If "elsewhere" also requires reputation, how does a user brand new to file sharing in general obtain his first such files? To compete with the ease of use of Popcorn Time, there has to be a way to bootstrap a new user.

Very very occasionally, if the description sounds interesting, I'll paste the description/requirements into Google. Most of these spamming third-party recruiters just copy-paste from public job postings, so Google can usually find the original posting on the employer's Web site.

Do lab mice even get names? Or is it just the mice on the "outside", like the fictional Elizabeth Brisby?

I'm interested in how this plays out "reputation based access to files" plays out in practice. How does a new user gain enough reputation to begin to participate?

Ha! It WAS me!

I was a really good developer. Then a great developer (in my mind, and others) so I moved up the ranks.

I was pretty good, and made it to the top of the tech heap at a fairly large organization, with 3 levels of employees under me.

It was horrible. I did a really crappy job.

Instead of being a great developer or architect, I become a HORRIBLE business contract negotiator and director. I got involved in 2 HR actions at the same time. I completely failed. In fact I think I 'Petered Out'.

I bailed on that life, and found an organization willing to match my salary- back down at a developer position. I'm a nominal supervisor to 2 people.

I really think I am doing great work again- even better than before, because my viewpoint is even better. I love being a developer, and they love what I'm doing.

The Peter Principal is real. I was promoted beyond my abilities, and I'm not afraid to admit it. Being really good at something doesn't necessarily mean that I'm able to manage a bunch of other people.

Someone would have cable Internet because dial-up is unusably slow, fiber to the home is unavailable in his location, DSL is either of the above, satellite and cellular are cost prohibitive with their $5-$10 per GB quota, and moving is also cost prohibitive. Someone would have cable TV if the double play from the local cable company is cheaper than Internet service alone.

The other major providers of multichannel subscription television are DirecTV and Dish Network.

They bundled one, an insecure one. It provides a false sense of security in the same sense that a self-signed HTTPS certificate provides a false sense of security.

If you "sign in with your Google account" on some website, you're using OpenID Connect. This takes you to a Google page, you give your password to Google, and then Google sends an OAuth 2 token representing your account back to the relying party and redirects you to the relying party's website. The relying party never sees your Google password.

Yes they will. So long as Internet Explorer and Edge are both shipped as part of Windows, you'll get "Why does buttbook look different when I click on this E vs. this E?"

"Scrambled" can also mean reversibly encrypted, as in the Content Scrambling System used with DVD Video.

Then why isn't Chrome's list of saved non-Google passwords encrypted in a way that only Chrome can decrypt, such as with a key derived from the user's Google account password?

Which are orthogonal. It's possible to have a long-form touch-driven game or a short-form gamepad-driven game.

The difference that before OUYA's Kickstarter campaign, it was even harder for a new developer to get a TV-oriented game published on one of those consoles. This was leading to a trend of risk-averse sameness among AAA games. The campaign's momentum gave Sony and Microsoft a kick in the pants to get their policies revised for the next generation.

I was referring to the months between the Kickstarter campaign and the release. These were the months when the console makers were scrambling to react: "If we don't revise our contracts to attract smaller developers with promising prototypes, we'll lose business to OUYA as gamers grow tired of the AAA sameness trend."

Agreed. I understand that Mr. Pelloni is a counterexample in many ways, and I've tried to learn from his mistakes. But his was the highest profile rejection, the one that may have planted the seed for OUYA. Mostly I was seeking others' input on what should happen at the "We cut our day jobs back to part time so we could produce a working game, we have videos of our prototype on YouTube, and people are asking where to get it" stage of my business plan. OUYA's answer was "Port it to Android and release on our platform." The change in major consoles' policies around the start of the eighth generation makes this more practical there as well, but this change might not have happened had a challenger not approached.

it's a lot simpler for them to quote studies as basis of their policies than to create original research that they never terll anyone about.

however, it makes pork barreling much harder. if they want to protect something or ban something then they need to quote why it's bad.

I don't understand what the fuss is about though, like, isn't this how you would expect EPA to be set up in the first place? like let's say they ban one kind of a plastic and give green light to another kind of plastic, wouldn't the public have the right to know why they think the other is harmful and the other is not? if they don't tell, then it's exactly for this reason why USA is full of conspiracy idiots, creationists etc...