It looks like it's grummonds idea from this page; as linking directly to the comment seems to fail, here's the text of the comment:

Oh, and here’s an idle thought train – let’s take the negative rights idea a step further:-

1) identify a VID that is yet uncommitted (I presume there is a list). Choose a number that has some vague recognition value, say 0xF055 (FOSS), but don’t call it a VID, it’s just the name of an online community.

2) start (i.e. publicise) an online community to support development of USB Free Open Source Software. Membership is free for proven FOSS developers.

3) Members get a membership number, you gussed it from 1 to 65535. It’s not a PID it’s a membership number!

4) Doesn’t matter how large the USB-FOSS community is, the appearance of growing support should be enough that eventually no commercial vendor is going to want to be issued with VID 0xF055.

Care to explain to us and the WHO specialists who reported Fukushima-Area Cancer Risks Are Higher Than Normal After Japan Nuclear Disaster why those doctors should not be allowed to practice medicine?

Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA from secure web pages, but no one uses it

Yeah, through fiber it's slower. So if you're in a hurry (and traders are), why send the signal through fiber if you can send it though the air?

Washington to chicago by road is 1100 km, that's 1100 km/300000 km/s = 3.6ms, so in a straight line it would be less than 3.6ms.

rice contains more fat (0.66 gr/100gr) than carrots, so the golden rice should be at least as effective as carrots then. And yes, meat would be good too, but very expensive.

Monsanto cannot sue for golden rice either, as there are free licences available, see access for those who need it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_vaccine#Benefits_of_vaccination Influenza vaccination has been shown highly effective in health care workers (HCW), with minimal adverse effects. In a study of forty matched nursing homes, staff influenza vaccination rates were 69.9% in the vaccination arm versus 31.8% in the control arm. The vaccinated staff experienced a 42% reduction in sick leave from work (P=.03).[33] A review of eighteen studies likewise found a strong net benefit to health care workers

Yes, verified opt-in is one requirement. But if you don't want to be marked as sender of SPAM, you should also make it *very* simple to unsubscribe. I know I've subscribed to a few lists, and at first read the emails, then ignored them, and eventually thought "should unsubscribe". But if that unsubscribing is difficult, I'll just hit "spam" in gmail (or whatever). I don't see the emails and more, and the sender gets blocked as spammer.

Well, wikipedia hasn't forgotten!

The second time however they were sentenced for found guilty of obstruction of justice and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman for having destroyed a videotape recorded from the plane, so the parent is right in saying they were never sentenced for killing 20 people.

And what are you going to replace it with that isn't patented some way?

same as they need a warrant to use a thermal imaging device to search for grow houses

Really? I see you are right, but that does sound strange to me, living in the Netherlands. Here it's a standard way for the police to track down the growers (even though selling small quantities is half-legal here).

Will google now think of the children? They blocked my sons gmail address after finding out about his age. Is he allowed to use this book (I assume it works best while logged in with google for extra storage etc)