And yet you keep responding.

Twice.

To that single message you claim to not be reading...

So don't.

DUH!

So I take it back to Apple and have them replace the battery.

Or I sell it to someone like you on eBay.

No: it's just another cable,

> Even with some self-winding watches, they require a funky gyroscope case on a nightstand to get and stay powered up.

Rubbish.

We need a purge on Slashdot to get rid of all the non-nerds and non-geeks who can't seem to string two coherent thoughts together before posting.

Err no. Early mobile 'phones had poor battery life and were like bricks: I had one.

That didn't improve until the generation of 'phones that included the Nokia 2110. But those were not 'early mobile phones' by any stretch.

> I'm the idiot

That's the first correct thing you've posted.

A single cable and plug it into any USB charger, or even your computer.

You didn't actually think much before posting your comment.

> Anecdotes are, as usual, worthless I'm afraid.

That's a very unscientific comment.

His sample size is small but it's still valid, I'm afraid.

Not if the content of the traffic gives that away anyway.

And Tor concentrates all your traffic which makes some types of attack easier.

Slashdot isn't an academic discussion board where precision is required.

Stop being such an obvious troll; or at least try to troll with finesse.

What ever happened to the previous environmental scares used to try and drum up funding for your pseudo-science?

- We were told acid rain would destroy European forests. Hmm doesn't seem to have happened.

- We were told CFCs were destroying the ozone layer and causing wild animals to go blind. We banned CFCs and it has had no effect on the hole in the ozone layer and the claims of blindness have been proven to be lies.

- We were told that the Sahara desert was growing south: what actually happened was the area got greener!

Environmental scare stories, of which the impact of Climate Change is just the latest incarnation, has a long and dishonourable history of dishonesty.

That Objective-C "came as a package" does not mean Apple "didn't adopt Objective-C".

Nor does your statement that "Objective-C is an attempt to graft SmallTalk style... blah blah blah"

Agreed.

And I think Swift is rather disappointing.

Given the opportunity to make a clean sweep and introduce a modern language for OSX and iOS Apple decided to make one that is so fatally flawed in so many ways.

Type-casting -oh my lord type casting- is so astoundingly bad in Swift it really beggars belief that in the 21st century anyone could design something that bad!

A few thousand years is no time at all in evolutionary terms.

So I assume you're arguing that bread is something we haven't yet evolved to safely digest?

I agree: I'd go as far as to say that gluten intolerance and diabetes could be considered part of the evolutionary process, weeding out those of us who lack the genes to safely digest high carb, cereal based, diets.