Well, they often seem to like to put them before even the US constitution...

Overreaching surveillance by NSA with PRISM and torture in Guantanamo bay are not fiction.

So they should select an illegal recourse like apple or microsoft and use other intellectual property without paying for them and be patentpirates ?

Suing in court for banning of products is what the politicians has proposed as plan for corporations to follow when criminal corporations break the law and uses their innovations without license.

Everyone know nerds knows everything.

This is a site for nerds.

Since its factual incorrect its not written by a nerd but rather by either a Troll and probably is some Flamebait.

Select one of them.

Linus has seen Wargames and knows that sometimes
the best way to win is not to play the game

He does it just for fun.

So why do they want to enforce making it more expensive to have secure computers ?

Why only on computers ? why not a sales tax on for example plumbing ?
Cause everyone needs to take a dump so should be a profitable tax.

However since its only on standard software and open source is nonstandard
I'm gonna presume its just a tax on those selling Microsoft software admin services.

Thats why the poster said "Release the secure boot key..."

Facebook servers in Sweden are expected to use 1TWh/year when fully operational - in 3 data centers located next to each others. So looks like Facebook will use something around 100 000 cpu per center.

Assuming the calculations is corrent.

Actually many of them is Linux servers. So they are cheap :)

Given that patents has already been sent to the patent office and are public accessable from there; patent are never a reason for not open up specs.

For article. Sadly you can't moderate an article.

So they could install the programs on their corporate computers.

Easy 8 is 4 by 2 and 16 is 4 by 4.

So to get 1/8 just take the value and half it 3 times and to get 1/16 half it 4 times.

Its not hard.

Actually no its 97% of published paper who mentions AGW - a majority of the papers dont check for it and are for other metherological research that don't involve looking into AGW.

Actually humanity fixed global cooling by better air regulations that banned sulphor from being released uncontrolled into the atmosphere.

Humanity stopped the acid rains. But instead the more damaging global warming, that had been repressed by the acid environment, showed its ugly face.

So global cooling was fixed. Now its the time to fix global warming.

PS Yes, you can stop global warmning by spreading sulphor, but it will instead make this a world full of acid rain.