Nintendo is stupid to do this. Those videos (I don't watch them or care to) are advertising for the games. People see them and go hey I want to check this game out.

If you start taking away the incentive to make those videos which advertise your game to people who might not really have liked the game but then saw the video and decided to buy it they will simply stop making those videos.

So Nintendo you don't get the ad revenue either way but you do get the additional sales of the game that might have been missed.

All MS needs to do is like Next Issue. You download the apps for free but you have to sign up on the website and there is not way to purchase in-app the subscription. There a ton of Apps on the store that are for Users of the service and do not have the option to buy the service in-app. If you don't have a subscription then you only get basic functionality. Sign in and boom there you go, but you have sign up for the service via another website.

I work at that fruit company and 80% of the calls we get about broken screens are from people dropping them on the edge. With glass, any glass, if you drop it on the edge or corner not much chance it will not break.

Leaks about Presidential itineraries are not really big news. Thanks for keeping us losers abreast. Even adding in the Twitter reference this is really hardly worth our time.

Google does this because the average user does not care. I think this is problem and lots of technology smart people also view it as a problem. But Google is not implementing those privacy polices without an understanding of the needs of business and consumers. Their privacy polices are not that much different than the other file storage and sharing sites. (http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/26/google-drive-privacy/)

So the fervor is mostly about the fact that it is Google. And Google has a lot of access to our information via their very inclusive systems.

What we need to be more concerned about is an overall set of standards that reflect a way for people to get the best experience without providing too much personal information that will be used outside our control.

No police officer should ever be anything but OK when someone tapes their arrest. If they are not then it is a complete and absolute validation that they did not follow procedure. I am a 2 time convicted felon and not once did I dispute what they did unless it was illegal and they did not have proof that what they did was ok. 2 Convictions have been thrown out because they did not have proof not because I was innocent. Of course that was 19 years ago,

Allows us to become terrorists. ;-) True free speech does not judge or rule. So anti and pro movements should be able to use the platform to spread their message.

Hard to give "good results" when your indexing is limited by the "Great Wall". But yes I agree with you.

FU. I am not a cop fan but they have a job that I won't do because just pulling over a person for a broken tail light could mean that they are shot at or shot and killed.
So even if they are not the PH'D people they are not stupid like the Occupiers that believe they should get healthcare and college education for free.
So give them some slack even if they are not geniuses.

Just my LHO

Google will do nothing to change their stance, but they will work to better integrate in to Android and make it so people want them not Baidu.