Recent content by iamadev

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    Browser Plugin Secretly Mines Bitcoins at Your Expense

    JavaScript on websites can also do this. It has been happening a very long time and to be honest it isn't that profitable anymore so there are fewer people engaging in it nowadays than there have been as recent as early this year.
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    Xbox One, PS4 Scams Pop Up on Facebook

    A lot of if not all of those likes will be bought not genuine. These types of sites are par for the course and are hardly newsworthy. hey are reprehensible and shouldn't exist but they do and are very common.
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    How to Upgrade PS3 Games to PS4 Versions

    I too am more likely to get a One but that is a great feature, shame it is time limited though. I would imagine there will be lots of people wanting to port their old game collection over to the new consoles. The shame in all of this is that it is likely for selected titles and a short period...
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    Angry Birds Go Will Be Rovio's Kart Racing Game

    I can't knock this. They have a greatly successful franchise and they should keep pumping out the titles while people are still enjoying them and willing to pay for them. I don't play Angry birds at all since the original release but from what I have seen none of their angry birds/bad pigs...
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    Google Blocks Local Content Streaming on Chromecast

    I think you mean PR lessons from Sony, they are the ones that remove features after using them as a sales pitch and then sueing people that try to reinstate these features. MS is the one that listened to customer complaints and attempted to fix them and got derided further for attempting to...
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    The 10 Best Games You Can’t Play Anymore

    The worst thing about star wars galaxies was the way the devs just kept on messig with things. They had a genuinely unique MMO and tried, patch after patch, to turn it into yet another WoW clone which eventually killed it. Shame on you SOE for destroying what could have been a great MMO just...
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    NSA Broke Privacy Rules "Thousands" Of Times

    One huge thing that I don't think anyone has pointed out is that if this 2700 instances were mistakes of just one, Washington, branch, how many intentional wire tapping instances were there. If this was a small percentage lets say it is 5%, and that is probably far higher than it actually is...
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    Microsoft and Time Warner Cable Announce Xbox 360 Deal

    @anomaly - Welcome to the world of tomorrow. It really is crazy how many companies are starting to push for IPTV yet ISPs still want to limit bandwidth. Luckily I will be getting unlimited (no FUP) in a week or so so I can start to really enjoy my Netflix without always thinking about my usage.