Obama stated today that he would be pushing for stronger enforcement of current copyrights.
In other words, no copyright reforms are coming anytime soon.

We don't need to concern ourselves with those dead white guys and their warnings about corporate influences usurping the rule of the people and all of that other foolishness from ages past. History never repeats itself.

Later, they got a show feed they taped to be played later.
Network television still does that, which is why wild feeds were something to look for when you were bored and had a C-Band dish around.

Netscape had Netcaster and IE had Active Channels, both http push sytems where you subscribed to a feed and had it sent.
Doesn't sound far from the claimed functionality.

That's from 1997.

2 bucks for half an hour of entertainment? The average movie costs more to see, and the value of the entertainment is highly debatable.

I would expect the RIAA and MPAA to provide payments to every ISP and telecom company in the world to offset the labor and administrative cost of this requirement.

It would be the right thing to do.

What the hell is the point of having download/upload speeds if you can't utilize them.

That'll be 15 amps at 110v: to get the same power out of a British socket would only require 7.5 amps which would be (relatively speaking) safer, surely?

That screenshot looks like a cluttered version of Chrome's UI. Clutter is not good. It's for looking at web pages... it doesn't need all those buttons!

If they instituted a state income tax, there would be lynchings in Olympia.

You say that like it would be a bad thing.

I think Boeing having already done the corporate HQ move has had an impact on revenues.
I don't feel too sorry for them though, after the surplus they couldn't decide what to do with quietly vanished and Gregoire's been laying down taxes everywhere from the day she took office.

Apple never signed a contract saying they agreed not to do that. Palm in this case did and violated this contract AND a standard by doing so.

"I will kill my neighbor" is illegal. "I wish all jews were dead" is not illegal. A flag could hardly be taken as a specific act against someone.

it's also usually a statement that, with or without a government that supports them, they'd encourage and possibly participate in terrorist attacks on ethnic minorities.

So? Should we throw Sarah McLachlan in jail because she does commercials on preventing cruelty to animals, and those people often join PETA and attack research facilities? A flag is an association, not a statement of actions. As such, it can't ever be taken as a specific threat.

I do think that very obvious shows of support for Nazism should be illegal (not just in Germany), simply because they cause people to fear for their lives.

And Christians bomb clinics, so I want Christianity outlawed. Muslims blow up planes. Jews shoot Muslims. Chinese shoot Tibetans. Ban them all because someone somewhere may think that the flag/cross represents hatred and violence. The choice is that or nothing. And I choose nothing. Of course, you could take the current situation where some things are banned and others not with no regard to actual effect in today's world. But that arbitrary and capricious scheme is abhorrent.

Cleanup in places like the Black Triangle and other places in Central and Eastern Europe would be the most obvious use for this if it can be done economically. The mining tailings and waste are only part of the problem, but anything helps when nations like Hungary are spending billions on inherited messes.

They should move on to molten-glass Thorium reactors really though, Uranium's so 1945.