Basic economics doesn't really have a model for an expensive product that is expensive to produce but trivial to copy. The only solutions are patents, copyrights and trademarks. That works, sort of, when the copier has an incentive not to make the copies. i.e. the threat of being sued. Against corporations, this prevents copying of formulas in drugs and other thing, like the original hand-held calculation, until the patent or whatever wears off. But in the movie or software business, the consumer is the one making the identical free copies and doesn't care about being sued. Your whole economic argument breaks down at that point because the rational consumer would rather have something for free than pay for it.

What is the alternative? Either fossil fuels or really expensive energy. I hope you like paying for those higher energy costs. And don't forget that those energy cost affect all manufactures as well, so those costs of your daily necessities will be passed on to you as well.

If fingerprints so inaccurate, doesn't that speak to the further need of DNA to identify criminals?

Pretty accurate. He doesn't say every arrest is guilty, only most. That sounds about right.

Your mother sounds like an lifetime movie. Some kids suck and thinking that you can get everyone of them to open up and want to learn is ridiculous.

Where do you draw the line between the a large network and the Internet as a whole?

If you are not cheating, you are only cheating yourself.

If you never get the degree or the grades to get the interview, what does it matter.

My ex-girlfriend got stuck on a road last winter because her GPS took her up a summer only road that was for snowmobiles in the winter. The GPS didn't know the difference. We had to get a buddy's big pickup truck to come crank her our of a snowdrift.

I currently have Time Warner Cable's Road Runner cable internet service. I am scheduled to get Verizon Fios 35/35 service next week. While the download speeds are at least comparable within an order of magnitude, the upload speed should go from ~400kb/s to 35mb/s. I don't currently upload much other than torrents and normal web uploads like pictures, but I can envision myself taking advantage of other things on the internet that I normally have not done. I'm think just off the top of my head I think I might try one of these cloud backup services and streaming more video to my iphone from my computer/slingbox.

"If any expansion of power is needed it should be the ability to have a request to hold data while a subpoena is processed."

Just about every ISP already does this when law enforcement sends a preservation letter. Then the ISP will await a subpoena from a ADA or AUSA, a patriot act request, or a search warrant from a judge depending on the type of information requested.

Fucked twice? The guy who had his phone stolen will probably get it back this way. The cops rarely care about you latest facebook posts.

Make lectures optional and have kids pay for their own education.

Now I can run farmville at 21,423 fps.

So we are talking about AT&T, right?