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    Missing Android asus laptop

    The time to prepare for loss or theft is before it happens. If you had it set up with google+, encrypted it and had one of the security apps like Comoro Mobile Security installed and configured, you'd have a better chance of recovery. You could then sign into one of those apps and have that...
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    Most 'Security Questions' Aren't Very Secure

    it's easy to improve upon the security of stupid security questions. Rarely if ever are these answers checked for validity when you set them up, so just answer them with unlikely substitutions. If the question asks for your high school, instead of Lincoln High, answer Licking L0w. Even if a...
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    I Rode in the First Street-Legal Autonomous Truck

    The widespread adoption will rely on providing the superiority of autonomous vehicle over human drivers. Using a semi makes it a tougher test because their drivers are assumed to be better than average drivers due to licensing requirements. The critical question will be how well the system...
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    Apple Watch Doubters Wrong: You Need a Smartwatch Now

    The rationale that a remote display saves time by letting you do wgat a good email filteting function shoukd fo automatically is foolish. That email filtering is needed is indesputable. That it doesn't exist in portable device mail client software is ridiculous. Todays smartpones have 100x...
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    Apple Watch Doubters Wrong: You Need a Smartwatch Now

    WHY NO ONE NEEDS A SMARTWATCH The only reasons for Apple watches is to give Applecsomething to sell, and for the technology writer drones something to get paid for promoting and writing about. If you don't understand that product promotion is the function of technology reviewers, then...
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    how do i recover a zipped file from a hard drive with corrupt mbr and system files

    You need to restore the mbr to make the drive accessible in the original pc, and you should be able to do it using that pc. Putting tge hard drive in another pc will make it harder to repair what you trashed. Either take your Windows XP recovery boot disk (you ought to have one or you...
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    Samsung Seals Out Galaxy S6 Users to Satisfy Critics

    I think Samsung finally realized what other so called top tier phone manufacturers already realized,. Built in obsolescence isn't enough. Some phone owners will be happy with whatever they got the first time, like my apparently obsolete Nokia candy bar phone, which does a superb job of being a...
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    How to Disable Comcast Xfinity Public Wi-Fi

    I'm a network engineer with performance service from Comcast. I've suffered through 3 acwuisitions, 4 chanbes of service equipment (none requested) and numerous phone calls and door knockes trying to browbeat me into adding services that I understand better than their techs.I get TV off air, use...