So if I have a phone or tablet paired to a Bluetooth controller, and I want to use this phone or tablet to search for games that will be compatible with both the phone or tablet and this new "Gooya", how do I set Google Play Store to narrow the selection to only titles that support controller operation?

Which means the developer would have to buy specifically an Xperia Play to test on, in addition to a Moga, a JXD S5110, an Archos GamePad, etc. so that they can all be included in the description. That's why searching based on the names of devices of similar capability is unsustainable.

If you create a game that uses iOS 7's new API for MFI controllers, it'll work on an iPhone 4 or iPod touch (fifth generation) with or without AirPlay to an Apple TV. Likewise, if you create an Android game that uses a controller, it can work on an Android phone paired to a Moga controller, on an uncommon handheld Android device with buttons such as Xperia Play, Shield, JXD S5110, Archos GamePad, or on a console such as Ouya or this new Gooya. It's just that most phones aren't sold in a bundle with a controller, and different genres of game work on a multitouch screen compared to a controller. Platformers and fighting games, for example, need a controller, and they can be next to unplayable on a multitouch screen alone.

Which "different telco" do you recommend for occasional-use voice-only service (120 USD per year or less) on a smartphone?

A lot of circumstances can change between conception and when the child is old enough to learn how to take care of a laptop.

But how big has it grown? Whether or not a company is willing to port a game to Android to reach Ouya, Shield, and Moga users depends on how well those products have sold. I'm surprised that a lot of manufacturers hide their sales figures from the public. I would figure that a manufacturer would want to brag about how many of its product have been sold to encourage developers to port their games.

The bit about "mere aggregation" was expanded in GPLv3, not removed. Look near the bottom of section 5 for the word "aggregate".

The problem here is that incumbent copyright owners are likely to file copyright infringement lawsuits against those who create alternatives to DRM'd content, claiming that these alternatives to DRM'd content were nonliterally copied from the works of the incumbent copyright owners. We've already seen The Tetris Company, for example, win a lawsuit against another publisher of a game with the same rules.

What operating system is both mainstream and distributed without charge?

Except this DRM isn't standardized either. Providers of content decryption modules are still free to make the choice not to port them to any operating system that is distributed to the public without charge.

For future reference: There are two reasons you might need tags. One is the correlation of proficiency in computer science and information technology with Asperger syndrome. This means Slashdot users are more likely to be Aspies like myself (diagnosed in ninth grade) than the general population. Another is that we have enough actual iOS fanboys here that any attempt to sort sarcasm from sincerity runs smack into Poe's law.

It's a controller that can't play certain kinds of games very well, at least without an additional controller.

Each individual content decryption module is not a standard; it's a trade secret. I see nothing to guarantee that a given content decryption module will be made available for all platforms that access the Web.

I haven't thoroughly debugged the scripts on Chase.com, but let me offer a few guesses. Only script can store cookies in localStorage or IndexedDB. Only script can generate a keypair that the server and the browser will use for challenges and responses, and only script can respond to the server's challenges.

Are you familiar with the concepts of "information overload" and "progressive disclosure"? Please look them up on DuckDuckGo before proceeding. The gist is that if a document presents far more information at a time than the user is expecting, the user will find it difficult to find the desired information in the document. An alternate model is to present the entire web site as a single document and use the web browser to navigate in that document, but that's the same model that PDF uses for navigation, and a lot of Slashdot users have voiced their hatred of various things about PDF.

It doesn't matter. One handshake to start a download of the 4 kilobytes of information that has can changed and one handshake to start a redownload of the entire page are each one handshake. One of them just transfers less data afterward. Besides, HTTP/1.1 allows a web browser to hold a connection open, resulting in fewer TCP handshakes overall. I myself have not measured that down to the extra handshake, but operators of large web applications have. There are white papers on the Web about on how Yahoo! and Google optimized their web applications to require fewer requests.

Which would be sent with or without script. In fact, without script, more things would have to be sent and re-sent.

The excuse for not carrying a smartphone is that not everybody has hundreds of dollars of discretionary income to spend on a data plan. Verizon and Sprint refuse entirely to activate voice-only service on a smartphone, and AT&T is known for cramming a data plan onto a voice-only SIM when the SIM is inserted into a smartphone. Should someone carry a laptop everywhere and risk having it stolen just in case he needs to access the Internet at someone's house? And even if so, would you let a house guest use your WLAN?

Would you also buy a laptop for one of your child's classmates who is on a play date at hour house but whose parents cannot afford to buy him his own laptop?

But what providers of shared hosting or a virtual private server are willing to do this for a customer? I've asked the tech support departments of a few such hosts, and the answer was "Just say yes to whatever key fingerprint your SSH client shows."

No, but a video game developer chooses a platform by the size of the audience, and there isn't yet much of an audience for Android games that require a gamepad.

You may consider asking to use your computer "the height of bad manners." Someone else might disagree with you, considering denial of use of a guest account itself a selfish act and "the height of bad manners." If my family is hosting an annual reunion, for example, "go back to Arizona and get your laptop, or I'll have to exclude you from participating in video games" isn't going to cut it.

If two children live together, how do you recommend that they play a two-player video game?

More than one game? Yes. More than one game that needs a gamepad? Not quite as likely. If ten games are installed on a device but a gamepad improves only one of them, I'm not so sure the person would buy a gamepad.