that I just found highly irritating and slowed me down too much, so I went back to XP.

Comment Not cheap telephoto (Score 1) 289

About 21 megapixels on a full frame SLR is already pushing the resolution limit of reasonably priced lenses (IE, L series glass). You might get a bit more than that, say 30 megapixels. Beyond that you're exceeding the Dawe's limit of the optics, and you're just not going to get any more detail this way than by just interpolating the digital 30 megapixel image.

Comment Re:SuperGenPass (Score 1) 278

It's a bookmarklet that I save on my browser. There is no transmission of the data nor pickup of javascript once installed. It's simple javascript, easy for any programmer to look at. I've looked it over. It's not a trojan.

There's also a version that you can grab and install on your own website for when you're using someone else's browser and can't install the bookmarklet. It's simple code too, I've looked at it and it's fine.

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