Ahem... WE have OUR shorts in a wad???

Please, re-read your first paragraph of that message, and try to convince us it can be described anyway other than "a rant". The ONLY person whose panties are in a wad here is you.

Since you are so accusatory about us "never even hear[ing] of Debo Abdegbile [sic]" I have to assume you are an expert on the man (despite misspelling his name; it's "Adegbile"), perhaps you can explain, in detail, exactly what makes him a "POS" and a "radical puke". Or are you going to sum up his entire life over filing one brief?



Actually, I DID talk about, and while I'd agree that a person who did what you said would be a POS, that's not even close to what happened.

Mumia Abu-Jamal was driving on a street when he saw his brother being pulled over by a cop. Since he was regularly hassled by the police for being a member of the Black Panthers, he was justly bothered that they are now hassling his family, so he pulled over to help his brother. All we are sure about is that after that, a shootout occurred, both men were injured, and Faulkner died from the injuries. The THREE witnesses (the fourth didn't see the shooting) agree that both were involved, but not how the shooting started. All three's trial testimony disagreed with their initial interviews right after the shooting. (well, two the three changed --- the two the didn't recall even seeing the third "witness" at the scene)

And the emergency room doctors who treatment him said that he came in unconscious, and couldn't speak, proving that the police who testified about him "bragging about shooting" Faulkner at the hospital were lying.

And now let's think about this for a minute (I know that tough for a conservative, but try...). Which is more likely:

- a person who has stopped to help his brother is sudden going to start shooting in the direction his brother is standing? OR

- A cop seeing a person he's been hassling for months, crossing the street towards him, panics and starts shooting?

The difference is self-defense or murder. But as we saw with Trayvon Martin, "Self-defense" only applies to whites.

I've just described the job of the Senate Majority Leader. Every Majority Leader, Democrat or Republican, has done that for the last century.



I'm not sure what you mean by "opposition to yucca" (are you that offended by flowering desert shrubs?), but basically, you have no proof of any of that, and even if I grant that it's probably true, all evidence shows that it is also done by the Republicans, and in a far more strict manner. Just look at the Congressional vote totals. Republicans vote in lockstep far more often than Democrats.


So, you found ONE example, from what -- EIGHT years ago??? Look how fast the Republicans turned on Chris Christine, or Macro Rubio or Bobby Jindel or Lindsey Graham or Mitch McConnell --- and that was just in the last year or so.

Typical Right-Wing claptrap.




This is presently as a some sort of major breakthrough, but it isn't. Republicans always vote in mindless lockstep. Democrats think & vote for themselves.


They are "probably" reacting to a poll ... from a known bias source, which didn't match other polls from more credible source?


Well, I guess he can believe whatever he wants, but the facts are in every special election to fill an open congressional seat leading up to this election, the Democrat has won.

In reality, despite right-wing horror stories (most shown to be fictional), the vast majority of American are either unaffected or benefiting from Obamacare.

While a lot is still in question about the incident, one thing is known -- it was not "in cold blood". It was during a shoot out, where the cop probably shot first, and Abu-Jamal was doing the high provocative act of --- crossing the street. The four witnesses have all recanted, saying the police pressured they to lie to clear the cop.

So, your only evidence is that you have no evidence?

You feel like a blowhard con-artist??

Wayne Allyn Root's primary job is running "self-help" get-rich-quick seminars, first for betting on sports and then on a multi-level marketing scheme --- two areas where the IRS would have a legitimate interest in double-checking their tax returns.

Now, let's look at his "Smoking Guns":
#2 - An IRS agent got a phone call. So, how does Root know about this phone call? If it really did happen, how does he know what was said? and if the person on the other end was "one of the most important IRS officials in the country", why doesn't Root name him?

#3 - The IRS is taking a long time fulfilling his FOIA request. Kind of ironic that a person who advocates eliminating the IRS is complaining about it being understaffed. Presently the IRS has 150 employees working full time just to dig up the documents for subpoena for Rep Issa's witchhunt in Congress. (Issa's abuse of his investigation power is about to get him reprimanded for Congress)

Then there's his "Smoking Gun No.1" --- and I'll be damned if I can find anything in those four paragraphs which gives a specific fact which is evidence of wrongdoing. It's just a lot of accusations. Clearly someone needs to look up the term "smoking gun". But you bought it, which just show how good a con-artist Root is.

Actually, having the user account you normal use not having full authority over the computer is the best way to avoid viruses.

Most likely what's happening is that Explorer is reading the file to create a thumbnail image. It would start doing this as soon as you click on it (just before you try to delete it), and a few seconds later, it's done and you can delete it.

However, it you have the Preview or Details panel open, it may keep the file open.

Also, there should be no reason it kill Windows Explorer via Task Manager (or Process Explorer), which will also kill you r TaskBar. Just closing that particular Folder window should be enough.

Finally, if you need to delete (or otherwise reference) a file with spaces in it's name from the command prompt, just wrap the filename in quotes:

DEL "That Cool Photo.jpg"

I imagine Google make special arrangements with those sites for a "backdoor" which Google can use to scan them. They're willing to make such deals, because what site doesn't want to be included in a Google search?

Digimarc on the other hand, is a much smaller company, and only offers those sites the chance to have their customers harassed with take-down notices.

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here. Are you suggesting that it's reformatting that card? If so, you have to deal with my first point, How could I then read it from my PC?

If you format it on a computer, it will be completely blank, which means the camera will have to recreate the folder structure on it, notably the DCIM folder. (This structure is standardize across camera makers : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_system)


Try this : Take a memory card with photos on it. Insert it in your computer. Copy the entire folder structure to your hard disk. Reformat the card from the computer. Copy the folder structure (with photos) back onto the card. Put the card back into your camera. Then do your "watch the light while turning it on" test.

The light will not flash, and you will be able to review the images on the card.

I'm almost certain that is wrong. If it were true, you could not take the card out of your camera, plug it directly into your computer and read it.

There might be an outlier whose does things it's own way, but I'd say about 99% of camera makers use the same file system/format and about 90% use the same folder layout.

Yikkes! That's a big mark up. Especially when the difference in effort between being successful & unsuccessful in retrieving the images is about 30 seconds. (i.e, Once you know you can get them, getting them takes about 30 seconds)

Note, also, the memory cards (like USB thumbdrives, CDROMs and DVD) all use a standard format, which can be read by both Mac & Windows. So, if you have a friend with a Windows PC, they could run Recuva on it.

MS hasn't issued a FEATURE update for XP in years. However, it still (until April) issues fixes for security exploits. Right now, as soon as releases a patch to any of their operating system (On the 2nd Tuesday of the month, aka "Patch Tuesday")), hackers quickly analysis it, figure out would was the hole it fix, and immediately try to hack any machine that hasn't been patched yet (aka, "Exploit Wednesday").

Starting in April, MS will continue to issue patches for Vista, 7 & 8, but not XP, which means if they issue a patch fixing a problem that existed since the XP days, any XP machines on the 'Net will be compromised on the next day.

Recuva is (as far as I can see) a Windows-only program. The persn asking for help indicated she uses a Mac.

No that was Reagan ;-)

When did he promise that?? I don't recall any such promise. Moreover, Politifacts, who cataloged 500 of Obama's promises doesn't list anything like that. (Check for yourself: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/)

Common sense says he'd never promise that --- You'll recall we were in the middle of a recession during the 2008 campaign. Anything to cut the debt would surely make the recession worse.

But that's a common Right-Wing tactic : Make up complete BS, and blame it on the President.