My Yahoo email address (yeah, I know, and I'm moving away from it - I've had the account since 1995 or 1996, but this latest mail interface redesign is finally getting me motivated to stop using it for anything other than junk mail) often receives legitimate mail intended for other people. My favorite incident so far was when a wife tried to email their password spreadsheet to her husband, but sent it to me instead. I let her know of the error, and she thanked me and said her husband was pretty pissed at her for the mistake. I deleted the message, though: if their accounts were broken into, I wanted to be able to say, "I deleted the message and the attachment."

I usually just ignore the messages and delete them. If it keeps happening I'll often respond and let them know they have the wrong person. I really want to slap the lawyers that have "if you are not the intended recipient of this email, delete it immediately!" at the bottom - I mistakenly received a message with that at the bottom once, so I responded per their directions and included a bill for my fee of $200 for the service. I never heard from them again, and if their little disclaimer was legal than my bill probably was too. I wonder if my point got through...probably not.

I would be careful about saving anything that could open you up to liability - the password spreadsheet above is a perfect example. The odds are excellent you'd never have a problem saving something compromising, but it only takes one idiot, and even if you're innocent, the hassle wouldn't be worth it.

Our Honda requires us to press a button to agree to the license terms for the nav system every time we start the car. I hadn't previously considered that Honda would be collecting that data - GPS itself is one-way data transfer only; apparently at least Ford overcame that, apparently by simply storing the data until the next dealer visit.

I'm not - I spent most of the snowboarders video trying to scroll around to get back to a normal forward view, and failing. Part of any kind of art is trimming the raw material down to the gold nugget inside. We're not impressed by a hunk of stone, but we are impressed when someone takes that stone and carves an elephant from it. This camera just gives you all the raw video in every direction, like that hunk of stone. Other than inside a 360 degree theater like in Canada's pavilion at Epcot (the only one I've ever seen), it's hard to understand the appeal of this camera... I'm just not seeing it.

Yeah, it was what I recommended as well. I have a version 1.1 floating around; I stopped using it just last year, after buying an n-capable router with gigabit ethernet (I often move large files around my network, so the n network speeds were a useful upgrade). Unfortunately, that router sometimes won't let devices connect and has to be rebooted, a problem I never had with my WRT54G... sigh.

You're right - the first and third ones are fixtures, but the second is definitely a bulb replacement. It's quite possible we're seeing different results.

I did look at those bulbs, but it's a hack...I'd rather have a fixture that replaces it. Well, I'll just keep waiting for now. Thanks for the info.

I don't have inside information into 60 Minutes programming, but my guess is that 60 Minutes' primary audience these days is older people. I don't know the politics, if they even have a bent one way or the other. I doubt many people under 40 watch it. It used to be one of the better investigative journalism shows - I remember a tagline that said something like, "You know it's going to be a bad day when... there's a 60 Minutes news crew outside your office." I have no idea what they've been doing more recently; I haven't watched an episode in years. It's supposed to be in depth news, rather like reading an article out of a weekly news magazine, where you get in-depth analysis, history, etc., instead of a shorter, simpler summary of events like you'd get out of the daily newspaper.

Also, if you look closely at your first link, those are replacement bulbs, rather than fixtures designed to use LEDs.

Thanks, but at $150/each, I'm not. I have four two-bulb 4' florescent fixtures; assuming I'd still need four, that's $600 for the LEDs. That was part of the point I was trying to make - the few options available are far too expensive yet.

I bought an LED bulb the other day (we had a coupon). We love it - instant on, and the light looks exactly like the classic incandescent. I'm sold; once they get a bit less expensive (or we find more coupons), we're buying more. I'm hoping we've bought our last CFL - they always felt like an interim solution until LEDs improved.

Now, can we get some lighting fixtures that use LEDs that are actually designed for LEDs? For example, I'd like to put in some LED downlights in the living room, but everything I can find is just an LED replacement bulb for a classic fixture, rather than a fixture designed for an LED. I'd also like to replace the 40 watt florescent tube fixtures in our garage with LEDs, but so far I can't find much that would work. I was thinking strips of LEDs, one color, but it was looking like several hundred dollars for several strips of the length I'd need.

Actually that's not really true - the earliest listed on Wikipedia was in 1764. It is, unfortunately, not a new problem, although I'm certain it has received much more sensational news coverage in recent decades.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that most people killed in auto accidents are in cars with less than 200 hp. It doesn't take much HP to be an idiot. Those accidents don't make national news for several days straight, though, most of the time.

It's not even the texting that makes them dangerous. What makes them dangerous is that they think it's okay to have their attention focused elsewhere while they continue maneuvering several thousand pounds of machinery. The text messaging is just the latest example, but there have always been examples of people reading, putting on makeup, eating, playing with the radio, talking on the phone, etc. People just don't understand, or care, that driving IS the activity you're doing. In a logical world, these people would be the biggest supporters of public transportation, so they can do those things without risk.

I had something similar happen with my Samsung S3. It turned out the cable I was using (an Amazon Basics 6' cable) is bad - if you page through the reviews for it, you'll find a few reviews mentioning the same issue. The charger was delivering a full 1 amp or whatever, but the cable had too much resistance. If I was in an area with a weak cell signal and no wifi, my phone would take practically all night to charge, even with Wifi and Bluetooth turned off. Sometimes I'd even wake up in the morning and find it was only charged to 85%. Similarly, when using my phone as a GPS in my car, the charge on my phone would decrease even while plugged in with one of those cables. Unfortunately, I'd bought about 5 of those cables before I discovered the problem. I've replaced the three cables that were causing me the most headache. I replaced the one that was the biggest problem with an official Samsung cable just to be sure.

They apparently have many in the facility in Suitland, MD, which occasionally does do tours, usually in conjunction with "____ history month" - for example they just did one for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.