As I understand it, countries that have hosted the Olympic Games have to treat the rings and other IOC symbols as hardcoded famous trademarks, with sui generis restrictions that parallel the dilution restrictions on famous trademarks.

After having read your comment, I realized that I can't know for sure what my general case is. It involves speculating at the future of an economy, which can never be 100.0 percent reliable because we never know for sure that there isn't going to be some sort of disaster that ends the developed world as we know it. But what I do know is that locked-down devices rule out certain computer-mediated hobbies. They make it hard for people to transition from the role of a "consumer" to the role of a participant in culture, someone who both "consumes" and creates. And if tablets become so prevalent that it's hard for an individual who wants a laptop to get one, this mobility will become even more difficult.

Go Daddy's entry-level paid plan, about $4.50 per month.

Which hosting company would you recommend for a small site run as a hobby, especially in this IP shortage?

I see the value in HTTPS Everywhere for sites big enough to run on a dedicated server. But TLS as it is implemented today requires a separate IPv4 address per domain, and this won't change until Windows XP and Android 2.x are no longer in use. What's the best practice to secure a smaller site on a budget shared hosting plan, one that shares its IPv4 address with upwards of 1,000 other sites?

But in practice, they aren't. Restrictions on the public tend to have a ratchet effect, becoming tighter over time. When was the standard term of copyright rolled back in the three-century history of copyright?

Nor did George Dantzig at UC Berkeley in 1939. Without him, Good Will Hunting would be a movie about buying a suit at a thrift store.

That would work only if the writer actually owns the copyright in the show's setting. If the publisher owns it, and the publisher wants it canceled, no amount of crowd funding is going to bring it back.

I can't type at 100+ WPM period. Last time I was tested, I was around 85 WPM, but I think I could maintain that speed on a Bluetooth keyboard paired to an iPad or on the keyboard dock that connects to the Transformer.

A tablet shares these drawbacks with the netbook into which I'm typing this comment. Some of those limitations can be worked around on both tablets and netbooks with clever user interface design, unlike the artificial cryptographic limitation of code signing verification with no owner override. A Transformer or virtually any other Android-powered device has owner override; an iPad does not without paying $650 for a Mac plus $99 per year for the certificate allowing owner override.

Then explain how locked-down game consoles still beat PCs in several genres despite the obvious disadvantage of not having mods or locally developed games.

The scenario I want to avoid involves a tablet owner not being able to afford a PC once he realizes that a task that he wants to perform needs one. If locked-down tablets become so ubiquitous that people decide they don't need PCs, this scenario will become more and more likely, and people will become discouraged from performing such tasks in the first place outside of a paying job. Such discouragement would serve only to cement a "creator"/"consumer" divide as opposed to a "participant" culture.

Yes, Comcast's cap is 250 GB per month. Perhaps you're trying to say that everyone in your state lives in the service area of DSL, cable, or fiber. But for people who live in areas not serviced by DSL, cable, or fiber (which I admit is an edge case), the only available Internet connections apart from dial-up are satellite and cellular, which have a single digit GB/mo cap.

Which could require someone to first pay a couple hundred for a prepaid smartphone and a month of service.