that's not what really happens.

what happens is they get just chips that burn more power per cpu and just burn more coal to cover the power use.

it's not like they can't build the damn thing without the latest xeons.

but what happens is that NSA and DOD can buy the chips cheaper.

google provides the builds to them... they're unlikely to want to push something that breaks things though.

besides, vast majority isn't on any verizon,tmobile/at whatever plan with their nexus7. you see, majority of people with these devices bought them and didn't rent them(like, case of poster, he bought the device from asus. but google branded it and sells it like it's a google device.).

and it's not really a secret why they don't update them all at once: they're beta testing on some regions, like poland or whatever. they fuck up updates all the time, the first updates they roll out inevitably break something.

same goes for apple though, their pushed updates regularly break things.

what is the solution? don't have auto update on. you very rarely get any benefits from updating anyways, like in case of lollipop updates.. there's nothing worthwhile in the update and it has broken several apps for many people! only update when you're doing a phone/tablet reset anyways.

look man it's simple business.

they will lose the cloud services to local players if they have to act as if everything was stored in the usa.

what's shameful is that other governments aren't bitching to usa. some of them may be obliged to sue google, apple, ms etc if they export private data in ways that is against the local rules(like giving them to usa without engaging in a legal request in said country).

if you start speaking like that, why do you think artists are necessary? it doesn't make sense.

entrapment is perfectly lawful.

or maybe it's not lawful, but it still goes on through the courts and the entrapped person gets jailtime and the feds walk free.

kinda like many other things aren't lawful, but still go through. unlawful surveillance and what have you.

and the people who do go to court rarely get sentenced for whatever crime they get slapped with first, thank's to the fucked up plea-bargain system you have that quite often modifies the crimes to be totally other crimes than what the action taken by the perp was!

unless you know the idea for the attack came from you and not from the feds....

this is predatory, looking for vulnerable people and then exploiting them. they should have sent him to the doctors long before they gave him what he thought was a 1000 pound bomb. like, they could have saved a hell of a lot of money and effort just nailing him for planning a terrorist attack(of course, I guess he could have then argued it was the feds who did all the planning, as they did).

autorickshaw/tuktuk drivers work in cash only anyways so not sure how different uber drivers would be from your regulars.

they all work cash only.

all of asia between turkey and korea is cash only for most daily matters.

short timescale during which all dutch converted into having enough food from not having enough food.

same story as in Finland. beds just from 100 years ago are just ridiculous. I'm 20cm taller than my grandparents, few centimeters taller than my father and genes don't have so much to do with it vs. how we got fed when growing up.

well, funnily enough, science projects etc bring them food and money now.

umm..

well, they can speak for their subcons. after all, that's what they did when they implied that your data wouldn't be sold to criminals outside the company.

and that's why they got fined 25 mil, because they did something wrong. should have been a higher sum, but still, they fucked up by doing less of a background check to their employees than they do to their customers!

it's not like anyone forced the company to outsource shit to pacific asia.

well..

but hear this out. why should any country give a fuck about those treaties when it comes to canadian and american citizens when Canada and USA piss on those treaties daily, while mumbling something about cyyyberrwwwarrr?

they know there's a fundamental difference.

it's just that couple of the guys up high on the system were/are willing to sacrifice desktop usability in order to push people into getting their software from microsofts software market rather than directly from software publishers.

because they want that 30%.

metro was conceived purely because of that. all the other stuff piled up, all the hurry in making it was because of that(not api parity with old stuff). ALL of it was only for that end goal, even the superficial windows phone etc integration.

the reason why they're giving the new windows free for tablets is because of that 30%. the reason why they started giving developer tools 100% free is for that 30%. the reason why you were booted into something that piece of shit launcher that would launch the apps from the store was because of that 30%.

because really, if you're a fatass idiot running the show and look at apple getting 30% of millions of app sales.. then you look at your own platform and realize that you could, potentially, be having 30% of every photoshop cs-whatever's 1000$+ price tag... then you start to steer your company into doing stupid shit like that - and why do you think about the same time that was coming into fold the companies doing sw like photoshop started looking into subscription models? by accident? why did valve push steambox/steamos? the companies stared doing that stuff as insurance. MS never had even a chance of getting that 30%.

(the phone integration with wp7.5 was realy funny too, had to install fucking zune on windows 8, to get same level of integration you had with android phones out of the box)

in some countries they work. that is, they either change the corporation/individual to change their behavior or go bankrupt. it's rather common for the fine to indeed double every x days they don't comply. that's where the fine is indeed intended to work for preventing.

some systems treat fines as fees though, in such systems you just pay the fine as a fee and carry on - such systems tend to not work so well(i've lived in a country that uses the other system and in a country with the another system.. in this another country for example if I'm caught driving without papers and I pay the 5 bucks fee-fine, I'm fine to drive around for 24hours before being fined again - in the country I'm from they would not let me drive unless they could check that I was qualified to drive and would certainly give me a higher fine if they caught me twice inside 24 hours. and generally this another country is a lot less stable, rich people do whatever the fuck they want, elections might be held next year, might not and so on).

of course, in such a case there can't be off-court negotiations, that means no plea deal bullshit bribery&coercion. makes the justice system so much simpler you know.

I would think the show to try to portray what the team is doing in the show as reasonable, despite being fairly unreasonable, illegal etc.

it's like opposite of FUD.

besides,

the key is to not trust the client. for highscores/top-times, run a simulation of the game run on the server from the inputs.

for ingame bought stuff, there is protections. you can check on your server if the player actually paid for the stuff. or you can skip that check and lose money.

you cannot trust the client - I mean, what the fuck are the protections on the "os" going to do when the game might not even be running on the target os! I mean, the client might be an entirely different program!