"twice the continental USA" doesn't say anything beyond lots and lots.
Could we have that in standard units, please?
Such as american football fields or Rhode Islands. Or leaves per tree.

Proof positive that TFS was pirated! /., I expected better of you.

I disagree. I find it lacking in morals. Go invent your own tooling language, or better yet, agree on a standard. But drop-in clone replacement without so much as a by-your-leave is a douche move.

Luckily this is not a terribly technical question: Company A cloned company S's product. Is this OK?
This is NOT a technical question. Its an ethical, legal, economic and societal question.

And the answer seems to be 'no, it is not fine'. Which is sort of strange, IMHO. But then I'm not an expert on US law or society. I am, however, a expert in this technical field. And had I been on that jury, I would have been as baffled as the next juror.

Or W/soapbubble?
Can a soap bubble carry 6W worth of solar cells? Can the sun provide enough energy for such an area. Or, how big a soapbubble are we talking about? Don't soapbubbles burst spontaneously, i.e. they don't carry any weitght?

I used to think of MIT as a world-class technical university. But with these sort of releases, I can no longer be sure.

I disagree: untill we learn to mine asteroids, it sort of is a zero-sum game. Currently we seem to be quite a lot in the red, and I for one agree with GP and salute Australia's effort of turning the world to a more sustainable pace of consumption.
Your profits be damned.

I'm confused. There was a (several?) court order(s) to give up data. The company policy is to comply with such ("Facebook has always been and will be available to address any questions Brazilian authorities may have,").

So why did he refuse to hand it over? I even tried to RTFA. This blazingly obvious (to me) question wasn't answered even there. Why is Facebook disappointed with an employee who neither follow law or company policy?

Its not normal for people who read /.

That is a straw-man.

"Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people." (R.A.Heinlein).

Wake me up when we solve the problem of deterministically detecting sarcasm with human intelligence.

I'd sort of agree with you. Cisco shouldn't be criticiszed for selling communications equipment to China. The evidence is plain, what better way to lift people from under oppressive regimes than communucations.

But, from TFA:

Cisco built the fucking Great Firewall of China!
They deserve everything they can get, and more. And I don't mean profits now.

No, its more like he would have tweeted[1]. You know, like in TFA, second link in TFS.
Congrats, AC. You have now proven that you fit in on /. You may now register an account.

[1] Caveat. Of course, that might be a spoof accout, set up by said reporter. How could I tell.

How about Tom's anus?
http://hs13.snstatic.fi/webkuv...
They made that stamp self-adhesive, thou. No need to lick it :)

iPhones don't use USB for charging??
Apple never ceases to amaze me.

I predict we see an article on slashdot in about two months, telling us how many customers ended their contract with said company.

My guess is 2%.