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Comment Re: Gee ... CFAA charges? RICO charges? (Score 4, Informative) 38

Try this little thought experiment, sign up a new facebook account with a fake name and use a throw way gmail account, spend about 10 mins looking at the content, dont join anything. Never access it again.

Affter a few days you will start getting mails on that account suggesting friends that you probaly actualy know. This is because they have linked your temp account and your normal account via tracking of browser cookies, even if you use a completly private login to your system so that none of the browser cookies etc work, they track your ip address and the browser fingerprint.

Its all a bit creepy, and totaly without consent.

Comment Re: Diode (Score 1) 116

Photons? Radio waves are electromagnetic energy, a diode will crudely convert it into DC power, thats essently what a crystal radio does to produce electrical currents to drive a headset. So yes a big coil and a diode will convert radio into electrical power all beit small. The Rugby MSF long wave radio beacon,and several tv transmitter towers in the vhf days often had to deal with enterprising growers using an old bed frame and a big ass diode, to create astonishing amounts of free power to heat thier green houses, they where religiously hunted down and procescuted because they made big holes in the emission pattern of the transmitter.

Comment Re: Stupid crappy clone of Windows (Score 1) 182

If you can take the loss of some inches, the galaxy tab s3 (9.7 inch) is superb, i moved from a pro 12.2 to that, and the mobility i gained was worth the size reduction. It still has tbe full featured s-pen/wacom combo, but has the most amazing screen to be found on any tab.

Blazing fast, 7.0 and soon 7.1.

Comment Re: Huh (Score 2) 182

I migrated from an ipad to an android (samsung 12.2) tablet, and when that became long in the tooth shifted to a samsung tab s3, which i love deeply. Android tabs generaly have phone functions which you generaly dont find on chromebooks, i dont want to have to have a dongle stuck out the side

Try pairing a bluetooth mouse to an ipad, does not work, but it works just fine in an android tab, you can even use usb, adding a keyboard and mouse to an android tab changes the experience

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