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mzron Slaves endure 'a living hell' on remote South Korean islands

There are examples in these comments. This quote is apt: “This is what happens when we don’t pay attention.”

I've been using OneDrive on multiple Macs and have not encountered the pegged CPU. It seems to be a bit better than the Windows client, which takes ages to transfer a file to the local drive.

mzron Lockheed Martin’s Claims on Fusion Energy Meet with Skepticism

That was designed in the '60s by a prolific aircraft designer. It was quite a different time.

mzron The Man Behind the World's Smallest V-12 Engine [video]

Condensation happens with air compressors, too. I had a small oilless compressor that when heavily used would put so much water in the air line a mist would spray out the exhaust port of the air tool I was using.

mzron CenturyLink Said to Seek to Acquire Rackspace Hosting

They tend to let things linger and die rather than keeping them up or improve them.

I had Sprint as a local phone company and DSL ISP in the early to mid-2000s. The other options in this small town were cable, but with a dial-up uplink or Hughes satellite.

Sprint was a great ISP, downtime was perhaps two times over the years. CenturyLink purchased the phone and DSL from Sprint, and coasted along on Sprint's old infrastructure for a about a year then the bandwidth exhaustion set it. First it was the peak times that were unusable, then it was just about anytime day or night that latency was through the roof. Fixing it was just around the corner. When I switched to cable, it took another 2-3 years to resolve it.

mzron Security Update 2014-002

Conveniently enough, so is this Slashdot post.

mzron Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones'

I rarely check my phone. I would like a tough phone to carry for emergencies while hiking. I couldn't completely switch because there is no way I am typing out a text with a phone keypad. That is the main reason I resisted getting a cell phone in the first place.

mzron Toyota Reaches $1.2B Settlement in Criminal Inquiry

The people making comments about killing the engine is a monumentally bad idea. If the car has a conventional key ignition, turning the key even to the accessory position can engage the steering wheel lock. Without a running engine, you could lose power brake and steering assist. Not all power steering systems are hydraulic, some are pure electric and some are electro-hydraulic. The majority of braking systems are assisted by a booster driven off of engine vacuum. You have two or three pedal pumps before the vacuum is gone.

mzron Toyota Reaches $1.2B Settlement in Criminal Inquiry

Some emergency brakes are electrical. All automobile brake systems are hydraulic, and can overcome the engine even at wide open throttle.

mzron That “distressed baby" Tim Armstrong blamed for benefit cuts? She’s my daughter

How about AOL stop whining about paying for medical care, and stop employing "digital prophets"? Perhaps then they could afford both the insurance costs and 401(k)s.

http://www.uproxx.com/technology/2014/02/meet-david-shing-ak...

mzron Google permanently bans popular application from Play for not using IAP

Just take away the ball pits, then they may get something done.

mzron Nagios-plugins web site taken over by Nagios

Observium is good for network monitoring: http://www.observium.org

mzron Building an open source Nest

The Honeywell thermostats are legitimately terrible. I've had a 8000-series for a couple years.

mzron The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen (2007)

I have absolutely no problem with paying money to the government so damn near everybody can get decent internet service if they want it. Corporations have shown over and over that they are unwilling and actively hostile towards that idea.

The only corporation that I have seen upend that view is Google. Whether competition from private enterprise, or government these companies scream that it is unfair. No, it isn't.

mzron I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on

24 years old. I know this veers into hyperbole, but it seems we've both killed and ruined a whole generation.

mzron PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

Its 2013. Why the fuck do you care what other people use? I'm suprised you didn't break out the 'Micro$haft Winblows!!', or are you saving that for later?

Sent from OS/2

mzron Two Climate Analysts Fault Gas Leaks, but Not as a Big Warming Threat

Come to the Barnett Shale, and see how it isn't good, either. You can't drink it, and we're losing our aquifers to contamination from drilling, fracking, and the waste water injection wells.

mzron Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hideous

Two months is an awfully short research project. Guess with results like the Kin, they saw the writing on the wall. Microsoft should have told Verizon they were just testing the waters.

mzron Greenland’s ice sheets are disappearing faster than anyone predicted

I'll expect you to make the same comment on posts that claim to want to "change the world". This is an actual world changing event, not some marketing bullshit.

mzron Why I cancelled my TechEd talks

That is some high-quality pearl clutching. I feel safer in the Ninth Ward than at a TechEd.

mzron Why is science behind a paywall?

What? Did you miss the whole Apollo program? That was a government program. There are few things that come close to the innovation achieved in that program. Yes, there were private industry contractors. But it would not happened without the government.

mzron City of Boston drops Microsoft for Gmail

"What’s more, Cain said, Google’s contract terms are much simpler than dealing with Microsoft. And since Google updates its software via the Internet, which Microsoft only recently started doing with some of its products, it means clients won’t be working for years on outdated applications."

This is just willfully ignorant. If you have Exchange, you probably have Active Directory. You can update Office various ways. I updated 1000 computers from Office 2003 to 2010 without touching any of them. I can also push an update to all our computers only downloading the patches once, not with 1000 computers downloading the same thing all at once.

I haven't seen Google Docs mass controls, but with AD and Office I was able to fix a PowerPoint video acceleration issue with a subset of our machines. Otherwise I'd have to change a setting for every person who logged into these particular machines. I realize that I may not have had this problem with Google Docs. However, we've found that we can't replicate what is done with PowerPoint in Google Docs.

mzron French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into deleting a Wikipedia Article

Liberté, égalité, farterai....ahh nevermind

mzron The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a...

http://imgur.com/jLP4KEa

mzron AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-Contract "Smart" Phone

I think AT&T has a database of IMEIs of known US smartphones. You used to be able to get around the scans with an imported Nokia, for example. I used to have a Nokia X6 that never got picked up for the two years I used it.