Yep! But the inverse is also true. Other websites will be very happy to have all the traffic that's no longer going into Blizzard's forums.

Of course it was fixed two months sooner. It was out in the wild, whereas beforehand it was not.

A security exploit that's readily known is going to be a much higher priority than one that isn't.

Apple is only trying to "stop" you when you use their devices. They aren't trying to stop me if I'm using Firefox or Chrome or whatever on some other OS (or even on OS X).

This may be a flawed analogy, but wouldn't it be akin to a company releasing a car that only ran on diesel? That impedes all the companies that sell only "normal" gasoline. They're stifling competition! If you want to use "normal" gasoline, buy a car that runs on that. If diesel usurps gasoline as the standard fuel of choice, maybe it's because it's better.

I actually took a UFO class in college (Temple University). It was a history elective, one that was exceptionally popular and difficult to get into. The class was positioned as one that mainly dealt with UFOs and their impact (or lack thereof) on society, mainly from a governmental point of view.

Except, that was only the first half of the class. After the midterm there was a heavy focus on abductions, and we had to read a number of "non-fictional" books on the subject. It was a bit freaky if you started to believe it.

Beats me if they still offer this class, I took it in 1995.

Yeah, I remember looking at some Netscape (I think) code a while back, and it was eerily similar to COM.

ID-based class factory models are not that uncommon...

Does the US require that a patent need to be brought to use to be kept valid? Quick scan of Wikipedia says that some countries require it, but doesn't list which ones do.

Gamestop's used game model is painfully hurting game companies. This is simply one way of trying to alleviate that pain, by making the game less tempting to either sell back, or buy used.

Conversely, this "free" DLC for new buyers will be available to used purchasers for $15.

Yes, it only affects C++ projects. We've been fighting with this exact problem for the past couple weeks.

Well obviously the viable alternative is to run software and services that he's approved.

That's the problem I've always had with him, that it's "my way or the highway."

I worked at Babbages in the mid-90s. The policy of employees taking products home to become familiar with them was encouraged. And really, from a standpoint of being able to inform the customer better, it was a great idea. PC products were not excluded from this policy. Granted it was in '96 or so, and there was an equal amount of disk-based products as CD-based ones, the internet wasn't that big of a deal, and games/products were connected as most are today.

As for the "guts", when I was there we generally only gutted one copy, and that was what got put on the shelf for display. If it was the last copy and we had to put the game back inside the box, we'd tell the customer we were doing that. I don't remember anything sneaky being done regarding that.

That's called a gamma slider. Coincidentally, Diablo 2 had one.