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That argument sounds weaker to me than Apple's for their App Store. Game consoles build their business model on making up losses on their product by charging developers? That does nothing to justify why consumers or developers should want that. On the other hand there are arguments based on...

Regarding the number of classes in Gloomhaven, the creator's description of the product says there are six starting classes and 11 unlockable classes, for a total of 17. Statements to the contrary should be consigned to the dust. It's not a spoiler and this article should be corrected.

When new programmers are looking for something to write more interesting than their initial text based programs one of my suggestions is audio synthesis. Even with no libraries and a language like C it's easy to make PCM audio, and I think it opens their eyes to see what they can do even without...

That's the opposite of how supply and demand work. Price gouging reduces shortages. In an emergency if there's a choice between putting price controls on essential goods or luxury goods, I say keep the controls off essential goods. Luxury goods matter less so it will be less harmful to crack...

Pretty interesting survey question I got at the bottom of the article. https://imgur.com/a/6IW3330 I get the feeling Ars has an opinion on how I should answer.

I was thinking to myself how glad I was that I'd kept my old installs of Warcraft 3, only to discover that Blizzard's game launcher, without authorization, found them and replaced them with Reforged. I still have the CDs and keys, but the old installer doesn't work on recent version of macOS. I...

Yep, spies breaking espionage laws of the country they're spying on is one of the criminal uses of Tor that might be desirable.

iFixit says they spent money purchasing the Mac Pro. That does not seem consistent with iFixit getting a review machine from Apple. Edit: iFixit's page even mentions review units: "Despite its cheese-grater appearance, this new Mac Pro cannot grate cheese. This important consumer advice is...

There are positions between those two extremes. For example you might want someone you know to be able to allow someone they know to contact you, along with telling you from whom that third person got your details. Or maybe you want to be able to post your contact info in a few places and if...

It's been a while since I read the indictment but I don't recall anything about Assange providing a way to mass copy files. I do recall that he was indicted for arranging to receive classified files in an agreement with the leaker, receiving files and further transmitting those files to other...

Seeing as we're talking about video calls where "eye contact" is actually camera contact this doesn't seem like a big deal. I imagine few people routinely make camera contact on video chats and correspondingly few people read intimate cues from that behavior. I wonder how big of an adjustment...

So you "literally" believed that among those journalists, which I described as acting in agreement with would-be criminal leakers, I was including journalists not working with leakers. You are "literally" quoting the thing that should have given you a clue. But whatever. It's been the context...

Wait, are you saying you didn't understand that I was speaking in the context of journalists who are working with leakers, not just journalists writing up up local sports stories or whatever? I don't know how you could miss that context but if so then allow me to clarify: We're speaking about...

That's correct. This comment is uninformed by the actual indictment or code. Receiving the information is covered under section 793(c). Then someone who received the leaked document further transmitting to others unauthorized to receive it, such as by publishing, is covered under section...

Here's the source for the quotes. Now every quote I've provided has been sourced for you and you don't have to hunt anything down. Not a single hypothetical you've provided has done anything to distinguish between the aid that journalists routinely give to leakers and the aid Assange provided...

It seems like you're not following the argument. I notice one of the lines of mine that you didn't quote was the following: "I think there's quite a strong argument that providing the password with the intent to enable Manning commit her crime with less risk of detection actually would be...

There's no Assange analogue here. The Assange analogue would have to be a third party the cleaning lady asks for information such as how to bypass security systems. But yes, I agree that Manning's access to documents for the purpose of leaking them was unauthorized and criminal even though she...

Here's a bit from another article that addresses that point: The U.S. Government's Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Greave Threats to Press Freedom In particular the allegation is not that Assange did anything to help Manning obtain access to documents to which she did not have valid access...

I imagine he meant the private key which generates all the different public keys. However I presume the private key is kept in the secure enclave and cannot be divulged except perhaps by physically hacking the chip.