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).

Yes, trading is going on. http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html

A different analysis showed that around 2M BTC have never been spent even once after being mined. Many of these unspent block rewards are from the early days so it's not clear whether they're lost or hoarded. Given the very low exchange rate at the time, it wouldn't be surprising if they were simply discarded.

By "mess" I guess you mean "ships more units in one year than desktop Linux did in 15 years".

Android developers don't care about desktop Linux and are willing to fork anything that gets in their way. They've done it before.

Android will end up with 3D that works fine; it will just be based on different APIs than desktop Linux.

Oh, you want Optimus documentation? Here, have some documentation! ... for Tegra ... 2D.

It is legal for you to record such calls in every state because every party to the conversation is aware that it is recorded. No need to make an announcement because they have already announced that they are recording.

Yeah because all that military might has been very effective in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, USSR, etc...

MIPS is still big in networking; see Cavium and Raza/NetLogic/Broadcom.

For some reason I looked at the MIPS Web site the other day and they have no 64-bit cores. It looks like they've completely abandoned 64-bit.