As for as I know Linus trade marked the word linux, he did not copyright it. Anyone can claim a trade mark as long as it has not been trade marked before. There is not requirement to prove no one used the word before just that they did not trademark it.

And I am not naive just cynical that RH will continue to be a good guy 5 or 10 years from now

You don't need a patent for that just prior art in the wild

I think most people realize that we are very sensitive to touch

Advertising skills aside does any one else think its ugly. The screen does not hinge at the edge and the back side of the screen has two textures and the fan holes. It has too much going on in the design. I mean the mac book air has a shit load of flaws but by god its pretty.

Actually there usually is a blind spot in most cars unless you have curved mirrors. However curved mirrors make it hard to judge distance. As all responsible drivers know you check your blind spot (By looking over shoulder) before changing lanes. Just because someone is in your blind spot does not mean its their fault you hit them.

As i posted in response to another comment, why bother nice people, like Jay Freedman, have done already done this for Apple.

Why bother? Apple has sweet deals with AT&T etc and anyone and their grandma can unlock and iphone thanks to pawnage etc.

I had an instructor who loved this procedure he called it the Universal Conservation of Grief principle. You either put in the time(greif) at the start of a project, thinking about the problem properly. Or on the last feature which is ridiculously easy if only you had used a slightly different architecture but would not require major code rewrites.

I did mean synthetic satellites and I guess you are right about the Aluminum and Titanium but in my defense I did preface my statement by saying "I am just pulling this out of the air"

As far as I know VoIP uses very little bandwidth an uncompressed VoIP stream is 128Kbps and modern schemes like G.729 can be as low as 12Kbps. So to use 2GB for VoIP you would have to talk for approximately 48 hours.

This is not counting silence suppression (i.e. only one of the two people in the conversation are generally talking at any one time so the other node does not sent packets) This means that only about 40-50% of the maximum bandwidth is used on average. So you can double the 48 hours number.

How about MIPS assembly? Its simple enough syntax wise, has lots of emulators and online tutorials and unlike high level languages it actually gives you a feel for how computers work.

Slashdot in 2012:

RIAA what is that?

ok that's wishful thinking that would be great

Hell no, Tim Hortons has the best coffee ever.

I did not mean pull it down from earth I mean send a satellite which gets close to an object and uses a short pulse of magnetic force to pull it off course. It really does not take a lot of force to break an orbit. The only problem I can foresee is that you need the object's orbit to decay rapidly otherwise it may cause other collisions.

I don't think you understand the cause of asthma and related allergies. The problem is not a lack of immunity but your body's immune system reacting to things it does not really need to attack, i.e. pollen, dust etc. The symptoms are caused by your own body not the allergen.So in short developing an immunity to farm animals is not the cure to asthma.