While that's true, if they do it too often and to too great an extent they'll lose developers to some other platform; if the apps start breaking without replacement, users will start to leave for other sites. Facebook (as big as it is) is nothing without its userbase.

I'm old enough to remember when films had intermissions during which this happened. (And I'm not even 40 yet!)

They do still exist - the last film I saw in the cinema was Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy for example.

He didn't say "don't go to the movies", he said "don't go to 3D movies". Perhaps it's different in the States, but here in the UK I'm not aware of any films that were only being shown in 3D.

Just out of interest, do you have a source for that 50% figure? I've googled (as much as I can given I'm at work) and can't find any statistics at all.

That really depends on which future employers you're applying to, now doesn't it? Seems to me the ones that would read "PA" and miss "to Stephen Hawking" wouldn't be the ones that people applying for this job would be applying to in the future.

No, only those who legitimately have a copy of the binary must be provided with the source on demand; no one else has any right to it. (Though of course anyone with the source can give it to anyone else as they see fit)

...while hoping you don't get caught in the crossfire or splash damage...

They can't get married, but they can partner or merge with, or buy out, other corporations; that would be the equivalent at least conceptually.

Men aren't sluts, they're womanisers.

Like it or not, English is gender-discriminatory at least in so far as there are specific words for the male and female versions of some things.

I'll admit it's been a long time since I played the original Syndicate, and my memory isn't the best, but I seem to remember sending a team of 4 highly-augmented cyborg agents out with mini-guns to mow down bad guys and civilians alike; seems kinda violent to me. Sure, you didn't have ultra-realistic graphics, but books generally contain no graphics and can still be plenty violent.

That's not to say that I don't expect this new game to be a travesty of course.

I hate to weigh in on the side of a somewhat dickish AC, but:

is not well-formed.

Well for one thing, it's providing them with the fact that I have a passport. It's also giving them a copy of my likeness, which they don't currently have, and I'm pretty sure they don't have my place of birth either.

I'm not so much arguing against you, but the "oh they have that info anyway" thing a) isn't necessarily true and b) isn't really the point.

I applied for and received a new credit card with a provider here in the UK a couple of years ago (name omitted). A few days later someone phoned me, claiming to be from them, wanting to discuss something about my card - but first I needed to answer a couple of security questions to confirm my identity.

I challenged him to confirm his identity; all he did was reaffirm his claim to be calling from my card provider but without offering any proof beyond that. I refused to proceed, pointing out that I had no proof that he was who he claimed to be, and asked if it could be done online via their account access website. He eventually hung up.

The thing is, I expect he probably was telling the truth, but with no proof there was no way in hell I was dealing with him.

If that name is paedophile, or rapist, or similar then you might find that actually names can do a great deal of damage to a person.