Most companies use authenticators that can only be associated with one server. Blizzard's is one of these. A Blizzard Authentication is not compatible with anyone except Blizzard.
Generally, the only ones that work with multiple companies are the Verisign and RSA ones.
Of course doing that also locks you out of every other game from that vendor. A chargeback against Blizzard means you lose access to WoW, Starcraft II, Diablo III, and any future products (because you can be damn sure they won't let you keep an account). A chargeback against Valve means you lose access to a metric fuckton of games, and means a metric fuckton of future games become inaccessible to you.
Uberstrong password? You CAN'T set an uberstrong password! Case insensitive, alphanumeric only, 16 characters max. It's like requiring that a bank vault be secured with a sturdy rope.
In that case, when did Mike Morhaime become an asshole?
No, I don't believe you at all that ActivisionBlizzard doesn't control any of Blizzard's decisions. The rapid about-turn in the way Blizzard treats customers since the merger tends to be at odds with your claim.
No, instead they just talk about how him donating to charity is evil. If the Hive decides that someone is evil, everything they do becomes evil. Whether it's Apple, Google, Microsoft, or Canonical.
Also, our parliament does that if an MP dies. Does that make our government not evil?
He's spouting that bullshit again about how Bing "copies" Google's database because if you voluntarily install the Bing bar, and opt in to a particular off-by-default setting, your search activity gets sent to Microsoft who uses it to improve Bing's indexing. Despite the fact that Google's toolbar has a ton of the very same sort of tracking features.
If people do a search for "[artist] mp3 download", chances are they're not looking for Spotify or iTunes
I've done that before. Track wasn't available on iTunes, so did a Google search for it. Would have paid for it if it actually turned up on a legit site. Alas, it didn't. Never could find that track.
For a very brief period of time when Netscape 4 was the competition, it was comparatively great. If you try to argue, I'll know you never used Netscape 4.
Not always true. If you purchase a Steamworks product (such as Skyrim) in stores, it cannot be played without the use of the Steam application and agreeing to their draconian terms.
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Except that I'm not.
Most companies use authenticators that can only be associated with one server. Blizzard's is one of these. A Blizzard Authentication is not compatible with anyone except Blizzard.
Generally, the only ones that work with multiple companies are the Verisign and RSA ones.
Of course doing that also locks you out of every other game from that vendor. A chargeback against Blizzard means you lose access to WoW, Starcraft II, Diablo III, and any future products (because you can be damn sure they won't let you keep an account). A chargeback against Valve means you lose access to a metric fuckton of games, and means a metric fuckton of future games become inaccessible to you.
Uberstrong password? You CAN'T set an uberstrong password! Case insensitive, alphanumeric only, 16 characters max. It's like requiring that a bank vault be secured with a sturdy rope.
In that case, when did Mike Morhaime become an asshole?
No, I don't believe you at all that ActivisionBlizzard doesn't control any of Blizzard's decisions. The rapid about-turn in the way Blizzard treats customers since the merger tends to be at odds with your claim.
Dude, the US is number fucking 24 on the Global Corruption Index. Qatar is less corrupt than the US.
No, instead they just talk about how him donating to charity is evil. If the Hive decides that someone is evil, everything they do becomes evil. Whether it's Apple, Google, Microsoft, or Canonical.
Also, our parliament does that if an MP dies. Does that make our government not evil?
Except that it doesn't.
He's spouting that bullshit again about how Bing "copies" Google's database because if you voluntarily install the Bing bar, and opt in to a particular off-by-default setting, your search activity gets sent to Microsoft who uses it to improve Bing's indexing. Despite the fact that Google's toolbar has a ton of the very same sort of tracking features.
If people do a search for "[artist] mp3 download", chances are they're not looking for Spotify or iTunes
I've done that before. Track wasn't available on iTunes, so did a Google search for it. Would have paid for it if it actually turned up on a legit site. Alas, it didn't. Never could find that track.
That's his point. It's a better porn search. Duh.
Worst DRM ever though. Your internet connection dies? Fuck you, no Steam games for you!
He was specifically asking for legal sources to prove a point. Providing torrents or other illegal download sources does not help.
Hmm. http://www.amazon.com/mp3
"We're sorry, Amazon MP3 is only available in the United States".
Oh, of course. There is no rest of the world, the ocean simply falls off into space about 2 miles off the coast of America.
VIDEO. Videos are still encrypted, and unplayable on anything but Apple devices (or with Apple software on non-Apple devices).
Good thing a random HTML tutorial site has precisely fuck all relevance to anyone then.
Obviously that's not valid, as the other party has not read your amendments, therefore your amendments were not approved by the other party.
No, worse, a New Zealand landline provider. $2/GB. Downloading 4 games off Steam recently costed me $100.
No, but we can tell the unions that "they're coming to take our 4 weeks paid leave" and they'll crush any attacking force like a bug.
You forgot
- selling off of all the government's strategic assets
- signing up to TPPA despite it being bad for everyone
The HTML specification is irrelevant. The HTTP specification is the one that has the authority to dictate what a user agent may or may not do.
For a very brief period of time when Netscape 4 was the competition, it was comparatively great. If you try to argue, I'll know you never used Netscape 4.
You seem to assert an awful lot that Microsoft themselves will not honour Do Not Track. Got any evidence of this?
Not always true. If you purchase a Steamworks product (such as Skyrim) in stores, it cannot be played without the use of the Steam application and agreeing to their draconian terms.
I'm more interested in Photoshop getting co-op multiplayer.