The average teen (even including teens without cell phones) sends and receives five times more text messages a day than a typical adult. A teen typically sends or receives 50 text messages a day, while the average adult sends or receives 10.

Pew really ought to try interviewing a few people outside of the urban DJ population.

WTF!

What d!ck with mod points calls a request for political activism trolling?!!

You do realize that ISPs are not and have never been common carriers, right?

The FCC proposal is to designate ISPs as common carriers which will subject them to net-neutrality regulation.

Technically, ISPs should already be common carriers under the definition in the 1996 Telecom Act, which applies to all persons who engage in "interstate or foreign communication by wire or radio or in interstate or foreign radio transmission of energy..."

It's just that the FCC has been treating them as "information service providers" so now the FCC will have to make a finding that they are, in fact, common carriers and then will make rules governing them.

There's a whole lot of paperwork and public hearings involved, but it's entirely within their authority so any opposition from congress will either have to involve passing a law that changes that authority or (as was previously mentioned) coercing the FCC chair by screwing with his budget.

So, that's 74 democrats and 37 republicans who are either too stupid to know/bother-to-learn how common carrier laws work or who are wholly owned by communications monopolists.

Where's the list of assholes who signed those letters?

Scoffers have long derided as physically impossible passages in the Book of Revelation...

They just don't get around.

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple-A4-Teardown/2204/1

It's not a "dual core Power Architecture."

According to the teardown, the chip is "quite similar to the Samsung processor Apple uses in the iPhone."

iFixit concluded that it was a Cortex A8 in there and I've seen nothing to contradict that.

That should have started, "With $17 million in sales..."

17 million sales of $.37 stamps = 46 million or so stamps actually produced.

Statutory damages can run from $750-$30,000 per copy, assuming that it wasn't a willful infringement.

That's a minimum award of $34,500,000,000 (34.5 billion) and a maximum award of 1,380,000,000,000 (1.4 trillion). Plus attorney's fees, of course. Roughly last year's federal deficit not counting off-budget spending bills.

Would anyone here care to argue that statutory damages in the U.S. are not way out of proportion to the scope of the infringement?

how do you not prove that they benefited by having OEMs sell the newer version of their software before allowing a downgrade path?

This is from the article:

Computer makers, not Microsoft, charged users the additional fees for downgrading a new PC from Vista to XP at the factory. However, Alvarado did not name Lenovo Group Ltd. in her lawsuit.

She sued MS for a practice of the OEM. Wrong defendant.

It's possible that she could have shown vertical market manipulation, but that might not have been relevant. Such practices might give rise to a federal antitrust suit, but she brought a state unfair practices action.

I'm no expert in the laws of Washington state, but from the article it appears that among other things she had to show that she did not receive value for her money and she failed to do so.

My LiteOn PVR has a simple timer for recording like a VCR.

It has user-replaceable parts.

It doesn't require a paid subscription.

LiteOn doesn't sell records of my viewing habits.

It hasn't got a partition allocated for ads.

It doesn't display ad-banners when I pause or fast forward.

It has editing features.

It has a built-in DVD burner.

Yeah, TiVo offers a few neat features, but I'd have to give up a lot of utility and a great deal of privacy to get them. F-k that. My next PVR will be a computer with a Hauppauge tuner.

Not only will they pass the Turing test when they spontaneously generate a chorus of "Yeah yeah yeah," but the first three songs using both "yeah" and "hey hey" will crack the top 40.