Pretty sure that was his point.

First he will consume images of the nebula, then he will consume your brains.

As someone who is allergic to bees, I'd greatly appreciate it if they could also remove the ability of these bees to sting, or perhaps remove the venom/poison. Then I wouldn't care if they made the things indestructible and faster than a cheetah.

Sorry if this has been thought of already...

"If hacking tools are made illegal, only criminals will have hacking tools."

Don't want to turn people off of Linux.

Not only stupid patents, but also the length of time a patent lasts, and the scope of what can be patented (e.g. software patents). Plus the fact you can sell patents to other companies (allowing for companies whose sole purpose is to sue people for patent infringement without making or doing anything of value). Oh and also the fact that large companies infringe on each others' patents regularly, but choose to ignore it because it's mutual (but it isn't mutual for the up-and-coming tech startup).

Wait, are we sure it isn't patents that are the problem?

I'm not following you.

It's only bad for "the rest of us" if by "the rest of us" you mean "Windows users, the vast majority of computer users" because Microsoft will inevitably drag its feet in fixing its vulnerabilities (if it is even able to fix them) even though it now has a direct window into how Windows machines are being attacked.

I don't know a lot about Zeus, but if it can attack Linux machines, I would imagine the vulnerabilities would be fixed very promptly.

Can we stop using the term "Intellectual Property" to refer broadly to trademarks, copyrights, and patents, which all operate under different rules and have different motivations? By lumping them all together you are muddling the important issues and giving unfair advantage to potentially undesirable ideas. It's quite simple: "Court Approves Google's Big for Nortel's Patents"

Was that so hard?

Was there something wrong with BB OS 6 that should necessitate a complete re-write for OS 7? (Serious question, I own a BB but it's still on OS 5.) I am constantly hearing people complaining about how Vista was so different from XP and Office 2007 from 2003, etc., that I figured people liked upgrades rather than completely new things?

I voted for him in 2008, because he wasn't GOP and I wanted Obama to have a majority in the Senate. Little did I know he would be one of the biggest supporters of Net Neutrality. I am incredibly happy with my vote and not only can I say "Senator Al Franken" with a straight face, I can say it with pride when I say "I voted for Senator Al Franken, one of the best Senators currently in office."

I had an idea of why a company like Facebook might want to do this. If their servers all run GNU/Linux, they probably don't want to pay license fees for all of them if using GNU/Linux requires license fees due to patent infringement. Could that be part of it? (As much as I'd like to believe that all these companies just love GNU/Linux and want it to succeed...)

I fail to see how that has any relevance. Tivo did something free software people didn't like, and they named that thing "Tivoization" because Tivo was the first/highest profile (not sure which) culprit.

I refuse to buy e-Books until the prices come down to lower than paperbacks (Kindle books usually same price as paperbacks) and I have similar rights per their use as I have with a paper book (which I can sell and lend). And I'm certainly not going to buy them if they are locked to a device or a certain company's devices.

I believe you are correct in your assumption that it is Irish. The Wikipedia article says the name Trisquel "comes from the Celtic symbol triskelion."