Pretty much any time a title document changes (which ends up being publicly searchable) numerous letters come out of the ether from official looking companies offering the same thing. It is actually a really common practice, albeit a shitty one. It preys upon the unknowing, the lazy, and the nervous ("Oh shit, this form letter looks important, I better answer back to it and send them their asked for money."). Repeat when there are construction permits gained, etc. A lot of this stuff is public searchable in major cities, and so companies make a living by trawling these sites' APIs and finding modifications, checking that it is residential (or not) and firing off legal looking junk-mail solicitations.

It is called a "Title". In standard English composition a title is all capitalized. Much like a novel or movie title. However this is an article title. Therefore it is capitalized. Notice the summary is not in all caps.

Old stuff will still exist. Amateurs will still have a want of sharing themselves. Professionally produced stuff may get harder to find, but there is still a niche for that in a paid market. Those things will leak out, but hopefully they will make enough that it will be offset as a cost of doing business. The free streaming sites will likely dry up and die though with the death of ubiquitous advertising. Something has to pay for both services and physical assets to run those sites.

Yeah, I hate 360 with a livid passion. I see it on all my relatives' computers and it drives me nuts. It runs like molasses in winter. It is incredibly noisy on the network when it shouldn't be. It pops ads all over the place and revs the CPU like crazy at times. Yeah, most of the banking software all require these specialty security certificates, unsigned drivers for weird USB fobs, only work in IE 8 or below, and often doesn't work at all on x64 versions of Windows. It is a nightmare to try and navigate (especially with my limited Chinese). I pity anybody who has to do tech support for folks who use that stuff.

Not only are they trademarking (and actively pursuing against) folks with "Candy" in their game name, but also anybody with "Saga" in their name. Such is the case where they are pursuing a block against the trademark filed for "The Banner Saga", which is a nordic influenced, turn-based strategy, RPG game. See reference articles at:
http://www.escapistmagazine.co...
http://www.rockpapershotgun.co...

Most copies of Microsoft _ANYTHING_ (and Adobe, and... well... almost every piece of software) is pirated inside China. Despite the government's assurances that things are getting better. I've been in China. I go to work centers and I see hundreds upon hundreds of machines that have disabled updates. Why? because if the updates were on, then their patches to get around authentication wouldn't work, and Windows would stop working, because it was a fake/stolen license. I've seen 5 legal copies of Windows in China, and 2 of them I bought and brought in myself. I've seen nigh over a thousand machines that all have illegal copies (aforementioned hundreds upon hundreds). Just let them stay on Windows XP and find ways to botnet them all to hell (oh wait, major Chinese companies HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT with their supposed security software).

You must have missed the memo where Google is turning off XMPP/Jingle access to Google Talk (Hangouts) March 2014, and thereby cutting off any third party clients, services, or devices from using it. Things like ObiHai devices for Google Voice on real phones,or TapaTone or GrooveIP for software phones, or Pidgin/Nimbuzz/Trillian/etc from using GoogleTalk to connect into Hangouts IM.

Too bad Google is turning off all the XMPP/Jingle access and closing off their WebRTC connections to third parties, thereby dropping Google Talk ("Hangouts") to no longer be able to be used by third party apps. I know seeing it in Gmail works for IM, but you can no longer (as of March 2014) use devices like ObiHai or software like Tapatone or GrooveIP to connect to GoogleTalk or GoogleVoice for IM/SMS or phone calls, let alone video calls.

Jabber (XMPP) is what Google Talk used to run on. Google is closing that hole due to the Jingle extensions on XMPP allowing for people to externally access Google Voice to make real world calls (POTS). While XMPP/Jabber works great as an IM client, the extensions for audio and video are a bit more iffy. Google has and is moving to WebRTC, but I haven't found any good/easy ways to integrate into that outside of the closed source clients that Google is providing. SIP and video extensions to SIP are great, but very few people (statistically) use them outside of businesses using virtual PBX.

They have figured out basic TOR handshakes, along with blocking all registered bridges. They run scan tests against any suspected port/ip combo thought to host a TOR bridge/inlet . If it accepts a TOR or VPN handshake, then they inject tons of RESET packets and then block routing to that IP/port (sometimes the IP in its entirety) for a few days. If you stop trying to get at it, it will eventually open back up, but you'll only get a day or two ( or less if unlucky) of getting back through on it. Yes, this means your private server, and yes if you rotate or use common ports and encapsulation, it still finds it. It is a remarkably efficient little bugger an ferreting these things out.

You must not remember being in a normal public school. Lockers are busted in most cases, and easily broken into in all cases (even with padlocks on them). They are (now-a-days) often routinely dumped by the staff as inspections with little care. Leaving a laptop at school in a locker is akin to asking for it to be stolen, broken, other otherwise savaged.

Well, if you haven't been paying attention to the tech demos, you can do a lot more than just arm gestures.

You could start off with it as a webcam, or potentially a depth-enhanced webcam (2.5D or 3D panel capable, not holographic, but enough so you can sense a scene). The hardware on it, especially when coupled with the computing power of a PC, can build wireframes of not only limbs and appendages, but also facial recognition. They have done tech demos where it can (with the older lower-res version at a few meters away) detect most of the facial features and map them talking onto a virtual staged xbox avatar, coupled with the speech and expression. This could provide for lower-bandwidth remote conferencing versus a group video-call. People have used basic extrusion modeling to use the depth sensors to rotate around objects to build 3D-models. Can you think of a game where you could properly map/model yourself into the game? Or maybe a Little-Big-Planet style thing where you could add your own custom objects into the maps? Surely not quite hardcore there as a controller, but certainly a valid use.

Also there is all of the fun to be had with this for things like robotics, or even remote RC-car type things. Have a huge Tonka truck, a small laptop or tablet with data connection, and one of these? 3D (well 2.5D) remote viewing RC car (a bit heavy for a plane). The hackery that could be done with this is simply astound, especially with the increased resolution of depth field and shorter possible depth sense accuracy.

Lastly there is also the standard possible uses for this that already come up: Voice controls (these things have multiple microphones for positioning and noise cancelling), and simple touch-esque gestures. Yeah, those don't work as well when you have a mouse and keyboard in front of you, but when using them on a HTPC, it could see using that versus a full remote.

I agree with many others it doesn't warrant a full extra US$100 on top of the current price of US$150, that smells of new-device lust gouging. However, the device itself is pretty nifty, and there are lots of use-case scenarios. Maybe just not so much for _HARDCORE_ gamers (unless you want face-mapped smack-talk when you pwn noobs).

Yeah, when I have the option to use Comcast as opposed to _EVEN WORSE_ options of MediaCom, then I'll maybe think about it. Right now, I wish I had Comcast's crappy levels of service and ridiculous capping schemes because they are nothing on the shit MediaCom pulls.

Except this doesn't apply to CDMA models of the SonyEricsson phones. Largely because big, bad VZW doesn't want to let them be unlocked. People have figured out a few ways around it using commercial tools, or even temporary exploits. However, just because we are Americans and use Verizon and CDMA technology, we are locked out from the same features that our GSM-toting brethren enjoy. It is _JUST_ as easy to unlock the bootloader (I've done it), but they specifically do not allow for it.

In a number of cases there have been some live-streams posted where people are streaming the events as they happen. A lot of the information was gathered from those initially and then supported by other on-site reportings (smart-phone video, camcorder, photography, testimony, etc). A large number of the live-streams have stopped due to lack of resources (power, bandwidth, etc), or due to the devices being confiscated or the holders of the devices being locked up. It also has become pretty apparent that if anybody even seems like they are leading, or are trying to record and report things, they often get targeted for arrest, even if peaceful. There have been actual reporters (from PBS, NPR, yes yes... liberal media what?) that have gotten dragged in and incarcerated. The brutality is generally single sided, but I would admit that the repeated slogans are likely grating on their nerves. Some of the officers have refused to participate. I've been following this and I'm actually surprised that I haven't heard so much as a 10 second blurb on CNN or even the WSJ.