Sensory data can be used by built-in software to disable firing if the gun is pointed at a child or someone holding a child.

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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.

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Since Metro IE is plug-in-free by default, Flash works without any additional setup required. (If you want to disable Flash in the desktop version, though, you'll find that option in the add-on manager.) And in case you're wondering about Flash's diminished role on mobile devices, well, we're told it'll work with both x86 and ARM devices.

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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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If you cannot get past that disable the chat.

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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.

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If you have an iPhone, iPod Touch , or iPad , Apple provides tools to disable in-app purchases, to stop apps from being downloaded, and you can invoke a rating system filter, and much more.

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If the firewall stopped this one, it would have to stop them all and that would disable your business.

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If you do not want your friends to check you in, you can go into your Privacy settings and disable this.

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