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  1. Re: That doesn't fix anything on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 1

    If you are downloading it and running a separate executable that is not SAAS as it is generally understood. Citrix or something in the web browser is what most folks call SaaS.

  2. Re:PROXY? on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 1

    For most of them this is not true anymore. They might not care about wealth, but they are as impacted by drought as any other. Often they have to get loans for farm equipment as well. These wells could have let them avoid those loans or even make each other loans, as they prefer to do.

  3. Oil folks ripping people off what a shock! on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 1

    Who was surprised by this? Other than the Amish.

    I wonder if the Amish will use the courts when their water well is unusable or a major spill occurs. Sure that is not a normal thing, but when you are already ripping them off on the lease you might as well do a shitty job casing the well too.

  4. Re:Thanks for making it easy MS. on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the PS3 is now useless as a streaming device. I have the PC hooked to the TV, HDMI is neat like that. You can get a really nice setup with controllers, or media keyboards or using smartphones and some 10 foot interfaces.

  5. Re:Steam Vs XBox One on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 2

    The way I play DVDs is also illegal. I am by now I guess a hardend criminal.

    I do try to buy DRM free games, but not all are available that way and my morals are weak I guess. If GOG would support linux that would help a lot.

  6. Re:That's it! on The NSA: Never Not Watching · · Score: 1

    No one was talking about him. The poster brought him up as he saw him on the wikipage.

  7. Re:That's it! on The NSA: Never Not Watching · · Score: 0

    Which means your right wing libertarianism quickly becomes corporate feudalism. Glad to see you are at least honest about that.

  8. Re:Thanks for making it easy MS. on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 1

    That is utter BS. The Wii U is a good bit better than either of those. Maybe not a whole generation ahead, but enough is enough. Besides good games don't need to be teh shiny. Only 12 year olds who want to yell the profanity they just learned into the microphone need that.

  9. Re:There are some parts of this that don't suck on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 1

    PS3 does not use region locking, so it works fine.

    I suspect it will not work for the same reason those family members cannot use my netflix account.

  10. Re: That doesn't fix anything on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 1

    That is not at all what we are talking about.

    That would be SaaS and while I find it morally repellant, it skirts those laws. Good luck getting photoshop to work that way though.

  11. Re:That doesn't fix anything on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In some nations what you describe would be illegal. Some places have this thing called consumer protection and depriving the consumer of something he paid for would be basically the same as fraud.

  12. Re: That doesn't fix anything on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 4, Informative

    Adobes licensing matters not if it conflicts with the law of the land.

    Some nations have actual consumer protection.

  13. Re:I'm sure XBox won't record our conversations... on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 2

    Yeah, just "Metadata" about the conversation.

    Since terrorists are rare and they are hard to catch they will use this to go after victimless crimes and the like. They already have the data so they will find a use for it.

  14. Re:Joining the people's not buying one on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 1

    How they got people to buy all these 360s never ceases to amaze me. If my car took a shit after a couple years I would not be buying more from that brand.

    Add in the PRISM spying this console will surely be doing and you would have to be a fool to buy it.

  15. Re:Steam Vs XBox One on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Steam also sells games for super cheap. I buy my games for steam on disk, so if it ever disappears I can run the game with cracks. This is not a feature that consoles seem to offer.

  16. Re:Thanks for making it easy MS. on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think Nintendo will just become king of the hill again in that case. They can promote the WiiU being the only console that has this and stores will push it hard.

  17. Re:Because Sony is nicer? on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I did not, I still do not trust sony near computers. Microsoft is never honest. They claim it will not spy on you, but they were the first to get in bed with the NSA for PRISM.

    I have been eyeing up the WiiU so that is an option.

  18. Re:There are some parts of this that don't suck on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 1

    Sure, but not a feature I would trade for no used games.

    My family is scattered across 3 continents, how would that work?

  19. Re:Thanks for making it easy MS. on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The WiiU is already less invasive. Odds are Sony will use this as a club to beat MS with. If they have a console that offers customers the ability to own games that will be huge.

  20. Re:There are some parts of this that don't suck on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 2

    In no way possibly now?
    So I am hallucinating my and my brother mailing games back and forth? The game sharing my IT dept does is also some figment of my imagination?

  21. Re:*cough* bullshit *cough* on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 1

    Can you just unplug it? Or is it hard wired to the console?

  22. Thanks for making it easy MS. on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well I guess I am getting a PS4. That was an easy decision.

  23. Re:The Oil industry does it daily on Amazon: Publishers Strong-Armed Us On E-Books · · Score: 1

    Please elaborate. My understanding was oil is sold on an open market and is a heavily traded commodity. What makes you think price fixing by oil companies inside the USA is occurring.

    Mind you OPEC can do what they like since our laws do not apply to them.

  24. What is wrong with these folks? on Amazon: Publishers Strong-Armed Us On E-Books · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why do they want even more than for a the paperback?
    I am getting less in that I cannot resell it and no physical copy, yet they want even more. On top of that their costs are reduced, since they need not print, ship or deal with any of that.

    I just end up not buying those books. It seems though all media folks are just too greedy for their own good, books the same as movies.

  25. Re:That's it! on The NSA: Never Not Watching · · Score: 1

    I do not, I am merely point out it exists. Their views explain my first comment about your economic rights being able to infringe on my liberties.

    I think you don't know what you prefer. Don't worry more time and education will sort that out.