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  1. drm was always there from the start on German Court Forbids Resale of Valve Games · · Score: 1

    Steam is the biggest DRM platform that exist on the Internet. It's almost impossible to play games without being connected even with the offline mode available.

  2. Thanks God its only in germany on German Court Forbids Resale of Valve Games · · Score: 1

    also... what about transfer or gift ? I do have some games that I could give on my list to my friends...but i can't. Re-sell i could understand and I would like to resell my games but transfer or gift on my current list should be allowed and available

  3. beta feedback on Foxconn Building Factories In Indonesia · · Score: 1

    like it or not, beta is here to stay...I'm pretty sure of that. Best you could do is adapt to change like a good /.'er.

  4. a possible solution on Reason To Hope Carriers Won't Win the War On Netflix · · Score: 1

    make sure your service is delivered through encrypted data packets. It's hard to analyse and nearly impossible to do so on the ISP's side. Lot's of vpn are growing and all vpn uses encrypted data and the more we advance in time and age then more encrypted data the Internet uses. So ISP's will have a hard time and they actually do have a hard time with encrypted data.

    I know that Bell Canada ISP throttles their service after 2h30 pm with p2p protocol but if you encrypt it using a normal port like 21 for example or even 80 if you want to go extreme with hiding yourself then you could do it and you won't be throttled. Thankfully, I have a Universe which is a reseller of ISP under Bell's flag so I'm not throttled since the company I'm with have a contract that states they can't throttle it.

  5. In Québec / canada on Judge Says You Can Warn Others About Speed Traps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It happened too right here and the judge said something different but it was accepted. The guy receives a ticket for speeding. So he accepts it and goes away. While going away he flashes his headlights to say theres a cop and that same cop see's him flashing his headlights. He receives a ticket. In front of the judge the person tells him that a police officer is there for the security of the people (which is part of their main job by the way )and not give tickets for cash. So for helping a fellow officer, he was helping an officer doing so. The judge accepted in favor of the citizen because of what the person said made a lot of sense. Helping an officer is not illegal and by doing so his ticket was invalid.

  6. I'll wear it only IF on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    my salary goes up cause I KNOW I work more than my boss and/or my other colleges at work. But since it gathers data and gives it to the boss, I hardly doubt it will be used this way.

  7. Re:plastics the new paper on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 1

    they wont survive the heat as the heat from a drying machine or anyone very high in temperature will stick notes together and make the note unusable... I don't know how that passed the test though...very odd

  8. Re:Debug, document, add tests, refactor on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Do If You're Given a Broken Project? · · Score: 1

    that makes sense if your playing with someone elses code. Study it and document everything you see and and you change.

  9. Do it and create a full report on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Do If You're Given a Broken Project? · · Score: 1

    Each fix I would apply I would document and put as much information as possible. I would also document each bug encountered and give good arguements to why I need to fix it. In other word a thorough explanation so no one would need my input directly since all the info is in the report. That report would exist so the original programmer won't be able to backstab you in the back or create problems. Contractor or not that does not explain the skills of a person. It there was slacking done by the developers, his employee needs to know...If I payed a lot of money, i would expect to know that kind of thing from a contractor or anyone I pay to get the job done.

  10. public document on UK Government May Switch from MS Office to Open Source · · Score: 1

    But it will also make it easier for the public to use and share government information.

    Whats stoping them to use PDF ? Public document has to be revised or someone has to look at it before being released. All that person needs to do is convert it to PDF which is super easy

    For sharing them within the same environment and save money, yup OpenOffice or LibreOffice might be the solution but its certainly not free as you have to spend cash for the software lessons to employees and to make sure you hire dev's to have all features you got in Microsoft suite into OpenOffice or LibreOffice. But at the end in the longterm it is possible and you do save cash.

  11. keeping them busy on New Zealand Schools Find Less Structure Improves Children's Behavior · · Score: 1

    I have a child which has a mental handicap (he needs more time to learn what a child does in 1 day, he does it in 2 or couple more days). On top of that he had a hearing problem and he's hyperactive at the same time. Yup i got the whole package.

    I go with pure logic here. I try to keep him busy all the time. Supervised or not that's not important but it does have a certain priority of course depending on how you know your child (could be 12 kids in a room instead of your own). If I don't keep him busy or let him go free, he will do what he wants and that means he could go in his room and empty all his closets and...well piss me off in other words. Same goes in a class or in school. It's not rocket science. just keep them busy with activities or toys and you wont see them in trouble.... its simple trust me.

  12. Re:Now is your chance to try Linux... on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    If you look at this page its suppose too but I guess it depends on which version you got : http://appdb.winehq.org/object...

  13. Re:Now is your chance to try Linux... on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Use Wine for Windows compatible software. The latest version makes almost everything works and most distro have a forum with super geeks that will help you. Also, steam has a Linux version so when a gaming platform has linux support its a good idea to use their games and software as they might have a Linux solution.

  14. Re:Few people really need a new PC on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    beside being faster to work with from bootup to working with apps everyday I find Windows 8 annoying sometimes. Like the way the apps work as it forces me to use the metro interface while I just want to work in desktop mode. So what i did was install all the apps I can so I wont swith to metro interface. I even used a shutdown and a reboot button on my desktop so I wont use the metro interface at all.

  15. Re:too bad it's HP on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    The headline doesn't talk about windows 7 is coming back cause the hardware fails. Its about user perception. Not the same thing. Most of the people I know, the articles and the news that I keep hearing about windows 8 and its lack of love is the fact that its too different (no start button, 2 interface to work on, lack of quit button, its not the classic interface). True that HP had a high rating of failure but its not the reason why they brought back Windows 7

  16. Re:Serves Microsoft Right on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    For office users, business rather choose Windows product cause it's a terrain they already know. To change to something else and change your complete infrastructure is soo costy that your not going to go ahead with the change. It's true that if you go with Linux, at a minimum would be a big saver to remove the windows licence and another big saver would be to remove the price for each outlook exchange box which is around 70$ last time I checked but you would have to either train your people for linux product. Then train your IT personal for linux or change them completely. Then you have to change the infrastructure so its not an easy task and that is not free. That's the main reason business rather stay on Windows since they already started.

    the same principle goes for mac. So thats telling people are idiot is not a reason because of what I just said.

  17. Re:transition on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    your point makes no sense to what I said in my post. i'm talking about the lack of backward compatibility and forcing users to upgrade while it could be easily avoided and your arguing with the number of PC : gamers vs office...seriously ?

  18. but how can you shun Windows 8 while its the only windows OS available in stores pre-installed ? MS do force customers to use Windows 8 when they buy a pc since they come pre-installed with Win8. Unless they take some refurbished pc or laptop with Win7

  19. alternatives on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 5, Informative

    Although join.me is by logmein this one seems to be free so try to use join.me instead of a connection pc 2 pc is what your looking for. works great for troubleshooting a complete noob that messed is pc up and calls you at midnight to fix his pc.

    Theres also teamviewer that works in a similar way like join.me and logmein. You can remotely log in a pc and work on it. Skype also has a share screen function so you might look at that as well

  20. transition on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    By not making a smooth transition, you open yourself to new problems and probably a wall of hesitation and strong defence. For example, making the new version of DirectX only available to new versions of Windows 8 and same thing with Windows 7 when xp was available was just plain wrong especially for developpers and gamers alike.

    Let's face it, a big portion of pc users are gamers which are very important for the pc industry. I rather have a smooth transition than forcing me to use Windows 8 at a certain point. While its true that I don't see a neccessity to get Windows 8 for now its starting to show that certain apps and games are Windows 8 only or so imcompatible that Windows 8 might be the solution

  21. eating cops I mean pigs on Chinese Firm Can Now Produce 500 Cloned Pigs Per Year · · Score: 1

    Any studies with the effect of eating meat from a genetically-engineered pig ? I know it's for research but cloning pigs for eating could be a temporary solution for over population as everyone knows that the bigger the city the bigger the need for meat. Or you can think of people who need food. this cloning tech could be a solution. Not the best one but better than nothing

  22. Re:do be a do bee on Experiment Shows Caffeine Boosts Long Term Memory · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that Honey Whisky. A bee's going through a wood beam like it was nothing would pretty make me run in fear

  23. Thats good for PC Gamers on China Lifts 13-Year-Old Foreign Console Ban · · Score: 1

    1 thing I know is that if you put 280 million people on a software chances are you will get it hacked eventually. Increase that number to billions and your chances increase with numbers I like. Maybe if big companies like Sega, Sony, Microsoft and all others think their creations arent hackable (I'm serious...I think they think people don't hack console games) like they think they are, with this number of people using consoles, I hope in a good evil way, it gets hacked so easily they will have to put more emphasis on computer games and stop making idiot low quality ports like we have most of the time right now.

  24. Re:Network efficiencies led to the financial crisi on The Internet's Network Efficiencies Are Destroying the Middle Class · · Score: 2

    It did, it sucks electricity out of those power plants. In turn, those power plants when they use more electricity creates heat because of those datacenters. by creating heat the temperature of a that region shift and changes too fast which in turn changes the humidity level, the wind and lastly creating the Hurricane /sarcarms

  25. Re:Rand warning on The Internet's Network Efficiencies Are Destroying the Middle Class · · Score: 1

    In the UK...visit the province of Québec in Canada. 14,975% tax with what you virtually buy anything that has solid matter in the province and for the income tax which I don't have the numbers directly because its progressive income tax., its around 30% and more if you have a higher salary...you pay more. When I started I payed around 25% but the higher the salary I got, the more I payed. Last time I checked it was around 45% so its too freak'n high if you ask me.