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  1. I found that they don't help me in the posture department because I had to shift so much weight forward in order to balance myself.

  2. Re:Unarmed ships are helpless. on Pirates Hacked Shipping Firm's CMS To Plan Attacks, Find Valuable Cargo (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't they be protected by safe harbour provisions as long as they are flying a flag of a country that permits carrying weapons and never remove them from the vessel?

  3. It's a trap! on Apple Says Sorry For iPhone Error 53 and Issues IOS 9.2.1 Update To Fix It (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Stealthily pushing out an update that will make cracking the Secure Enclave easier in future FBI investigations?

  4. Too little, too late. The online advertising industry has already lost all credibility.

  5. Re:Someone explain this. on Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Read the article. It's explained, there.

  6. Most vehicle warranties do require that you perform the regularly scheduled service intervals at the right times and at a certified dealership for that brand, otherwise warranty claims can be rejected.

  7. Re:Doesn't make sense on Have Your iPhone 6 Repaired, Only To Get It Bricked By Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    While you can dismiss the dialogue urging you to update, you will continue to be prompted with every incremental release thereafter. Furthermore, the iDevice will continue to attempt to download the installation package when the phone is connected to WiFi. The settings app will be continuously ballooned with a notification until you comply. Finally, iTunes will display the same nag for each available update. AFAICT there is no way to permanently disable updating, entirely.

    And that's all assuming you don't take it into Apple and they update it without asking.

  8. probably really for grow-ops on Utility Targets Bitcoin Miners With Power Rate Hike (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 2

    The increased power capacity is probably really for indoor, environmentally controlled grow-ops in the areaâ"and not bitcoin mining. I suspect this is just a cover story.

  9. Re:Good idea on Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thunderbird is a separate binary package from Firefox. It's not an Add-On. Sure, it uses XUL and the same underlying code. But, it's not like the old days with the whole Mozilla Communicator suite which included Browser, E-mail, Instant Messaging, etc. etc. etc... which was something akin to what their parent company (at the time) AOL was doing with their all-in-one client.

  10. Open-side design on Pursuit of Slenderness May Mean No More Headphone Jack In iPhone 7 (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It's possible to just leave a side of the headphone jack "open" so that the socket plugs in and is caught in a C shape plug that can be thinner than the round connection of the headphones. That would let you continue to make the jack thinner by some margin, but is not a long-term solution. If they get rid of the lightning port and use inductive charging they could waterproof the entire case.

  11. Re:Take a step backwards in time ... on How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    XSL 1.0 is really well supported and utterly fantastic for web development. I use it for everything.

  12. Re:Games from discs on Sony Quietly Adds PS2 Emulation To the PS4 (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    DDR games are generally emulated really poorly due to the need to have really good timing sync between the audio and video signals. You're better off sticking with the PS2 if you don't want to fail every dance.

  13. Re:Games from discs on Sony Quietly Adds PS2 Emulation To the PS4 (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    I'm still not sure how to play Blu-rays on my PS4. I gave up after about 10 minutes and just popped it in the PS3. Worked immediately.

  14. Re:Short version on Sony Quietly Adds PS2 Emulation To the PS4 (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    Sony is notorious for over-promising and under-delivering on Playstation hardware and software capabilities. This would fly in the face of much of their history. I suspect it was simply cheaper to pull off an attempt at emulation to try and make this bundle of Star Wars games work, vs trying to build it again, as a quick cash grab.

  15. Re:Wouldn't a PS3 emulator make more sense? on Sony Quietly Adds PS2 Emulation To the PS4 (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    This is the same strategy they took with backwards compatibility on the 360. Essentially, you put in your old XBox disc and it downloads a recompiled binary for the new architecture off Xbox live.

  16. Re:Wouldn't a PS3 emulator make more sense? on Sony Quietly Adds PS2 Emulation To the PS4 (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    I have so few games that "struggle to run" under software backwards compatibility under a PS3. The list on Wikipedia is quite short when you compare it to the thousands of available titles. The only titles that tend to cause me trouble were music games where the timing and sync of audio and video was tantamount to player success.

  17. Re:Well played on Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, most filtering apps seem to run as fake VPN configurations, routing connections through the App's VPN "server" running on localhost to do the blocking. Putting Apps in a VM with the virtual network hardware hooked directly up to the hypervisor's networking stack, and the VPN config by extension, could make it even harder for apps to bypass that sort of filtering.

  18. Re:XBONE Backward Compatibility on Sony PlayStation 4 Hits 500 Games Milestone (finder.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not only that but it's really disingenuous to try and count last-generation games as being games for this generation's consoles. It would be just as unfair for Sony to try and claim that all the streamed backwards compatible games they have on the PS4 via Playstation Now are somehow relevant to the discussion of number of games designed for the platform.

  19. my experience on Ask Slashdot: Smart Electronics For a Marathoner? · · Score: 1

    I've tried a number of devices for fitness. Anything with built-in GPS is going to seriously degrade your battery life while it's on. Even phones drain insanely fast when using actual GPS satellite signals instead of wifi for geolocation. 2 hours of continuous high-resolution GPS tracking is going to be par for the course for this type of device.

  20. Re:95% of Contraband... on TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Fruits and vegetable contraband are a matter of Customs and Border Patrol, not the TSA.

  21. Re:Why OS/2 on The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    They're probably looking to get some money from financial institutions still running OS/2 software. It's not, I suspect, a play in the conventional Operating System business–just maintenance of legacy systems.

  22. reversal forthcoming on Amazon Follows Through: Drops Apple TV, Chromecast · · Score: 1

    Right after Black Friday and Holiday sales.

  23. Re:It's the Ownership Stupid on Is Amazon Harming the E-reader Category? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    You can always re-deliver any content you've previously bought via Amazon's eBook store. The Kindle works as a USB mass storage device when attached to your computer, so you can run backups of your own.

  24. Re:It's a niche product. on Is Amazon Harming the E-reader Category? (teleread.com) · · Score: 2

    The new Paperwhite from 2015 has a bezel button for page turning in addition to its touch screen. After I got used to the (page-turn-buttonless) Paperwhite (2013), I really have no complaints about it.

  25. Re:numerous security features on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    You say this to be funny but when the story first broke there were some mentions in the press that the server was protected by the secret service.