I would not use an isp that thought they had the right to alter my free and unfettered access to the internet in a y way shape or form.

the catch is the copyright trolls still run the internet

they are usually well designed. this is not.

I tried to post a link to the article on Facebook, but it refused, claiming it had been flagged as abusive, Wtf!

atleast the packet has legal protection
in australia, the government owned physical packet switching network known as 'australia post' has huge legal protection over every single packet switchted through the network, unlike digital networks. even retaining the header (sender/reciever) data is illegal, and any deep packet inspection will be met with the full force of the federal police. so from a legal perspective the data is a lot safer in post than in your email inbox

Way to miss the point, again, Microsoft.
I can only assume this is another example of bureaucracy and accountants getting in the way of tech.

Good.
Now that all the speculation is over, can we accept that the USA is broken and just route all internet traffic around it? Surely the rest of the infrastructure is grown up enough to do without the rotting corpse that may have started the internet but is now too foobar.

when can I host my own? wasn't it going floss?

way better than pi, for $50 (or 0 for my old phone) I get 500mhz, apps, WiFi, gps, accelerometers, touchscreen, battery, card slot, another $50 at sparkfun gets me all the breakout usb io I want 'cept hdmi.

I'm from Tasmania, where our most recognisably tasmanian icon the Tasmanian Devil(TM) (since we killed the Tigers) is trademarked by a US company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Devil_(Looney_Tunes)

in this re-issue apple have broadened the claims to include a 'beacon'.

GPS was not mentioned in the claims of the original patent, and the claims are the only part you can use to control what others do.

somehow apple got the patent expanded well after the issue, the original claims require a location specific object (quite obviously a satellite is not a earth location specific object)

Should be funny, not dead and/or alive, long live classic internet!

I use an SGI 1600SW - fantastic monitor and ancient by IT lifespans, good vertical and horizontal res, great DPI

let people use their smart phone as the terminal! then they can keep their language prefs etc. configured - it could even give a guided tour as they walk around. for a start i'd look at a Drupal site on the intranet with a local Kaltura install for the video delivery - both free and opensource so anyone can pickup the maintenance when you move on.