Wait, you can use Gaming Consoles for 'Constructive Activities' ? With a name like 'Gaming Console' i would not really expect it to be anything but a time wasting machine.

only if someone who knows your password system breaches one of your accounts, and knows about all the others. And even then its questionable, because knowing were the breaks in the 8 digit strings are is required. 1 digit left or right, and the factor goes back through the roof.

You are talking about the company that Patched in NoCD cracks at the end of life for older games (diablo 2). Somehow, i suspect that when the time comes, and Diablo 3 servers no longer make the company enough money to bother with them, they will patch the login feature out in some way.

and if you do it wrong, your bathroom faucet will shock the shit right out of you!

because everyone wants to go through the hassle of joining 150 different wifi networks while they are at a museum. That is where the laser idea makes sense. So you make a cradle 'touch your phone here to download this display's audio clip' You sandbox all the data that comes in from that port, and do away with cumbersome 'join this network?' notifications.

you've not lived until you start buying rain-X brand windshield wiper fluid. It amounts to Rain-X that never fades because 'oh, the rain-x seems to have worn off' *press button* 'good to go!'

And, to add creepy insult to injury, it shows every miserable two track goat path and jeep road on every ranch in west texas. right up to my front door. This is why we get those people on the news who get lost in the ass end of Utah or something, and spend a week slowly freezing to death in the mountains because they where blindly following roads they saw 'on the internets'

Which will last until duckduckgo starts getting more traffic than is being paid for by the ad's, and suddenly, duckduckgo becomes the next google, where the ads are compulsory. As much as we hate it, we have to realize, the ads pay for these fantastic magical services, so that you don't have to fork over 5$ or 10$ or 15$ a month to use them. Nothing is free. Ever.

The reason EA is not Indie is because they are a publisher. Other, smaller companies make games for them. For example, DICE made Battlefield 1942, but EA funded/published it, because EA has the money and name to get it out there.
Mojang is indie because they made the game, AND they published the game. DICE, had it funded and published Battlefield 1942 themselves, they would have been the big Indie publisher on the block at the time. Now, if Mojang starts spending their money to fund other developers, and publishes a game for them, then they would be on the road to becoming a major publisher.

i suppose because despite its national scope, literally hundreds of companies all have to get their shit together, at approximately the same time, all with enough budget to upgrade/replace *their* portion of the grid. And we all know how good humans are at working together when money is involved.