If the inventor wanted everyone to have it. He/She would put the "patent" in the public domain. But what the inventor really wants is that everyone *pay* the licenses fees he/she decided its was worth.

Some of the ISP's in the list are huge hosting companies, namely ThePlanet, Layered Tech, Leaseweb, OVH.. You have no idea how big they are unless you've visited one of their data centers. They host millions of servers. How would they check it all? For that matter, who wants their data center staff snooping around in your server?

Being one of the largest hosting companies in the planet obviously brings in bad guys too.

Net Applications is hardly an advertiser. You can't block their statistics by using AdBlock, because that's not how they operate.

Maybe use virtual machines, with pre-packaged disk images specially prepared for those websites (like, IE pre-configured to only connect with their servers, only accept their SSL certificates and completely locked down to any configuration changes), and a policy of returning the VM to the initial state (requires a VM with snapshotting) after each use? Most decent VM engines support RDP too, so the actual hypervisor with its VM images doesn't even need to exist on the workstations, you can put it on a secured server somewhere in the company and make some scripting that would start and present to the user a new, clean VM instance each time they connect. Should be easily hackable using VirtualBox OSE. Alternatively, VMware might offer something like this sytem out of the box, should you decide to pay someone to do this for you.

Netbook users obviously dont give a rats ass about hardware acceleration, they just want their websites they shop and bank
and watch little youtube videos to work. They are not asking for 720p performance, just want their web to work.

not sure what is more funny, Vista/Win 7-style hardware acceleration, or that everyone else will continuing to support XP

I have he solution: the opinion should be expressed by a Rapper, then it could be copyright until 25 years after the Rapper is shot in a drive by.

Ideally, the Rappers works should be released on DVDs protected by DCMA, so the innocent don't actually have to listen to pump-and-dump promotion on MTV.

I think the real story here is not that Pink Floyd is suing, nor that EMI offered the songs as individual tracks, but that there are people stupid enough to buy Pink Floyd in any unit other than an album or complete works set.

Android phone + SIP account + Prepaid data.

I don't know if you northern savages have prepaid data but here in Australia it's quite common, a bit more expensive then regular calls for the moment but the price is going down. This would be your best choice for maintaining a single number in Canada and the US.

"Well, I'm sure in due time we'll have iNorton and all of the iPhones will be safe from this kinda stuff."
Exactly, safe just like Windows PCs are!

Maybe what this kid needs is a iPod Touch or the upcoming WiFi-only iPad. If data plans are unreasonable with the roaming charges, maybe he can just do the smartphone-like things in WiFi zones, and keep his current phone-only device with a phone-only plan...

Why does this guy hate salt so much? Did he have a bad experience with salt, possibly during his early childhood? Does the taste of salt remind him of his ex-lover?

I don't think he really appreciates what salt has done for humanity. It preserved our meat by preventing bacterial growth, flavored food when we had little access to other spices, and even served as currency in ancient times. It gave us handy little phrases like "take that with a grain of salt," and you can even use it to kill slugs.

I did RTFA...and let me explain something to you....NONE OF THAT MATTERS. Nintendo is a huge company. Lawyer wants payday. Family is distraught and wants to blame somebody (except themselves). Lawyer capitalizes on this and goes to sue Nintendo, hoping that Nintendo will settle for a few million (which the layer gets 50% of).

Some sort of electrostatic repulsion?

Perhaps - as long as you can guarantee that all the dust on an alien world is charged to the same polarity. In some cases it is possible.

I think you're grossly misrepresenting the resources of the earth and the Moon. The lunar regolith is basically made of solar cell materials, whereas here you have to dig them up.. not to mention that there's a little matter of ownership, human labor, etc. That said, there's no mature technology for doing this kind of processing of regolith and, even when there is, it's unlikely to be something that could be tended by robots or weigh so little that it can be sent up on an existing booster.