That's not entirely true either. Net Neutrality also involves traffic other than browsing and web sites. It could be as simple as AT&T dsl service slowing down VoIP traffic because it competes with their traditional telephone services. Or Comcast could restrict sites like Hulu because it could cut down viewership and then for its ad revenue for its cable television offerings. The issues you brought up are part of the debate as well but that's not all there is to it.

Take a look at the Fujitsu Stylistic Line. They offer slate tablets in addition to traditional tablets. We just picked up several at work and they're very cool devices. The latest model, 6012 I believe, starts around $2000, but I'm fairly sure you could find previous models that are more in your price range. I'll also say that if it counts for anything our experience with their support staff has been better than most companies I've dealt with.

You contradict yourself with your definition. If a user should be able to use their bandwidth as they see fit, by definition the ISP giving some protocols priority could very easily violate how the user wants to use their bandwidth. If priority given to voice services causes added latency to some users game playing when he doesn't care about voip, that is not allowing him to use his bandwidth as he sees fit. Now, I'm not saying that traffic shaping should necessarily be considered a violation of net neutrality, but you two points cannot both be true.

Your analogy doesn't fit. The post was not intended to say that because Linux systems can require/be taken best advantage of by using the command line, that they are worthless as you imply. Instead, it says that the use of the command line is something that the majority of the computer using public doesn't care to deal with. That's not to say that the command line doesn't have advantages in any operating system for some tasks. Rather, that the majority of the public has learned to use a computer in one way, and at this point is not ready to transition from that. So back to your car analogy, no, just because a car is stick does not make it worthless. It means that a large percentage of the population does not know how to drive a stick, and does not care to invest the time to learn, as their automatic car functions perfectly well for what they need it to do. Sure a stick might save them a bit fuel wise, or be more fun, but that doesn't mean its by default better for every situation. Also, I suggest you're careful calling someone an idiot or incompetent just because of a lack of computer knowledge. I'm sure there are plenty of things you are not an expert in, but I'm sure you also wouldn't consider yourself incompetent.

Unfortunately you're incorrect, the way the DMCA is written, it is in fact illegal in the case of a console like the XBox as it is bypassing the DRM that is built in. I certainly don't agree this should be the case but at the moment it is. With that in mind, the argument at this point should not be whether or not the student in the article committed a crime (he did), rather what should be done about the fact that as things currently sit what he did is illegal and could result in such a ludicrous amount of jail time.

He didn't lose his house over copyright infringement. He lost it because he knowingly and willingly broke the terms of his residency there. Just like any lease, there are conditions on the ability to stay in university housing that you must sign in order to move in. He chose to do what he did knowing what the consequences might be. If he thought that was such an outrageous punishment, he should have either not agreed to the terms and found elsewhere to live from the start, or decided to actually abide by the agreement he signed.

If when you bought your home there was a clause in the mortgage that said if you were to fail to keep your lawn cut to a specific height (or whatever ridiculous clause you'd like to insert) you'd lose the home, you could either agree to that and accept the consequences if you didn't conform, or you could decide that was an unfair condition and choose not to enter into the contract. Its not like the student was forced to live there or in doing so forced to agree to the terms of residency. He made a choice to live there and to agree to follow their policy. He also chose to break that policy. How is this anything but his fault?

Perhaps the punishment is excessive. But thats not the issue. The issue is that in living in University owned housing, you agree to certain terms. And while I don't know the specifics of this university, they typically prohibit the use of the school network for things such as illegal downloads. The consequences for breaking those terms are also spelled out. That being the case, he made a decision knowing the risk he was taking. He got caught. Now he's out of luck.

This was my first thought as well. In my experience the OCR is very good. I've taken very fuzzy pics of a business card using a camera phone, thrown the image into evernote, and never had a problem pulling it up with the search. Best of all the OCR is all automatic as you load the images in. The ability to access the database anywhere also seems like it could be beneficial, as he'd have access to his collection anywhere he has internet access. I will agree though that perhaps Evernote was not designed to be efficient for such a massive collection of documents. I think its at least worth checking out though.