How would the wired net ever have evolved with everyone being charged for individual services. I pay a fee to my provider. I choose a good service it is then their responsibility to provide me all that the internet has without exception.

They are not a creative source of information they are a provider. Why should they have any say in what services I have access to or the speeds I should be able to get? I already pay for my speed based on the tier of service I can afford.

The idea that wireless services are special will only keep these companies from innovating and making improvements to infrastructure to actually accomodate all the people they sign up each month.

Look at airlines. If they oversell a flight because they wanted more profits and know they don't have room - people complain. People have been complaining long enough that airlines have had to demand bigger better more efficient jetliners. If the airlines were simply able to say: only people in 1st class are able to expect better service and not be bumped from flights (they do this but you will never hear them say this is "fair" and will improve everyone's air travel like ISPs are trying to say), you would have a revolt.

He did suggest that VNC was only option hence the "/ screen share".

I wonder about other web-based services like GoTo and LogMeIn and whether or not the user info would be able to be subpoenaed from them ala Google.

It sounds like you need a reality check and some real world experience. If you thought you were getting your dream job and got something else, welcome to the planet.

Who gives a crap what he did or didn't do beyond that original masterpiece? What he did came from a place of passion and love of life, not something based on a desire to please or make money.

Imagine your disappointment if he would have gone on to make a sucky prequel!

Overwhelmingly - respondents are alone when they are on Slashdot?

Loneliness jokes aside, are all these people not at work like me?

I'm thinking Mr. Socrates is having a "My Cousin Vinny" moment. I.e. Joe Pesci's character, Vinny is surprised that the prosecutor is "helping" him by disclosing the evidence they have against his client.

Any help they are offering Mr. Socrates going to be only because they have to, not because they feel their client's case is less "just" than his.

Having spent a lot of time around lawyers myself, the one thing I do understand is that there is a lot of chummy behavior between them that is faker than a $3 dollar bill and most anyone can see that this is not to be mistaken for genuine friendship or goodwill.