Actually, Comcast already can do this as they monitor the traffic in a month - They have put a cap of 250 GB per month after which they cut you off.

Also charging per MB or GB is already done/supported by most cell phone carriers - ATT, Verison, ...
It also reminds me of dial-up pricing...

However, ISPs love to offer you "premium" unlimited service and then oversell it.

Android doesn't implement/use/extend J2ME. Only J2SE classes are included.

I guess the main claim Oracle has is that Google should have used and licensed J2ME on mobile devices.
Instead, Google implemented and extended J2SE.

J2SE was way too heavy for mobile devices before Google came in. That is way many phone manufacturers used J2ME instead.
J2ME was such a pain to program for compared to J2SE.

I don't see how Oracle can force a manufacturer where to use J2SE.
Since phones are just computers with VOIP/phone application, I don't see a problem using J2SE on them.

What makes a phone different from desktop - detached screen? From a laptop - folding screen? From a tablet...?

So even if they wanted to buy it they won't be allowed?
They are allowed to die in battle but not to chose what to play?

Imagine the game was very realistic - It would give them big advantage to see their own weakness through the eyes of the enemy.

How is that any different than any WW2 game?

This is not true. Server certificate verification would fail and the user WOULD know. This is the whole point of using Certificates - verifying their chain of trust.

While prioritizing may be needed for wireless in general, it should be based on classes of services, like real-time services (VOIP) and non-real-time (SMS, HTTP, u-tube).

But you cannot prioritize based on companies or content providers. Like in your example, why a bank website should be more important than any other website?
Or why Chase website to be faster than WaMu website?
They must guarantee traffic is owner neutral - that my VOIP has same priority as Verizon VOIP.

What's preventing Verizon dropping packets of Vonage/Skype VOIP so Verizon phones "seem" to have better quality?
Or dropping connection every 1-2 minutes like Comcast did (with bit-torrent sites)...

Like currently, Skype is available on Android only for Verizon, and only over 3g (no WiFi)

If skype doesn't want our business, maybe it's time we move on to some other client that works on Android and works over WiFi & 3g...
Enough supporting companies trying to screw us...
WhyTF did they block Fringe?!

You realize that "just a few feet of water" is more like 22 feet (7.5m) of water.
At 35000 feet (10.5 km) cruising altitude for non-super sonic airplanes, air density is 25% of see level air density. 1 atmosphere is about the pressure of 10m of water column.
Everest is "just" 8848 m, and yet very few can breathe easily without several days acclimatization.
See altitude sickness. Even oxygen masks may not be enough at very low pressures.

What Intel probably did was:
We will give you 50% off rebate any Intel CPU IF you don't sell any AMD CPU.

If you reject, you can't compete with the store next door which sells 30% bellow your invoice price and still makes 20% profit.
In other words, you won't be able to sell Intel anymore.

I guess this shouldn't apply to Skype though...

It is 0.48 Mbps - you can see it in the screen image

The whole article is a miscalculation.

His player reported 0.48 Mbps or 480 kbps and not 48 kbps!!!

From FTA:
"Bringing up the Status window I noticed my download performance was a far cry from my 7 mbps speed, but rather a measly 0.48 mbps, about 1/14th the speed of my line:"

Even the screen image shows 1/2 Mbps.
480 kbps is nothing to complain about.

Can't believe nobody noticed this... is this ./ ?