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I thought bestiality was illegal, notwithstanding that the creature here may be imaginary.

Dell US emailed me coupons for: 1) 40% off select Latitude, Optiplex and Precision laptops & desktops 2) 35% off PowerEdge Servers 3) 25% of all Ultrasharp monitors Sure everybody got them, but just in case somebody wants these, PM me.

Thanks guys.

How good or bad are Intel Pentium 2127U processors in laptops? I'm helping someone buy a new laptop and there are plenty of models (different brands) with Pentium processors. After the core series came out, I have lost touch with the Pentiums and am at a loss as to their merits / demerits. Buyer...

Decades ago, Sears was a case-study (in the good way) when I went to business school for my MBA. How times have changed. How come Lampert is still around? I'd think the shareholders (or banks who've lent them money as they continue to hemorrhage) would have booted him off a long time ago...

That's why there's a "lifecycle" for businesses. Where are Sears, IBM and other great companies of yesteryear? The itch to fix something that ain't broke is so strong, it overrides everything else. Happy customers become critics. Newegg became a colossus because of how it operated in the early...

Thanks mate.

An off-beat comment, especially since I know so little about modern cars: VAG cars are known to throw out a lot of funky codes when the battery starts dying, most typically the ECL. Your car has already done 60k miles +. Before you do anything else, suggest you invest $10 one of those led...

Just for reference / comparison, can someone tell me the approximate lumens output of the following: 1) standard 2 x AA cell incandescent bulb flashlight you can buy in Walmart for a few bucks 2) cheap, no name Chinese flashlights that run on 3 x AAA alkalines and have 3 or more LEDs 3) single...

Our Coug is becoming a philosopher without even knowing it.

Interesting stuff, checking it out. Thanks Lunar.

Larry works?

In a Boy's Toys article in a local magazine, they wrote about the Surefire UB3T Invictus. At $550 a pop, no thanks, I'll pass. Can anybody point me towards a decent LED flashlight that can go from zoom to variable flood and be bright enough at max flood? Typically in flood mode I'd want it to...

Good 'nuff.

Cutie! Bought that sawed-off shotgun yet, dad?

It was my sarcasm that was missed!

Spoken like a true American!

Thanks for the heads up. I just checked - zero contacts in my GMail account. I remember saying No, don't share contacts when the phone was first set up (and before signing in to GMail thru the phone the first time). Am glad that at least this much integrity is maintained.

It should be an option if I want to let G-Maps read my contacts list. For the record, even though I have a GMail account, it is dormant. My primary email a/c is Yahoo. Besides, of the 700+ contacts in my phone, only about 20 are in Yahoo Email's contacts list. So no way am I going to let G-Maps...

Updated Google Maps is available for Android. Why the heck does it need access to your contacts list? Why does WebMD need access to your call list? Sheesh, this totally negates the advantages of these apps. The invasion and rape of privacy is reaching epic proportions.

My gear was purchased in 2006 - works only on 2.4 GHz :) Sad part is my cordless phone also works on 2.4 GHz and suffers from interference :(

After a few days, another network popped up on the same channel I was, and other than the second Buffalo AP that could connect without any problems, no mobile device could, despite mu signal strength being much stronger. I changed by channel to one a few steps away, and my signal strength became...

I really, really like Mouse the Cat! (so did wifey).

Thanks Liam. So should one get off MSE and use Avast? I know that's what Merc has been saying all along in this thread, but wanted to know if the effort should be made.

Many, Many, Happy Returns of the Day, P5-133XL! Any more pics in fancy T-shirts?

Sounds familiar, haha. The combined Prime Minsiter, Finance Minister, Home Minister wields the most power! Beautiful pics, DD. Soon you'll have to buy a sawed off shotgun to keep the boys away. Budget for it now.

+1. Partying too much, Dave ? ;-)

Carpets with embedded dust in offices vs hard floors on the shop floor that are easier to keep clean? Most vacuums are a joke anyway.

My only experience with a Gigabyte product was like that: returned in the same box with a scribbled note that no problems were found with the video card when it had intermittent issues which I had explained.

Thanks Merc, but I've been using Paste (unformatted) text in Word for donkey's years. I don't use Metapad to strip formatting so I can paste it in Word; I do that directly in Word. I use Metapad to strip formatting if I need to paste the text in an email (Yahoo) etc.

My current and previous (still working after 6+ years) Seasonic's are great. Fan never turns on. When I turn off the switch on the power supply to cut the mains power every night, I can see an LED on the motherboard and another on the keyboard lit for several minutes (yeah, I know LED's consume...

Awesome idea, Mark. That way the cards don't get damaged by other stuff sitting on top of it. Bozo, you know what to do!

Is AC ratified or still draft? I'd hate to spend a pile of money and find my router is non-compliant. My point was that my Buffalo gear use WPA, not WPA2. AFAIK, WPA is easily hacked.

Done. I am on Channel 11; one neighbor is on 1, another on 6. No conflicts. My signal is the strongest (about 3x as high as the next most powerful one). Each parameter shows my current settings to be best. Of course I will check again multiple times tomorrow to make sure current results aren't...

Awesome link, Striker! Will use it and get back here. Thanks!

I'm using an Asus P8Z77-V (not Pro version) with an i5-3570K since Nov. 2012 without any problems. I guess Tannin's advice is sound.

Long story, please bear with me. My wi-fi gear is Buffalo, purchased in 2006. There's a router/mothership and two identical access points that work with the router. They all have 4 Ethernet ports in the back. Have never used one of the access points; it continues to stay in its box. The router...

Th reason expressed surprise at printing from Notepad is how crappy yhe printout is - large text in courier font. I too use Notepad's equivalent to strip off formatting, but paste back in Word or Excel, format it and print it out. I've used Metapad for years; I think someone here had written...

Very illuminating, and so true. Thanks for the link.

Holy Crap! Who in their right mind prints from Notepad? I never knew Notepad was an attack vector. I use Metapad as the default text editor, but Notepad is still in my system.

Nobody cares about this? Granted Nokia is nobody in the US, but they still are pretty big everywhere else in the feature phone market. They used to be big in business phones as well. IMHO, last gasp of Nokia and MS' mobile business.

Many tire shops have insurance for tires that they sell when you buy tires from them. It covers all road hazards, whether it's your fault or not.

Your tyre could fail anytime without warning. I'd replace it pronto, if I were you. The rim's condition is more difficult to assess. You may want to wait and see how it holds up. Don't exceed posted speed limits in the meantime. And what Mark said.

Many, Many Happy Returns of the Day, Dave!

40mpg @ 70mph is certainly astounding!

I think this sums it up perfectly. Amen.

You're barking up the wrong tree. They ain't competing with GM or Ford or Chrysler. They're competing with MBZ, BMW and Audi in the upper segment, and with Volvo on safety. You're quite right, but it'll do nothing for you when a drunk hits you from out of nowhere. That's when the car can save you.

Strange co-incidence: I saw a link to the Tesla S safety performance a few minutes ago. Wish every car performs as well.

Over here, that would disqualify 99.999999% of present and aspiring drivers. And that would be a good thing. Heck, if current US practices were applied, that would still disqualify 99.999% of present drivers (there's a couple of nines less there). Absolutely. And that is something that is not...

Smartphones typically gorge on batteries because all functions are on by default always: GPS, Wi-Fi, Mobile Data (3G/4G), Bluetooth. A bigger hog is the largse diaply they come with. Turning them off extends battery life many x times. I have all these turned off all the time, and turn on or or...