Future is bright: http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/09/29/harmonix-confirms-rb2-wii-dlc/

Doesn't sound so different from the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann

>You WANT something like that? Remember what happened whenever the government started giving grants to modernize America with phone lines? The AT&T monopoly was formed.

Yes, I think we need another monopoly like that. Because basic research is a huge tragedy of the commons problem, you need a big monopoly that *is* the commons. When AT&T was, they were able to create one of the best research labs ever and invented the transistor which has accelerated human development at exponential speeds.

>Just look at the patriot act (mind you, passed by BOTH republicans and democrats) and you can see why the government shouldn't run any ISPs.

Just look at the FISA domestic spying indemnity for telecoms who broke the law bill, and it is clear your argument applies to both government and telecoms. I really doubt cable companies would have been any different.

Moot point unless the only way you do anything as root is through a shell in one of the virtual terminalsor xdm. If you ever give your root password in a logged in X session, or as your user (su or sudo) your machine can be compromised. su, bash, etc. can all be replaced with sinister versions, and the next time you su to root, your password is captured.

Since there are no Federal Universities, only partially federally funded universities, the point is moot--faculty, etc. fall under the work for hire exemption, just like Harris does when it writes software for a radar under contract.

>I wish people would educate themselves on the notion of what it means to be a federation of states.

What it means is that Big Companies can play one state against another and score massive subsidies while small businesses can't.

Surely you mean 128Kb.

If you read your contract with ATT, you will realize that any such lawsuit will have to go to arbitration, with a phone-industry appointed panel of phone industry lobbyists.

Firefox has about 50 different extensions implementing grab-and-scroll in various ways.

Isn't Catalan the main language in Barcelona?

Uhh in gtk and qt apps you just up your text size and the whole ui grows. All modern browsers support full page zoom.

Only if we are going back to a Roman Citizen type culture where freedom and democracy is important for people who are in, but absolutely forbidden for people that are 'out' (in this case, the Vietnamese).

The issue isn't electrons and photons through the air vs. electrons and photons through a wire; it is photons through the air vs. electrons and photons through a wire.

>Only some have terrible resolution.

Link to some that don't. You can't, because there aren't any.