I imagine that such an anti-cheating service will switch to blacklist behavior on Patch Tuesday until the majority have provided the correct hashes of updated files to the anti-cheating service provider.

I've read reports of Punkbuster and Games for Windows Live applying something like this. From this post:

Wine could fully implement the Windows API - but how it return the same hashs, etc. for operating system files?? So it will **never** fully support such products as GFWL, Punkbuster, etc. (that can use low-level access to files to verify that the OS is "genuine").

Technically correct, but not helpfully correct. Browsers other than Safari are wrappers around WebKit for iOS, and they share the same limitations as Safari. Porting any rendering engine other than WebKit for iOS is both forbidden by the App Store Review Guidelines and technically blocked by the strict W^X policy of the iOS executable loader.

If you have created a document in an app, how do you upload a document to an "ugly HTML fallback" when the only approved HTML rendering engine refuses to provide an upload control that's been around since the HTML 3.2 days?

<input type="file"> is an HTML standard that has been around longer than the iPhone.

Apple intentionally blocks third-party web browsers that are not just thin wrappers around Safari. Therefore, features that Safari doesn't support and which third parties could have implemented but for this blocking are features that Apple intentionally blocks.

Comcast (cable) caps at 300 GB per month. Exede (satellite) caps at 10 GB per month. Cellular Internet caps even lower. If you read the article, you'll discover that it is about cellular Internet.

Unlike Macs, iPhones ship with cellular radios. From the article: "Internet.org is a partnership the partnership between Facebook and seven mobile phone companies" (my emphasis). This makes me think Anonymous Coward had iOS in mind, not OS X. And unlike OS X, iOS has a jail.

Perhaps that depends on what you mean by "visit". Even if you exclude sites that rely on SWF or JAR components, it took until iOS 6 for Safari to support <input type="file">, and it took until iOS 8 for Safari to support WebGL outside vetted iAd modules. Until then, Apple was restricting users from visiting web sites that rely on those web platform features by restricting browsers on iOS from implementing them. And I'm under the impression that support for <input type="file"> is still woefully incomplete.

Which explains Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire to avoid a similarly titled film directed by Paul McGuigan. (I'm glad we didn't get Precious: Based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien.) On the other hand, there are two Nine movies released in 2009: one with Sackboy and the other a musical directed by Rob Marshall.

Source engineers can debug into free drivers more easily than proprietary drivers.

No, but Valve's users are.

Video games are a leading application for GPUs. The four hardcore video game platforms are Nintendo's AMD-powered console, Sony's AMD-powered console, Microsoft's AMD-powered console, and the PC. With another company owning the console space, NVIDIA's GPU business has to compete for PC makers and PC users with other GPU makers (AMD and Intel). And if PC games work poorly with NVIDIA products, PC users will have little reason to buy NVIDIA products. Valve runs a leading video game sales channel on PC and has developed several pairs of popular PC games, and it is looking to extend this sales channel to Steam-branded PC hardware that does not ship with a Microsoft operating system. So in order to be part of this segment of the market, NVIDIA has to ensure that its products continue to "work 100% with Linux" without causing serious instability.

How much does it cost to migrate all your users to "any decent country"?

Are the titles on the page you cite reused under license, or does there actually exist no trademark-like exclusive right in a film's title?

That depends in part on the running time they're shooting for. To me, a feature-length (70 to 210 minute) documentary is a movie. This means Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko and Capitalism: A Love Story and Super Size Me and The Greatest Movie Ever Sold are movies.

I wonder if these "AJAX bad, native apps good" hecklers would be happier if Slashdot had used NNTP instead of HTTP. You'd point your existing news reader app at news.slashdot.org, which would host several moderated newsgroups. Only editors would have power to post top-level articles outside slashdot.firehose; anyone could post follow-ups that would be auto-approved provided they trip no lameness filter. Then each user could use the newsreader's existing tools to promote or demote a particular identity's follow-ups, similarly to the present Slashdot's friend and foe system.

Does this film have anything to do with a 1977 film directed by Ron Howard? If not, are we shaping up for a fight between the BBC and Fox (successor to the 1977 film's distributor) over confusion in the market?