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    New Windows 7/8/8.1 updates spy on you just like Windows 10

    Quick, easy, money-making solution for Microsoft: create a paid version of Win10, with a big red "Stop All Info Sharing" button, clearly visible during installation, i.e. not a handful of individual switches or buttons in different locations. One which actually works, I mean. I'll go back to my...
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    how many people have upgraded to win10?

    Sticking with dual-booting 64-bit versions of Linux Mint 17.2 (Cinnamon) & Windows 7, on most of my machines.
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    Amazon Over-Packaging of the Day

    I think Digi-Key has to be at least mentioned in this thread. :D One project group in one of my EE classes a few years back received a shipment just before lecture, so they brought it in and unwrapped it to check it out. For a single SO-16 chip (measures about 10 x 5 mm) in an ESD bag, it was...
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    Supreme Court Upholds Restoration of Copyright Protection

    Better hurry and buy up your favorite episodes of MST3K before some Hollywood asshat decides to re-copyright one of the movies they riffed. I can just imagine the ghost of Burt I. Gordon furiously filling out the forms now....
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    Angry Birds Turns Two this Weekend. Rovio Celebrates in Style.

    I'm pretty sure this is the modus operandi for most American corporations. ;) I used to be one of the "OMG who would spend time or money on this shit" crowd. Then I started playing it, more often as time went by. There is something damn appealing about Angry Birds. Almost like an...
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    S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Developer Closing?

    I'm gonna cry myself to sleep tonight. :( I've been waiting patiently for many years to see a true S.T.A.L.K.E.R. sequel; my absolutely favorite game has been Shadow of Chernobyl since 2008, which came with my 8800 GT. Everything up until now has hinted that the demand and development for...
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    What Your E-Mail Addy Says About Your Credit Score

    Judging by the type of 'news' Yahoo runs on its home page, I wouldn't be surprised if another study found that those same people buy supermarket tabloids, lottery tickets, cigarettes, and regularly visit psychics. On a completely-unrelated note :D I use Comcast, Gmail, and keep all of my money...
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    Cool Glass Keyboard Concept

    You reminded me of the adage, 'a fool and his money are soon parted.' :D
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    Cool Glass Keyboard Concept

    Just looking at it makes my finger joints ache. I can't help but think that I'd chuck it out the window after an afternoon of coding or doing research. But, that's probably a consequence of letting 'artists' design things instead of engineers. No thank you, I'll stick to this fine IBM Model M...
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    Google Reportedly Looking to Get into the Cable TV Business

    If they offered channels à la carte AND cable internet access, I'd likely ditch Comcast ASAP.
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    Marshals Ordered to Seize Righthaven Assets

    Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll go after the patent trolls next, complete with S.W.A.T. assaults, tasers to the nutsacks, and full, no-lube cavity searches. At least Karma is pointing in that general direction.
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    Groupon Raises $700M In Largest Internet IPO Since Google

    I blame idiot brokers, but hey, I don't know a thing. It simply amazes me how an utterly worthless company (in terms of services or products) can raise or be worth billions of dollars. These 'investors' must be running a circle-jerk rumor mill and never poke their heads out the window.
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    AMD Catalyst 11.10 Drivers

    I've had three nVidia cards die on me: two died slowly, one spontaneously. Add to that nVidia leaving me feeling completely abandoned on an nForce platform years ago (yes, an OLD grudge), and I just can't support such a company anymore. I've had ZERO ATi cards die. Not a single one, no matter...
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    Holy crap, it worked! Dead video card, resurrected!

    Neat. The oven didn't work for my 8800GT, either. I'm going to try my propane torch. Your experiment has given me hope that it can be revived.
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    nVidia GTX 260 to AMD 6950 2 GB - Switching Camps for BF3?

    Same happened to me this past spring, but with an 8800GT. It just DIED, out of the blue; no recovering, either, even after attempting (several times) solder reflow. I went with a Powercolor 6950; first one had artifacts, even on the desktop with no load or changes to the BIOS. The sticker...
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