@xj0hnx: "...in the end, he's just a nerd that says stupid shit", says one kotaku commenter to another.

@ImSpartacus: It is, but you only get a few channels. More importantly, the bandwidth (in terms of bitrate per channel, not spectrum) for OTA HD signals is substantially greater than that for cable or satellite. Consequently, OTA is much less compressed. The difference is especially obvious with fast moving, busy…

Maybe he just really liked Scott Pilgrim?

@thePrototype: The old Hitachi "Director's series" plasma displays were just that - a tv stripped of tuner and speakers with a smaller, black bezel. Of course, they cost an addition $600 or so.

@Michael Hayes: That's not draconian, that's just a retail establishment setting its inventory guidelines. Amazon doesn't sell hardcore porn. Wal-Mart doesn't approve certain movie/game/music titles for sale. Every mom and pop store ever chooses what products will and won't be representative of the business they…

@Steezy McFresh: If you take into account that a brick and mortar sales model gives a big cut to the retailer, a big cut to the distributor, a big cut to the publisher, and will usually take retail promotional costs (essentially bribes to the retailer and distributor to keep them from hiding the product) out of the…

@streetRIDE: While I'm sure there is plenty of abuse of the handicapped permit system, it's not something you're in a position to judge.

The examples provided are frustrating, but aren't exactly cheap tactics. They're just evidence of bad play balancing by the devs.

@interkin3tic: Screw you, man! Eskimos play baseball just fine, they just don't know how to steal bases.

@Zovni: By that logic, all police efforts should only focus on the most dangerous of crimes. Why bother to stop or punish any property crimes when the police officers tasked with that could be shifted to murder, rape, and assault investigations?

@☆Giroro G66☆: Haha! "...as per usual..." I see what you did there!

@warpwhistle: You're right. This was nothing like a victimless crime. Affected parties include: game owners and ISPs as well as the publisher and matchmaking service whose products are devalued by this sort of behavior. MW2 sales were definitely affected by all of reports that it wasn't worth playing because the…

It's also possible to use Google Apps features without moving your domain's mail hosting to Google. My company uses Google Apps Calendar and all of the group delegation ability that comes with it, but keep our own mailhost. You can do this by just not changing your MX records in DNS to point to Google's mail servers.

@mp3_boy: Which particular leaked info is putting people at risk? There's a lot of bluster from the blowhards at Fox News, but mostly these documents just show the State Dept. to be hypocritical, which is hardly newsworthy.

@Yerzriknot: Not for foreigners outside of US jurisdiction and not for journalists (see the Pentagon Papers). Manning commited a crime, but Assange hasn't, at least with regard to the leaked info.

@albo: Some of these are licensing problems, not technical ones. The publishing licensing for the pro tracks is a much more complicated deal and not necessarily retroactively compatible with earlier contracts.

@mykpfsu77: The woman and Swedish prosecutors don't seem to agree with you. If things were as simple as you state them, then I think you'd be right, but perhaps things are more complex than can be contained in a single sentence fragment, or even in an entire Gizmodo article.

@lankysob: So you're saying that he's not tweeting, he's tooting?

@nbarton: Apple takes 30% of the sale price. Devs get 70%, which is enormous compared to a brick&mortar retail channel, where the retailer, distributor, and publisher each usually get a larger cut than the dev.

@JDickson87: Except they make it very easy to publish free apps, so that explanation doesn't really hold water. Liability as an intermediary in a fraudulent transaction seems a much more likely deterrent. There are MANY cases of scams falsely posing as charitable organizations or representing themselves as legit…