He might make that claim, but I sure would. Haven't run into WebM yet.

Open source and GPL aren't the same thing. GPL is still a cancer, but Microsoft has been using open source for decades, of which, the most popular anecdote is the original TCP/IP logic way back in Windows 95 (which has since been completely replaced).

Well, from what I've seen, the content producers are about to feel a world of hurt. Having a son of my own, and watching what he and his friends do, one of the many things I've noticed about the up and coming next generation is that they don't watch TV AT ALL. Not a single minute. I guess the content producers will finally get what they deserve, but it will just take another 5-10 years before they feel the pain they have caused themselves.

Well, it is mostly needed for three things:
1) Addressable memory in 32-bit browsers. The threading approach means all tabs must not take more than a total of 4GB of memory, and this is quickly becoming a problem.
2) One tab crashing them all. Yes, firefox crashes on me often enough that it is annoying. Yes, the tabs come back when you relaunch, but then I get bombarded with login requests to all the sites I have open that require logins to view.
3) There is something shared between the threads that the firefox team can't seem to rid themselves of. One tab can, and often does considerably slow down, or make other tabs stutter. So bad that watching HTML5 video in firefox is nearly useless except if you only have 1 tab open, and even then it is a worse experience than in IE or Chrome.

So if someone who is paralyzed and didn't buy a wheelchair should also have the right to park their car in the movie theater since that's the only way they can get in there. I'm sorry you didn't buy a non-google glass pair of glasses, but that is your fault.

You are totally correct here. ISPs should only be allowed to be content producers, or content distributors, IF they relinquish all their monopoly statuses with local municipalities. Comcast, Time Warner, etc should be taken to court under anti-monopoly laws in the US. As they are guaranteed monopolies and their behavior is definitely harming consumers and they are trying to leverage their monopoly in one sector to give them an unfair advantage in a different sector, this seems a rather simple case, but well... lobbying... money... corruption... self-serving politicians... yeah.

Asking for some example is considered a shill? I guess we don't need things like facts any more. Let's just make stuff up and call it undeniable truth.

Please show an example where Microsoft sat on a standards body and then patented something regarding that spec, because as much as you'd like to believe this is true, it simply isn't. You have this backwards. Microsoft often had patents relating to things they sat on a standards body for (much like everyone else on that committee), and in most cases had already implemented a version of it before the committee was formed, let alone ratified anything. In some cases, they implemented something that was being discussed prior to ratification (which takes years), and then the standards body changed their minds and made changes to the standard before ratifying it. And in other cases, Microsoft implemented functionality that was already prevalent in the marketplace (another companies work -- usually netscape), and the standards body came up with a different, incompatible solution to the same thing.

If you have an example (any example) of what you say, I'd like to hear it, because I've never found any evidence of it, yet.

Yes. Because it will work on 90% of the websites the user uses, he will likely understand it's not his browser problem, it is a problem with the website in question. The browser should not indicate a secure connection to the website if the browser knows that the connection is in fact not secure. Seems pretty self evident.

And since Chinese isn't a race, it's not racist. It may not be nice, but racist it isn't.

As I said, it's in the IP header. It solves for your not so hypothetical issue of a bottleneck between two tier 1 providers already.

That's pretty simple. Allow the user to prioritize their own traffic. There is even 3 bits set aside for this in the IP header known as precedence. Then do QoS using that as your indicator on what to drop first if connections become overtaxed. Which, was the exact purpose of those bits but no one ever actually implemented them. I'd be more than happy to tell my browser, etc to please mark those packets as "Best Effort", but please mark my actual browsing as "Priority", my netflix and pandora as "Immediate", and Skype and VoIP as "Flash".

Note that doesn't mean always don't throttle stuff I have marked as Flash, because then everyone will just mark everything as a high priority. Just throttle the packets I marked lowest first, and if there aren't enough of low priority packets then throttle the next highest priority until necessary. Or limit the number of packets per second for each tier, and silently treat them as a lower tier if there are too many.

Well, you can't really rent a blu-ray quality movie for a long time anywhere else. Unless you want to wait another 1-3 months, that is. And you happen to be on an ISP that isn't throttling the hell out of whatever video service you want to rent it from.

Wasn't meant as a "brag", but it's the only numbers I had access to. For example, a 4-seater jet from my local airport to one that I fly to most:
Source Airport Fee $4,336.35 ($956 Fuel, $31.44 Landing, $157.60 "other", $22.31 parking, $3,169 reposition)
Dest Airport Fee $4,662.04 ($269 Fuel, $6.26 GPU, $12.29 landing, $37.53 "other", $8.34 parking, $4328 reposition)
Flight Rate $9,029.13
Fed Excise Tax $1,461.69

54% in airport fees and taxes.

New name changes.

Windows 9 (Home, Home Premium, Pro, etc) -> Windows 10 (Home, Home Premium, Pro, etc)
Windows 9N (No media player) -> Windows ID-10-T
Windows 9E (European version with no IE) -> Windows ID-10-T2