Recent content by dugn

Pay a nice guy $4 and you get your Windows 7 Start Menu back forever. Perfect tool and has been installed on hundreds of Win10 boxes to 'ease the transition' from the clunky, ever-changing Windows 10 Start Menu. http://startisback.com/

After a great deal of investigation on the best non-commercial mesh Wi-Fi solutions, Eero landed at the top of my stack. I've been very pleased with its functionality and simplicity for the last 2 years. I sure hope AMZN treats Eero as a separate entity and doesn't start creeping into my life.

The real headline I hope to see: Microsoft Makes Final Push to Rid World of Windows 10

"Algorithms Cannot Completely Model the Real World" Shhh. Don't let the Climate Scientists hear you.

What a great site! You guys ROCK! Kyle - you and your crew run the best friggin' enthusiast, high-tech site on the web. Rock on guys!

Updating title to plural for accuracy: Chinese Engineers Steal Technology from American Firms to Smuggle to China

Neat. Bring back LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales, then I'll jump for joy.

But it doesn't go both ways. Even using Google, Amazon and MSFT, China has isolated their own clouds, data and server infrastructure so they retain control (encryption keys, physical servers, etc.). Demands for U.S. data via a Chinese subsidiary aren't the same. Your example is very different...

The WSJ (paywall) has an excellent opinion piece siding with the U.S. as well. "In Morrison (2010) and RJR Nabisco, Inc. (2016), the Supreme Court developed a two-step analysis to determine if a law applies overseas. ...If not, the statute is presumed not to be extraterritorial. " The U.S has...

Is it shaped like a TURBO button?

Washington State. First they took our plastic bags. Then they took our straws. Now they're taking our phones.

As someone with 4+ Z87 and Z97's - all on Windows 7 with plenty of life left in them - it looks like EVGA might do us a solid: https://forums.evga.com/Attention-EVGA-please-update-users-of-older-motherboards-for-your-BIOS-security-patches-m2747985.aspx

PRO TIP: Any consumer product with the term 'Cloud' anywhere in it's name: Avoid. Reasons? Too many to list.

While my first instinct is to mock those who drink pathogen-filled water, I wonder if it is actually the key to our evolution. It may be part of an evolutionary process that is normally slow and takes thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward...

You guys run a great shop here. One of the best sites on the web. Intelligent discussion. Excellent troll management. Great humor. Biting sarcasm. Merry Christmas to all.