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Comment Re:ummm why? (Score 2) 134

by SCPRedMage (#61682669) Attached to: Start11 Brings a Classic Start Menu Back To Windows 11

Well, no. You can change the Start menu from the default center alignment to the old left alignment, but you can't actually change the contents of the Start menu back to what it was in previous versions; you're stuck with the new Windows 11 version.

Personally, I'm more upset at them removing the "Never Collapse" option for the taskbar, as well as the ability to make it larger.

Comment Re:Extension of the mind (Score 3, Informative) 134

by SCPRedMage (#59599586) Attached to: FBI Asks Apple To Help Unlock Two iPhones

Actually, Apple is saying as a matter of principal, they designed the iPhone so they can't help the FBI; the FBI is asking for help decrypting the data on the phone, which requires the key that's only stored on the phone itself, and the phone is designed to prevent access to said key. The FBI is asking for something Apple does not have and cannot get.

Apple can't help them with this phone, and they're refusing to change the software so they can help them with future cases.

Comment Re:I switched to Chrome (Score 1) 465

by SCPRedMage (#55155659) Attached to: AskSlashdot: How Do You See Your Life After Firefox 52 ESR?
The loss of TabMixPlus is something I'm going to hate, myself; literally the only reason I haven't switched to Chrome as my primary browser is the inability to have multiple, scrolling tab rows like I can get with TMP. Chrome just squishes the tabs more and more until it's impossible to tell which tab is which.
Education

University of California, Berkeley, To Delete Publicly Available Educational Content (insidehighered.com) 337

Posted by BeauHD from the gone-with-the-wind dept.
In response to a U.S. Justice Department order that requires colleges and universities make website content accessible for citizens with disabilities and impairments, the University of California, Berkeley, will cut off public access to tens of thousands of video lectures and podcasts. Officials said making the videos and audio more accessible would have proven too costly in comparison to removing them. Inside Higher Ed reports: Today, the content is available to the public on YouTube, iTunes U and the university's webcast.berkeley site. On March 15, the university will begin removing the more than 20,000 audio and video files from those platforms -- a process that will take three to five months -- and require users sign in with University of California credentials to view or listen to them. The university will continue to offer massive open online courses on edX and said it plans to create new public content that is accessible to listeners or viewers with disabilities. The Justice Department, following an investigation in August, determined that the university was violating the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. The department reached that conclusion after receiving complaints from two employees of Gallaudet University, saying Berkeley's free online educational content was inaccessible to blind and deaf people because of a lack of captions, screen reader compatibility and other issues. Cathy Koshland, vice chancellor for undergraduate education, made the announcement in a March 1 statement: "This move will also partially address recent findings by the Department of Justice, which suggests that the YouTube and iTunes U content meet higher accessibility standards as a condition of remaining publicly available. Finally, moving our content behind authentication allows us to better protect instructor intellectual property from 'pirates' who have reused content for personal profit without consent."
Businesses

Netflix Partners With iPic To Release Its Original Movies In Theaters, NATO Urges To 'Tread Lightly' (variety.com) 134

Posted by BeauHD from the tread-lightly dept.
turkeydance quotes a report from Variety: The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) is sounding the alarm over a recent deal between Netflix and iPic, in which the luxury-theater chain will screen 10 movies simultaneously with their release on the streaming service. The lobbying organization represents the country's theater chains and has been a staunch defender of traditional release windows that keep films exclusively on screens for roughly 90 days before they debut on home entertainment platforms. In a statement, NATO chief John Fithian warned that while iPic was free to make its own decisions, "We all should tread lightly and be mindful that over the years, the film industry's success is a direct result of a highly successful collaboration between film makers, distributors and exhibitors." The deal with iPic should help Netflix' movies quality for awards. Variety reports: "iPic will release the war thriller 'The Siege of Jadotville,' starring Jamie Dornan ('Fifty Shades of Grey'), on Oct. 7. That will be followed by Christopher Guest's mockumentary 'Mascots' on Oct. 13. This summer, iPic first tested showings of Netflix's 'The Little Prince.'" "Simultaneous release, in practice, has reduced both theatrical and home revenues when it has been tried," Fithian said in a statement. "Just as Netflix and its customers put a value on exclusivity, theater owners and their customers do too."

Comment Re:WHY THAT CONTROLLER PORT (Score 2) 195

by SCPRedMage (#52510349) Attached to: Nintendo Is Launching a New, Tiny NES For $60 With 30 Games

Those ports are the same as the accessory ports on Wiimotes; you can use the existing Wii Classic Controller Pro with the mini-NES, and you can use the new NES controllers (which, as the article says, looks like the original NES controller) with a Wiimote to play Virtual Console games. You should also be able to connect the Wiimote to a PC and use the NES controller that way, too.

You can see what the controllers look like on the images of the boxes, and it's been reported elsewhere that the controllers will cost $9.99.

Comment Re:I don't (Score 1) 507

by SCPRedMage (#52226835) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'?

Don't use the TV's apps and you won't get injected ads. Don't bother connecting the TV itself to your network, and they can't inject ads. Either way, the "don't like to see more advertisements than they have to" argument gets shot down pretty hard.

It's completely possible to use a smart TV without using any of the "smart" features, at which point it's literally no different than using a traditional "dumb" TV.

Comment Re:Holy crap ... (Score 1) 143

So, something I've never heard of is now free ... do I give a shit or not?

If you've never heard of it, and can't be bothered to click a link placed directly in fron of you, then no, you obviously don't give a shit.

Hey, why not just post URLs with no summary, and we'll cut out the middle man entirely?

Counter-point: if you can't be bothered to click a link, why not just repost the full article, then?

The people who are interested in this piece of news already know what Xamarin is, seeing as it's pretty popular amongst cross-platform mobile developers, so it's no more unreasonable to not include a description than it would be to not describe what Android or iOS is. Anyone curious who doesn't already know what it is just has to click the link to find out, and if they can't be bothered to do that, then they just don't want to know.

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