You know enough people that your anecdotal personal experience is a fair representative sample of all computer users? Try that again, but skip the logical fallacy next time.
...now the inane mumblings and poor grammar of the Twitter Age will be remembered throughout history. I was kinda hoping we'd eventually be able to forget all of this ever happened.
Obligatory inane comment about wasted taxpayer money.
As a taxpayer, I object to my tax dollars being used to fund luxury goods for convicts. Spend that money at the prison library. If they complain about being bored, tell them to go read a book.
The first person still has their account with the developer, who has to store all their settings, acheivements, scores, and what ever else the first person has saved.
If that game is resold five times, they are now storing five peoples info, indefinitely, with the revenue of one.
My point still stands.
If you really believe that the few kilobytes necessary to store that is costing them $10 per capita, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Selling to the government already requires companies to make their products conform to the FIPS 140 and Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation, and these are very sane standards for network security and handling of sensitive user information. I suspect that they're going to use these already existing NIST standards as a reference for their rules.
It'd help if you had more salient information to dispute the competence of government in this specific subject matter domains than the "government BAD" knee jerk reaction.
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You forgot the load resistor to keep the voltage drop over the LED from frying it.
Q3 financials are in, so the corps put on extra pressure in the last month to close out the fiscal year on a high note.
You know enough people that your anecdotal personal experience is a fair representative sample of all computer users? Try that again, but skip the logical fallacy next time.
Legal rights are the only ones with teeth unless you can drum up a torch-and-pitchfork-bearing mobs.
...now the inane mumblings and poor grammar of the Twitter Age will be remembered throughout history. I was kinda hoping we'd eventually be able to forget all of this ever happened.
Obligatory inane comment about wasted taxpayer money.
You just got trolled, sucka. That guy's whole account is sarcasm.
As a taxpayer, I object to my tax dollars being used to fund luxury goods for convicts. Spend that money at the prison library. If they complain about being bored, tell them to go read a book.
The first person still has their account with the developer, who has to store all their settings, acheivements, scores, and what ever else the first person has saved.
If that game is resold five times, they are now storing five peoples info, indefinitely, with the revenue of one.
My point still stands.
If you really believe that the few kilobytes necessary to store that is costing them $10 per capita, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
B&N has been on my no-buy list for a very long time after my experience with the university textbook market.
Selling to the government already requires companies to make their products conform to the FIPS 140 and Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation, and these are very sane standards for network security and handling of sensitive user information. I suspect that they're going to use these already existing NIST standards as a reference for their rules. It'd help if you had more salient information to dispute the competence of government in this specific subject matter domains than the "government BAD" knee jerk reaction.