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A lot of spam filters filter everything that's not a common, or is a very new, tld.

Plus with standard scripting languages you have to do a lot of backbone work too- load the file, parse the file, etc before you can ever get into doing any sort of computations. Plus excel is vastly easier to debug, thanks to it all being live.

You're absolutely correct, but largely when someone thinks of fruit yogurt they largely think of those cone-shaped packages.

It really doesn't help that so many things are advertised as healthy-low-fat stuff either. Fat in large quantities isn't the best, but replacing all the fat with sugars is much worse.

You can get a lot off rom chips, it's always the second thing I go for after serial ports- and if you run into a password on the serial port, than it's probably (often hardcoded) in the rom.

Sometimes they don't include headers and the like, so looking up a pinout and soldering to the IC helps in that case too- tapping into the serial connections between chips can reveal a lot too.

Excel is one of the best, and most misused tools in the world. I know one, maybe two people besides myself that do anything beyond using it as grid paper or to render graphs, and that's a shame. The MS office classes around here, from what I know, don't even mention functions beyond adding numbers.

Hell, Excel was basically the first thing I ever programmed in. Just playing with it to see what I could make it do. Nowadays I see people spending an hour making a python script to parse a file, when I can just drop it in excel use a couple functions and maybe a macro, and have it parsed in 10 minutes.

It's a real shame. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of things in companies could get a lot better if everyone learned excel overnight. Some people's job basically amounts to doing something a spreadsheet and a little macroing can do.

Libreoffice calc is the only bit of libre software I've ever found inferior to the non-libre version. Excel is just that good, and most people use it as "Microsoft Grid Paper 2016"

I mean GPS repeaters are a thing, but there's even better options, you could install small radio beacons in the tunnels and triangulate using those. Much more precise, and cheaper than GPS repeaters.

I mean, not too much changes with apple upgrades. Sure, someone in the know can pick out generations, but I (and most people) sure can't. Win10 is a drastic change.

I mean it covers 99% of what most people do with their computers, and in a simple, lovely way. Word? Check. Excel? Check. Photos? Check. And, most importantly, browser, check.

There's a pretty sizable difference between chrome updates and updating from 7 to 10. The fundamentals of chrome remain the same, and for 99% of users they don't notice a difference.

Granted, they've never really done a "chrome 2" style of upgrade, and I'm curious how they'll handle it.

You can run a email server off a raspberry pi these days.

Someone pointed out that if you talk to a CS rep and try to say that off, they'd just hear gibberish- meaning if someone tried to get at your stuff, they would just have to spout off gibberish and the CS rep would probably accept it.

Huh, never thought about it, but that's a pretty good argument against random security questions.

Realistically you could also just limit it to the first 10 characters.

The checks made no sense in the first place, it's a loose-loose on all ends for occulus. A closed ecosystem basically does not work when it comes to PC gaming, and with hardware this expensive it's not like you could buy the valve-sponsored vive and the rift.

I suppose you could do it by appendage, but then a humanoid robot would be 4 persons.

Pron. Bing is better at pron.

+1 for google keep- simple one-line notes are organized easily, attached webpages are handy, and I can store images too- plus, it syncs to my pebble, so if I make a grocery list it's right there.

I played with a friends one over a couple days, and it's at the top of my must-buy list right now- I rigged up my own cardboard setup, but it's still not the real thing. Mass VR is literally right around the corner, and some of the best evidence to that is how many games are supporting it (fallout 4! WHEE) and that the newest vcards are designed for it.

Yeah, that's poor writing- if you just swap exhaust for intake though, it becomes accurate.

At this point there's not much reason to use it- linux game torrents are slim pickings.

Is it just me, or does the TV show "Person of Interest" seem to get one step closer to reality every day, minus the all controlling AIs.

All these are viable, and I use a handful of them- however, there's a lot of software that's windows exclusive, and if you're in a corporate environment chances are you're using a bunch of webapps that are IE exclusive. If you're a gamer, graphic artist, modeler, etc, you need directX.

Now, this is all becoming less of a problem (thanks vulkan!) but I would safely say MS has a monopoly still.

Probably is- but if the RFID tag says a box weighs 50 pounds, and it comes in weighing 45 pounds, then you can throw up flags. Of course, there's always going to be ways around this sort of stuff, but you just have to raise the cost of getting around them just enough for it to be unprofitable.

Also, I've heard that cartel-grade MJ is terrible quality- local cultivation is probably pretty different then whatever shit they can grow.

The most recent graphics cards (1080/1070) have 3 DP ports, one HDMI, and one DVI. Also, every laptop I own/use/know of has a mini-DP port too, across roughly 4 brands.

HDMI got their foot in the door first, but I think we'll be seeing more DP stuff in the very near future. The only downside of DP is the cables are usually more expensive.

Difference is that there's huge variance in laptops, but phones are all largely similar, and build off each other. If they start swapping off 3.5, it's gone. You can still get ultrabooks with fold-out Ethernet jacks, which while a little flimsy, are still there.

I mean the best way to explain it is to say "I put my vote on several pieces of paper, and give it to several people. One person could edit it, but that would conflict with everyone else. Everyone can see who I gave my anon vote to, and can verify that it all matches up." It's abstracted by a lot, but blockchain is basically just a public ledger.

That's great- earlier it led nowhere, now it leads to rickroll. So now there's an actual cellular company rickrolling people.

See, I actually like the idea of smart guns. The only thing it really does (or should do) is prevent you from getting shot with your own gun. If someone steals your gun out of your house, they could remove the smart part. If you're thinking about logging gun usage, you could probably edit the logs or corrupt them beyond usability.

I think you could make the system work. It's not complicated, maybe just an RFID reader and a solenoid. The issue is that if politics try and stick a bunch of extra crap onto it. All that extra stuff is what can cause failures, and cause an otherwise good idea to become vilified.

I never really thought about that aspect- smart guns only really prevent someone from picking up your gun and shooting you with it. I mean that's basically it, it's safety for the gun owner and nobody else.