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Way back in the 1960s when I started helping out around my dad’s camera shop I quickly learned what it was like to deal with people who had been ripped off elsewhere. 

Readers need to know that this week it was fully my intention to cease and desist excoriating Microsoft Corporation, at least temporarily, over its botched introduction of Windows 10 but an item in the news is too important to let pass without comment.

Does your wireless internet network seem slow or unreliable?  Human nature dictates that most people answer “yes” to that question but this is simply because no matter how fast the connection may be, everyone wants more speed than what they are getting.  Studies have shown that in most home wireless installations it is common for about a third of the data transmitted wirelessly to be lost, requiring it to be retransmitted.  This automatically translates into a wireless network that is operating about one-third slower than its maximum capacity.

With a good friend I recently got into a heated political discussion; that seems to be the nature of most political discussions lately.  At one point I told her, “You have been spending way too much time inside your search engine bubble!”  That proved to be a fortunate segue into another subject because naturally she wanted to know “What’s a search engine bubble?”

People are often confused about batteries, and understandably so because there are many different types of batteries and each has its own different characteristics. 

A story that has disappeared off the front pages is the controversy over encryption on smart phones, but you may still read about this on the inside pages.