Pick a side, assholes.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I swing both ways.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

If I didn't have an awareness of privacy concerns, I'd be completely pro because (a) it might bring people outdoors; (b) it might bring people together via recreational activity; and, perhaps most importantly, (c) it might bring outstanding news stories (like two dopes falling off a cliff in San Diego).

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
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There are no security concerns. That non-story was an attempted sabotage by the partnership of Supercell and Zynga.

Any 'extra' permissions the app had on iOS were patched out a couple days ago. Android never had those permissions.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

You may well be right, but are there credible sources on that?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Not at all. But it makes too much sense. Many of the "articles" I saw about it on Facebook were from known influencer sites. Those sites post anything if you throw them enough cash.

I imagine Supercell and Zynga are not so happy about Pokemon Go.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/13/pokem ... -facebook/

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

A simple 'no' would've sufficed.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

So we could deal with you bitching and moaning about how no one is providing you details?

I thought I'd nip that in the bud.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

supercell? as in perfect cell after he sucked in the androids? hmmmmm what do we think of androids guys?





</PsychoticTangents> aka </AttemptedLevity>



TLDR = disregard ^^^^THIS^^^^ and go play Pokemon: Go like the media has told you to! now git! go on! get on!

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Well, there were security concerns until they fixed those security concerns. Something doesn't become a non-story because it eventually gets fixed.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

It was a non-story because there are five other applications on your phone that have those same permissions, and STILL have those same permissions.

And, again, no one NEEDS to use a Google account with Pokemon Go. It is an optional method to log-in. Those permissions were 100% optional.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

So why did they change the permissions almost immediately?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

They were unneeded permissions. Why try to claim they are needed?

Rick, you're a tech savvy guy. Don't be an idiot. Don't try to pull a 'brick' on me. I'll have nothing more to say to you on this matter.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

This is not a response. They chose to put those permissions in. It is a story as to why those permissions are in there and they quickly realized they messed up.

Now, I don't think the Pokemon Go people had a secret plan to access parts of your phone but it is a story when an app that tracks your position, has access to a good portion of your personal information also requests permissions well outside the needed scope.

Imagine an alternate reality where they said "Yeah, we have full access to all these permissions, but we promise to not do anything bad". Would it be a story then?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Take your Pokémon and...