I can also confirm this works, as the store is hoping you buy it at full price but then are too busy or forget to get the price adjustment.

I was going to suggest pictures or it didn't happen...

Gah I just sold my iPad 1 on Ebay for $160!

Thanks for the reminder, I've actually been meaning to check out Amazon Glacier.

Doing those things certainly helps, but I think using a wrist strap is going to be the most effective. When I used to work at a place that disassembled laptops, we had one specific brand of laptop that if you merely touched the inverter without a wrist strap on it would fail and this was working on an ESD pad standing…

This really should be tip number one. I'd be willing to bet that the large amount of returns on DOA equipment is actually due to the person not using ESD protection and damaging components. The cost of a ESD wrist strap is definitely worth not having to deal with returns on a damaged part or worse, reducing the…

It looks like it's an official partnership:

But if you're on stock Android 4.x, isn't this the standard? Also who's to stop carriers/manufacturers from removing it from this Kit Kat or not using the stock launcher?

Yes, I realized that after a bit more looking. As the owner of launch model, I thought they all had it.

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I've read this article three times and I am still having an issue getting a visual on this. Am I supposed to orient the object so it's upside down so gravity can assist in removing the screw? That doesn't seem like it would make much of a difference.

Wow, very cool! Good on Microsoft.

However, in some cases—especially with older consoles like the Dreamcast, the Nintendo 64, or the GameCube, composite is your best option

Whitson did you post this twice on purpose you make yourself more likable?

I'm no expert, but I think the main issue isn't necessarily lightning striking your house, but the surge of electricity that happens when power is regained after an outage. I haven't had any issues that I can conclusively say were caused by a surge (though I always use surge protectors), but when I was working as a…

Why would you take a chance on having to spend hundreds of dollars on buying new equipment when you could spend less than $50 for something that would protect your equipment? Just because you haven't had an issue yet, doesn't mean it won't happen. Failing to see the logic here.

Most intelligent autoreply systems will only send one out of office message a day to a recipient.

I think a lot of people are missing the point of this. Yes a burgler could go and start checking every wall outlet to see if there is anything in it, but their objective is to get in, grab as much as they can, and out as quickly as possible. Checking every outlet in the extremely off chance someone decided to hide…

"To claim that *nix based systems have foolproof security is disingenuous and extremely dangerous.

Read into what I said however you like, but the point of my post was that I felt that the tone of her message was setting the bar too low for her and Microsoft. Judging by the comments section, it appears I wasn't the only who picked up on this. As someone who has used MSE for the past few years and has sung it's…

"I forgot it was just that easy."
Where did I say this was easy? My issue was with her "good enough" attitude towards her job and security at Microsoft.