Does anyone know how this compares with solar energy? If you covered one acre with solar panels instead of algae, would you be able to produce more energy?

If you were to read TFA, you would know that Microsoft was not following the rules of the GPL. They only released the code because they were caught violating the GPL. So, while they are currently in compliance with the GPL, it was never really their intention to be. This is why people are so upset.

1. Create a company around a popular open source database.
2. Sell company for $1 billion.
3. Profit
4. Fork it
5. ???
6. Profit again

I was able to watch the games online last year using the mediaplayerconnectivity plugin for firefox and vlc. I tried this year, but they block all non-IE browsers from accessing the video streams. I was able to get past this check by using the UserAgentSwitcher plugin, but now it won't let me get to the streams because I don't have windows media player.

I think the news media doesn't really understand what fair coverage means. In the presidential election, anytime either candidate did something dumb, the news media was afraid to cover it because people would say Oh, there is another bad story about candidate X, that channel must be biased. So instead, the news networks would just put one automaton from each party on the air and have them recite their lines and call it fair coverage. I think the news media tried too hard to make coverage "fair," and never did any real analysis of the stories.