Oh, that's easy: "It looks like you're downloading illegal content. 'The Game of Thrones' cannot currently be purchased online. Click here for a special offer to add HBO-on-demand to your Comcast subscription for only $18.99 per month! (Note: Two year commitment required. Non-TV subscribers must also add the $39.99-per-month 'Digital Starter' package to take advantage of this deal)."

Yeah, I can't imagine that Comcast has a profit motive here or anything.

Huh? Purchased? Owners? Gold fever?

Mozilla is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. No one stands to get rich from this.

We'll welcome you back to the reality-based conversation whenever you feel like re-joining us.

Yeah, I guess it's just Spain and nowhere else.

If only there were some large, developing continent where most countries use Spanish as their native language. Some place where non-smart-phones are still in wide use because people don't want to pay $800 for an iPhone or $400 for an Android phone. Some place where a low-cost, highly capable phone might be welcomed. If only...

The problem is that Opera does implement getUserMedia, but not peerConnection. They can do the part of RTC that accesses cameras and microphones, but not the part that sends it over the network.

Sweet. So if I could get my hands on a SAM powerful enough to hit an earth survey satellite, that's just fine, since it was photographing my back yard without my permission?

Hey, I plan to come out of retirement to fix the Y2038 problem.

No one is saying you need to replace working light bulbs. When they burn out, you'll have to get a halogen replacement. Honestly, we're arguing over the price difference between a $0.50 traditional incandescent and a $0.65 halogen bulb that lasts nearly twice as long. I have a hard time buying a price-based objection to such a change.

"So, which part makes me an idiot?"

The part where you can't read the post you're replying to. He's talking about halogen light bulbs, which have nothing to do with fluorescent lights.

That fact that you can't seem to understand that -- even when it's pointed out to you -- really shows off his point better than he could have ever hoped. You've become so angry over misinformation that you can't even mentally absorb the correction when it's waved in front of your face.

The thing about trademarks is that they are scoped to industries. Who has the trademark on "SAS"? Is it an airline/hotel company? A shoe maker? A software firm? A line of medical supplies? Is it a designation of Sig Sauer handguns? The name of global mining company?

The answer is "all of the above."

Trademarks are not globally unique like copyright and patents. I can call my car audio installation company "Protech," and you can call your home alarm monitoring company "Protech," and we can both maintain trademarks on those names. There's no problem because we're in different industries. Now, if you decided to start doing car audio installation under that name, we'd run into problems.

So it seems to me that Apple's use of a railway's trademark isn't really a violation of trademark law unless there is some overlap in the services provided by the two companies.

San Antonio? You're going to take a cab 160 miles to the border? I doubt you're talking any cab driver into doing that. Perhaps you meant El Paso? (But crossing from El Paso to Juarez has its own set of problems: I'd take capture by the feds over decapitation by the Zetas.)

Where are the analog audio out pins on USB? Or do I need to have a USB host controller in my cheap speaker dock just to interface with a device in your world? how about the audio in pins?

Where are the USB pins that allow a USB device (not a host, but a device) to provide power to an accessory?

Where is the Pr/Pb/Y component output on a USB plug? Composite video? HDMI? VGA? S-Video? Because the dock adapter has pins for all of those things.

The lawyer thing might be more realistic than you think, depending on how widespread the problem is. If it's just you, you'll lose money hiring a lawyer. Then again, if it's just you, customer service should be able to help you out.

But if you can figure out that other people with your ISP are having the same issues, you might be able to form a class and get lawyers to work the case on contingency. Such cases have been settled in the past, with substantial refunds made to the affected customers. For example, I'll be getting a few hundred dollars back from AT&T for years of failing to deliver the speed I was paying for. See https://dslspeedsettlement.com/ for details.

In the early days, it was less regimented, and sometimes as frequently as 4 times a year. For the past few decades, it's been a pretty steady spring/summer/fall meeting schedule.

Never mind the spec; 1, 6, and 11 do overlap (albeit only slightly) in real life. Go buy a 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer, bring up three APs on those three channels, and see for yourself what the power curve is.

Yeah, it's kind of an overpriced crap pit with chronic theft problems in which the staff appear to be complicit (if not the actual perpetrators). But that wasn't really the main thrust of the article. :)