Last week the US government advised users to disable it because of a bug that leaves computers vulnerable to being hacked.
Most experts agree that unless you absolutely, positively need Java, the best thing that you can do is to disable it.
It took us a little while to remember that we set that first option and disable it (read: redundant options are bad and unnecessarily confusing).
You can disable it if you like, though Sony swears up and down that leaving it on won't have a negative impact on battery life or overall performance.
And when I looked up Facebook Home online to try to find out just what it was, the first search results that came up were from users sharing how to disable it.
That is to say, if you set shuffle in your main menu, and then disable it in your player menu, the next time you load a new set of tracks it will be set back to shuffle.
You can see the beginnings of it with Path's auto-stamp of where you are when you open the app (unless you disable it, which most seem to do), but it isn't part of mainstream social media platforms like Facebook and foursquare.
When Microsoft first learned of Scob, it advised users to disable a part of Internet Explorer because it couldn't stop the new virus.
Microsoft learned of Scob last June, and at first it advised users to disable a part of Internet Explorer because it couldn't stop the new virus.
Critics say that Facebook has made it tricky to disable this feature, which may explain why Ms Stoddart dislikes it so much.
We'd like to see a setting to disable face detection (it's always on) and a fix for the gallery, which is stuck in landscape when accessed from within the shooter.
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In future versions, too, the keyboard will automatically disable the touchpad when it senses your fingers are typing, and the keys themselves will be pressure-sensitive, so that they respond differently depending on how hard you press.
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DoCoMo has tackled this by making it possible to disable the FeliCa chip on a stolen handset remotely.
The FTC settlement also requires Google to disable all the tracking cookies it had said it wouldn't place on people's computers.
Disable your vehicle when leaving it unattended for an extended period.
In addition to the civil penalty, the order also requires Google to disable all the tracking cookies it had said it would not place on consumers' computers.
Thankfully, there's a helpful option to disable the background and replace it with a yellow sticky-note backdrop. (You can also save and share these jottings, of course.) Basically, the company's crafted this as a shortcut, albeit a convoluted one, that's meant to bypass the lack of any function keys on the actual stylus.
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However, for technical reasons, it can't disable a cookie until the user gets back online and goes to a relevant Google site, so full disabling of the tracking files could be a long process.
Security experts have been advising people to disable Java for some time, since it is so commonly targeted by cyber criminals.
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You can't uninstall any of these, though it's at least possible to disable them.
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Russian IT security company Kaspersky Labs told users to disable its anti-virus software or roll back the update.
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He was once offered the chance to temporarily disable these sensory experiences , but chose not to take it.
By "disable, " Hill said, the agreement means making it difficult to restart a nuclear program by sealing the facility and removing certain components that would not be easy to replace.
Van der Grift has no information on programs causing conflicts with Poproxy, but said there has been another cause blocking access to e-mail: unknowing users incorrectly disable the Poproxy program because they don't trust it.
It now offers an option for website owner to disable pinning to Pinterest website with a metatag function.
If the firewall stopped this one, it would have to stop them all and that would disable your business.
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Theoretically it's possible that EA may release a patch to disable the DRM at some later time.
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It's currently unclear whether implementation of this service would require some form of software update, but given the privacy implications at play, it'll be interesting to learn whether end users can disable the feature.
Clark pointed out in 1999, cyberwarfare may one day give us a more humane way to fight wars (why, for example, bomb a train depot if you can just temporarily disable its computer networks?), so we shouldn't reject it out of hand.
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