I have friends that have Optimum, the connection is nice, I have envied it, but they really really really suck when it comes to capping.
This has happened to alot of people, where one day you will find that your connection is incredibly slow for no reason, you call optimum up and they tell you that you were downloading too much and they capped you (they don't even warn you!) Then they will remove the cap once you've talked to them... but if you ask them what is the acceptable download or upload limit, they won't tell you, which is bullshit if you ask me.
Thing is my friend wouldn't have minded cutting her usage down to whatever the acceptable limit was, and because the line was in her mom's name, she didn't want any letters or any phone calls being sent to her or having the line cancelled... so she just had to stop altogether because Optimum were assholes and not telling her what the acceptable limit was. They suck
the speed is nice tho.
I certainly don't want a foreign, network-aware agent with the ability to execute arbitrary code calling home and telling another entity info about my computer. At work, we call that "spyware", and I spend a goodly amount of my day cleaning it up.
Valve is already using Steam to track pseudo-demographic data on their players' computers--RAM, graphics cards, processors and speed, OS, and those manner of things. The average WinXP user logs on with an administrative account; when running Steam in that context, the potential exists for massive abuses.
Wow you are paranoid aren't you.
Question, what makes you think anybody out there gives a shit about you? you're a nobody! Why do you bother thinking someone out there may care about getting your name, or your computer specs... etc.
I mean I am not saying don't exercise any caution on the Interweb, but you're just being totally paranoid if you think Valve really give a crap and are out to sniff all your crap on ur computer, which is likely nothing more than crap nobody cares about.
Stop fooling yourself, you're a nobody, just like most of us. If you really do have senative data on your PC, well then playing games on it is a silly thing to do.
If you really are going to refuse to play this game in fear of Valve getting to know you, then I think your tin foil hat is on a bit too tight.
btw. "a foreign, network-aware agent with the ability to execute arbitrary code calling home"
When you think about it, doesn't that describe almost all programs that you have installed... really for all you know thats what they all could be doing.
The client never has your password, you just need your email-address to get/process the workunits.
So you won't find the password on ur pc... the pass is only for your profile and deleting ur account n stuff afaik... which can be emailed to u, from their page.
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I have friends that have Optimum, the connection is nice, I have envied it, but they really really really suck when it comes to capping. This has happened to alot of people, where one day you will find that your connection is incredibly slow for no reason, you call optimum up and they tell you that you were downloading too much and they capped you (they don't even warn you!) Then they will remove the cap once you've talked to them... but if you ask them what is the acceptable download or upload limit, they won't tell you, which is bullshit if you ask me. Thing is my friend wouldn't have minded cutting her usage down to whatever the acceptable limit was, and because the line was in her mom's name, she didn't want any letters or any phone calls being sent to her or having the line cancelled... so she just had to stop altogether because Optimum were assholes and not telling her what the acceptable limit was. They suck the speed is nice tho.
I certainly don't want a foreign, network-aware agent with the ability to execute arbitrary code calling home and telling another entity info about my computer. At work, we call that "spyware", and I spend a goodly amount of my day cleaning it up.
Valve is already using Steam to track pseudo-demographic data on their players' computers--RAM, graphics cards, processors and speed, OS, and those manner of things. The average WinXP user logs on with an administrative account; when running Steam in that context, the potential exists for massive abuses.
Wow you are paranoid aren't you.
Question, what makes you think anybody out there gives a shit about you? you're a nobody! Why do you bother thinking someone out there may care about getting your name, or your computer specs... etc.
I mean I am not saying don't exercise any caution on the Interweb, but you're just being totally paranoid if you think Valve really give a crap and are out to sniff all your crap on ur computer, which is likely nothing more than crap nobody cares about.
Stop fooling yourself, you're a nobody, just like most of us. If you really do have senative data on your PC, well then playing games on it is a silly thing to do.
If you really are going to refuse to play this game in fear of Valve getting to know you, then I think your tin foil hat is on a bit too tight.
btw. "a foreign, network-aware agent with the ability to execute arbitrary code calling home" When you think about it, doesn't that describe almost all programs that you have installed... really for all you know thats what they all could be doing.
The client never has your password, you just need your email-address to get/process the workunits.
So you won't find the password on ur pc... the pass is only for your profile and deleting ur account n stuff afaik... which can be emailed to u, from their page.
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