Comment Re:Horrible. (Score 1) 2254
Would changing the background white to a shade of grey make things easier to read?
Comment Re:Protection (Score 1) 511
You should check with your bank to see if you can turn this "feature" off. I recently did with my bank account. All it took was simply stopping by any branch and signing a piece of paper to initiate the change in terms. Problem solved! :-)
Comment Re:There is some kind of battery black magic (Score 1) 206
To make sure I understand correctly, you're saying that newer laptops should recognize that the battery is charged and then stop charging?
That would make sense, considering my laptop is about 4 years old.
That would make sense, considering my laptop is about 4 years old.
Comment Re:There is some kind of battery black magic (Score 2, Informative) 206
The action that kills laptop batteries quicker than anything is using the computer, plugged into the wall AND the battery inserted into the machine. FWIU, if the battery is in the machine, you should be using only battery power, unless it's charging.
Once the battery is full, either unplug the computer from the wall and use only the battery, or take the battery out and use only the AC power.
Once the battery is full, either unplug the computer from the wall and use only the battery, or take the battery out and use only the AC power.
Comment Re:Still waiting... (Score 2, Interesting) 344
The issue that will get me to upgrade is when I want to increase the RAM of my computer. If I want to have a Windows machine running more than 4GB of RAM, I have to upgrade to a 64-bit OS and Vista/7 is better than XP in that regard.
Submission + - Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close (net-security.org) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Cenzic released its report revealing the most prominent types of Web application vulnerabilities for the first half of 2009. The report identified over 3,100 total vulnerabilities, which is a 10 percent increase in Web application vulnerabilities compared to the second half of 2008. Among Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox had the largest percentage of Web vulnerabilities, followed by Apple Safari, whose browser showed a vast increase in exploits, due to vulnerabilities reported in the Safari iPhone browser.
Submission + - Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users (consumerist.com)
jamie writes: "Mark Pincus, CEO of the company that brought us Mafia Wars, says: 'I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this Zwinky toolbar which was like, I don't know, I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it.'"
Submission + - Big Brother downsizes (guardian.co.uk)
PeterAitch writes: The UK government have put 'on hold' their surveillance project to track details of everybody's email, mobile phone, text and internet use after being warned of problems with its technical feasibility, high costs and privacy issues.
Comment Re:personally (Score 1) 1721
Yes, that equates him with a fungus or swine flu.
Comment Re:Eek. (Score 1) 163
No, he's in a committed relationship with the woman (one woman!) that he loves. There is a level of trust built between the two; a trust built upon the fact that neither one of them will go flirting with other people.
Comment Re:I don't know, but... (Score 1) 494
As I've grown up I developed my signature with its own style. I never write cursive and someone got past that requirement in grade school. What I find fascinating is after about 5 years of tweaking it and getting to a consistent style that I like and is easy to write, it has turned out very similar to my dad's. Great minds think alike, I guess. :-)
Comment Re:Better the Devil You Know (Score 1) 388
I got that message a couple days ago. What happened was Flash did an automatic update as my computer was starting up. I had Firefox open at the time, so I had to close it to complete the update. I did and launched Firefox again, only to find that it didn't update successfully. So, I had to download it again, this time manually, and install the software. Then I went ahead and rebooted the computer for good measure. Everything's been fine since then.
Comment 164th! (Score 1) 348
164th Post!
Comment Re:listen to the bullshit rationalization! (Score 1) 200
(I can't believe you've been modded +3 interesting.)
Hahaha...I thought the same thing. However, I think it's good that it is being modded up, so people can see the entire discourse between him and everyone else, it seems.
Comment Re:you're not listening to me (Score 1) 200
Not when you distrust Microsoft for a reason that has no bearing on Google whatsoever.
If people distrusted Microsoft because they gathered lots of information about people, yeah, they should distrust Google as well.
But people don't.
They distrust Microsoft for a completely different reason than you distrust Google. And that's okay. We can have a difference of opinion on this. You can live your life and not use any Google product and stay as far away from them as possible. And guess what? They won't have any information on you!
Just don't try to make up some fake argument about how if you distrust one you must distrust the other. It is simply not true.
If people distrusted Microsoft because they gathered lots of information about people, yeah, they should distrust Google as well.
But people don't.
They distrust Microsoft for a completely different reason than you distrust Google. And that's okay. We can have a difference of opinion on this. You can live your life and not use any Google product and stay as far away from them as possible. And guess what? They won't have any information on you!
Just don't try to make up some fake argument about how if you distrust one you must distrust the other. It is simply not true.
