I do trust them; including trusting them to data mine the f**k out of everything since I'm a resource to them like you say not their client. I do however have split IDs so limit what I share and don't contaminate either. Even for the machine I use some of their services on I use another DNS (opendns), noscript/ghostery/flashcookie control blah blah all in palemoon. For stuff I'd rather not share it's all VPN and Tor with the unix browser bundle and zero google services. Even with the limit set on the google use machines it is amazing how accurate they profile me; I occasionally disable adblock etc to find they have ads for hobbies or recently purchased things etc based on the stuff I shared, if anything my approach cuts out the noise and makes me a more accurate profile but again none of the stuff I don't want linked is in that that I've seen and I'm happy to do what I have in return for "free" services in return for such details.

what about users like myself who switch between mouse and graphic tablet use on particular day depending on workflow. When I have lots of illustration or retouch work that day I tend to do a lot with graphic pen but prefer switching to mouse for other tasks such as mail and web browsing, gaming whatever. Also with graphic pen in hand I type differently too as I don't put the pen down so do more with left hand and single finger stabs on the right unlike mouse use where I use more fingers on the right.

Many around me do similar things, not just graphic tablet/mouse but stuff like switching up pointing stick/touch pad on thinkpad, mouse/trackball, mouse/touchpad and so on and some I know use more than one mouse since they prefer different button actuation force/ergonomics/weight between different stuff such as gaming and other stuff one one machine.

Seems a silly way of locking machines to me. Sure I've seen the code fob in keyboard thing you have to pull when leave terminal fall down as people can't be arsed removing it when leaving it unattended near members of public for under 1min but plenty of other existing ways which are efficient with less room for error and more flexible than this idea yet require just as little input if any when user walks away for a moment to lock it.

you can do that with rockbox open firmware on compatible DAP, I personally use it on a few sansa clip+ but many are supported. You can control many aspects of the mixing and simple downmix from 2 to 1 is just tip of the iceberg. How it's mixed, dithering and so on as well as stereo specific mix effects such as crossfeed with tweakable high freq. rolloff and and so on is handy. I find myself fine-tuning and making presets on the fly for hard panned old 70's stuff that was mixed poorly and hard panned stuff is horrific on headphones without this.

Nice way of adding spacious feel to headphone too and extending the stereo a little without any of those horrid DSPs that just add echo and make stuff sound like crap. Also I like a particular sound and the equaliser is advanced and can set several shelf filters (including q-factor width to make/stop spikey EQ) as well as regular multiband EQ since I use large cans when at workstation and IEMs on the go.

Also he is confusing gays with rapists by the sound of it. I can honestly say I've never been raped by gay nor straight friends or colleagues when I've fallen asleep around them. It's not sexuality preference that makes people into sex offenders jeez, secondly plenty of fellas been raped by otherwise "straight" men as happens a lot here for instance in UK organised drug and crime scene as a power and shaming thing.

some know trust me, I peeled decals off and on rides home covered in mud I'll still get the odd groups of teenagers name the exact part to each other and shout "sick bike mate" to me. I also know someone who sprayed their frame matt black and made it look junk and they still named the exact model. Thieves and like know what they are looking for. I simply don't leave my bike anywhere it's guaranteed to get nicked. Even my decent D lock and cabled for wheels are poppable with folding cutters and a mini bottle jack which a lot of thieves have on them when scouting.

Problem is expensive components and frame have unique tubing shapes and geometry, good weld patterns and so on. To modify everything is impractical and also adds more weight, eg. to make formula brake calipers and levers look none recognisable you'd need to add a serious amount of epoxy putty r something on and it'd be hard due to keeping access to pads clear, same for all bolts locations and so on.

ah I'll look into doing that since I've been meaning to register it since close friend who cycles professionally had 3 stolen from her house in a row. Hard to hide it when people know you cycle and correctly assume you have expensive bike. My advice was to put a shotgun shell in a shim inside the seatpost and a piece of wood with crude firing pin stuck in it. Loosen the collar so it slips suddenly under full seated weight and byebye bike thief rectum. Of course I was joking but now I think about it ;)

problem is custom builds as you can't register all the serials of every part. My heavyduty XC is a self build and the brakes alone cost more than a lot of frames, it's a high end frame and my BB and crank alone is £180. I hand picked everything right down to proper heat-treated steel bolts and the type of grease in different parts and most those parts are sought after. Even the partially worn chainrings are still saleable since they are the 7005 blackspire 5 arms on an adaptable spider (takes any rings with right spder change) and ony the weaker 4 arm are common these days. I noticed as always on the lookout to get deals on the 5 arms as I prefer the strength and don't want to swap to the 4's and know the 2nd hand ones sell pretty well.

desomorphine isn't so bad if you purify it, or at least take a lot of the crap out like alkanes it's often cooked in. Krokodil is bad due to the lack of purifying step, I first heard of it a year ago but deso has been used in likes of Australia due to heroin shortages for much longer just not in such a dirty form hence lack of necrosis associated with it now.

My degree was in biochem but even I know enough drug purification techniques to separate enough of the desomorphine from the crap and generally it wouldn't be so bad for you even IV, so i'm surprised no-one street level has figured out something similar. I mean even cynical view the customers live longer you sell more. The active ingredients are fine in right does, the impurities downright nasty and some of the adulterants/deliriants are not so great for the body such as the eye drops it's mixed with.

Some adulterants are not so bad in opiates such as diphenhydramine (1st gen antihistamine to make it dreamy feeling) and benzos etc although much of the heroin and opiates knocking around on the street has too much shit like that in hence many users I know say the nod off it is shit but alright legs (duration of the hit). Obviously stuff like temazepam mixed in also cuts the craving somewhat and is noddy still so means you can drop the amount of actual gear in the mix. Some of the bulking agents are ok like lactose but some is downright shitty to cut with, there are always some too. Recent outbreak around city centre where i live of heroin with suboxone in (the buprenorphine is fine but the naloxone causes major issues when injected and has killed or hospitalised a few local addicts and a lot of outreach workers I know are warning about the batch).

stores I use such as fasttech sell those cells too, they aren't made for tesla to keep cost down; they are made for people who need cells minus the protection circuit or a shorter cell (for instance in tight fi flashlight with spring/button on driver so none needed on cell). Many just solder on buttons if needed but many people use little magnets on buttonless cells I notice

doubt it, they have no real benefit in making this kind of malware as far as I can see, it is bottom of the barrel stuff we're talkign about here. Admittedly they do have a hand in a hell of a lot of the other stuff like zeroday exploit kits which the vendors of admit US is one of the biggest customers in buying such kits. The money is no issue to gov funded group so pocket change from making such malware is pointless, besides any other reason to compromise mobiles they can get access to that data already without your phone being compromised

actually classical is more forgiving, now technical metal on the other hand has a lot more sound going on and stresses the drivers a lot more. I listen to both metal and classical an have experimented with lossy/lossless boundaries and it is easier to here degradation in metal at reasonably higher bitrate compared to even multi voice classical. Artifacts, bass muddying and bleeding into everything, stereo compression and so on really take it's toll quickly under 200kbs. I listen on sansa clip+, HP amp, sunrise xcape v1 out and about but at home on my PC with headphone amped soundcard and FA03 clone cans I can hear it and especially on denon ah p372 which don't tolerate lossy artifacts very well at all and show it up. As above it depends on mastering of source to begin with as well as ears and equipment.

TBH the standardised times worked pretty well for the railway thing since before then you needed myriad clocks in stations showing times at current station and other stations and even other lines maintained by another firm in same place. Setting standard time for all to use in particular place was good thing for synchronicity but I wholly agree it is meaningless as far as amount of daylight workers get as oft doesn't work out that way.

I sometimes think they don't want to believe it since even given proof they wont listen. I have few friends who seen it more than me 1st hand, one of whom was from rather well off background and turned his back on it as he correctly believes you cannot "fix" a system designed on a f**ked up foundation, you are right it is indeed by design. The same guy was educated with one of the Rothchilds btw, sad thing is she was prob one of the most unhappy girls they'd met so I guess even the industrial families at the top of the pack don't win despite having everything. It's the same in UK and rest of globe as in USA, nothing will be fixed until the system is removed and a new one in place which wont happen since all the people in position to destroy it buy into in for short term profits or long term profits of elitist minority. Corps control most govrnment level stuff where it matters and essentially 2 families and some affiliated groups have members in everythin' from IMF to goverment bodies. Still have none doms running show in London, still set up in UK province tax havens, still exploiting tax difference moving raw materials and finished products between tax boundaries (on paper at least, in reality they don't cross borders at hence bananas in Uk come from hondura to here NOT half way aroudn the world through several tax havens as paper trail looks like). Makes me f***ing sick tbh.

but with the purpose of a targeted marketing pitch you wont see, sending you ads you don't see kind of nullifies it. I have ghostery/noscript/abp on when check through browser but use imap/mailclient generally so either way I forget there is ads until these stories come up. If they change tos in future to strip personal sensitive data and use it against me by kicking my door in then I'll likely leave their service, it prob wont be retro active and only a mug would email sensitive data like that esp through something like gmail.

someone mod this up please, if only i had points. Exactly how I feel and am tired of telling people since people get distracted from the issue so easy by irrelevant points