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whitehouse: “What’s the story behind this photo of President Obama presenting the Medal of Valor to a 6-foot-7 public safety officer? While off duty, Los Angeles Police Department’s Officer Donald Thompson traversed two freeway dividers and endured...

whitehouse:

What’s the story behind this photo of President Obama presenting the Medal of Valor to a 6-foot-7 public safety officer? While off duty, Los Angeles Police Department’s Officer Donald Thompson traversed two freeway dividers and endured first- and second-degree burns while pulling an unconscious man to safety from a car moments before it became engulfed in flames. Find out more about the 13 recipients of the Medal of Valor who went beyond the call of duty to save the lives of strangers.

Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates

tomshardware.com
Microsoft's attempts to get everyone on Windows 10 intensifies as it begins to auto-schedule PCs to upgrade to the new OS.

deadenddaydreams:

derangedhyena:

fluffmugger:

that’s right kiddos, they’re trying to use automatic updates to force your computer to upgrade to win 10.

Which would be fine and dandy if every windows user in the world ran a standard operating environment but they fucking don’t and this will break a lot of computers.

To stop this for win 7:  Go to your control panel, select Windows Updates.  Click on Change Settings.  Pick any option you like except ‘install updates automatically’   (Personally I use “download but let me choose” as M$ has a nasty habit of breaking things with unnecessary patches, but then again I know this shit backwards, so YMMV) 

If you’re running win XP: Stop punishing yourself.

Signal boost for anyone who might have this option on.

I don’t, but I elected to upgrade my Surface to 10 and have regretted it. No way in hell I’d want it on my desktop machine.

P.S.: fuck Canon also for refusing to make drivers for slightly older printers on Win10. Win10 acts like it has all the answers drivers, but it doesn’t. Even if you want to upgrade, check printer compatibility before you do or you may end up with devices you can’t use with that computer anymore.

I have windows 10 on my new computer and it’s fantastic, but my sister was forced to upgrade on her much older laptop and it’s turned it into a useless turd. Despite them saying your computer is compatible if your computer is built on anything but win 10 I would STRONGLY recommend stopping the upgrade at all costs.

think-progress: “ House Republican Staffer Compares Confederate Flag Opponents to ISISOn Thursday, the U.S. House approved a measure to ban displays of the Confederate flag in national cemeteries with very few exceptions.”

think-progress:

House Republican Staffer Compares Confederate Flag Opponents to ISIS

On Thursday, the U.S. House
approved a measure
to ban displays of the Confederate flag in national cemeteries with very few exceptions.