You still will be able to get a new PS4 that doesn't require internet (and if you don't connect it, they can't patch it), or you can LEGALLY restore the old firmware if you have to knowhow.

With the Xbone you can't decline the firmware update or else your console becomes unusable due to the missed authentication.

Just think about how many people is affected by the removal of OtherOS, and how many by the 24 hour authentication.

What kind of regulation would solve this? Companies are allowed to sell their products for whatever they want in every EU country.

There are other products which are pretty good at offline navigation:
http://www.igonavigation.com/

"The head of IT doesn't necessarily need to know how to write code, so a coding test serves no purpose, but should be able to run a project. Are there objective methods for assessing this ability?"

I would expect him to able to solve the Fizzbuzz test and explain what's the difference between a switch and a router or what is a DNS server and understand nested SQL queries. Yes, I know this is a very low bar.

They could have paid out to his parents too.

Sorry, the above stackoverflow link wanted to be this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/124332/c-handling-very-large-integers

I mainly program in Java, so my natural reaction was using BigInteger. I'm pretty sure someone already made something like that for C++ too

Except that methane is a stronger green house gas than CO2.

When did you have this problem? Last year around October there was a major Steam client update. Since then I can go offline without an internet connection too.

If the 10 people are in the same collision domain, torrenting won't make things faster. Actually it can slow things down with unneccesary collisions.

If a nuclear bomb were 100% efficient it would have no fallout. So that's kind of green. A dirty bomb doesn't undergo nuclear chain reaction at all, so it has maximum amount of fallout that makes dirty.

"minority shareholders can't collude behind management's back - they have to do things publicly. (These rules go back to the 1950s)"

What law forbids minority shareholders colluding?

"There are very strict rules about advertising in USA and demonstrate that there are no qualified Americans for the job before the employer gets an H1B."

These rules are not that hard to work around:

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

That's why they have monads. But LISP isn't a purely functional language anyway.