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  • Apple's Mac Pro wheels cost $699, and the feet run $299

    Still cheaper than 4 wheels for my BMW, but how many miles do we get on these ones?
    chemengin1yojimbo007
  • Reminder: The US government isn't going to text you about COVID-19 payments

    wood1208 said:
    Financially hurting people with scam is worse than physical. The laws should be strict(upto death penalty) regarding punishing those involved into cyber scam targeted to make money directly or indirectly by hurting innocent naive people.. Hunt and kill them.

    Make a camp, where they can reside, without any technology, together, and create enough money to pay back they, and their organizatoin stole.  They can have their sentence reduced by 90% when they rat out their superiors.  After they rat out their superiors, all of them are chipped, so anyone can know they're a former scammer.

    Also, have the telephone systems read those chips so when I get a call from Coos Bay, Oregon from "Roger", the telephone systems can tell me that this is really not Roger.
    watto_cobra
  • Apple's 'Find My' helped police track suspects in deadly pursuit

    Sooo... my stolen story...

    I'm a pilot, and you can tell, because that's one of the first things I told you.
    I had my things in a backpack at work, and while I was on the manufacturing floor for two hours, I came back to find my items strewn about, my backpack emptied, a bottle of insulin broken on the cement floor, and my Bose Aviation A20 Headset and iPad gone.  I was talking to my wife at the time, and she told me that she never heard me say so many bad words. 
    I called our work's security, and they came as soon as they could... 20 minutes later.  No offers to review the video; just took the information and told me there was 18 other reports of theft.
    The local police department was called, and I told them I'd wait in my car.  On the way to the car, I remembered my iPad had a full battery, and I had Find Friends enabled.  I scanned it with my iPhone, and found exactly where my things were.  At first I thought it was an apartment complex, but when I arrived at the convenience store near the apartments, there was a car on the corner with a bunch of backpacks in it, and I thought that was odd.
    Numerous phone calls to 911 to get the police there went unresolved, and finally the police officer threw down the trump card:  "Did you see your items there?"
    "No, but I can make my iPad chime and say, 'Hello Officer Johnson, it's me, Jeffy"
    "I'm sorry, but unless you see the items in the possession of the people, we can't help."
    "OK, I'll make it sing, and then confront the people."
    "NO!  Do not confront them."
    "So... you're saying you're not going to help, and I can't help myself.  My items are 20 feet from me, and you're telling me to fill out a police report to get back $2500 worth of my stuff."
    "I'm sorry."
    "No, you're not.  Have a nice day."
    Anyway, that was a good thing... as it gave me proof that they had it.
    I went back in the convenience store to get a charge cable, and on the way back, the girl asked me for gas money.  Seriously, you steal a bunch of computers and personal stuff and only have 5 miles of gas in the getaway car?
    Apologizing for not having cash, she went to find gas money from others.
    ***Note:  I interrupt this gripping story to tell you that taking pictures while in this situation works better on paper than in real life.  I was pretending to argue with my wife, and that she was hurting me, so that when the cops showed up, the people that stole the stuff would be less suspicious, but back to the pictures.  I know why Bigfoot pictures look the way they do.  Of the 13 pictures and videos, none of them had the license plate readible, and there was just one with the man identifiable.***
    Anyway, they got 3 dollars worth of gas money (that's all they put in the tank), and took off.  I called 911 again, and they told me not to follow them (yet again), but my hotel was on the same path.  I checked Find Friends, and the ipad tracked them (this was used as evidence), and went to my hotel, where I discovered...
    My logbook (with about $12,000 worth of flights) was missing, along with my kneeboard and I reported that to the police.  I did write down the license plate (thank goodness).
    The police finally took the $15,000 worth of stuff stolen (the logbook is now worth $20, as I take pictures of the endorsements and flights), and the license plate (the car was stolen too), and used that as motivation to go pick them up.
    I got my stuff back at 4am the next morning, and the "bad guy" was nice enough to return all my stuff, even things I didn't realize were stolen, but were mine.  I didn't get anything that wasn't mine.
    4 counts of possession of stolen property
    1 count of stolen car
    1 count of possessing a controlled substance without a prescription
    3 hours of sleep that night
    watto_cobra
  • iPhone 11 is second-best selling smartphone globally in 2019

    We're #2!  We're #2!

    ;)

    watto_cobra
  • New Microsoft Office iOS app unifies Excel, PowerPoint, Word

    Maybe my expectations were too high, but Excel for iPhone/iPad is just too anemic for my uses, which include downloading stock and other functions.  I really want it to be better, and the editing is just too clunky, even with a keyboard attached tot he iPad.  Excel is definitely an app where a mouse is critical for efficient use.
    watto_cobra