They needed something to watch any video they were sent. VLC does the job.

Visual Studio? Do you even know what TechNet was for? It was not just a cheaper MSDN, it was something that reinforced Microsoft's position with IT pros and provided important access to new and old operating systems and applications. Visual Studio was the least important piece of the pie for many TechNet subscribers.

This decision will hinder adoption of future MS technology and eliminates a revenue source, as there will now be no revenue for the limited time demo based testing environments. Timed demos, aka "Evaluations," just don't cut it and the loss of Technet is the loss of an insanely important resource for IT.

Why not just insert something at the compiler level. Perhaps they have compromised GCC itself or something at a different, less obvious point in the process of development?

Having played a lot of Scorched Earth and ATanks in my time, I can assure you that MIRV nukes are REALLY bad and can easily end up killing your own tank if launched in haste.

Yes. This isn't just a spy camera, this has a cellular device that lets it upload or stream on the fly, this is big brother-esque secret monitoring of the public. I'm sure it was there to watch a particular suspect or event, but in capturing images from a public area, it is also monitoring innocent people and can be used to target people not suspected of a crime for any seemingly anti-social behavior. It is what it is, don't dilute the reality of modern technology. We're fucked in terms of monitoring, just work with/against the system as best you can to survive. I've got a magic machine in my pocket that can tell me just about anything on any subject that I can ask it about 24/7, and broadcast and receive video and audio on the fly. In 1984 it was 'telescreens' along the line of TVs that watched people, in the real world it turns out to be a more subtle, smaller device, your cell phone. (Not to dismiss webcams on laptops, etc.)

I'm don't ascribe to conspiracy nuttery, but I do try view it as matter of factly as possible, this is just simple, easy observation with a hint of logical deduction and inference.

We're in the future now, it's awesome and scary and has the potential for grand leaps of knowledge and human progress or horrendous destruction of civilization.

Cheers.

Name a work that's not based on the work done by others. Name a single one.

Warcraft/Starcraft MMO Cross Over, WoW + Eve Online.

I jest.

Maybe a new Blackthorne? ;)

The music was set free by the mp3 file size combined with dcc fserves on IRC, Napster just jumped on that bandwagon and leeched off the existing system.

Some of us were around before Napster showed up and pretended to be doing something new. You could've implemented Napster as a set of polished mIRC scripts, which is what it essentially was (and wasn't nearly as capable as existing options).

The one thing Napster did was make it quicker for 'anybody' to get music without having to learn anything about the underlying tech or infrastructure. The music had already been set free by the time they showed up, and the number of people in that sharing scene was growing exponentially regardless of Napster. They did such a good job of believing their own bullshit, they managed to get others to believe it, and hit a critical mass and finding music simply became most convenient by using their app. That's why they are remembered. Marketing, PR, and wasting a LOT of investment money, all for the sake of being lazy about downloading music for free.

Gnutella and to a limited extend WASTE did a better job of furthering the spread of music once Napster began to fizzle, as they weren't subject to a single point of control that could be dismantled. These days, even I use Spotify, but it sometimes feels like a step back, as does all this 'cloud' stuff. Storage is so insanely cheap that we don't actually 'need' cloud storage, but like Napster, it all plays to the laziest common denominator.

These days I just go to pfSense and get reliability with feature filled functionality.

I've had several Apple connectors fail over the years, never had a mini-USB connector break and only had 1 micro-USB connector bend but not break. I do feel like the house of micro-USB is weaker compared to mini-USB but have not had much in the way of real world issues with either of the connector types.

Because fuck you, that's why.

And yes this is a probably a repost of the same line, so fuck you again.

Software Patents.

Well it's sure heartening to know arrogance doesn't just apply to signed Artists that deal with the MAFIAA.

You have no idea where the road you are going down will lead, do you? You really think putting people in jail for copying files where there is no loss of physical product, only duplication, will lead to some sort of success for yourself and those like you? You want to benefit from the suppression/repression of others? Think bigger picture.

We'll power the world with whatever we can use that offers the best transfer of energy. Probably a hybrid of various technologies, even including a windmill. Why so dismissive right out of the gate?

See all those Software and Business 'Process' patents? Throw them all in the trash. All of them.