Tim Minchin said it best : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q :)

Considering Steam's EULA it is not far fetched to assume compromised accoutns will be banned.

but what do you do in the meantime?

If I read this correctly, now you are unable to play the games you ~rented~ from Steam because *they* got hacked? And nobody sees anything wrong with that picture?

same problems here, which is why I avoid Steam as much as possible. A working internet connection is *NOT* a given, and when you decide you want to play some single player game and just can't because Steam acts like that you are entitled to be pissed off and call it a smegging piece of garbage (which it is).

"Why do the houses containing pigs shake ever so slightly at the beginning of each game play sequence? " because box2D or whatever engine Angry Birds uses needs to stabilize the simulation? Meh .. maybe I'm just too prosaic.

You could, of course, rephrase the story title to "Portugal might find out that GNU/Linux and FOSS kick ass once they start their budget-bound migration". It's a bit lengthy, obviously hypothetical and not particularly inflamatory, and therefore not up to /.'s standard of short, inflammatory and generally plainly wrong titles. seriously though : if institutions are not forced to migrate they won't, no matter how much their current system suck. Complete infrastructure changes based on quality assessments are rare, as there are a) just too many costs associated with such moves, and b) people don't like big changes. Therefore, as a Gnu/linux and FOSS proponent, I'm more than happy to see stories like this one, as they are probably the best one can realistically expect, at least until enough success stories are publicized. If enough of those appear, then people in charges might jump on the bandwagon (probably for all the wrong reasons, like being seen as "progressive" and whatnot) and force other institutions to follow.

This is what EP4-6 Troopers are thinking about your idea

Here is a clip of Ritchie explaining Unix (although I ~knew~ him mostly through his work on C)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7FjX7r5icV8

... and if it happens on any linux distro all the Windows and Mac User are just happy to it proves Linux and FOSS in general is inherently much more insecure than OSX/Win7. Well .. that's /., what did you expect?

as it's a UK thing (and the price I've always seen was 25 pounds, not 25 US dollars) the price in Poland should be the same+shipping

Obligatory : xkcd tells it as it is. (and yet, even knowing this, I still encrypt data I think is worth it)

I'm with you there ... still haven't finished the main quest ONCE. had plenty of fun exploring and doing secondary (and mod-) quests though :)

from TFA : "This version of UnQL has no relation to an identically named unstructured data query language proposed by a University of Pennsylvania researcher over a decade ago, Phillips said."