The controversy surrounding the government's surveillance programs isn't necessarily about whether the government is going to "do anything" to a citizen, but rather if the policies in place A) violate the principal of individual privacy that is a vital part of American political culture, regardless of what legal…

I was gonna be very sarcastic about how I was pre-law before I decided to pursue finance instead but I don't care enough.

who cares? I care much more about that info being given to government than to private companies. As long as I'm not a terrorist, the government isn't going to do anything to me. By contrast, companies try to harass me into buying stuff.

Never going to the io9 website again. Anyone who thinks this traitor is a hero can get a job spying for china like him.

yeah the thing is though, I don't care.

I wonder how many confidentiality agreements he breached. I also wonder if he fully understands the framework of why some of these things were done the way they work. And how much info does he really have.

State of Decay, which "did not have an ad budget" nor "a physical copy to load onto shelves," sold 250,000 copies on Xbox Live in its first two days. Only Minecraft has been more successful.

Dammit ... I want to flame the X1 like everyone else ... but I can't. It's simply not that bad.

You don't need to "log in once a day" for chrissakes. The thing has wireless and wired connections. It just calls home every 24 hours. You'll never notice.

It's unfortunate that they're cramming forced techs on us, but it's a good thing for the gaming medium as a whole in my opinion.

No, don't go and watch Iron Sky, it's beyond terrible.