Apple's move was not a move to give iAd an advantage. It was a move to try to keep analytics from being spyware.
The reality distortion field is strong with this one. You think Google has a monopoly on spyware?
If this were about spyware then no one would be allowed to collect analytics. This isn't the case, however, so it isn't about spyware. It's about limiting Apple's competitors.
The DRM is not even the only issue. If you run anything that is binary and closed-sourced on your GNU/Linux machine, with your user privileges, you are basically asking for a punch in the gut. Keep doing it, folks; with so many willing targets, all of us who actually give two shits about security will be that much safer.
This is absurd. Unless you have personally audited the source* for every open source binary on your system and compiled it from that source yourself to verify that your binary came from it, adding a proprietary binary into the mix isn't going to change anything. * Or trust someone that has, which is still implausible.
Blizzard has _nothing_ to do with incompentence of users which allow keyloggers and stuff on their computers. The fact that Blizz allows the recovery of your items/gold on _their_ costs, is a fact that you will never find anywhere else.
That's a bit extreme. Plenty of MMOs handle theft the same way. Customers tend to not resubscribe when their stuff is stolen and never returned.
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Of course, they could avoid the problem entirely by charging for paper submission rather than publication.
Someone on the project page asked the guy who did this if the data connection worked. His reply was rather cryptic: "YES BUT DON'T DO THAT". If the person who managed it is recommending against it, the very same hoopy frood with the smarts who managed to go to all the trouble to hack Ubuntu onto the Kindle, then I gotta go with "it either doesn't work well enough to bother, or there's a really good reason why you shouldn't use it if it does".
Amazon only guarantees that the Kindle can be used to access a few websites (Wikipedia, Amazon, maybe one or two more), but they currently allow you to access all of the internet for free over Sprint's cellular network. Amazon pays for it.
If people were to start tethering their Kindles and using them as a means of getting free internet anywhere, it would become too expensive for Amazon to continue. This is probably why the author said not to use the data connection; he doesn't want Amazon to discontinue the free internet service.
If the artificial brain is an accurate simulation, of course you could anesthetize it. I don't see how you can make any distinction between something that accurately "mimics consciousness" and you or me.
What is the distinction between a living being and a program that perfectly simulates one, then? Can you say with any certainty that the living beings you know are not programs?
Your suggestion that a program can't feel pain is puzzling to me. Why would that be so?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instance_dungeon
In MMORPGs, an instance location is a special area, typically a dungeon, that generates a new copy, or instance, of the dungeon map for each group that enters the area.
Admittedly, the article does list EVE as a game with instances, but that isn't consistent with the above definition.
Essentially missions are instanced (deadspace) within a zone (solar system) if you think about it. Wow does this for raids, Eve does this for all missions and raid equivalents (wormholes) basically, all while delivering a pretty darn good play experience to people across different countries without having to fuss with EU/US/Asia servers etc.
Technically nothing in EVE is an instance. Deadspace is literally dead space: an area in space that isn't near to anything else. Players in deadspace can be probed down, whereas there would be no way for other players to get to them if it were a true instance. Wormhole systems are basically just solar systems that are accessed through a wormhole rather than a jump gate.
The Android Market is entirely optional; if you want to, you can write apps and distribute them apart from it, the same as you do with Windows Mobile.
What hath Bob wrought?
