If this gets attention from other companies who pay facebook for advertising placement, it could make facebook's advertisment revenues fall quite a lot. Click fraud is a really big deal.

Yeah, but once Hollywood is done with it the series will be called Gotham Junior High...

Some exec at the WB requested almost exactly this in the late '90s after Batman:TAS ended -- they wanted a show with Bruce Wayne and most of Batman's rogues galley as high school students. Apparently it was bandied around for a while and eventually split into two separate ideas, an animated show about a teen Batman and a live action show about a fledging superhero in high school. These became "Batman Beyond" and "Smallville", respectively.

This. I used to deliberately buy thicker phones (when I was using feature phones) because they were easier to hold when talking on them. When I started shopping for smartphones, I quickly discovered that I could quite comfortably hold a much thinner phone, provided it was large. My Galaxy SII is both the largest and thinnest phone I've ever had by a big margin, but it is also the easiest and most comfortable to hold.

Best would be to spoof the ISP's identification mechanisms so that IP addresses belonging to MPs, ISP executives, music and film industry executives, etc appear in their logs.

.corn might even be better. Harder to visually distinguish, and even more likely to have legitimate uses.

I've never really been clear on the need for TLDs in the first place. Why wouldn't I want to just go to http://tech.slashdot/story/ or http://google/ or http://whitehouse/ ? What use does slapping a ".com" (or at random, ".org" instead) on the end really have?

This naming model is bork.bork.bork

Why is it wrong? I can think of several reasons that someone might consider it wrong to redistribute umodified copies of a copyrighted work without license to do so. Which one motivates you?

Unprivileged remote code execution bug in web browser (or anything else that deals with data that comes from somewhere else) + privilege escalation bug in ANYTHING = rootkit. With the security you describe, rootkit on one inside machine = rootkit on all inside machines. Then, you wake up one morning and your entire corporate network is a giant kiddie porn server farm!

The new IPython notebook interface. Certainly matters to me, and !*@# FF3.6 on ^#@! &^%@!^&#^ RHEL 6 can't use it.

No, one of the advantages of open source is that YOU can make the software work in the way that you want it to, not that some other person will necessarily sacrifice their time and ingenuity to make you comfortable for zero compensation. If you want it to run on your old hardware, you're free to get the code and make it do so, which is not generally possible with closed code.

Speed is, and always has been, limited by the capabilities of the hardware in between source and destination. Nobody has ever thought that "unlimited" meant "unlimited speed". Nobody sane, anyway.

Well, the article appears to be stating the exact opposite of what you have just asserted, to wit, that the US government IS paying private companies to "spy" on activists. Either you or the article must be wrong, since you are making incompatible assertions. Unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the patience to go through the documents in question on wikileaks in order to determine whether the article's depiction of affairs is accurate, based on those documents (and the presumption that they are themselves reliable).

My hovercraft is full of eels? Bouncy, bouncy?

So, what you're saying is that if you buy Apple's hardware and purchase additional software and hardware to complement it, that the barrier to switching to another handset manufacturer's products is in fact higher than the same barrier if you had not started out with Apple. That is .... exactly what lock-in means.

Imagine I bought an iPhone today. In order to do many useful things with it, I would desire to purchase various apps, and I might even purchase extra chargers, an alarm clock dock, a speaker dock for my living room, etc. Now, suppose that HTC comes out with a new handset that I think is really the best thing ever, and I decide I'm going to shell out the money to switch. Suddenly, all the money that I spent on secondary things has to be spent all over again because of "incompatible technologies" and "historically-justified exceptions". I'll probably decide not to switch to the new HTC handset I really liked, and I'll buy a new iPhone instead.

Now imagine I had bought a Samsung phone to start with. In order to do many useful things with it, I would purchase various apps, and I might even purchase extra chargers, an alarm clock dock, a speaker dock for my living room, etc. Now, suppose that HTC comes out with a new handset that I think is really the best thing ever, and I decide I'm going to shell out the money to switch. Suddenly, all the money that I spent on secondary things ... doesn't have to be spent all over again, because the handset manufacturer is decoupled from compatibility with those secondary things. I'll probably switch manufacturers, and if Samsung wants to regain my business, they'd better make a better phone than HTC next time around.

The reasons for the lock-in might be justified historical accidents, and they might be deliberate and malicious. It doesn't matter. They still cause lock-in, and lock-in is still unpleasant at best.