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Old bands like Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, hell even David Lee Roth get on stage and put on a god damned show whereas Lady Gaga gets on stage and sings some songs while people that dont matter and wont be seen by you ever again dance beside her.

Translation: "Today's music sucks because I'm old".

There was a lot of shitty music in the past too, it's just that the crap tends to get forgotten. Also, while Lady Gaga might not be your cup of tea, she is actually a very talented, classically trained musician. The vapid pop star thing is just an act*, which she's clearly very good at, because you obviously fell for it.

* Also, Taylor Swift was never a poor ole country gal, with bills to pay and nothing figured out, in case you fell for that one too.

Because I'm a retired IT guy. Also, I'm running Windows XP, but it's patching itself.

Registry Hack: Get Windows XP Security Updates until 2019

It thinks it's an ATM machine or other embedded OS.

ATM security still running Windows XP
Anthony Spadafora
15/11/2018

If Camry outsold the Equinox (290,000) by 100,000, then 390,000 Camrys were sold, more than the CR-V (378,000), ranked #6. But Camry is not one of the top six listed. If the basic facts are wrong, why should I believe the conclusions in this article?

I think the author mixed sales numbers for the full year 2017 with a list of top sellers for the first half of 2018.

I found a page that has 2017's top sellers as
1. Ford F-Series 896,764
2. Chevy Silverado 585,864
3. Ram Truck 500,723
4. Toyota RAV4 407,594
5. Nissan Rogue 403,465
6. Toyota Camry 387,081
7. Honda CR-V 377,895
8. Honda Civic 377,286
9. Toyota Corolla 329,196
10. Honda Accord 322,655
11. Ford Escape 308,296
12. Chevy Equinox 290,458

Those numbers match the ones on http://carsalesbase.com/us-car..., cited as the source of numbers in the article.

According to that list, the "leading American SUV" is the Ford Escape (not the Chevy Equinox). In 2017 Ford (not Chevy) sold 79,000 (not 100,000) fewer than Toyota sold Camrys. To me, that doesn't change the gist of the article. Ford and GM are dropping cars from their lineups to focus on more profitable trucks and SUVs, while Toyota and Honda are still selling plenty of cars, while the Nissan Rogue, Toyota RAV4, and Honda CR-V are handily outselling Ford Escape and Chevy Equinox.

Next time the price of gas goes up it'll be bailout time once more for Detroit.

Re. the fire's name:

Butte County's deadly Camp Fire was named after Camp Creek Road, the location where the fire started.

Wildfires are often named after their places of origin. For example, last year's deadly Tubbs Fire was named after Tubbs Lane in Santa Rosa.

Anecdotally, this summer has been the coolest and wettest I can remember in at least 60 years or more. The average first frost date is November 4th. We had a hard freeze of 27F three weeks early, which followed a 5" snow on Oct 14th. Elephants and Giraffe in Africa are wading through 10" of a late spring snow. While claiming such snow falls are common the news media are still making a big deal of it, so it must not be as common as some claim. How many times in the past have you seen photos of elephants in Africa wading through deep snow?
https://www.msn.com/en-za/trav...

And, why would he pay of the "winner" had the advantage of being supported by fudged data?

https://realclimatescience.com...

https://science.house.gov/news...

https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

AGW is all about dialectical materialism: the transfer of wealth from the West to Marxist countries via "Carbon Credits", which made Al Gore a millionaire.
http://variable-variability.bl...

... But one must explicitly say: We de facto redistribute the world’s wealth due to climate politics. That the owners of coal and oil are not enthusiastic about this is obvious. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate politics is environmental politics . This has almost nothing to do any more with environmental politics, ...

IOW, Climate Change is used by Globalists to justify their push toward Marxist "solutions" to all problems. They have their "Arm and Hammer" and they see every problem as a nail requiring hits from their hammer.

I'm quoting the sibling post because it's got some good information that's being ignored out of a lack of moderation points for ACs.

That "rando" is Dr. Ripu Malhotra. I put his name in Google and found his author bio on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Ripudam...

His "Cubic Mile of Oil" blog is his means to updates to the book he co-authored of the same name.
https://www.amazon.com/Cubic-M...

I believe this is an authoritative source.

Here's another "rando" that also happens to have a doctorate degree in how the environment works. Dr. Patrick Moore. He was a founding member of Greenpeace but left after they lost their sight on the science behind their motives.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/food...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Greenpeace hates chlorine, because chlorine was used as a weapon in World War One. Well, it's chlorine that keeps municipal water systems safe for drinking. Chlorine is the basis of many medicines. Just like we use nuclear technology to fight cancer, diagnose diseases, explore the universe, and provide safe and plentiful energy. But, because we also used nuclear technology to make weapons, we have groups like Greenpeace opposing nuclear power. Dr. Moore likes nuclear power and he's convinced me to like nuclear power.

I'll take the words of two people with doctorates on the merits of nuclear power over a bunch of "randos" on the internet. Maybe if people stopped to look at the science instead of the hysteria from Greempeace then we'd have a much better world to live in.

But what do I know, I'm just some "rando" typing on a computer in his basement. Don't listen to me, listen to Dr. Malhotra and Dr. Moore.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...

Cliff's Notes, Playboy style. Easy to read for a web page.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...

Got to be rea! No way can put an excerpt or two here of even those excerpts, because they never end! Bing search on "woodward's book" so msn sources. Google would only spindle me some more. I am full of G holes and want no more!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...

Got to be rea! No way can put an excerpt or two here of even those excerpts, because they never end! Bing search on "woodward's book" so msn sources. Google would only spindle me some more. I am full of G holes and want no more!

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...

a tax deduction is worthless. there's limits on those sorts of things, you know.. but there's no limits in how much the providers and drug companies can charge.

single payer tax-funded universal coverage with some pricing controls is what's needed. anything else is just a $9000 band-aid or a $6000 ice pack **

you're delusional if you think otherwise (you should see a doctor about that)

___
** no, i'm not making this shit up:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/mone...

If your criteria for "technology news" is it possibly impacts someone that uses technology, then every store on every page of the local newspaper is a candidate for Slashdot... For instance, the 30 year-old "man-child" that refuses to move out of his parent's house while he fights to regain custody of HIS son.

http://fortune.com/2018/04/07/...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...

https://itep.org/is-the-trump-...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/vide...

https://www.nationalreview.com...

https://www.nasdaq.com/video/t...

There yah go. Because you're a fucking idiot doesn't mean reality gives a fuck about what you think, it just means you're a fucking idiot.

Forgot to mention he started some new project that involved buying up former writers and editors from The Onion. I'm really interested to see what comes out of that, hopefully some kind of political satire thing that gets people to laugh at their own stupidity and move on, FSM knows our world needs plenty of both.

@joerogan Experience #961 - @Graham__Hancock, @SacredGeoInt & @michaelshermer Hunted to extinction or cataclysm? http://bit.ly/2zKU1IM https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news...

Seems a top official resigned, and a few workers, including the one who issued the alert, were fired today as a result of the FCC investigation. Details here.

Two main sources for the story are people who either "worked at the Gigafactory in recent months"... Past tense...

But more than a month later, in mid-December, Tesla was still making its Model 3 batteries partly by hand, according to current engineers and ex-Tesla employees who worked at the Gigafactory in recent months.

...aaaaand a guy with a huge "shorting" investment, standing to win millions from perceived losses by Tesla.

Stanphyl Capital's Mark B. Spiegel, who has a significant short position in the company, told CNBC:
"While I've no doubt that Tesla will eventually work out its Model 3 production problems, the base model will cost Tesla at least mid-$40,000s to build.
The company will never deliver more than a token few for less than the current $49,000 lowest-cost offering.
Sales will hugely disappoint relative to expectations of over 400,000 a year.
And even at those higher prices Tesla will never come anywhere close to its promised [profitability]."

Also, article is reeeeeaaalyyyy trying to paint a picture of doom and gloom.
It takes a line from a Tesla engineer about how workers were "slapping bandoliers together as fast as they possibly could" back in December - and presents it as a doom&gloom subtitle:
'Slapping bandoliers together'

Hell, it even manages to paint higher test standards as bad, by omission of the fact that test standards are higher than expected not simply "[not] the same kind".

The two engineers also said that Tesla doesn't do the same kind of "stress tests" of its Model 3 batteries which would be expected of other electronics or carmakers.

And then there's that thing where I can't seem to find a single article by that author, about Tesla, which isn't a story about how VERY DOUBLEPLUS BAD Tesla really is.

Feds to investigate Tesla crash driver blamed on Autopilot
Tesla factory workers have filed a lawsuit claiming widespread racism, unsafe conditions
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/01/elon-musk-tesla-fired-700-people.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/tesla-firings-former-and-current-employees-allege-layoffs.htmlTesla employees detail how they were fired, claim dismissals were not performance related
Tesla employees detail how and why they were fired
Tesla cites performance reviews as it fires SolarCity employees, though workers say reviews never took place
Tesla fires hundreds of employees while trying to ramp up vehicle production

German report calls Tesla's Autopilot a "hazard"
Senate committee calls out Elon Musk, wants answers on Tesla Autopilot
Tesla under investigation for possible breach of securities law, WSJ reports
What the NTSB know

Could be worse. Everyone could be Logan Paul on YouTube.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/logan-paul-taking-time-to-reflect-after-suicide-forest-video-controversy/ar-BBHSpG0

I have to ask this. What planet are you living on?

This one, and I'll respond to that in response to your next sentence

Here you go my misandryst compadre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... A North Carolina man's daughter lied when she accused him of raping her.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... A man's wife falsely accused him of molesting his daughter.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/trav... A woman accused a man of sexually molesting his daughter, while they were on an airplane flight, because she thought his skin was too dark ? I guess she just knew that he was pimping her out or something.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... A social worker accuses a man of molesting his daughter - again, falsely, Apparently mens fault she did that

http://www.latimes.com/local/l... Man falsely accused of molesting a child. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/man-... Man falsely accused of sexual assault by teenage girl. NOw on the the never occuring false accusations of sexual harassment in the workplace.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... Yup, woman accuses a man of sexual harassment, ruins him.

Here's one that should make you happy a man falsely accused of rape. He hung himself, ismn't that what men deserve? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men...''

https://www.dailywire.com/news... et us not forget The Rolling Stone's shining moment, when what you probably were partying about, when the Rolling stone and "Jacie" a victim of gang rape by the patriarcial members of a Fraternity this was the real dirt on all men ar pigs, and rapid justice was needed. THere was just one little teeny weenie problem.

It was completely false, as in a lie. Don't worry though, after all of the trouble for th eUniversity and th eFraternity, Jackie was never charge - and that is the important thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Perhaps you agree that the problem is so awful that innocent men must be destroyed to get rid of this probelm - after all you wrote in another pose that all men are assholse. Here is a link to re-affirm your cognitive dissonance.https://www.dailywire.com/news/23892/teen-vogue-columnist-claims-shes-not-concerned-if-emily-zanotti

So anyhow - no, it is not likely that men will be falsely accused of sexual harassment. That much is true. Most women just want to get along in life and find love and friends, and happiness, and to avoid being abused. I suspect you disagree based on some of your remarks, but the same is true of most men.

But there is a fair non zero chance of being falsely accused of something that will end your career without any chance of response, and that might get you sent to jail, and have to register as a sex offender.

And society and the legal system is on her side, not yours. Even if you are eventually exonerated, you

Well, the Chinese just had a robot pass a medical exam. If there's not enough tech in that to make automated weaponry, I don't know what qualifies.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/vide...

You're talking about the bribe paid to get the Uranium One deal, right?

You gotta get those talking points right man. That was pro-quid legit business for the Clintons, and that massive bribery and kickback scheme that the FBI were investigating before the Obama admin stomped all over it. It's not that she and the DNC were actually doing this shit, and this was all projection or something. They're totes good peoples!

It's like all those directors, actors, reporters, gamejurno's and other "male feminist allies" who screeched that they're really, really, really good people, and never evar sexually harassed anyone! Before it all came out that really, they sexually harassed multiple people and even raped several(with a toss-mix of bomb threats). There's no projection going on here, none at all!

No link? BTW consortiumnews doesn't count.

I found it pretty quick. On MSN, no less.

Wow you hit a nerve. Someone on the left doesn't like the idea that Democrats use illegals to pack ballotboxes

Which is amazing seeing as Nancy Pelosi will even admit it when she isn't watching what she says.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/spor...

pizzagaters

*puts on tin foil hat*
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/...
*takes off tin foil hat*

Seems it's just being "re-homed" in the Windows Store, and will be available as a free download.
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/...

And for all those bemoaning it's loss when dealing with screenshots, Windows 10 has "Ink Workspace" that works well for screenshots. Just right click on the Taskbar and "enable Ink Workspace button".

I would like to point out in my defense, I am typing this on a laptop running Xubuntu ... I just teach people (as a volunteer) how to deal with Windows 10.

On one hand, the companies this would be targeting are big enough to hold either de facto or explicit monopoly power, which isn't good for competition. On the other, in this new zero-slack, tiny-margin economy that looks like it's upon us, large companies would be the only ones making enough profit to pay their employees well.

I was just reading this article 2 minutes before reading the linked article. Companies that are being squeezed to the point where they can't make any more money are certainly not going to make life easier for their employees. If you optimize the system 100% and remove all inefficiencies, you could have a situation where nobody can provide enough value to sell their labor anymore. I know that sounds very Luddite-y, but IMO we're at the point where the vast majority of people can't simply move up the job ladder to the next better position when theirs is eliminated. There are too many people employed in middleman positions who will no longer have work, nor have any way to get new work.

Sure, no one wants monopolies with unlimited pricing power. But should the alternative be a hyper-efficient world where no one of average skill and intelligence can find work?

You couldn't fit into THIS American car

http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos...

I hope they don't block me trying to price check at a Whole Foods Market in the future.

I love the smell of the future in the morning...it smells like antitrust...

“I wasn’t as focused as I should have been, but in a lot of classes, we just watched videos and documentaries, and then we would talk about them. It wasn’t all that challenging,” said Jeremy Daigle, who graduated in 2011 and now works in a coffee shop in Lafayette.

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/mone...

At the first glance, this statement makes the college or at least the classes in question sound rather shoddy. Thinking a bit further, it might be interesting to know what exactly they talked about after watching the documentaries and videos. Did they do a thorough deconstruction and have many students contribute to it? Evaluating the internal logic of the arguments made? The evidence that was presented, the methods they used to collect it? There's really a lot that still can be done here IF the students are taught the value of logic and its application.

Here is a non-paywalled version of the article.

There is nothing in TFA that indicates that this is a "new" problem. Sure people are generally pretty stupid, but that has always been true, and this is not evidence that "things are getting worse".

The more cops wearing body cameras that stream to the cloud for storage (ending the missing SD card issue) the better!

Is that what these cameras do?

Trick question. No, it isn't, unless this is a new generation of them.

After our police chief got recruited by Taser and mysteriously secured a no-bid contract, Albuquerque started using Taser's product. It used SD cards, and as our police records custodian noticed, the videos didn't always manage to later get uploaded. Some darker things were alleged as well though it's not clear if they really happened.

DoJ is looking into it. Or they were, before the president came out against police oversight. #ThanksTrump

Anyway, the only reason I bring this up, is that at least with the machines APD has, the videos definitely are not streamed directly to the servers without the cops having veto (or editing) powers. Whether they use those powers, is a matter of how much you trust them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/pages-from-trumps-tax-returns-raise-a-decades-worth-of-questions/ar-BByFIXZ/

Here you go. I was referring to the leaking of his 2005 tax returns last week. If you refer to paragraph six, you will see the references to the numbers I was referring too. Specifically, to the over 100M and the over 30M numbers I stated.

So, there you go. You, in a round about way, said I didn't cite my sources and ask me for them. So there you go.

Zoo animals also expressed an overwhelming desire... shame neither are at all relevant: http://www.msn.com/en-us/video...

Or that 90% of beltway reporters either vote democrat or are registered democrats, or that 80% or so of reporters in general are democrats.

Donald Trump made the assumption that Lester Holt, the NBC moderator for the first debate, was a Democrat. Holt is actually a registered Republican.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-calls-first-debate-moderator-a-democrat-records-show-otherwise/ar-BBwpmss

There might be right-wing talking points, but there sure is a democrat echo chamber.

What you see in the general media is a corporate echo chamber that pounces on anything and everything to drive up ratings. If Trump behaves himself after the next debate by not tweeting at 3AM in the morning, the media might go back to making up stuff about Hillary's health.

Hate to say your right, but just yesterday Denver had an active shooter right in the middle of downtown, local news had it mildly covered, but not a peep from national news

One person got shot, shooter commits suicide. Probably filed under domestic violence. No mention of race, so it must be white-on-white violence.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/1-hospitalized-after-report-of-shooting-in-downtown-denver/ar-AAhKI2Z

Two Statements:
Ship owners are realizing bigger ships aren't better than smaller ships.
Ship owners continue to prefer to buy bigger ships rather than smaller ships.

Journalists and media are doing this purposely. They're creating cognitive dissonance in their audiences, to keep them confused. If you watch for it, you can find conflicting statements, both presented as fact, in many many MSM news stories. I've only recently picked up on this trend. Often, it will be the headline that says one thing and the body of the story says the opposite.

Here's an example, from MSN:

Chicago recorded its 300th homicide this weekend and tallied six others over a 60-hour period that saw 55 people shot, 13 fatally, from Friday afternoon through early Monday morning.

Okay, 300th homicide, presumably since the start of 2016. But... "and tallied six others" ... So there were 7? "13 [shot] fatally". Wait... 13? So that means they are now at 307, including the 13 this weekend. Well... what's with all the conflicting numbers? Did I actually interpret that right? Maybe not, because the Tribune claims there were only 5 homicides during the same period.

And here's another one from Newsmax. The headline is "Kepler K2-33b, Youngest Exoplanet Found Yet, Shows How Planets Form". But in the copy is this:

The planet is roughly the size of Neptune, about 5 million to 10 million years old

Ok... But then further down:

K2-33b is the second young "hot Jupiter" found in recent months, the Los Angeles Times reported. A hot Jupiter is a gas giant orbiting close to its star. The other one, discovered orbiting a 2 million-year-old star named V830 Tau, was written about in a separate article published in the journal Nature.

But wait.. the one found first is 2 million years old, but the youngest one found is now (K2-33b), which is 5 - 10 million years old? How does that make it younger than one 2 million years old?

I think it's intentional.

Bunk, stop lying or get updated with the new info.

"If this trend continues, in five or six years non-alcohol drugs will overtake alcohol to become the most common substance involved in deaths related to impaired driving."

http://www.webmd.com/mental-he...
http://seattle.cbslocal.com/20...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/healt...

Bunk.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/healt...
http://seattle.cbslocal.com/20...

http://www.webmd.com/mental-he...

"If this trend continues, in five or six years non-alcohol drugs will overtake alcohol to become the most common substance involved in deaths related to impaired driving."

I htink we were collectively distracted by the poor term "the 1%". The actual 1%, the moderately wealthy, the successful doctors and dentists and lawyers and small business owners, they aren't the issue here. The 1% aren't the people in the Panama Papers.

We should instead be upset at "the richest 100 families", who IMO have been causing so many problems. In some ways, the difference between "ideal capitalism" and "capitalism as practiced in the US" is the difference between the 1% and the richest 100 families.

I wouldn't limit this to the US.

http://www.msn.com/en-in/money...

On the other hand, the United States' "melting-pot" approach has been quite successful in creating a cohesive society

Yes. Like I said, the US dealing is with diversity better than most — with the possible exception of Brazil.

But it is still a burden and even our success is overestimated — if an American public school bans American flag as "offensive", there is a big problem.

It may not be that way forever.

Bing News headline today: 2 people reported dead after eastern Oklahoma bank robbery

Since you are the one making the claim that all these oppressive laws are out there, why don't you provide an example of a law that an ordinary citizen risks getting arrested for without knowing such a law existed?

I'm not the parent poster, nor am I making the same claim he/she did in that laws are just to oppress people (I agree some laws have been used for this, but they do seem the exception and not the rule)

I only wanted to address one part of your reply separately, specifically "provide an example of a law that an ordinary citizen risks getting arrested for without knowing such a law existed?"

Now I must first point out that the chances of being actually arrested or even prosecuted in the following examples is pretty low, rare even (again, the exception more than the rule) but in each example it has happened at least once (once too many IMHO, for what little that's worth)

But there are plenty of laws people break all the time without even knowing it, and if the right person/people pressed the issue legally, you would be successfully prosecuted for breaking them (facts are facts after all.)
Some allow for arrest and jail time, if a judge so wished to do so.

One good technical example fit for slashdot - do you own a smartphone? Do you ever enable wifi?
If so chances are very good you have broken the law repetitively every day.

When the phone passes near an open unsecured AP, the phone by default will try to connect to it.
Perhaps just to read the MAC for location services, perhaps to use for data over the slower and more expensive cellular connection.
Either way if you haven't obtained the explicit permission from the APs owner to do this, you have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for "gaining unauthorized access to a computer, network, or a website"
This is a 3rd degree felony, up to 2 years in prison, and up to $10000 in fines.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/84...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
http://seclists.org/isn/2006/M...

I notice your slashdot handle is "bws111". Does that happen to be the initials of your real name? Well even so the extra numbers brings you back against the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for "using a false name during an online registration process"
http://www.wired.com/2009/07/d...

Ever use sarcasm a lot like I do? Most of my slashdot posts use a ton of it, and in many US states that is a crime.
Disorderly Conduct laws frequently make it a crime to write anything that disturbs another person, and worse some states don't even require publishing that writing to the public, nor excludes fiction, for it to be a crime.

Illinois has such a law with a max $1500 fine and 30 days in jail.
Oklahoma has such laws where if your fictional writing describes a person being injured or killed, you can be arrested for "planning to cause serious bodily harm" with up to 10 years in prison.
Chicago has such laws and has actually acted on them.

Note all for "disorderly conduct":
http://www.wired.com/2007/04/t...
http://www.wired.com/politics/...

In California (and I believe other states) anti-grafitti laws state it is a criminal offence to have a permanent marker in public.
It is illegal simply to possess "broad-tipped indelible markers" or "aerosol cans" in a public place (such as when leaving the store you just purchased your new marker from) because they can be used to commit acts of vandalism.

; 2. Polls take non-landline owners into account. Typically, around 1/3 of respondents for most polls are on cellphones.

Citiation please.

Example: phone poll, 350 of 1000 respondents are on cellphones:
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MS...

The only _legal_ way for a polling organisation to make contact with a mobile phone owner is to have the mobile initiate the contact or explicitly invite the call.

You misunderstand the law. It's legal to make unsolicited calls to cellphones, but you have to do it manually. The prohibition is only on automated dialers. So, it costs quite a bit more, but you can still do it, and the quality pollsters do. See the discussion below, about halfway through the piece. The biggest challenge that cellphones bring is higher cost.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06...

You're even worse with numbers. If you look at the original poll, you'll see there's a 3.1% margin of error. So it's 67 to 73% who think we're headed in the wrong direction. Statistical sampling isn't for the weak of mind, or those who cling to beliefs in the presence of facts...

I don't think it'll help, they burned too many bridges with their "fuck the users!" attitude they've had these past several years. I know that FF was the #1 browser for my customers for several years and since Australis every.single.one has asked me to help them move to something else or gone to Chrome. I don't even bother packing FF in to my default install package anymore, they keep screwing with things so much they leave a bad taste in my customer's mouths.

Instead for those that use extensions or just prefer the originalk FF UI I offer them the choice of Pale Moon or Ice Dragon, Ice Dragon is a little more secure since it can integrate with Comodo IS to auto sandbox on launch while Pale Moon is more like old school Firefox but both are really good browsers.

But sadly I just don't see FF coming back, they have peed in their corn flake one time too many and alienated so many users I just don't see them being able to lure them back, not to mention it looks like Mozilla is about to get fucked by Yahoo with rumors pointing to Yahoo selling off most of their core assets, possibly even selling off everything and shutting down. I think if that happens they are just fucked, as nobody is gonna pay the hundreds of millions they got from Google and Yahoo for their search, not with numbers as low as they are.

It's been a while since I watched my car being tested but do they hook up the car to a computer terminal of some sort? Could those be used to trigger test mode?

The test mode was triggered by monitoring which wheels were turning, position of the steering wheel, etc.

Basically they wanted to avoid the cost of installing a urea injection system so they cheated instead. Honda engineers were reported to be perplexed about how they managed to do this miraculous feat of engineering.

Here's a good article about what is known so far:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos...

So you don't care if it's going to cost you a lot more to let it happen as to do something about it?

Quite the opposite: I care a great deal in minimizing harm. Even based on the rather biased IPCC reports themselves, it is clear that the cost of action on AGW is staggering, while the cost of doing nothing is small.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/sea-rise-threatens-florida-coast-but-no-statewide-plan/ar-BBjy2pG - the cost of doing nothing amounts to $400 million in Miami Beach alone, and just for new storm water pumps. Now, not in some far away future.

Got some $400 million left in your sofa cushions?

That has not be demonstrated to satisfaction.

The slight warming has not, as of yet caused any problems.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/sea-rise-threatens-florida-coast-but-no-statewide-plan/ar-BBjy2pG - that's what Rick Scott pretends too.

What a day, Leonard Nimoy dies.

Boris Nemtsov is murdered.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/27/...

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/...

Putin says this was a horrible murder.... as he was seen hiding the fucking gun in his back pocket.

Not a good day.