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  1. do you want your computer listening all the time? Is there any way to turn Siri off short of pulling the plug out?

    [System Preferences --> Siri --> uncheck "Enable Siri"]

  2. Re:Found the LUDDITE! on Every Upcoming Chromebook Will Run Android Apps (laptopmag.com) · · Score: 1

    LUDDITE Linux doesn't run appy app apps! It only runs LUDDITE software!

    There is a flavor of Linux devoted to smashing large format knitting frames? How oddly specialized. But then again, I guess Open Source software is truly extensible to meet user needs, so why not?

  3. They will be generational hand-me downs when we try to pay for them with our new sub-Chinese wages. I mean, who can object to $3,000 for something that your children's children will be using? And once we've stripped away net neutrality and any incentive for the phone companies to expand capacity there won't be any need to update to a newer model. Progress!

  4. Re:Just stop raising cows on Can Cow Backpacks Reduce Global Methane Emissions? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll just leave this here... "Meat is Murder. Vegetarianism is Genocide." http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id...

  5. Re:Disable the Update by hand. on Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    No need to go as far as editing the registry. You can just uninstall Windows Update KB3035583. Just remember to "hide" it when it prompts you to update to it again.

  6. Re:Apple Actually Cares About Privacy on iOS 8 Strikes an Unexpected Blow Against Location Tracking · · Score: 2

    Per the Wikipedia page on iBeacon you linked: "The only role of the iBeacon is to advertise to the phones of its own existence at the physical location. iBeacon do not actively push out notifications (other than the iBeacon advertisement frames) nor does iBeacon actively track nearby users."

  7. Re:...and the winner... on Operation Dice Drop for Zigggurat Con in Iraq · · Score: 1

    What this particular article doesn't mention specificly is that there was some concern at one point that there would not be enough dice to go around. Donated dice := dice drop. Not so incomprehensible.

  8. We need MORE of these stunts... not fewer on Best Buy Invaded By Blue Shirt Improv Artists · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow... this poster is the perfect example of why we need more stunts like this, not less. Anything out of the ordenary happens and chicken-littles like this decide the sky is falling. "We can only fight terrorists by maintaining a constant state of alert!" they cry... in fact we can only defeat terrorists by refusing to be afraid.

  9. Re:Devil's Advocate on Tech-Ed Funding to be Tied to Copyright-Ed? · · Score: 1

    Actually the case was "Wheaton v. Peters, 33 U.S. (8 Pet.) 591 (1834)" not Wharton
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheaton_v._Peters/