Sadly, no - the only thing that's really GPL is the kernel itself. Google has stripped out all of the other "copyleft" (i.e. "share-alike") licensed components that you'd get with a more standard Linux environment and replaced them with stripped-down BSD/Apache dismissively-licensed ("Hey, I'm taking your work and messing with it and squeezing money out of people with it, but not sharing the changes or letting people interoperate, okay?" "Meh, whatever.")* components.

I've noticed that rooted phones often end up swapping GPL components back in, most notably busybox.

* Google doesn't actually approach things this way - they do eventually share their changes for people to experiment freely. They don't HAVE to, though, nor does any third-party corporation who might want to take and use the code. Fortunately an incompatible fork like that which would result is prevented from calling itself "Android" due to trademark restrictions, at least.

EP 0618540, Microsoft's obscene "MSDOS-compatible filenames" patent on FAT32, was upheld by a German court.

"Both Mantle and Marrow start with 'M'."

Let's see - the Mantle is a hard shell around a liquid core. Marrow is a rich edible substance scraped from inside bones that has a solid or semi-solid consistency but softens when heated (cooked)...

I just had a horrifying thought - excuse me, I need to check the ingredients list on my bag of "M&M's" again...

Not to mention the fact that adding IPv6 addresses hugely dilutes the value of IP addresses - you can't just print more IP addresses without causing hyperinflation! The internet IP economy will COLLAPSE!

That's why I've been switching to doing all my communications with packets made of solid gold. It's a little slower, but no dang socialist government is going to collapse MY packets' value! I'll be the one laughing when you guys have to use like a billion IP addresses just to send one "tweet"!

"IntelliActiveDirectHTTPX Live", perhaps?

Maybe I'm weird, but aside from not caring until they hit <$200, the main thing missing from tablets that I might otherwise be interested in is GPS. If I buy a tablet, I want to be able to use it as a portable map (with better resolution than "you're somewhere within a mile or so of here") and maybe the occasional "augmented reality" application (e.g. Mixare). That's not ALL I'd want it for, of course, but its lack drops a tablet below my level of interest. Am I the only one? (And am I mistaken, or would adding GPS add no more than perhaps $2 to the marginal cost of each tablet these days?)

Trespassing.

"Double Mint Gum"

Don't do that to me. You make my brain go strange places.

I'm picturing a security-focussed Linux-based portable computer, that uses the Linux Mint distribution, but only a really stripped-down, bare-minimum installation. Just enough that once you set up the password to log in, you can then run a virtual machine from an encrypted loopback device which actually contains a "full" Linux Mint distribution.

And then you install that setup on one of these...

"Double Mint Gum(stix)"

"does anyone else find it amusingly ironic that this service is named Azure, and now it's blue-screened?"

No more so that naming their "cloud computing" platforming after the color of a cloudless sky...

("Hey! The Emperor has no Clouds!")

"What we need from science is CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. If there's a problem, please offer a solution."

I know, right? Lazy jerks still haven't bothered to cure cancer, but they still keep complaining about all these things causing cancer.