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I just uninstalled it fom my system and so far no problems. But I'm not using legecy applications that require it either.
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Hopefully you won't need it. I still think this is the best solution, but I keep hitting stuff that needs it.
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When you built a system or reinstalled it that was just one of the things you installed like Adobe Reader.
If it is still required in this day and age on a desktop then the applications needs to be updated 
Or at least reevaluated if there is not a better solution.
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ledtech3 wrote: If it is still required in this day and age on a desktop then the applications needs to be updated
Or at least reevaluated if there is not a better solution.
Agreed. I'm clean right now. Fingers crossed to stay that way.
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While programs like the Connect America Fund have made access to broadband nearly universal in the US, less than three-quarters of Americans actually use it in their homes. "If this is the internet WITHOUT the less educated, I’m concerned to see the internet WITH the less educated."
Yes, I just stole the first comment, but he expresses my views completely.
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I've yet to see a correlation between education and intelligence.
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Is that where the "Educated Idiot" phrase come from ?
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So? What are the statistics on manual transmissions? Electric can openers?
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Complicated real-time strategy game situations, researchers say, can boost cognitive flexibility -- the ability to allocate the brain's resources under changing circumstances. If you need me, I'll be Zerg-rushing my IQ
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"You have a finite number of keystrokes left in your hands before you die." If I had more time, I would have written a shorter blurb.
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Google and Microsoft sued the government in June, claiming they have a free speech right to disclose the number of surveillance requests they receive. The government has filed six extensions but no response. Wait a minute! If it's secret, how do we know this?
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The iconic deep fried Mars bar isn’t exactly the healthiest of snacks. But now, scientists at the University of Glasgow are set to study the indulgence’s effects on the arteries and to see how it stacks up next to oatmeal, another Scottish staple. Spoilers! Long term; they stop it.
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An upgrade to the lowly ruler[^]Quote: The stated goal of this project is to help students review their homework in real time, but one of the researchers wasn't bashful in admitting to one of the ruler's other capabilities: bringing the time-honored tradition of classroom doodling into the world of animated artwork.
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I must own one of those...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Network World has an excellent pictorial slideshow that shows us just how ridiculous our neophilia has gotten. While it’s weak sauce coming from a site that celebrates the new, it’s clear that our constant drive to upgrade, improve, and innovate, has its drawbacks. Well, of course we never *need* a .. hey, have you see the new Moto?
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ANother link on that topic from networkworld.com[^]:
The electronic waste industry is booming and not necessarily in a good way. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that the US federal government discards some 10,000 computers per week and Pike Research says the number of electronic devices at end-of-life will double from 2010 to 2025. It is estimated that as much as 60 million tons of e-waste could end up as landfill. There are many efforts to stem the tide of course -- the European Commission recently said that by 2015 75% of e-waste must be recovered and 65% of it recycled (after 2020, 85% must be recycled). Here we take a look at where old electronics really go to die most of the time.
They are stronger than you ever thought.
Marco@CodeProject $ fake-identity -make "Anthony DiNozzo"
Success - Created fake Identity: Anthony DiNozzo
Marco@CodeProject $
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The final release of Linux 3.11 is expected within a week, Torvalds said in a message echoing his 1991 post about the project *This year* will be The Year of Linux.
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Microsoft under Ballmer has poured billion after billion into Windows Azure which is now, by all accounts a pretty impressive, massively scaled cloud. Now is not the time to retrench. Hey, hey. You, you. Better stay up on that cloud.
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True.
There is a direct pipeline from Azure to the NSA.
You know, I have been visiting off and on the High Energy Weapons website just to find out what North Korea is up to. That site deals with atomic weapons. Maybe I have been already tagged as a potential nuclear terrorist.
Thank God I did not order yellowcake from Niger!
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Mmmm. Yellow cake.
I would not be surprised to find out that both of your facts are in deed true. I'd put money on the NSA/Azure link, and I think it's rather easy to get on the 'monitor' list these days. "Has an email account" seems to be the main quality one needs, after all.
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Quote: the 2007 Vista debacle that Ballmer conceded was his biggest regret
Wow! Biggest regret? Windows 8 is not a bigger regret than Vista? Vista was fine compared to Windows 8! Perhaps after he has actually left and is no longer trying to sell Windows 8 he will be more... hmmm... what can I say that the NSA will not report back to Steve?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Though wormholes have never been proven to exist, these theoretical passageways through space-time are predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity. OK, easy enough. Who's got a wormhole to spare?
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Oh, those terrible people at Google. In the latest "Scroogled" ad, Redmond says Google is peddling vitamin supplements to kids. And that's not all. If you can't say something nice about someone, make a commercial about them
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There are seemingly good reasons all over the place to dampen your intellectual fire. "S-M-R-T. I am so smart!"
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