When I enlisted in '96, I was asked why I didn't inform anyone that I was pulled over in 1995. I was questioned as to why I was pulled over and what happened. I didn't think anything of it.

I was not issued any citation for being pulled over as it was a case of mistaken identity. Still, the Navy had a record of it.

Using 100% of my current daily limit, it would take me 16 days to download this game. Taking into account what my wife and kids use on average daily, it would take over 30 days. I have to bring my PC to a co-workers house to download stuff after a Steam sale is done.

Hi Jon. Have you been approached for Portal 3?

Also, thanks for releasing all those tracks for Ultrastar DX. My son was absolutely terrified of the Creepy Doll song and my kids love to sing RE:Your Brains (They're 6 and 5).

There are plenty of people who do 1:1 backups of movies and music. It's extremely convenient. I don't handle any physical media more than once. It keeps the house tidy and the disks in pristine shape if I ever need to re-rip.

Around 6 months ago I had a similar problem to the story. My media drive died a sudden death (Seagate drive, never again). I had all of my family pictures, home movies, music, and movies on that drive. I had done backups and stored them remotely and was able to recover most of what I had. A few re-rips of some movies and I was done.

The time investment necessary to rip a 1:1 copy for a large collection is not insignificant. I probably should setup raid + parity at some point but right now I'm only doing a clone of my stuff. I don't have bandwidth capacity at home to use any sort of cloud storage.

That's a false dichotomy if I ever saw one.

You're not 100% right, but you're close.

Some guy at Microsoft named Paul Cook (yep, that guy), wrote this. Microsoft is simply doing the right thing in an effort to limit the spread of infections. They can see it's not legit, they just don't care.

Contrary to the assertion in the story, I've never been there.

Very entertaining.

Go back to my post and click the link to privacy policy.

Read the sections on "information we collect" then read the section on "information we share".

Those two sections are not mutually exclusive. The information collected is the same as the information they share. You already gave them permission to do so.

I'm not disputing the fact that they also setup API's to allow easier targeting for ads, that's also part of their business model. It's just not their ONLY business.

From Google's Privacy Policy Page

So Google does "share" data with advertisers as part of their money stream. A very specific subset is opt-in, but everything else is opt-out. If services get updated and you're not careful, you can miss an opt-out. See Privacy and Copyright Protection

I'm not sure how anyone can read that and not understand that they're selling your data. They're just calling it sharing. Everything in the EULA you already agreed to in order for you to use a Google service grants them the permission they need.

Hory. Fucking. Shit. I just raffed out roud.

This is exactly what I was going to bring up. I use the form (full_name_no_periods)@gmail for regular things. Any other variation is set to filter to spam.

You're assuming there are no medical conditions that are treated with birth control. Women I've known have had Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) or endometriosis, both of which can be treated with long term birth control.

The total lifetime cost of paying for treatment is not insubstantial.

I would be fine using my own Windows machines (I have an 8.1, a 7, and a Vista at home), so yes. In the last few years, all of the compromises to my credit cards have been due to improper server admin somewhere in the "cloud", the latest being Target.

I'd also be fine using a Chromebook, but they don't do enough for me to even consider one.

If it's on my MP3 player, right click the folder and select 'create playlist'. Everything on my MP3 player can just be copy/paste from the PC. Since it's already in a folder list by /artist/album/ it's easy to find.

If I'm on the PC, right click folder and 'add to VLC media player playlist'.

If you want to save the playlist for multiple playbacks, save the playlist with VLC.