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Comment Re:Purpose of this device? (Score 1) 50

I don't think this is a touchscreen - nothing else in the PlayStation lineup has touchscreen functionality and they don't mention it in TFA. You're basically paying $200 for a Wi-Fi-connected VNC terminal, without a keyboard, but with a DualSense controller sliced in half and glued to the sides.

And to top it off: even though this device's existence is streaming from your local PS5, Sony have already said it won't work with the PS5 Plus Premium games that you need to stream to your PS5.

Comment Re:That's a great deal for malware authors! (Score 1) 58

If the world's smartest and most well-funded software companies can't make this work with years of experience, we're nowhere close.

It doesn't need to be fully functional nor correct for businesses to turn a profit. "Near enough is good enough" is how all these schemes fly. If you need a non-Microsoft example here then look at Tesla and all the sales they've produced with their self-driving cars that aren't self-driving at all.

Comment Re:Plain text password storage? Still? (Score 1) 34

You should spend some time on Stack Overflow. There's barely a day goes by without somebody posting code they're having trouble with that clearly shows them using plaintext passwords in databases, in amongst all the other problems like SQL Injection and 2-digit years in dates.

All these acadamies and univeristies are churning out "coders" that have no concept of maintainability, reliability nor security.

Comment My, how Apple has changed (Score 1) 81

Today everything is locked down and immutable. Back in those days the Lisa Owner's "Guide" was a 300+ page beast that even showed you how you take the front covers off of the machine to clean the glare filter, or take the back cover off to replace or upgrade the CPU, memory and I/O cards.

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