The people who have a Maemo device care, of course.

Unfortunately, I did not see the argument you first linked because you posted it after I made my comment. The second I did see, and I did not see that as a coherent argument as much as a link to another argument.

And again, you may have missed the point, which I only initially called you out on because you decided to make a comment that was irrelevant to the issue at hand. It does not matter whether it is Google or Bing, it matters that ISPs will make network upgrades in such a way that one may get an upper hand over another.

It has nothing to do with walled gardens, I only made my comment to show that you could have made a better argument against his actual point, not pick on him a small detail.

All that said, I am glad you have continued to clarify your point, even though I think you are not arguing on the point at hand.

I do believe sir, that you have missed the point of the grandparent post entirely. Be it Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, or whoever Comcast is "in bed with", the point is that actions such as delayed upgrades will favor one company over another, which is not neutral. The problem, then becomes, if the internet is to be regulated, how does one identify when such actions are intended, or benign. I see your many posts scattered across this article, and all of them are strongly anti-regulation, but you must make your argument in a coherent matter, not raising a red herring argument to any post you disagree with.

Except that the presence of his patent spurred the market into innovating in LED technology.

Unfortunately, nothing is that black and white in the world. Freedom does have a middle ground.

I have the freedom to drive a car. I do not have the freedom to drive a car on private property where I am not wanted, as doing so would infringe on the freedom of another to hold private property and keep it private. In the same way, those who write code have the freedom to keep their code private as they want.

It is a balancing act.

Except that that overlooks the fact that most teaches will use the "Clear RAM" function to quickly wipe a TI, and that archived programs are saved from this wipe.

Archive programs, let teacher wipe calculator, un-archive programs, and there you go.

Unfortunately, this case does not come out of the United States. The co.uk top level domain being your first clue.

For some reason, your post seems a great deal more credible, and amusing, when read as if spoken by Dr. House; especially given the selective "quotations" and (snide side commentary).

Have you considered using your talents for sarcasm and wit elsewhere? Somewhere you can get paid for it?

Yes, but I must do so on port 21 as port 22 is blocked outright on the network.

FTP is left wide open because the IT department uses it for any sort of file transfer, as well as the fact that they heavily rely on Websense, and its default behaviour towards FTP is to allow all incoming and outgoing connections on that port.

But what if their tasks with no work-arounds are what they do all day long? They'll stay logged in as administrator all the time. So why even bother with the limited account in that case?

I don't have a long-form birth certificate, so by your reasoning, I must not be a natural born U.S. citizen. Nevermind the fact that there are photographs from my birth showing I was born in a Florida hospital. Nevermind the fact my parents last left the country two years before I was born. Nevermind any other facts or evidence I can find. It's long-form birth certificate or nothing, isn't it?

I think you need to find a new battle to fight, because this one is dead. You can pull whatever reasoning you want out, but in the end, it's all just bloggers and "reporters" pulling out the same arguments over and over with their own opinion. Your basis of argument is a fallacy, please let it go.

I'm a humorless twat, you insensitive clod.