I'd be fine with this. Recently Audible removed a book from my library and essentially told me to kick rocks. I'd listened to it when I first got it, and although I wanted to go back and check something in one of the chapters (which is how I found the book was no longer available), it's not the end of the world: it's just $15 they stole from me.

I'm glad you got to have kids and watch them grow from birth. I never got to do that; I married a gal and the boys were already ten and eleven years old when I entered their life.

I agree. I think a second benefit could be that interested high school (or college) students now get a data source that doesn't change locations from administration to administration. It is mildly frustrating to me that many government websites simply change where things are each year. Worse is when a department goes through the amazingly beneficial operation of name change. /s

Apparently this was a new test, essentially A B testing. The only difference in the two sets of email were that one set had links to ActBlue and the other set had links to WinRed. The complaint is that the WinRed linking emails were marked as spam but the ActBlue linking emails were not.

I used to like Mike and his website and purpose in life. Heck, I was even in the coffee club or water cooler club or whatever you call the small monthly donation club. But then he went full TDS and I gave up on him and his causes.

I'd give you an upvote, but apparently those aren't available to me.

Doesn't look like BleachBit does registry cleaning, though. Am I wrong?

My users wouldn't really need all the other stuff BleachBit does, but the registry cleaning that CCleaner does, does actually solve a problem once in a while.

I actually did have a problem, once, where the registry cleaner in CCleaner solved a problem for me. Someone I was supporting was having weird behavior in this one program. I did everything I could to solve it, down to un-installing the program and deleting the program folder, empty the temp folder, scan for viruses, rebooting, ran chkdsk - the whole of everything I could. And upon re-install, the problem came back. In desperation, I downloaded CCleaner, ran the registry cleaner, and - what do you know? The problem was solved. The problem was the result of bad registry entries left behind by the un-install process.

Now, at work I would like to use CCleaner - but the price for commercial use is ridiculously expensive; and, the whole thing has so much feature creep (bloat) that it's a no-go. I actually did buy a license for myself at home, because they solved the problem for me, and I wanted to throw some money their way for that.

Anyone know of a registry cleaner (only) that is either open source or super inexpensive for commercial use?

I don't think this is nearly the problem you perceive it to be. If I'm in public, I chose to be there.

And for the record, I'm a huge fan of police bodycams.

David Brin has a book about surveillance society - which unfortunately, I never finished reading. But I did get to the part where he makes the point (and I agree with him), that it would be nice if all these cameras were publicly accessible and all accesses were published.

So your daughter goes to play in the park. You access the park cameras, to keep an eye on your daughter. That you accessed the camera should be a matter of public record. If the police have a constant feed on the park, that should be a matter of public record too. If some perv is watching the children in the park, there should be a record of that too.

I'm not terribly worried about the fact of the recording; but I'd like to see more accountability in who does the watching. For police bodycams, I'd like to see more accountability when the office turns the thing off; perhaps having to key some sort of code that says why the camera is being turned off.

As of four days ago, they went to /dev/null.

This story was mildly interesting to me, because my COBOL teacher met Rear Admiral Hopper in person.

Did you know she coined the term "debug", because that was how she fixed an errant program? Found the relay that wasn't connecting, and removed a moth? Taped it into the log book with "Debugged the computer".

I feel they are a problem.

I have seen two articles that I think should have been kept; but some asshole that Mr. Wales trusts decided that they should be deleted. Seems like deleting articles is a power trip to me.

So whenever Mr. Wales asks for money, I am reminded to say no because he allows power tripping editors to ruin Wikipedia. Why would I donate money to these people?

You have a point. ActiveSync is free. But you get what you pay for - no protection from data leakage.

If the BB OS could be a virtual machine image (encrypted, sandboxed) inside an iPhone or Android phone, I would suggest that RIM pitch the idea of having control over the corporate data as Cost Of Doing Business. I'm pretty sure a large number of corporate users would be willing to pay for that.

But yeah, if Microsoft or Apple or Google decided to implement the same and give it away for free, RIM would be even more screwed than they are now.

It is a plus, but it's not nearly enough. Due to a stupid IRS ruling, we're being pushed toward people buying their own phone and we give them a stipend for corporate use. I don't see my end users opting for a BB (or BB + PlayBook) when they can get an iPhone or Galaxy or Hero or Droid.

I hate that the company data is going to be mixed with the user's personal data.