And they're naming their lunar exploration company after /Shackleton/ ? Not only did he never reach the South Pole, but:

"Shackleton's life was generally restless and unfulfilled. In his search for rapid pathways to wealth and security he launched many business ventures and other money-making schemes, none of which prospered. His financial affairs were generally muddled; when he died he was heavily in debt." [ Wikipedia ]

Might want to talk to your marketing guys about that one...

It runs just fine on my low-end Blu-Ray player (which came with an ethernet in jack), so no computer needed.

But one of the biggest ISPs is Time Warner Cable. They are certainly **not** going to help
Netflix deliver unlimited movies for $13/mo, when TW charges a lot more for the same thing.

Cheap deep-packet inspection (using an old hub and Wireshark) ?

Even if it had a low critical current, the alleged room-temperature superconductor would be useful for SQUIDs and Josephson junctions.

It'll happen on a random Saturday afternoon on SyFy, and will star Randy Quaid,
or maybe one of the Baldwin brothers. After the Evil CEO (or maybe the Evil Govt. Official)
ignores his scientific advisers and uses a nuke, the leak will erupt into a monstrous CGI
oil-geyser and send a hundred-foot high tsunami of flaming petro-death towards Florida.

Google Translate (http://translate.google.com/#ja|en| ) seems to work well enough
(except for the text embedded in images). The price is 1890 Y ; but as far as I can
determine they don't ship outside Japan.

Yes, but if the OP wants to "get involved in politics"
they need to learn to ask more fundamental questions
than just "Is OpenSource a good thing"

- Who will get more power or money because of this change?
- Who will get less?

- Do the persons who will get less have the power to stop
    the new idea?

- If so, can you offer them anything to make them accept
    the new idea anyway?