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Comment Why are we getting these articles? (Score 1, Insightful) 305

McAfee fried his brain years ago with all the drugs he does. He even put a video out showing how many different ways he makes chemical changes to his brain, and he celebrated it like it was a good thing.

He's a burnout that sold his company, and any legitimate social clout he once had, years ago. Why do we even have to see these articles on slashdot? He's a piece of shit that only puts out videos so he can keep himself in the eye of society. Will anyone vote for him? Hell no (well maybe a couple thousand, but that's a fraction of a percent of what it takes to be elected).

He's just a carnival oddity that people look at because "hey look at this fuckup! He has a yacht, lets look at how he embarrasses himself overseas!"

Comment Re:Factory reset before donation? (Score 4, Interesting) 132

An iCloud lock associates the serial number of an iPhone to an iCloud account.

No matter which way you erase the device, as soon as the device connects to the internet (this cannot be skipped, either through cellular, wifi, or wired to a computer), the first thing that happens is the device connects to the Apple servers and sends the serial number and checks if it's locked or not.

There are videos showing iCloud lock removals by reprogramming the chips that have the serial to a different number, but that involves completely disassembling the device and desoldering a specific chip from the logic board, then reprogramming it with a very specific piece of hardware. I'm not sure if that still works, the last video I saw of it was an iPhone 6S from years ago.

Comment Re:No, Apple "cannot" unlock the phone (Score 2) 132

Apple can disassociate a device from the iCloud account that it's tied to at any time. That means you can factory wipe the device and use the hardware as if it was out of the box new again.

They won't unless you have an original receipt of purchase, and the device hasn't been put into lost mode.

That doesn't mean they will grant access to the account that is signed in, it just means the device will be erased and an entirely new account can be signed in.

Comment Re:Apple doesn't care (Score 1) 132

Apple has a program specifically for companies with corporate owned iPhones. The person who posted that they have "hudreds" of locked iPhones is either a troll or has the worst IT department, as well as the worst CTO, on the planet.

Corporate iPhones are registered with the company and no matter the personal account signed onto the phone, corporate IT can remove the lock any time they want.

Comment Re:RedPill (Score 2, Informative) 342

<quote><p>Anyone able to translate for people who're not interested enough to understand jargon nor follow the life of some game creator?</p></quote>

Notch has some incredibly stupid personal ideas about society, backed up by reading a subforum on reddit that is filled with shitty people and creating an echo chamber of "I deserve to get laid by women" instead of treating women like normal human beings. This shitty thinking extends to white nationalism as well, because SURPRISE: most of them are sheltered white young males with little to no empathy, claiming there is a conspiracy against white people and they have to get ready for an upcoming race war.

They use The Matrix as a way to show that they are informed of the "real world" and believe these shitty ideas, aka taking the red pill and seeing how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Comment Re: Explain to me exactly (Score 4, Informative) 238

Pay the entire bill at the end of the month, never pay a cent of interest.

If you're letting your balance roll over, you are doing it wrong.

Credit cards can be a very handy tool, both for getting cash back as well as protecting yourself when purchasing items. Things like chargebacks and all the additional protections the card issuer grants are way better than walking around with a bunch of cash.

Comment Re:So they are going Me Too to Comcast ? (Score 3, Interesting) 95

If they can do it and give a better price than buying them all separately... and I mean a REALLY GOOD price discount, maybe.

Can I literally pick only the stations/streams that I want to pay for, and not a bundle that includes 30 things I don't give a mosquitos fart about?

Last question: Will they refuse to put ads in to raise the revenue stream?

If all 3 are a yes, I'm interested in at least seeing what the pricing is.

Comment Doesn't do shit. (Score 4, Informative) 75

If you want to stay anonymous, "use a VPN" is only good advice if the VPN doesn't keep logs of which IP accesses which sites.

That's like saying "have a condom handy when you're having sex." It doesn't do any fucking good if you just look at it while you're raw-dogging the woman.

A VPN that keeps logs is just making your internet slower because you're bottlenecking through it. If you are worried that someone is going to trace you, they can do so with the same legal paperwork and subpoena's that they can use to trace all the rest of your IP traffic. The one Opera is offering is worthless, unless all you care about is watching Netflix shows from a different country.

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