Counting bytes is just as easy as counting packets, so I don't know why you assume they can do one but not the other. When counting bytes there's no need to consider packet size at all.

If ISPs refused to implement six strikes, the MPAA probably would have bought a new super-DMCA law that was even worse. Industries generally prefer self-regulation over government regulation because Congress is a bit of a wild card.

Time Warner Cable actually split from Time Warner recently, so they're not related.

It's not any different from blades. Actually group hug is not hotswap, so it's worse than blades but probably cheaper.

I demand to know why every ATCA blade is crazy expensive. Oh yeah, because they're telco and Facebook can't afford to overpay for carrier-grade reliability they don't need.

APUs are not server chips. And the server ARMs don't have video either.

I think the 42U rack height comes from the standard 7-foot door/elevator height. Some datacenters definitely have custom tall racks already, and I wouldn't be surprised to see more of that in the future.

Nah, they just put the BIOS on the same daughterboard as the CPU.

The only thing that makes sense is that everything is on the daughterboard and the "motherboard" is basically a passive PCIe backplane (with very little bandwidth). This kind of architecture has been used in telco and embedded systems for decades.

You're allowed to use the open wifi defense one time. (And you have to pay $35 to defend yourself, which pirates are too cheap to do.) After that it's assumed that you learned how to secure it.

Fortunately there are specific laws saying that your money is still yours when you store it in a bank. But apparently the DOJ thinks that the same principle doesn't apply to data unless there's a law specifically saying so.

I'm not familiar with phone technology, but codecs (which came up in the Moto-MS case) are indeed licensed as a fixed fee per unit. AFAIK this is considered FRAND.

Moto's patents may be legit, but they're asking a very high price for them. If 50 companies each ask for 2.25% royalties, it doesn't leave much...

TI has no modern fabs; they decided to get out of the fab business a few years ago.

Bitcoin is for crypto-goldbugs who don't believe in fractional reserve, so yeah, you need to have BTC before you can spend it. There's also no point in putting BTC in a bank since the "banks" aren't insured and don't pay interest (the ones that claim to pay interest are scams).