It sounds like EFF here is endorsing the journalists not the phone company.

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And yet they provide tons of identifying information about the user to the social media sites that they link to just by loading the button on the page.

I don’t think he knows about second walled-garden.

I hope that whoever takes this job does the following: develop a netcode library with server-side cheat detection that can be used by any game, so developers have something pre-baked that they can use to stop them whining about needing client-side kernel level spyware to prevent cheating.

Totes.

See if anyone else in the game dev community has experienced this kind of thing before. If it turns out to be a consistent problem then you could try to get a games journalist involved and see if they will write a story. In order to get anything done about it, you have to make enough noise that it comes to the attention of the people who can actually effect a change.

I'm not sure what the solution is though, because when the base concept is already in the public domain, it's probably something that happens sometimes through pure coincidence. Like the ant movies. Steam would have to have a set of criteria by which they judge if someone is doing it deliberately and maliciously in order to classify it as fraud or impersonation. If it's a big enough problem and happens regularly, maybe they would consider it though.

I didn't say anything about bullshitting, I said I'm sick of the writing style.

Yeah they donated to schools the history books that they had published saying that they did charitable things sometimes.

Weird to compare it to Windows when you could compare it to Compiz from the same era.