Comment What was the message? (Score 1) 138
I've fallen, and can't get up!!
I've fallen, and can't get up!!
Hell! No!!!!
What are they thinking about?
If they remove that, then they should have a display with a list and version of all components of Firefox available.
How am I going to figure out what kind of version I have when I arrive at a system I haven't touched before?
This is incredible dumb!
What was the name of that game?
First they came for Taxes, then they will come for your Death! Muahahahahaha!
This offer of Free games sounds just like Turkish Delights in Narnia. Steam does not care about the games, it is all about extending the DRM'd platform. The more people use Steam (and Steam's DRM) the more Steam can tell developers that to reach a sizeable market they have to be part of Steam and use Steam's DRM.
It's all about the platform and its network effects. The larger the platform, the more relevant it becomes, the worse off we will be (as someone who decided NOT to purchase Civ V just because it uses Steam's DRM.
Ha, you want security and trust? Remember Ken Thompson's C Compiler Backdoor
Make sure you built your PC out of sillicon yourself! Otherwise, you have to rely on someone else's code:
ACM Classics: Reflections on trusting trust
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
On the other hand, imagine the parallelizing opportunities with thousands and thousands of such gates!
It used to be that Data was kept on PAPER. Huge reams of paper gave you the incentive to get rid of it every certain time else you would need to purchase expensive real state to save it. Nowadays that data exist on hard drives who get cheaper every month.
It will be very difficult to devise a law to encourage people to get rid of data effectively. .
Spartacus?
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.