How about just importing less energy and running the dam at a better capacity?

I think another Speed Secret was by disabling our plug-ins. I remember reading an article a while ago about how ad-blocking in itself is one reason Firefox is slow and uses a lot of memory. Without everything having to be passed though an a 4MB pattern.ini file and nearly 1 MB elemhide.css file, of course it may be faster... A year or so ago I went though the ad-blocking list for Firefox on my PC and removed all rules with less than 5 hits which significantly cut down the list.

Because tech people leaned long ago you don't have to watch stuff live.

Here is another question that might not be completely stupid to ask that I had a few years back while at college.

I saw cell emitters all around campus on the sides of and near other buildings at the same horizontal height as human occupants. I know the wireless companies aren't stupid and make sure they have great coverage on large college campuses. I wonder how much microwave radiation some college professionals might receive depending on where they work on campus. I thought to myself, I sure would not want an office on the other side of the building wall or across from that emitter. Think of how much media and streaming all the students receive from those emitters.

You have to then wonder, how many academic biological studies may be affected by being a college microwave hot zone.

Good points, I'm glad to see someone else not brushing off the risk just because direct cause and effect is nearly impossible to prove.

It's not just cellphones people may want to be concerned about. Also, when someone is sleeping they may be relatively stationary for hours causing microwave hot-spots to be in the same cells and tissue for extended periods. Think about wireless smart meters on homes, possibly a few feet away from someones bed that has virtually unlimited power available.

Another factor that is overlooked is the peak microwave emission. A lot of devices conserve power and stay within the FCC power regulations by using pulsed communications. The microwave emission is only regulated by the average level. So while a cellphone may only be emitting an average 0.5mW, that may be in bursts of 2.0V/m every 1/10 of a second.

I'm no biologist, but I think that could be far worse that just the 'heating' effect. Just from a logical standpoint, I picture human cells as a balloon and microwaves as push-pin. You can push lightly on a balloon with a pin all day along and it wont pop. But if you push hard with a peak force it can pop. Microwave radiation could have similar effect on cell membranes and DNA.

There was a Ted talk titled "Wireless wake-up call" about 2 years ago on cellphone and EMF dangers that is worth watching.

The only account I have lost access to was because suddenly one day the site decided my computer was a new device. The site required me to enter the verification code they emailed to my CompuServe address. Nothing of value was lost though, it was my Yahoo account.

I think the solar eclipse last month caused some spinning masses of air that grew in the Atlantic Ocean and are now coming back.

Maybe they are busy updating their active user statistics that Verizon probably requested just before the hack news came out. Look at all these active accounts... :)

Just watch the router and cable modem lights when they should be idle and make sure they aren't blinking away.

Great, now users can't block telemetry and other unwanted updates without disabling updates altogether.

Not to mention the CPU and memory performance hit you take. Every antivirus tool probably has a missive database of every known virus, even from 20 years ago it's checking every file against (with any hope a file hash binary search). Norton's virus definition grew from like 25MB in 2008 to 220MB in 2013.

I routinely pause my antivirus when copying tons of files around or when installing known to be good stuff. As soon as I pause the scanner everything speeds up. even if you have a quad core, every file has to be inspected by by a scanner before the system or disk gets the files.

Fireworks 101:
      What ever goes up, must blow up!

Here is what it sounds like when the plugin establishes a connection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Can it prevent vertical video recording yet?

Although that's because my 840 EVO is still in the box waiting to be installed...