Are you an ebay employee? It was employee accounts that were compromised.

As opposed to the Democrats, which also don't respect our privacy.

You seem to be ill-informed about what's actually going on in the realm of privacy and who the bad guys are. It's not a party issue. The leadership in both parties are pretty suspect, and both parties have people in favor of better privacy.

They did that just recently as well.

Also, developers weren't focusing on Kinect anyway. Kinect sucks for AAA and core games. It doesn't work for the genres that are the most popular on the system (aka: shooters). Most of the time a game was made for Kinect, it was some other type of game, or something like the attempted Fable game that was a total on-rails disaster.

There's some really hilarious comments on this article, mostly about how awful EA is because of this.

Oddly when 2k did the same thing for the same reason, it wasn't such a big deal.

I guess the Internet just needs something to hate.

Attacks are more sophisticated now, lists of bad things that we've seen before aren't adequate to stop a serious attacker.

As they say, truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.

It's true. If you are running 8.1, update 1 is mandatory to keep getting support: http://www.infoworld.com/t/mic...

Microsoft said it themselves here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/gla...

Originally they only gave 30 days to install it, but then they upped that to 120 because of all the compatibility and installation problems (and the few companies running Windows 8 screaming).

Bizzarely, Windows 8.0 users aren't affected in the same way. This affects 8.1 users only. As usual, Windows 7 users can ignore this ongoing fiasco and keep doing productive work.

Fun fact - there's only two "viable" parties because the voters believe that and go along with it.

You want things to change? Stop voting for the same BS while complaining that you "don't have a choice."

Never underestimate the power of large quantities of fanboys with mod points.

The golf course owners want people's money, because there's too many of them for the demand. So naturally they're going to try and make it easier so more people want to play.

Welcome to the free market in action.

It's kind of refreshing how openly corrupt the US political system is, where a company can simply buy themselves a couple of politicians to push their interests and people call it "free speech".

I mean, sure those politicians maintain the pretense of representing people, but it's not like they try very hard.

Tax software can also just print off completed forms, which you can then mail. In fact there are certain cases where you can't netfile.

They don't mail out forms because it's a huge waste of money and paper to send forms to people that are using software.

This is so flagrantly sexist that it's absurd. But luckily for Google, it's the politically correct form of sexism. It's been decreed that programming being male dominated is bad, and thus taking sexist action to fix it is okay.

This of course totally ignores that university education as a whole has become majority female, and many professions are becoming majority female that didn't used to be. That by and large we're doing a lousy job of educating boys is not considered a problem, so making that problem worse by trying to exclude them from one of the areas they still do well in is considered okay.

Sure, it's total BS. But it's PC BS, and that's good enough, right?

VB6 programs run on Windows 7 as well.

Gamespy was competition for nobody anymore. On the PC side of things, Steamworks dominates the market so completely at this point that removing Gamespy doesn't do anything. It's not like anybody was using it in current games anyway.

On the console side, the consoles themselves are getting progressively better about offering this stuff to games on their platform. There simply wasn't a lot of reason to use Gamespy for any game development in 2013 or 2014, which is probably why the list of games affected doesn't include a whole lot of even remotely current stuff.

Hackers controlling my lights is a feature I can live without.