Recent content by bootsattheboar

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    iMac Retina 5K Display Hands-on: Jaw-Dropping Screen

    I bet this is the hardest iMac yet to repair. Please stop putting spinny disks in these things if they were never meant to be disassembled.
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    Your iPhone May Be Rigged to Spy on You

    Yeah, yeah, no surprise. If your spouse turns up missing, the police always have pointed questions at the ready that could not have been thought up without access to your phone, which is always the first thing they confiscate, warranted or not.
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    Smart-Home Wars: Big Opportunity, Bigger Hurdles

    I look forward to turning on the neighbor's blender at 4 am.
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    Amazon Drone Program Asks FAA Permission to Fly

    It's easier to follow an afternoon UPS truck and take packages from porches.
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    12 Most Maddeningly Difficult Games of All Time

    N (the game) should have been on this list. It gets maddeningly difficult quickly, but it is addictive. Go try it: http://www.thewayoftheninja.org/n_downloads.html
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    You Can Have Your Google Account Deleted When You Die

    Don't do it! At minimum, have your account transferred to a relative you trust. I got stuck away in the state mental hospital, where they are perpetually stuck in 1982 so there is no internet, by my employer (I worked for the state government) for 6 months. You never know what curve balls...
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    10 Free Online Diagnostic Tools

    Be sure to disable bitdefender's autodelete before running the scan. BD tends to produce more false positives than most, and there's nothing more annoying than finding a program or system drive no longer works right because some file is missing.