While it would be a relatively minor thing for Activision to "lock" No Doubt's game characters, an acknowledgement of blame could attract a wave of artist complaints.
Scanning license plates seems like a relatively minor thing for the police to do, but in the words of an EFF lawyer, it allows the police to track "where you work and live, what doctor you go to, which religious services you attend, and who your friends are".
Most recently he wrote the strategic plan for the Mori Art Center in Tokyo, he said, adding that he ran his New York gallery, Deitch Projects, "like an art center, with historic exhibitions where only minor things were for sale" and helped create ambitious projects, like a recent floating installation by the street artist Swoon that he called "practically unsalable".
And the missing features are minor things – like, for example, you can't put embellishments or backgrounds in the Editor when creating sets, and the search feature doesn't let you search for members – that sort of thing.
"Except for minor things, like theft, we have never had a security problem involving an employee," Mr. Uber said.
New Yorkers are worried that this may be about to change.Many of the city's officers have recently decided not to bother enforcing the law at all for minor things.
Inevitably, perhaps, such hot housing was followed by a period of extended rebellion: "In my first two years of high school I got into a lot of trouble with the police for minor things: graffiti, stealing, crashing cars.
"The idea is to take that first encounter with the law, especially for minor things, and use it to put them back on the right track, turn it into something positive," said Carolyn Dallas, the D.C. Youth Court's executive director.
Treat obstacles as opportunities, and embrace gratitude, even for minor things.
