I remember reading somewhere that there are processes in place for a patent submitter to deprecate a patent and forcefully render its content public domain. Am I remembering incorrectly? If not, then that would surely be a sign of goodwill as it would render the given content unpatentable.

Unfortunately I can't check this but your logic is correct only if the unit price charged by the electricity company is the same as that which they return to the customer in the case where the customer produced more electricity than they used.

The exploit maps 0x00000000 to userspace using pulseaudio, this prevents the segfault.

Interesting, testing it with firefox 3.5 on http://www.making-the-web.com/misc/sites-you-visit/nojs/ and http://www.making-the-web.com/misc/sites-you-visit/ it clearly works!

But you are right that it fails to provide protection with firefox 3.0.xx. Not sure about the 3.1 and 3.2 series.

in firefox:

  set layout.css.visited_links_enabled to FALSE in about config

This will break (a tiny part of) the layout of sites that use CSS to change the style of links that were visited by the user, but it protects against this problem.

The Moblin 2.0 UI, for instance.

I don't understand this. There's a reasonably clear HIG document in GNOME which is continuously updated. The strict packing rules make the resulting interface flexible in regards to RTL languages and reasonably consistent with other applications. GTK+ has widgets for just about every purpose. Since the introduction of Cairo it is trivial to draw custom widgets, especially using the gtkmm and cairomm C++ bindings: the custom tab bar could be done in a day. With those bindings it is even quite easy to modify the behaviour of existing widgets by overloading their signal handlers, Murray Cumming and the others working on those have invested a great deal of effort to truly (and easily) expose the object system via C++.