There are a lot of assumptions baked into that rather flippant remark. I actually know some women, and most of them actually like sex. Some even enjoy it in cars, though now we're (long) out of our teens, it's not terribly appealing.

If the only way you can imagine having sex is by pressuring a woman into doing something she doesn't want to do, that says much more about you than it does about women. I feel sorry for you.

26% year-over-year
br Makes it sound like they've been declining for several years. They've had their first dip in revenue in 13 years - I think it's a bit early to say if that represents a 26% decline "year over year" or whether it's just a blip. But hey, let's all get on the whole "Apple is doomed!" bandwagon all over again. What is this, the 1990s?

I'm a new and somewhat reluctant user of Windows 10. I only use it as a platform to launch certain games, via Steam. All of its other features (other than what it provides as APIs to games) I don't need. I especially don't need any of this Cortana crap, auto-updates, or other typical PC-type features. I have a Mac for all that stuff.

So what I'd like to ask is how do I disable everything I don't need? Can someone point me to a "minimum Windows 10 for dummies" kind of thing? I've been through all the interface that I can see, but I suspect I'm only scratching the Surfaceâ, because it still acts somewhat intrusively, even interrupting a Dirt Rally session mid-stage the other day to tell me it needed to restart to install an update (and DR's design meant the stage was voided). I despise that behaviour - it must be possible to set things up such that I'm in charge of it, and not the other way around? Any tips or help appreciated!

Agreed. Our Dyson vacuum cleaner gave up the ghost (after 10 years, so it hadn't done that badly, at least by modern expectations). We bought a Miele Classic C1 (with bags). Oh what a joy! The thing actually cleans, and when its bag is full, you throw it in the bin - no asthma-indicuing choking cloud of dust to deal with which leaves the perspex tank on the cleaner filthy and scratched. Dyson's triumph was to convince everyone that - axiomatically - bagless was better, whereas in fact it's way worse. If you have any sort of breathing issues when confronted by a cloud of essentially human waste in dust form, you don't want a bagless vacuum.

Ads have always been a cancer on the internet. This is just further metastasisation.

Yes, it's a waste of taxpayer's money. But the solution isn't joining the Tea Party. That's like saying the only way to fix a leak in your roof is to move your entire house inside another building that has a non-leaky roof.

At least with Siri, it's up to the user what "persona" (or more specifically, which voice) you choose. I would assume that the other similar services are user-customisable. The entire premise of the article is bogus.

Surely. Has to be. Hasn't it?

You're not well versed in computer security, obviously. So you apply the assumption that all slashdotters are as ill-informed as yourself. It *is* a lot better than ROT-13 (that comparison is absurdly silly) and if you care to actually read the technical documentation, you might begin to understand it. It's probably not 100% uncrackable, but it's pretty darn close.

So, not only do "they" want to add as much hay as possible while they search for the needle, turns out they're not even looking at the right haystack.

The base doesn't change what the number IS, only how it is written down.

Windows 10 is a poor quality operating system. It's surprising how many people appear not to have realised this.

I get "normal" battery usage out of my iPhone 4S, which is to say maybe a day if I happen to browse the web a bit, Facebook a bit, make a few calls. 2-3 days on very light usage. But on a recent trip to the US, where I had no cell service, my battery life utterly tanked. I could feel it getting hot in my pocket. My guess was that it was constantly searching for a cell signal it could use, and had ramped up the TX power to max to try and get one. When I twigged and turned off the cellphone feature, battery life returned to normal.

This suggests that if you are in a marginal signal area, your battery could be getting hammered because the phone tries harder to maintain a connection.

Oh, that and the usual suspects - the Facebook app is terrible.

That's called "cutting off your nose to spite your face". It's the exact same thing as people voting for Trump because they hate Obama. You really need to grow up, friends.

I'll take your word for the figure, but that assumes that a) it's a head-on collision and b) the 640kN would be absorbed by the plane rather than the drone. Since the airflow around the plane is designed to flow smoothly, as the aircraft approached the drone would be deflected into the airstream and flow with it (being far lighter than the plane), so if it did hit it would not be anything like a head-on collision. But assuming that it was a worst-case scenario and did hit part of the plane hard enough to generate 640kN, the drone would rapidly disintegrate. Seems like the aircraft would be unlucky to suffer much more than a denting. Going into an engine is likely to be a lot worse, but then, they are designed to take a bird strike.