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Ok, testing completed. Charger 1: Samsung original, 5V 1A, came in box with Samsung Galaxy Grand phone. Battery capacity: 2100 mAh Charger 2: Samsung original, 5V 1A, came in box with Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 phone. Battery capacity: 2600 mAh C1 & C2 look identical, but have a different model #...

EPA Accuses Volkswagen of Dodging Emissions Rules All brands with 2.0L diesel affected - VW, Audi, Skoda. What scumbags. They ought to be kicked in the nuts so hard this never happens again ever, anywhere.

So you guys have your full resume, career history and details on LI? I haven't learned the trick of getting hired through LI.

Do Androids eat Altoids? Do they have deltoids?

There are also guys who collect connections like trophies. 500+ etc. Costs little; pay Linkedin to be a "Premium" member and you can send all the spam you want to people you don't know.

Howell: bad analogy comparing mains with this. In the case of mains, you might plug in a 3-watt LED or a 1500 watt clothes iron. In this case, we are talking (and I repeat) a fully matched, designed and made by the same manufacturer charger, cable, battery and phone circuit (the fact that the...

Lunar, I hear you. But: 1) Smartphone batteries typically don't last the whole day. This has been known for years. 2) Frequent charging is necessary. This also has been known for years. 3) Does it not make sense to charge the battery as quickly as possible? Since the manufacturer is providing...

a) The Charger Doctor thingy shows the voltage output by the charger to be 4.95 - 4.98 v, so I presume input voltage to the charger is not a problem. I have never needed to check input voltage for any of my devices; no low voltage problem here. Going OT now, but on the contrary, in the wee hours...

Thanks. I'll consider them for my next mouse, because I have the same problem with my right hand from mousing all day long.

He's trying to recruit you to be a spy.

Very funny, Coug. I was talking in the context of riding in the back seat of a cab, not driving the car from the back seat.

Merc, my next purchase will be one of those high-amp multi-chargers. Thanks for the link, it's already on my shortlist. DB's right, the entire chain needs to be good: the charger, the wire and the circuits in the phone. My beef is that I'm having problems using the charger & USB cable supplied...

How do the Steel Series mice help, time? I could use some advice on that!

I don't know where the problem is - charger or phone. Between my wife and I, we have two Samsung phones, same type but hers is one gen older. Hers is a 2100 mAh battery; my next gen has a 2600 mAh battery. She's out of town now, and she's run off with my charger. I'm using her charger to charge...

The current gen Camry is supposed to have one of the best back seats in the business. Haven't sat in one, though.

Semi-pro DSLRs have so many controls it's mind boggling. Even the flash is. Since my D700 use is infrequent, I keep forgetting anything beyond AV/RV mode and the basic settings. When I'm in a hurry, I just grab the point and shoot.

Then why the hell do they use them as cabs?

Here's the script I downloaded and used. Instructions: Download, unzip, right click on aegis.cmd, click "run as administrator", follow on-screen instructions. I got the link from a tech newsletter, article in a tech journal (ARS Technica?) or some such. I went through all of the unzipped...

I once rode in the back of a large taxi (Crown Vic?) some 55 miles to Newark Airport. Was the most uncomfortable ride of my life. The seat offered little thigh support, the back support sucked, and I was sliding all over the place despite being belted and the older driver driving sedately. It...

For a simian, the little one gives excellent advice!

Just ran a script I downloaded to rid my Win 7 of the "telemetry" crap. It removes the concerned installed KBs, hides them so Win Update doesn't offer them, etc. May decide to just stay with W7 unless MS relents and backs off from tall the spying. Meanwhile Linux can only get better.

What, LM, you forget that DB is a sock puppet?

They ask for mobile # because they spam with text messages and tie it to their loyalty programs. I couldn't care less. F them.

Don't they check shutter actuations before renting out and after the body comes back?

Sometimes people's thinking is screwed up. At times it makes more sense to rent. The number of people (including the wife) that tell me I'm throwing away money every month is crazy. I tell them I'm living in a nice home they appreciate, and not on the street or a shelter. Isn't that worth...

Win 8.1 castrated (removing MS' spy features - there are some guides /scripts out there) makes even more sense now. It is sorta unlimited; I get 60GB per month, then speed drops from 8mbps to 512 kbps. The latter is so slow it makes checking web mail or net banking excruciating. We do hit the...

I am on a metered connection. And I hate invasions of privacy, putting up with the minimum I have to so I don't have to live in the hills. ??

Tim & Sed: Too many things happening in life right now; can't afford the time and the patience for the learning curve. No, but it's support cycle is longer because it came out after Win 7. :(

Considering all the issues with Win-10, I'm just wondering if I should buy a copy of Win 8.1 (assuming they are still available) since 8.1 will be supported a lot longer than the Win-7 I am running now. And then at some point jump off into Linux... Thoughts?

Cool. Do any of these come with ABS? Some bikes here are now being offered with ABS as an option.

Sorry to hear this, Lunar. Since you say it's returned, it presumably went away once. May be it will again, with treatment or because of spontaneous remission?

Shit. I'm on W7 Ultimate. Went back till May 17 on the updates already installed and found these: KB2952664 on July 28 KB3035583 on July 16 These are described as compatibility updates and it's not really clear at all what they do on the KB description on MS' website. How the hell is one...

Leaky Win10. Privacy issues, and constant bandwidth use, both big worries for me. Even when told not to, Windows 10 just can’t stop talking to Microsoft

Bastards. Researchers reveal electronic car lock hack after 2-year injunction by Volkswagen

I understand a major update (similar to service pack) will occur to W-10 early next year. A month after that would probably be good to upgrade to W-10.

There are also reports of a KB for Win-10 that does not install properly. So Win-10 reboots, un-installs it. Then finds an update pending, so installs it. And goes on doing it. Not all systems, some. Still, since updates atr forced on Home/Pro versions, this ain't a good thing. Hopefully it's...

Where did I say to run your Air Conditioning unit on DC? Is anybody even reading my posts in full?

Amen. A bit of a weirdo, probably would have fit in better in the hippie era. Sigh, I'm not endorsing or justifying his views, only posted about it to illustrate that there are guys with such radical views. While I don;t agree with him, I respect him for pursuing his vision, however warped it...

Sorry to hear this Merc, and glad you're ok!

Merc, thanks for the clarification. Clocker! My confusion was that you did a fresh install from the downloaded media without doing the upgrade first. That's why I was wondering if the media creation process wrote the win 7 / 8 key to the media for use during the win 10 clean install process...

Thanks. I'll be downloading once and updating the laptop and desktop as well. Anybody know for sure, please let me know.

Inefficient to convert DC to AC and vice-versa; he's on a quest for efficiency. He invented Soylent because: a) he wanted to eat healthy and b) he didn't want to waste time cooking Soylent *may* be a good alternative when you travel and are not sure of availability of food; like hiking, for...

How? Does it save the win 8.1 / Win 7 key on the media created, and use that when clean installing Win 10?

His premise is that coal is being burned to produce AC, instead we should switch to DC generated by solar panels.

An off-beat blog by Soylent founder Rob Rhinehart about giving up alternating current.

Interesting read of IBM's Nana Research facility outside Zurich.

A rather long article, but I learned a few things about W10.

Thanks much, Chewy. Very troubling. Of course it was too good to be true; schweet MS, offering free updates to the latest & greatest OS. I'm on a metered connection, so I'll have to turn off the bit-torrent feature. Plus all the workarounds for the privacy rape. Thankfully, I haven't updated...

Don't remember if this has been posted before. From another website I frequent: I swear the words in the spoof version match the sounds you hear! I was ROFL for quite a while!

Didn't know about this; thanks! Your link didn't work for me (Access Denied) but I found the blog elsewhere. If true, this certainly solves the fossil fuel running out problem, but is bad for global warming.