anyidiot

Yes, C# is way better for games because you can write mixed format display buffers, but Java isn't that bad as long as its JITed. It limits you to post 2.2 droids, but if doesn't have 2.2 on it, it probably has the shitest of graphics hardware anyway.

I dont get your other complaints though. Show me a developer guide for a console platform that doesn't have outright lies in it and I'll show you my unicorn.

There is a single cross-platform engine, btw, its called Unity, and if you can live with its constraints, then off you go.

Its not in the platform creators best interest to make it compatible with other platforms. So dont hold your breath for write-once that doesnt suck.

They are tracking user behavior completely anonymously

Just because you, a human, cant look at the millions of data points and go "oh look, there's george tomlinson of 28 esperay avenue doing something we dont like" doesnt mean that it cannot be done or will not be done, or indeed is not being done already.

Some of us dont want to walk around with yellow badges thank you. Do you imagine that fact that the badges are only visible to those with the resources and motive to discover them, and not the average joe, is more, or less of a motivation for privacy?

You know, when individuals access a company's computer using technically valid means (e.g. a username and password or by logging in from multiple locations), then its criminal charges, international arrest warrants, and jail time. [1] [2]

But when companies do it to people, oh its just a clever programming trick, and its not a problem because you could install additional software to prevent it from happening [3].

The law is showing up pretty clear that simply because you can access a computer system, does not mean that you may, and indeed that doing so without the user's permission is a crime. Causing a computer to store data on a user and then serve that data back to another computer seems dodgy without permission. Doing it when the user has taken reasonable steps to prevent it from happening? Class action time!

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110722/02351315202/how-ci...

[2] http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/aaron-swartz-spent-mo...

[3] http://www.kissmetrics.com/how-it-works

That "it" happened doesn't "mean anything". I think what you mean is that when bad shit happens to a person, it doesn't mean that person is bad. But even if that is what you mean, that it happened does "mean" something to EJ. It also most definitely "means" something to AirBNB. I don't know what yet. I suspect that the internet is so fickle, and that even if the cost/benefit analysis demonstrated that AirBNB is a universally bad idea, that people would still do it because they perceive less risk in events they choose [1]. Equally, the whole thing could just be overblown because its news.

"People underestimate risks they willingly take and overestimate risks in situations they can’t control. When people voluntarily take a risk, they tend to underestimate it. When they have no choice but to take the risk, they tend to overestimate it."

  [1] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/11/perceived_risk_2.html

I'm sure that she was. The question is, were those charges related to EJs apartment? EJ claims not. That the police made a statement that someone was charged for something, is most emphatically not a statement that someone was charged for the crimes committed against EJ.

That this over-one-month-old, ambiguous statement is the best that AirBNB has to offer, is pretty damning and leads me to believe EJ, not AirBNB. That AirBNB keeps sending it out lends credence to EJs belief that AirBNB doesn't give a shit and is just PR-ing the whole thing.

Either way, this "journalist" did nothing but reprint a PR blurb with zero fact checking or even awareness that there is another side to this story.

"ends in arrest"

As in "one month ago police issues a statement that a person had been detained". Since then "EJ" claims that this person has not been charged.

This article came out today, after EJs post. The article is based on a police report over a month old. So what prompted its writing? Was it EJs post? If so, why no effort on the part of the journalist to investigate if the individual in the police report was charged (or even any mention of the allegation that she has not).

Or was it just a reprint of an AirBNB PR statement...