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Reply to Want your PayPal? You can keep your PayPal…but with robocalls and automated texts. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Square Cash currently links only to a debit card, not directly to your bank account the way PayPal can. So, yes, that's currently PayPal's leverage/advantage. Pushback to the TOU changes may change that, however, and encourage Square (&/or others) to expand into the online payment processing market.

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

The latest NOAA obfuscation being in the news: http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/06/incontrovertible-there-is-no-consensus-on-climate-change/#more

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

[quote who="eviator" reply="2392" id="3561358"] Sort of. Models are simplifications of reality. [/quote] Sort of. Models are oversimplifications of reality. There. Fixed it for ya. [e digicons];)[/e]

Reply to Want your PayPal? You can keep your PayPal…but with robocalls and automated texts. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Consider Square Cash as an alternative, for person-to-person payments, anyway. Haven't looked at their TOU but I don't receive calls from them. We use PayPal for a fair number of online purchases as a convenience, but it's hardly necessary and certainly not worth intrusive marketing harassment. If it happens, I'll close the account for them.

Reply to Shiela USB in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Thanks for the link, Doc. Interesting. And funny, too. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

There are lies, damned lies, and climate change models. Take your pick. Just because a lot of 'smart' people are playing games with computer models, doesn't mean playing games with computer models is science. Even calling things like economics, sociology and climate change 'soft sciences' is a bit of an insult to real science. About as logical as the phrase 'Political Science'. Dressing an idea up in complex mathematics may be a fun,

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

It's based on 'models', not falsifiable hypotheses - like the 'science' used by the Federal Reserve. That's sure worked out well.

Reply to Will W10 Updates Become Mandatory? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I can confirm MS is trying to sneak KB2952664 back in as an important update for Win7, even though I hid it once already. Showed up in Windows Update on both Win7 rigs today. Hid it again, of course.

Reply to Will W10 Updates Become Mandatory? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Avantar137 - Have not seen that behavior on the two Win7 systems I've removed & hidden those updates. The tray icon has not reappeared. Are you on Win8/8.1 by chance? One odd thing here - I have 3 Win7 Pro systems. The updates were found using powershell on 2 of them, not on the third (which had not had the icon show up in the SysTray yet as it happens). On the system without the three Win7 updates installed, I found them in Windows Update but in

Reply to Will W10 Updates Become Mandatory? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

The icon came in a Trojan horse labeled as an Important Windows Update. See various links in this and other threads on how to deal with it, should you wish. EDIT: This thread , actually.

Reply to Stardock - could forum experience be improved for uncool people like me? in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

Global warming finally reaches Jafo-land. [e digicons]O:)[/e]

Reply to Will W10 Updates Become Mandatory? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Aussie007 - Take a look at this post/thread for what you need to do to get rid of the nags.

Reply to Will W10 Updates Become Mandatory? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Paid $39 each for two Win8 licenses. Haven't used either one. As for Win10, free sounds too expensive to me.

Reply to If You Don't Think You Will Be Jumping to Win 10 in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Windows 10 may end up being the only reason I buy a Win8 machine before it's too late. Big if, there, though.

Reply to Wheeler Supports Internet as a Title II Utility. Mobile, as well. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Here 's the sort of thing the FCC should be (and should have been) doing.

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

Greed built the medium and the tools through which you have the pleasure of complaining about greed. [e digicons]:omg:[/e] [e digicons]:)[/e]

Reply to FBI Wants Mandatory Backdoors in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

No reason to believe the firmware in smartphones is any more 'secure' either. Or your WiFi router, for that matter.

Reply to Wheeler Supports Internet as a Title II Utility. Mobile, as well. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Last I recall, we have an Anti-Trust Division in the Justice Department tasked with protecting us from monopolies/oligopolies. Don't see a role for the FCC on that front, assuming 'something must be done' at all.

Reply to Wheeler Supports Internet as a Title II Utility. Mobile, as well. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I think you really need to back up and ask the question, "Why does the FCC feel compelled to seize control of "net neutrality?" Bigger issue than arguing the legal justification. It ain't to protect me from an increase in my Netflix bill.

Reply to Will W10 Updates Become Mandatory? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[e digicons]:grin:[/e] Good series while it lasted.

Reply to Wheeler Supports Internet as a Title II Utility. Mobile, as well. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

You're not accessing paid commercial content by phoning someone. Except for those 1-900 calls. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Reply to Will W10 Updates Become Mandatory? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

It's not that extraneous 'harmless' stuff (not needed) gets included in updates, it's that updates that ARE important get effed up and hose systems. If automatic forced updates were the bee's knees, they would apply to enterprise, too. MS admits as much by creating a tiered update architecture. It's actually a much bigger problem for home users, nearly all of whom lack the expertise that an IT team can bring to bear on a glitched update, the very user

Reply to Will W10 Updates Become Mandatory? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Microsoft's track record with patches/updates being less than reassuring (see dot.net), removing end-user control over application of updates has disaster written all over it. Murphy works at Microsoft, after all.

Reply to Wheeler Supports Internet as a Title II Utility. Mobile, as well. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

The argument has nothing to do with 'censorship' and everything to do with the 'press clause'. It boils down to whether the answer to his initial question is A or B. And the assumption that net neutrality (as enforced by the FCC) requires equal treatment of all information may be wishful thinking. Once the FCC is the arbiter, there is nothing to prevent the FCC from regulating content. To put the tinfoil hat on, what they've failed to achieve us

Reply to HELLO??? in Misc JoeUser Forums

Hello to you, BFD. We're getting old or bored or both, I guess. [e digicons]8C[/e] [e digicons]:D[/e]