Well they are registered in the .com TLD, which is basically United States namespace, so it would make sense that US trademark law would apply at least in terms of the domain name. I doubt some European company would be able to convince a US court to order Verisign to turn over the domain to them.

So at worst, I would think that Pinterest could continue to operate under the "Pinterest.com" domain name; the challenge would be whether they want to advertise in the European market, which might be prohibited without changing their name.

Replying to undo moderation mouso.

There are new "arbitrary code execution" zero-days every week so this explanation doesn't cut it.

Just my thought. If it was possible to flash BIOS remotely via malware it would have been reported and we'd see a flood of BIOS updates.

Sorry, I wasn't sure and selected the wrong option without looking it up. English is my third language.

Or rape.

A woman's eggs were produced when she was a fetus, that's why you have epigenetic effects straight from the grandmother (who's nutrition determines the environment in the womb.)

There are some very good reasons for the GPL. I like it.

Adblocking and blackholing DNS names seems to work quite well. It's really rare for me to see an ad.

Yes it is a Linux issue - specifically that ZFS licensing is incompatible with the GPL so ZFS can't be integrated into the kernel.

I run btrfs on RAID6 (with weekly scrubbing) on a system with ECC RAM. That should reduce the incidence of bit rot to a negligeable level.

If it was integrated into the Linux kernel I'd use it. But with a chance that the next kernel update will make my FS driver unusable I won't touch it with a long pole.

So that leaves btrfs.

Yes! I want a FSM monument next to them.

Wind is cheaper than today's primitive and written-off nuclear plants and solar is getting there - let alone natural gas.

While I agree, notice that anybody who says "we can have a sustainable energy supply based on nuclear" says "we need to build several thousand new nuke plants." Now a more than tenfold expansion of nuclear power would mean a tenfold increase in accidents, that's why it's not going to happen.