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Comment Tracking dots on copiers (Score 1) 54

This is an old article. https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/pri... With the hardware/firmware of most copiers/printers these days I don't know if they all still do it. Most of the machines we sell/service, will print blank if you try to print "money" or scan money. You "can" on some, scan if it is over 150% or less than 75% of the original size. I remember back in the late 90's we had a machine at a local police department and their undercover officers printed copies of the money for a drug bust and it locked up the machine. A "higher up" from the manufacturer and to come with a "secret" file to unlock the machine so it would function. We had a good laugh over that one.

Comment oil isn't a fossil fuel (Score -1) 48

The idea of fossil fuel, is because it gives the impression that it is finite. The gas you put in your vehicle isn't made from the dead flesh & bones of dinosaurs. Petroleum, natural gas and coal come from biomass, primarily from plankton and decaying marine organisms, and “single-celled bacteria” that “evolved in the Earth’s oceans about three billion years ago.” Over millions of years, layers of sediment built up, along with plants (plankton and algae) and bacteria. Heat and pressure began to rise. The degree of heat and the amount of pressure, along with the type of biomass, determine if the material becomes petroleum or natural gas. Over the course of millions of years, “members of these massive colonies died off” and “sank to the bottom of the sea and were gradually covered by accumulating sediment,” writes Strauss. "Over millions of years, these layers of sediment grew heavier and heavier until the dead bacteria trapped below were ‘cooked’ by the pressure and temperature into a stew of liquid hydrocarbons.”

Comment Re:If you want to print photos (Score 1) 92

I always use inkjet for photos. LIke you said, the toner just doesn't pop. I believe it's more because the ink "sits" on the paper, but with toner, it is melted into the paper during fusing. But I have seen the higher end production Xerox boxes (V-280's) produce pretty good photo quality on the right paper, but LOL, those machines when configured are up to 20 feet long with all the add on do-dads, plus requiring 220 V along with 4-5 or more 110 V depending on the add on options. It's one of the benefits to being in the printer/copier business (service side). I don't have a home printer. On the rare times I need to print something, I've got anything I want at my fingertips.

Comment Brother (Score 3, Informative) 92

We sell HP, Brother, Xerox, Toshiba, Epson (along with KIP wide format) Stay AWAY from the smaller Xerox C-405's if you find one. The 415's are better. But the one's we seem to have the LEAST amount of trouble are the Brothers. I don't know what your price range is, but these are great! MFCL3780CDW Full color, also single scan duplex, 31ppm. Gigabit Ethernet, dual band wireless. I try to get people to shy away from inkjet in a home environment unless they use them daily. The ink heads just plug up too often.

Comment Go after the overhead cables! (Score 1) 49

Shoot, 5-6 years ago one of the at&t techs told me that most of the overhead "trunk lines" have been abandoned, save for a few old folks that still had POTS lines for phones, or a few business alarm systems, which have now been abandoned for LTE. Yeah, it would be harder to get to the copper lines on the poles, not to mention burning off the insulation, but these copper pirates are stupid enough to try it.

Comment My science teacher in the 70's (Score 1) 122

There was construction starting on a nuclear plant, 15 miles from where I lived in 1975. As our science class was about to start we were talking about that plant so close to where we lived and some were saying if it blew up we'd all be killed. The science teacher (older man in his 50's) heard us and when the bell rang he said we were not going to have class today, but talk about nuclear energy. In the course of an hour, he drew on the chalkboard (think analog whiteboard LOL), how a nuclear power plant works, how the rods are controlled, safety, backups pretty much everything. (he was really a smart teacher too!). By the time the class was over, no one in the class though of nuclear power in a negative way. It's just a giant "steam engine" to turn generators. That plant has been in operation since 1984. And without any issues. It was upgraded in the early 2000's.

Comment Bush already cleaned house (Score 1) 39

When Bush was head of the CIA, you know he "cleaned house" and destroyed any good evidence. I was 4 years old when that happened. Only thing I remember about it was the Saturday cartoons were not on because of it. Didn't understand it then... Anyone connected to the assassination if they were 20 years old is in their 80's today, if it was a conspiracy, they are either dead or almost dead, so what good would it do to "find the answer" if there was one? Hold the children who's parent(s) did it responsible? Just let it go!

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