What do you people think the Internet is? Its mostly a collection of Cisco routers and switches. Don't fool yourself if you think its this living breathing emergent organism that has evolved because of open source and Linux and all the techno weenie coders and packet kiddies circle jerking each other on IRC all night long. Its a network evolved BY corporations FOR corporations. The only difference is that they didn't have to pay royalties to any university for the idea.

Fax is patented and it is still used today worldwide and is unlikely to go away. What is so wrong with Coke and Pepsi? McDonalds and Burger King? All these are proprietary, patented products, that have created a market and inspired competition FOR that market share. If Internet was a commercial entity, then perhaps we would have faster expansion of various networks trying to compete with one another for the customers. Since there is a free networking standard, Cisco still managed to monopolize it, so did Microsoft and any other company. And what did they contribute to the basic research? Very little compared to what would've been contributed by a nonprofit entity.

And he is absolutely right. If Internet was patented by the Universities, today we would have more money centered around basic research and development. We would still have businesses competing to create an alternative and perhaps yield a better standard than HTML. Ultimately the price level and innovation are correlated and depend on consumer demand.

So this virtual 'doctor' earns about $561,600 salary a year for consulting services? There is no liability, no physical exam, no prescription services. This is a great business model!

I suppose when it involves your own personal stock in the company, as well as an officer position, posting confidential internal materials that could potentially hurt the company is a breach of fiduciary duty with such company. Even if he wasn't the first to reveal this information.

If they disable the Internet access to their local community then we have less traffic to deal with. This, in my humble opinion, is a win for the rest of the enlightened world in the US

Oh this is great, over a year old news
http://greenupgrader.com/3119/discovery-vegetarian-spiders/

The NYPD's computers are so old, any attempt to flood the machine will result in an immediate segfault and a BSOD.