They don't have standing, as they do not hold any copyrights over that code

Why would they need it? If you go to the shop and buy, for example, a media/dvd/etc. player, which uses GPL code, you're entitled to get the source to the program. If the company doesnt give you the source, you could sue. Or can anyone prove me otherwise?

It seems the bug is applicable just to RHEL (for which patches are provided) and distributions which intentinally have the option disabled (to run wine? - why??).

If we study really small currents, and develop the technology around it, and bring the "normal" currents (~mA) down (to ~uA), a battery that today lasts 1 day (smartphone under heavy use), will last a 1000 times more (3 years).

Of course, this is true for logical circuits, etc... power used for example for (back)lightning can be brought down only by some level (not even close to uA), where we get close to 100% power->light output.

Google for "tesla energy transfer atmosphere" or "tesla atmosphere energy" (he said he knew how to collect energy from the atmosphere, and how to transfer it through it.... of course noone listenede, noone believed, and noone wanted to sponsor it.... and of course: "if there are no wires, where are you going to put the elecitrc counters?")

fist link i found and there are more

Oh yes... and of course, the buyer should be able to verify the sellers code prior to paying.

Reading the comments, I saw two problems:
1: who can brick it
2: is it really stolen or just sold?

The best solution would be to track ownership online, and that every owner can (temporarily) brick and unbrick his device whenever he wants.
The second problem is dealing with reselling... This could be solved by using a two-part code. The seller would get a "sellers code" from amazon (apple,...), which he would give to the buyer at the time of selling (or even post it on the ebay page). The buyer would have to register the device in his name (as he has to do now), but the device wouldn't work without the sellers code. After the registration and entering the code, the new owner (only him) could un/brick the device whenever he wanted.

There are a couple of image mirrors, but for "just in case", I've made another one. Please don't hotlink (my upload speed is limited too) and/or abuse, thank you.

Image mirror

AFAIK Truecrypt can use a 'normal' file as a key. So you can actually use a 700mb file as a key. So.. 1) Burn 700mb of random data on the cd 2) make a HUGE scratch (just one) that destroys the foil on the cd 3) put the cd in a spindle with other cd's and something that could've caused that scratch in between (metal shaving, etc) 4) ??? 5) profit Recovering full 700mb should be hard enough for them too. especially with random data, where they cannot predict the missing data. And with a file so large, the 'missing' part will be large enough to make brute-forcing useless.

...probably :) In Soviet Russia, TV watches you!

Oh yeah, and for national calls, for 15eur/month I get 1000minutes in the same network, 200 for other networks, 1000sms. or mms, and 1gb of data transfer.

EU has pressed down on mobile companies, so prices have an upper limit. For example my carrier (mobitel slovenia) has a price of 0.132eur (13.2 cents) for sms, 0.516eur (51.6cents) for 1 minute of a call, all across EU. It is a bit more expensive then a national call, but still reasonable.