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  1. Re:Sorry on Ask Slashdot: What's The Most Useful 'Nerd Watch' Today? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. And of course you have to be able to call your car with it.

  2. Re:Sorry on Ask Slashdot: What's The Most Useful 'Nerd Watch' Today? · · Score: 1

    I'd say any decent smartphone will do for a nerd watch.

  3. Re:Good for them on Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not in the database of the museum I work in.

  4. Re: It's a fluff piece for Uber on Eavesdropping Uber Driver Helps Rescue 16-Year-Old From Her Pimps (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You got a point there. I hadn't thought about that.

  5. Re: It's a fluff piece for Uber on Eavesdropping Uber Driver Helps Rescue 16-Year-Old From Her Pimps (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Every one of those machines has a camera and records every person who draws money from it in full HD colour. Anonymous money is quite hard to come by these days.

  6. Re:Why purge? on Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most books are corporate approved, or they wouldn't be sold. Only very few people sell their books themselves.

  7. Re:Good for them on Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if they were made illegal that would be quite hard to enforce because a well made fake entry is impossible to distinguish from a real one without knowing anything about it beforehand.

  8. Re:Frist psot on 2016 Saw A Massive Increase In Encrypted Web Traffic (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    There are many relatively secure messaging programs for Android and iOS but for work people use email and that is for some reason still as secure as when I started using the internet in 1992. That's why I asked for a safe way of sending email.

  9. Re:Comment Totals on Slashdot's 10 Most-Visited Stories of 2016 (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. We would have been surprised if the convenient leakimg feature hadn't been built in.

  10. Frist psot on 2016 Saw A Massive Increase In Encrypted Web Traffic (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    A happy new year to you all

    And on topic: I don't know much about cybersecurity but I would like to make sure the emails I send can not be read easily by people to whom my emails are not addressed. How can I go about that?

  11. Re:The Character, Princess Leia, Is Iconic on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    And I was talking about games on the Commodore 64 :).

  12. Re:The Character, Princess Leia, Is Iconic on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it was because the programmers very cleverly made it so that the biggest deviation the car could make from straight on was about 45 degrees, and you couldn't get far off the road because there were either trees and fences in the way or the program just wouldn't let you.

  13. Re:The Character, Princess Leia, Is Iconic on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha, we always did that on the Commodore 64. Turn the car around immediately after the start and drive in the wrong direction. You couldn't do that in all games but the computer never crashed because of it.

  14. I always wonder why sarcasm is so hard for nerds to understand.

  15. Re:And this is why blacks... on Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy Linked To Autism (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for enlightening me.

  16. Re:And this is why blacks... on Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy Linked To Autism (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Physics was not one of your best subjects in high school, was it?

  17. So jealous on Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man I'm so jealous at you Americans. Ever since Trump will most probably be president you live in a fairy-tale paradise! Everything will be better! It's amazing! He's the best president in the world.

  18. Re:Accuracy is not required on Apple Removes the 'Time Remaining' Battery Indicator In New macOS Update (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 1

    Effing virus scanners. That's why I never use one. The amount of inconvenience you experience daily from them is worse than whatever any virus can throw at you.

  19. That's so true it isn't even funny.

    Me: "Hey Siri, where is the nearest Mercedes garage?"
    Siri: "It's in California, on the other side of the fucking planet."

  20. NASCAR is easier than, say, driving in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam you find bikes and pedestrians on your path, and, Oh! The horror! Right turns!

  21. Does it detect earthquakes when the phone's vibrator goes off?

  22. Re:How many goddam drones ... on Apple Will Use Drones To Improve the Quality of Apple Maps (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I'd like a good iMac please, like we used to get before Steve died.

  23. Everything in Europe is better than in th US.

  24. And not only will the US be frowned upon, to say the least, by many countries for that, its economy will also be shaken because of it.

  25. Re:Is this surprising? on Apple Captures Record 91 Percent of Global Smartphone Profits: Research (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides that, an iPhone will still work perfectly after four years, while most Android phones are completely exhausted by then.