Well, you're already saying "we", which implies you share that net worth with someone else! That'd be 450k/head, and no one is a millionaire!

It is definitely not the average european city experience. For a comfortable one-person appartment (if you want more than one person apartments, then it's worth is shared between the occupants, of course, and ends up cheaper per person), let's generously say 70m2, then you'd need the price per square meter to be more than 14k€ for it to be a million euro home.

That's way above average, unless, again, you're looking at city centers, which are always going to be expensive no matter the country.

So, if you live in a european city, not in a city center, and your street has housing costs above 14k€ per square meter (even, conservatively, 10k€), then your city is an outlier, not the average experience.

I think they might have meant after 93, not WW2.

Why?

Yep! I don't know a single engineer who would say that security by obscurity is never useful. Everyone knows, as you said, to put SSH on a random port. It's the first step you do to secure a server.

And what part, exactly, is not true?

Again, I never disagreed with the issue: (90%) solo games requiring an internet connection disappearing suddenly is a major issue in the gaming industry

I disagree with the solutions people want for it, which I find shortsighted.

And yes, such a legislation would force to rethink some designs, and force using one over the other not because it fits the final product better, but because it does not have the additional pressure of compliance. And that, I think, makes it a poor solution.

What I'd like to see is something similar to minimal warranty in the EU. So, a game has to provide X years of playability, clearly shown on the product page/box. They can guarantee longer if they wish. They then have a legal obligation to keep it online. Add to it a mandatory warning X years before shutdown.

Then the consumer is no longer deceived, and the studio has less pressure to comply with EoL requirements.

And why not make releasing the source code a viable way to comply with these requirements, and have a special label for "forever playable" games, either fully singleplayer or through code release.

Just don't force every studio to release their codebase.

It's not good when it's based on beliefs. There is no evidence pointing to it being staged.

Exploring the possibility and finding evidence is a good thing, that's the basis of science. This is not whatnis going on here.

He's relatively young. I think he might think he has a shot someday.

Then it won't happen. Vance isn't stupid, he knows he can't hold maga on his own.

I'm not anerican so I'm unsure how pertinent my experience is.

But yes, my representatives often hold public neetings in which anyone is invited, although I don't go there myself.