As a person from a country not using English as the native language, I'd just like to add that I learned a lot of English from computer books documenting things I wanted to learn.

Do not underestimate the influence of interest on the ability to learn things. Learning things because I have to learn them is something completely different from "I want to learn this so I can do which I find really cool."

Because the certificate authorities have a really proven track record.

Also, it really helps against buffer overrun exploits which in now way is a common thing...

The usual bollocks, in other words.

Now we will no longer just add draconian on-line activation to the games, we will no longer give you the game itself.
Even with steam you get the game data, which could still be cracked and used if steam would go belly-up.

And there is of course the latency issues mentioned in other replies. Unless somebody breaks the laws of physics, latency will always be there. It takes roughly 40ms to cross the atlantic, making for a 80ms RTT. Routers add more as it goes, not much per each but it all adds up.

Presumably you spent time on making it work on the iPhone in the first place, why not be paid for that.

Also, if this was against the "spirit" of GPL, why are people not complaining about commercial distributions?

The writer has not done his research well enough.

There are two ways of selling game time in EVE.
One is to use the forum and the game time code transfer system available on the character screen, which is what the writer did.
The other is to convert the GTC into ingame items called PLEX (Pilot License EXtension) which is then traded on the market like
any other ingame item. This is not only the preferred way, it is also more profitable to the seller; netting around 720 million
ISK per GTC compared to about 600 million on the forums.

The other thing is that while you could certainly buy ISK from farming operations it comes with a risk. CCP has been known to ban
not only ISK sellers but also buyers in transactions not using the condoned methods.

The reason behind there not being any easy way to convert ingame currency into real money is that this would open a whole can of
legal worms for CCP. Tax departments, money laundring etc. etc. Not something a games company would want to deal with.

For many years I have been using separate components instead of a single does-it-all box. Right now it consists of:

• ADSL2+ modem

• ASUS eeeBox with USB network adapter running debian (fast enough, quiet, low power)

• Cisco wireless access point (replaced a WAP54G linksys)

• Netgear gigswitch

Never had any performance related issues, even on the 24Mbps I had back in Sweden. The homebrew debian firewall can be replaced with m0n0wall, pf sense or similar if you prefer web based administration.

So instead IDLE as a category allows you to read the item and then post pointless drivel as a reply, obviously not by mistake.