Response: "The photos that the defendant automatically copied to (insert webhost/cloudhost here)"

Icarus crashed, not Daedalus.

It's not illegal to rip movies you already own (fair use). However, most tools to do so have been deemed illegal (in the US anyway).

Source (may be outdated): http://money.usnews.com/money/business-economy/technology/articles/2009/09/30/is-it-legal-to-copy-a-dvd

I already have that - the Asus Transformer Prime.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System_divestiture
It's hard to tell from the wikipedia entry if the breakup had anything to do with this system not taking off.

A bit of pedantism - there's no such thing as an ex-Marine. They are "retired" or "former" Marines, never ex.

According to this article, it costs $201.70 to make a Kindle Fire (only $2.70 more than the MSRP). I would think the plan is to entice people to purchase Amazon content for use on the Kindle Fire.

Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_and_blades_business_model

Why not use UTC & let everyone figure out their own local time?

Instead of dual-booting, I use a Windows virtual machine. It works fine for most specialized software. I haven't tried it with games yet, but with hardware virtualization I would think that wouldn't be a problem.

That patent (if it even existed) would have expired years ago.