> A lot of apps look for V6, and if they changed to V7 they would break because the developers were idiots

I've heard that before, but now Microsoft has moved to version 10.0 (coded in the OS), so I would expect lots of apps to break, but so far it seems okay.

Haha funny. I should have said new "lead characters" that represent new franchises.

> You can still choose to set no password.

That's not what the Summary says: "REQUIRE the user to create one when they interact with the device for the first time." So in other words going without a password is no longer an option.

> Compromised devices are used to harm others

Why do the thieves need a "compromised" device to harm others? They can do exactly the same with uncompromised devices that they bought themselves. You made an invalid comment.

- Back to Topic: Yes if a thief steals your phone, and you didn't password-protect it, they might goto your amazon account and buy a bunch of stuff with your money. BUT that harms nobody else except yourself.

You would also have to Prosecute my former employer JCPenney (also Sears, Macys, etc). My ex-emploer JCPenney has MANY private label brands, which try to copy the style of more popular brands: Honestly I sold more of JCPenney's brands than any other.

- Arizona Jeans (and shirts)

- Stafford suits, dresswear and shoes

- Towncraft suits, dresswear and shoes

- J.Ferrar casualwear

- St. Johns Bay casualwear

- Cabin Creek for women

- Worthington dresswear for women.

And on and on and on. This practice has never been illegal by retail stores, and it is not illegal when amazon does it.

Being on dialup when I travel (yes really) I have a slightly different view. If I load the page straight-up, it's extremely slow (over a minute). However my dialup also has a compression algorithm and "Disable flash" that I can turn on.

- The page looks like crap (2 color GIFs and JPEGs are not pretty), but it loads in less than 10 seconds.

- And of course turning-off Flash means the annoying animated videos don't load.

From my point of view Images and Flash are the main culprits for making webpages bloated and slow to load.

If California (or the EPA) wants to do something useful, they should ban the automatic toilets. Every time I use them, they flush 3 times... when I walk in, when I stand up, when I walk out.

These are known as "phantom flushes" because it flushes when the user does Not want it to flush. Complete waste of water.

Nah. In the 1990s when California invented Car Exhaust standards that only applied to California, the manufacturers still sent cars (designated CARB-compliant or 49-state-compliant). California is too big an economy to ignore.

TRIVIA: My 49-state-compliant 2003 Honda Civic had "lean burn" for higher MPG. The CARB-compliant Civic had lean burn disabled, because it made too much NOx (and failed the California standard).

- More trivia: Volkswagen stopped selling Year 2005 and 2006 diesel-powered Jetta/Golfs/Beetles in California, for essentially the same reason (too much NOx made them fail Cali's strict emissions). The other 49 states still got the diesel models.

I don't have a password on my phone, because it doesn't have personal data (it's strictly a phone). And there's none on my desktop computer, because it never leaves the security of my house.

I truly HATE when politicians force citizens to do something against their will, when the only person being harmed is the citizen himself. (If someone steals my phone, I am the only one harmed. Leave me alone.)

Maybe politicians should start calling themselves Daddy Brown and Mommy Pelosi, if they insist upon treating us like children.

Here's a quick summary of the new naming:

- 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g (unchanged)

- 802.11n - Wi Fi 4 (renamed)

- 802.11ac - Wi Fi 5 (renamed)

- 802.11ax - Wi Fi 6 (not yet released)

What about some NEW characters? These guys were all invented in the 1980s..... the fucking 8-bit era. Surely they can invent some new heroes in the modern 64-bit era? Maybe? Possibly?

Sadly no. It appears most innovation comes from third party companies.

Repeat article. I just read the exact-same thing last night.

"Presidential" alerts actually go back to the 1960s when people were afraid of nuclear attack by Russia. It gave the president (Kennedy) the power to alert Americans "We are under attack. Held to your shelters."

Fast-forward to now, it's still the same system to provide Fast warning to the citizens, but expanded from TV and radio to include cellphones.

Big deal.

When a tree falls in the woods, does anyone hear it? When Anonymous Cowards speak, does anybody hear them?

> Windows Vista = 6.0
> Windows 7 = 6.1
> Windows 8 = 6.2

You mean that bastardized OS known as Windows 8 is just a "minor change" from the smooth-running Windows 7? Nonsense! It really should have been incremented a whole number.