What happens when a car crashes into the utility pole or pedestal or a gardener digs up buried cable, or any number of other things happens?

POTS isn't some magic that never has faults or vulnerabilities of its own.

According to the Ars Technica article (http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/espionage.ars), Mullor was a Program Manager in the Windows Security Group. It seems unlikely that he would all of a sudden later discover on chance that Microsoft was putting functionality into Windows that he (and his seemingly defunct company) has a patent that covers it. How is this different that Rambus not telling the standards body (that they were apart of) that SDRAM might infringe on their patents?

I hate to say it but Microsoft might be in the right here. Not to mention that the patent is BS.

A far, far majority of quality problems for both CDV and independant VoIP are cased by the connection between the end user's premesis equipment (eMTA) and the cable company's head end, inclusive of the neighborhood node: HFC plant signal quality or node congestion. It has absolutely nothing to do with the internet. Suggesting otherwise is just FUD.

But Comcast does not. Comcast Digital Voice rides the same channel as cable modem. The only real difference between CDV and another VoIP product (ie Vonage, etc) is that the ATA is built into the cable modem.

But would the evidence hold up in court? In the decision cited, the evidence was visable to the private individual. In the case of the cell phone pictures presumably the device was searched, probablly specificlly for contraband; it was not visable.

Most notably did the school have the right to search the student's phone/does a student have the expectation of privacy. There have been varying rulings over whether the police can search a cell phone or PDA of an individual placed under arrest. In the case of a school, they are not the police and do not have the authority of the police (despite some administrators thinking that they do).

It sounds like they're going to sell their assets off to someone else, leaving SCO as just a shell from which to continue the lawsuits and hide away the assets from future claims against them.

No! Do not reduce your MTU. If your VoIP telephone adapter and/or VoIP provider set don't fragment, your data won't get to the other end at all.