However, other currencies don't have this problem where the currency just "breaks" suddenly, and basically stops working.

Imagine if bitcoin had been more popular, if everyone had bitcoin applications on their phone which take months to get updated, where half the world if running v7 and half v8. This would have (as I understand it, and I think I do) just fundamentally broken bitcoin, possibly beyond reasonable repair.

The EC is much better at standing up to badly behaved companies than America. What they can do is fine any company which does work in Europe.

Are you serious suggesting not selling to the EU? The EU is bigger than America, world-wide the EU could well make up at least a third of all sales that Oracle or Sun makes. Of course they aren't going to throw that away.

Because bandwidth isn't free, what gave you that idea?

The bandwidth problems don't come so much from inside Comcast's network, but from their connections to the rest of the internet. These are all charged by bandwidth because at the end of the day we at saturating the various cables that connect continents.

Looking through those book apps, there are many groups of people who are just taking every out-of-copyright book they can find and turning each into a separate app. In general, the games don't do the same things, hence the lower quantity.

By .CONF I'm sure they mean "configuration files which begin with a .". In my home directory there seem to be 80 of the things, and I have no idea what is in more than 2 of them.

Basically you are suggesting someone would make and then sell a disk which could only be read, entirely, 10 times in it's entire life time?

Well that's easily solved. We won't buy those disks.

..although this is an 1.1alpha release of Theora..

You say that as if it's against Theora. It's not -- otherwise they would have tested against a released version. There could well improvements in the various mpeg-4 codes if you dig around in developer repositories.

No, that won't work. Apache will drop connections which aren't making "useful progress".

However, it's definition of "useful progress" is flawed -- you can keep sending HTTP headers, and it will keep the connection open. You only have to send one every few seconds, so it's a very low bandwidth DOS attack.

Surely Mootium?

This existed pre-internet. How many bought a diary and wrote one entry? Went out for a run, swim or to the gym once? Read a few pages of War and Peace? Only went to one foreign language lesson? Only bothered with a couple of piano/guitar/trumpet lessons?

While twitter has many problems, the fact that the majority of people tend to play with a new thing and then stop isn't new, or news.

All you would reveal would be how full the disk is. Is that a serious concern? If so, you will have to accept the cost of slowed encrypted discs.

Actually in Europe the average PhD duration is more like 3 years. I know a few people who have passed through CERN and gone while doing their PhDs.

Woops, missed the subtlety there. My bad.

Seriously? Swapping because of much larger files?

Even 50MB of pure source is inconceivable to me (someone might provide a good counterexample), and that's a tiny amount of the memory of any modern system.

Why it Died: cost > income