This reminds me of the Clove cigarette debacle between the USA and Indonesia. Here is a nice summary of the issue

Maybe Indonesia could get with Antigua and they could pool their resources on this warez site.

How many good 2 player board games are there? I've tried playing some games 2 player, and they just loose so much of the fun. I played Risk once in 2 player mode. It was horrid. Even with the neutral 3rd party, it just wasn't risk.

I was going to mention that I feel stupider having read this article, but I think your comment sums it up much better.

I really wish Slashdot would disallow headlines asked as a question. Ask slashdot included. :-)

I agree with you on the smartphones, but I don't know if this will directly transfer to ARM as a whole. Every day, there are more and more devices running ARM processors. Heck, I just bought a Nest thermostat a month ago, and I'm sure it has an ARM processor inside it. If people want a computer in their oven, (not sure who wants this, but apparently someone is building it), then you're going to see more and more devices with ARM processors.

Microsoft already does this.

Microsoft already does/did this. (Windows Home Server).

I think the only good idea is the app store one. I'm sure it would be nice to have for old versions of Windows, but I don't see Microsoft doing it. I'm sure they wont want to spend money/time on getting technology to work on an OS they want people to migrate away from. I'd rather see them make a version of Windows 8 that looked and felt like Windows 7. I'm sure they'd make more money that way.

How do you suppose that you download a blu ray sized game? I've got an 18mbit internet connection, and downloading a 25+ GB game would take quite some time. Lets also not forget that a lot of people have caps on the amount they can download. Download 4 games in a month, and your ISP may very well cut you off. Also, you would need a large hard drive to hold all of your games. I'd imagine 1TB would probably be necessary for a lot of gamers. I own ~20 PS3 games, and I'm not exactly hard core. I've just had the console since it was released, and I get ~5 games each year. (Side rant, I typically buy the hot games a year after they come out. Preferably when they release the next sequel. It's amazing how many games I've bought for $19.99 that were released a year before for $59.99. Delayed gratification really saves a lot of money. I suppose if I was playing more online gaming, I might be more inclined to get the hottest games).

I see digital downloads as the future of gaming, but I don't think that Sony or Microsoft will make it the ONLY method of getting games until the majority of people buy their games digital by choice.

That's why you use two factor authentication. Even if the password was 123456, that mixed with fingerprint makes it very hard to crack.

You missed the part about RAW. I don't want to use my fingerprints to unlock a password database. I want my fingerprint to BE my password. Or at the very least, I'd like my fingerprint to be my "What I have" for 2-factor authentication. I'm a big fan of fingerprint + password authentication. But since I use my fingerprint, I can cut the password down to a normal 10-12 character length of medium complexity. The great thing about fingerprints is that you have 10 of them. I know with my laptop, I've registered just two. That gives me a margin of error for damaging my finger, and it means that if an attacker did have a way to fake the scanner, he has a 1 in 5 chance of picking the right finger to spoof.

12345?

Your phone would be protected with a password silly! Oh wait, this seems like it would add complexity, and probably add passwords. It would also require all sites to majorly overhaul their authentication protocols. I'm guessing this is about as likely as happening as all websites accepting a fingerprint in raw form as a password.

Yeah, and if I wanted an out of date phone, I'd get it. :-) I use my phone to much for non-gaming to get a gaming phone. I want something that does well at both. I'd even pay for a separate controller for my phone, but it would have to be compatible without rooting.

My guess is that they are going after people who want to run emulators for old game systems. I'd pay good money for a hand held SNES emulator. I know there are Android apps to do it, but I can't imagine how you would handle the controls.

Very few companies I have been part of allow full access to VPN users. They typically follow a least privileged approach. In other words, you get exactly what you ask for and nothing else. If you need to RDP to Box A, you wont be able to RDP to Box B. You could ask to RDP to subnet 10.45.24.*, but you'll need to justify it. It's a bit of a PITA to setup the access, but the end result is a lot more secure.

Sorry, I forgot to mention he is a construction contractor.

My brother in law is a contractor. He was telling me how it's pretty often that he gets work from other contractors, and then he subcontracts the work out to people who some times work with him. It's no surprise that it costs people so much money to have work done when 3 people have to make a profit on it.