I'm guessing by the way you phrased this that they are banning you because of your phone number? I wonder if it spells out some naughty word if you type it on your keypad. It is possible that they banned your IP address, but who knows. If you can set it up without your phone number for the time being and then call…

Holy cow. I just realized that OUYA is pig latin for "you". Maybe I'm reading too much into it though.

You mean that insurance companies pay out for stuff? I was under the impression that they only cover stuff that doesn't actually happen. Then when the stuff they do cover does happen, they jack up your rates to make you pay higher.

YAY! Radiolab rocks... Sorry... that's all I wanted to say.

Only problem is that it has been my experience that people aren't good at budgeting nor dieting. Financial institutions want to keep you down so that your credit score is worse so that you have to pay more for stuff. Just the same, diet programs are pretty big business and want to keep people fat and trying to lose…

True, but, if memory serves correctly, the kdb(x) files are encrypted. The key file just adds an additional layer of encryption.

True. I would say that any pages that you have signed up for a newsletter or knowingly and willingly opted in for are probably fine. I'm talking about true spam though where it is completely unsolicited. You never know with those and you are better off just trying to filter it out using spam filters. Though, in…

I know. I agree... I have one in the other room. The only problem is that its hardware is quite antiquated right now. Yes, the one that I have is the 2 antenna, blue type before they went with the whole UFO with crappy-antennae-stuffed-into-the-case-where-they-guarantee-crappy-wireless-performance design. They…

Anyone else reminded of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation by the Daisy Chain picture?

This is a good article... if you can afford to do this. There are many people living paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford to set aside $5000 of their $30,000 per year. Like a lot of the financial advice given on this site, there is a lot of consideration to do for this. If you can afford to set aside some money,…

Interesting. I have not been able to find this for a desktop search like the article says. However, on my cell phone (Android), I was able to search using the search bar at the top of the home screen and searched there and the option was there. This would be pretty cool to have this feature on the little info…

It's a tale as old as time: your internet gets finicky, so you unplug your router, plug it back in, and all of a sudden it's magically working again. But why does this happen, really? It could be a number of things: maybe it's overheating, maybe it's getting bogged down from too much traffic (like BitTorrent), or…

You've no doubt heard about all the sites that have gotten compromised in the last year, but what happens when they do? Usually those hackers are after your username and password, but whether they can get it depends on how a site stores your password, as well as your password's strength (weak passwords are much easier…

Some spam is obvious ("I lost 30 pounds and made $24356 in five hours by taking this special pill!"), but other messages are more subtle. A lot of spam relies oh "phishing," in which a spammer will try to make their email look like it's coming from a legitimate source in order to get your information. They may tell…

Ever wonder why your computer warns you about ejecting those USB drives before you remove them? It's because computers use something called write caching to improve performance—if you copy something to your drive, sometimes it'll tell you it's completed the task, but it's actually waiting until it has a few other…

You've probably heard some people say you should drain your battery completely before charging it, or that you should keep it between 40% and 80% all the time to make it last longer. A lot of this is confusion over how batteries used to work, not how they work today. Luckily, most or all of your gadgets these days run…

Mmmmm... Tasty burritos.

Yeah, it's a bit annoying, but you can turn off the sounds that play when it updates pretty easily. Just click on Settings > Sounds (on left side) > and uncheck "Automatic Update". This will disable the sounds for automatic updates. Personally, I think it's a good idea to have a sound play when a scan is complete…

I have a text book that claims that the fastest shortcut to shutting down your pc is to use the 3 finger salute (ctrl + alt + del) and using the button in the lower right corner. I suppose if you weren't in the desktop app, this would certainly be true. IDK, I prefer the method outlined here... and, yes, I did know…

I disagree. While it may be faster if you are using a touch screen, using a mouse to do some things seems rather clunky and requires you to move your mouse back and forth across the screen. Also, touch screens on a desktop or laptop computer may be the wave of the future or they might just be a passing fad. In all…