Because you'd be free to use other people's older music to make derivative works.

But in reality, being able to claim "It's made by Cisco" is the reason they DON'T get fired or demoted.

Guatemala wants to deport him to Belize, but he is a US citizen. Instead of trying to stay in Guatemala, I would think he has a better chance of convincing them to return him to the US (at his expense, due to the greater distance compared to Belize) than of being allowed to stay in Guatemala.

But I see no sign that he's trying to go back to the US. Did he surrender his US citizenship?

I was referring to going back to the US from Guatamela. Once he's in Guatemala, he could either seek to get on a plane to the US like a regular passenger, or ask Guatemala to deport him to the US at his own expense.

If Belize is a problem for him, why doesn't he move back to the US? He still has his US citizenship, and Guatemala will seek to deport him to the US.

How can he have a valid asylum claim if his country of citizenship isn't giving him a problem? Or is he going to claim that the US will extradite him to Belize?

"What is the reasoning behind it being illegal to sell your non-vital organs? Is it to prevent people from being coerced into it under the guise of a legitimate transaction?"

Years ago in India when selling kidneys was legal, many people actually were coerced into selling their kidneys. Sometimes the coercion was by family members, other times by the kidney brokers who would get a cut of the transaction.
This particular case is aggravated by the age of the donor (seller), a 17 year old minor.

"Always wondered why this was the case. You'd think if this venue was opened up, there would be more organs going where they are needed without requiring the donor first have a nasty case of death."

Or it could actually decrease the available supply if people who would have otherwise donated out of kindness start demanding more and more money, making the transplants more unaffordable. And some people staying out of it altogether because they're disgusted with the coercion and corruption.

If you make it standard procedure to ask for an account number, the customers will ensure that the number is known to the individuals who call for support.

Why should the legal system enable Form1 to use litigation to eradicate the competition?

Do your job ads mention the $150K+ salary?

Many job ads don't mention the salary. If you're not listing the salary, developers will only have your reputation as a company and the type of work described in the ad to use as their basis for deciding whether to apply. If those aspects are not outstanding, you'll get mostly unemployed applicants (who will be rare in San Fran), not already-employed developers who want to know that they'll get a salary increase.

It also appears that it doesn't work if there are more than two virtual machines running on the same physical CPU, or if the attacking VM is the only one running on a given CPU.

With 3 or more VMs on the same CPU, the cache gets populated by virtual machines other than the targeted "victim" machine, so the attacker doesn't know which is affecting what. And if the attacking VM is alone on the CPU, it can't find any other VMs to attack.

Either sell them all as one big batch, or in lots of 100. There are businesses and nonprofits that will buy them.

Except that when people build or buy an HTPC, it's usually not just for recording TV shows, it's also for playing games, music, ripped DVDs or Blu-Rays, Netflix, and other uses. The cable company's box won't do that.

It's possible that the more recent dumpers don't even know they're not supposed to dump there; after seeing junk already piled up some may assume that it's a legitimate dumping ground.

A sign or two saying something like "PRIVATE PROPERTY NO DUMPING" might help, if you don't already have a sign like that which is being ignored.

What matters is where the authorized "first sale" occurred, not where it was manufactured.

So if a book publisher has books printed outside the US, then imports them and sells them retail for the first time in the US, you can freely resell it because the first sale occurred within the US.

What is being disputed in this court case is whether you can resell a copyrighted item in the US if the first sale occurred outside the US.

"I don't know about the 47% figure, but I know that the number of people on disability has increased over 50% over the last decade, which is much faster than the growth of the population. You can't tell me that more people are becoming sick and disablfed; SOMETHING is wrong, and the system IS being abused."

The system is being abused, but the system is also abusing people.

There are many on disability who can do some form of work and some who were actually working before the recession, but the bad economy and the way the system works strongly discourages them from working again.

When a disabled person gets a job, their disability benefits are reduced or eliminated, and then if/when they lose the job they have to go through the long bureaucracy to prove their disability all over again which can take over a year. Before the recession when jobs were easier to find, many would take jobs knowing that the job would either last a long time or they'd be able to find a new job reasonably quickly.

But with high unemployment, any job they get is less secure, and finding a new job takes much longer than it used to, and their job search time is longer than average due to the limited types of jobs they can do. So they don't want to take a job that will reduce or eliminate their disability benefits, knowing that the job could disappear tomorrow and then they could be without work and without disability benefits for the next year. It's safer to just sit back and keep collecting disability.