BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! One of the biggest corporate security breaches of all time and you fucking Sony losers are calling it "hater shit," how fucking stupid and out of touch with reality can you be? Enough to buy a PS3 I suppose.
Fucking butthurt little loser. Getting tired of having your favourite waste of money dragged through the mud are you? Maybe you can ask one of the people who now have your credit card number to buy you a console that's actually -worth- a few hundred bucks you fucking knob. Go back to masturbating in front of your piece of shit Bravia and pretending like you made the right decision, your parents probably do the same thing when they think about you.
TL;DR: XBox.
This is funny because it's true. And it's also funny because XBots and Sornies are in a vicious battle for 2nd place. A distant 2nd place.
They have to offer identity theft protection services to the victims
Because the first thing a sane user will do after this fiasco is click a link in an unsolicited email from Sony, then provide some random, totally secure, well-intentioned 3rd party with their name, address, birth date, credit card, and SSN to sign up for an identity protection service which totally won't auto renew at the end of the free period, honest.
Tomorrow I'm FedExing Sony a turd I squeezed out of my bowels.
I hate to defend Sony here (it'll probably cost me some karma), but it seems like they're in a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" scenario. A week and a half ago, they disclosed the nature of the personal information breach and everyone seemed to be clamoring about how long it took them to say something. In this case, they release more information during their press conference a few days later, then they discovered that it was a bit worse than they had thought and now everyone is pointing the finger at them because they released information that was incorrect. In a perfect world, we would all be able to release completely accurate information right after the event, but everyone here knows the difficulty in that.
No, Sony's in the typical "damned because they didn't" scenario.
Damned because they didn't respect consumer rights. Damned because they didn't test their system's security. Damned because they didn't realize that taunting hackers was a bad idea. Damned because they built a shitty network and stored unencrypted credit card data (if at this point you still believe their bullshit about it being encrypted, you're the dippest of shits). Several friends have been hit with fraudulent charges in the last few weeks, and I myself have pending charges stuck in limbo on my card. I can't even fucking dispute the charge because it hasn't posted yet. Damned because didn't figure out what happened before they started trying to fix it. Damned because they didn't try to find out who did it, and just blamed "Anonymous" because they need to lash out at something.
You're an idiot, Starscream. When we slip by their early warning systems in their own shuttle and destroy Autobot City, the Autobots will be vanquished forever.
You're an idiot if you think the "entropy" (the bits being 0/1) represents anywhere near the magnitude of the work done to flip those bits. Even if you DO think that, or there is some system where it's true, you can't use high bits as a heatsink (worksink) because the entire storage of the system (every single bit you care to count) only counts when being flipped. You can set all bits to 1 in a few clock cycles, and then everything else is 100% heat.
A high voltage (a bit that's on) is potential. There is no work done in keeping a bit on, just as there is no work done holding something above your head. It's the lifting that does the work. In this lifting, the "entropy" as you like to refer to it (the word is "potential", you fuckwit, please get a dictionary and learn basic physics) comes from the work, meaning the rest of the work is heat. You have reduced the amount of work that contributes to heat. But if these voltages drop down, guess what, they work against you.
We store energy in molten salt. This works because it takes forever to heat up the salt and it has a large heat capacity. By the time the heat capacity is full, the sun has gone down. Flipping bits doesn't work this way because flipping bits is easy (bits have nearly 0 heat capacity) and because the entire system is only useful when it's powered (and heat is being pumped into it).
The suicide rate at Foxconn is lower than in China in general. In fact, it is lower than in Italy, which has the lowest rate in Europe. As we all know, Europe is best at everything.
These Foxconn stories are pure propaganda. I go out of my way to buy electronics made there.
No isn't, you fucking idiot. The rate among Foxconn employees is over triple the rate among the populace as a whole. The only way your statement can be construed as true is if you look at the hokum floated by Foxconn/Apple every few months and don't realize that they're only counting suicides AT WORK as Foxconn suicides, so an employee who kills himself on the street or at home (even when it's his Foxxcon Employee Housing Compartment), it's counted as a non Foxconn suicide.
Dentists are one of the worst groups for suicide rates. Most of them don't off themselves in the office. But we still recognize and pay attention to the correlation because guess what, correlation usually fucking does imply causation.
I don't see what's wrong with the 12 hours, 6 days. During peak auto season most UAW workers work those kind of hours... sometimes even 7 days.
You forgot to put "work" in quotation marks. UAW workers are the laziest group of people on the planet, and they're like that because they know they won't get fired. To the contrary, if they're behind schedule, everyone who wants it gets overtime. They get overtime and double overtime to do the work they should have done during their scheduled shift.
The UAW is the anchor around the American automotive industry's neck.
What use case would adding a BD-ROM or BD-R drive solve that isn't already solved by Netflix streaming, iTunes streaming, or external hard drives?
Accessing Blu-Ray disks.
Please allow me to rephrase: What use case would Blu-ray discs solve that isn't already solved by Netflix streaming, iTunes streaming, or external hard drives?
Watching a movie with decent quality?
I know this is slashdot and everyone here pirates everything and then denies it / says information wants to be free, but there's simply no comparing the joke that is Netflix Instant to a quality Blu Ray release.
If you give ANY sort of shit about the quality of what you're watching, you'll go Blu Ray. If you give ANY sort of shit about distribution costs, you'll distribute via BluRay. If you give ANY sort of shit about profits, you'll charge Netflix an arm and a leg for licensing, reducing it to nothing more than PPV cable.
Hint: All of this is happening. People are buying Blu Rays. Yes, it's a gradual uptake. Perhaps you missed out on the economy the past couple of years.
Companies are making and selling Blu Rays. Yes, there are many titles that aren't on Blu Ray yet. The license owners release only what is expected to be profitable. It can take time to see an old movie get released on Blu Ray if it ever does come. See VHS to DVD. All major new releases come out on BluRay and DVD. Again, See VHS to DVD.
License holders are charging Netflix endless amounts of cash to stream their shit, whereas a few years ago, Starz sold them everything they had for nothing more than a blowjob. Netflix is continually increasing membership fees, and continually dumbing down the disc portion of their service to compensate (shutting down distribution centers, more throttling, more and more expensive for disc plans, 30-day holdoff on new releases, etc.).
teach users proper data hygiene Totally impossible. They don't care and you can't make them care.
Totally easy: 1: Here's not how to be an idiot. 2: If you're an idiot, you're fired without severance or health benefits.
Can you tell me how I can fire my boss? There's basically nobody above him in the organization, so I'm just wondering how you'd apply your totally easy method in this case?
There are also the cases where an employee is main rain-maker for the company, but hasn't a clue how to keep from getting malware on their computer. A law firm is not going to fire an attorney who brings in $30 million a year just because they keep getting malware on their pc, for example.
Firing your boss is as easy as turning in a resignation letter. A law firm absolutely will can a "rain maker" if he leaks out data which gets them sued for more than he's worth. And remember, he's only worth as much as the DIFFERENCE between what he brings in and what the hot-to-trot, young and daring, junior associate WOULD bring in if in the same position with the same clients. Basically, everyone is replaceable. Only one company on the fucking planet has a messiah that's irreplaceable, and they totally don't get viruses or have any security problems, so it's not even an issue.
If you sign a contract agreeing to those terms, it's legal. That includes collective bargaining agreements unions sign with employers. Regardless of what the state says. Perhaps you had your head in the sand and didn't hear about a certain recent Supreme Court ruling.
As long as the contract itself doesn't violate any federal laws, it's valid. States can no longer dictate what is legal/not legal with regards to terms of contracts.
And COBRA? Did you just mention COBRA? LOL DUDE
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, divorce, and other life events. Qualified individuals may be required to pay the entire premium for coverage up to 102 percent of the cost to the plan.
And yes, that's the total cost of the plan - the amount taken out of your paycheck PLUS the amount your employer pays.
This part of the discussion has little to do specifically with the summary but more to do with is Linux a viable platform, specifically whether or not you can print something on a Linux box.
You can set Postfix to pass incoming mail through something like Amavis before its sorted that will do spam/AV checks allowing Postfix to reject/bounce it.
Bouncing spam/infected shit helps nothing. Just silently drop it and nullroute the source IP if it's not a known major mail server.
It's the only way to handle spam. When someone complains that granny didn't get those photos of the kids, tell them to fucking clean out the shit on their PC and deal with it.
Except Google doesn't sell the information to advertisers, advertisers buy ads targeted towards people in a given area and Google serves ads to people in that area.
And Google's customers get extremely detailed reports on how many ads are served, when, what ads are served up to whom, etc., thus giving them that information even if the service they paid fopr was simply "ad placement".
Yeah right. Google, a huge advertising company, will sell the data to a third party so that that third party can then sell you targeted ads. That makes sense.
Is this a joke? If Google sells the data to anyone, including subsidiary companies that they fully own (doubleclick), they legally have to sell it to third parties at a comparable price.
That guide refers to using 1 (total) monitor on the SLI cards, and additional monitors on ADDITIONAL cards that aren't part of the SLI set. You're wrong. You got called out. Deal with it.
Personally, I thoroughly enjoy the "Quest for Mastery" and it's what puts "sport" games so far above others to me. Furthermore, I think the game is actually really fun to play. Compare this to boring games like World of Warcraft where the game is pure monotony and the only thing you're improving is your character's gear.
SCII is pure monotony. Nearly every match is decided in the first 2 minutes, and the deciding factor is nothing more than "who clicked faster" or "who won the rock paper scissors match"?
Every patch since release has sought to tighten players down into fewer and fewer possible build orders at the beginning of the game. A few months ago they made it so Terrans HAD to have a Supply Depot up in order to build a Barracks. Prior to that, you could build both simultaneously, or, if you're an idiot, build a Barracks before a Supply Depot. This was an extreme nerf to Terrans (some of which may have been needed), but more troublesome than any balance concerns is the fact that for the first 90 seconds of every match, every Terran player will be doing the exact same thing.
This is compounded by the fact that the game is balanced only for 1v1 matches. 2v2 matches are a rush fest. You HAVE to defend one spot together. If you guess wrong, you're dead. If you split up, their combined force will overwhelm you and you're dead. If you case right, you'll win the battle (having the benefit of base defenses, repairs, walls, cliffs, production during their travel time and during the battle), and the immediately push to win the match. Given a 2/3 chance to lose, the only viable option is to mass and attack early. This is even more of a joke in 3v3 or 4v4 maps, because the time it takes for any support from teammates to arrive is much longer since the map is larger, and the initial battle isn't 2v1, it's 3v1 or 4v1.
Another shitty thing about SCII is the fact that, even while they go to great lengths to make the maps symmetrical and boring, the fact that all buildings are all oriented the same way ruins map balance. If you spawn at the wrong corner of a map, it'll take you an extra structure to wall off your ramp as Terran, while your opponent can simply use his barracks + tech lab to do it. You may be able to fit a 3x2 building on top of your cliff, but he may not be able to, since that cliff is rotated 90 degrees for him.
Beyond that, there is a mile long list of things Blizzard simply ignored with regards to RTS development since SC came out (and from before!). Chief among them being formations, scatter, guard, move speed lock, patrols (SCII can't have looping patrol paths unless you make the path clockwise, then trace it back counter clockwise, good luck if you need a lot of waypoints - there's a cap), a decent interface to find games, LAN play, custom start conditions for all maps, and oh yeah, fun. The original Command & Conquer had nearly all of these fucking things (except formations and move speed lock, which were added in later games in the series).
Blizzard developed SCII in a vacuum, and developed it in a way that would result in cash moneys. The balance and game design are geared to "esports" asshats, and the interface and "social" pieces of BNet 2.0 are all designed to have everything monetizable. This is what they learned from selling shiny shit, name changes, character transfers, etc. in WoW. People are morans and will pay, pay, pay for anything you put in front of them if it's an established IP.
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! One of the biggest corporate security breaches of all time and you fucking Sony losers are calling it "hater shit," how fucking stupid and out of touch with reality can you be? Enough to buy a PS3 I suppose.
Fucking butthurt little loser. Getting tired of having your favourite waste of money dragged through the mud are you? Maybe you can ask one of the people who now have your credit card number to buy you a console that's actually -worth- a few hundred bucks you fucking knob. Go back to masturbating in front of your piece of shit Bravia and pretending like you made the right decision, your parents probably do the same thing when they think about you.
TL;DR: XBox.
This is funny because it's true.
And it's also funny because XBots and Sornies are in a vicious battle for 2nd place. A distant 2nd place.
They have to offer identity theft protection services to the victims
Because the first thing a sane user will do after this fiasco is click a link in an unsolicited email from Sony, then provide some random, totally secure, well-intentioned 3rd party with their name, address, birth date, credit card, and SSN to sign up for an identity protection service which totally won't auto renew at the end of the free period, honest.
Tomorrow I'm FedExing Sony a turd I squeezed out of my bowels.
I hate to defend Sony here (it'll probably cost me some karma), but it seems like they're in a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" scenario. A week and a half ago, they disclosed the nature of the personal information breach and everyone seemed to be clamoring about how long it took them to say something. In this case, they release more information during their press conference a few days later, then they discovered that it was a bit worse than they had thought and now everyone is pointing the finger at them because they released information that was incorrect. In a perfect world, we would all be able to release completely accurate information right after the event, but everyone here knows the difficulty in that.
No, Sony's in the typical "damned because they didn't" scenario.
Damned because they didn't respect consumer rights.
Damned because they didn't test their system's security.
Damned because they didn't realize that taunting hackers was a bad idea.
Damned because they built a shitty network and stored unencrypted credit card data (if at this point you still believe their bullshit about it being encrypted, you're the dippest of shits). Several friends have been hit with fraudulent charges in the last few weeks, and I myself have pending charges stuck in limbo on my card. I can't even fucking dispute the charge because it hasn't posted yet.
Damned because didn't figure out what happened before they started trying to fix it.
Damned because they didn't try to find out who did it, and just blamed "Anonymous" because they need to lash out at something.
POKE781,96:SYS58251 makes my screen do funky things.
Never caught that one.
Is it like MISSINGNo. ?
It would be the first Beowulf cluster to fit into a shoe box.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those shoe boxes.
You're an idiot, Starscream. When we slip by their early warning systems in their own shuttle and destroy Autobot City, the Autobots will be vanquished forever.
You're an idiot if you think the "entropy" (the bits being 0/1) represents anywhere near the magnitude of the work done to flip those bits. Even if you DO think that, or there is some system where it's true, you can't use high bits as a heatsink (worksink) because the entire storage of the system (every single bit you care to count) only counts when being flipped. You can set all bits to 1 in a few clock cycles, and then everything else is 100% heat.
A high voltage (a bit that's on) is potential. There is no work done in keeping a bit on, just as there is no work done holding something above your head. It's the lifting that does the work. In this lifting, the "entropy" as you like to refer to it (the word is "potential", you fuckwit, please get a dictionary and learn basic physics) comes from the work, meaning the rest of the work is heat. You have reduced the amount of work that contributes to heat. But if these voltages drop down, guess what, they work against you.
We store energy in molten salt. This works because it takes forever to heat up the salt and it has a large heat capacity. By the time the heat capacity is full, the sun has gone down.
Flipping bits doesn't work this way because flipping bits is easy (bits have nearly 0 heat capacity) and because the entire system is only useful when it's powered (and heat is being pumped into it).
The suicide rate at Foxconn is lower than in China in general. In fact, it is lower than in Italy, which has the lowest rate in Europe. As we all know, Europe is best at everything.
These Foxconn stories are pure propaganda. I go out of my way to buy electronics made there.
No isn't, you fucking idiot. The rate among Foxconn employees is over triple the rate among the populace as a whole. The only way your statement can be construed as true is if you look at the hokum floated by Foxconn/Apple every few months and don't realize that they're only counting suicides AT WORK as Foxconn suicides, so an employee who kills himself on the street or at home (even when it's his Foxxcon Employee Housing Compartment), it's counted as a non Foxconn suicide.
Dentists are one of the worst groups for suicide rates. Most of them don't off themselves in the office. But we still recognize and pay attention to the correlation because guess what, correlation usually fucking does imply causation.
I don't see what's wrong with the 12 hours, 6 days. During peak auto season most UAW workers work those kind of hours... sometimes even 7 days.
You forgot to put "work" in quotation marks.
UAW workers are the laziest group of people on the planet, and they're like that because they know they won't get fired. To the contrary, if they're behind schedule, everyone who wants it gets overtime. They get overtime and double overtime to do the work they should have done during their scheduled shift.
The UAW is the anchor around the American automotive industry's neck.
What use case would adding a BD-ROM or BD-R drive solve that isn't already solved by Netflix streaming, iTunes streaming, or external hard drives?
Accessing Blu-Ray disks.
Please allow me to rephrase: What use case would Blu-ray discs solve that isn't already solved by Netflix streaming, iTunes streaming, or external hard drives?
Watching a movie with decent quality?
I know this is slashdot and everyone here pirates everything and then denies it / says information wants to be free, but there's simply no comparing the joke that is Netflix Instant to a quality Blu Ray release.
If you give ANY sort of shit about the quality of what you're watching, you'll go Blu Ray.
If you give ANY sort of shit about distribution costs, you'll distribute via BluRay.
If you give ANY sort of shit about profits, you'll charge Netflix an arm and a leg for licensing, reducing it to nothing more than PPV cable.
Hint: All of this is happening.
People are buying Blu Rays. Yes, it's a gradual uptake. Perhaps you missed out on the economy the past couple of years.
Companies are making and selling Blu Rays. Yes, there are many titles that aren't on Blu Ray yet. The license owners release only what is expected to be profitable. It can take time to see an old movie get released on Blu Ray if it ever does come. See VHS to DVD. All major new releases come out on BluRay and DVD. Again, See VHS to DVD.
License holders are charging Netflix endless amounts of cash to stream their shit, whereas a few years ago, Starz sold them everything they had for nothing more than a blowjob. Netflix is continually increasing membership fees, and continually dumbing down the disc portion of their service to compensate (shutting down distribution centers, more throttling, more and more expensive for disc plans, 30-day holdoff on new releases, etc.).
Proven wrong about 20 seconds after it was first posted.
Actually, you're wrong.
teach users proper data hygiene
Totally impossible. They don't care and you can't make them care.
Totally easy:
1: Here's not how to be an idiot.
2: If you're an idiot, you're fired without severance or health benefits.
Can you tell me how I can fire my boss? There's basically nobody above him in the organization, so I'm just wondering how you'd apply your totally easy method in this case?
There are also the cases where an employee is main rain-maker for the company, but hasn't a clue how to keep from getting malware on their computer. A law firm is not going to fire an attorney who brings in $30 million a year just because they keep getting malware on their pc, for example.
Firing your boss is as easy as turning in a resignation letter.
A law firm absolutely will can a "rain maker" if he leaks out data which gets them sued for more than he's worth. And remember, he's only worth as much as the DIFFERENCE between what he brings in and what the hot-to-trot, young and daring, junior associate WOULD bring in if in the same position with the same clients. Basically, everyone is replaceable. Only one company on the fucking planet has a messiah that's irreplaceable, and they totally don't get viruses or have any security problems, so it's not even an issue.
If you sign a contract agreeing to those terms, it's legal. That includes collective bargaining agreements unions sign with employers.
Regardless of what the state says.
Perhaps you had your head in the sand and didn't hear about a certain recent Supreme Court ruling.
As long as the contract itself doesn't violate any federal laws, it's valid. States can no longer dictate what is legal/not legal with regards to terms of contracts.
And COBRA? Did you just mention COBRA?
LOL DUDE
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, divorce, and other life events. Qualified individuals may be required to pay the entire premium for coverage up to 102 percent of the cost to the plan.
And yes, that's the total cost of the plan - the amount taken out of your paycheck PLUS the amount your employer pays.
The summary?
This part of the discussion has little to do specifically with the summary but more to do with is Linux a viable platform, specifically whether or not you can print something on a Linux box.
I think you just modded yourself offtopic.
You can set Postfix to pass incoming mail through something like Amavis before its sorted that will do spam/AV checks allowing Postfix to reject/bounce it.
Bouncing spam/infected shit helps nothing.
Just silently drop it and nullroute the source IP if it's not a known major mail server.
It's the only way to handle spam.
When someone complains that granny didn't get those photos of the kids, tell them to fucking clean out the shit on their PC and deal with it.
teach users proper data hygiene
Totally impossible. They don't care and you can't make them care.
Totally easy:
1: Here's not how to be an idiot.
2: If you're an idiot, you're fired without severance or health benefits.
Except Google doesn't sell the information to advertisers, advertisers buy ads targeted towards people in a given area and Google serves ads to people in that area.
And Google's customers get extremely detailed reports on how many ads are served, when, what ads are served up to whom, etc., thus giving them that information even if the service they paid fopr was simply "ad placement".
Yeah right. Google, a huge advertising company, will sell the data to a third party so that that third party can then sell you targeted ads. That makes sense.
Is this a joke?
If Google sells the data to anyone, including subsidiary companies that they fully own (doubleclick), they legally have to sell it to third parties at a comparable price.
That guide refers to using 1 (total) monitor on the SLI cards, and additional monitors on ADDITIONAL cards that aren't part of the SLI set.
You're wrong.
You got called out.
Deal with it.
The only way that is working for you is if SLI is disabled while at your desktop.
With the right (software) development tools, the PPC architecture bests anything that Intel has in its belt.
Wow, it's like stumbling upon an island where some soldier is still defending some rock, unaware that the war is long over (and he lost).
You might want to sit down for this one:
Apple switched to Intel chips.
There's no need to continue to pretend PPC was better.
really? every cellphone conversation I hear starts with "How are you?" then maybe:"awesome, what are you doing later/tomorrow night/this weekend?"
Really? Every phone conversation I have starts with "hello".
Quoting an entire post is unnecessary and stupid. You have been warned.
Nobody cares about AC posts.
No exceptions.
Except for exception you didn't expect.
Yes, I'm referring to... ...the Spanish Inquisition!
Personally, I thoroughly enjoy the "Quest for Mastery" and it's what puts "sport" games so far above others to me. Furthermore, I think the game is actually really fun to play. Compare this to boring games like World of Warcraft where the game is pure monotony and the only thing you're improving is your character's gear.
SCII is pure monotony.
Nearly every match is decided in the first 2 minutes, and the deciding factor is nothing more than "who clicked faster" or "who won the rock paper scissors match"?
Every patch since release has sought to tighten players down into fewer and fewer possible build orders at the beginning of the game.
A few months ago they made it so Terrans HAD to have a Supply Depot up in order to build a Barracks. Prior to that, you could build both simultaneously, or, if you're an idiot, build a Barracks before a Supply Depot. This was an extreme nerf to Terrans (some of which may have been needed), but more troublesome than any balance concerns is the fact that for the first 90 seconds of every match, every Terran player will be doing the exact same thing.
This is compounded by the fact that the game is balanced only for 1v1 matches. 2v2 matches are a rush fest. You HAVE to defend one spot together. If you guess wrong, you're dead. If you split up, their combined force will overwhelm you and you're dead. If you case right, you'll win the battle (having the benefit of base defenses, repairs, walls, cliffs, production during their travel time and during the battle), and the immediately push to win the match. Given a 2/3 chance to lose, the only viable option is to mass and attack early. This is even more of a joke in 3v3 or 4v4 maps, because the time it takes for any support from teammates to arrive is much longer since the map is larger, and the initial battle isn't 2v1, it's 3v1 or 4v1.
Another shitty thing about SCII is the fact that, even while they go to great lengths to make the maps symmetrical and boring, the fact that all buildings are all oriented the same way ruins map balance. If you spawn at the wrong corner of a map, it'll take you an extra structure to wall off your ramp as Terran, while your opponent can simply use his barracks + tech lab to do it. You may be able to fit a 3x2 building on top of your cliff, but he may not be able to, since that cliff is rotated 90 degrees for him.
Beyond that, there is a mile long list of things Blizzard simply ignored with regards to RTS development since SC came out (and from before!).
Chief among them being formations, scatter, guard, move speed lock, patrols (SCII can't have looping patrol paths unless you make the path clockwise, then trace it back counter clockwise, good luck if you need a lot of waypoints - there's a cap), a decent interface to find games, LAN play, custom start conditions for all maps, and oh yeah, fun. The original Command & Conquer had nearly all of these fucking things (except formations and move speed lock, which were added in later games in the series).
Blizzard developed SCII in a vacuum, and developed it in a way that would result in cash moneys. The balance and game design are geared to "esports" asshats, and the interface and "social" pieces of BNet 2.0 are all designed to have everything monetizable. This is what they learned from selling shiny shit, name changes, character transfers, etc. in WoW. People are morans and will pay, pay, pay for anything you put in front of them if it's an established IP.
Yes it will work, because right now your phone is currently in your pocket, fully powered up and decrypted.