Recent content by brucek2

3+ years later, this thread is still the top Google search result on this topic, and the problem is still happening. Thanks for the tip on how to get around this. I wish this would happen to one of the Chrome devs so they'd make it impossible to block all user control, or at very least always...

Apple's language, designed for a layman, may be a little imprecise. But it paints exactly the right picture. By allowing the FBI to remove the anti-hacking measures, they make the phone easily crackable. And in legal terms, once they've done it once, and it is a matter of record that this build...

Yep. Like everyone else: blocking wasn't motivated by a desire not to see ads, it was made necessary in order to have my browser not crash.

Apparently there's a game patch incoming soon, many users might want to save themselves some back and forth by waiting for that patch and then the mod to be adjusted for that patch.

His comments make the most sense for primetime series, but ignores the vast number of hours of TV watching that fall into either sports or "background TV." For sports fans, there's often too many important games that just aren't available without the cable or satellite subscription. And for...

On the vast majority of sites that have ever asked me to create an account, my account and everything stored within it is absolutely worthless. Yet some of them insist on requiring an unwieldy password, which I will never remember in my head, so I end up having to write it down somewhere which...

Would the 20 channels be the HD versions, or limited to just SD feeds?

The "could only be used on Yahoo's online store" is my favorite part. That's the kind of detail The Onion would come up with for one of their parodies. Oh Yahoo. Would have loved to see the meeting where these policies were determined. (Was $12.50 the highest amount suggested? Maybe someone...

Dear TSA: If you're going to pat me and every other passenger down before boarding a plane, you might also want to prevent terrorists from just being able to drive up the airplane or gate with a truck bomb. Its fun to pick on the defective map app, but bottom line is it just should not be...

I didn't know about the Kroll service having health records. How is this legal? I thought there were confidentiality laws that should both prevent Kroll's service from getting the data in the first place, and then being able to resell it in the second place.

The game streaming is of significant interest to me. I've got multiple screens I'd enjoy being able to game on, and I'd much rather be able to use inexpensive, quiet, noiseless satellites on all except one.

Apple is offering this feature as a convenience, not as a new breakthrough in maximum security applications. This article reads like a rebuttal to a claim that was never made in the first place. If press reports are to be believed any law enforcement organization or anyone who knows anyone in...

A better first day sales comparison would be to the original ipod, vs. the iphone or ipad which were already building on the market established over years of ipod sales. That said I'm one of the 73% who have not purchased a game, and not sure that I ever will. Plex client is working fine...

I especially like the "we're sorry" for a voluntary action they went out of their way to take. I don't think they're all that sorry.

Seems like splitting hairs to me. Microsoft realized that fan preference for the Sony approach was going to hurt their product sales, and reacted accordingly. If Sony had offered some other random feature that fans didn't have a preference for, then MS would not have felt that pressure. Going...