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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Right after Black Friday and Holiday sales.

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.

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.

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.

Out of every Apple product I've bought since around 2012, all but one has had to go back to the Apple store for serious service or replacement. That's multiple iPods, iPads, iPhones, MacBook Airs, and iMacs affected. Luckily Apple replaced them within the warranty period, but if that's the level of hardware quality I can expect from now on I think I'll just buy some cheap shit off AliBaba that won't make me feel like my wallet was just torpedoed when the device falls apart.

There are legitimate issues to be addressed regarding equality for women in the IT field, this is not it. Things like wage equality, equal employment representation, and paid maternity leave in the USA deserve real attention. This kind of SJW sensitivity at the cost of (mostly their own) sanity discredits serious feminist concerns and the only benefit is making the accuser feel better about themselves. Truly sad.

I can't wait for the price on this to come down. I did the calculation and to backup our DAS it will be almost $600, not to mention the cost of hosting it from that point forward in S3. The Kindle as a shipping label elicited a hearty guffaw, however.

If it's anything like the iPhone I bought 2 years ago, it's 6-8 hours of being in Airplane mode while in standby in your pocket.

Changing an Xbox chip to a lower sized process doesn't negatively impact things like battery life, which is an advertised spec on the iPhone. Even still, Xbox changes the model number when making hardware revisions, where as this iPhone and the similar issue with MacBook Airs a few years ago were not detectable by the hardware revision.