Comment Repurpose it! (Score 3, Funny) 107
Perfect new technology for judging wet tee shirt contests...
Perfect new technology for judging wet tee shirt contests...
If customers succesfully manage to cause PR trouble for 2K over this, developers will have to take notice and they will never do this again with any other game: for subsequent releases, the 108kb key will be padded with 350MB of nothing. PR crisis averted!
Unless you take your numbers on Stalin from Solzhenitsyn's work (which - the numbers - are all pure guesswork with no documentary backing, and the man himself even acknowledges them as such), the actual numbers are significantly lower even if you take into account people who died from starvation or quality of life. If you only go by organized repression (gulags etc), the numbers are even lower - so far the archives account for a few millions at most. Compare to Mao's dozens of millions.
If you read the article, it's the SD card that's infected. Which, no, wouldn't affect an iPhone since there isn't an SD slot. Question is, where did the SD card ship from? Vodoaphone or HTC?
Since I do not want to start an offtopic debate, I am correcting that sentence.
Modded "offtopic" for fixing a typo, after recognizing that it may cause an unintended offtopic discussion?
They get a thrill that a normally functioning brain wouldn't get, they crave more of it, and it's a loop. A normal, sane person would not fall into the loop, but they do because they're abnormal.
How does that not fit much better with my characterisation of your position than with yours?
Keep wriggling...
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to work.