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Part of the issue is that Android's permissions are a "take it or leave it" affair where you either accept all the options or the app doesn't install. There are some apps out there that allow you to modify an applications permissions after the fact (with varying levels of success) and I believe it was actually build-in on one of the newer releases of Android until Google took it out.   http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/android-app-ops/

  Probably sympathetic twitch between left hand and right. I guess he was at least following the rule about not pointing the gun at anything valuable though.

On the other hand... Cool pirate eye-patch

Heh, yeah. I went camping with some work buddies a while back and 2 or 3 of them had gone for military sized backpacks and loaded them to the gills and suffered for it. Mine was about half the size and weight of theirs and I still think I could have left some stuff out (though there were a couple of things I would have liked to have added in too). I don't shave ounces like some do but it all adds up.

Likely effective enough. Could be quite affordable if you can find the mesh for cheap. I'm not sure what the minimum wire thickness/hole spacing is for EMP. For regular radio waves, anything with a longer wavelength than the size of the holes should not get through. EMP is a pulse though.

Nah, next one should be "Timmy Has Two Glocks"   Edit: Wow, that article really goes off the rails towards the end. Should be in the "Opinions" section. Awful journalism.

I need to get on buying that car DVR I have on my todo list. I think it's becoming that it's crazy not to have one.

You should, of course. I'm just saying that often it's just easier to take care of something and that wanting to get value from the overhead is a trap in itself. Course, I'm always the one puzzled when people think I'm brave to do my own brakes. They'd rather trust the minimum wage meth-head with a hangover they don't from Adam at their local place I guess :)

I'm not sure. I suspect that there are a couple of long wires that go from the pacemaker to the heart mean you're limited in how much you can realistically do. Other than wrap yourself in tinfoil.

The MRI thing is totally different than EMP so nope, won't make a difference.

That's one thing about the housing market shakeout. Suddenly a lot of people are renters who weren't planning on it. That drives rental costs up while the banks are keeping a bunch of houses sitting empty. Your tax dollars at work...   Y'know, not trying to convince you or anything but a lot of home chores are not as bad as all that. When I've heard of the trauma and time some people have gone through to get their landlord to, say, fix a water heater, it sounds like a lot of bother. When mine went out, it was 30 minutes of trying to fix it then down to Lowes, new water heater in within the hour, hot water 15 minutes later. And it was one I picked out to suit my needs, not the cheapest one on the rack.   I've even heard of people who'll wait for the landlord to turn up to replace a 20c washer to fix a leaking faucet. Just seems odd to me. Though obviously there are a range of mentalities and landlords range from good to bad.   If anything, the vehicles are more of a time killer than the house is.

It's not so much the owning as being able to do what you like with the place you live. If I need an ethernet cable between the bedroom and the spare room, I bust out the drill. I could never live somewhere with a HOA for similar reasons. I understand the mentality that would make renting attractive though, I just don't subscribe to it personally.

"Barack Ebola", 7210 results.

  Swings and roundabouts. Having been a renter before, I couldn't do that long term. I actually am not fond of yard work but if it were that much of an issue, I could hire someone to do it for not too much coin (though I think prices are generally high for what is basically walking around a yard).   The hobbies I like to do tend to involve owning stuff too. You can't fit a table saw or an engine hoist in a backpack.

Well, I got it for my camping gear and used it last time out. Works OK, uses some muscles you probably don't use too often so expect some soreness and the straps gave me blisters so gloves are probably a good idea.   I was told not to get the shortest one and didn't and got the medium one but I think the longer one might have been even better.

I actually used one of these on a branch I needed out of the way this weekend. I still want my chainsaw working.

It's not so much the gore (though that kind of cut can be annoying) as the cuts and mangling of the dialog. And that's less about the words themselves and more about it being so obvious and cack-handed that it takes you out of the moment.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmRTUNh1vPo

Not too bad then. Though it is a 2009 board by the looks of it. I agree that memory is probably your best bet.

Well, we already did vampires and werewolves. Would a Frankenstein's monster resurgence be too close to zombies? (The recent movie was a bit meh) Which is next up to the fore?

  Hah, yeah. My chainsaw isn't polluting at all sitting in bits in my shed. Meanwhile I have branches hanging down in the yard :rolleyes:   How much emissions from the 5 gallons of bad gas I had to get rid of a while back also?   How much emissions from the manufacture of the carb cleaner, gasket set and fuel lines I'll need to get it all running again?   How much emissions from the long motorcycle ride I'll need to take to clear my head of the anger caused by government stupidity?

Two would be couple, not few and time flies. But if it's 32 bit and he only has 2G, that implies old to me (and believe me, I hang on to my hardware as long as possible). And was it even new then?

  Imagine if it somehow got out and they weren't going to the extents they're going to...   Not that they should probably be doing it in the first place but CYA applies.

  Always   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Parker

  Isn't that the standard disclaimer in most pharmaceutical advertising these days?  

ECC/non-ECC are not compatible (as I have found out to my detriment before). I suspect that some non-ECC boards may be able to take ECC but I have certainly experienced where it didn't.   I will also say this: Your computer is really old. You would benefit greatly from even a cheap motherboard/CPU upgrade and you may find that the newer memory is cheaper than the old stuff (old memory is often out-of-production and rarer and therefore more expensive). Only you can speak to your finances but you should price it up. A new motherboard/cpu/memory combo can be had for well under 200