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    New build, getting BSOD's during Windows installation

    You can never assume that a package deal from a retailer has intercompatability. They often feature mismatches,simply because they are the products they wish to unload.Before buying always go to the motherboard manufacturers site to find memory and CPU compatability.Sometimes even power supplies...
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    Comcast CEO: “The More You Use, The More You Pay”

    When we are able to pay generators of electricity and entertainment directly and plant providers seperately,there will be reasonable prices.Unfortunately US interpretation of capitalism and democracy for corporations is to buy your way from the governing bodies,have all competition excluded by...
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    Three Judges Hold The Fate Of The Internet In Their Hands

    What worldcorp wants worldcorp will have.If not this time,this way they will have what they want. In the first place corporate law was written to override individual or collective citizens.Judges will use precedents,which all favor corporations.There is little hope to change things by...
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    Microsoft's CEO Wants To Reinvent How We Use Computers

    Microsoft has long wanted to own everything you use to do anything electronically.They want to RENT you the cloud,a dumb terminal and hundreds of proprietary interconnecting devices,throughout your little world. They don't want to sell you an OS once every few years. Can you imagine,your whole...
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    YouTube Removing Videos If You Don't Sign Its Red Subscription Deal

    What did you THINK greedy google would do with Utube?
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    Courts: Google’s Book-Scanning Project Is Fair Use

    I am glad the knowledge is digitized,but sad that one corporation controls the digits.
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    Woman Drives Drunk Live On Social Media

    Do you suppose there is a lawyer who would take her not guilty plea to court?
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    How do sites like Facebook know so much about your browsing and how do you stop it?

    I don't know if they still do,but I left facebook, because they put tracking cookies on my computer and were annoying me, even when I was not on their site.
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    Windows 10 Upgrade Nags Become More Aggressive

    I'm Using a 120Gb ssd for windows 7 pro,which has the features I like and use. W10 does not have them. MS has been unable to put w10 on my ssd because it's too full. Part of it is the swap for 32Gb ram.Yes, I get the "ran out of memory" when I shut down.Until they start invading the 1 Tb data...
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    Will this Cpu still work? missing capacitor pics included

    That looks like an insurance cap.Probably not absolutly necessary,but good insurance against spurious oscillation.
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    Microsoft Talks Privacy And Windows 10

    This boils down to the well trained computer geeks and repairmen taking all the opt out garbage out,while the average household will be victimized,yet again by an opt out they have no idea how to reach.
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    Windows support??

    Welcome to dealing with worldcorp.The best of corporate support is to be found in their wonderful advertizements of sex,love and food associations.
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    Post Your Connection Speed

    It gets a lot worse in high traffic times and when it rains on the bad cable. They don't care about you being a retired employee,either.This The 33542 area about thirty miles above Tampa
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    Verizon Tests Superfast 10 Gigabit Internet Service

    It doesn't really matter how fast data can be transfered when the plant is not properly maintained.Verizon won't provide many people what they are paying for now.What would make one believe they have changed their ancient telephony philosophy?
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    White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition

    Snowden embarassed many members of the elite.He showed a large number of people to be liars.He alerted the people of the US and the world that the US government is in charge of the people,rather than the people being in charge of the government.Should it ever benifit Russia he will be severely...
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    HP Bans T-Shirts At Work

    Never a good idea to try herding technical people.Most can find a job elsewhere.
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    Amazon Must Face Trademark Lawsuit Over Search Results

    0 results for the item in question,then showing alternatives is something every search engine now does.I see no trademark violation,nor do I see deception.It does use the original product to advertize competitors products.As to how that will go in court,who knows?
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    What would cause unused hard drives to die?

    Even though all three going bad is terrible odds,Hardened lubricant,bad electrolytic capacitors are two that I can think of right away.I've taken apart and salvaged a lot of them.Leaky electrolytics ,other than shock cracked resistors and other components,is the most prevalent cause I've...
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    Why does the mother board actually use?

    Electrical power is a combination of current and voltage.If voltage is increased, less current is required.High voltage and low current requires conductors of smaller size.In the same way your household voltage is 120(in the US)while the power is supplied to near your home with voltages of 14...
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    Use of old computers?

    In my area I put one of the linux OSs on them,after I clean them up and salvage the worst for parts for the better ones.There are still many children too poor to buy a computer,so there is a waiting list and I will never catch up.Sometimes adding wifi will get them on the net,when someone will...
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    Appeals Court Won’t Hold Up Enforcement Of Net Neutrality Rules

    The thing I would like to see is state regulation of internet providers within its borders,in the same way telephones have been regulated.Since the FCC has placed them into the utility realm it would seem possible.I have had poor service since the inception of DSL,quite often not being able to...
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    AT&T: Net Neutrality No Longer An Investment Barrier

    I'm sure his neighbors and fellow social club members think he is a great guy.
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    Moore's Law Spurs Economic Growth in the Trillions

    Unless it is to further the ambitions of worldcorp and the few hundred of its major investors/owners,through war, or drastically unfair trade agreements, there will be little research money spent in the future.
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    Windows 10 Questions

    Maybe I wasn't clear.Maybe no one knows.It would seem that this close to a release there would be information available. I want to buy several more W7s.Will I be wasting my money to buy the pro version,as I usually do?Will it not matter how much money I spent,because I will get the same W10? I...
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    Windows 10 Questions

    Will holders of all levels of windows 7 get the same windows 10? Will holders of windows 7 get a different level than windows 8-8.1? If there are no different levels of windows 10,will "apps"be given at different levels/amounts,according to what is used to upgrade? Will any of windows 10 be...
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    The Shocking Truth (And Lies) About ESD

    I worked in a telephone central office where a new electronic switch serving 30k lines was being installed. I watched the installers touch the ungrounded,free standing equipment bays thinking they were discharging themselves,before they inserted the cards.I told them they needed to either ground...
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    VERY Hot 12v-7v Reducer Cable? Normal??

    I've been wondering why no one has been using the LlM7800 series three terminal voltage regulators to control fan speeds below twelve volts. Adding a variable resistor to the center third lead would allow a wide adjustment of voltage.they are very cheap. They will conduct one amp and most fans...
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    Canadians to Be Allowed to 'Pick and Pay' TV Channels

    What a unique idea;paying for what you actually want, instead of being forced to pay for what you would never watch.I guess worldcorp doesn't entirely own Canada yet.Verizon is Ma bell in disguise.Guess who will win in the USA?
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    Fahrenheit Is A Better Temperature Scale Than Celsius

    I prefer the accuracy of F for temperature,metric for everything else.As advanced as we are, we could cheaply build actual time devices and abandon such clumsy one hour substitutes as DST.Actual time for creatures on earth follows the sun.
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    Anyone have thoughts on the new ebay/paypal 180 day policy?

    For a year I have been sitting on a lot of stuff I need to sell,while watching Ebay get ever more risky for sellers.I'm looking for alternatives.
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    Why America's Internet Is So Crappy and Slow

    It is not so much what one is sold by unregulated corporations,but what they will actually provide on a continuing basis.http://www.speedtest.net/result/4210177622.png This is more the norm,than unusual.
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    Need Memory Upgrade. Need Suggestions Please!

    Your APU does not have its own RAM for the video.It uses motherboard RAM,quite a lot when doing video intensive things. You must allow for that when considering the amount of board RAM.
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    China Wants Silicon Valley's Encryption Keys

    Worldcorp has no allegance to any country.When the major stockholders are mostly the few hundred of the worlds richest,few of whom reside in the US,US workers and consumers are of little interest, as long as a matter does not affect their bottom line.It's easy enough for despots to ignore the...
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    The FCC Is Moving To Preempt State Broadband Limits

    Even though the advertised speed of verizons slowest DSL is quite slow,quite often I don't even get that.There is nothing I can do about it. They don't care and there is no regulation to make them care. I should be paying accordiong to the speed I actually get,either individually or collectivly...
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    Static damage to Gigabyte Z97 motherboard

    I worked in a telephone central office,which had vinyl tile.Equipment bays had been installed, but not grounded.The equipment installers installed hundreds of pc cards in those bays,wirth no discharge cuffs. They said their boss told them to touch the bay before they opened the bag.I...
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    Seasonic Black Friday Lucky Draw

    I have a seasonic 520,which I like very much. It powers an 8150 on GA990FXA UD3 with 32Gb ram, a 128Gb ssd and a 1Tb hd.It is more or less idleing most of the time.
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    ATX power connector won't fully seat.

    Turn off computer, unplug it.Slip a block of nylon between the motherboard and its mounting plate,thick enough that the mother board doesn't flex appreciably.Press hard and lock down. Remove nylon block.Use an antistatic wrist strap from the start.I have also used hard rubber.
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    Technology Is The Biggest Factor In Inequality

    I want a transaction tax of,perhaps .000001 % of each transaction,with a one cent minimum.
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    Broadband Giants Quietly Blame Verizon For New Neutrality 'Mess'

    In Florida,it won't help to put verizon wireless, or the internet plant and IP under the public utility commission. The commision is totally ineffective,possibly due to corruption. Florida has had to prosecute commision members in the past. I believe that Internet providers should not be able...
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    Post Your Connection Speed

    This is when it works.It is often extremely slow,or down completely.
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