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  1. Re: Primary and Secondary Power Systems together! on Fire At AT&T Facility Causes Outage For Over a Million U-Verse Fiber Customers In Texas (wfaa.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Out-of-band management connection, GPS antenna for providing 1PPS timing services, microwave backup link...

  2. Yup. To turn off Bluetooth completely, you go into settings, and slide the little Bluetooth slider to 'off.' I believe you are correct that the button in the shortcut pane used to do that, and now just does the temporarily disable thing. Note that it also puts a big old text thing on the screen explaining that this is what it's doing.

  3. To be even more accurate: it depends on if you hit the button explicitly designed as 'turn off Bluetooth connections other than the pencil and watch, and turn it back on after 24 hours,' or if you use the button explicitly designed as 'disable Bluetooth completely, yo.'

    If you swipe up, and hit the 'temporarily disable bluetooth' button, and you're surprised that Bluetooth is only disabled temporarily, that's a you problem, not an Apple problem.

  4. Sure, but kids these days that didn't grow up during the Cold War might not be up on that sort of thing.

  5. Re:How patronizing! on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You're correct; I've learned something here, which is that in Alaska, it's considered an acceptable term. I did not know that, so I thank you for leading me to new knowledge.

    Also, you're correct, in that my assertion of a blanket truth was just as incorrect as yours. Thank you for correcting me in that, as well.

    Hopefully you've learned something too.

  6. Re:How patronizing! on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    In the United States and Canada, the term "Eskimo" was commonly used by ethnic europeans to describe the Inuit and Alaska's Yupik and Iñupiat peoples. However, "Inuit" is not accepted as a term for the Yupik, and "Eskimo"[11] is the only term that applies to Yupik, Iñupiat and Inuit. Since the late 20th century, indigenous peoples in Canada and Greenlandic Inuit consider "Eskimo" to be a pejorative term, and they more frequently identify as "Inuit" for an autonym.

    And hey, look! A whole crapload of Inuit who reject the name 'Eskimo!' The Inuit Circumpolar Council!

    And here's the Alaska Native Language Center pointing out that, gasp, outside of Alaska, 'Eskimo' is considered derogatory!

    And another one! Which also points out the converse; go to Alaska, and refer to a Yupik as 'Inuit,' and you're wrong too!

    Maybe you'd rather listen to a First Nations head of Native Studies at the University of Mantiba, who points out that "nobody uses Eskimo in Canada anymore - at all."

    Here's an article by an Inuit answering an Alaskan about why he, the Inuit fellow, isn't an Eskimo.

    Look, mate, I've learned something new, which is that some tribes do indeed identify themselves as 'Eskimo.' But hopefully you've learned something too, which is that a lot more don't, and actively consider the term to be pejorative.

  7. Re:How patronizing! on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This explains it better than I:

    "In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has largely been supplanted by the term Inuit.[3][21][22][24] While Inuit can be accurately applied to all of the Eskimo peoples in Canada and Greenland, that is not true in Alaska and Siberia. In Alaska the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik and Iñupiat. Inuit is not accepted as a collective term and it is not used specifically for Iñupiat (although they are related to the Canadian
    Inuit peoples)."

  8. It's especially head-scratchy when the entire reason they're ON the planet is because one person, Holdo, demonstrated that sometimes it's good for one person to sacrifice themselves for the many.

    In other words, Rose was basically saying 'Holdo's an idiot.'

  9. Re:Can they do that? on FBI Forced Suspect To Unlock His iPhone X Through Face ID (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an odd way of spelling 'I want my lawyer.'

  10. Re:How patronizing! on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    'Eskimo' is a slur that was picked up from a different tribe. Your argument is the equivalent of saying that unless you're black, you shouldn't suggest people not refer to Black people as, well, the N-word.

  11. Shit, when I was a kid in the 80s, and cable companies realized they could have hundreds of channels, this is one of the things they considered doing. "To have KITT rescue Michael, go to channel 500. To have KITT rescue the hostage, go to channel 501."

    By the way, hurry up and bring back Captain Power.

  12. Re:That wasn't nearly the worst part on Huge Trove of Employee Records Discovered At Abandoned Toys 'R' Us (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Scrawled in it's own blood on the wall was 'I don't want to grow up.....'

  13. Re:Imagine on PlayStation Now Is Making Its Games Downloadable (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    So, to be clear, you're saying that shouldn't have to use your key to start your car? I mean, you bought and paid for it, you shouldn't have to validate yourself to it every time you want to use it, right?

  14. Re:Four is the magic number. on People Tend To Cluster Into Four Distinct Personality 'Types,' Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you throw in a heartmelon, do you get Captain Melon?

  15. Re:I can be all - depending on the circumstances on People Tend To Cluster Into Four Distinct Personality 'Types,' Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why the summary, and the article, go to great lengths to point out that they're talking about tendencies and clustering, rather than 'YOU are an Alpha-type clone, YOU are a Beta-type clone, and YOU are a Gamma-type clone, put on your color-coded jumpsuits and proceed to your designated creche.'

  16. Opportunistic charging?

  17. Re:Nothing new here on Addiction To Fortnite Cited In Over 200 Divorce Petitions (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Shit, I remember back in the day when MUDs were breaking up RL marriages.

  18. Re:Sure, it happens from time to time on Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    So? He's not the world's personal unpaid secretary, and if they don't want him doing that, they should stop using his contact info to sign up for things, actively costing him resources.

  19. Re:Because we kept it going longer than anybody on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The South kicked off the Civil War to preserve slavery. This is incontrovertible, unless you choose to ignore the Declarations of Succession, and the speeches and statements given by Southern politicians of the time.

    The North, on the other hand, one might argue was not fighting to remove slavery, but to preserve the Union.

  20. Re:Just another way for Apple to lock people in on Apple Moves the iPhone Away From Physical SIMs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, much like you don't buy a Windows machine if your app is Mac only, you don't buy an eSim-only phone if your provider of choice doesn't support it.

  21. Re:Just another way for Apple to lock people in on Apple Moves the iPhone Away From Physical SIMs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you tell us how that happens with a soldered in "eSIM."

    You update the info that traditionally goes onto a SIM into the eSIM, same way you update credentials into any other authentication system.

    Put another way, a SIM is like 'buy a CD-ROM, put it in your computer, every time you wnat to use that app' and an eSIM is like 'download directly to your hard drive, run whenever, switch to a different version whenever.'

  22. Re:Pushing this for years on Apple Moves the iPhone Away From Physical SIMs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Up here in Canada, providers are legally required to unlock phones on request, with no charge. And new phones, as of Dec 2017, must come unlocked.

  23. Shit, I *do* have a legitimate, diagnosed and medicated anxiety disorder, and I disagree that kids should be exempt from public speaking.

    Rather, they should be actively taught coping mechanisms and techniques, or guided towards an appropriate diagnosis and, if appropriate, treatment.

    Also, emphasis should be placed on teaching public listening skills as well. Etiquette and protocol.

  24. Re:Will this repair the genes in the gametes? on CRISPR Gene Editing Fixes Muscular Dystrophy In Dogs, Humans Could Be Next (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody's arguing babies get born, chief.