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  1. You can't downgrade your IOS version after Apple stops signing it (typically a few days to a week after a newer version comes out) even if you have a device backup (which is not a "full disk" backup of the phone or anything like that.)

  2. Correct, but only for devices that could not upgrade to IOS7.

    If you had, say, an iPhone 5 running 6 that you did not want to upgrade to 7, then you could not get the security update.

  3. Re:Mission accomplished on How Close Are We, Really, To Nuclear Fusion? · · Score: 2

    I have solar panels on my roof and when it's cloudy but "bright" the entire 5KW system only outputs a few hundred watts.
    When it's cloudy and "dark" the system does not generate any power at all.

  4. Re:C++ is not the language you start with on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    You stacked up piles of 1s? How barbaric. We simply used the letter 'O' instead.

  5. Re:"Secular decline" on The Bursting Social Media Advertising Bubble · · Score: 1

    Comment explaining the term: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...

  6. Re: And your point is what? on Cisco Spending Millions of Dollars Secretly Purchasing New Juniper Products · · Score: 1

    RIM never needed one, they knew without even looking that the iPhone was physically impossible and just a trick of some kind.

  7. Actually, it being 2003, they were probably development machines for the Xbox 360 which at that time was not known to be PPC based from memory.

  8. Re:They should consider the art alternative on German Railways To Test Anti-Graffiti Drones · · Score: 1

    We have plenty of murals of differing styles and qualities of artwork and they all get ugly tags right over the top of them.

    Perth, WA.

  9. Re:Too little too late on Windows 8.1 May Restore Boot-To-Desktop, Start Button · · Score: 1

    Turn on cruise control and then the car will engine brake as much as it can. Even on a normal automatic.

  10. Re:Wut? Obviously you never met a marketer on Weirdest DLC Sponsorship Ever: SimCity, Brought To You By Crest · · Score: 1

    The Abathur in HOTS has six hands so he ought to be able to handle even those triple-hooked contraptions.

  11. Re:Better off enforcing an EA boycott on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    Minecraft is not DRM free.

    It does have LAN play, and user hosted servers, and rightly so. But that still doesn't make it DRM free.

  12. Re:Gas mileage on Ferrari Unveils World's Fastest (and Most Expensive) Hybrid · · Score: 1

    Lifetime ownership costs of cars like this are approximately $1/km. Might have been $1/mile, it was a while since I read it.
    Fuel cost is negligible compared to that.

  13. Re:TV on XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More · · Score: 1

    360 is 100Mbit only. Its DLNA is also a bit dodgy in my experience.

  14. Re:Good alternative to the Greens on Pirate Party Becomes a Registered Political Party In Australia · · Score: 1

    Read the Greens' website. It sounds like something written by a bright-eyed first year university student who just joined the local Socialist Alliance chapter. Probably because it was.

  15. Re:Market manipulation? on The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts · · Score: 2

    It's a bit hard to say that IOS had a worm when the user had to install OpenSSH, leave it running all the time, *and* leave the root password ("alpine") unchanged to be vulnerable.

  16. Re:Source 1 was awful on Gabe Newell Confirms Source 2 Engine · · Score: 1

    Source was never "awesome". idtech4 came out before it, for christ's sake.

    Source is saddled with tiny maps/levels that are exceedingly slow to load. The graphics are OK but seem to require hardware that is capable of producing much better results using other engines like CryEngine or UE3. Finally, and this is changing now, but it was targeted way too strongly into DirectX.

  17. Re:This is ridiculous on Blizzard Sued Over Battle.net Authentication · · Score: 1

    Minor quibble: the IOS mobile authenticator app won't run in the simulator because the IOS sim is not an emulator. You need to compile an app specifically for the sim.

    The Android sim is actually a full-fledged emulator and so can run any app, but is obviously much less performant because of that.

  18. Re:What does it all mean? on Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected · · Score: 1

    An NPC is definitely not a bot. Bots are PCs being controlled by macros and/or programs.

    The most common bot you see is one that queues for PVP battleground, but then just targets another friendly player and follows them around to soak up participation/victory points.

    More sophisticated ones fly around the world gathering resources by actually being programmed with the location of resource node spawns and enough logic to be able to determine if they're present, click on them if so, then move to the next.

  19. Re:The obvious questions on Australia Attorney General Proposes New Laws To Stop Twitter Trolls · · Score: 1

    Oh, and I can't believe I forgot Andrew Bolt. Whether you hate him or not, if there was truly free speech he would have been fine.

  20. Re:The obvious questions on Australia Attorney General Proposes New Laws To Stop Twitter Trolls · · Score: 1

    No we don't. Look at the guys who get fined for making anti-Israel protests or who make racist jokes on youtube.

  21. Re:Air resistance. on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 1

    If people are merging on and off that much then the speed limit doesn't matter one bit because the conditions will dictate it rather than the sign.

    Which is exactly what the GP says in his post.

  22. Re:Linux on Mac?! on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Look into how the High-DPI scaling works. It's still sharp.

  23. Re:Mac Users on Cherry MX Mechanical Keyboard Switches Compared · · Score: 1

    They get a plus from me for splitting the numpad + key, but a minus for keeping 4 meta keys to the right of the spacebar and another for not putting the lights into the respective lock keys.

    If they would only have some real media keys, then I'd get one.

  24. Re:And in countries where it's legal? on Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales · · Score: 1

    Using the same logic, driving while impaired is only considered a crime because you may end up killing someone - hence we should decriminalize driving while impaired and only arrest people when they run over and kill someone - which is the real crime.

    Yes, that's correct.

  25. Re:They've turned their backs on Steve on Apple Comes Clean, Admits To Doing Market Research · · Score: 1

    The block of wood story was actually about John Sculley's jacket pocket and the Newton development.