It's a weird compulsion to have their tribe be first. The reason I always find most amusing is "Apple make all the profit from smartphones", like that's a positive thing. It's like, er, guys, you know they are making all that profit from *you*? That if they make so much money it suggests their product is overpriced?

Oh... bullshit. There were almost 6 times as many Android devices sold last quarter than iOS. How are we still propagating the "Android is for geeks" line?

Depends on how you look at it, in the States yes, but worldwide no, and Apple are rather in danger of getting left behind when horesepower does matter. Android isn't standing still, optimisations like ART may well give another speed bump. Apple make nice devices, but they're not immune to performance, and that'll get acknowledged eventually in the same way that we were told for years how the Power architecture was just as good as x86... until they switched.

So the extreme wings of Christianity has groups like the KKK, and you very much should fear them if you're Jewish. By your logic any Christian should be also feared.

Do you think the streets of France are awash with Muslim-on-Christian violence?

Fine, brilliant, I used the wrong word. Replace with "islamophobia", "prejudice" or "bigotry". Pick your favourite. They all come from the same place of ignorance & tribalism.

Just ignoring your random racism for a moment, just because there's a *request* does not mean it will be honoured. The balance between public right to know and your privacy is still involved, and ultimately it's the Information Commissioner that gets to decide.

Yeah, and I agree that way round would be awesome, but these devices don't run on magic. If you want that sort of core functionality on your wrist then you are talking about a large heavy device to hold enough battery to make sense. Cellphone functionality is power hungry, and that's the thing the watch doesn't have.

Yes yes very good. How's being clever going for you?

Since that this "tracking bracelet" requires a GPS from the phone you're carrying and the network connection from the phone your're carrying... it's of course nothing to do with a dumb screen on your wrist.

Not really sure why you seem to think that proof needs to be from the doubters. The Kickstarter are asking for money on trust, so it's up to them to provide a decent argument as to why they are genuine, not the other way round.

I'm not sure this is a change in permissions so much as a change in how they are displayed. I'm a developer and there's been no change for *us*, the separate permissions are still necessary. They have grouped them presumably to make them easier to understand for the end-user.

*Sigh*. Yes. Simple games that are easy to replicate. My point is that old games are still wanted, and in demand. Obviously I have no 30 year old games with complicated mechanics and huge numbers of art assets to use as examples, but in 30 years we will have those and no amount of technology is going to make those things easily replicatable.

And I'm glad they've thought about this. Though how much we can believe that will happen in the carcrash that is typical for a collapsing business, it's harder to say. How will they distribute the updates if all the assets are seized? Who will do the work necessary on their back catalogue of 1000s if the employees aren't paid and have left?

I quite like pong. It's a good party game. And we still watch old films... games are at a stage now that we can consider them legitimate, lasting pieces of entertainment, I have no doubt that they are starting to solidify. Tetris is 30 years old, it's still fun.

Ah, well if an AC says it wasn't a problem, surely it wasn't...

I wouldn't be so blase. Perhaps right now, but not always. And just because DRM can be hacked, doesn't mean it has been hacked for the thing that you want. *And* I don't see a widespread failure in Steam DRM, so why would we assume that it can be cracked so trivially?

What, that legitimate problem lots of people worked on successfully to avoid before it could have major consequences? Yeah, I agree.