The stupid drone didn't knock on my door and my tablet got stolen off my porch. Then I get a knock on the door from the local PD with a complaint from my neighbor. She claims my drone flew from my front porch, flew over her backyard and was spying on her sunbathing nude. LOL, just some random thoughts

Sounds like a SyFy channel movies, Solar Polarity Flip causes big electrical tornadoes that cause massive earth quakes and exposing huge underground caverns where giant snakes, spiders, mythical creatures escape to wreak havoc on Earth.

"Two-thirds of all Valley Fever infections happen right here in Arizona and out of those, 80 percent occur in Maricopa County." Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/weather/weather_news/changing-weather-bringing-more-cases-of-valley-fever-to-arizona#ixzz2ZL5bmBDL Maricopa County, AZ, Population of 3.88 million, had 16,472 cases in 2011, 0.0042%. This is an increase of 2,700 cases from the year before. The 1,000 ft high dust storms during the monsoon season are a major contributor. Most of the cases showed up in February, after getting a few months to grow in the host and diagnosed by doctors. Most people in the SW carry the fungus, but only some are prone to it's ill effects. I have lived here for 32 years and never had symptoms severe enough to visit a doctor. I have known people to be hospitalized within their first year living here. Yea, it sucks. We take that chance when we live here. Get over it!

Lived in AZ most of my life... WTF is DST? LOL I remember going to class in HS in the dark and coming out of first period after sunrise. I remember swimming just after the sun went down, 9 pm, during the summer. Isn't it wonderful?

One octet per sheet of paper With each IP put a code at the bottom of the page that match each octet. Then mix up all the papers before you send them over so they have to match the code at the bottom of the page. :) Hey, just sayin

I agree, plus many new phones are coming with batteries that are not removable, or at least not removable by the general public. I had two spare batteries for my old phone with a wall charger for the batteries. My wife uses them now. My new phone requires the removal of 6 screws to get to the battery and plug on the motherboard. I paid $32 for a 4600 mAh battery about the size of a phone. I can charge my phone to 85% twice with it. Totally the way to go, I can also charge my iPod and other phone models with it. That hot chick with a dead phone will appreciate you letting her charge her phone with your portable charger. No I just need the cable kit so I can jump start my car with it. :D

"The Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act would force sex offenders to fork over to law enforcement their e-mail addresses, user and screen names, or any other identifier they used for instant messaging, for social networking sites or at online forums and in internet chat rooms." I don't use IRC anymore but I would submit the info. I am not using the BBs I used in the early 90s but I would submit those too even if I can't remember them. Gaming names, heck, do you know how many online games I played? Even my bank has messaging, do we include that? I can make it painful for them to track it all

Do they have a database in place? If I were to give up all that info it would be 10 pages long. Not to mention, it would piss me off and I would submit another 40 pages of bogus info.

You are correct. I know others saw different results, I was just expressing that my results did not correspond. I never said the report was not accurate. I was actually a little surprised because of results but I didn't dismiss them. If I complain to Cox I am sure they will tell me to get a new modem, which I did last year. If others in my neighbor complain maybe they will discover the bottleneck affecting all of us.

The monthly reports we received included latency. They were pretty detailed. However in the report they broke down day and night speeds, which we did not receive in the monthly reports as far as I know.

Agreed, however if I am paying for a 12 mbps package and the ISP also has a 7 mbps package and I consistently have a 2 mbps download, never going over 7, then I am going to complain that I am not receiving what I pay for. Drop me down the the less expensive plan and I will settle for 2mbps This is the case in my situation and I do understand that everyone will have different results. I could have a neighbor that pays for the highest package and chews up all the bandwidth in the neighborhood, though unlikely.

One summer when I was young and stupid, my wife and i went on vacation in the middle of summer for a week. Big mistake, we came home to our candles melted all over our tables and the inside of our house at 120 degrees. I would never do that anymore, but would instead turn it up to 85 or 87. I would be concerned about my electronics now days. I have a server and several computers. They are cooled by the house A/C and a small set of fans. We set it to 80 or 82 when not home during the day and 76 or 77 when home. For extended away times I set up additional fans for the server only and shut other computers off. Arizona summers can be brutal and there is no telling how hot a house may get if they shut your A/C off for a period of time. If they were to give us the option of allowing them to bump up the temp to 85 during peak times and not allowing the temp to go above that, it may be an option I would consider.

As a tech for a mid to large size school district, 10,000+ hosts, we recently migrated some of our older equipment over to Fedora as well. We put together a team and they tried different flavors. After a couple of weeks, Fedora was voted in. It was chosen for several reasons, like making it look as much like windows as we could. I was not on that team and can't speak for their choice, however I can tell yo that staff have migrated over very well. We even have staff requesting their older machines be loaded with Fedora because they are tired of windows running so slow on the older equipment . Licensing for windows was costing us more than we were willing to spend as well as our equipment was aging. Instead of recycling these computers for parts or whatever, it was deiced that Fedora could keep them in service and still provide a majority of the services each machines provides. Do some experimenting. It is really all up to how the staff feels and if they can overcome the learning curve.