Fully agree, lots of people say "there should be a law" when there should not be. In this case, there should. We should have a "Common Carrier" rule for payment processors.

How does one deduce what company that person buys their auto insurance from, exactly?

A hospital that falls under EMTALA cannot refuse care because of lack of payment or insurance (which covers nearly ALL hospitals with scant few exceptions). I've looked up the pre-hospital ALS protocols and drug list for paramedics in Springfield, and there aren't any treatment they are authorized to perform or drugs they can give (no Heparin on board their ambulances) for pulmonary embolism. They would be able to provide life support services were he to have experienced cardiac/respiratory arrest secondary his PE, which is why he should have called an ambulance. Typical response times onto a major highway are usually on the order of minutes for most major metropolitan ambulance services. A 20 mile drive takes roughly 20 minutes and highway speeds, which is plenty of time to suffer a permanent brain or cardiac injury (yes, including death) due to either cardiac or respiratory arrest, both possible side effects of a PE.

He should have pulled onto the side of the road with his hazards on and waited for paramedics. He risked dying at the wheel with no help available for what would have been very manageable emergencies for first responders.

The "ignoring existing users preferences" refers to the Windows Consumer Experience Reports you can opt into on prior versions of Windows before 10. If you have this set to not report to Microsoft, the new updates will report to Microsoft regardless of that setting. The actual updates themselves are selected to install by default, but if the user is paying attention they can deselect and hide those particular updates in Windows Updater before running that round of updates. They don't get installed automatically unless you've told Windows to handle patching autonomously.

Fool's Gold is the layman term/nickname for Iron Pyrite... and it is indeed a type of iron. Not the best comparison :)

EMT here. Unless you are getting flown in a helicopter to a trauma center it isn't going to cost "tens of thousands of dollars". BLS or ALS transport would typically be somewhere south of $700 for full unmitigated cost, and after insurance more likely $0-$200 out-of-pocket. That's if the person transported even pays the bill... many do not. An admitted ED stay would also be covered and that's usually between $0-$50 for most insurances I've seen.

I haven't updated to the latest version yet because yet again the theme I prefer to use is not compatible with the latest release. When last I updated the theme I had been using made the interface a complete garbled mess and I had to restart it in safe-mode and manually purge and reinstall all my addons and themes before it would behave correctly once more. At that time at least I knew the cause as I had just accepted an update, if it does it silently it may be a bit more confusing when something either goes bonkers or just silently stops working. What I would want is for some kind of set API or backwards compatibility that themes and addons can use so that the authors don't have to update every single time FF does.

Here is Google's contact number, give em a ring and let them know that they shouldn't be canning iGoogle. Anyone have an email address of someone higher up in the organization?

United States
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone: +1 650-253-0000
Fax: +1 650-253-0001

For some reason the FF10 update completely removed ADBLOCK+ from my PC. Even reinstalling the plugin doesn't get it to show up. It's not in the list as "incompatible", it's just gone. Weird.

You should definitely play Defense Grid, it is one of the premiere games of the genre. This is one game you'd regret putting on the back-burner.

That's just the thing though... more and more people are getting into gaming all over the world. As the population grows, the market is just going to keep getting larger. So the cost of the game can be recouped for a lower cost per unit sold in greater volumes. The higher price point will prevent many of those customers from paying for the product, resulting in either the same profit for the Developer/Publisher and a higher cost for the consumer (bad for customers) rather than the same profit for the Dev and a lower cost for the consumer (win/win).

Games may cost more to develop these days... but bear in mind that all of these major dev houses got to where they are today by operating in the days when gaming was a niche market product. Devs actually have ludicrously better tools than they had in the past, making developing and asset creation easier and faster in comparison. Games cost more because devs are trying to get by solely on AAA blockbusters, instead of also creating smaller more indie-like games that got them where there are. Smaller, cheaper games that focus on great game-play rather than pushing budget boundaries.

They miss the revenue stream that smaller easily developed games gave them, and try to substitute DLC in place. Unfortunately, DLC is 99% of the time a really bad deal for the customer, being nearly the cost of an indie game in some cases for very little actual content, on top of the cost of the original game!

To summarize: I feel major devs should take the philosophy of cheaper games to more people (the population just goes up!), along with lighter games at lower costs as a way to keep revenue flowing between blockbusters and to keep actual "game-play" creation skills sharp. Because the lighter, smaller, cheaper game can't rely on uber graphics and next gen tech and famous voice actors to carry them. And one of their lighter games that succeeds beyond expectations could become their next AAA title with a sequel and funding to match. So their potential AAA IP pool is also increase with this development philosophy.

Sounds like a perfect testbed for those portable nuclear stations NASA is considering for the moon. No emissions to worry about as it is intended to be a permanently sealed system. Also takes care of the worry of supply drops of fuel and such, leaving more room for food and other such things if we are planning on manning this site.

The Asus N10 has an HDMI out, as well as a Nvidia 9300m gpu so it handles many games well enough too. Most of the games that don't work well are cpu intensive ones like Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect. With the 9 cell battery you'll get a small laptop that runs for about 8 hours at a time and can game. The only thing that it doesn't hold a candle to on a real notebook is the full-size keyboard.

N10 forums here, with a list of games and applications that will run well on it. http://www.n10user.com/index.php

Simple to fix: The toggle resets automatically after 5 minutes or on the next start of the car or somesuch.