Nah, but you probably have the right to buy up land, build your own sidewalk, and drive your rocket-propelled car on that.

You don't have to stink, you can just wear pants coated in something sticky, preferably something that really irritates skin. And have some spare pants in your carry-on bag :)

It doesn't nessescarily stop anything. But Apple is not allowed (does not have a license to) distribute VLC unless they follow the GPL, which amongst other things says that Apple must make the source available.

APPLE is the distributor; THEY have to offer the source. And impose no further restrictions.

They don't offer the source, and they do impose further restrictions on distribution. Hence, TFA.

Salmon farms use way more fish as fodder than they produce - and they spill tons of antibiotics into the oceans. Let's hope we can either come up with some better ways tofish, or in the alternative some better ways to farm.

First, that's an exaggeration. Second, the icelandic banks followed the regulations put forth by the EU/EEC.

While this is most certainly true, software like Haystack can prevent iranian intelligence from discovering "new" dissidents through surveillance of known ones.

When there are wind farms in enough places around the globe, we can be sure they will generate a certain minimum at all times - this can probably be modeled based on wind patterns, so that use of other sources (hydro, hydrogen reservoirs, nuclear) can be planned and adjusted accordingly.

Because your paging algorithm will be much less tested, used and bugfixed than any OS paging algorithm. And the memory you allocated might be swapped out by the OS anyway.

TFA writes about how the norwegian newspaper VG replaced 10 squid machines with 3 varnish machines and got much better performance. That switch was done 5 or so years ago, before varnish was first released as open source. He's not writing about beating squid _now_.

Open the link in a new tab, or copy-paste the adress linked to, in order to circumvent the evil javascript :)

Pretty stupid that Apple doesn't have a "view anyway" button on the warning message, though.

Well, yeah, not that many sites have a moderation system like slashdot's :P

http://www.google.com/pacman

It doesn't really matter how stupid these users were, or how little privacy they had to begin with. Google seems to systematically collect personally identifiable information, and export it to a jurisdiction with weaker privacy laws.

The export part is crucial. As I understand it, that's what makes this a crime.

You're confusing possible with legal. It should be obvious to anyone that breaking an encryption in order to see other peoples data, no matter how weak that encryption might be, is criminal.