Login with username and password (forgot your password?)

I tested this out and was able to login to Bank of America online with no problem.

You over estimate the competence of my bank.

Any the securities firm I use.

Logged in to every major financial site I have with lastpass, in IE10, on Windows 7 x64 and x86, in only a couple of seconds per site....

Lastpass and the institution are different things.

I believe Russian has some nifty features that help in these areas.)

  Yeah, like they don't have anything like a warning shot....   

Hahahaha~!

Ok, well, that's not quite what I meant.

I was thinking more about how Russian has inflection that makes the word order unimportant.

e.g. In English, this is clear:

John watched Mary.

However, in Russian, that really makes no sense as there's no inflection in English. So:

John watched Mary = Mary watched John

However, in Russian, you'd have inflection/particles/whatever to indicate the subject and object and all that stuff that we don't have in English.

You can think of the few examples that still exist in English that inflect, e.g.:

foot - feet
goose - geese
I - me - mine - my
etc.

Any help is *definitely* appreciated! 

Why no try to unburden yourself by hitting up the various sites that offer discounts and see if they'll post themselves?

Oh... a MUST have for your car - wheel spinner knob:

You can see examples here:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/S...heels-Knobs-/74723/i.html
http://compare.ebay.com.a...yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes

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They make sharp turns fast & almost instant.

If you don't have one... GET one! It might take a little bit to get used to, but you will LOVE it!

[drinking vinegar]

The current rage now is soju mixed with drinking vinegar

?????

Great stuff! Helps fend off hangovers even! Here's a past discussion: http://www.donationcoder....m/index.php?topic=13513.0

Biggest worry here is what IE-specific web apps break this time, after upgrading... Yes, I know it's the task of the developer to try and anticipate on any browser changes, but with IE the changes often seem to be so huge, anticipation is next to impossible. We'll see how the story goes, this time, I'll wait a couple of weeks and ask around a bit

And that's exactly why I won't upgrade. Banks are at best marginally competent. I told my wife once, "Watch this. It will take me a hour just to login & check my balance." I was right. Last week I spent over 3 hours getting another site to work. (That involved 3 computers with 2 running clients.) One of my banks forced you to stick with IE 6 for years.

The mere fact that they make things IE specific (and often IE only) tells you that there's something fundamentally mental going on.

I think I'll skip it... I have a hard enough time with the few web sites that I use IE for... They work now, so I'm NOT going to mess with that.

Soju is the people's drink! (rough translation as it doesn't translate elegantly)

Soju is some extremely strong stuff that shouldn't be drank alone, but mixed.  My first experience with Soju in Korea was the WORST hangover I've EVER had in my LIFE!  I puked and excreted green for 3 days.   

Hahahaha~! Funny thing is it isn't really all that strong, but it's deceptive as hell! It's generally around 20%, but doesn't taste all that strong, making it much easier to pound back than something like tequila. It's even worse when you go out with all the guys... Koreans pound it back incredibly fast. I quit drinking it and limited myself to 1 and only 1 cup after having been decimated by it more than once. (Took me a while to learn my lesson there! )

And yeah, it makes a much better mixer! The current rage now is soju mixed with drinking vinegar, which only makes it easier to drink faster!

(I started to start this in the basement, just because of the response I wanted to give.  But I refrained, so at least it can start here.)

I can see that entirely! I don't think I have anything to add here that people can't use their imagination for. (Hint: A dash of cynicism, a tablespoon of apathy, a half cup of paranoia, and a liberal handful of vulgarities. )

It's just too surreal.

@Tomos - Ooops. Yeah. Got lazy there. But it doesn't make much of a difference. Well, a 17% difference. But the point is that fuel efficiency is against the law in the US.

BTW - Looks like the Canadian version blows compared to the UK model.

http://www.vw.ca/en/model...c1b6c9f6ab08c97063c51cb6c

that'd be like putting up taxes on beer in Germany - then there'd by a riot.
I think it's a cultural thing, in every country there is some-thing that the people wont accept, that will push them over the edge.

I remember a few years ago they tried to push up taxes on soju in Korea... They just about had a revolt! Seriously. People everywhere had buttons on their coats/shirts. Signs everywhere. Massive protests. The tagline was (IIRC):

소주는 우리 민주의 술!

Soju is the people's drink! (rough translation as it doesn't translate elegantly)

If it isn't a stupid question why aren't there riots in the street over this?

On fuel efficiency, it is illegal to produce fuel efficient cars for the US market. I'm not sure what the penalties are though.

Here's an article on the topic:

http://www.activistpost.c...ernment-deliberately.html

And from the VW US site:

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In miles per gallon, it's 22~32.

Now for the UK VW site:

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35 to 74.

So, the same car you get in Europe is roughly twice as fuel efficient. Or a heck of a lot more efficient anyways.

Looks like the US oil companies noticed the increased mileage and adjusted their price for diesel fuel accordingly.

Sounds like they've done well in learning their douchebaggery lessons from Thomas Edison & JP Morgan.

  In the U.S., Jammers are outlawed federally. 

I know. That was just tongue in cheek. But still, it would be cool to have jammers if for no other reason than just to fart with the fuzz.

Since radar detectors are illegal in some places, why not a radar jammer?

I know used is a better buy, sometimes, but new is special.

+1 and +1

A decent tune up and some work on a used car can make a WORLD of difference. Again, going to the better value thingy.

But yeah, it's nice to drive a new car that is fresh off the lot. Kind of seems like that whole thing about virginity and all that. (The sex metaphor MUST come into the discussion at some point -- we're talking about cars after all! ) Same thing goes for hopping off the gondola and hitting the slopes early in the morning and skiing on virgin snow - it's just so much nicer than compacted snow and granulated ice. New is always special. 

SpeedDial is Opera's new tab page.

Um...what?

This is by no means new.

I believe you may be reading this differently than the author intended... I see this a a statement of fact, that SpeedDial is a feature that Opera uses as its new-tab page. ie a new blank tab displays SpeedDial, as opposed to the feature being new.

Darn language. I vote we all start being a bit more precise and mathematical and using brackets, braces, and parentheses for clarity. e.g.

SpeedDial is Opera's open parentheses new tab close parentheses page.

Which could be clearly distinguished from:

SpeedDial is Opera's new open parentheses tab page close parentheses.

(etc.)



(English is simply horrible when it comes to clarity and being unambiguous in certain cases. You need to be overly verbose for what should be simpler. I believe Russian has some nifty features that help in these areas.)

"At the mall I bought four things; my sister bought only two things."

Which leaves me wondering if she just stole all the other stuff.

Speed dial has supported touch for quite a while. It really is a great feature and certainly beats the way Google defiled it in Chrome.

...INSURANCE! (ripoff!)...

I found out a little while ago that back where I'm from the insurance companies have written new laws that make insurance even more insanely expensive. "Ripoff" is putting it mildly.

That link, was unreadable for me.

Seriously...For what is supposed to be a professional news post, the lack of basic grammar makes me wonder how these people get jobs.

If you have some classical education, it's almost impossible to listen to most people speak as they are barely capable of speaking their own language properly. Similar for print now.

Publishing is more about profit than publishing. Tight deadlines and all that make it difficult to properly edit or proof anything, let alone do any real journalism or fact checking.

Press releases from companies have been accepted as news for years. None of this should be a surprise.

You really have to wonder who is writing these things and why? The references aren't coincidence - they're either meaningful or they're misdirection or just to screw with people's heads.

Does anyone other than me get a smug look on their face whenever they hear anyone say something like, "Well, everyone needs to pay their fair share in taxes"?  

Balls. Of. Steel. 

This sounds like all the more reason to decouple the carriers, hardware manufacturers, and the OS.

You can't decouple hardware SDKs/APIs, but there's no good reason why the OS can't be. Sure, some math issues for some chips, but still, those aren't that hard to work around with things like conditional compilation. (I've got a math issue on a couple of my devices in some cases - Raspberry Pis.)

Actually, it would be cool to see a hardware add-on to turn a Raspberry Pi into a smart phone!