Who are you Hugh Pickens?

And are you any relation to Slim?

I have similar feelings about the Olympics. It's fun to feel a part of something (national pride), but so much bribery and corruption goes in to choosing locations for the games, and so much effort and science goes in to cheating (with performance enhancing drugs), I find it hard to really get on board.

An electric motor could act as a generator on the way down, reclaiming enegry that was spent going up. Not with 100% efficiency, obviously, but the existing technique is not 100% efficient either.

While technically not an "antivirus" product in the conventional sense, Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit adds a significant layer of defense on top of Windows.

Microsoft removed the ability to "Insert from Scanner or Camera". For subsequent versions, the workaroundis to scan to an image file on your computer, and then insert the saved image into the document, rather than scanning directly into the document as before.

The removal of this menu item annoyed a lot of people, including myself.

Show me another spreadsheet program that's as good as Excel.

And I'm pretty happy with Exchange as my mail server. Using Outlook Anywhere, I don't have issues sending e-mail from Outlook if I travel outside of my ISP's network. Using Outlook Web Access, I can access e-mails, contacts, and calendars from nearly any device with a working web browser. And using Exchange ActiveSync, my e-mails, contacts, and calendars can keep in sync with iOS and Android phones. I never have to transfer contacts manually if I change to a different smartphone. I can even wipe my iPhone remotely if it gets lost. Setting up equivalent functionality with other software would involve a lot of work.

It's only a matter of time before some poor volunteer is asked to describe goatse.

I've done signalling over A/C wiring with my own homemade devices, although not outside a single building. From my experience with home Ethernet-over-Power devices, it sometimes doesn't work where more than one electrical panel is traversed.

Nevertheless, there is an entire industry devoted to Broadband over powerline (BPL), and it reportedly works for smart meters.

Why would the electric company need a radio network to communicate with household appliances? They already have a hardwired connection!

Presumably because Windows takes a monolithic approach, and bundling more and more functionality into a single daemon seems to be taking that same direction.

And why is that?

OpenBSD

Is there a way to mod an entire article as troll?

Have you looked at the stuff that Soekris makes?

Where I live, mornings used to be a cacophony of birdsong. After decades of "development", there's not much birdsong to be heard anymore aside from the occasional annoyance of a squawking crow.