The apparent legal threats that took down these paid hacking tools can be seen as a similar method to fix the game's cheating problem through non-technial means. And while keeping hackers out is important to the interests of fair play, GTA Online's use of microtransactions means hacks that can generate infinite in-game money impact a market that's reportedly worth half a billion dollars to Take Two.

Cheating also appears to be infectious. The likelihood of a fair player becoming labelled as a cheater in future is directly correlated with this person’s number of friends who are cheaters. So if you know cheaters you are more likely to become one yourself. Cheating spreads like flu through this community.

Their idea is to use the structure of the network to predict the likelihood that a given player will become a cheat in future. In other words, the number of friends who are cheats determine how likely this player is to becoming infected with the ‘cheating virus’ in future, so to speak. They say they expect to do more work on this in future.

So gaming communities invest significant resources into finding and stopping cheaters. In the Steam Community, for instance, which has some 30 million users, cheats are clearly labelled so that other users can see them and so that servers can prevent them playing games from which they are banned (although they can play other games).

If you frequent the Overwatch sub-Reddit, or any forum that regularly discuses the game, you will have no doubt ran into many reports of players getting abused by others during matches, especially in Competitive Play.

Cheating is an issue in online games, and Blizzard is anticipating that cheaters may inevitably be an issue that they have to deal with in their upcoming team-based FPS, Overwatch. In a forum post written today, the developer talked about the penalties it’s imposing towards those who choose to cheat in the game.

China's purported goal with its internet controls is the limitation of pornography, gambling, and other harmful practices, but such content is generally easier to access than information related to political and religious groups, human rights violations, and alternative news sources. In fact, the most frequently and systematically censored topics are those that the Communist Party deems to be the most threatening to its domestic legitim

foster terrorism if the refugees are not integrated, and worsen the civil war at homeby providing fighters with rear bases.

If refugees roil politics in Europe, it might mean a government loses the nextelection. The destabilization risk in the Middle East is far worse. Refugees havea history of bringing conflict with them: they wage cross-border wars fromrefugee camps, serve as recruiting pools for militant groups, upset delicate ethnicand sectarian balances in host states, and otherwise act as carriers for regional radi-calization.12The Islamic State reportedly used someone entering Turkey as arefugee to carry out an attack there

Settling Syrians could have myriad benefits in the United States, such as pro-viding a demographic lift and vibrancy in certain places. The scholar David Laitinand housing expert Marc Jahr point out that Hmong refugees have revitalized partsof Minneapolis, Minnesota; Bosnians have done so in Utica, New York; andSomalis in Lewiston, Maine—to say nothing of the stunning contributions tothe United States made by Vietnamese, Cubans, and other groups of refugees.Laitin and Jahr call for settling tens of thousands of Syrians in Detroit, wherethey would revitalize a decaying city and fit in well with the broader Arab-Amer-ican community in Michigan.

Lastly, accepting a large number of refugees would not, on its own, offer a sol-ution to the crisis. Of the millions of Syrian refugees, there is no number theUnited States could realistically accept that would be anything other than asmall dent. To have any real impact, the United States would still need to takeother steps, including ensuring that regional and European partners also committo accepting their share

Nor are the refugee flows likely to abate. The Syria conflict is entering its sixthyear and has seen ferocious levels of violence. The Assad regime is the leadingculprit, using indiscriminate attacks on civilians and sectarian atrocities as partof its efforts to intimidate its enemies and rally its supporters. Waves of refugeesand displaced are also a means for the Assad regime to put pressure on neighboringstates and opposition areas in the country

the Syrian civilwar has produced over 6 million of them, and has displaced roughly 7 million morewithin Syria. Indeed, over half the country’s pre-war population of 21.5 million isdisplaced, either externally or internally.

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