How do they throw away the keys? If they're just zeroing the area with the identity/security info it might not be that much more secure.
That said, scrambling the stored keys *and* zeroing the storage space is probably the best solution.

I've got a couple that are definitely targeted at a gamepad rather than a keyboard/mouse. Injustice: Gods Among Us comes to mind. My solution was just to steal some controllers from the XBox and use them on the PC.

My buddy has the same game on console. The big difference:
I paid under $30 on a Steam sale, and got the "extended edition" or whatever it's called with all the addons. He paid around the same, but every time he starts it up his Playstations tells him about all the fun addons he *could* have is he's just willing to shell out another $15-30 for the expansions.

Also, it actually looks a bit better on the PC with the settings turned up.

On a PC, I can still play almost all of my games from up to a decade ago. Some of them require VM's (e.g. DOSBox, or perhaps XP in VirtualBox), but my library is still fairly playable excepting some online play and disc-rot.

XBox can't play 360, and PS4 can't play PS3. That's lame. I don't want to have 10 consoles sitting around

I think Sony actually had a good idea with adding a chip to the early PS3's for backwards compatibility. I think that current-gen would do better if this concept continued. I have a 360 with a decent library of games. The XBone didn't really launch with a lot of offerings, but as my old console is starting to show signs of wear I might have considered the newer model instead of fixing/replacing my old one.

Actually, even Origins looks pretty decent on a modern rig. One of the nice things about PC games is sometimes they get *better* over time. I've just started playing it a few months ago and considering the age it looks quite nice with all settings turned up to full. When I look at the trailers, they actually look somewhat crappy compared to my current gameplay (and youtube walkthroughs made on older hardware look particularly dated).

I've met a lot of people with degrees that "felt" they were good programmers, admins, whatever. For straightforward work they were good, but for poop-hit-the-propeller situations or ones that required imagination they actually performed rather poorly.

On the other hand, those with "life experience" were good in high-stress situations and worked well as creative thinkers, but were often fairly horrible at stuff like code structure, documentation, and time management of multiple tasks.

In many cases, schooling doesn't teach you to be a good worker. People who can read books and pass tests may be good for drone-work but not for many real-life situations. Alternately, there are critical skills learned in school which often make those people work better in an environment where they interact with others.

Most of the real rockstars/aces I've met aren't formally trained. They're highly skilled, driven, but often also cowboys who don't work so well with others (or produce work that can be read by others). Who you hire depends on what you need: formal structure, team player, or quick get-it-done ACE. In larger groups, usually having one of the aces is good for when unexpected stuff crops up, but having the formally trained guys/gals is also important for building a structure where you'll get less of the "oh sh*t" moments.

no-ip was the second most popular dynamic-DNS site for malicious software

How popular are they overall as a DDNS provider, and how many legit VS malicious customers do they have? It may sound big if they've got 1,000,000 malicious DDNS sites, but not so much if it turns out that's less than half a percent portion of 10,000,000,000 overall sites and the rest are legit.

Because "global warming" was a fairly terrible name for it versus "climate change"

Some places will get hotter, yes, but it also disrupts the flow of air/clouds/etc so that - as we've experienced locally - we get some extremely hot days coupled with an usual amount of wetter/colder days as well. I'm in what's considered a semi-desert climate, but it's greener than ever because we're getting a *lot* more precipitation than I've ever seen before.
For me, it's a positive thing since I'm not on a flood plain and the plants like it. The only drawback is the increased mosquitoes.
On the other hand, other people are suffering from floods, pests/pestilence (increased bugs and/or bacterium that prefer heat+humidity), and a change in biodiversity that is having both beneficial and detrimental effects on the local wildlife.

Maps and navigation work fine for me. I haven't used the others, or at least I don't think I have (what's a fusion location detector?)

The only things I have had issues with are certain applications with DRM that don't like rooted devices, but that's not a Play issue.

WTF are you smoking? I've used phones with Cyanogenmod and custom ROM's etc for years and have no problems at all with the Play store.

Sounds like Amazon and Facebook are working from the same playbook.

Indeed, wasn't one of those games (Candy Crush or something like that?) actually tweaking the difficulty based on your likelyhood to pay VS quit the game? Essentially if it looked like you would pay for credits in a certain situation, it would make it happen. If it looked instead like you might give up and quit altogether, it made thing easier so you'd at least keep playing (and potentially pay again later).

First integrate a computer with a brain, to the point where it will control external (or attached prosthetic) devices as if they were native organs.
Then integrate to the point where the brain can request information from a computer interface, like an attached dictionary
Add a communications device of some sort. Internet-brain connection is probably never going to be a good idea though, just FYI.
Now you've got an interface to organic intelligence.
Next, start building things with little brains that don't require an existing human, etc. Programming isn't going to be much fun as you have the whole infant->adult thing, but perhaps you could work with "ratbots" or whatever on basic tasks.
Figure out where the learning/memory is stored, transfer it from a working "ratbot" to a template chip. Alternately, this may come from longevity experiments where they attempt to offload organic human personalities from their original wetware.

If it's on a chip, it can be copied, so now you've got a template of an intelligent being.
Re-use the base personality, but improve the electronics to the point where wetware isn't needed.

Now you've got AI.

Did you look at the markets or companies these people worked for, or whether they were contracting? If not, then frankly you're being an idiot.
There are plenty of reasons to have a series of short jobs. Contracting is an obvious reason, but also if you're in an area/market where there are a lot of startups, etc.

As somebody who has worked in various smaller companies, sometimes the reason for switching jobs is the current or imminent disappearance of said job. In one case the main client (whom my position was also tied fairly close to) left. In another, the company had a good product but real into financial issues. Another company I left after they started paying bills on a last-minute basis (writing on the wall), and yet another was basically a "I'll take this lower-paying rather uninteresting job because the last went under" interim position.

Of course, as I got older it was easier to find more lasting positions, but frankly the short stints each contributed a *LOT* to my experience. Each position had new challenges and knowledge I picked. They just weren't very reliable jobs.

In a era where the economy and job market has taken a kicking, you shouldn't be ruling out talent just because they've had a couple of short hops unless you consider the reasons behind them.

Anyone know where Goog gets this info? From some public traffic report, or by polling/interpreting data from local mobile devices?

It doesn't know about that accident that happened 30 minutes ago

I'm not sure sure about this. In certain major cities I've driven (Canada mind, not the UK), my maps has been pretty good at flagging heavy-traffic areas as yellow or red. It might not know it's an accident, but it does seem to know where slowdowns are. Perhaps it's just basing data on prediction via time-of-day, or maybe they'll aggregating phone GPS/nav data and figuring out that "X devices have been stuck/slowed in this area for Y minutes".