If you don't like it, you can take it up with the fact that I'm 6'3 and have done roofing, likely can prevent you from removing any of my technology and it would be at your own peril.
"bouncer"
1)The big fat guy standing in front of the doorway of stripclubs. He doesn't want any trouble, but if you hit him, he has every right to pummel you to mush.
They also guard doorways to celebrity parties. The rich guy bouncers are less round and more built, and can easily throw you out of a bulletproof window, but can't overturn cars.
2) A bouncer is the first face you see when entering a bar, pub, or night club. They tend to be large and muscular. their job is to make sure that the bar is safe for the customers and bar staff alike. If you act like an asshole, chances are you will wake up in an ally in a pool of your own blood with serious head trauma.
"Ed Packard submitted an innovative book for young readers, "Sugarcane Island", Montgomery immediately saw it for what it was: a role-playing game in book form. "
So Ed Packard was the creator.
The geek doesn't give half enough credit to the guy who can recognize a good idea, get product on the shelves, and market it successfully.
The Adventures of You on Sugarcane Island was the exact prototype for books in Bantam's classic Choose Your Own Adventure series. In 1969, and 1970, the William Morris Agency submitted the book on Packard's behalf to several major publishers, all of whom rejected it. In 1976 Packard was able to get the book published by [Montgomery's] Vermont Crossroads Press. In its review of the book, Publishers Weekly called it "an original idea, well carried out."
I had to google "shirtstorm" to see what you're talking about... holy shit there is no hope left for society.
Business Insider posted compare-and-contrast photographs of the live-streaming Matt Taylor in his lingerie tee-shirt and tattoos and his female counterparts in the control room for India's Mars landing.
The only thing needed to complete the picture was Google Glass.
You're vastly underestimating the difficulties of material science.
There are self-cleaning windows, based on coatings like titanium dioxide. But you need rain and sunlight to make this work --- and where the rain and sun can't reach you still need the window washer. You also need workers who can inspect, clean and repair the facade.
For a human, using a sponge and squeegee combo is probably the most effective way to clean a window.
The high tech alternative to the sponge and squeegee isn't a robot, it's a chemical coating on the glass.
Titanium dioxide is a photocatalyst: it's a material that makes chemical reactions happen when the right kind of light shines on it. The right kind of light for titanium dioxide is ultraviolet (UV), the super-blue, high-energy part of sunlight that our eyes can't see, but that nevertheless can give us sunburn even on a cloudy day. When ultraviolet light hits the titanium dioxide coating of a self-cleaning window, electrons are generated. These turn water molecules from the air into hydroxyl radicals that make chemical oxidation and reduction reactions take place on the coating. In effect, the hydroxyl radicals attack organic (carbon-based) dirt and chop it up into smaller pieces that are much easier for rain to wash away. Since the reactions happen on the titanium coating, on the very surface of the glass, they attack the lowest layers of the dirt, loosening encrusted muck from the glass very effectively by chipping it away from the inside out (the opposite of normal window cleaning, where you effectively scrub the dirt from the outside in.)
Rain will probably not reach every corner of the window.
The literal curtain wall of the early box like glass towers has gone out of fashion.
The coating can add maybe 20% to the cost of a window.
The Twin Towers had 43,600 windows --- 600,000 square feet of glass. 'Mind you, the architect of the WTC was notoriously afraid of heights and windows were kept as narrow as humanly possible and still allow some view of the outside.
Human window washers must be cheaper than self-cleaning glass or robots. For now.
high rise architecture as sculpture difficult to navigate, no longer a simple curtain wall.
demands cleaning, maintenance and repair of both windows and facades -- and tenants will settle for nothing less than perfection. there are no robots who can do this work and that isn't going to change any time soon. it's all there in the summary.
3 - 2 - 1.. Some kid brings a speaker plugged in to a cellphone/whatever plays gunfire gets school shut down for the day...
Ever wonder why you need hearing protection at the range and not in the movie theater?
Earlier this year, researchers at BAE Systems and the FBI published a comprehensive paper on gunshot forensics. In their study, Steven Beck and colleagues explain that a gunshot is made up of two primary sounds --- there's a crack and there's a BANG!
The bang is the 'muzzle blast' --- the sound of pressurised gases escaping as the bullet leaves the barrel of the gun. The initial sound only lasts a few milliseconds, but it's louder than a jet engine and can reverberate for over a second.
The crack is the shock wave created as the bullet breaks the sound barrier, like a miniature version of the sonic boom created by a supersonic jet. The shock wave forms a cone which trails behind the bullet, and you hear the crack when the shock wave passes by.
Linux...has been going downhill in the last 5 years precisely because too many people invite their friends and family, and they complain that they can't play games...
The world [needs] a platform where everything is infinitely configurable and simple enough for dumb robots to understand, and people are forced to become experts. And that platform is dying.
infinitely configurable simple enough for a dumb robot to understand [while] people are forced to become experts in the platform
and here I thought an OS was a means to an end and not an end in itself.
not something to be hugged chokingly tight and close like a child's teddy bear.
the modern computer game demands an affordable OS and hardware capable of translating endless streams of ones and zeroes into a richly interactive and immersive theatrical experience ---
and suggesting a practical solution to the problem of how to present and interact with massive amounts of data of any kind.
Because every article I have seen mentions nothing about a warrant.
The life of the victim trumps the need for a warrant.
In law enforcement and law, hot pursuit (also known as fresh or immediate pursuit) [is] the urgent and direct pursuit of a criminal suspect by law enforcement officers. Particularly under common law, such a situation grants the officers powers they otherwise would not have.
In 1939, Glanville Williams described hot pursuit as a legal fiction that treated an arrest as made at the moment when the chase began rather than when it ended, since a criminal should not be able to benefit from an attempt to escape.
A month before Delvin Barnes grabbed a woman off a street in Philadelphia, he hit a [sixteen year old teenager] with a shovel in Virginia and stuffed her into the trunk of a car, authorities say.
She was taken to the home of the suspect's parents in Charles City County, where she was sexually abused, authorities said.
While there, the suspect showed the teen pictures of other girls he said he had abducted, authorities said.
Two days later, the suspect allegedly brought the then-naked girl into the backyard, poured bleach and gasoline on her, burned her clothes and dug a hole.
When he was briefly distracted, the girl fled into the woods. Two miles away, she stumbled onto a business, and employees brought her inside.
Barnes is charged with abduction, forcible rape and malicious wounding with a chemical, among other charges.
"I just want to kill him -- just want to kill him," the girl's mother told CNN affiliate WWBT.
The mother says Barnes allegedly told her daughter that he was going to kill her. After all that her daughter suffered, the mother said, she ''didn't look like herself'' She called it ''devastating.''
he or she almost certainly doesn't need life insurance to make sure the spouse and rugrats can afford the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed.
The business and professional obligations of a man or woman in this class come into play as well.
In theory, no one is irreplaceable. In practice, the loss of a CEO, senior partner, major investor, etc., at a critical moment can do a lot of damage.
If you're really lazy, you could get a motorbike or scooter, drastically reducing your dependence; if you're not that lazy start cycling. With a bit of practice, a 20-30K commute on a bike is really not hard, and you'll save money on gym fees.
why do I get the feeling that the geek sees himself and everyone around him as forever twenty-five years old?
''Vanity projects'' are nothing new in America, where the arts are driven primarily by private, not public, funds. Old-school, philanthropic museums were themselves public monuments to their founders' savvy. They were also, a tastemaking project by nouveau riche American tycoons: When the Industrial Revolution triggered fears that the growing immigrant workforce would prevent America from developing a highbrow culture like Europe's, the wealthy fought the perceived onslaught by funding institutes filled with old-world classics to educate the people's taste, to help them identify with the values of the successful industrialists.
Today's benefactors buy and preserve what they consider purely American art. Private collectors in the past few decades have been stealthily accumulating valuable holdings in order to tell their versions of the country's art history. Each in their own way are making a bid to define what art is in America and what it has been in the 150 years.
There's a fittingly egalitarian spirit to this latest wave of museum openings. The Rubell Family Collection opened shop in Miami's rundown Wynwood neighborhood to display the kind of avant-garde works usually found in high-end art galleries. Perhaps even more daring is Crystal Bridges, Walmart heiress Alice Walton's passion project that brought Lichtenstein and Warhol to a small town in the Ozarks. Costing a reported $1.2 billion to open in 2011, Crystal Bridges doesn't charge for admission, a fact that conveys the belief that art, like music and literature, is not a recreational luxury or the purview of the rich. Rather, it is an essential tool that helps awaken and direct talent whose development is essential to society, especially a democratic one.
i got to cut my living expenses or end up living on skidrow with the rest of the homeless
To me this reads as money-management problem, which means that moving into a storage shed is an evasion not a solution.
I was raised on a farm --- and like our neighbors ---- the question was never "if" you would need the volunteer firemen, an ambulance, a sheriff's deputy, or the state police, but only "when," and "how soon can they get here?"
In Germany, people have started creating a free as in freedom wifi hotspot network, offering restaurants bakery shops and cafes to join. There is no login. No tracking. Just surfing.
Free as in freedom or free as in a "bottomless" cup of coffee? Sit down, spend more, but don't overstay your welcome?
The practice of paid lobbying ought to be outlawed altogether, with long prison terms in store for those who break that law.
There are some small difficulties in the way here, like "freedom of assembly" and "freedom of speech."
The right to organize and act collectively, effectively, to protect your own interests. Which implies the right to hire or subsidize professionals as staff, advisors, spokesmen and negotiators.
The geek resists organization. He doesn't like being told that he is not particularly competent outside his own specialty.
Now and again the EFF comes into focus.
But it remains perfectly capable of descending into self-parody, as in this classic non-event event that plays out like a bad skit from Saturday Night Live:
Windows 8.1 sends my every search query to Microsoft if I don't block them by IP at the DNS, router, and hosts file levels.
To configure Smart Search, you need to visit PC Settings, the new Metro-based replacement for Control Panel, and navigate to Search and Apps, and then Search.
Use Bing to Search Online. Enabled by default, this option determines whether Bing-driven web results appear in the Search results page. If you set this to Off, you will no longer see these results (and will only see Everywhere, Settings, and Files as options in the Search pane).
Your Search Experience. This option---available only when Use Bing to Search Online is set to On---determines whether Bing personalizes its search results for you and for your location. If you're going to leave Bing searching enabled, I recommend leaving this on its default: Get Personalized Results From Bing That Use My Location.
My advice? Leave it alone and give it a shot. But if you do end up wanting to turn off the Bing web integration, that's how you do so.
It regularly disables my wireless card so that it can reset it and verify my connection by reestablishing the link with Microsoft's privacy-invading servers.
On occasions, the system is programmed to turn off the Wi-Fi adapter, when idle. This might be the reason for your spoiled Wireless connection. Troubleshoot the situation by deactivating this feature of Windows 8.1 and see if it works out.
Press Windows key + W on your keyboard to initiate Start search.
Type Network and Sharing Center in the search box and hit Enter to open its window.
In this window, choose your Wi-Fi network and the Wi-Fi Status screen will appear.
Click the Properties button near the lower left corner to open another window.
In Wi-Fi Properties window, click on the button titled Configure.
Go to the Power Management tab; uncheck the following option and click OK button.
Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.
If the problem persists, replace the adapter.
Windows 8.1 has a kind of crash I've never seen in any Windows version until this one: memory management.
In twenty years as a Windows home user, truly bizarre and outrageous behavior has always come down to a hardware problem --- sometimes an easy fix like resetting a chip or board, sometimes a warning that the system is EOL Time to pull the plug.
Now let's mention the one and only discussion we've seen about Windows 10 having a keylogger embedded in it while overlooking that random forum posters have said that it's because the OS is in beta but Microsoft has never confirmed that the keylogger would be removed.
There is no need to read the random forum post. Privacy Statements for Windows Technical PreviewThe Win 10 preview explicitly targets the enthusiast and the IT Pro. It is not an open public Beta as that term is generally understood.
Effective government demands continuity, a willingness to compromise. The ability to think and plan long-term. That is the real contribution to political theory of small-C conservatism.
Term limits give power to the lobbyist, the bureaucrat and the judge ---
at the highest level, men and women whose reputation, experience, influence and resources dwarf the Congressional fruit-flies who are here today and gone tomorrow.
no secret treaties
It's a lovely ideal, older than dirt. But no one has ever been able to make it work.
...is in a place where, after 15 years of/., I am sick and tired of having this very same, and pointless (since nobody ever changes anybody's minds here), discussion twice a year, every year, like clockwork.
I think a poster from Melbourne had it about right.
DST serves the needs of those who work fixed hours and the shops, parks, theaters, etc., that benefit from their patronage. The geek doesn't picture himself as being part of this class, and so he whines about the change every year.
Statistics show that the heart attack rate shows a small but significant peak following the weekend DST is activated. You're fucking with the biorhythm of people in ways that are only rivaled by forcing them to travel from east to west coast twice a year and having to adjust the time accordingly
When researchers in Sweden examined the impact of daylight saving time on heart attack rates in that country, they discovered that people had slightly fewer heart attacks on the Monday after they set their clocks back in the fall and slightly more heart attacks in the days after they set their clocks ahead in the spring.
The effect of the spring transition to daylight saving time on heart attack rates was slightly greater for women than men, and the fall effect was more pronounced in men than in women. And the effect was consistently more pronounced in people under age 65 than for those 65 and older.
So more time that I have to deal with screen glare, yeah, that's what I want!
It sounds like you're suffering from separation anxiety whenever you are away from your desktop, smartphone or tablet. You might want to cut back on the caffeine and spend more time outdoors.
Slashdot Mirror
If you don't like it, you can take it up with the fact that I'm 6'3 and have done roofing, likely can prevent you from removing any of my technology and it would be at your own peril.
"bouncer"
1)The big fat guy standing in front of the doorway of stripclubs. He doesn't want any trouble, but if you hit him, he has every right to pummel you to mush.
They also guard doorways to celebrity parties. The rich guy bouncers are less round and more built, and can easily throw you out of a bulletproof window, but can't overturn cars.
2) A bouncer is the first face you see when entering a bar, pub, or night club. They tend to be large and muscular. their job is to make sure that the bar is safe for the customers and bar staff alike. If you act like an asshole, chances are you will wake up in an ally in a pool of your own blood with serious head trauma.
bouncer
The definitive guide to not being a Glasshole
"Ed Packard submitted an innovative book for young readers, "Sugarcane Island", Montgomery immediately saw it for what it was: a role-playing game in book form. "
So Ed Packard was the creator.
The geek doesn't give half enough credit to the guy who can recognize a good idea, get product on the shelves, and market it successfully.
The Adventures of You on Sugarcane Island was the exact prototype for books in Bantam's classic Choose Your Own Adventure series. In 1969, and 1970, the William Morris Agency submitted the book on Packard's behalf to several major publishers, all of whom rejected it. In 1976 Packard was able to get the book published by [Montgomery's] Vermont Crossroads Press. In its review of the book, Publishers Weekly called it "an original idea, well carried out."
Edward Packard
I had to google "shirtstorm" to see what you're talking about... holy shit there is no hope left for society.
Business Insider posted compare-and-contrast photographs of the live-streaming Matt Taylor in his lingerie tee-shirt and tattoos and his female counterparts in the control room for India's Mars landing.
The only thing needed to complete the picture was Google Glass.
Rosetta Scientist Pisses Off Twitter With A Shirt Covered In Half-Naked Women
It's quite clear in this video that Taylor knows he screwed up badly here. Rosetta mission scientist Dr. Matt Taylor cries during apology over 'offensive' shirt
I'm shocked that those window cleaners make "up to $26.89" WTF seriously? They just bragged like that was a good number for that sort of work....?
That is $27/hr + benefits.
The median household income in the US is $52,000, something the geek tends to forget.
You're vastly underestimating the difficulties of material science.
There are self-cleaning windows, based on coatings like titanium dioxide. But you need rain and sunlight to make this work --- and where the rain and sun can't reach you still need the window washer. You also need workers who can inspect, clean and repair the facade.
For a human, using a sponge and squeegee combo is probably the most effective way to clean a window.
The high tech alternative to the sponge and squeegee isn't a robot, it's a chemical coating on the glass.
Titanium dioxide is a photocatalyst: it's a material that makes chemical reactions happen when the right kind of light shines on it. The right kind of light for titanium dioxide is ultraviolet (UV), the super-blue, high-energy part of sunlight that our eyes can't see, but that nevertheless can give us sunburn even on a cloudy day. When ultraviolet light hits the titanium dioxide coating of a self-cleaning window, electrons are generated. These turn water molecules from the air into hydroxyl radicals that make chemical oxidation and reduction reactions take place on the coating. In effect, the hydroxyl radicals attack organic (carbon-based) dirt and chop it up into smaller pieces that are much easier for rain to wash away. Since the reactions happen on the titanium coating, on the very surface of the glass, they attack the lowest layers of the dirt, loosening encrusted muck from the glass very effectively by chipping it away from the inside out (the opposite of normal window cleaning, where you effectively scrub the dirt from the outside in.)
Self-cleaning windows
There are two problems:
Rain will probably not reach every corner of the window.
The literal curtain wall of the early box like glass towers has gone out of fashion.
The coating can add maybe 20% to the cost of a window.
The Twin Towers had 43,600 windows --- 600,000 square feet of glass. 'Mind you, the architect of the WTC was notoriously afraid of heights and windows were kept as narrow as humanly possible and still allow some view of the outside.
Human window washers must be cheaper than self-cleaning glass or robots. For now.
high rise architecture as sculpture
difficult to navigate, no longer a simple curtain wall.
demands cleaning, maintenance and repair of both windows and facades -- and tenants will settle for nothing less than perfection.
there are no robots who can do this work and that isn't going to change any time soon.
it's all there in the summary.
For comparison, the twin towers of the WTC had 43,600 windows --- over 600,000 square feet of glass. The World Trade Center - Facts and Figures
3 - 2 - 1 .. Some kid brings a speaker plugged in to a cellphone/whatever plays gunfire gets school shut down for the day...
Ever wonder why you need hearing protection at the range and not in the movie theater?
Earlier this year, researchers at BAE Systems and the FBI published a comprehensive paper on gunshot forensics. In their study, Steven Beck and colleagues explain that a gunshot is made up of two primary sounds --- there's a crack and there's a BANG!
The bang is the 'muzzle blast' --- the sound of pressurised gases escaping as the bullet leaves the barrel of the gun. The initial sound only lasts a few milliseconds, but it's louder than a jet engine and can reverberate for over a second.
The crack is the shock wave created as the bullet breaks the sound barrier, like a miniature version of the sonic boom created by a supersonic jet. The shock wave forms a cone which trails behind the bullet, and you hear the crack when the shock wave passes by.
Gunshot Forensics: what's in a bang?
Sure, the ports might not be optimised perfectly, but I don't care. You know why? Because I don't have to reboot to play them.
I can't remember the last time I had to reboot Windows to launch a game.
Linux...has been going downhill in the last 5 years precisely because too many people invite their friends and family, and they complain that they can't play games...
The world [needs] a platform where everything is infinitely configurable and simple enough for dumb robots to understand, and people are forced to become experts. And that platform is dying.
infinitely configurable
simple enough for a dumb robot to understand
[while] people are forced to become experts in the platform
and here I thought an OS was a means to an end and not an end in itself.
not something to be hugged chokingly tight and close like a child's teddy bear.
the modern computer game demands an affordable OS and hardware capable of translating endless streams of ones and zeroes into a richly interactive and immersive theatrical experience ---
and suggesting a practical solution to the problem of how to present and interact with massive amounts of data of any kind.
Because every article I have seen mentions nothing about a warrant.
The life of the victim trumps the need for a warrant.
In law enforcement and law, hot pursuit (also known as fresh or immediate pursuit) [is] the urgent and direct pursuit of a criminal suspect by law enforcement officers. Particularly under common law, such a situation grants the officers powers they otherwise would not have.
In 1939, Glanville Williams described hot pursuit as a legal fiction that treated an arrest as made at the moment when the chase began rather than when it ended, since a criminal should not be able to benefit from an attempt to escape.
Hot pursuit
A month before Delvin Barnes grabbed a woman off a street in Philadelphia, he hit a [sixteen year old teenager] with a shovel in Virginia and stuffed her into the trunk of a car, authorities say.
She was taken to the home of the suspect's parents in Charles City County, where she was sexually abused, authorities said.
While there, the suspect showed the teen pictures of other girls he said he had abducted, authorities said.
Two days later, the suspect allegedly brought the then-naked girl into the backyard, poured bleach and gasoline on her, burned her clothes and dug a hole.
When he was briefly distracted, the girl fled into the woods. Two miles away, she stumbled onto a business, and employees brought her inside.
Barnes is charged with abduction, forcible rape and malicious wounding with a chemical, among other charges.
"I just want to kill him -- just want to kill him," the girl's mother told CNN affiliate WWBT.
The mother says Barnes allegedly told her daughter that he was going to kill her.
After all that her daughter suffered, the mother said, she ''didn't look like herself'' She called it ''devastating.''
Police: Philadelphia suspect also seized woman in Virginia
he or she almost certainly doesn't need life insurance to make sure the spouse and rugrats can afford the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed.
The business and professional obligations of a man or woman in this class come into play as well.
In theory, no one is irreplaceable. In practice, the loss of a CEO, senior partner, major investor, etc., at a critical moment can do a lot of damage.
If you're really lazy, you could get a motorbike or scooter, drastically reducing your dependence; if you're not that lazy start cycling. With a bit of practice, a 20-30K commute on a bike is really not hard, and you'll save money on gym fees.
why do I get the feeling that the geek sees himself and everyone around him as forever twenty-five years old?
Subscription? To a.... word processor
The geek trying to be clever.
The subscription is for a local install of the full MS Office suite + online storage and other extras; but you knew that already.
Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal alone is currently worth about $500 million a year in revenue to Microsoft. Consumer Office 365 tops a half-billion dollars in annual revenue run-rate
Here is a sampling:
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, 17 Works of Art That Will Hang In George Lucas's New Museum
''Vanity projects'' are nothing new in America, where the arts are driven primarily by private, not public, funds. Old-school, philanthropic museums were themselves public monuments to their founders' savvy. They were also, a tastemaking project by nouveau riche American tycoons: When the Industrial Revolution triggered fears that the growing immigrant workforce would prevent America from developing a highbrow culture like Europe's, the wealthy fought the perceived onslaught by funding institutes filled with old-world classics to educate the people's taste, to help them identify with the values of the successful industrialists.
Today's benefactors buy and preserve what they consider purely American art. Private collectors in the past few decades have been stealthily accumulating valuable holdings in order to tell their versions of the country's art history. Each in their own way are making a bid to define what art is in America and what it has been in the 150 years.
There's a fittingly egalitarian spirit to this latest wave of museum openings. The Rubell Family Collection opened shop in Miami's rundown Wynwood neighborhood to display the kind of avant-garde works usually found in high-end art galleries. Perhaps even more daring is Crystal Bridges, Walmart heiress Alice Walton's passion project that brought Lichtenstein and Warhol to a small town in the Ozarks. Costing a reported $1.2 billion to open in 2011, Crystal Bridges doesn't charge for admission, a fact that conveys the belief that art, like music and literature, is not a recreational luxury or the purview of the rich. Rather, it is an essential tool that helps awaken and direct talent whose development is essential to society, especially a democratic one.
George Lucas's Art Museum: His Best Idea Since Star Wars
i got to cut my living expenses or end up living on skidrow with the rest of the homeless
To me this reads as money-management problem, which means that moving into a storage shed is an evasion not a solution.
I was raised on a farm --- and like our neighbors ---- the question was never "if" you would need the volunteer firemen, an ambulance, a sheriff's deputy, or the state police, but only "when," and "how soon can they get here?"
In Germany, people have started creating a free as in freedom wifi hotspot network, offering restaurants bakery shops and cafes to join. There is no login. No tracking. Just surfing.
Free as in freedom or free as in a "bottomless" cup of coffee? Sit down, spend more, but don't overstay your welcome?
The practice of paid lobbying ought to be outlawed altogether, with long prison terms in store for those who break that law.
There are some small difficulties in the way here, like "freedom of assembly" and "freedom of speech."
The right to organize and act collectively, effectively, to protect your own interests. Which implies the right to hire or subsidize professionals as staff, advisors, spokesmen and negotiators.
The geek resists organization. He doesn't like being told that he is not particularly competent outside his own specialty.
Now and again the EFF comes into focus.
But it remains perfectly capable of descending into self-parody, as in this classic non-event event that plays out like a bad skit from Saturday Night Live:
Free Software Foundation - Windows 7 Sins
Windows 8.1 sends my every search query to Microsoft if I don't block them by IP at the DNS, router, and hosts file levels.
To configure Smart Search, you need to visit PC Settings, the new Metro-based replacement for Control Panel, and navigate to Search and Apps, and then Search.
Use Bing to Search Online. Enabled by default, this option determines whether Bing-driven web results appear in the Search results page. If you set this to Off, you will no longer see these results (and will only see Everywhere, Settings, and Files as options in the Search pane).
Your Search Experience. This option---available only when Use Bing to Search Online is set to On---determines whether Bing personalizes its search results for you and for your location. If you're going to leave Bing searching enabled, I recommend leaving this on its default: Get Personalized Results From Bing That Use My Location.
My advice? Leave it alone and give it a shot. But if you do end up wanting to turn off the Bing web integration, that's how you do so.
Windows 8.1 Tip: Configure Smart Search
It regularly disables my wireless card so that it can reset it and verify my connection by reestablishing the link with Microsoft's privacy-invading servers.
On occasions, the system is programmed to turn off the Wi-Fi adapter, when idle. This might be the reason for your spoiled Wireless connection. Troubleshoot the situation by deactivating this feature of Windows 8.1 and see if it works out.
Press Windows key + W on your keyboard to initiate Start search.
Type Network and Sharing Center in the search box and hit Enter to open its window.
In this window, choose your Wi-Fi network and the Wi-Fi Status screen will appear.
Click the Properties button near the lower left corner to open another window.
In Wi-Fi Properties window, click on the button titled Configure. Go to the Power Management tab; uncheck the following option and click OK button.
Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.
If the problem persists, replace the adapter.
Windows 8.1 has a kind of crash I've never seen in any Windows version until this one: memory management.
The reason you've never seen this crash before is because it is also most likely a hardware error. MEMORY_MANAGEMENT error in Windows 8.1
In twenty years as a Windows home user, truly bizarre and outrageous behavior has always come down to a hardware problem --- sometimes an easy fix like resetting a chip or board, sometimes a warning that the system is EOL Time to pull the plug.
Now let's mention the one and only discussion we've seen about Windows 10 having a keylogger embedded in it while overlooking that random forum posters have said that it's because the OS is in beta but Microsoft has never confirmed that the keylogger would be removed.
There is no need to read the random forum post. Privacy Statements for Windows Technical PreviewThe Win 10 preview explicitly targets the enthusiast and the IT Pro. It is not an open public Beta as that term is generally understood.
Term limits for congress
Effective government demands continuity, a willingness to compromise. The ability to think and plan long-term. That is the real contribution to political theory of small-C conservatism.
Term limits give power to the lobbyist, the bureaucrat and the judge ---
at the highest level, men and women whose reputation, experience, influence and resources dwarf the Congressional fruit-flies who are here today and gone tomorrow.
no secret treaties
It's a lovely ideal, older than dirt. But no one has ever been able to make it work.
...is in a place where, after 15 years of /., I am sick and tired of having this very same, and pointless (since nobody ever changes anybody's minds here), discussion twice a year, every year, like clockwork.
I think a poster from Melbourne had it about right.
DST serves the needs of those who work fixed hours and the shops, parks, theaters, etc., that benefit from their patronage. The geek doesn't picture himself as being part of this class, and so he whines about the change every year.
Only the egotistical mind of a politician can fathom the ridiculous idea of starting and stopping the earths spin twice a year.
Standard Time, Zone Time, is a creation of the railroad.
Before then, people kept local solar time, with clocks changing about every twenty-five miles or so east and west.
Twenty-five miles is also about as far as you can travel comfortably in one day on foot, horseback, by stagecoach or the Erie barge canal.
Statistics show that the heart attack rate shows a small but significant peak following the weekend DST is activated. You're fucking with the biorhythm of people in ways that are only rivaled by forcing them to travel from east to west coast twice a year and having to adjust the time accordingly
It's just one hour "zone time" change, remember.
Coast to coast would be three hours. USA Time Zone Map - 12 Hour Format
When researchers in Sweden examined the impact of daylight saving time on heart attack rates in that country, they discovered that people had slightly fewer heart attacks on the Monday after they set their clocks back in the fall and slightly more heart attacks in the days after they set their clocks ahead in the spring.
The effect of the spring transition to daylight saving time on heart attack rates was slightly greater for women than men, and the fall effect was more pronounced in men than in women. And the effect was consistently more pronounced in people under age 65 than for those 65 and older.
Daylight Saving Time May Affect Heart
So more time that I have to deal with screen glare, yeah, that's what I want!
It sounds like you're suffering from separation anxiety whenever you are away from your desktop, smartphone or tablet. You might want to cut back on the caffeine and spend more time outdoors.
Simply an observation:
When the geek posts about poverty or gender issues, he seems to come down somewhere to the right of Rush Limbaugh.
Copyright infringement is not theft. Stop referring to it as such.
The geek has been fighting on this line since the days of the 300 baud dial-up modem. It plays well to his fellow geeks, but common usage ignores him.