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Comment That Would Be Awesome If They Did It In Canada (Score 1) 252

People would remember what telephones and letters are. I only learn about stuff from my family because they post to Facebook. Facebook's killed communication skills. I'd love to be able to go back to a pre-Facebook world where Zuckerberg isn't trying to monitor my every move.

Comment Some manufacturers have already figured it out... (Score 1) 264

Mobotix and MikroTik both have firmware updates "for life". In the case of Mobotix, it's until they deem the camera legacy (the camera still works, but they decide to stop supporting it because it got too old for them...while the founder was chairman, that would have never happened, but....)

I have not seen a single device from MikroTik that's officially no longer supported. The only way it becomes unsupported currently is if the software updates get large enough and/or the programming on the network device becomes complex enough that there isn't enough flash memory to contain the new software updates.

Comment I'm not buying it (Score 1) 71

Rumble doesn't seem to have a lot of content...it seems like a youtube in the early days. I think this is more about posturing, trying to convince all the conspiracy groups to move enmasse to Rumble. i.e. put a service on their radar that they might not have even heard of before.

One of their sister companies, Neroku has a channel on Youtube that actively encourages content creators to post videos on Rumble if they want them cross posted to their channel on Youtube.

Another of their properties, Rumble Viral also seems to be a Youtube channel actively encouraging posting of videos to Rumble.com

Much as I'd love to promote a Canadian company, it seems this is more a publicity stunt than anything.

Comment Re:The regulations have destryed Dishwashers (Score 3, Interesting) 481

The reason they suck is they now have very weak motors - to change that out is not an easy modification. One can change the computer to use enough water.

People are washing on the long cycles and multiple times - using a lot of water in the sink rinsing so they will get clean - the regs are not doing what they think.

I wish I could have the Maytag I bought in 1986 - it worked really well.

They have destroyed Dishwashers, Washing machines, water-heaters, shower heads (they did improve conditioners. )

I just want the government to stay the F*** out of my life.

If you rinsed the gunk off your plates as soon as you finished eating, threw them into the dishwasher and ran the dishwasher before your food had a chance to get dried out, moldy and lord knows what else, the dishwasher would work just fine on a single cycle.

Comment Sluggish Windows (Score 1) 517

It's a conspiracy between Microsoft and the CPU manufacturers to make sure you're always upgrading your computer and upgrading to the latest version of Windows. I'm sure the government spooks are in on it as well.

Seriously though, I would check out the second answer at this link:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/84068/windows-gets-progressively-slower-over-time-why-doesnt-ubuntu

Comment Transparent Proxy (Score 2) 260

You can set up a transparent proxy like squid (http://www.squid-cache.org/) combined with iptables (http://iptables.org/), so that any outbound port 80 or port 443 requests from the machine can get filtered via squid.

Then, in squid you can run all your logic through DansGuardian (http://dansguardian.org/?page=whatisdg), a content filter.

Comment Tax Filings as a Non-Resident Alien (Score 1) 386

Having to do both CRA (Canadian Revenue Agency) and IRS/Indiana DoR filings, I find that whole 'Paperwork Reduction Act' thing is quite ironic.

The first couple of years I had to do US tax filings (through an LLC), it took me a month or so to get the accounting the way I needed it, and to figure out through the massive maze of forms which ones I had to fill out and how I had to fill them out.

Now, with the exception of filing to get my withholding tax back, it takes about an hour after I've got my accounting all in order. I've got it down to a system of completing electronic PDF forms (6 forms for the IRS, and another 5 or 6 for Indiana), printing them out, and then signing two of them. So, now it's mostly stress more than anything. But good God man...why so many forms? And lengthy ones at that.

CRA's are mostly a couple of pages...the odd one might be three.

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