In order for this to work, the PC has to be made by Apple. Safari has become exclusive to OS X and iOS, and Apple prohibits running an OS X VM on any host computer other than a Mac.

Yet an x86 can emulate a game console containing a 6502, 65816, 68000, or ARM CPU with cycle accuracy.

Sometimes you have to publish through Sony, such as if your game is designed around a controller and would be hard to adapt to a mouse or a touch screen. And what makes Steam any less "indie" than, say, GOG?

How does that work if your favorite games happen not to have any official modding capability?

I'm not sure what you mean by the requirement that it be "integrated with the rest of the system". If something were to be "integrated with the rest of" a PC, would it need to have shipped as part of what was then the monopoly PC operating system, or would third party matchmaking frameworks count as well? If the former, then due to the applications barrier to entry, Microsoft wins by default for innovation.

But what it really means is that with this news getting out, Al Qaida is going to start manufacturing cell phone batteries that are half battery (to power up the device and show that it works) and half C4 (bonus, detonation circuit attached to the charger).

That word is subjective, and people will spend days arguing over subjective definitions. Could you give a more objective criterion?

And you needed an Xbox Live subscription and a copy of each game for each console to play Xbox Live.

I tried those instructions. First, I couldn't even download my entire county;* the error message was "Area too large, zoom in". Second, after I did manage to zoom in on a neighborhood, the resulting map said "Expires in 30 days".

* I said "county" and meant "county", not "country".

Unlike Android 2.x devices, Android 4.x devices like the Nexus 7 don't have a dedicated menu button. And in this copy of Google Maps, there's no "tricolon" button where the overflow menu is supposed to be. The UI changed in newer Google Maps, which raises another point: Whenever Google pushes an upgrade to the Maps application, all the saved offline maps appear to become invalid.

Some states require a permit for open carry as well.

It appears that courts have interpreted the Second Amendment to allow the several states to decide which gun clubs qualify as "a well-regulated militia".

If a user's Internet service can't maintain a given bitrate, how can Google tell whether this is caused by ISP malfeasance or simply by the user choosing to subscribe to a less expensive tier of home Internet service? As it is, it appears to punish ISPs for offering less expensive tiers with slower speeds, such as the low-speed tier that Comcast offers to families with children that receive assistance under the National School Lunch Program.

On QWERTY, "n" and "b" keys are adjacent. The word is "bitrate". Google already knows the bitrate of the video that a user is attempting to stream.

I think each segment corresponds to the number of attempts to view HD video over a given hour, divided into successful and unsuccessful attempts.

As I understand it, each of these stories comes out when Google expands the set of locations that don't return "check back soon".

Other than the provider (that is, the local phone company), who is responsible for line quality?