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Ceruhe

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  1. Once again a Thai parent refuses to take any responsibility for her child's action. What he attempted to do was illegal and in other countries he would have been arrested and charged as a juvenile for attempting to hack into a business' system.

    Hmm. It still comes down to there needing to be better controls and security mechanisms in smart phones and apps overall.

    I myself play HayDay quite alot, on the occassion I accidentally happen to hit on the buttons that want me to purchase stuff, which I can then cancel without much effort. The game itself has a) a double confirm option (which I enabled) if you want to spent your ingame currency (what you already have, not want to buy), though I don't know how the purchase works, I will need to sign into my...uh, iTunes accounts or something or another forstarters, but not sure after that.

    The evil lies in those beyond rip off micro transaction with little to no value, kids just want to play and not stopped by some senseless "recharge life" thing and wait around to continue on, thus looking for a bypass, aka the micro transactions or google. Google will bring you to whatever article it can find with plenty of hits, and because people on the interwebs are so freaking smart at naming their things properly, you will pretty much have a list of tipps/tricks/hacks to browse through. Often enough those "hacks" are simple game flaws which let you exploit some things (which are within the game itself and require not real "hacking") and are just falsely described.

    Not saying there aren't specific people actually programming hacks and promoting those, just like for Cookie Run, but those only look dubious to us with more than a dozen years of life experience. The article fails to link to any kind of source about the "hack", so the kid might of just repeated what he read face value without thinking of it just as an exploit.

    Which brings us to supervising I guess. Not sure how you see it, if I give my phone to a kid (not that I have one or do that haha), the thing just wants to be entertained and usually is quiet in the background, mind you, you ought to know what kind of games you got and if they are appriopriate, which in most cases they will be. So the alertness of the kid going bersek on the micro transaction button isn't that high, as you know what the game is about, doesn't apply to some kid though. And since you likely have better things to do than sit next to the kid watching everything it does (police state anyone?) you just go do what you gotta do.

    Not the first story of it's kind, I've read some others, where charges have been dropped or the kid going into some state of depression and what have you, resulting in said adults into writing blogs etc and informing others about the lack of security of apps. This hasn't so much to do with supervising than limiting control for these "new age" smartphones and apps through regulations to some degree, which as parental control. I'd be game enough to have an option integrated into the smartphones that flat out disables all money related transaction until is has been manually enabled again, with passwords and all the fancy stuff, as in making you tab out of the game/whatever to enable it, and not just let you bypass it through ingame popup. Well, that's just for starters.

    While I'm neither siding for the mom/kid or the AIS/Line, I've been looking down on smartphones (albeit knowing their uses) a long time already and been tempted to throw this pos around like no tomorrow, but realising it wouldn't make a single damn difference worldwide besides taking away my (alarm)clock it's still intact. Due to there not being very strict enforcements, companies will abuse the lack of it as long as they can, without remorse.

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  2. I'll randomly assume you are using Windows Media Player to playback your CD?

    If so, try changing to a different player and check them again. I noticed only 3 of 5 of my speakers working when I use WMP, even though they all work with Winamp/KMPlayer (which I mainly use for my needs).

    If it indeed is WMP, I haven't got a solution for you as I haven't bothered much more as to get it to work, rarely ever use it.

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