Hmmmm - I wasn't aware of that. I thought that at some point, they just shut the update server down. I kinda liked 98SE - I may give that a run in a VM.

Thinking here - I guess what I did was to juxtapose some information from multiple posts on the intartubez. On the one hand, MS announced that there was to be no more support for XP - but on the other, the US government handed over a couple trainloads of cash to induce MS to continue supporting XP for them. I see what I did now, and my XP-64 is in the exact same situation as XP 32 bit. Got it.

considering that's how it's always worked, yes

> To extend this discussion - I rarely use my backups. Let's get rid of those!

I did better than that - to save time and also the hassle of cycling through and keeping track of tapes; I just back up to /dev/null now... and you'd be amazed at how quickly the backup job runs!

> The numeric keypad tends to be pretty highly valued by typists that are 10key proficient and type a lot of numbers. It's actually more common than you probably believe

That's because a LOT of us spent days keying in program listings from Compute! Magazine in the '80s

If security trumped everything, those employees would all be retrained and reassigned to completely unrelated tasks and their previous access yanked as soon as their replacements could be trained.

Now, that's not going going to happen except in a relatively small percentage of individuals.

Instead, our country is probably going to take the risk that this info will be used to hurt us rather than pay the cost of losing a valuable employee 21 million times over.

For Google Wallet, this is true. But NFC and Google Wallet are only tied together in certain Apps and for certain purchases. One of my favorite stores takes Google Wallet / NFC which would be great, except the damn store is a Faraday cage and I can't actually use it there.

the streaming feed is HD...HD doesn't require that much bandwidth

yes.

why did they need to remove them? android updates aren't that large. Can you redownload them? So they're gone forever?

modern drones don't use a memory card, they stream via an ad hoc connection or as a wifi host to your cellphone. But every once in a while...the drone is actually a dildo...

of course, it's Hillview PD Policy to never imply ownership of said drone...

which is why you basically have to shoot it down if you want something done.

Today I learned that Hillview, Kentucky is a populated area.

yes, much better to be passive-aggressive. If they wanted to see the 16 year old girl at the swimming pool, perhaps they should have just gone up and talked to her? 16 year olds are generally friendly to new faces when you say hi. That would have been aggressive though, much better to use a drone to do the sneaking so you can see her without having to say hi in person.

a little related, but GE doesn't even bother selling the nuclear power plant plans to the Chinese, because to the Chinese, they don't give a shit about your design or intellectual property, they'll just steal it, because to them, if they can copy it, they shouldn't have to pay for it.

So instead, GE basically gives them the design for free, and then charges them out the ass for 'support'. Which in this case, is the management and oversight necessary for the meticulous implementation that's not going to blow up in their face. They pay for it, because we have the expertise, and it's something they simply can't copy....for now.

So anyways, RedHat and Linux are like that. The logo of the Fedora you see on their software? That's actually a travelling-wave nuclear reactor. When you install Fedora, you're harnessing the POWER OF NUCLEAR REACTIONS inside your VERY COMPUTER. This is what makes Linux, truly so incredible. Microsoft really has nothing on them. Windows 10? More like Windows EXPLOSIEN! Because Microsoft is like the Chinese and Japanese, they simply don't know how to make a nuclear reactor that doesn't EXPLODE. Linux is like the AMERICANS. beecause the MERICANS know how to HARNESS the power of nukulear fission using LINUX.

Just think! 2015! the year of nuclear reactors on your desktop.

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ok, so I got carried away, but that's actually how GE is monetizing it.

what shampoo do you use?

I quit Windows a long time ago. If/when I feel like I really *need* to use WIndows, I just fire up a virtual machine with XP, XP 64 bit, or Win7. I haven't even considered using anything else in a VM. For my purposes, those three OS's are almost identical, except that XP is a little less secure. Oh - and the fact that you can't get support for it anymore.

I'm not real sure about XP-64. I'm told that the Win2K3 family is EOL'd, but I know that three weeks ago, I was able to get updates for my fresh install in a VM. I suppose I should archive that VM for possible future need . . .