Games aren't sold, they haven't been for a long while...they're LICENSED. Look at the back of the damn box, or the manual. And with most games the license notes clearly state the online multiplayer functionality can be discontinued at ANY time and isn't guaranteed to last forever.

Actually there are rules on that, and I do believe that it isn't the sellers responsibility, after a certain period of time. That's what the inspection is for, to catch things that need fixing. Now if something happens AFTER that, it's the new owners responsibility.

I actually don't play sports games. Are you an overly entitled whiny 12 year old? The reality is that software is licensed, it's that simple.

Well, yes, but as was once said to me. The "creatives" who design/create what is essentially a press release like this tend to be running OSX.

Another example is Linux Voice, the crowdfunded magazine. Their PDF's are done with Adobe Indesign on OSX.

Because...:

http://linux.slashdot.org/comm...

They're not, check the PDFinfo:

[CronoCloud ~]$ pdfinfo ISRG-CP-Feb-18-2015-DRAFT.pdf
Title: Microsoft Word - ISRG CP_ Draft 2_Clean_Draft_with_Revisions_2015-01-21.docx
Keywords:
Creator: Word
Producer: Mac OS X 10.10.2 Quartz PDFContext

They're using Word on OSX.

I'm with you, it's still unauthorized access.

  I think the kid should be charced with something like "Criminal Mischief" and should recieve "community service" with a suspended short juvenile detention (say a weekend) term on condition of not violating terms of that suspension. That should be enough of a "scared straight" incentive.

He's 14, that's old enough to know better, or at least know to NOT put a "two guys" background and use Rickroll or grumpycat instead.

There are PLACES in the US named "Land 'O Lakes", like the COMMUNITY where the facility is located:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

that have nothing to do with "Land 'O Lakes" the dairy company/cooperative based in Minnesota

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

The vast majority of sports-gamers are also "sports fans" want to play with the CURRENT roster, only a few cheap bastards who buy Madden 09 in 2012 or something go whining about the multiplayer servers going down. Even then, singleplayer and local-multiplayer still work, so their experience is the same as someone playing the old tyme pre-online Maddens

Do we really expect EA to keep the servers for each year's madden release up forever?

On the Playstation Network:

Doom Classic Complete for PS3:

https://store.playstation.com/...

DOOM 3 BFG edition (also includes DOOM I and II)
https://store.playstation.com/...

Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition:

https://store.playstation.com/...

For PC:

DOOM Classic Complete on Steam:

http://store.steampowered.com/...

or

sudo yum install prboom

or

sudo apt-get install prboom

Then all you need are the wad files, which are included on the DOOM Collectors Edition disc, which also includes the DOOM95 binaries. Or you can just use the WADs from your original discs.

Secret Of Monkey Island Special Edition for PC on GOG:

http://www.gog.com/game/the_se...

Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition for PC on Steam:

http://store.steampowered.com/...

It is regional. UK computer culture was even more dude-centric than US computer culture was in the 80's. I can confirm the "around 30 percent" number in the mid 80's.

I am not a programmer, but if I was, I would use butterflies.

They don't "need" to know it, but they're most likely told when they install the gpg plugin.

So? Then tell people to use a proper e-mail client, which they should be doing anyway.

That's a serious edge case there. The vita is a gaming device first and foremost. sooner or later we have to say "look there are clients that just don't support s/mime." and not worry about them. I've got a vita, but have never used it for e-mail.

You might as well say something like:

"what about webtv, the i-opener and the MSN companion, they don't support s/mime either" or "What about someone using a Saturn netlink on an SDTV"

Don't focus so much on edge cases, they're a distraction, and in your case an avoidance maneuver

You actually don't have to swipe, you can do the "flip motion" since it uses your phones accelerometer

CBS has an app that would do the chirp when you did the "communicator flip"

https://play.google.com/store/...

Perhaps you didn't see the states involved:

Alaska, Louisiana, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont and Virginia

Only ONE of those states "might" be considered anything "lefty" The other 5 are rather conservative. So if anything it is "righty-totalitarian".

Actually, it didn't have that right, because there WAS no real national government, and they didn't have the money at that time to maintain or even equip with weapons a large standing army.

The standard practice at that time being "issue a call for volunteers" The second amendment exists because the government didn't have enough money to equip an army so they expected volunteers to bring their own.

We now have a large professional paid army with the best equipment money can buy. If you think the second amendment "militia" is a safeguard against tyrrany, you're wearing a very nice tin hat.