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Looking for a travel phone [Tech/IT] Posted by steve on Sun, Apr 10 @ 07:31 PM
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I want to get a unlocked GSM phone to use when traveling abroad. I like the Motorola FONE F3, but it doesn't use a 'standard' micro USB charger. Since I already have quite an extensive collection of chargers I would really like to not have to make an addition for the phone.
Other than that cost is the next criteria, under $100.
Criteria after that are just wishes. Quad-Band GSM would help. It would be nice if it had a usable gmail app. A small blackberry-esque keyboard would be cool. Most off-the-wall-wish: that it could function as a wifi hotspot.
I have a Samsung Reclaim, which would be perfect but for the fact it is not GSM.
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Setting web based Gmail as the default mailto handler on Windows 7 [Tech/IT] Posted by steve on Thu, Mar 17 @ 10:00 PM
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You can, in fact set your default "mailto" tag handler to a webmail app, such as Gmail.
Run regedit and edit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\shell\open\command\
To:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" https://mail.google.com/mail?extsrc=mailto&url=%1
It works fine with Firefox or Chrome, haven't bothered to try IE, but I don't see why it would not work. There is probably some way to just set it to the "default browser" as well.
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Can't Embed (or open embeded) PDFs in MS Office with Adobe Acrobat Reader X [Tech/IT] Posted by steve on Wed, Mar 02 @ 02:14 PM
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Problem:
After installing Reader X (ver 10.0) user is unable to embed PDFs in MS Office documents, nor can they open any previously embedded PDFs in existing documents.
When trying to embed a new PDF the Office program gives the error message: "Cannot insert object".
When trying to open a previously embedded PDF you get an error message that says, "Cannot start the source application for this object".
Solution:
Adobe Reader X has a brand-new-to-Reader setting called "Protected Mode".
This must be disabled in order for MS Office to be able to embed PDFs into a documents.
Disable "Protected Mode" this way:
Go to Edit > Preferences > General, then uncheck the box that says "Enable Protected Mode on Startup".
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Confirmed: Intel says HDCP 'master key' crack is real [Tech/IT] Posted by steve on Thu, Sep 16 @ 10:23 PM
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By Joshua Topolsky on engadget.com
Intel has independently confirmed to both Fox News and CNET that the code is indeed the genuine article. According to company spokesman Tom Waldrop, "It does appear to be a master key," adding that "What we have confirmed through testing is that you can derive keys for devices from this published material that do work with the keys produced by our security technology... this circumvention does appear to work." Coming from the company that developed and propagated the protocol, that's about as clear as you can get.
If Intel is worried about the potential damage to copyrighted material and a new flood of super high-quality pirated material, however, the company certainly isn't showing it. "For someone to use this information to unlock anything, they would have to implement it in silicon -- make a computer chip," Waldrop told Fox News, and that chip would have to live on a dedicated piece of hardware -- something Intel doesn't think is likely to happen in any substantial way. Of course, like any major corporation, Intel seems prepared to duke things out in the legal arena should any super-rich hackers decide to do the unthinkable. So, to the Batcave then?
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What to say if someone says "Evolution can not be observed or repeated". [Politics] Posted by steve on Thu, May 06 @ 01:48 PM
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Just a quick "post save" from a brief conversation on a youtube video.
Poplolli131 - Look, I can't be stuffed having this argument over youtube. watch askcliffe (that's his username) I just want to say that the theory of evolution is nothing like gravity, or electromagnetism, because there is nothing scientific about it, it's not science because it can not be observed or repeated,? I don't care whether they try to pass it off as 'science' the fact is that Scientists don't know any more than anybody else does about how the world was created and it annoys me that they pretend to!
sschlosnagle @Poplolli131 - Everything about Evolution is scientific. And everything about is observable and testable.
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Current Pet-Peeve: "Professional Politician" haters [Politics] Posted by steve on Wed, May 05 @ 03:18 PM
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OK, I will give you that the "Founding Fathers" never envisioned "politician" as a career choice. They never envisioned iPods or financial derivatives either, so much of their wisdom does not directly translate into our vastly more complicated world.
Hmm, I take that back. They were all too familiar with the idea. The Aristocracy and the ruling class were pretty much that. It's just that it wasn't something that anyone could aspire to, you were born into the class.
The current hatred of politicians for becoming what we forced them to be by our voting habits I find hilarious.
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Trying to "fight" the Health Care Reform Law by saying it is unconstitutional? [Politics] Posted by steve on Tue, Mar 30 @ 03:49 PM
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Well, if an elected official is doing it the best of the three reasons that I can think of is that they are stupid.
Here is my list of reasons: Stupid, Afraid or Evil
If it is a citizen I could add "ignorant" to the list, I will not give an elected official this out since they should know law and history to at least this level of understanding.
Let me explain my list, starting with "stupid". You would have to be pretty stupid not to draw parallels with: Social Security & Medicare. Both of these are federal mandates that have stood the test of constitutionality.
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An explanation of the Health Care Reform law by Wells Fargo Insurance Services [Politics] Posted by steve on Tue, Mar 30 @ 02:20 PM
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This is a clear, clean cut explanation without political bias of the Health Care Reform Law.
Being an insurance company they have had lots people read the whole thing and get a intimate understanding on what is up with it.
HC_ReformPasses.pdf (194KB)
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A FB Health Care Reform Discussion [Politics] Posted by steve on Wed, Mar 24 @ 11:13 AM
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This is a discussion I had on Facebook with one of our family friends. It is pretty standard Fox News'esque bashing. It does get a little fun for me when April's sister Michelle starts commenting. The bashers start cheering her even though she is agreeing with me. But because of posting times it appears that she is disagreeing with me, but I guess they did not bother actually READ (or understand) what she had to say...
April Powell
They can not be serious,,, is our government smoking crack?? It's the only thing that makes sense.
Mon at 12:38pm
6 people like this.
April Powell
People in the healthcare business still have their jobs and they are stable, so let screw that up too...
Mon at 12:39pm
Jennifer Rhoades Adkins
Girl, this is craziness.....I do not understand how they can get away w/ all this shit
Mon at 12:41pm
April Powell
they all must be smoking crack!!! Hopefully the individual states will stop them.
Mon at 12:42pm
Steve Schlosnagle
What is exactly is crazy about it?
Mon at 12:43pm
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Universal truths used to lie [Politics] Posted by steve on Tue, Mar 09 @ 11:30 AM
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I came across a wonderful quote earlier this week:
"Remember that every government service, every offer of government financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom.....In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling to you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such services." Ronald Reagan
Now I don't think this quote is wonderful because I particularly agree with it. But it does ring in my mind as a truth. So I had to examine it to see why I thought it represented a truism, and also something that I didn't agree with!
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