So the guy could renew the trademark and force Apple to pay him money to take over the trademark? Or just release a product that uses the trademark (even if they only make and try to sell a few copies of said product.) Candied apples with the APPLE trademark, anyone?

Simply sticking to what he knows. He doesn't really understand technology so he isn't in a good position to judge what will succeed. So he stays away from it and stick with things like consumables that he can fully understand and see if it is likely to succeed like Kraft foods.

Oh I'm sure they will roll it out in time to compete with Google Fiber. It will only be in a very limited area and it will come with the 300GB/month limit.

I don't see it as a sudden change since they had been fighting this war for a number of years. Sure, the FCC had come down on the side of the cable companies most of the time but the fact that the issue of network neutrality came and kept coming up year after year shows that this isn't some sort of massive change out of nowhere. It was a clear reaction to the cable companies refusal to work with the FCC as they clearly kept saying 'I'm not going to do what you want and you can't make me.' This is just the FCC stepping and saying that they can make them do what they want.

Given what the courts have said in the past I don't see a challenge to the FCC rules coming from the courts. Congress is another matter.

Passengers have zero rights to know what is going on in the cockpit at any time. The airlines and the FAA or relevant local agencies, on the other hand, do have rights to know what is going in the cockpit. Especially if it impacts air safety. The question that I have not seen answered is will adding video surveillance to the cockpit increase air safety in any noticeable way.

For the most part they weren't even opinions. The last comment that got him into trouble was when they had been filming a segment for a while where Clarkson needed to pick between three (cars, I think) and he choose the 'Eeney Meeney Miney Moe' nursery rhyme only he supposedly used the N word instead of tiger. That was done while they were filming but not in public. So it was bad form and certainly something not to be proud of but not anything like an assault and not something that was clearly racist. More like Clarkson being bored and trying to be funny.

The BBC isn't the government but it operates under the rules that the government sets. This means that they are especially careful about what any of their employees say which is why they came down hard on Clarkson for his supposed racist remarks. It was a pre-emptive strike to stave off a possible reaction by the government. I've read some reports about what speech can get you into trouble in the UK and it's pretty amazing when you consider what people get away with in the USA.

Fifth Gear is still going. I don't think it's as entertaining a show as Top Gear but it clearly gets enough viewers that they keep it going.

Comments that, according to what I heard, may not have happened because it wasn't exactly clear what he said. Also they never went on air with the comments. Lastly the racist remark was in completing a certain nursery rhyme in a way that I'm everyone reading this has done at least once in your mind if not verbally. It's something that can't be avoided when the N word is being mentioned all the time either as something not to be said or as something that comes up all the time in rap and common conversations involving black people (yes, I know it's not supposed to be the same word but it sure sounds the same.)

I'm not suggesting that racist comments are something that anyone should indulge in whether in public or private, but given the context and Clarkson's tendency to try and be funny on camera I can see him saying it as part of the rhyme knowing that it won't make it on air. At worst someone should have said don't do that, but that he got a warning from the BBC seems overkill to me. It would be entirely different if he did that in front of an audience and not just while recording some set piece that they were probably working on all day long. From what I read they had already filmed the same segment three times so he was probably a bit bored.

I remember working at one place where the phone system had a password on each account that was forced to change every three months. The problem was that the system remembered every password you used and wouldn't let you repeat one. That seems a bit overkill for simple voice mail.

Why would it need to be that much. The devices should be able to maintain their own vision of time accurately enough that syncing to the outside world once a day would be more than enough. If you have a master time server inside the house the traffic won't even hit the world outside of your home.

I don't see how I can resell my digital copy of Windows 8.1 that I'm running now even though it's legal. I suppose I do get the benefit of being able to call Msft but doesn't cost money? Only time I ever called them was when this copy decided it wasn't legitimate one day so I had to call up and get that fixed.