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Why not charge him as an adult. They know exactly what they are doing at that age !

Yup.

Nothing like locking up a 13 year old for life without parole, in the land of the free.

13 year old who shot his dad in the head with both a shot from the back and a contact shot to the temple. Then called in to the dad's work to say he was sick for a few days, and stayed in the home with the dead body.

The kid is not just misguided, he's go serious mental issues. Kid deserves his day in court. But if he's guilty and there's nothing to explain it other than he didn't want his dad to go talk to the cops about the graffiti incident, I'd have no issues with a lot of time in jail.

Do we know for sure that the plane turned West, then South?

I mean, 100% totally sure, dead certain?

No. Not at all. They do seem certain that it turned West.

Thai radar confirmed the Malaysian radar's tracking. If the plane didn't turn back, what did Thai radar pick up? Also, Vietnam was looking for the plane, so would they have not noticed an unidentified plane headed that way? Unless they went east and around. Though that plane headed to Tokyo made partial voice contact.

That doesn't rule out that it headed toward India, then up over Bangladesh or Myanmar.

Really need Inmarsat to release the hourly arcs, so both the possible north and south routes could be mapped. They ruled out the northern arc, but no one outside the direct investigators has checked their calculations. The arcs should be easy to non-controversial. Everyone understands that they could measure distance by the time it took for a signal reply from the plane to satellite.

Also, Vietnam was looking for the plane, so would they have not noticed an unidentified plane headed that way?

Nobody was looking for the plane, because it wasn't considered missing until it didn't arrive at it's destination.

I don't mean ships and aircraft, I mean the Vietnamese were the ones who notified Malaysian ATC at 1:38AM that the plane had not checked in, and also had not been detected on radar. They asked planes in the area to try to make contact as well.

Do we know for sure that the plane turned West, then South?

I mean, 100% totally sure, dead certain?

No. Not at all. They do seem certain that it turned West.

Thai radar confirmed the Malaysian radar's tracking. If the plane didn't turn back, what did Thai radar pick up? Also, Vietnam was looking for the plane, so would they have not noticed an unidentified plane headed that way? Unless they went east and around. Though that plane headed to Tokyo made partial voice contact.

That doesn't rule out that it headed toward India, then up over Bangladesh or Myanmar.

Really need Inmarsat to release the hourly arcs, so both the possible north and south routes could be mapped. They ruled out the northern arc, but no one outside the direct investigators has checked their calculations. The arcs should be easy to non-controversial. Everyone understands that they could measure distance by the time it took for a signal reply from the plane to satellite.

Probably best to buy a quad band phone.  One that can do all the GSM frequencies 850, 900, 1800 and 1900.  That'll give the highest chance that you can at least use it as a phone, and send text messages, since most countries have a GSM provider and the networks even in the Americas are mixed.   3G and 4G is more dicey as you'll need to figure out which networks use what frequencies in the countries you are going to.

Higher end phones tend to have all 4 GSM bands, and cheaper ones may not.  Pay attention to the model number, as some phones are actually different depending on where you buy them.  The Galaxy SIII as an example, is a different model number if you buy it in the US from ATT (I-747), Tmobile (T-999), other countries (I-9300).  Slightly different specs on the network capabilities, particularly for 3G and 4G.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii_t999-4804.php

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii_i747-4803.php

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9300_galaxy_s_iii-4238.php

Galaxy "Pocket" seems to be used for several different models. S5300, S5301, S5302, S5310

http://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sQuickSearch=yes&sName=pocket

Though all seem to be GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, and 3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100.

If external, get something USB connected. Either webcam with microphone, or USB headset. You can buy just a microphone that plugs into the sound card, but I don't recommend those as they seem to not be as good as USB versions. Frequently there's a hum or other interference that the other person will hear.

Webcam with mic should work just fine since you have speakers already. It does not have to be Skype Certified, or sold by Skype.

If you can't find an authorized center and you're up for trying it yourself, my Dell (or actually 2) had overheating issued due to clogged fins in the cooling part. Instructions to disassemble were available on the Dell website, in the service manual. Once I saw the dis-assembly instructions, it was a quick job to take it apart and vacuum out the dust/lint. Didn't need to take the heat sink off the board to get to it, it was unscrew the fan, and then vacuum. I was replacing the motherboard so I did take the heat sink off, but could have just vacuumed out if it was just to fix the clogging. As a gaming laptop, I hope they made it easy to clean it out. If not, you'd know before taking it all the way apart.

If I'd just taken out every screw I could get to, I wouldn't have needed the manual. But was trying to leave some screws in. There were 2 or 3 screws that I didn't realize were important to take out. But was a piece of cake.

Some older laptops required pulling labels off to get to screws so they'd know it was opened, but they seem to not do that these days. Or at least Dell doesn't. It also used to be very hard to get the service manual, but they seem to have made those available now.

I never knew there was 57 varieties of baked beans! Fascinating.

Op I would prefer my own bed. I sleep much better.

You can't sleep with a 12 yo.

If that's a real comment about the 57 varieties, it's actually an old marketing slogan of Heinz, rather than a statement of fact. They actually sell, or used to sell, a Heinz 57 steak sauce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_57

Tony Abbott has been spending a lot of time in Beijing.

Reinforcing Australia's commitment to finding the plane?

Most of the passengers were PRC but Beijing doesn't appear to be doing a lot.

So why does Abbott have to go on his knees?

PRC-Malaysian problem in my view. Let them sort it.

In the meantime, most normal people will continue to fly Boeings with confidence but not out of KL on Malaysian Airlines.

I think it's mainly related to trade. As in China is a large trading partner for Australia, and growing. More exports to China, than imports, to boot.

http://www.afr.com/p/national/australia_china_trade_no_longer_BR858fGu3LCDM0n3NzUDhJ

http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/trade-deficit-narrows-as-australian-exports-to-china-hit-record-high-20140107-30ffk.html

https://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/fs/chin.pdf

Ok, very clear now, these guys have no clue what they are doing. Why give away the fact that there's people looking for these guys? How do you run special ops when there's people blabbing all of the place what's going on, for their own political purposes. Is the 3 months ultimatum to lull them into a false sense of security?

Northern Governors Forum confirms presence of US military, give Boko Haram 3 months ultimatum

http://www.theheraldng.com/northern-governors-forum-confirms-presence-us-military-give-boko-haram-3-months-ultimatum/

This report appears in no credible mainstream media outlets anywhere in the world currently and it is over 24 hours old.

I would temper the jubilation until some solid credible media reports and verification come in.

I searched for the story myself. Seemed extremely unusual for any info to be released such as intercepting a cell phone call, particularly when everything is still ongoing. Why would anyone say how they figured out that someone was involved?

Also unusual to throw in a line like this:

This new information about the girls is said to be proof of a conspiracy to mislead the Nigerian public into believing that some of the girls had been sold into neighbouring countries.

Seems like someone has an agenda in getting the story out, whether true or not.

Official story is no Marines in the country. Could of course be a lie, but they are probably correct that the photo attached to the story about the US Marines assisting in the arrest is not from Nigeria.

http://www.theheraldng.com/us-marines-nigeria-defence-hq-denies-military-operations/

Story with photo:

http://www.theheraldng.com/us-marines-arrest-first-boko-haram-suspects-benue-defence-hq-bringbackourgirls/

most SSD bought new come with "cloning software" ? eg the Samsung EVO ? Must the HDs be of similar size to do the cloning ?

Shouldn't need to be, as one of the most common reasons to swap drives is increasing the size. I've done 4 without doing a new OS install, and I think maybe 1 was to replace a bad drive with a new one of the same size. The others were to a much larger size. I had two notebooks of I think 30gb and 20gb, that I went to 80gb or 100gb. My desktop I took from 320gb to 750gb or something along those lines.

Could be more difficult going to a smaller drive, but probably shouldn't be getting a drive that's smaller than the space you're using right now.

Going to larger size:

http://lifehacker.com/5517688/how-to-upgrade-your-tiny-hard-drive-to-a-spacious-new-one-and-keep-your-data-intact

Going to smaller size SSD:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2098426/move-from-a-hard-drive-to-an-ssd.html

I just went in to Settings - mobile network, then I chose the option "data connection" to be OFF.

I'm,by the way, hooked up to my house WiFi with the phone.

We will see tomorrow if I still get these messages I have paid mobey for data transfer.

As far as I know a smart phone can not be connnected to both the wifi and data carrier.

It's either wifi or the data carrier,

That is basically correct for now, but the Galaxy S5 will do wifi and LTE at the same time - "Download Booster". Will not do 3G and wifi at the same time though as there's no speed benefit. I think it's a solution looking for a problem myself, but maybe we'll see more phones with it before there's a 5G network.

http://galaxys5guide.com/samsung-galaxy-s5-features-explained/galaxy-s5-download-booster/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2624754/Girlfriend-man-missing-Malaysia-Airlines-flight-gets-death-threats.html

I suspect it was more due to her being on TV so much versus anything related to the disappearance. If we are to believe that somehow she had something important and that someone took an entire plane to get her boyfriend, to get to her, then it is truly Mission Impossible type stuff. If she really did have some important information, they'd just grab him off the street somewhere, or grab them both after she moved.

If she's being scared off so that the search stops, then they're going about it all wrong.

Hope I don't get my arse handed to me but think Thai baht based on USD. It's the international currency standard, petrol too. BRICS counties are trying to wrestle this standard away and beginning yo trade in other currencies. Note: USD is pure fiat. It has no associated commodity to back it. My fear is US unending pumping of USD will tragically hurt Thailand as well as the more money in circulation the less value it has. The Creature From Jekyll Island is a great book for grasping the total absurdity of the modern banking cartel.

Don't wish to hand your ar*e to you but if it were based on the Almighty US Dollar the exchange rate with the Almighty US Dollar would not change. look to the Mid East for currancies linked to the Dollar due to oil being priced in said currancy.

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Haha. So that's what my arse looks like! Love it. Yea, I lived in DXB before and dinar tied to dollar. I recall difference now. I stand corrected. For any who read my post, please accept my apologies. Dumbassness on stage.

Though not tied to, and not based on the dollar, the BOT does care about how fast the exchange rate changes.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/298576-us-dollar-plunges-bank-of-thailand-intervenes-to-stabilise-the-baht/

http://www.pattayamail.com/business/strong-baht-deters-thai-industrial-exports-25283

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/226070-perplexed/

This makes sense if you look at how much of Thailand's trade is denominated in US dollars. See the classifications "By Currency":

http://www.bot.or.th/English/Statistics/EconomicAndFinancial/ExternalSector/Pages/StatInternationalTrade.aspx

Payments for imports and receipts for exports are both about 80% in US Dollars right now. However, there is a trend away from the US dollar since the late 1990's.

A more appropriate description for Geller would be 'a fraud'. If he was a magician holding himself out to be a psychic, he is no more than a fraud.

If he'd said right at the beginning that he was a magician, then he's a magician.

I remember when he was a "psychic" though he wasn't all that impressive. His asking for people to remote view this airplane seals the deal as a fraud. He's skirting back into psychic territory.

If his twitter followers start posting their visions, what is anyone to do with them? At least the other conspiracy theories can stand or fall on their claimed facts. No one can do anything with claimed remote viewing. What if they say, oh I see the parts on the ocean floor.

Just the Pharma companies starting another scare to up profits.

The flu kills 250,000 to 500,000 every year. The 800 killed in 2002/03 from SARS is an insignificant number.

But the flu kills mostly the elderly and the weak.

MERS is far more effective..

That's what they said about Ebola, SARS, Swine Flu etc. But they all fizzled out.

Ebola continues to kill people. Part of what keeps it in check is that it is so deadly, people can't travel far enough, fast enough to expose enough other people.

Story from today.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/dramatic-improvement-controlling-ebola-outbreak-23655521

The TV personality and psychic Uri Geller has been using remote viewing to help try and establish

what happened during the flight.

Remote viewing is when extra-sensory perception is used to seek

a distant or unseen target. Geller even tweeted to ask his Twitter followers to help him, asking them

to try and ‘see’ where they thought the plane went down. His own theory is that the pilot is key to

the reason why the plane went missing. He senses that the pilot was forced to divert the plane by

someone or something, or decided to do so himself. However, Geller has emphasised that this is his

personal opinion.

Meanwhile a psychic in Michigan called Kristy Robinett has detailed the vision she had around the

plane’s disappearance. She had a series of flash visions that told her that the plane’s disappearance

was deliberate and planned, that it wasn’t a suicide mission and that they had a place to land and

a crew on the ground to help them. She suggested that the plane is in a mountainous region with a

jungle-like landscape and that it was somewhere hot and humid with clear water near to it. Robinett

also suggested that several governments know more than the public is being told.

http://swns.com/news/psychic-theories-surrounding-missing-malaysian-plane-mh370-3-48559/

Wow, impressive that Geller came up with the most likely scenario of the pilot being involved either voluntarily or involuntarily. And of course didn't say which pilot, or that it was the airline's pilots.

If you're thinking western union, consider moneygram. The Moneygram CEO was on CNBC yesterday talking about trying to take market share from western union. So they've lowered fees. I did a comparison and for 15,000 baht they were about $10 less. They give a better rate and the fee was the same for a bank account funded transaction that takes 3 days. That's about a 2 percent difference.

Forget about it if you are leaving the USA, all bags are X'rayed and opened by TSA so there is no guarantee that your laptop will be there upon arrival, and you cannot shrink wrap them

In fact if you lock your luggage with anything but an approved TSA lock your lock will be cut and your bag physically inspected before being loaded on to the plane

I would never put my laptop in my checked luggage even if they did not have these rules, too much theft from checked luggage and I sure don't want all my data to end up in the hands of a thief

If you want your laptop at your destination it is worth the small amount of trouble to hand carry it

Regarding wrapping in the US. There was actually a recent arrangement worked out where at least some companies will re-wrap if TSA inspects a bag. I can't recall where I saw it. Either on a news report or maybe advertised at a wrapping place at the airport my last trip. But this company mentions it on their website.

https://www.securewrap.com/services.php?languageid=1

Note: Secure Wrap®’s USA operations offer complimentary re-wrapping of luggage if TSA removes plastic wrap for inspection.

Strange, in US I've NEVER laid eyes on a Thai in public, outside of the numerous Thai restaurants where they work. I've often wondered where they are, Just seem to stick together and don't integrate into or even enjoy US society, which is very pleasant most places.

The biggest Thai community outside of Thailand is concentrated in/around the Los Angeles, California area, with an estimated 66% of all Thai Americans residing there. Los Angeles is often considered by many as Thailands 77th province (Thailand officially has 76 provinces), as it hosts the first and only Thai Town in Hollywood.

Or.

Does Tiger Woods ring a bell?

Halfbreed does not count.

Seems to count for Thai TV and commercials.

are you saying that the OS would be better on Sata Slot 1 than as a HD ?

This page doesn't really say what speed the SATA is , I would assume it is a later version based on the base cost of the laptop but not sure

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np2670-clevo-w670srq-p-6517.html?wconfigure=yes

I'm looking to save a few dollars on the new laptop by buying and installing the OS myself, but I don't know how hard it is to put in a SATA slot 1 card/drive, on a laptop , and/or if it's preferable to run the OS off the SSD HD vs SSD SATA Slot 1 , etc

I believe I'm correct, in that were I to remove my old laptop HD, and install a SSD, I will have to buy an installation CD of win 8.1 , which will allow for only 1 install, there is no way to create an installation win 7 from the current OS , I seem to only have "recovery CDs" , so this adds to the cost of a upgrade of my older laptop ......

On that last topic, you can actually "clone" the C drive, without having to re-install Win 7 from scratch on a new drive. With the new drive they should give a CD disk with a utility that will "clone" the system drive. Not sure if that's the right terminology, but it copies the drive but in a way that it is bootable so you can boot with it. Everything comes over as is, including data and settings, and it'll start up exactly like the old drive. You can also download the utility from the manufacturers website if there's no CD. Though I've never done an SSD, just installed larger standard hard drives or replacement drives. Should be the same process.

In a PC, it was fairly easy as it just takes putting the new drive into the case, starting up, and running the utility. The last one I did, I had to do either a cable selection or shorting some pins in the drive or something similar to set the new drive. But I think now this is done by the bios so after the drive is copied you re-set which drive is the boot drive.

For a laptop, you would need an enclosure to put the old drive into and connect it to the USB or another port if you had a different type, and then put the new drive in the laptop. Those enclosures are usually fairly inexpensive, then as Pib mentioned, you can leave the old drive in it as a backup/external drive. Then you run the utility and it'll copy the drive. I may have that step too quick as maybe you put the new drive in the enclosure first, format it, and maybe copy it. Then swap them. The CD tells you what to do, in what order.

Here's an enclosure. Not saying it is the right one for you, just that it would be similar and has to be the right spec for your drive. If a PC drive, it is a much larger size.

http://www.amazon.com/SANOXY%C2%AE-SATA-Hard-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B001AAVA08/ref=lp_160354011_1_21?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1399594686&sr=1-21

Others have separate power and can do different standards, like this one does IDE drives also:

http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Aluminum-Enclosure-Cooling-EC-UEIS7/dp/B001PHLMAE/ref=lp_160354011_1_22?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1399594686&sr=1-22

Just found this on Seagate's website:

http://www.seagate.com/do-more/laptop-sshd-upgrade-master-dm/

Yea, Win 8.1 definitely boots up fast. My normal bootup time from pressing the power switch until I first see the Win 8.1 Start screen is 14 to 21 seconds....I use to say 16 to 21 seconds based on the previous bootups I had timed....but my bootup today was 14 seconds. And that is with a spinning platter 5400RPM 1TB hard disk drive; the bootup time is suppose to be under 10 seconds with a SSD...I will be able to confirm that in a few weeks once I get the Samsung 840 EVO 500GB SSD.

Now, the Start screen appearing at 14 seconds does not mean the laptop has finished its complete bootup. When you use one of those programs that can time complete bootup time, it normally takes around 60 seconds with Wifi turned off and 90 seconds with Wifi turned on. But even through the complete bootup is not complete at 14 seconds I can still click on icon/programs on the Start Screen or Desktop screen and they will start up although slower since the complete bootup is still underway for about 60 to 90 seconds. This 60 to 90 complete bootup time is based on using the timer program/freeware called BootRacer which you can downloaded at this webpage. Of course everyone's "complete" bootup time will be different even if everyone had identical hardware because everyone will have different programs installed/set to start during boot like different firewall/antivirus programs, utility programs, etc.

Under 10 seconds is the reported boot time of my Win 8.1 tablet with SSD. Since I have a PIN, I can't do it that fast. But from sleep, I can hit power button, swipe the cover screen up, enter PIN, hit the desktop icon, and be on desktop in 3 seconds. So fast now, that I actually use sleep mode and it doesn't crash programs like it used to on prior OS versions.

Google Play Store. But it is a $24.99 app in the US. Appears pretty comprehensive, but if you look at the comments, it does a DRM check so you have to have a data connection to use it. Could be a problem for some users. Though the author responded with some reference to a possible workaround.

You didn't read it correctly, try again:

IMPORTANT: Our app uses Google Play Licensing, meaning your device must be on the internet for a few seconds, once every 15+ days.

Not really a war stopper or a major problem for most users

No, I read the comments just fine. First 3 mention the DRM was an issue for them. Since it was $25, I didn't read the description.

I think the anti-cancer properties seems plausible, particularly since there are clearly things that increase cancer risk. Has to be foods that work the other way. Not so convinced on the fat reduction part due to blood restriction. Though at least some of those items are said to help with weight loss - ginseng, tumeric, citrus, berries, garlic, green tea. Maybe it is blood flow, maybe something else. If it works, let them figure out why later.

Weight loss and maintenance would seem to be a side benefit of increasing the amount of vegetables and fruit. I went gluten free (or rather drastically reduced as I cheat) and lost 10 pounds in about 2 weeks. Eventually got to 30 pounds by a year as the rate slowed down over time. Mainly because I'm probably only 10 pounds from my "ideal" weight so there's less gains to be had.

Part of what I did was increase fruits and vegetables, and also meat and cheese. Since I can't actually manage to eat so much vegetables, I use a blender to blend stuff so I can throw in something a bit sweeter like an apple or berries to balance the vegetables. I throw lots of stuff in there depending on what I have. Ginger, spinach, celery, cucumber, carrots, kale, limes, oranges, berries, parsley,

I had actually been doing that for a combination of health benefits and replacing wheat and other carbs. I had expected heart disease benefits from that, so it is nice if it helps with cancer control.

On the dark chocolate, it is supposed to be very high percentage of cacao for it to have some health benefits. Like 90% range or something. Since that's the expensive end of the price range, it don't seem likely that people will run into the problem of eating too much of it.

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I use the "Talking Thai <> Eng. Dictionary" by Paiboon Publishing Co. It's in the Google Playlist.

The app pronounces clearly the Thai word and explains both the English and the Thai word.

I can only recommend.

Thanks for your reply.

I guess your meaning use it in your Samsung smartphone, or do you mean in a notebook? Or both?

Appreciate if you could please share some guidance how to access the Google Playlist.

Thanks again.

Google Play Store. But it is a $24.99 app in the US. Appears pretty comprehensive, but if you look at the comments, it does a DRM check so you have to have a data connection to use it. Could be a problem for some users. Though the author responded with some reference to a possible workaround.