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We hated MS because they wer planning for DRM in the OS, the last 20 years has proven the original slashdot nerds like ourselves correct. MMO's, steam, origin, uplay, are all DRM s…

Basically early Computer scientists were mathematicians, so CS would essentially be a math major if you really think about it. Since it's all about translating math into boolean fu…

The rise of internet enabled microtransactions and the masses bought drm laden games they didn't own like mmo's... Once the masses fell for mainframe/dumb client, companies now con…

I think that's pretty much par for the course if you look at human history. Given that our culture is being locked up and thrown away with infinite IP extension and the game indust…

>I just want to ask where the fuck is the father in all of this and why isn't he helping? You're assuming too much intellect from the bottom of society, as someone born unto poor p…

The truth already exists without our perception of it. Think about this - if there was no absolute ground you couldn't have so much as a single perception. The problem becomes the …

The problem is the human mind is not made to understand computers, the reason we have C is because assembly language was tedious, the reason we had assembly language is because dir…

I invite you to try getting a mate or date while being a poor man in north america and see how it effects your mental and physical health. You're a god moron, status matters and if…

Cut out sugar, bread, and liquids with empty calories. Eat meat, fruits, and veggies -- even frozen ones. You'll drop weight very fast switching to high meat and veg, and dump the …

Except you really don't have a choice, the internet allows companies to hold programs hostage and you have no market power. The modern internet is one giant computer which companie…

DRM most certainly is. BEfore the internet there was no "DRM" in the modern sense, copyright protection back then did not lead to incomplete software. Modern DRM is literally takin…

As someone who lived through the glorious 90's before internet penetration allowed the theft of PC games by rebadging rpg's mmo's. DRM in the modern sense is literally stealing gam…

Because the mind doesn't see the world as it is, you see things in that paper that their minds simply can't grasp. The enlightenment view of reason is not correct... Check out the …

>The Internet cannot remain free Uhh have you not been paying attention for the last 20 years? We went from ownign our software and devices to not owning them as the tech illiterat…

>2.6 million cameras in Chongqing!? that number is mind-boggling. You need to get an idea of what the upper classes are thinking, they need data to divide and conqeur, here's forme…

Article is a load of cobblers. The mods tend to be no different then milquetoast centrists because most of them work in the corporate world. HN is very america centric and anything…

That's kind of the point George carlin said it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q The whole educational establishment is to create an ignorant slave class.

It's hard to feel sorry for anyone pushing apps and the removal of local app computing. It's like a theif accusing the other theives of being a theif. The modern SaS enviroment is …

Man it has very little to do with government and everything to do with your worship of free market nonsense. In a capitalist society capitalists own the government. AKA private pow…

America has robbed it's own population blind for the last 200 years, all cultural works have been sucked up into an international criminal oligarchy. Software is being stolen en ma…

I don't believe in the ideologies of the time, call me a doubting thomas that the human race is actually intelligent. I know too much about how human beings and corporations actual…

Difference is, one is about the populations health. Given that the US is backwards when it comes to healthcare. Given the sea of corruption inside the US since it is an oligarchica…

Man your whole post reeks of idiocy. When they control the software they are going to jack up prices and engage in extortion, that's why they want to move software into the cloud a…

People who don't sellout to the corporate agenda... watching HN'ers downvote me for pointing out the videogame industry has been stealing PC games for the last 20 years was alarmin…

Dude the fact that the industry is stealing games and openly gloats it wants to make all games "services" (aka never give you a local application). Is the end goal. So yeah, you ne…