Comment Re:Change (Score 1) 742
Exactly, there's plenty of 2012/2013 reasons to hate microsoft, and people hate them because of that.
Exactly, there's plenty of 2012/2013 reasons to hate microsoft, and people hate them because of that.
I belive this applies to windows only. I don't other OS's allow any program to scan the memory of other programs.
Also, even in windows, can't you just run steam as a different user than the cheat itself?
With the issues with patent trolls that dominate the US, it's a very dangerous territory for them to leap into, so I don't think it's one of their priorities.
Honestly, there should be a viable, easy-to-use alternative to Facebook which respects your privacy and doesn't have shady dealings with a government and isn't run by a functionally retarded man-child. But if there is one, well I don't know about it. And if I don't know about it, then 95% of people don't know about it.
I concurs, but sadly, most people don't, and that's why we don't have such an alternative.
Spending 19B on something in panicing? I wish I had the means to panic!
It's Jabber, but without the hassle of account creation. Username is automatically set up as your phone number, and password is your IMEI or something.
Jabber with the most important part stripped off: de-centralization. And no voice/video support either.
I read the web site, and I still don't understand what this web site is all about. Is it really just yet another messaging platform designed to get around SMS messaging charges? Am I missing something obvious?
1. There are tons and tons of ways to send messages to people last I checked. Why is this one worth "$16B"?
They pay for the userbase.
2. Who still pays for SMS messages? I've had unlimited texting plans for the better part of a decade, and they're cheaper than most people's cable TV bills. Are text messages significantly expensive outside of the US?
Yes, outside the US prices vary a lot. I pay, what you'd percieve as 20-50cents per message. I know other countries do have free SMS. Some plans here have free SMS, but they're the extremely expesive ones.
XMPP, as always, continues to cover everything. Open standard, lots of open source implementations, de-centralized, IM, voice, and video.
But people will still use whatever has the best marketing.
The hipocrisy on an ONG that want to impose closed protocols with closed source clients is incredible. And people just fall right into it!
We can vacuum ourselves, but don't want to. I can also grow my own vegetables, but I opt not to do so either.
I fail to see how it's an issue. You run a program that uploads data, and your issue is that it eats up your bandwidth? Seems like a non-issue to me!
This is because cultures were different.
Books required an investment to be physically printed, distributed and sold, which would tend to be out-of-reach for authors. But printing companies could do it and profit a lot from that. The problem with that scenario is that the author would make no profit, hence, nobody would write anything (not unless they were rich and had plenty of spare time, anyway). Hence, copyright made a lot of sense, and served a good purpose.
Nowadays, most of that does not stand true. A book can be digitally distributed, a physical version can be crowdfunded easily. Plus, people have the MEANS to send back additional money to the auther if they wish (try sending 1USD to an author on the other side of the ocean 150 years ago).
No need for a new computer, you can run OpenBSD fine on that already.
And, just to clarify, while this is legal, strictly speaking, it's not right, or a good business practice either.
Avoid custom domains for your login email address and don't let companies such as PayPal and GoDaddy store your credit card information.
What's a "custom domain"? Or rather, which domains aren't custom?
I think that "Avoid evil companies like paypal and godaddy" are the only real lesson here.
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