No, the GP makes it rather clear that what they are is someone from the UK. Where we don't have a 4G network yet, so iPad not supporting it isn't something most people can care less about. Over here, the Xoom is _insanely_ expensive, too, and so the "it's too expensive" doesn't go far because nobody has demonstrated they can make a comparable piece of kit for substantially less without an apple on the back. It may not be worth you buying one. It may not be worth me buying one. But until I can get something as good as it for less money, I won't agree that it's overpriced.

Now there's a correct Grandparent. The PS3 can do lots of other nice things. But it's not as good at playing Blu-ray films as having a dedicated Blu-ray player that's quieter, smaller, uses less power and can be modded multi-region.

True that they can refuse to let people on PSN if they mod, and I'm fine with that. Better than fine - when on PSN (just as when on Live) I'd rather not go up against cheaters, and cheating is pretty easy if you've pwned hardware on a platform where the games have assumed that's impossible.

It's just the whole 'raiding houses and dragging people through the courts' thing that I don't like.

Maybe the free internet access is for you to set one up? The whole story makes my mind boggle.

What's with this assumption that _everyone_ uses Facebook, anyway?

"No, I'm not refusing to hand over my Facebook details; there are none". Won't that be enough?

If you get a hefty sentence for being a member of Anonymous, then those that don't want to risk one are going to have to spend several seconds thinking up a different name to operate under. It's not much of a deterrent.

It's no different to the film industry, though. Warner Bros. for example are incapable of bringing in a film on the kind of microbudget that small bunches of indie guys regularly do. But they don't charge 60 times as much for a ticket.

Big studios spend millions making games instead of thousands, because they expect to sell many more copies. That's how it works for films, it's how it works for music (nobody is forcing you to get Brian Eno on production), I see no reason why it can't work that way for games too.

But then, neither the iPod Touch nor iPhone can do Flash, and Skype works fine on both. They just didn't put a mic on the iPad, for whatever reason.

Ah, right. My mistake - I clearly missed the mention of a non-3G version. That's a relief.

They said it's got a 3G chip in it. We don't know yet if, like the iPad, it will still be unable to do voice, but that only makes sense in Apple's case because you'd look an idiot holding against your head. And the descriptions so far suggest they expect everyone to take out a data contract, if not a voice one.

The difference is that the mandatory update kicks you off Live if they catch you modding (and therefore violating the terms of your Live agreement). It doesn't brick your console, damaging your property.

By that thinking, if I embarrass you in front of your friends by showing how poor your logic is, everyone should remember that I made the first action when you brutally murder me in response.

That's not how it works in the closed system that is XBox Live. There, you'll find the vast majority (as far as I know ALL of) the people marked as cheaters have been found to have performed the literally impossible, rather than just statistically very difficult, and had invalid checksums on their game saves or on-DVD executable files, or somehow unlocked an achievement (for example) of winning 10 online ranked matches despite the game's ranking servers knowing full well the user was (a) offline at the time, and (b) hasn't actually done that.

It's worse than that, I've seen gamesavers award themselves achievements for doing well in online ranked modes, when fairly obviously the game's own ranking servers know they haven't. Not only that, but the Live system flags them as achieved while the machine was offline. Oops.

Another occasional mistake is awarding yourself achievements that aren't technically possible to get - completing DLC before it is made available, for instance, or ones that are known to be glitched.

For the most part (and it certainly sounds like this is one of those cases, from the wording of @Stepto's post), people are either hex-editing, or using someone else's little app, to fiddle with game saves. They're apparently reasonably trivial to attack; particularly since the move to let you put them on any old USB stick, rather than just overpriced custom-connection memory cards.

Usually, this is fairly easy to spot, however, as eejits have a habit of doing things like awarding themselves multi-player-only achievements despite gamesave-fiddling automatically flagging them as being achieved offline, or getting achievements in DLC that hasn't been released yet.