Or not, since MIT doesn't have a "Computer Science" program.

So, it's a group of national-level ISPs? The links says that two of them are Comcast and Time-Warner.

Comcast being the future owners of NBC, and a "content" company regardless.
Time-Warner being a content company too.

Why do we think it's not the normal content-publishers trying to screw people over?

They must be referring only to the Windsor county area? That's an odd way of putting it... my wikipedia statistics (which match with many I've heard on other media) indicate that the surplus cannot apply to the whole state...

73% of the state's electrical generation capacity which is 35% of the state's electrical needs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_yankee

Entergy is a power-production company

http://www.entergy.com/

One of the issues with shutting down Vermont Yankee is that it provides over a third of the electricity to the state. I feel like a lot of the reason it has been treated so leniently is because of the massive increase in price Vermonters face in getting power elsewhere in that kind of volume. Hydro-Quebec provides a good portion of the rest, perhaps they have the capacity, but there's nothing quite like homegrown cheap power.

And yet Apple is working hard and spending money implementing HTML5 and pushing for it to be more fully featured, more capable, able to replace Flash.

Its not that they don't want to allow people to run apps that they didn't buy on the App store, its that the number of tradeoffs in doing a "good" (for Flash) implementation of Flash take directly away from the experience Apple wants to deliver, and so, they don't do it.

Your bank fingerprints you? My banks (and they're two of the top 10 largest banks in the USA) most certainly do not.

On the Verizon map, it looks like they have 3G coverage over nearly the entire state of Vermont. That'll be the day. They don't even have coverage over main streets in major towns. (though, oftentimes AT&T does). I call BS on that map.

Well, perhaps 64-bit Flash on 64-bit Windows is nonexistent, but Flash is working just fine, thank you. And you don't need to do anything wonky to make full screen work.

Well, see there's you're problem: the government HATES when people use magic numbers in their programs. You should have done something more like:

static final int BALLS = 8;
if(C==BALLS)

Obviously

Well, it's *out there* pretty much in the same sense that newsgroups were out there... Or, like IMAP email is out there... Given that the Google client supports gears, it doesn't even go down if your internet goes out, so, I think we're all good.

As long as it _really_ works both ways, of course, when *non-commercial* works also pass into the public domain after five years, then fair is fair. When originally GNU GPL-licensed code can be used without adhering to the license because it's moved into public domain. That'd be truly fair.

Well, I think you might have it a little off too... The GPL protects the rights of the *code* to always be open-source and freely distributable. If I want to modify the software and distribute those modifications, but not release the source to my modifications, the GPL takes control, and denies me that privilege. GPL protects the freedom of code, BSD protects the freedom of coders.