That's a chimera, it something that anyone with any technical understanding of security issues knows does not and cannot ever exist. It's like building a lock that only "good guys" can open: computer systems, just like physical locks, cannot distinguish between good guys and bad guys. If you build a weakness into a system that police can access with warrant, then so can $EVIL_COUNTRY's state-sponsored hackers, with no need for such legal formalities.

Yeah, you also forgot to point out.. what self-respecting bad guy is going to use the government approved and mandated locks? None!

The whole idea is retarded on so many levels, it leaves me flabberghasted that any supposedly 'intelligent' person would even suggest this, yet.. our beloved POTUS has done just that...

I dunno where the President gets his information from.. but.. Seems to me, even if you could pass any sort of law requiring everyone to use some backdoored encryption method so police and intelligence goons are listen in when courts say its ok.. with me here? If that happened... what delusional idiot thinks the bad guys are going to use the method the police/intelligence can easily spy on? Does anyone in government really think they're are that frickin' stupid? Nobody is that stupid.

That's why most of the posters here are all singing the same tune: "Not going to work, just spying on everyone EXCEPT the bad guys with this retarded idea."

Really? The POTUS is this stupid? Wish I could say I'm surprised.

Really? What problems might you be speaking of? I've been running router+firewall+CIFS file server on the same box for at least a dozen years, never had a problem yet.

I'm with ya there! I was glad the rollout of the new 'wanna-be-SimCity' was a flop cuz I managed to get a refund for it. Terrible game. Wouldn't even pirate it. SC4 was the last true SimCity.

This. SimCity 4 was in my mind the last SimCity game. The two games that followed it with that 'brand' on it (SimCity Societies and SimCity 2013) are not part of the series. They're just bad ripoffs.

Sony deserves hatred. And they have hurt me, by filling my news pages with their ineptitude of being hacked, what, two, three times in 2014 alone? Go away Sony and go away Sony lover.

Payback for the CD Rootkit they infected millions with is sweet irony. I cry tears of joy every time I hear about Sony getting hacked. No company deserves it more.

I have a counter offer for Sony. When they cease to exist, I will stop hating and boycotting them.

You say this like it's a bad thing?

Mod parent up. Piracy has always been a non-threat. Pirates don't buy. They're never a missed sale, they're simply a no-sale.

I haven't owned a console since 8-bit Nintendo, so I didn't know that. Interesting!

Couldn't disagree with this more. Steam has revolutionized PC gaming. It's opened up an easy avenue for indie devs to get on a level playing field with the big publishers. I really don't care if Valve never produces another game, I think they should keep making Steam better.

Steam gives the PC an edge over consoles too! No need to go out and buy a game, you can do it right from your desktop and the way it shares games between any PC you want to use, it really takes the pain out of DRM.

PC gaming has needed Steam for so very long, and no one else is gunna come near Steam's library. Even EA is putting up titles on Steam, the other players are throwing in the towel. And if they're not, they're not very smart.

As far as the social functions, what more do you want? It has chat, friends, groups, reviews, forums, facebook like profiles, a workshop for modders to publish onto. And now broadcasting. What more do you want?

Isn't the point of the Stock Market to game it for fun and profit? I applaud these guys for their wise investment research!

Don't bother. The website was horrifically obnoxious even after it took 15 minutes to load. The presentation was just so annoying difficult to navigate I gave up after a few clicks. Whatever happened to simple web page layouts that present information in an easy to consume manner? Text and pictures... don't need all this flash and crap.