Before smart phones, your entire life wasn't on a single, easy to read device - a device that happens to keep things you delete so that even years later that document you deleted can often be retrieved - not something that could happen with that letter you shredded and tossed in the trash a year ago.

if my current 100MB/s could support 2 5MB/s streams at a time without buffering.

Their lawyers were prepaid through the end of the case (lump & contingency). SCO only has to pay for the filings and paperwork - not the actual legal work.

Um, SCO is in bankruptcy and has been for at least 3 years. As of the last filing with the bankruptcy court, they don't have enough money left to pay their bankruptcy lawyers let alone their creditors or for any filings on this case - or to appeal the case where they already owe Novell for slander of title.

actually, his communications officer has declared it to be an official communication channel. Which by the way, means deleting tweets from it between his first and last day in office is a violation of the communications preservations acts.

I'm old enough to remember that we stopped having trade wars because the only winners were the bankruptcy lawyers and the people who could afford to buy foreclosed properties.

Actually, the lawyers don't want to do anything. They signed a contract to get paid up front through the end of the case. They have been working on their own dime for years now. What I want to know is who in the bankruptcy court authorized them to spend money to file the paperwork?

Even if that fell under "free speech", you are completely free to design and even BUILD a car without that stuff. What you can't do is drive it on public roads with other drivers.

Applying the car analogy back to the current topic: perhaps Apple can create an unhackable iPhone, but would they be allowed to let it emit radio signals?
The radio spectrum, like most roads, is public property.

If congress passes a law that says all phones have to be crackable, then the answer is no. Until there is a law or regulation on the books somewhere that dictates that FCC compliance and licensure requires some means of access by the State, Apple is free to sell an "un-crackable" phone.

It's not being ignored, nor is it being stolen. A company makes software that allows people to do format shifting. In the US, format shifting is legal under the DMCA. What's not legal is selling the software to do it.

Antigua does not have such an obvious contradiction in their legal system. The software is legal where it is produced, it is legal to use for it's intended purpose. Hollywood doesn't like that because they have to actually find and sue people who are actually infringing on their works rather than just banning a technology. They also don't like it because if there is software available to perform format shifting, you (as a consumer) aren't forced to buy a digital copy if you've already bought a DVD.

Just because the US entertainment industry would like the entire world to drop and suck, doesn't mean that the wold's legal system should comply.

Finding out what actually is being asked for is left as an exercise to the reader. Invasion

Antiqua doesn't have any oil so it doesn't need any freedom.

And which "competing systems" would you have them teach? Economics isn't a course on various forms of government, they were teaching you how the system you lived under actually operates.

We don't actually live in a purely capitalist society. Patents & copyrights are embedded into our constitution and are anti capitalist in that they create a monopoly based on the force of law rather than a free market.

Utility monopolies in areas - ie cable, telephone, power ... again quasi socialist concepts - the state own a monopoly on the right of way and sells it. The populous has little to no input and the leases are essentially as long as the company exists.

Emergency medicine is absolutely not a free market item - nobody does research and decides which hospital to go to for their heart attack based on cost/benefit ratios.

Even back to the 1700 & 1800s, there have been consumer protection laws in effect that curtail the ability of businesses to market and sell products - thankfully we no longer have lollipops flavored with horse piss.

seriously, does

1. not work right anymore?

Advertising a drug? How pointless. You're not going to take it unless prescribed anyway, and then you just ask for the generic version by defaiut, so what does advertising get them? Nothing.

Quick question... exactly what color is the sky on your planet?
Follow up question .... do unicorns really fart rainbows?

1. Sexy woman poses for the camera.
2. Offers a stiffer dick.
3. Thousands of idiots rush to their Dr demanding pill of the week.
4. $$$$

If you don't believe it, just think how effective SPAM is - and we KNOW whatever junk is being peddled by random emails is junk, but people buy shit from the places paying SPAMers by the truckload.

Actually, until the 70s, it was illegal for drug companies to advertise prescription drugs directly to consumers. Not because that allowed them to keep the drug costs high, but because it keeps stupid people from seeing a drug advertised on the television and running to their doctor for it.

Most countries have rules in place that forbid this, and it would actually keep costs DOWN. Right now, drug companies spend 2-3X as much on their advertising as they do on research (which is the actual cost center they claim makes drugs so expensive.)

Fortunately I have patented a cure for this affliction (AKA Electrodamper) consisting of a large plastic box with a heavy battery, a switch and blue LED light. All the sufferer has to do is to flip the switch to build a bubble of electro-protection around themselves - relief should be immediate

Hah, Mine is better, it produces both 2.4 & 5GHz fields with wave cancelling effects. That way, ONLY WIFI signals are blocked.