It's effective when playing the long-game.

It's mostly pointless to try to keep up with 0-day hacks as some kind of system-wide approach that covers any number of games.

Really VAC is there to pick up the idiots too dumb to even be allowed to get away with hacking.

I still believe the only people that use an RT device are Microsoft employees and/or people who are confused on what Windows RT really was.

It costs a lot of money.
Planes rarely go missing like this.

It's really just a matter of economics. You'd have to shell out $100 grand per plane (some possibly mis-heard quote from NPR weeks back so take this number with large grains of sale), and it would cost a lot more upgrading infrastructures around the world to work with the new systems.

Then factor in the idea that some countries may not want to put in some better security/tracking of planes in the light of NSA reveals - let alone an american company spearheading this conversion like GM or Boeing; you start to see that for the most part people are willing to put up with a few missing planes a decade (awful, isn't it?) in order to save a couple bucks this quarter.

If you don't think Excel is widely used for all sorts of meaningless crap across a wide array of corporate and non-corporate jobs you're being willfully ignorant.

So the EULAs before that state you only have a license to play/use the software - that still counts as "owning" it?

The game will be bad, or is being completely oversold.

I'm trying to think of a case where this level of PR blitz/buying people off has ever resulted in a truly "good" game.

Perhaps the issue is weak analogies are called such for a reason.

The ads, or how bad Hulu is, is completely unrelated to the topic WaywardGeek was bringing up.

I assume they meant to ask, what happens with Netflix 2, when there is some new streaming service that's even BETTER than Netflix in every way. Will they also have to go through the same growing pains, eventually forking over cash to get access to the "full internet"?

Blaming Steam for the program's fault due to circumstance?

Blaming Steam for outdated retail distribution of PC games?

Just to clarify Point b:

A majority of the money goes to Valve on these, but a good chunk (25%? not certain) DOES go to the creator. Valve is the only company doing F2P correctly but that isn't to say they aren't making money hand over fist.

If everyone sucks then it's ok, right?

I don't get where this line of defense is going.

Hello strawman!

I am not sure if ACs like you exist solely to create a "whoosh" sound.

Between having to "out-car-analogy" each other, and just complete "not getting the joke" comments, I'd a bit amazed Slashdot is looked at as a place of intelligent discussion most days :(

Until this is addressed, we will find some way to look at our phones.

It's an awful situation but it really is just going to be a fact of life. We are NOT going to put away our phones until they are physically disabled from working while driving a vehicle. Pandora's Box is already open here.

I'm glad someone corrected this story. The kid cheated, then lied to his mom, who then (unknowingly) lied to Microsoft.