They never had "innovation" as the iphone has consistently been behind other leading devices (usually by a year or more) on features.

For some companies, "innovation" means throwing 100 different features at the wall to see if any of them stick. Along the way, most of the people who bought those devices are fucked, because most of them paid for "features" that weren't usable, or devices that included huge compromises in order to accommodate those "features".

For other companies, "innovation" means spending the time to figure out how do the things that are really worth doing, better than anyone else has.

As a customer, I far prefer the second, even if it means I have to wait 6 extra months for the life-altering experience of a new feature on my telephone.

They know what an iphone is, and equate it with smart phone. never mind that the competing phones do more, do it better, and do it at a lower price.

Yeah, I'm no techno neophyte - I've written popular applications for both platforms, and I understand the technology inside and out.

The reason I prefer the iPhone is that I can count on it. Android is consistently buggy, inconsistently updated by carriers, and easily confounded by poorly-developed apps.

The iphone is consistently a year or more behind the major Android players in features

Don't give a shit. I am much more interested in a phone that always works when I need it, rather than one which offers the latest poorly conceived fad gimmicks.

If you are trying to save a few bucks, or you view playing with a phone as a fun little techno-hobby activity, then definitely Android can be appealing. If you just want to get on with your business/social life and have the phone enable that process when called upon... not so much.

If your maintenance budget is $0, this is eventually going to happen regardless.

If the site had been programmed to published standards instead of vendor-specific kluges, it would still work fine today.

This is solely a consequence of poor vendor selection or project definition.

Okay. My point is that satellite ISPs have a huge footprint. I have brought dishes from the Midwestern USA to Central America, and from Europe to the Middle East, and they worked fine. You can shop around more than you think. Just because someone has a distributor agreement for your town doesn't mean it's really the only option.

I do not have any concrete proof of the nonexistence of such an attempt. Like all attempts to prove a negative, I must rely in large part on the lack of evidence that an attempt has occurred. I've been involved with VoIP for over 10 years and never heard of such a thing. Nor does the article mention it. Nor do any of the other discussions of the topic.

How many residential cable or DSL modems have Gigabit Ethernet

All the modems provided by both cable companies in this country have gigabit ethernet. Otherwise who's going to upgrade to their 100/150/200/etc tiers?

Have you ever seen the prices for satellite? In my area it starts at $70.

Hint: it's satellite. Your "area" is huge and in almost all cases encompasses multiple countries.

My slowest option is 25mbps.

I know many people still have slower connections, but OpenWRT doesn't really have anywhere else to go in terms of supporting devices that are no longer being manufactured (or soon to be discontinued). It's much more interesting and productive for them to focus on adding new features that take advantage of new hardware and modern trends in connectivity.

Anyone who wants/needs to use older hardware is still free to do so with the existing versions of OpenWRT.

There needs to be some sort of "horse has left the barn" exemption to patent enforceability. If a patent holder sits quietly and watches while an industry develops around something they believe to be infringing, it's not reasonable to allow them to wait until billions of dollars are at stake and then suddenly show up with a demand for payment.

That's not at all in the spirit of patent law. The purpose was to allow the patent holder the ability to exploit their own invention, not to allow them to sit on their asses doing nothing and then exploit everyone else's work.

Soon, people will break into servers to drop bitcoin miners on them.

Already happening.

Not a troll, seriously, but do you really push 100mbit through the firewall, at your house?

Depends on where you live, I guess. In these parts (northern Europe) it's pretty normal to have reasonably-priced >100mbps broadband connections that really do perform at >100mbps.

I get full speed when downloading things distributed via top-tier CDNs, like Apple/Microsoft/Firefox/Chrome updates and so on. Also the link is easily saturated by bittorrent.

As an employee, you are not responsible for everything your company does. Neither in the USA nor in France.

How about in Italy?

(Yes, I know it was overturned on appeal, but still...)

The fact that nobody's died yet doesn't mean the risk is "exactly zero". If the pilot can't see, or he's injured or distracted, that can cause an accident. Nobody's died yet due to firecrackers going off on the cockpit of a plane, but that doesn't make it a good idea.

At no point should the justice system try to make an example out of anyone. Law should always be dealt evenly. The severity of punishment does nothing for deterrence, the only thing that helps serve as a warning is consistent enforcement of the law. To punish one person more than others so others take notice, has never worked, and is more of a sign of seeking vengeance than rehabilitation.

I am not saying that he should be punished more than other people. Everyone should be punished a lot for this sort of behavior, so that it is understood that doing this kind of thing gives you a little bit of stupid entertainment in exchange for the risk of a lot of misery.

He deliberately put people's lives at risk. If anything, the sentence is too short. He doesn't need to be in a maximum security facility, but he needs to be taken out of circulation for a while, both to teach him a lesson and to serve as a warning to others who might be tempted to do the same thing.