also there is of course tunneling and the sort..... ...im mainly just pointing out that most "blocking" is nothing of the sort, the internet can't be blocked in the ways people attempt to block it.

not if you use the hosts file method. the ip address doesn't reverse resolve.

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try setting your dns to 4.2.2.3 and then going to https://facebook.com/

try putting in your host file

83.140.176.200 thepiratebay.org

or setting you DNS server setting to 4.2.2.3

and then going to https://thepiratebay.org/

you can fix grub by booting into a live cd, mounting the root drive and doing

grub-install --root-drectory=/mount/point /dev/rootharddiskwithoutanumber

ie /dev/sda or /dev/hdb

your generally right, but its not always that way.

If a new version is optimized only for newer hardware than it will/can be faster than the old software, with hardware backwards compatibility, on all new hardware.

For example 32-bit/64-bit transition.

First: Linux/Unix has done this since it was created

Second: and improvements of programs to do user-mode on vista will translate to user-mode capabilities for XP, although few people will use that.

Except you dont get that 99% of windows programs are x86-binary-only and wont run on ARM without really slow emulation. GPL and free software on the other hand can be compiled for architectures the programmer never even thought of. Linux can work on pretty much every architecture which porting Windows to another architecture wouldn't port the thing that gives Window's value.

even if there was evidence of prior art? ie it was already invented and someone is just being a royal asshole.

This is it the season that it recedes. Its winter down there and only moving more into winter. Also, this shelf has been there for centuries, and now the whole thing is going to come unhinged.

NO

the DMCA has many, many parts. Probably the only one that doesnt totally suck is the take down notice part, which is great except for limitations on frivolous notices meant to harass. There are many much more ugly parts, such as "circumvention of copy protections" parts that stifle innovation for example.

but the search warren must "particularly describ[e] the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

If they took the modem this clearly wasnt thought out enough before hand. Also they took the BACKUPS! the backups are meant to disable his capabilities not attain information. They did not just copy everything, and by taking everything they seized much more information that could have been reasonably specified in the search warrant.

Do you own a dictionary? piracy: Piracy is a war-like act committed by a nonstate actor, especially robbery or criminal violence committed at sea, on a river, or sometimes on shore. This comparison is absurd. Copyright infringement is certainly NOT piracy; as it is not theft: the owner of the exclusive right to copy directly loses absolutely nothing, and is completely uninvolved in the copying.

You've obviously been taken in by the misspeak of lobbyist.

You have no understanding of how patents work. All patent filings are public once they are granted. However only the person who owns it is granted a monopoly by the government and can force anyone else, under patent law, to cease distributing anything described in their invention (assuming the patent is valid).