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I still have my equipment from the seventies, Phase linear amp, Crown pre amp, Thorens turntable, Audia Technica * Stanton cartridge, Polk Audio speakers. All my albums from the late sixties till they were killed off by CD's. The recent batch of Albums suck big time. No high fidelity. They are...

Punitive damage as in civil cases could help. Punitive damage"Since the 1970s, punitive damages have been criticized by U.S. business and insurance groups which allege that exorbitant punitive damage awards have driven up the cost of doing business." I for one would like to see board members of...

In a few months a Headline will read. "Memory makers charged with price fixing", same as a few years ago. Memory Makers Plead Guilty to Price Fixing - The New York Times DRAM makers sued (yet again) for 'fixing prices' (yet again) of chips ... The trouble is the penalty doesn't fit the crime...

What I hear from Intel is "nada nada nada nada" same old same old. Intel doesn't know what the word transparency means. This is what happens when you have 80% of the market. When Intel gets some competition as happened with MS Internet Explorer at the 80% mark, than things won't change. Its like...

" What!!!!, a company of our magnitude, doesn't go about putting our competitors out of business." I am pro business, until a company gets to be a behemoth and behaves arrogantly, such as the one that are in the news lately, Facebook, Google, Microsoft. I wonder if its all under the banner of...

No different than how they pump up shares at Wall St. Remember folks 80% of most shares have been traded by the time the guy on the street gets the news.

Talk about how the press in North America USA and Canada) are intertwined. Here's our headline except coming from Austrailia by ITnews. "China Telecom is hijacking Canadian internet traffic via its points of presence". Not a peep from our National news outfits as of yet. I guess our Canadian...

There is another story here that should be told from the "After Assisting the FBI Fight Cybercrime". Are the FBI lacking in the skills of these three or was it much easier for the three to show their skills so the FBI can take care of the damage caused faster.

Oooops did we just grab your satellite by mistake. Part of the military resurrected Starwars program.;)

Copyright went from 25 yrs to 50 yrs to 75 yrs. That covers all the people living. Now they want to cover the past before we were born. You wait, next they will go back to Beethoven, Mozart, etc claiming their relatives, great great great great great grand children should get some compensation...

Google all ready does it in Canada and USA. Always asking to tie your Gmail to a phone number. They hide the fact you can ignore it and move on. Take street view, phone number, email, and facial recognition and tagging in Facebook, and I would have to say the evil ones have had time to develop...

This article could be true and the reason Tesla head is taking on smoking pot and drinking .

I like gmail. I use gmail as one of the reason I use adblockers. Unwanted intrusion of third parties that gmail hands my info to.

"Do these people not realize that Instagram has some of the same issues and to top it off is owned by Facebook? I just have to shake my head." LMAO. When are people going to realize that these Corporations are giant octopuses, with many companies under their tentacles. Most people really don't...

Whats with all the charges of Foreign dudes. Is this for marketing purposes. Its like someone has decided that all these foreigners are responsible for all the ills of the USA. 13 Russians, now 9 Iranians that can't be brought to the states to be dealt with. Their are dudes closer to home that...

and if you have netflix you can download all those movies. The largest download was 360 megs for a movie, the average is 250 something.

"I guess if you've got phone with that much internal storage" Than I guess you have a small overpriced expensive tablet with a sim slot in it. When are consumers going to admit as much and quit buying these little overpriced expensive tablet toys.

I did the cancelling my account. Followed all directions. At the time I read that they would keep it all for 6 months in case I changed my mind, then permanently delete my info. Was warned I would have to start from scratch if I wanted to join later. I use a password manager so the rest of the...

We all went through this yrs ago. MS sued in europe over forced IE browser and lost. Choice arrived. Why does North America still put up with lack of choice. If I don't want edge it should be wiped clear off of my computer. MS comes back and states we have choice except MS gets to decide when.

Facebook is behaving like criminals, so charge them like criminals. Start from the top and work your way down. All orders come from the top. No deals because they have the bucks and support certain parties.

Not only that, I think Intel is losing market share. Intel doing this is a good way to neutralize AMD, or at least slow down their advance. Fear based marketing still works. I for one won't upgrade my intel chip, until I absolutely have too, til I see a permanent redesigned chip without the...

Is this one of the reasons why the "Cloud" is promoted, as one way to save your files.

As soon as I saw Time Warner owning CNN and Warner Bro., I realized why CNN is the Looney Tunes of the news.

I guess some people still think that your only allowed one email address. You can have as many as you can remember. When Alzheimer's kicks in I better have more than one address.;)

Exactly. Look how many lives have been destroyed by the media, by just mentioning someone got charged than found not guilty later. Maybe the media should be put under control. No writing of a persons charges until after he has been found guilty or not guilty. If found not guilty I'm sure that...

As a business, geek squad should have it written and made known to you what they will do with any illegal data they find and stipulate what the data will be. That they have to inform their customers that they are working on the FBI's behalf. This secrecy thing is is a dangerous road to go down...

At least the Hackers could give companies a chance to recoup their time and investment. Keep the games at a reasonable price. If this keeps up we'll all be pulling out our old games cause their won't be new ones on stream. Than again when companies brag at the billions they make selling in game...

I never used wmp. I felt that it was to intrusive and that big brother MS was watching me. Yes I know I could shut processes down. I have used VLC from its inception days. Than VLC was having some problems with some extensions and was slow to react and I became a convert to Potplayer, never...

"Law enforcement is hoping for an energy surge somewhere," The gamers have finally said "Enough is enough". Not being able to buy your card of choice at a reasonable price is enough to cause many gamers to go insane. This is true desperation.;)

A 5 floppy game.

Do I get a discount for having bought the original for about the same price. Or should I be happy when I input the difference for inflation?

FB owns Instagram.."Jul 12, 2017 - Facebook reportedly tried to buy Snapchat in 2013 for $3 billion to boost its appeal with younger users. Rebuffed, Mark Zuckerberg turned Instagram into a potential Snapchat killer. Now Snapchat's valuation is falling just before company insiders will be free...

Yes, teach the kids that FaceBook is a wonderful, caring, looking out for their interests company. Then you have them for life. FaceBook is a drug and its very addictive. Being addictive means it should be held back the same as some other forms of drugsl. No Facebook til your of legal age. Ever...

Hmmmmmm sounds like "fake critics".

Really. If they don't make a hefty profit at one end, Microcentre will make it at the other end., and not take a hit on a loss. Remember its MSRP, always at the max profit end of the scale. Unless you have the accounting books to see what their price was, means nothing. Its a win win at both...

" I want it and I want it now". This is a work in progress get over it. See!!!!! the new society with instant gratification and short attention span, is rearing its ugly head.

Well after the fix, your machine will run upto 30% slower. Might as well. Most people upgrade for less than that. Imagine if your a gamer and you took that kind of hit. Imagine if you were Intel and your rival had a cpu that out did yours by a significant margin and you have already spent years...

He's in the 1%. This story will just blow over. The new 1% catch phrase is "Criminal Intent". He committed a crime but he didn't realize he did it at the time. Off scott free.

and the reason for the trade ins or buy backs. To keep older phones off the market. The bean counters know how many new phones have been sold vs trade-ins and the average breakage. If the market has reached the saturated point, what better way to force their old customers to buy new.

When this is the biggest and best tech changes announced, one doesn't have to look very far that the tech for the phone has reached its height. I'll say this again and again. The cell phone is never promoted as a phone foremost, but as a computer or a 5" tablet. Heck you can buy a 9" tablet that...