Or the ISP uses multiple routes and the first hop can change as much as someone with a dynamic IP.

Using LAN/WLAN SSID and Mac address is a sound idea. The MAC of the gateway is a pretty static identifier of a network.

There is no balance. Everyone gets the 700$, work or not.

Your two statements have no financial differnce so where does the extra money come from?

Person A is given â 700, a net total of +â 700

Person B has his â 700 given and then taken away, for a net total of â 0

The fact Person B also pays back his â 700 has no bearing on costs.

https://www.postbox-inc.com/

http://www.google.co.uk/nexus/

There is a "buy" button for direct Google sales.

No it wouldn't. It is one laptop not two.

Whilst I agree with you on principal, you comparison has a flaw.

Having books on a shelf in your own home, is like taking any laptop and making it dual boot yourself. Nothing stops you from doing that.

I believe the issue here is if you sold a book that was a bastard marriage of Tolkiens Lord of the Rings and Kings Dark Tower all in one.

I think you're losing sight of the bigger picture. Just because it isn't currency doesn't mean it can't be stolen.

ie. if I stole your car, because it's not currency, I can't go to jail?

How do you put up a parking page that listens on loopback?

I just recenetly tried out Telegram and it looks very promising. It needs video compression so sending videos doesn't upload 2GB of data. I love being able to pick up my messages on every device, that is awesome.

If it gets popular, I don't see how its going to stay free though, we'll see.

You just suck. In general.

Nothing you have said yes has any correlation to a short coming of OSS.

You also contradict yourself. "Open source-ness is simply not a quality factor" .. there we go! It has no meaning of quality whatsoever. It is a software engineering description that doesn't mean a thing. You have warped it into some sort of argument that does not exist.

Congrats, you entirely miss the point of this hobby project. Care to embarrass yourself further?

I fail to see what it is about being Open Source has to do with anything. I think you just want to piss on open source, which is fine, but in this context it means nothing.

This is a free port of a game originally made in 1999. It was built as a clone of that game. Do you expect just because time has passed that the game should be reimagined?

The devs do this in their free time as a hobby. Being open source or not has no bearing on the points you are trying to make. Just because the game is old doesn't mean a dev shouldn't be able to release an update.

As for accepting inferior products, go and check out Greenlight and how well some retro indie games are doing

You have a warped taste for what is adequate. Perhaps you should go play some more CoD:Ghosts.

What? "This is not a router" --- "it has a built-in router" .... So you mean, it can't possibly be a router if it has other functions? It *IS* a DSL Router, no doubt about it.

I'd not heard of the beta until now, so I slapped beta.slashdot.org in and navigated to this posting ..... its actually not too bad. It renders faster, has a cleaner minimalistic look.. much like the way the web is going these days for the "flat" feeling. I believe this is like when Facebook has an update, nobody likes a change.

Actually previous jailbreaks were done from simply visiting a web page.