I don't live in the US but I thought that's what the NDAA was for? You lock up a guy without charges or trial to make sure no one ever hears his side of the story. It's a perfect opportunity to use it and show potential whistleblowers that not only are they guaranteed to spend all their life in some detention camp but they will also be denied rights any convicted serial killer or child molester enjoys because technically they are not going to be prisoners. Frankly, I think the guy is royally fucked.
As I see it his two choices are:
1) Spending the rest of his life in some detention camp without the right to see any visitors
2) Getting asylum, moving there and disappearing without a trace/ dying in a freak accident some time later

Probably not, in the US atheists are hated more than Muslims and distrusted as much as rapists.

Well, I only know of mechanical tenkeyless keyboards and those tend to be more expensive than a regular keyboard and cost about as much as gaming keyboards with plenty of macro keys and other useless features.

I'd been using a Logitech G3 mouse for 6 or 7 years and switched to a different one a couple of months ago only because I started playing more RPGs and I ran out of buttons. I still use it with my laptop though and I think it might last another 6 years if I don't drop it or something. When it comes to keyboards I wholeheartedly recommend mechanical keyboards. I switched from an excellent Logitech keyboard (G11) I'd also been using for many years but after I'd tried a Ducky Shine with Cherry Blue switches the Logitech suddenly seemed... flimsy, uncomfortable and just wasn't good enough. There are plenty of mechanical keyboards with different types of switches and while they are on the pricey side I think they're well worth it.

The gist of the story (native Polish speaker here):

1) The guy lost his iPad and asked the admins what he should do.
2) They told him they could copy all data from the tablet onto a CD/DVD.
3) He then asked them if they could also copy his private e-mails and they said 'yes'
4) He reached the conclusion that since they could copy and store all his data it could easily be made public (and, knowing his party's track record, no wonder it scared him shitless).
5) He returned the iPad and got himself a laptop.

So no, it's not a case of "Me not like" but rather a case of "What do you mean by *we've got all your data right here and we can read your e-mail* ?"

I'd say it depends mostly on company culture. I used to work in one international company where you could forget about your direct superior socializing with you. Now I work in another, even bigger, and it's not uncommon for our CEO to crack a joke when we talk and he's considered to be pretty awkward with people compared to the other in such high positions.

When I read responses like that I wish the modding system had a "-1 Moron" option...

We've got the technology! All we need to do is use it

No need to sue them. Provisions contradicting the EU law are simply considered to be null and void. Some contracts/EULAs just add "unless not permitted by your local/applicable law" or something to that effect just to let people know that they should check

Google and Facebook are never going to give up retaining user data. If anything, it's in their interest to push for laws which would enable them to store as much of it as they can for as long as they please. This is what allows them to get advertisers, who are their customers. We, the users, are their commodity.

I wonder how "public" they're going to be. During the ACTA debacle the Polish government invited representatives of all movie/music/whathaveyou industry organizations and not a single NGO, representative of an alternative point of view or somebody who actually has some idea about how the Internet works and they called it "public consultations". I wouldn't be surprised to see something similar here

Well, actually trains get WORSE mpg than cars... I can't be bothered with looking for the original source at the moment but I'm pretty sure you'll find it if you try. Prius is just as environmentally friendly as CFLs with their mercury and whatnot...

Forced? I've never had a FB account and never had problems staying in touch with the people I wanted to communicate with. You can always call/text/email/IM them. If you can't be bothered to do as much from time to time, either you're better off without "friends" like them or they're better off without a "friend" like you...

It's not about whether or not MS allowed the "journalists" to play with the tablets. It's that they lied and said they used and loved something they were not allowed to touch. It's not about Apple/Google/MS product releases. It's about a bunch of people with cameras and press badges calling themselves "journalists", while all they did was copy/paste the press release - something I see more and more often. I really think we should have some kind of a distinction between a journalist as in "someone with minimum professional integrity and IQ above room temperature" and guys who call themselves press just to pick up chicks...